American Uoluiitccf.
VOL. 51.
AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
POBLisnRD ETEar TnunSbAr uomtixo st
JOHN B. BllAtfOn.
TERMS’:
SußSChtprioK;—t) rt UftrB if paid tho
jejjrj and TWo Boll'aTa atiU 'Cents, if no£ paid
|ltbia tho jottr. TbefcVtoV&g Will be rigidly .ad*
Irod.to.m bvery ifistunOo. dia
{ODtioued until all nre r paid unlQas at
the option Of thb Edttot.
by tbbbliSH, arid
exceeding .ono £qttare, be inserted tliroe
limoa for $2.09, and twenty-five cents for edeb
additional’lußoffion. Tbdsb of greater length m
tooportton. * . . ...
as H&nd-billa, Postlbg-bllls
pamphlets, Blanlft), Labels, Ad. Ac.,
aoaraoy end at the shortest notice. ' •
F. E. BELTZHOOVER,
i TTORNBy ANR COUNSELLOR Ait'LAW,
'■ OAfttrSLßj, PENN'A. :, . .
OFFICE on South . Hanover street, oppo
alto Benta'i’ store. • ,
By special arrangement with the Patent Office,
,(tends to scouring Patent Bights.. '
B»pt. 22, 1804—ly -
IeCFWSS JB.
AT TO R NEY AT LAW.
CARLISLE, PA. '
A TTENDS' to secuyitig, and ’collecting
, Soldier’, Pay, PidiKbri., Rountiec, .dec, ■
pSP Offloe on' South Hanover street opposite
, hair's .tore. Fob, 13,1862.
J. M. WEAKLEY,
ATTO B N BY A T L A \Y, !
OFFICE on South Hanover street, in the
room formerly nooupied by A. B'. 1 Sharpe.
fit. SI, .1862—9 m.
SAMUEL Jr.j,
ATTORNEY- AT-tAVV.
OFFICE with Judge Hepburn, OB East
Main Street, Carlisle.
Aug. 6, *63—ly.
- 11. NE WSH AM,
ATTORE EY AT LAW.
OFFICE with W-n. H. Miller, Esq., south
west corner of Hanover and Pomfrofc streets.
Carlisle, Dee. 22, 1862—'tT
CUAS. E. MGLillCillLl^
A'TTO RNE Y-AT-L A W.
OFFICE in. Inho'ff’s biiiWiilg, just opposite
the Market Houfo.
Carlisle March 13, lSfi24 : dy. . ~
L‘ J. W. FOULK, Atlnruoj nt Law. ''
• Office with James K. Smith, "Ihiqßheen. s
Hall. All business entrusted to hi ill wilVbe prompt
y attended to. . Feb, 6. 1803.
Dr OEO. S, SiJAmeilT, <
Fv an tile Baltimore College of Dental Snrgerg
r Office at the residence of Ms 1 mother, Bast Louth
sr street,, three .doors below Bedford.
Carlisle, Doc. 22,1882.
M. Cv HBBMANi
ATT OR N E Y AT LA ' vr -■
OFFICE in, Rhocm’s Hall Building.in
tho’rear of the Court House, next door to the
iHerald” Offloo, Carlisle! oh. '
JAIMCS A. OTIMBAR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARLISLE, h'A. .
. Office next door to tho trHeHcaa Printing office
A few doors west of HunnoU's botch
April U, 1864—1 y ■
'mo.. DR. i ,C. laomiSi PE»-
Has removed from South Hanover street to West
fomfrot street; opposite the Few el o High School,
Carlisle. . , • . . .{April 28,1864.
■ / N E W S !
NEWS!! NEWS!!!
1‘ SIDICH & MILLER are just receiving
a. 4 at' their new and cheap stole, on the south
east cornor of Main, street, thoif. first supply of
Fail and Winter Goads,
to which they invito the spooiaiattontionof every,
.penoa in want of Goods desirable for the present
pnd coming Season. The stock' comprises *ll
kinds and varieties of ’
duesS GOODS, t
jnoh as Plain Black, Figured and Repp Silks,
Plain aid Figured colored Dress Sjlks, all colors
Proneh' Merinos. French Cashmeres, plain and
fieurod, Coburg Cloth* all shades and colors,
hfaok and colored Alpods, plain and_ flgered ail
Wool Mous-DcLainos, suitable for Ladies nnd
PhildrotL’s Drcssos, Mohair: Pynlins, Valencias,
American DoLaihop, .OaUooos,.Gingoams,,*e,,«o’
,J " " " ; an——■
Black French Metin', Ftench Cashmeres,. double
an* single’width o' Wool BoWideTi.Thibbett Me
dMS.:B K dmbaJlnc., Orapo l white
Plaid Poplins, blaok and, nnrplo pl » il1 , CM . b “Xe
long, square nnd Thibbet Shawls, loegand square
Blanket Shawls, Crape Veils, Cdfllars, Hand
ker<biQi , 6> 0 .,, ' <60,l ‘ " .
■ Msms:Am -BOYS’ WEAR. ■
Mack and; colored Oipths; hiioMqd fancy Cassß
fimeror, all,,grades and qualities; Veotrngs, Satti
liaete, Union. OassinSofes, Kentucky Joans, Shirting
Flannels, MhMno Shifts and Wafrets, Ac., *o..A,
Special errahgwnont made with a first class TAI
LOR to make unclothing at very short notice.
coops.
