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THE MASKERS
BY. .T. T. THOWHRUM'.K
Yesternight, as late I .-travt J j
Through the orchard '> mottled shade
Coming to the moonlit alleys.
Where the sweet south wind, that dallies ;
All day with the Queen of Roses, j
All night on her breast reposes — |
Drinking from the dewy blooms.
Silences, and scented glooms
Of the warm-breathed summer night,
Dong, deep draughts of pure delight
Quick the shaken foliage parted, j
And from out its shadows darted
Dwarf-like forms, with hideous faces,
dries, contortions' and grimaces.
Still I stood beneath the lonely.
Sighing lilacs, saying only—
• Little friends, you can’t alarm me !
Well 1 know yon would not harm me I"
.Straightway dropped each painted mask,
Sword of lath, and paper casque.
And a troop of rosy girls
Han and kissed me'through their curls.
Caught within their net of graces,
I looked round on shining faces.
Sweetly through the moonlit alleys
Hang their laughter’s silver sallies.
Then along the pathway, light
With the while bloom of the night.
I went peaceful, pacing slow.
Captive held in arms of snow.
Happy maids ! of you I learn
Heavenly maskers to discern!
So, when seeming griefs and banns
%ill life’s garden with alarms,
Through its inner walks enchanted
I will ever move undaunted.
Love hath messengers that borrow
Tragic masks of fear and sorrow,
When they come to do us kindness—
And bnt for our tears and blindness.
We should see, through each disguise,
Cherub cheeks and angel eyes.
|
THE FEDEBAL PBISONEBS AT
ANDERSON VILLE. - S
Fearful Hardships and Sufferings . j A
; Sworn Statement by exchanged Pris-
oners.
The Sanitary Coimnission Bulkin 1
contains the following exceedingly 1
u unresting statement regarding the
condition and treatment of our pris- 1
oners confined. at Anderson vile, 1
Ga. It will be observed that it is
verified finder oath by three or four >
soldiers, who were exchanged An g, ,
10, and were appointed by
comrades as a deputation to wait
upon President Lincoln and make
representations regarding their con
dition and sufferings. Originally,
six commissioners were, appointed
by the prisoners, but two of them
were returned with the twelve 'who
failed to secure an exchange at Port
Royal, and of the four-who came
through, one—E. W. Boats, the
chairman—is confined to his bed in
New York, unable to accompany
the commissioners to W ashington.
A strange delay in forwarding the
papers 'granting these men a fur
lough has prevented them from
going to Washington as promptly
as they desired ; but their ’ story,
some parts of which are too revolt
ing for publication; has by this time
been laid before the president.-
The statement in the Bulletin is
mainly as follows ; ‘ I I
I am a private in the 82d Jfew
York regiment of volunteers, |Co,
G; was captured with about .800
Federal troops in front of Peters
burg, on the 28d of .J une, 1804, j we
were kept at Petersburg two days ;
at Richmond, bn Belle Isle, three
days ; then conveyed by rail to
lomchburg inarched 75 miles to
Danville, thence by rail jto. Anjder-
aonville, Ga ; during the six days
by rail to .A-ndersoiiville meat was
given us twice, and; the daily ration
was four crackers. : On entering the
Stockade Prison wefound it crowded
with 28,000 of our fellow soldiers.—
By crowded I mean that it was diffi
cult to move in any direction .with
out jostling and being jostled. The
prison is an open space,, sloping on
both sides, originally 17 acres, now
25 acres, in the shape of a parallelo
gram, without trees or shelter of any
kind. The soil is sand over a
bottom of clay. The fence is made
of upright trunks of trees about
twenty feet high, near the top of
which are small platforms, where
the guards arc stationed. Twenty
feet inside and parallel to the fence
is a light railing, forming the “dead
line,” beyond which the projection
of a foot or finger is sure to bring
the deadly bullet of the sentinel.—
Through the grounds, at nearly right
angles with the longer sides, runs or
rather creeps a Stream through au
artificial channel, varying from five
to six feet in width* the water about
ankle deep, and near the middle of
the iuclosure, spreading out into a
swamp of about six acres, tilled with
refuse wood, stamps, and debris of
the camp. Before entering this
emdosure the stream, or more prop
erly sewer, passes through the camp
of the guards, -receiving from this
source, and others farther up, a
large amount of the vilest material,
even the contents of the sink. The
water is of a dark color, and an or
dinary glass would collect their
thick sediment. This was our only
driuk and cooking ; water. It was
pur custom to dlfer it as best we
can, through our remnants of haver
sacks, shirts and blouses.
