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Drip, drop ! drip, drop !
dear the rain come down,
Over the valleys lone and still,
And over the sleeping town ;
Over the trees that wave and gleam,
With a murmurous tone and low.
I cannot sleep and I cannot dream,
I love to hear it so.
Drip, drop ! drip, drop !
Listening to its fall
I wander back to the past again,
And hear my loved ones call
Out from the shore where they have gone,
As in the days of yore ;
And with them I seem to journey on,
Weary and weeping no more.
Drip, drop! drip, drop !
Down from the sloping eaves ;
And over my lost and wasted powers
My conscious spirit grieves ;
And pure resolves, which the Father hears,
And the angels love to know,
Spring up to bless the gathering years,
In summer time and snow.
Drip, drop! drip, drop !
So well the sound I love!
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Sweeter music above.
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NUMBER SEVENTY-NINE.
Rhoda Bruce Fat alone by the parlor
window in the dim November twilight,
watching the flicker and flare of the gas
in the street lamps, as the cold sweeps of
the winter wind came surging round the
corner.
It was Thanksgiving eve; and, after a
day of busy preparation for the morrow's
festivities, everything had settled down in
to quiet at last.
Rhoda had heartily enjoyed the excite
ment of helping her aunt, with whom she
lived, arrange rooms for the expected
guests, and prepare flowers for the tables
and mantels, putting graceful, girlish
touches upon all the adornments. Toward
night, aunts and uncles and cousins had
inured in from the different trains, and
Rhoda's brother Ralph, her especial admi
ration and adoration, had surprised her by
coming from his college to spend the holi
day with her. Although it had been a
happy day, and was a joyous prelude to
the hymn of praise and thanks, which
Rhoda felt sure she should sing out gladly
on the morrow.
But it was just a trifle dull alone in the
parlor to-night; Aunt Carry had taken
the girls, her own daughters, off up stairs
for a confab, and others of the aunts and
cousins were singing lullabys in their
rooms to protesting babyhood ; Uncle
Boyed was smoking up in the library with
the husbands and brothers, and Ralph,
after a little confidential converse with
Rhoda, had rushed down to the Continental
to meet some of his chums.
It looked very pleasant over the way at
the Welden girl's house ; the gas was
lighted in the parlor, the blinds up, and
they seemed to be having a jolly time.—
Sowe one had told Rhoda that Letty Wel
den's beau was coming on from the West
to spend Thanksgiving with her, and Rhoda
descried him in the group.
"Heigho ho sighed Rhoda; "•he don't
rush off to meet a einarade as soon as be
has arrived. I wish I had a lover ! They
must be very nice. I wonder if I will
have one next Thanksgiving ?"
Just then, a voice in the darkness made
her start with the words :
"If you love me, you'll do something I
want you to very much."
But it was only Cousin Gilbert who had
spoken, and as he was but fourteen, and
only up to her shoulder, even a cousinly
flirtation was out of the question.
"Well what is it, Gil ?" laughed Rhoda;
" 'faint heart never won fair lady,' you
know; ask and see if I will not grant you
favor."
"Rhodie, dear, its awfully stupid up in
the library, they're talking stocks, and if
I go where mamma is, she'll want me to
go to bed ; and Rhodie," coming closer,
and coaxing in rough boy fashion, "I
never saw a great city lighted up; I wish
you'd take me down the street a little
ways, please ?"
"Certainly I will," replied Rhoda, jump
ing up ; "get into your overcoat quickly,
and wait in the hall until I came down ;"
then, running up stairs for her own seal
skin jacket and cap, Rhoda burst into the
nursery with an incoherent sort of explana
tion that she was going out a little ways,
and would take Gilbert as escort.
"Poor fellow :" she said ta herself, as
she tied her cardinal cloud tight down
over her ears. and wound it around her
throat : "he lives a humdrum sort a life
up in that little village; how grand the
city by night will look to him! wulk
a little ways down Broad Street, and then
return ; lie will be protection enough, if
he is only a boy, and I shan't at all
timid."
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A brisk walk, with Gilbert's constant
boyish chatter and pleasure at seeing the
long continuous line of lamps, that seemed
a baud of light along the straight .stretch
of.streets, soon brought them down into
the more certral portion of the city ; and,
almost before she realized it, Rhoda found
herself in a crowd of men and boys, who
appeared to think that keeping Thanks
giving eve consisted in shouting and j'ost
ling and pushing every one with whom
they came in contact. Presently a loud
clang and boom rang out upon the air, and,
then, a rush on the part of the crowd, fol
lowed by a rattle and clatter of noisy en•
gives along the street, and a whirl of hur
rying people with cries of "fire, fire!"
upon their lips, flew past.