Bleached ipd Unbleached Muslirie of every quality,
Sheeting Muslins, Pillow-case Muslins, Linen and
Cotton Table' Diapers, Tickings, Cheeks, Striped
Cotton Shirtings, Donnims, Domestlo Ginghams,
Scotch- Ginghams, Sack Flannel of every color,
Shirting Flannels, Factory and Shaker Flannels
for Skirtings,jrod, yellow aid white Wool Finn
hols, Canton Flannels, Calicoes, colored, cambric,
and paper MuslinS, Drilling Nankeens and many
ether Goods in ovefy day nso. f
NOTIONS IN (SRBAT VARIETY.
Men’s Hanover Buck Gloves and Gauntlets, Berlin,
Cloth, Ringwood, Oosslraere and Dogskin Gloves,
Ladles Kin, Cloth, Merino; 'Silk; Lirlefcend and
Cotton Gloves, afjuU assortment ofootton and
Wool Hosiery, for Mon, Ladies and
moral Woolen Hose for Ladies, Ausses. abw'ChU-.
dren, Opera Hoods, all;«lMB, andyOolpraiSeaifs.-
Suspenders, Sontags, Skirts, . Balmoral
Skirts, Umbrellas, 40., io.i .■, .. _
Also, Inst opening a complete otook:of tna,new
est i styles Cloth-Cloaks, and Blanket Shawls,
Carpets, Oil Cloths, .Mattings, Window Shades,
Looking Glasses, *o., 4b. ..., . ' ■■ . 1
As the season advances we will constantly be
tonkin* additions to our stock, and will always enp
leaver to make our stock the most desirable.that
■«an be found in thacounty. ToeUngvory thankful
to the community for thoir kind and liboral patro
nage a 6 far extended to the Now. Firm, we earnestly
Bollolt a continuance of the-same. Please give ns
a eall; before making your purchases ap we are al
ways ready and'Willing to exbibit our goods, and
ean, and will prove that wo .study, the interest of
bur customers. ' ,
.Please do not forget that our Store is on the
toner, directly opposite Irvine’s Shod Store.
V , . ; LBIDIOH & MILLER.
Carlisle, Bept. 15,186 i. ; j
soetkal
EVENING,
father, the day it done’ 1
Divinely dies the pun;
■ leaving the quiet earth
In pensive prayer;
Slowly th’e fields grow dim,
As the’ with thought of Him—
Now gone, who all the day
■Has -shown so free and fait.
Boffty the Night comes down!
Not like aniangel’s^oion,
But only gladness faded fro th the foci
Night 1 holy, calm arid deep I
‘A balm for those,who. Weep,'
Traying amid earth’s Vanities,
thy kindly grape.
N 1 0 II T ;
fattier, the citysleeps!
Only the oceiin deeps',
With voides&iin.
Into the lipt’ning night. .. .
Pour forth with oeKseless might
Their awful hymn.
! Quiet in earth and sky I
Afar the old,hills lie
Asleep in Thee.
The floating vapors swim
Tgneath the moonbeams did
O’er land and sea.
Silence and deep repose'l
For all darth’S Weary wde'd,
And eare anS.'sin..,
Calm As an infant’s slebp t
I only Irak's fifed weep
Till morfe begin.
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'tettlltnwms ■ ■
A Tfaeatrieal Incident.
Some years ago tbe_ manager of a ‘ well
regulated theatre,’ somewhere along the line
of the Erie' canal, engaged a good-looking
and brisk young lody ns a supernumerary;—
It happened that the young lady in question
had formerly officiated-ns a ‘ hand’ on board
a canal boat, a fact which she was ektrerae
■|y anxious to conceal. She: evinced much
anxiety to ritnoter the details df. her newly
chosen profession, and soon ethlbited a more
t|an ordinary degree of coifiio talent. -She
wps daily promoted, and id tithe became ti
gederal favorite with both file manager anil
the public. i
One night she was annouriobu to-nppeat iti
a" favorite- part, and a couple of boatmen
found their way into thepii;nsiit- the fbot
lights* particularly anxious to see the riovt
fafetoffis comeditnne. ~The house -fras crowded
and after the subsidence of the general ap
plause which groatedihor appearance, one of
the boatmen jjmpppq jms, companion on _th b
shoulder, aha wttfi, u a’ni.«mphatio hxpletive,
exclaimed foud enough lb be heard over half i
the house: , I, ;t ~ •
' Bill,. I khorf that gal J' ‘
■’ Pshaw I’ eaidtßill, * dry up.’' ,
Biit I’m d—d if I don’t knofe her, Bill.
It’s Sdl FhjKlha, (is sliro as you’rb born.—
She’s oid Flbkina’ daughter that used to rub
the lojfife’d Polly, and she us§d te sail with
him/ ,
‘ Toiti, edid Bill, * you’re d Tool, and if you
deh’t stop your infernal clack, yell’ll get put
odt. Sal Flukins 1 You know a sight if yod
think that’s her 1’ _
Toril "jvas silenced, hut not convinced. Hs
watched the actress. IS all hhi actions with
intense interest, and ere. long Broke out
agaih: , , , ■„
•I'leH.ye, Bill, that’s her—l know
Yofe can't fool me —I kfeow-her too Well V ,l >
Bill, who Was a good deal intct-eSted ln the
play,' was out of all patience at this persist
ent interruption on the -part cf /Tom, - He
gave him a tretnendous nudge >in the ribs
with his elbow, as an emphatic hint for hhn
to keep-quiet.