The new comers,.' on reaching us,
would egclaim, ‘Tsj tins hell yet
they soon’ would become callous,
ami enter unmoved the horrible rot
tenness
The rebel authorities
never removed any filthy There,
was seldom any visitation by the
officers in charge. ■ Two surgeons
were at one time sent by President
Davis to inspect the camp, but a
walk through a, small section gave
them all the information they de
sired, and we never;saw them again.
The guard usually numbered
about sixty-four—eight at each end,
and twenty-four on; a side. On the
outside, within three hundred yards*
were fortifications,, on high ground,
overlooking and j. perfectly com
manding us, mounting twenty-four
12-pound Napoleon parrots. We
were never permitted to go out-side,
except at times, in small squads, to
gather our fire-wood. During the
building of the cook house a few,
who were carpenters!, were* ordered
out to assist.
Our only shelter from the sun, and
rain, and night dews was what we
could make by stretching over us
our coats or ■ scraps of blankets,
which a few had, but generally
there was no attempt by day or
night to protect themselves.
The rations consisted of eight
ounces pf corn bread, (the cob being
ground with the kernel,) and gener
ally sour, two ounces of condemned
pork, offensive in 'appearance and
smell- Occasionally, about twice a
week, two table-spoonfuls of rice,
and in place of the pork, the same
amount (two table-spoonfuls) of
i molasses was giveii us about twice
a month. This ration was brought
into camp about four o'clock ?, ai.,
and thrown from the wagons to the
ground, the men being arranged in
divisions of 270, , subdivided into
squads of nineties; and thirties. It
was the custom to consume the
whole ration at 6nce, rather i than
save any for. the, next day. The
distribution being often unequal,
some would-lose the rations alto
gether. "We were allowed no dish
or cooking utensil of any kind. On
opening the camp,in the winter, the
first 2,000 prisoneirs were allowed
skillets, one to fifty men, but these
were soon taken away. To the best
of my knowledge,v information, and
belief, our ration was in quality a
, starving one, it being either too foul
to be touched or too raw to be di
gested,
, , The clothing of the men was mis
■ erable in the extreme. Yery few
( had shoes of any hind ; not 2,000
i had coats aqd pants, and those were
. I late comers, Mt>re than one half
ALTOONA, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1864.
were indecently exposed, and many,
were naked.
The usual punishment was to
place the tneu in the stocks outside,
near the* captain’s quarters. If a
man was missing at roll-call, the
squad of ninety to which he belonged
was deprived of the ration., The
'“dead-line” bullet, already referred
to, spared no offender. One poor
fellow, just from Sherman,s army,
his name was Roberts, Avas trying
to wash his face near the “dead line”
railing, when he' slipped on the
clayey bottom, and fell with his head
just outside the fatal border. Wo
shouted to him, but it was too late—
“another 1 guard would have a fur
lough,” me men said. It was a
common belief among our men,
arising from' statements made by.
the guard, that General Winder, in
command, issued an order that any
one of the guard who should shoot
a Yankee outside of the “dead-line”
should have a months furlough, but
there probably Avas no truth in this.
About two a day AA r ere thus shot,
some being cases of suicide, brought
on'by mental depression of physical
misery, the poor fellows throwing
themselves or madly rushing outside
the “line."
The mental condition of a.large
portion:of the men was melancholy,
beginning in despondency, and tend-'
ingto a kind of stolid and idiotic
indifference. Many spent much
time in arousing and encouraging
their fellows, but hundreds were
lying about motionless, or stalking
vacantly to and fro, , quite beyond
any help which could be given them
within their prison walls. These THE PHENOMENA OP THUNDEB,
cases were frequent among those AND LIGHTNING.