"0 Rhoda! I never saw a fire; come,
let us go !" and Gilbert caught her by the
hand, and she, obeying a wild sort of im
pulse which she could scarcely understand,
and felt powerless to control, followed him
until they stood at last in the midst of a
shouting crowd, far down in the city,
watching the raging flames that now burst
forth from the building from whence the
alarm had sounded.
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the long curling tongues of fire that licked
the walls of the house caressingly, and a
terrible grandeur in the final topple and
the crash of the mighty fortress of flames.
Rhoda stool as spell-bound in the sight,
as was her companion, until some one
rudely pushed by her, peering into her
thee and laughingly addressed her as "Lit
tle Red Ridinghood," then she suddenly
became aware that it was night, and that
they two were far from home, and alone.
"Come. Gilbert, came," she whispered,
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quickly pulling him away; "we must go
home;" and hurrying through the crowd,
she discovered, upon reaching the first
street, that they were at least two miles
from home, and from a clock in a store
near by she saw that it was considerably
after ten.
"Have you any money, Gilbert, we must
ride home at once ?" she asked, after feel
ing in her own pocket and finding her
purse was not there.
"Ten cents ; but that i:•n't enough, is
it ? Can't we walk, I'm not tired ?"
"I don't believe we can ; I am cord and
tired, both ! 0 Gilbert ! why did we
come ?" and there was a slight suspicion
of tears in the trembling, frightened voice,
as Rhoda realized their uncomfortable
position ; two miles from home, after ten
o'clock, and not enough money to ride ; it
was not a pleasant state of affairs, surely.
Rude men passing now, began to notice
the girl, and boldly stared in her pale face.
"Gilbert," she whispered, shrinking from
their gaze, "Gilbert, we must get into a
car; I will explain to the conductor, and
we can pay the rest of the fare to-morrow."
But there were no cars in sight, and it
was growing colder every moment. After
waiting some time upon the corner, Rhoda
cried :
"There is a policeman, Gilbert, I'll ask
him how soon the car will be along ?" and,
timidly accosting the officer who stood near
by, and who appeared to be noticing their
evident distress, Rhoda was informed that
in consequence of the fire, that line of cars
was stopped.
"But," added the officer, politely, "you
can take an Arch Street car and exchange
with one of the north bound lines."
0 Rhoda, two exchanges, eighteen
cents! and we've only ten," cried Gilbert,
pathetically; "we'll have to walk, and you
are shivering with the cold, and it's all my
fault fur bringing you out."
The officer came nearer now, and, speak
ing to Gilbert, but looking at the tired,
pale face in the scarlet hood and seal skin
cap, said, kindly:
"If you will allow me my lad, I will
arrange all that," and he took from his
vest pocket a silver piece and put it into
Gilbert's hand, adding : "your sister is
not able to walk far this cold night, please
accept this little loan."
Rhoda bowed and said :
"You are very kind; Ido not think I
could walk back, and you see we haven't
any money ' • but I will recollect your sta
tion, and," looking up at his cap, "oh yes !
I sue your number is seventy-nine. Re
member, Gilbert, palicetnan No. 79. Thank
you, very much, for the loan !" and, taking
her cousin's arm, Rhoda hurried on toward
the car.
"I tell you. you've got first class police
men here, Rhoda Wasn't he a stunner ?"
cried Gilbert, as they reached the car, and
he paid their fare out of the silver piece;
"I'll return the money the first thing in
the morning; it will be a real Thanks.
giving won't it? I don't know when I
ever felt more grateful ; why, we might
have been arrested as trarup4, an taloen
to the station house.
Upon reaching home the two runaways
found that their stay had occasioned much
consternation in the household. Rhoda's
brother Ralph stood upon the door-step,
anxiously awaitint , their appearance, not a
little disappointed and alarmed to find his
sister gone upon his return from the hotel.
"Why, Rhoda, how imprudent to be out
so late! Where in the world"—he began,
but Gilbert rushed into such an enthusi
astic description of the great fire they had
witnessed, that Ralph was forced to laugh
off the little brotherly scold he had been
preparing.