Tom without minding 1 the; admonition,
saidt 1 "
‘You just wait—l’ll fix her; keep your
eye on me.’ ~ , _. ~
Sura enougn .be did fix her.. Watching ms
opportunity, when the .abtress was deeply ab
sorbed in * her part,- he sung out in"a voice
that rang through,the galleries:
'Low Bridge 1' ‘ '
' From force of habit, tho actress instantly
andiuVoluntarily ducked her head to avoid
the , anticipated ;oollision. Down- .oomei the
house, with, a perfect thunder of.applause nt
this 1 ipaipable Ihit,’ high above which Tom’s
voice) could-, be r heard,- as he returned - Bill's
pUnoh'iri the ribs with interest:' ;
• Didn’t I'toll ye, old boy, I knowd ’twas
her. Ypu'oouldp’t fool me.f
' The True tiiii.—The mere lapse of years
ifl nbt life, to'eafc and drink, and sleep ; to
be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace
around in the mill of habifc 1 wid turn the
wrheel of wealth.; to make; reason our book
keeper, and turn thought into ttn •iroplement
of trade—this is not life, in all this but a
ooor fraction of the consciousness x>! httman
ty is awakened, and the stilt dlum
her which rbake it moat worth while to'live.
Knowledge,, truth, lovb, beauty; goodribss,'
faith, aloqb' oau give vitality to the mechan
ism of existence j the IbWgh of miftH which
vibrates through the heaW; the teafj.tbat
freshen th'bdry waste’withiri ; the music that
brings ohtftfhoDd back.! tti6 p.lray.or.that cells
the futurb' near; ..the' doubt Which makes us
meditate, tpo defitlf .Jfhibh. Startles us with
ruyotery; the hardship that forces us to strug
gle ; the anxiety that eride in trust, are the
tfue nourishment of our national being.
A Sown ii or Mishaps^— A Troy alderman
got married’the other day, arid had rather a
sad time on his wedding tour. Ha was tyro
days: In getting to BWa'o, oh account of the
snow } was ih Hotel, in that
city, wbpn it, was burned down ; and on his
way to|Ohioago.,was thrown over, an embank
ment twenty .feet high hy a,railroad accident,
badly, bruising.him arid his new wife. The
couple ,are now,fn Chicago,.recovering from
them injuries, and getting courage to try the
return trip. __
ITT" There is this difference between hap
piness and wisdom ;.be that thinks himself
the happiest man really is so; put he that
thinks bimnelf the Wisest, is generally the.
greatest fool
"OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS 88-RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.’’
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A- lIEGOIC LITTLE GIBE.
The Vicksburg Herald of tho‘24th relates
the particulars’ Ol a mast horrid' crime per
petrated in that yicirtityi A short time since,
at about 1 -10 o’clock at night, two negroes
went to the residence of Mr; Qarrity who is
superintendent of Dick ‘Christman’s planta
tion, about 60 miles above the oily, on the
Mississippi side of the river, and knocking at
the door demanded admittance. Mr.Qarrity
at Once opened the door, when they demand
ed his money and pistols. He replied he had
neither, but had scarcely spokewhen he was
fired on by both the ruffians, the shots ‘Strik
ing him in the hack of the neck and com
pletely paralysing him. *
Passing over what they supposed .to be bis
dead body, they entered the house, murdered
Mra. Qarrity and two. children, and shot
»h the shoulder a little girl. She fell,
ough enduring intense pain *he feign-,
ed death so well that tho inhuman monsters
really thoUght 'her desd, and proceeded wijth
their work Of ,plunder without noticing her
further. After plundering the house of eve
rything valuable that they bouid carry off,
they set fire td it ftnd went away. Thedittle
girl thus wounded and alohe in the burning
building, got hp alhd going to her father, who
was dying near, the door, with desperate
courage and strength tpahaged to ‘drag him
outside of tW house inlbo the .yard;
The rain which tailing, Revived him,
and with the •■assistance of his little daughter
he managed to'brawl to-an out-hoiise. Tho
little girl thbd the imitse. to at
tempt to got hbr mother from thh building.—
She failed to accomplish her objebt, though
her severely burned spy. leaves evidence of
the heroic demotion With Which she struggled
to rescue the dbA'd bndy .of het motjVei;
Returning to her fattier she midoJi. little
fire and sat whtohihg by his bide;... .He con
versed With her until ‘daylight, when,,to net.
her own pitifUl expi-msion/lie ,stopped, talk
ing, and she though! he Was'dead. When
daylight oatite the pbor,child, wounded be she
was by the assassin’, bullet, and .by the
flames, made her way to the house of a neigh
bor, some,two,miles distant, ahd related the
horrible story.
. This gentleman got othersof hin neighbors
and proceeded lb thie scene of murder and ar
son. Mrs. Garrity’s body .was. not entirely
'consumed, and vrtu taken from the ruins and
buried with those of her' husband. The bo
dies of, tho children had been entirely con
sumed.
From the little girl’s description of the
murderers, the officers of a gunboat,near the
place were of iheopinioh that they were two
deserters front the vessel.
EfjecV of too much Abm on the Svsteii.
