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A GRAND POEH.
Who shall judge a man from manners?
Who shall know him by his dress f
Paupers may be fit for princes.
Princes fit for something less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket
May beclothe the golden ore
Of the deepest thoughts and feelings—
Satin vesta could do no more.
There ere springs of crystal nectar
Ever welling out of stone;
There are purple buds and golden.
Hidden crushed and overgrown ;
God, who counts by souls, not dresses.
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones, the highest,
But as pebbles in the sea.
Man, upraised above his fellows.
Oft forgets bis fellows then.
Masters, rulers, lords remember
That your meanest kinds are men.
Men. by labor, men by feeling,
Men by thought, and men by feme.
Claiming equal rights to sunshine.
In a man's ennobling name.
There are foam-embroidered oceans,
There are little weed-clad rills,
There are feeble, inch-high saplings.
There are cedars on the hillfi;
Gofi, who counts by souls, not stations.
Loves and prospers you and me;
For, to Him, all vain destinations
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone are builders
Of a nations wealth or fame ;
Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed and fatted on the same ;
Bat the sweat of others’ foreheads.
Living only to. rejoice.
While the poor man’s outraged freedom
Vainly lifted up its voice.
Troth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light;
Secret wrongs shall never prosper,
While there is a snnny right ;
God, whose world-heard voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Sinks oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles in the sea.
j? elect
THE TRUNK TRAGEDY
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 7, 186&.
The great trunk tragedy, which
has so excited public attention not
only in Norfolk but in the entire
United States, came to a final close
yesterday by the trial, conviction
and sentence of the accused party.
Maria Louisa Linder, the alleged
perpetrator of the crime, is a tall,
thin y.-oWn, apparently about forty
years of age. She is a German by
birth, and the Teutonic lisp still
clings to her language. Yesterday
morning she was Drought into court,
and after the trial, which occupied
an hour and three-quarters, she was
sentenced. She was (dressed in a
plain black dress and a correspond
ing dark colored bonnet. Her face
evidently showed forth the deep
mental agony th&t was upheaving
her very soul. She stood at the bar
of the court, not exactly in the pris
oners’ box, but, for support, leaned
against a staunch iron pillar as she
gave in her testimony. The court
was filled with a number of distin
guished personages, who had been
allowed the special privilege of be
ing in attendance. I noticed the
phonographic reporters of both the
Norfolk newspapers and to the gen
tleman connected with the Old Do
minion I am greatly indebted for a,
transference of the woman’s testi
mony. Webster,-the presid
ing Judge, tailed the court to order,
and the case was at once opened.—
I give the testimony exactly as it
was rendered by the woman, cor
recting .all grammatical errors which
a person of her education and sta
tion in life must be supposed to have
made:
Maria Louisa Linder sworn—l am
the person accused and guilty of
taking a trunk from Norfolk to Bal
timore county containing the body
of John Freeborn.
Are you a married
Question,
women ?
Auewer. No sir; I never was
married, but kept a Common house
at the cornier of Woodside lane and
Little Water street. I lived with
this man Freeborn, to whom 1 be
came attached, and we lived togeth
er as man and wife..
Q. Did you ever' live with this
man after he had enlisted ’!
A. Yes, sir; I knew him before
that time.
Q. Now state to the Court all
von know about the trunk ah air.
The wpman here became greatly
affected; and wept bitterly, but in a
short time continued her evidence.
John Freeborn told me that he was
tired of the army, and that if I
would get him to Chicago he would
give me four hundred dollars. I
asked him how he would be able to
get so much mouey. He said he
was going to jump the bounty and
get a thousand dollars and then! wo
would go to Canadafjjidget married.
I told him that I would not know
how to get him away from here, for
the Government mei; watched every
thing so closely. He said ; “Go
and buy a large trunk, and I will
get in it, and you can do with me
just as though as I was your cloth
ing. You cau cheek me to Balti
more, aud then, get in the cars and
go to Chicago.” Ijidid not like to
do it, but-ne made me; aud we
went on board the Baltimore boat.
Q. By Judge Webster. Did he
say anything about; smothering ?