"And it was just awful !" said Gilbert,
"and we would have had to walk all the
way back, two miles in the cold, if"—a
look from Rhoda, who did not care to be
reproved further, changed his finishing
the sentence, "if we had not rode."
"That is an indisputable fact, surely,"
laughed Aunt Carry; "but I really think it
is about time we had some rest now; you,
Gilbert, are dissipating too freely, and
Rhoda. I want you to get some beauty
sleep, fur Ralph tells me his friend, Cap
tain Hardy, will dine with us to morrow,
and you certainly will want to appear at
your best."
Thanksgiving morning dawned bright
and clear; and, directly after breakfast,
after a little whispered consultation with
Rhoda, Gilbert started down town to find
the officer who had been so kind the night
before. He did not return in time to ac
company his cousins to church, and Rhoda
felt certain qualms of anxiety over his de
lay.
"I ought to have gone with him," she
kept saying over and over to herself. "Oh,
deur ' what a bother boys are ! it is all his
own fault for insisting up )11 running to
the fire ;. and now, perhaps. he has got
10-t, and I shall be blamed !"
Ralph Bruce wondered what made his
sister so absent minded and quiet all the
morning ; but as he toa was feeling an
noyed and anxious over the none-appar
allele of his friend Captain Hardy, he did
not question her curiously silent manner.
Walking from church, as the two turn
ed the corner of the street on their way
home, what was their astonishment to be
hold both delinquents face to face. Gilbert
merrily laughing and talking with a hand
seine young gentleman in fall uniform ; the
gentleman as interestedly listening to his
boyish chatter.
"Why, Hardy, my dear fellow, what—
who—where" cried Ralph, looking from
the Captain to Gilbert, and from Gilbert
back to the Captain in the greatest sur
prise:
'Here he is, Rhoda, and he a po
liceman at all; he's a regular, but I found
him there at the place, you know, and he
would'nt take the money, and he knows
Ralph, and I brought him right along;"
and, quite out of breath, Gilbert paused at
length in his explanation.
Ralph now included his sister in his
scrutiny.
"Why, ieally, Hardy," he began.
Rhoda blushed and looked confused
"Shall I explain matters a little more
lucidly ?" asked the Captain smiling and
looking at Rhoda, who nodded affirmative
ly. -Things do look complicated, don't
they, Bruce ?" he said, turning to Ralph ;
"but the solution of the mystery is, that
last evening I met your sister and this lad
in the crowd near the fire down town; and
they, supposing me to be a police officer—
I wore a fatigue cap—asked me a question
concerning the cars, and—"
"And we only had ten cents," inter
rupted Gilbert ; "and he loaned me a
quarter to ride home, and I went down
town to pay him back this morning and—"
"Ali, I begin to see light dawning at
last !" said Ralph. "It is a complicated
case, as you say; but I thank you Hardy,
for your kindly personation of a policeman.
I doubt if the genuine article would have
dealt so gentlemanly with such a pair of
greenhorns. But now let me introduce
DO NOVEMBER 22, 1878.
yon to the damsel toward whom you have
so 'gallantly played knight. :Rhoda, my
friend Captain Hardy, of the 79th Regi
went. Hardy, my sister, Miss Rhoda
Bence, and 0 Gill ! this is Captain Hardy,
a 'Regular' as you have discovered ; Cap
tain, my cousin Gilbert Gaines, and now
that we are at our gates"—the party hav
ing reached the door by this time, "let us
go in and eat our dinner with"—
"With thanksgivini , and praise !" bloke
in Gilbert, who had been giving Rhoda a
series of pokes and hunches ai he walked
along beside her.
"That is just it, exactly," replied the
Captain. "It is a true - Thanksgiving day
to me ; I don't know: when I have felt
such a desire to return thanks," with a
warm look at B,hoda's bright, blushing
face.
4 was some time before Rhoda could
suillmon sufficient confidence and courage
to address her brother's friend as Captain
Hardy.
"Only think, Gilbert," she said, "I call•
ed him number 'seventy-nine' that night,
and I shall always think of him as number
`seventy nine,' and lam so afraid I shall
address him by that name."
But with the Captain's frequent calls at
the house, during the rest of the winter,
Rhoda gradually overcame her timidity,
and before spring she had learned not only
to call him "Captain," but to qualify that
title in her mind and thoughts with the
tenderest of adjectives; and in due time
it came to pass that she promised to change
her own name of Bruce to that of Hardy.