—There are many persons in the world who,
thinking thems’elvps either top thin oroorpu
lonc to accord with-their beau ideal of symme
try and beauty of'person, are constantly, ex
ercising their mirlas jriWi a view of increas
ing or diminishing 'rfioir rotundity, aMd in
many cases a\)rlyin£ remedies for UioirpOp
posed defects, ihrhioh Ov'entually destroy iheir
health.. Young ladies of full habit, testing
further innovation up,oh the system of their
-waists,-are-not-slow-to-resort-to-oopiouj-and
constant draughts of acidulated liquors, with
out reflecting that they impair, and in fabt
arrest, the operation of the digestive organs,
when taken beyond a certain-point. Then)
is.reason in tho vulgar notion, unhappily too
fondly relied on that vinegar helps to keep
down any alarming obesity and that ladjes
-who dread the appearance in their graceful
outline in oilrves of plilmpness expanding in
to fat, may arrest so dreadful a result by lib
eral potations df vinegar; but this can only
bo accomplished at the far more dreadful ex
pense af health. The amount of noid which
will keep them thin will destroy their jdi
jsstive powers. Portal gives a case which
should he, a warning. i AM
A few .years ago a lady,’in easy oiroum
etSuoeSj enjoying good health ; she was very
plump, hficj fi good appetite, and a complex
ion blodrniirk with ro'ses and a polished ivory
ground,,work; Sher began to look upon.her
plumpnpss with Suspicion, for,-her mother
was very fat, and she was afraid Pf becoming
like her. Accordingly she consulted a Wom
an, who Advised her to drink a glass of vin
egar dully. The, young Idd y_ follewed the
navicOjdna her pmmpness diminished. She
fees deligffltd with the experiment; she soon
bfigdfe'lo fixperienoe the efieots, A cough
aim a low fever came' on, with a difficulty of
breathing; Her. body became loon and wast
ed Away; swelling of her - lower ,-limhs. and
feet succeeded, and a diarrhoea terminated
lihr life.” ,
KIANDPAOTfrBEs of Xbeland.- —Ireland now
i'oßaeaaea large manufactories of machinery,
hdpfeoially for linen/ for steam engines, and,
of flste years, for iron ships. So muoh has
the character of Irish woolens lately risen,
that between 1851 and 1863 the pnmber of
thills increased from nine to forty-three, or
nearly four hundred and sixty-three per cant.
The cotton mills 'in Ireland, since the Ameri
can war have been applied to the manufac
ture of flax, and thi Irish poplin trade has
greatly revival, but, by far the moat import
ant branch of Irish manufacture is the linen
trade. In 1864 there were in Ireland Severn
ty-fonr spinning mills; with qix hundred and
fifty thousand, six hundred and thirty-eight
spindles, and there was a similar increase in
power-bom factories. Ten years ago there
were seventeen thousand persons employed
in the.linen trade of Belfast, while in the
present year therd were twenty-five'thousand;
There has been an enormous increase in flax
cultivation, the total value of the prop the
p (resent .year being ho less than three million,
nine hu’ndffed nnd eighty-nino pounds. The
total famfl of liifefis Sip.oflpd from the United
Kingdom has WwSsed from five millions,,
one niVidred andnmdty thousand, three hun
dred and forty-seven 66unda in 1861, toeight
millions, four hundred and sixty-nine thou
sand and thirty-six pounds in 1863.'
The Set an Indicator of the Weather.
The color of th'o sky, lit particular times, af
fords wondtrful good . guidance. Not only
does a rosy sDpset presage good weather and
a ruddy sunset there are
other tints which spook with equal-clearness
and accuracy. A bright.yeliow;,sky in'the
evening indicates wind r, a pale jyfliow, wet;
a neutral gray color cpnßtituteB,.a favorable
sign in the evonintr.' and .an unfavorable one
in the morning. The eloudp are again full
of mei ning in themselves. 1 ,, If theirterms are;
Soft, undefined, and lull feathery, the weath
er will be fine ; if their edgeahre hard, sharp :
and definite, jt will,be foul. ijGonsrally speak
ing, any unusual hues betoken wind or rain ;
while the more delicate and. .qUltt.tints, be
speak fair weather. These are-si tuple: max
tma; nind yetirso simple that v 'thG< British
Botlrd of Trade has thought fit .to publish
them for the use of seafaring men.— Scientific
American
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A person should bd just before he is
generous.
CARLISLE, PA. THURSDAY, APR]
fiirarfl\Wlll,
A late number, ot.the North American jle-;
view contains an interesting artplo on Sta- :
phen Girard and bis Oolloge, in which the
fallowing graphic account is. givwi.jof what
took 'place when fife Will was lead. The
fioopie of Philadelphia will be -amused .to
earn hoW his “ affectionate relatives" re
ceived thointeUigebcte that he given bis
estate to the.orpliahb and poor, rather than
to them; - ' , .. ~ ■
“Death having dissolved the powerful
spell of a blfesenco Which few men had pow
er to resist,, it waS to be seen bow far bis
Will Would; he' obeyed, now that.he was up
longer able,personally, to enforce it. .The
old man lay dead in his house, in Water
street.- While the public, out of doers, were
to learn what he had dope
with, his monoiy, there wasia .tnalipr numbbr
within the house, the kindred of the deceased,
in whom this curiosity raged likei.iganiai—
They invaded the collars of tba houao hy
bringiiig up bottles of the old man’s chojeo
wind, and keptop a continualoaronso. Slit-■
roumjjpg Mr. Duane, who had beoil present;
at Mr.'Girard’s death, nnd temhined to direct
his funeral, they demanded to know if thert
was a Will. To silence their indeoeotolain
or be told them that there was, and (hst he
was one of the executors- do hearing, this
their desires to learn its' contents to
fury. In vain the executors reminded them'
that decency required that thfi Will should
not be opened until after theefuneral. They.