A. Yes, and he cut a small hole
in the trunk [Her? the trunk was
shown. It is a large and handsome
one, about twenty-tiye inches high,
sixteen inches broad, ami thirty-two
inches long. Immediately beneath
one of the straps is Seen a very small
oritice, through which the deceased
gained his breath, by means of a
pipestem. It would be almost im
possible to-detect the orifice unless
“it was pointed out. The hole would
not admit the passage of sufficient
air to sustain animation in a rat.
There is plenty of. rpom within the
trunk to allow a limited use of the
limbs, but they would necessarily be
contracted to such au extent as to
produce a violent cramp, after a per
son had been so subjected for a
period of five hours.] H 6 did not
think there would be apy difficulty
in breathing through the stem of the
pipe which he used.
When I got to Fortress Monroe
I went up to the trunk and kicked
it twice. That was the sign by
which I was to know how he was
getting on. He answered it twice,
so jthat I knew it was all right.—He
had no liquor in his trunk —nothing
but a canteen of water, a towel, and
a piece of chewing tobacco. When
I got to Baltimore I ordered a hack
man to take me toa hotel. Ido not
know which one it was, I was so
anxious to get there. When I got
to the hotell went up stairs, and had
the trunk brought up with me, and
then when we got into the room I
locked the door. I was so glad when
I got there that I kicked the trunk
■with all my might, hut I gpt no ans
wer. I said, “Now, Johny, yon are
all right.” He did not answer me,
and I thought he Was fooling me. I
got the key mid opened the trunk,
and he laid perfectly still, when I
“Come Jabk, get up, you are
In Baltimore now. and no one is
about here but me.;’ He said noting
when I put my hapd upon his face
and he was dead. [The woman was
so overcome with her feelings that
it was some minutes before she could
proceed.], X dropped the lid of the
trunk, and “was crazy in my head.”
I saw a card on the mantel-piece of
the room, and I 'wrote the word
on it, and rang immedi
ately for a servant. He got me a
hackman and I toM him I wanted to
?o right away to Chicago. He said
e would take me to the Calvprt
Street Station for two dollars. I
tpld him X would give him that, ant
handqd him a £v,e .dollar MU, when
. he gave me back three dollars. He
ALTOONA, PA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1865.
put the trunk behind the carriage,
and when we got to the depot he
asked me if I wanted it checked;
told him yes*. He said, “Go and get
your ticket and I will get it checked
for yoii.” I was scared almost to
death; I never felt so funny before
in my life. I wanted, it found out
and hadn't the heart to tell any one.
I went to get my ticket, and instead
of doing so I walked up the street;
I do not know what made me, but
I couldn’t help it. I saw a police
man coming down near me and I
wanted to tell him, but I did not
know how. I walked the streets all
night; no one said anything to me,
and I did not say a word to any one.
The next morning I heard some say
something about a trunk, and I
thanked God that it had been found
out. I walked through the streets
during all that morning, and finally
I felt so bad that I went and told on
myself. This was all done upon the
moment. I was perfectly crazy af
ter I found out that the soldier was
dead. •
Judge Webster, after having con
sulted with General Shepley upon
the sentence, returned to the court
room and sentenced her to a fine of
five hundred dollars and two years’
imprisonment at hard labor.
THE ANDEBSON CAVALBY.
The following private letter lias
been handed to ns, and we gladly
give it a place in our columns, at
is a simple, unpremeditated narra
tion of the circumstances attendant
upon an eight days’ wild gallop of
a brigade of Union cavalry, led by
one of Philadelphia’s boldest and
most discreet commanders, among
the scattering detachments of Hood’s
army. The story shows how fear
fully destructive, and yet how secure
from loss, a body ot armed men,
rapidly and skilfully moved, may be,
even when surrounded by superior
numbers of an active enemy:—Phil
adelphia Press.
Decatur, Ala., Jan. 7, 1866.
The expedition south of the Ten
nessee river, under command of Gen.
Steadman, returned to-day to Deca
tur. The troops Left here at 10 p. M.
on the night of December 28th. The
cavalry, consisting of the 15th Pa.
( Anderson Cavalry), under Lieut.
Col. Lambom, with detatchments of
the 2d Tennessee, and the 10th, 12th,
and 13th Indiana, under Lieut, Col.
Prosser of the 2d Tennessee, the
whole commanded by Col. Wxn.J.