When she wrote a little note to Gilbert
anitouncing their engagement, he wrote
back, "you owe me one for him, anyhow ;
if it were not for me you would never have
met him—so romantically at least—it was
that pretty red hood of yours that first at
tracted him; he is my Thanksgiving pres•
ent to you, and I want to come to Seventy•
nine's wedding."
A year from the night Rhoda sat in the
dim twilight waiting for a lover, she was
married to Captain Hardy of the 79th
Regiment ; and Gilbert was there !
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Not One Friend in all America.
There was a" day when Talleyrand
arrived in Havre, in great haste from
Paris. It was in the darkest hour of the
French Revolution. Pursued by the blood
hounds of the Reign of Terror, stripped of
every wreck of property or power, Talley
rand secured a passage to America in a
ship about to sail. He was going a beggar
and a wanderer to a strange land, to earn
his bread by his daily labor.
"Is there an American staying at your
house ?" he asked the landlord of the
hotel. am bound to cross the water,
and would like a letter to some person of
influence in the New World."
The landlord lit'sitated a moment, and
then replied :
"There is a gentleman up stairs, either
from America or Britain ; but whether an
American or Englishman I cannot tell."
lie pointed the way, and Talleyrand,
who in early life was bishop, prince, and
afterwards a prime minister, ascended the
stairs. A miserable ' suppliant, he stood
before the stranger's door, knocked and
entered.
In a far corner of a dimly lighted room
sat a gentleman of some fifty years, his
arms folded, and his head bowed upon his
breast. From a window directly opposite,
a flood of light poured over his forehead.
His eyes, looking from beneath the down
cast brows, gazed into Talleyrand's face
with a peculiar and searching expression.
His face was striking in its outline, the
mouth and chin indicative of an iron will.
His form, vigorous, even with the snows
of fifty winters, was clad in a dark, but
rich and distinguished costume.
Talleyrand advanced, stated that he was
a fugitive, and under the impression that
the gentleman before him was an Ameri
can, he solicited his kind feeling and
offices, pouring forth his history in eloquent
French and broken English.
"I am a wanderer—an exile ! I am
forced to fly to the New World, without a
friend or hope. You are an American.
Give me, I beseech you, a letter of yours,
so that I may be able to earn my bread, I
am willing to toil in any manner; the
scenes of Paris have filled me with such
horror, that a life of labor would be a
paradise to a career of luxury in France.
You will give me a letter to one of your
friends. A gentleman like you has doubt
les many friends "
The strange gentleman ruse. With a
look that Talleyrand never forgot, he re
treated towards the door of the next cham
ber, his head still downcast, his eyee look
ing still from beneath his darkened brow.
He spoke as he retreated backwards—his
words were fall of meaning.
"I am the only man born in the- New
World who can raise his hand to God and
say, I have not a friend, not one, in all
America I"
Talieyrand never forgot the overwhelm
ing sadness of the look that accompanied
these words.
-Who are you ?" he cried, as the strange
gentleman retreated towards the next mow.
`•Your name ?"
"My name'.''—with a smile tint had
more of mockery than joy in its convul
sive expression—my name is 13Jnediet
Arnpld!"
lie was gone. Talleyrand sank in a
chair, gasping the words—
" Arnold, the Traitor ! one who has be
trayed his country."
Thus Arnold wandered over the earth,
another Cain, with a wanderer's mark on
his brow. Even in the secluded room, at
that inn of Havre, his crime found him
out, and forced him to tell his name—that
name the synonym of infamy.
The last twenty years of Arnold's life
were covered with a cloud from whose
darkness but a faw gleams of light flash
out upon the page of.history.—Examiner
and Chronicle.
DEAR OLD MOTHER.—Yes, give us the
old-fashioned mother. Away with your
mincing "mammas," suggestive only of a
fine lady, who deputes her duty to a nurse,
a drawing room maternal parent, who is
afraid to handle her offspring for fear of
soiling her fine, new gown. Give us the
homely mother, the arms of whose love are
all embracing; who is beautiful always,
whether old or young; whether arrayed
in satin or modestly attired in calico. The
dear old mothers ! Heaven bless them !
"So," said a lady, recently, to a mer
chant, "your pretty daughter has married
a rich husband?" "Well," slowly replied
the father, "I believe she has married a
rich man, but I understand he is a very
poor husband."