oven threatened legal proceedings if the Will
wrts not immediately produced i and at length
to avoid a public scandal,,the executors ooii
sented to have it read. These affectionate
relatives being asscinbled in a parlor of the
house in which the body of the-benefactorlay.
tho Will was taken from the Iron safe by one
the executors. ’
“ When he opened it, and'waeaboutto.be;
gin to read, he chanced to look over the top
of the document at the company seated be
fort 'Him. No artist that ever weld a brush
could depict the passion of curiosity, the
frenzy Cf'expectation; expressed, in thegroup
of pallia faces. Every individual among
them expected to leave the apartment the
conscious possessor-ofmillions; for no one
had dreaaied of the probability of his leaving
the bulk of his estate to the public., , they
had evet heard of his .saying that no one
should be a pen tie in an upon his money I they
had forgotten or disbelieved it. The opening
poragrapbs of the Will all tended to confirm,
their; hopes, since the,bequests to existing in
stitutions Were-of .small amount. Bdt the
reader miqfi feiiohed ; the, nprt of the Will
which asoij'Htiil to ladles aha. gentlemen pres.
ent such triflingcuras as five thousand dol
lars, ten tlrodsiidfi, twenty thousand, and he
arrived ev’e long ‘at thh sections which, dis
posed of «! ill ton n fot- the benefit of great cities
and poor children.' -Some of them made not
the slightest Attempt to conceal their. disap
pointment'and disgust.. Men were there who
had married with a view to share the wealth
of Girard, find had been waiting years for
hia death! Women were there who' had
looked-to thntevont as the beginning of tH.eir
enjoyment of life.. The imagination of the
read’emmilstsupply-the—detailsof—a-eoen«-
whicii we riJight think dishonored hdiiaan na
ture, if we could believe that human nature
was meant to bo subject to such a strain."
Alt at Stnar.—A iia'thj in the CdSe.—la
a drinking cellar, on Chestnut street, above
Twelfth, the other night; a terrier started a
rat. ihe rat dashed out of the door.up the
steps to the street, and then straight across.'
A lady was walking )ip. Slip was just in
front or the Chestnut Street Theatre when the’
rat rah hp. the steps of the cellar on the op-,
posite side of the street. The ret was Tun
ning for‘his life; the dog in pursuit of him
was. running for a good dinner. The rat,
wheii about a dozen lengths abend, sprang
upofitho lady’s dress, ran Up under her cloak,
amnestied close up limldr her sleeve. The
lady with horror and dismay. So
piercing wua hef cry thht tti gentleman-ran
hurriedly to lief relief. She pointed to her
ami; Said; “ariitin my sleeve!” end again
(laid utterance to a piercing shriek. The gen
tleman boldly grasped the protuberance, made
B.vigqrous squeeze. -A batter' Squeeze never
yet .was made upon a lemoif' by n'fifst class
bar tender. The rat.hit thrnugh tlio inter
vening olothing into the gentleman’s hand,
with a pa’nful biciispidnl incision., The grip
upon, the beast; however, was too vigorous.—
his life was: enwh'efl out, he dropped to the
ground and' the iadj, sick, faint, unutterably
horrified,' declining further assistance, wend
ed her wily homeward.—Aye.
A Be auTifol , Reflection. — Bulwor elo
quently says; I cannot believe that earth .is
span's abiding place. It cannot be that our
life is cast Up by the ocean of eternity to float
■a moment upon its waves and then.sink into
nothingness, Elsa why is it that the glori
ous aspirations, which leap like angels, from
our hearts, are foreyfer marching about un
satisfied? , Why is it that raipbow.and clouds
dome over with a beadty that is hot of earth,
and then pass off and leave us to muse upon
their faforod loveliness,? Why is It that the
stars wtio hold their festivals around the
midnight thrqpe arrf s&t above the grasp of
oar limited, faculties, forever mocking us
with their unapproachable glory ? And final
ly, why is it that bright forme of human
beauty are presented to our view, and then
taken from ua, leaving' the thousand streams
of our affection to flotf hack in Alpine tor
rents upon our hearts ; Wo are born for a
higher destiny than that of earth ; there in a
rdalm where sha rainbow never fades—where
the stars will pg spread before us like islands
that slumber jn the ocean—and, where the
beings that pass before ns like shadows will
stay in our presehoo forever.
A TitononrT.—When 1 was u
young.'inan therelivod in bar neighborhood
a farmer, who was uoyally reported to be a'
very liberal man, and Uncommonly upright
in.hie dealings. When he had any of the
products of his farm to dispose of, he made
it an invariable rule toWke good measure,
rather more than would bp required of him.
One of his friends observihe hind’ frequently
doing Bo quoationed him as\o why he did it.
he tcjid 1 him] he mdph, and said it
would be t(r hie disadvantage- Now, dear
reader,, mark the answer o'ihie good ’ than s’’
“ Ood has permitted me ’but Vine journey
through the world, aWd when T am gone I
cannot returp to rectify ■mislakek.” ‘Think
of this i There is but one journey through
life
(£7* A person who dined in company with,
Dr. Johnson ondeavord to mnhe hia court to:
him by lauehinp'immoderately at everything
he said. The 'doctor <hore it for borne time
with philosophical indifference ; but the im
nertinent ha, tia, ha becoming intolerable.
«* fur/* said be. fi what is tho nuutQjr?
I hops! have‘not said anything that you osin
comprehend.".
lt27,fc
‘t’lirlM Details of the Capture of
Richmond.