Palmer, of th% 15th Pennsylvania,
crossed the river on transports, and
pushing forward struck the advance
of Roddy’s division six miles from
Decatur, at midnight, routed it, and
captured two pieces of artillery and
several prisoners. On the day fol
lowing—the 29th—we routed Pat
terson’s rebel brigade, near Court
hyid, capturing 43 prisoners. On the
30th the advance reached Leighton,
33 miles from Decatur, skirmishing
on the way with Roddy’s force. At
3 a. M. ou the 31st the cavalry pass
ed through Roddy’s lines, to the rear
of his command, captured Col, War
ren, of the 10th Alabama, at break
fast, and some twenty officers and
men, and pushed rapidly on through
Russelvillc, in pursuit of Gen. Hood’s
pontoon train,, which was moving
from Bainbridge, the point of cross
ing the piver, toward Aberdeen, Mis.
At sunset we struck the rear of the
train, 37 miles from Leighton, and
by midnight the wagons and pon
toons were in ashes. The train en
tire fell into our hands; 78 pontoon
boats and wagons, and 80 army wag
ons, with all the appliances of the
engineers’ department were burned;
300 mules were captured with the
train ; 200 were led off by our com
mand, and 100 killed. On the Ist
of January the cavalry pushed on
thirty miles toward Aberdeen, and
destroyed a supply-train of 110 wag
ons beloniug to Hood’s army; 600
mules were captured with this train,
the best of which were taken for
ward by our cavalry, and the re
mainder killed. Our command was
now in Itwampa county, Mississippi,
sixty-seven miles from .the infantry
supports at Leighton, with 800 men
under Roddy, as well as Armstrpng’s
brgade, in our rear. Riffles* bri
§ade was at Pikeville on the. left
ank, and Forrest’s cavalry in front
at Qkalona. Our total force num
bered 620 officers and men, all told*
I We commenced retracing our steps
I with forty-eight hours’ coMfcwtcer-
[nroi
vice, and our movements were im
peded by led mules and- horses.
We knew the enemy were gather
ing m force to intercept our return,
and that a number of regiments
were in hot pursuit of us; four bri
gades were buisily weaving the net
which was to entrap us. Our policy
was to avoid a fight with superior
numbers, to move rapidly aud light
ly, and, if the enemy interposed, to
charge with vigor, and cut our wajy
through. Rest and feed for men
and horses were the first necessi
ties; so we halted for a few hours
at the plantation of a rich widow
living near the Mississippi line,
gave our worried animals a beuti
tul feed of rebel corn, took a short
nap, and then pushed southeast
though the mountains to endeavor
to pass around the fiank of Roddy’s
and Armstrong’s commands, which
were closing down on us from the
direction of Bear Creek and Rus
selville. W e found everywhere
faithful guides among the hardy
mountaineers. Sometimes they
were rebel soldiers who had escaped
from their regiments—always men
whose brothers, sons, or relations
were in the rebel army, but always
they were Iqyal, and they gavetbe.fr
aid and information with an alacrity
which showed that they had our
success at heart. Some of Roddy’s
own men were our most intelligent
and trustworthy guides among the
intricate mountain paths. The first
day we met no enemy except strag
glers or furloughed men, whom we
picked up; the second, scouting
parties of the foe were encountered.
The advance guard capturing some
of these we learned the exact posi
tion of the various hostile troops be
tween us and Decatur. By making
a feint to attack, and following it
by a rapid night march to the right,
we passed their fiank, and when the
men arose we had Roddy, Arm
strong, and Bffles a good fifteen
miles in our rear. We felt now
that we were clear of them, for only
by very rapid marches coqld they
overtake us. Russell’s brigade, of
three hundred men only, was now
in our front. On the morning of
the 4th we struck him before he
knew that we were within twenty
miles, and in twenty minutes his
command was routed, most of them
flying to the woods, leaving sixty
men and horses, and a number of
dead, in our hands. We captured
five wagons here, with teams com
plete (all they had), with all the
stores and private effects of the bri
gade headquarters, besides official
papers and a rebel mail. We re
leased eight Union prisoners and
eighty conscrips, who immediately
scattered: thence we marched, with
out molestation, through Mount
Hope to the vicinity of Leighton,
haring made 182 mues in five days
and nights. From Leighton we
came to Decatur, haring been ab
sent eight days (being the advance
of the main body), and haring mar
ched during that period 265 miles.