AN UNWRITTEN LEAF.
About Bold Western Bandits.
INSIDE HISTORY OF THE JAMES AND
YOUNGER BROTHERS-ATTEMPT TO
CAPTURE GRANT IN THE SPRING OF
1864.
From the St. Louis Post, sth inst.]
kformation, not heretofore made pub
lie, touching the operations during the
war and since the war of certain well-known
Missouri guerillas, has just come to light.
The remarkable and astounding series of
bank and train robberies that sprang up
several years ago was originated by these
same Missouri guerillas. Long before the
war closed they became the most desper
ate lot of free booters known to this coun
try. They learned to live on plunder, and
when peace came, the wont of them, head
ed by the celebrated James brothers and
Younger brothers, kept up the business of
murdering and stealing. What they done
was done - with a high hand in the broad
daylight. They rode into towns, shot down
citizens, broke open banks, carried off
thousands of dollars. They stopped rail
road trains, stripped the passengers of their
valuables and robbed the express. They
rode the fleetest horses, had no fear, were
dead shots, and fur ten years escaped cap
ture in a time of profound peace. They
were in Texas to day, in Missouri to-mor
row. Their lives appeared to be charmed,
and they seemed to travel on the wings of
the wind. A sort of mystic romance grew
up around them. There were those who
declared that the James and the Youngers
were not connected with these incredible
feats of deviltry, but the best informed
knew that no inexperienced man could ride
as they rode, shoot as they shot, and fight
as they fought. There was a boldness and
rapidity of execution about these robberies
that could not be attributed to fresh hands.
The detectives could do nothing. They fol
lowed the phantom riders by day and by
night, and from State to State, yet were
they always baffled.
More than one detective bit the dust in
his zeal to capture the noted land-pirates.
Where they lived, and who were their
friends and abettors, was a mystery. Yet
it was known they had some kind of a
place for headquarters, and that they must
have those to whom they confided their se
crets. Those mysteries remained to be un
solved till the great Northfield bank rob
bery in Minnesota. The end had come at
last and the truth revealed. It was dern•
onstrated that the Younger brothers were
a part of the desperate gang and but little
d.)ubt left that the two escaping ones were
the James brothers. Here en/JO-the op•
erations of these men. The Youngers were
put in prison for life, and the Jaineses have
concluded to run no further risks. Where
they are and what they are doing must,
for the present. at least, remain a secret.
Some say they are in Texas raising cattle,
while others say they are in Colorado try
ing to make an honest living in the mining
districts. It was reported, lately, that
Frank James was in Missouri, and that he
was all broken down in health from old
wounds and exposure. Be this as it may,
they are still being hunted by the detec
tives, and there hangs over them a shadow
in whatever land they may be. These two
brothers are the last of that famous band
of highwaymen that grew up out of the
remnants of what was known as "Quan•
trell's command," the bravest and most
successful body of men that took part in
the late civil war. They were nurtured
in the troubles of '56. the border feuds be
tween Missouri and Kansas. No other
circumstances could have produced such a
class of men. They delighted in blood and
pillage, but they had a show of honor after
all. Their bravery was a virtue if they
had no other, and it was this that made
them friends out of people who ought to
have been their enemies. This much in
the way of an introduction of some of those
to whom this article relates.
In the fall of 1863 Quantrell left Mis
souri with a company of one hundred and
twenty men, passed through Arkansas and
attempted to go into Louisiana. They
were notified by Kirby Smith, then com
manding the rebel army in that country,
that they could not join his army, nor
would they be allowed to remain in Louis
iana. It appears that he did not want
them on account of the bad name that had
preceded them, and as he believed they
would do his army more harm than good
in the way of destroying its discipline
The headquarters of the Louisiana State
Government were then at Shreveport, and
Henry W. Allen was the chief executive.
By some means he heard of Kirby Smith's
refusal to allow the men of Quantrell's
command to become soldiers in the regular
army, or remain, in the State, and he sent
for them himself, and told them he would
like them to join the State scouting ser
vice and be under his immediate control.
Quantrell himself declined the invitation,
but a number of his followers, among them
the James and Younger brothers, accepted
the offer of Gov. Allen. These elected as
their commander one of their number,
named Joe Lee, who had come from near
Independence, Mo. Since that a little
town has grown up this side of Independ
ence, known as Lee's Summit, a name
given in honor of Joe Lee's fiather. Lee
was a young man and as desperate as any.