who had \ been imprisoned but a Silent lightnings, whether they
short time. There were those who appear in a clear or clouded sky,
were captured at the first Bull Run, are usually explained by the suppo-
July, 1861, and had known Belle gitiou that they are the reflection of
Isle from the hi st, yet had preserved lightnings which issue from clouds
their physical and mental health to below the horizon, and so distant
a wonderful degree. Many were that the thunder which accompanies
wise and resolute enough to keep them cannot be heard. It has been
themselves occupied—some in cut- ou the other hand,' objected, that
ting bone and wood ornaments, the splendor of ligbtnihg is not
making their knives out of iron sufficiently intense to cause a re
hoops—others in manufacturing ink flection so bright as the silent light
from the rust from these same niugs, and that a reflection inferior
hoops, and with rude pens sketching brightness to lightning itself in
or imitating bank notes, or any the same proportion as twilight is to
sample that would involve long and the brightness of the sun, would
patient execution. not be visible. To this objection
Letters from home very seldom M. Arago replies by'the following
reached us, and few had any means f ac ta : - T
of writing. In the early summer a Cassina and Lacaille, when en
large batch of letters five thousand „. a u. e( j making a series of experi
we are told—arrived, having been men (- 8 ou the velocity of sound, in
accumulating many mouths. These t j ie ear saw the light produced
were brought into camp by an tj ie discharge of a piece of ord
officer, under orders to collect ten nance afl aced at the base ofthelight
ceuts on each ;ot course most were bouse ' G f Cette; although at the
returned, and we heard no niore of gta^on they occupied both the town
them. Qne ot my companions saw and light-house were concealed
among them taree from his parents, -j i u terveiiiug hills,
but he was unable to pay the charge. > ioco v 7 v • i
According to die rule. of tammSs- Zach gave signal, on
don of letter* over the lines, these the Brocken (» monutom of the
letter. man have already piid ten Ham range,) by exploding six or
cent, each to the Rebel govern- seven ounce, of gun powder. The
0 light produced by this was seen by
i ‘ . v. , , .. observers stationed on Mount Kel-
The proportion of deaths from i en berg, at adistance of nearly three
starvation, not including those con- lea ue ® f rom the Brocken. Since
sequent on the diseases originating a d j rec f; view would have been ren
in the character and limited quau- dered impossible by the convexity
tity of food, such as diarrhoea, dys- 0 p earth, the light must have
entery, aud scurvy, I cannot state, been seen by reflection.
but to; the best f That this mode of Explaining
information and *e 0 j igll 'tning may not toke the
scores every month.. Wecould at cWct « of C p^e 9 ture, it will
any time ,pomt ou wnaij , be necessary to show that distant
such a iate was mevite , } are actually visible when
layorfeeblywalked,meres ee s, thunder which accompanies
whose emaciatum exeeeded. the £ inaudible . Two unexcep
amples given inL k, 1 • ti enable observations are adduced
for June 18, 1864. I<or example, ] in nurnose
some cases the inner edges of the; P P ,
two bones of the arms, between the j On the night between, the 10th
elbow and the wrist, with the inter- j and 11th of July, ltB3, the weather
mediate blood vessels, were plainly | being calm and the sky mnclouded,
visible when held toward the light. . Saussure, stationed at the Hospice
The -ration in quantity was perhaps , of the Grimsel, lookmg m the dwee
barely sufficient to sustain lite, and j tion of Geneva, saw on me horxzpn
the cases of starvation were generally 1 some streaks of clouds from which
those whose Stomachs could not bghtmng issued, but no thunder was
retain what had become entirely in--; heard It was afterwards^ ascer
! digestible tamed that at the moment tins oc-
Tor a man to find ou waking that | curred; a storm broke over Geneva
his comrade by his side was dead i the most terrific that the; people of
was an Occurrence too common to ; that country ever witnessed,
be noted. I have seen death inOn the 21st of July, 1813, Mr.
almost all the forms of the hospital Luke Howard observed at Totten
aud battle-field, hut the daily scenes ham, near London,' in a clear sky.
inCamp Sumter exceed in the ex- lightning,' such as is called heat
trepiityof tnisery all my previous lightning, appear toward the south
experience. ; * east. It was afterward ascertained
The work of burial is performed ' that a violent storm at that moment
by our own men, under guard and raged in France, which extended
orders, twenty-five Bodies being in .from Calais to Dunkirk. This
l a sipgle pit, without head-boards, lightning, above fifty leagues distant,
[independent IN EVERYTHING, j
and the sad duty performed with
indecent haste. Sometimes oar men
Were rewarded for this work with a
few sticks of fire-wood, and I have
known them quarrel over a <jead
body for the job.