■,. A correspondent of the World, writing fridik
tiio SpotVswood Ilotol, Richmond, 6th inst.l
gives many irttereetTrig foots. Beginning
with an account of the last battle at Peters
burg, he says: f
. The Various devices, inventions, and .la
bors wnjoh could economize men had all been
tried', Earthworks, forts, abatis, chevaux. de
friee, mines, canals; and so on, bad all bpen
applied bn our side, and to these the rebels
added torpedoes for the purpose of relieving
as matij men as possible for the decisive,
atniggle, whenever it should take place.
, ;Tlsk began the contest. The big roads
prevented much fighting beyond heavy skir
mishing bn Wednesday nnd.Thursday. "She
ridAh was confronted by the whole of Wade
Hakpton (cavalry),' and a,division under
Maßone (infantry). The result was that pp
Friday, Sheridan, after some opposition, had
cut, his way. to the railroad and the Appq.-
nrdttox. On Thuraday night.'during a storm
and intense darkness, the rebel pickets, urged
no doubt, by the imminence of a btruggle,
ran into their forts reporting an attack,
spreading along the line, soon extended alohg
both lines around Petersburg. The oanndfi
ading was furious, and seen in the relief.pf
the black storm, was one of the most awfully
grand scones imaginable. The fire was kfipt
up from the forts for some hours; when bdth
sides; finding that the imaginary foe made no
impression, concluding their enßiiiy respect
ively repulsed. No very great idjury nr loss
was sustained ; but it gave rise to an impres
sion iii Richmond, and also in New York, we
judge, that there bad been a great fcattlfe with
terrible slaughter.
’On Saturday morning the lines having been
closed, up, the preparations for a general
boßlbardment and storming having been
mdjc,.tlie Second, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth.and
Twenty-fourth Corps were held in readiness
to force their way through any portion of
thhib lines which might develop a promising
weakness. The attack was ordered and gnl-
UMjJy met, and after varying, fortunes, ou‘r
elloeess seemed to be doubtful on the left,
iliflil Sheridan’s cavalry; climbing over three
successive lines ot newly thrown up Iti trench
niciUs, were enabled to surround a division
dr more of the enemy, and (thus enable the
tl-dtips in the vicinity of Hatcher’s run to bag
about two thousand prisoners, who surren
dered without unusual resistance,
, Petersburg presents a wretched appearance.
Th'o writer followed into the city a Jew hours
after its occupation, to find almost evefy
house closed, many of them shot throiigh by
shells, many others in mins. Thij stores
wore empty and closed. The streets were
crowded with the inhabitants and oUr sold
iers, new streaming in at nil points. The in
habitants consisted principally of negroes, of
whom there were vast numbers—a few able
bodied Hacks and „ great many decrepid and
aged.
The works around. Petersburg are very
strong, and show a beaver-like industry, oom
bined with great skill and daring. On the
west and south of the town th» yellow sand
has a colossal worm-eaten appearance. Each
fort line very commodious bomb-proofs, and
little oaves for the gunners. The space in
tervening between the ■two Tines, which in
some places is not more than two hundred
feet, is dotted with little circular pits with a
(Sllrtain of earth, in which the pickets on ei
ther side kept up a constant ftiailade. The
efievaux de friee of the rebels is df the old
sort —a pine log twenty or thirty feet longj,
idle which at right angles sharpened stakes
about eight feet long, which. When in single
.o'i - double rows, are a terrible obstruction to
ii charge. In the city there are caves also, in
imitation of those at Vicksburg. In my judg
ment the defenses of Petersburg are not as
strong ns those of Vicksburg, but of course
they have been defended by a far larger ar-.
my. We captured about thirty" heavy guns,
'unspiked, in the forts, many of thorn rifled
and of great calibre.
A great many of the Confederate wounded'
Vire Still in the houses and .hospitals df Pe
tersburg, and hut few surgeons to attend
them. , The rail road which had been torn up
fora few miles, was immediately put in re
pKir, and by Thursday it was expected to be
running ihto the city. The few email schoo
ners and boats which were at the docks were
nil -seuttled. In fact, it was very evident that
the rebels had carried off or destroyed every
thing which could be of any valae to us.
The enemy had blown up the famous Vir
ginia at Drury’s Bluff, and her iron sides are
now Visible. The Fredericksburg lies near
hoVtifid the new iron olad, the ChiokahominV,
is above. " A new roim on the etocks bolder
Riohffaond was also fired, and 'is burning to
this hour. The rebels had a powerful stone
blockade at Fort Darling, iii front of which
are mimbers of torpedoes, some df them -al
ready filled upl containing 1,900 tops of pow
der. , Wo captured also the David Carrier,
William Allison, Banner, and another small
transport. Thus perishes the last of the for
midable ironclads which the Confederate haVe
built, but which have have bad a singular fa
tality of ill lubk.
With this, of course, followed the abandon
ment of the Hewlett House" battery (also
street:) and the line of works .between the
Appomattox,
atcavoNn.
'fhe three tremendous explosions before
dajlight on Monday morning had prepared
every one for the evacuation of Richmond.