He knew nothing of fear, and had been in
many a elo;c encounter on the Kansas
border. He was six feet high, built from
the ground up, had a wild, dashing air
that always distinguished hire in any com
pany, awl had a face that was altogether
more pleasing than disagreeable. The
place of rendezvous for this company of
State scouts was Carroll parish, now West
Carroll parish, about twenty-five miles
from the Mississippi river, directly across
from Vicksburg. Previous to the war
this county had been in a high state of
cultivation, but the neglect of the river
levees had made it subject to inundations.
For many miles in every direction much
of the laud was covered with water a great
portion of the year. A good class of peo
ple lived there Many of them had been
wealthy planters and the owners of large
numbers of slaves. It was one of the
richest portions of the State, beina , in the
center of the great cotton belt or th e e South.
Joe Lee and his followers had no trouble
in finding friends and abettors, and that,
too, among the most respectable people in
the community. There were two little
towns in the parish—Floyd and Delhi.—
At those two hamlets, and in their vicinity,
the guerrillas made their homes. They
came and went without let or hindrance,
and were always full of money. Joe Lee,
Frank and Jesse James and John Jarrett,
stopped with a planter named Dickson, and
Dickson lives there at ti time. He,
above all others of the Parish, was the
confidential friend of the guerillas. They
were all active, well-built men, of that
dashing, reckless air that capture the
hearts of women. They kept the com
munity in a state of perpetual excitement
awl enthusiasm and wade sad havoc among
wives and maidens. It was one round of
revelry from week in to week out. Every
night, there was a party or ball at the
house of some planter. The guerrillas
were the lions on all these occasions. They
sported the most gaudy dress, 11 wrished
the finest pistols and role the best homes.
They were the only heroes the people
there could have with them. To the ne
groes, they were a terror. In fact, they
were supreme in the mastery of Carroll
parish. Now and then they would go
away on forays, and would return with
various amounts and kinds of plunder.—
They would waylay some small detachment
of the Federal army, shoot the men, rob
them of their money and their horses.—
They kept on hand a large supply of Gov
ernment mules, harness, wagons, and
various sorts of military appendages. They
dressed in Federal uniform whenever they
were on one of the raids. This was a
fashion with all the Missouri guerrillas.—
Thus disguised, they decoyed many a poor
soldier into the jaws of death. , There
could bo much sail of the daring exploits
of Joe Lee and his band of freebooters,
but one adventure deserves especial men
tion since it is not known how near it
came to affecting the destiny of the nation.
It appears that after Vicksburg had been
invested and the South threatened at other
points, Gov. Allen, of Louisiana, conceived
the desperate idea of capturing the person
of Gen. Grant. He believed that Grant
was the evil genius of the Confederacy,
and that if he could be killed or taken
prisoner, the siege of Vicksburg could be
raised and the Federal army driven back.
He sent for Joe Lee, and imparted to him
his thoughts, and asked him if ho could
devise a plan. It was readily taken to by
Lee, who immediately proposed to execute
the daring enterprise. At that time—
that is in the spring of 1864—Grant and
his army were encamped at Milligan's
Bend, near Young's point, on the Missis-
sippi, some eighteen miles above Vicks
burg. Gen. Grant's headquarters were in
the dwelling house that belonged to a
magnificent plantation, much of which can
be seen from the deck of a passing steamer.
Joe Lee proposed to go to that house and
bring away the body of Gen. Grant, dead
or alive.
He chose five of his m)-t trusty man.
They were the two James brothers, two of
the Younger brothers and John Jarrett.
These, with himself, made six. There nev
er were six better men for such an expedi
tion. They were young, strong and brave
as the bravest. They had already seen all
there is in war They had been tried in
the most trying places; had suffered all
manner of hardships; did not care much
whether they lived or died ; were the quick
est and best shots in the world, and rode
the fleetest horses in the land. It was just
before the Federal army set out on that
surprising march down the west side of
the river. The country was all full of
marshes, bayous and morasses, so that the
natural advantages for the execution of
the plot were good. The plan was for Joe
Lee and his five trusty followers to dress
up in full Federal uniform, ride on horse
back to Milligan's Bend, go direct to the
house where Grant was stopping, ru , ,h in
and secure his person, put him on a spare
horse, and then escape to the swamps which
were near by. On one Saturday evening,
late, the party set out from Dickson's house,
near Delhi. and rode towards the Missis
sippi. There was not a soul on earth, be
sides themselves and Gov. Allen,that knew
of their desperate mission. It was some
thing over twenty five miles they had to
go, and the night was a dark ono; but long
before day they were at the edge of the
woods that bordered on the plantation on
which Grant was quartered. There was
no enemy to attack from the west side, and
there was no particular precaution about
guards. The pickets were passed before
sun up, and, while the General was yet.