Our men especially the mechanics,
were tempted with the ofter of lib
erty and large wages to take the
oath of allegiance to the Confeder
acy, but it was very rare that their
patriotism, even under such a fiery
trial ever way. I carry this
message from one of my companions
to hie mother : “My treatment is
killing me, mother, but I die cheer
fully for my country.”
Some attempts were made 0 to
escape, but wholly in vain, for if the
prison walls and guards were passed,
and the protecting Woods, reached,
the bloodhounds were sure to find
usom.
Tunnelling was once attempted
on a large scale, but on the after
noon proceeding the night fixed on
for escape, an officer rode in and
announced fo us that the plot was
discovered, and froni our huge pen
we could see the hill ahov r e us and the'
regiment just arriving to strengthen
the guard. We had been betrayed.
It was our belief that spies were
kept in the camp, which could very
easily be done.
The number in camp when I left
was nearly 35,000 and daily in
creasing. The number in hospital
was about 5,000. I was exchanged
at Port Royal Feriy,' August*l6.
Prescott Tracey,
82d Regiment, ,N. Y. V.
was visible in the atmosphere' of
London. ' .r ■? /
tt nimst then be admitted as
proved, that silent lightnings may
be and sometimes are produced by
the reflection in the atmosphere of
lightning of which the? i thunder is
top distant to be heard. ■, But it does
not, therefore, follow that such ap
pearance most be and always is pro
duced by that cause. On the con
trary, heat lightningej frequently
present appearances, ] to explain
which it would be almost impossible
to admit the hypothesis of distant
storms. Thus it frequently happens
that when the whole visible Arma
ment is unclouded, the lightnings
will play fop entire nights on every;
side of the. horizon, and will extend
even to the zenith. If distant storms*
were admitted to explain such phe
nomena, it would be necessary to
suppose that portion of the atmos
phere visible from a single placq
clear and serene, yet surrounded on
every side by a rim of clouds,
throughout which storms rage.—
The improbability of such an hy
pothesis is apparent.
Thunder unaccompanied by light
ning, is explained by M. Arago, by
supposing two strata of clouds at
different heights, j of ■ which the
superior stratum is the ; seat pf the
thunder-storm, and of i which the
inferior stratum is sufficiently dense
to be impervious to the light which
precedes the thunder. Nevertheless,
the density of the inferior cloud will
not at all impede the transxdission
of sound through it, and the thunder
will consequently be heard while
the lightning is invisible; '
From the observations which have
beeii recorded of the time between
the flash and the thunder, it appears
that although in one instance this
interval amounted to i seventy-two
seconds, it usually does not exceed
forty-eight seconds. Itfpllows, then,
that the greatest distance from
which the atmosphere explosions
which produce thunder are heard is
about ten miles. If the single re
corded observation of an interval of
seventy-two seconds- ckn be relied
on, it would follow thaj; in that par
ticular case thunder was heard at
the distance of fifteen'ihilesi
Evidence - still more direct and
convincing cdn be adduced, that
beyond the distance of eight or ten
miles thunder is inaudible.
When the steeple of Lestwithiel
in Cornwall was struck by lightning,
on the 26th of January, 1757, and
almost entirely destroyed, the thun
der was terrific ; yet 'Smeaton, the
engineer*. who was then within
thirty ’miles of the place, heard no
thunder. Muschenhroeck states
that thunder at the Hague is inaudi
ble at Leydon and at Rotterdam,
the distance of thej former being ten,
and the latter twelve miles. There
are also examples of violent storms
breaking over Amsterdam which
were inaudible at Leydotf, the dis
tance being about; twefity miles.
The rolling of thunder has by
some been ascribed to the effect of
echo. That echo hajs in cases a
share in the production of the phe
nomena cannot be doubted by any
one who has ever witnessed an
Alpine storm. A multitude of cau
ses affecting the [loudness, the re
verberation, and the continuity of
the peals, are quite apparent. The
question is whether echo is the only
cause of the rolling thunder.
It has been shown that the dura
tion of the thunder roll amounts
sometimes to forty-five seconds.—
Whether the echoes of any sound
ever have such duration, can only
be determijned by observation. The
example of the often reiterated echo
at a certain island on the lake of
Killarney, is known to all travelers.