Saine of Kautz's cavalry first entered the
oityii.typing mounted, and were mot by a 1 de
putation of citizens with Mayor Mn"o, who
bogged.that the city might be"honorably sur
rendered, as the retreating rebels were more
to be {bared than the open foe. ,Tho guidons
of the', cavalry were placed on the Capitol
about 8 o’clock. About half-past six p’olook
the lapt traip of retrphiing'rebols.cfcssed
the Danville, railroad bridge as opr troops
wore;sighting the city from the hills. ..tfohn
C. Breckinridge, who had remained .behind
to Baperinten{d the isdrk : of destrafctlbn, was
among the last top leave,; His assistants ; in
,th’is work were General Ewell .and; Maiop
Dibk Turner, of Libby prispty notoriety. Go
vernor, Smith.loft half an hour earlier on a'
banal boat, the transportation horse vehicles
baying been exhaustjrat, . ,t ■ v .
< The laboratory hod the freight deool of the
Danville read was' fired ‘about mi o’clock—
several of the citizens'protesting at the time
that it would cause immense loss;,to private
individuals. l An appeal was made!to Brook
inridge, by the suggestion 'of Ewell, jjvho or-'
dered- the torch to be applied and 'then left.
The rattle of the looomotivo oould be heard
on the' bridge as cur troops entered the heart
of the city,. ' '
iwrcn i 'cqNi , i.AQ.B4TlpKv .. I
■ The firemen, and, soldiers” (negroes) ’who
wera promptoda ud urged byttye few white'
officers made in effectual endeavors to check
the fire, but theircffqrts seethed qs impotent
os if they hud been .directed against Vesuvi
us, The large mills of Haxall & Crenshaw
wenfas Well ns ojj, the warebodsos. op! and
near the banal. Mqin street was reached,
and for a time it seemed as if the Epottswood
would gp. People were afraid to enter it,
but its proprietor by strenuous, efforts saved
it.' Down Main street and up tbe west side
of the Capitol square, it caught.'the War De
partment buildings arid the Quartermaster’s
offices, though it is supposed this may have
been fired independently, as loads on loads of
papers were hauled cm t into the, street and
burned on Sunday. , The Treasury building,
strangely enough, escaped, being a stone
structure with metallic roof, though on the
three sides .of it for blocks, it is a vast mass
of blaok thins. The fire swept down six
blocks on Main’street from the Citpitol square.
Oujtho river bank everything whs.burned for
a full mile, In fact, the fire died oat for the'
want of contiguous fuel. The sight on Mon
day bight from the heights above was terrific
and Rowing; The fallingof walls and crack
ling of-flames gaveevery hour a fresh impe
tus to the burning mass. .
_ On Thnsday arid Wednesday'evenings the
view frdm Gamble’s. Hill, looking over the
river,-wb could .see neatly a sqilare mile of
black add smoking ruins. The three bridges
across the Jaqies, one of them ti costly and
magnificent structure, the Petersburg bridge
said to haVo cost' over amillion of, dollars,
were burned. Two or three large mills in
Manchester, opposite the navy yard, and the
whole of the heart of the city Iras destroyed.
The loss mdst amount to thirty millions of
dollars in gold. -The Ballard House and Ex
change Hotel,were saved. The most of the
banks and one'ehuroh were consumed, though
there was probably little specie in the vaults.
It is cpidputed that one thousand five 'hun
dred > b’dildings were destroyed and forty
blooks.
SCENES Of ToioLT.
In the spread of the fire there was much
pillaging. .The poorer .blnsses, including
women, who had long felt the pan 59 of fam
ine, now/found their opportunity of wreaking
a sunpressed-vengeance against the specula*
tors and extortioners. The negroes caught
the infection, and stores were broken into,
and fur a few hours the^wildestscenes otdia
oraer prevailed. In shoiild be mentioned
that on Sunday evening a committee of citi
zens, headed by the civil authorities, seeing
the fate before th.em, very wisely concluded
to destroy -all the liquor before the entry of
our troops; ' Accordingly, all the deposita
ries were visited and the liquors were emp
tied into the gutters.
THE FLIGHT OF JEEF DAVIS.
The despaoth sent by Lde on Sunday from
Petersburg, and which reached President
Davis while in church on Sunday, was the
signal tor a grand exodus; His wife left ,on
.Wednesday previous, itr is 'said, for Galves
ton. He sent over to Dr. Uoge, whose ser
mon be had been listening to, a small note
by the black sexton. The latter on receiv
ing it changed the course of his remarks, and
said it was r probab!y the last time be should
address them, and hastily concluded the ser
“vicoT The rest 6f“tfro r dny"lre spent- with"
his secretaries in packing up his papers.—
His house was left otherwise in the usual or
der, a white housekeeper being found in
charge by pur people. He took the train at
half-past six in the evening.
NOTIBILITIE9.
Governor Smith (Extra Billy) le/c his wife
(a very excellent lady, by the way) behind.
MrshQen. Lee has been an invalid for some
time, and occupied a very 'modest mansion
beyond thatof the Vice-President. A guard
was immediately placed at the house for her
protection, and she was treated with becom
ing courtesy. Stephens ocoupied a bouse on
the opposite corner from Davis, But has not'
been living in it for some time. Edward A.
Pollard, Whom General Butler says is not
exchanged, was at the Spottswood 'House on
Wednesday evening- The only two foreign
flags which we saw exhibited were the French
tri-cdlor and the Spanish. Mr. Edmund A.