asleep, the guerillas rode boldly up through
the open field, towards the house. There
they were—six men, seven horses. The
empty saddle for the commander of the
hundred thousand men who were camped
about in every direction. They approach
ed in almost a stone's throw of the house,
when they met a negro. They were dis
covered. It was an old man whom these
very man had run away from Delhi not ten
days before. He knew them all, and im
mediately gave the alarm. In a moment
there was a great tumult, and the six guer
illas had nothing to do but save their lives.
They broke through the field, and in the
twinkling of an eye were back in the woods,
but nut until a hundred shots had been
fired after them. Before the sun went
down they were safe at their favorite ren
dezvous. Thus was frustrated one of the
most daring plots of the war. It is not
probable that General Grant took any par
ticolar notice of the affair, and it is not at
all probable that be has ever realized the
valuable service of the old colored man.
What interpretation the offie-Ts or the
army put upou the presence ()Nile strange
and hostile men at such a time and place,
is not known, but if there were any doubts
as to their mission, this bit of history may
serve to remove them.
The Sea Islands
Nowhere on the face of' the earth is
there such a emigeries of islands as that
which is strung along the coast of the
United States from Key West to Charles
ton. The archipelago of' the China sea or
of the Bahatnai possibly includes a large
number, but they are scattered over a much
Jailer space. These sea islands are all
flat, never over ninety feet high, and are
composed of a sandy alluvium in some
cases, in others of a soil formed of coral
abraded to dust, while others, again, com
bine both formations. They are often di
vided from each other or from the adjoin
ing mainland only by winding but deep
creeks through which the tide flows
These channels are sometimes so narrow
and overgrown with long, sighing sedge,
that one is hardly conscious that the banks
represent distinct islands separated by the
waters of the . ocean. But although this
formation would seem adapted to render
these islands monotonous and uninterest
ing, they are really full of attractions, for
they are often overgrown in the most en
chanting manner by oak forests, groves of
palm and lianas, while the delicious sea
breezes of a semi-tropical clime and the
historic legends and associations of the
past invest them with a wonderful poetic
haze, like the golden vapor which sunset
weaves over the rooN and spires of a dis
tant town.—lfarper's Magazine.
BURLINGTON HaWktye: "One of the
saddest and most vexatious trials that
comes to a girl when she marries is that
she has to discharge her mother and de
pend upon a hired girl."
THE first nows-earrier--Noah's dove,
Talk with Drinkers.
I am convinced if more of our Christian
men and women would talk with drinkers
and recognize them when they meet them
on the streets, and say some word to them
in kindness about the way they are living,
a great amount of good would be accom•
plished for the cause of Christ. But our
people are getting so they hardly ever recog
nize a drinking man or a seller of the vile
stuff, but pass them by unnoticed, as through
he was a snake, or the most insignificant
worm that crawls on the face of the earth,
when perhaps one word would set them to
thinking, and they would look back over
their lives, and see the error of their ways.
And the more they would ponder ever it,
the more he would be coo*ioced that they
were leading a miserable 4 wretched un
christian life. We are seeing the effects of
this in Oskaloosa, at this time r since our
great temperance revival here. Some two
months ago I commenced to attend a Wo
man's Temperance Prayer Meeting. Sunday
evening, at 4 p. m. , in the First M. E.
church of this place, a drinking man. I
found about a dozen in attendance, ladies
and gentlemen; but as the weeks rolled by
the numbers began to increase, until now
we have about one hundred. Last Sabbath
evening I noticed in the room about twenty
hard drinkers two months ago; and some of
them only quit lust Tuesday night, and
signed the pledge. Six or eight of these
have given their hearts to God, and nearly
all of them have asked the prayers of
Christian people, and express a desire to
live a true Christian life. One of this
number sold whisky up to within two weeks
of this time, and has spent about half of
his time in our county jail the pass three
years. He says a committee of ladies gall
ed at his den, and talked kindly to him
about the wrong he was doing. He told
them he was glad they called ; that he was
wanting some one to talk to him. And it
encouraged him to think that he was not
entirely forgotten by reapectable people.