In the whole expedition we lost but
three men, one killed and twowoum
ded; captured two pieces of artil
lery complete, with horses and
equipage; 220 prisoners, including
one colonel, two captains, and eight
lieutenants; destroyed nearly 300
pontoons and wagons, 800 stand of
arms, and captured 800 horses and
1,200 mules. The movement was
splendidly managed, an 4 its success
is due entirely to the energy and
generalship of Col. Palmer, and to
the valor and enthusiasm of those
under his command. The Ander
son* Cavalry behaved throughout
most admirably. ’ ~
10.]
A preacher of one' of the
Methodist churches was traveling
in one of the bock settlements, and
stopped at a cabin, where an old
lady received him very kindly. Af
ter setting 1 provisions' before him,
she began to question him. “Stran
ger,, wnar mought you be from ?”
“Madam, I reside in Clinton coun
ty, Pennsylvania." “Wall, stranger,
hope no offence, but what mought
you be a doin’ way up here?"
“Madam, I am searching for the lost
sheepofthe tribe of Israel.” “John,
John!” shouted the old lady, “come
rite here this minxt ; here’s a stran-:
fer all the way from Clinton county,,
ennsylvania, hunting’ stock, and
I’ll jest bet my life that tangle-hair-:
ed, bid. black ram, that’s bin in our
lot alliast jwek’a one of hisV’
A WAIL FROM CHARLESTON.
(From the Charleston Mercury, Jan. 12.)
The condition, of this military de
partment, ■aa embraced within the
imita of Georgia and South Caroli
na, ia anything but .satisfactory to
any man who ia aware of facts, and
ias capacity to understand their,
bearing. We perau'me there ia no
one in this department to whom the
condition of our present military or
ganizations ia less satisfactory than to
the general commanding. Probably
there is no one so thoroughly aware
of the lamentable disorganization that
oreeailsin certain corps and sections of
iia command. Yet it tvould scarce
y be fair to hold him responsible for
this condition of things. His de
partment has been newly tufned in
to his hands, and many of the troops
are new to him and to this depart
ment. came*to him under the
command of imbeciles; he has re
ceived them, a herd of stragglers and
outlaws; What has been done to
eradicate this fatal evil we shall not
stop to inquire. The time has been
short to do much, and the forces
have been much scattered. But the
very last moments are arriving,
when all must be done that is to be
done; when all must he done that
can be done.; The enemy does not
intend to Wait upon our leislire. And
there is much to do.
Before bringing ourselves to face
the enemy, it is absolutely essential
that those in command bring them
selves to face the vital evils existent
.within our own lines. The path we
now are travelling is straight to destruc
tion. The crisis of the Confederacy
has arrived in fatal earnest. The re
sult of the next six months will bring the
Confederacy to the orwiU rein
state its power. Without reform we
are doomed. There is more than
one department of the government
in which reform is important. But
reform in our armies is essential, is
vital. Without it the death-knell of
the Confederacy is already tolled.
With the proper reforms made, he
ia a coward who carries his heart in
his boots. There are men in the
land ; there is fight in the land! It
is the embecile that is sick at heart;
it is the coward whose stomach is
weak. There is nothing before us
that cannot be overcome; but*to do
it, there must be anew state of things
instituted. We say again, there must
be nerve. Men in command must
not be afraid to die; they must not
be afraid to kill. Officers must be
killed, not mere privates. Refbrib
must begin at the top, not at the bot
tom of the service. To reach the
private, captains must be shot. We
. want no child’s play; we want an
army.
What is a man’s life to the insti
tutions and the liberty of the coun
try? Nothing. Let old things pass
away —let 4 us have a new condition
of things. We want no more Jeff Da
vis foolery; we want one atom of
brains, one spark of nerve ; we want
no more of Buhamism ; we want no
mermaids with heads of monkeys
and fishy attachments at the nether
extremities—wewantmen, real men.
earnest men— North Carolina , Geor
gia, and South Carolina are in ndmood
for trifling. They have had'enough
of this sort of thing. They don’t
tend to have rnuch/more. South
Carolina don’t intend to be conquer
ed. She iutendhto fight. She don’t
intend to be hampered or turned
oyer to the enemy. When she is
thus delt with there will be reckon
ing—-a reckoning where there will
be rib respecters of person. We want
Implicit order and calm forecast
'South Carolina is a Commonwealth
of order; we expect order, and we
demand order We are accustomed
to onfer. We afe not used to law
less ruffianism; we don’t intend to
suffer if.