Mr. Scoresby, observed on a par
ticular occasion its duration, and
found it about thirty seconds. The
original sound is usually produced
by the discharge of a small piece of
cannon.
It would seem! that; on the occa
sion of Mr. Scoresby’s observations,
a pistol was used. It is argued by
Mr. Arago, that if a cannon bad
been used, the wbuldLave
been much greater, and probably
equal to the continuance of the
longest roll of thunder. '
( ■ During the experiments, made to
, determine the velocity of sound, in
1 June, 1822, M. M. Humboldt Bou
vard, Gay-Lussac, and Emile de
EDITOHS AND PBOFRSBTOBS.
Laplace, beard the echo of a gahnou
discharged near them during-twen
ty-tive seconds..
Mariners state that thunderheard
at sea is marked by roltingas long
continued as on land, although nope
of those causes which are generally
supposed to produce echoes, such as
walla, rocks, woods, hills, or moun
tains, are present. Unless the sur
face of the clouds reflects sounds,
no meansr of procuring an echa can
exist under such circumstances.—
Although it might seem, that the
clouds would be as little capable: of
reflecting sound as the Sir itself,
the£e appears to be soihe reason to
judge otherwise. Muschenbroeck
states, as the result of his own obser
vations, that a cannon, which, being
discharged, when the heavens were
unclouded, produced only a single
report, had its sounds several times
reverberated when discharged in
the same place under clouded sky.
In the course of the experiments
made in 1822, to determine the
velocity of sound already referred
to, the same observation was made.
A JDLL Y TEMPERANCE FAMILY
Joe Harris was a whole-souled,
merry fellow, and very fond of a
glass. After living in New Orleans
many years; he concluded he would
visit his uncle who lived in Massa
chusetts and whom he hud not seen
for several years. Now, there is a
decided difference between Now
Orleans and Massachusetts in regard
to the use of ardent spirits, and
when Joe arrived he found the
people running wild about temper
ance ; he -felt bad, thinking with
the old song that keeping the spir
its up by pouring spirits down, was
one of the beat ways to make time
pass, and began to fear indeed, that
he was in a ‘pickle.’ But on the
morning after his arrival, the old
lady came to him and said :
“Joe, you have been living at the
South, and no doubt are in the
habit of taking something about 11
o clock. Now, I keep some for
medical purposes, but let no one
know it, as my husband wishes to
set the boys a good example.”
Joe promised, and thinking he
would get no more that day’ took
as he expressed it a “buster.”
: After he had walked to the stable
who should he meet but his uncle.
“Well, Joe,” said he, “I; expect
you are accustomed to drinking in
New Orleans, but you find ua-tem
perance men up here, and for the
sake of my sons, I ddVt let them
know I have any brandy ; but I
keep a little for my rheumatism ;
will you accept some ?”
Joe signified his consent, and
took another good horn. Then
continuing his walk, he came to
where the boys were hauling rails.
A fter conversing awhile, one of his
cousins said : : ! .
“Joe I expect you'would like
something to drink* and as bur folks
ate opposed to liquor, we keep some
here to help on with our work.
Out came tJnT bottle and down
they sat, and he said by the time he
got home to dinner, he was as tight
as he could be, all from visiting a
“temperance family.”
Every woman .shou|d be
marned to an excellent man., —
Marriage, it ia true, brings and
wear ; put it is the riugtnatiswQrn
that keeps bright, and the watch
that lies unwound that gets' out of
order. The sweet sympathies! in
volved in the family relation the
new energies developed by new
responsibilities.; the, new compen
sation for all outlays of strength,
bring about a delightful play upon
the heart ah(J intellect, ydac|i,j in
their reaction upon the body, pro- •
duces an effect that 4s nothing less
than preservation. Then there is a
higher power than this—one wbibh
we speak of soberly and reverently.
No one is completely armed against
the encroaching ills of .life who, has
in his heart no place for religion.—
The calmness, the patience, apddlie
joy abd hope that are in pqssesliou
of that woman whose heart Is right
in its highest relation, can never
fait to preserve and heighten every
personal power and charm that she
possesses; ■ ’ ■ ’*: ; -
I The heart retains its impressions
when those oftbe brain IblveJ been
1 erased.
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