that he turned the key on his saloon,: and
quit the sale of liquor, and to day be end
his wife are asking the prayerp (pc g ood
Christian people. See what a few words
will do, spoken in the right spirit. There
is no one so low but what can be reformed
if Christian people will only work in the
right way. When I write thus I know
whereof I speak. Kind words of encourage
ment saved me from going to destruotion
by the use of intoxicating drinks, and it
will do the same fir others. Since I quit
drink I have asked God to _forgive my
sins, and I feel that he has done it. What
we most need after we do quit drink, is
the lave of God in our hearts. Ask him
to take away our appetites, and Ile will
do it.— Reformed Aan, ia Christian
Sta ndard
A Land of Wonderful Sights.
A correspondent of the Troy 74:mes now
travelling in Colorado thus describes the
attractions of that wonderful country : But
while Colorado cannot., like other States,
boast of its immense agricultural products,
it can justly claim to have the grandest
natural scenery in the nation. Its giant
mountain., its snow capped peaks, its tow
ering cliffs, its mighty canyons, its grand
and beautiful parks, its charming valleys,
its clear placid lakes, its wonderfui cascades,
its marvellous mineral waters, its deep
mines, and its mammoth caves wake it a
wonderfully attractive place to thousands,
both from our land and from lands beyond
the seas. Wherever we went, on moun
tains or hills, in valleys or mines, we found
parties.seeking instruction, health, recre
at ion and pleasure. The different ranges
of the Rotky Mountains extend for over a
'thousand miles within Colorado alone.
Among these ranges are 200 peaks rewqh
in..' an elevation of over 13,000 feet : . • ; n4l-
30 or 40 peaks which are over 14,04 feet
high Several of the great rivers of the
West have their sources in this mountain
region, among which we may mention the
Platte, the Arkansas. the-Rio Grande, and
the Rio Colorado. The parks of Colorado
are a peculiar feature of the scenery
of the State, They are . vust ba
sins or plateaus of land lying between par
allel ranges of the mountains and surround
ed on all sides by lofty and rocky walls.
They are thought to be the bottoms of
great lakes which existed in a former age
of the world's history. The surface of
these parks is diversified by lakes and riv
ers, and covered by tall grass of rank
growth, with here and there a little tim
ber. The four principal ones are "North
Park," Middle Park," "South Park," and
"San Luis Park." The latter. which is
as large as the other three combined ) . con -
ratios 18,000 square miles—and is equal to
the State of Massachusetts added to that of
Vermont.
Pride.
Pride is ruining tne•youog );pen in this
broad land of ours by die thotthinds. ft is
enappii,g the very foudatinn 0r society,
nine tenths of the people you meet being
afflicted more or leis, in some way or other,
by this serious malady It keeps young
men out of business and callings that might
prove to be lucrative . Many young men
who start out on their own hook take more
pride than money, and after wandering
about a few months come back with all the
pride they started with and no money. A
young man who '•works for his board," no
matter what honest work he does, has no
reason for shame. While on the other
hand, a young man who eats the bread of
idleness, no matter how much money he
has, is disgraced.. There is always some
thing for willing hands to d ! , . Young
men Etartiog in life ought to aim first of
all, to find where they can earn their
bread and butter, with hoe, axe, spade,
wheelbarrow, woodsaw—no matter, so it is
honorable. Independence first. Depend
ent mortals are the veriest slaves on top of
earth. They go at the bidding and tome
at the calling of their benefactors, and find
themselves powerless to remove the shac•
kles that keep them vassals. The bread
and butter question once settled, let the
young man perform his duty so faithfully
as to attract attention, and let hie/ con
stantly keep his eyes open for a chance to
do better. If be does the best he can under
the circumstances, is faithful to his trust,
the opportunity to go up higher will come
round after awhile. Perhaps not quite as
soon as was expected, but merit will not. go
long unrewarded. About half the poor,
proud young men, and two thirds of the
poor, discouraged young men, are always
out of work. Whenever you run mesa a
young man who is accumulating wealth or
climbing the ladder of fame, you will find
that he is an incessant worker. He pooketa
his pride, carries an upper lip as stiff as a
cast iron door step scraper, frowns upon
discouragements and makes life a success.
TAKE your conscience and the Goltha
Rule for a guide,
NO. 46.