The General in command of this
department is a thorough soldier,
trained and tried. We believe that
he will perform this duty. We look
to him to do so, unflinchingly, with
out fear, favor, or affection—regard
less of pettifoggers' and petticoats in
boots! This is a comm unity of law.
Just one hundred and’ ninety-two
years ago we began our political ex
: isteuce under the authority of the
, Lords Proprietors of Englapd> and
.■ the rule of the Cavaliers, with the
good old English code y>f laws, mi
• emasculated oy modem, philanthro
; pty and pseudo Ewnaniferiinus^lo
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
guide us. With the blessing of God
we have still preserved that cod®
but little adulterated by damagog
ism. We can still hang a vilhan,
or shoot a ruffian, without lacerating
the bowels of our humanity. We
have not yet come to have a nursery
for scoundrels, culled a penitentiary
—rjuor public preachers in the pulpit.
Who called Christ “ a good Galilean
youth." Simple folks, we lit
tle improved upon our
We are still-only as our fathers left
us in their ignorance.—simply civil
ized and simply Christians. The
law of order and obedience is the
law of habit here. All good citizens
here look for the enforcement of it
here, in the military -us in civil life.
The Executive of this State will sup
port it, aud will cheerfully, gladly
do so.
We stand to-day as gladiators,
stripped to the fight; we are ready
'ready and trained to enter the strug
gle of life or for death. South Caro- 1
lina is ready to become the arena of
the republic. Her sons are ready
for the contest. Make of her whole
soil u military camp—strip her to the
waist:—she will not shrink. But give
her hergauutlets and her sword, and
she is ready to stand or fall where
she is. ,
A most onerous but imperative
duty devolves upon the commander
of this department, whoever he is.
That duty—this first and most es
sential duty—isi to cashier and to
shoot. Without it nothing can be
dope, and Sherman conquer us.
With it, he is a coward who succumbs
at heart. Everything that is in the
way must be faced, and trampled up
on. The man ryho commands here
must put his heart in his pocket, and
his sword in his hand. He must
kqow nothing but the good of the
Confederacy. That he must do re-'
gardless of official weakness. The
jend must he radical reform. It is
jlolly 4o talk of red tape now—we
want the thing—we must have it—*
{reform, shooting, cashiering, order,
subordination, soldiers —not runa
ways, ragamuffins, ruffians. We
want, and we must have, brains and
pluck in commanders, and implicit
bbedieuceaud order in subordinates
and soldiers. " Sik paces and a stea
dy aim will do the business if repeat
ed sufficiently often, and especially
among the commissioned officers.
Xf, however', commanding officers
will not do their duty in this matter,
let all men shut their hooks, for the
end has well nigh come. The time
is short—will it be'improved?
ANECDOTES QP PRESIDENT.
We find the following in the
Washington correspondence ot the
Boston Post:
“When Mr, Chase called on him
the day after his appointment to the
bench, he alluded, in the coarse of
their interview, to the fact that he
once had a sweetheart in Richmond.
The President said - he had better
abandon all thoughts of courting in
Richmond henceforth, and attend to
iiishourt in Washington. On the
same day a gentleman gained an
audience with the. President and
made complaint that the Secretary
of War had refused to release a
friend of his from prison, notwith
standing the release had been or
dered by the President himself.—
Mr. Lincoln replied that he had an
understanding with Mr. Stanton, to
rhe effect'that when the latter was
in possession of facts which made
it proper in such cases to retain the
parties in custody for a time he
should suspend the order of release.
The gentleman, not satisfied with
this explanation,' attempted to cast
the blame of the affair upon Seccre
tary Stanton, „ when Mr. Lincoln,
with a significant simile, said: ‘My
friend, you shoiild remember the
passage of Scripture which says
“Accuse not a servant unto his mas
ter.” The visitor remarked that he
had been an attentive reader of the
Bible, lint he could not recollect
such a passage in it. “Oh you’ll
find it in the thirtieth or thirty-first
chapter of Prhveihs,” said Mr. Lin
coln. And the gentleman went
home and lead Proverbs xxx., 10:
; Accuse servant to his master,
lest he curse theeaudthou be found
guilty!’” •- , K:.,
jfip A newly married man; i&qal-
So ie a majx ifefpii*
a horse. ' , ■
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