Paul, the French Consul, took occasion to:
call upon Gen. Weitiel early, to express his
hopo thnt protection Would he extended to
his person and property. Judge CafApbcM,
Opoo of the United States Supremo bench,
and more recently of the peace commission
era, was one of the most important persona
ges left behind. ‘A number of toe more
prominent and wealthy citizens have left for
Europe, including Judge Bledsoe and John
R. Thompson, •
Next (Wednesday) morning Judge Gamp
bell paid a visit to General Wdltzel While we
were presedt. After some conversation he
expressed a desire to see President Lincoln,
to ask him if some way could mot be lunnd
in the present attitudu of affairs, to conclude
a peace. General Woitzel' promptly waited
on the President with him. The result ia
not made known ; hot I express its
substance >vhen I say that the President re
ceived hiqhkindly, and informed him that he
had no objeation to allowing him to go to
Davis, so soon as it was safe;to do so; dint;
that'he had no messago to sepd bn the sub
ject until hp reSeif(fd one from Davis or Lee.
The judge returned! and it ipsaid among the
Oitizeos that be wjjFlndeavpp to reach Davis
when 'the intermediate territory is.jmfo to
: travel through. ..
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THE NEWSPifERt. ... !,
Of, the five newspapers of Richmond three
.havebeen destroyed by the fire.' Thd Whig
and Sentinal alone remain. The latter has
been confiscated, by tbe government, and the.
Whig is issued as an evening papet by the
former proprietor, William. Ira Smith, who
announces in bis salutatory of Tuesday that
it will be devoted to the Cause of the Union ,
and will bring to its control one of Virginia’s
noblest sons,, by. which we suppose John Mi
nor Bolts is me/jnt. The Whig was thodast
ppper to succumb to the secession furore,
apd Mr. Smith then sold it rather than con
tinue, its, publication.
RICHMOND AftEK ITS CAJTDR*. I
I SroTiswopn Hops*, Richmond, Va„-Thurs
day, April 6.—The ip'orellook around bore,
the more I am.satiated .that the,Confederacy
is. finally and effectually burst Up. . Both the
news from' the front and the vestikes left be
hind here bear,'inijications, ,thatjtbe blow
which has jpst fallen has [Wen eipooled'to
'come for sometime, but.came at last in a way
tnore sudden and.-embarrassing-'than any
(jreamed of. A preat many circumstances
Come to light whiohshow that both the Gov
ernment official* and; shrewd parties outside
have been converting'property and Conveying
effects'to safe distances fur a long time.—
Many of .the,most wealthy people of- Rich
mond and Virginia have been going to Eu-
government archives 'have: been ship-'
ped south, and are, now scattered and hid in
Various places throughout Georgia,.. North
Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Two
months ago the Sentinel, the official organ of
thq government, .had; removed its back files
and spare material to South'.Cfalolinß, where
wa.belie.’e, partqf it was ca'jjttfredby Sber
man. The Treasury I 'reVoHsiHafe-been sent
for a month'back, Further/lt appears that
the policy ,of the govern mea t }iu{permTttin g
trade through our Khes vOTf'Stnpt. but
within two months Has been suddenly chang
ed. In a single dajfJ.'Sd February,'! think,
fresh orders were issued to,accept: alli'dffers
and sell all, cotton belong! ng totHh'govdrn -
ment for the ooin-or sterling exohahge.V 'The
law passed bv to, raise supplihs I 'for
the army by coin, was also-made the kneana
gettingjargo udvanodlfrom the'StateLinks.
Davis’,, family has sSen Son t, off, apd' .though
it is spread about tfi'it'h!S|?hquse and.affects
are left ordef.'lii 'is so only to the ‘
eye of the Casual observer. The utmost scru
tiny fails to find'apy of’.those valuable pa
pers, records, must nat
urally belong to'sdeb’a place, and' which are
portable iu their nature. ’ Pianos, stauCttes,
carpets, mitrprst'‘furnitute, arb there, of
course, but, nothing of much value which
could have been tikeifoff: ; ;
Alex. H. StevenS atripped‘'his.house' two
months since, and left"fob the faf“ South.—
Governor Billy Smith isAb'out.-the'only -prom
inent official who hiVLeen left in lfne dark,
and ho had time to ciirry off or hide his most
valuable goods. • —" •■ >
, I may add that.ccrtnin ill-natured scces.
rionista are questiijnirig the taSte’and the pro
priety,of the expected-visit of Mrs. Lincoln,
Airs. General Graht.-tih'd-Mrs. General Weit
zcl, in hastening toPcbupy the executive man
sion, as something tub petty-'for the represen
tatives of a great natitm suppressing an in
surrection., 1 /There is a grand rush pf digni
taries from the North, andqpbspicuous' among
them are many ladies..-. Our soldiers -partic
ularly appreciate and delight in theao junk
eting parties, who come, in at the beefs of a
great slaughter ns parties ofipleasure. ‘ .
The contrast of this crowd of well-dressed
strangers in the oity with,the seedy'shabby
and forlorn nppearanoeioflthe inhabitants, is
indeed very strange. Almost all are poor.—
The men and women meanly, dressed.' The
money, which they hadjjnauch.'vast sums is
worthless, many of them not having where
‘with to buy a loaf. Greenbacks are regard-'
ed by them with a:tnuoh .more appreciative
difference than by he. They are .considered
almost as good as gold.;.
Lit*,la hoys, are peddling tobacco in the
streets, in the hope, of buying some of the del
icacies found in th’e sutlers’ stores, of which ’
there are three already opened. It'
is evident that the river or railroad must be
opened soon, as njapy;i£pot most, of the Citi
zens of position wijl yvdnt to leave the.city
and go North; . Tim feat, including the ne
groes, of course,’ jnuat be fed. The negroes
are surprising thoir, roasters and mistresses,
by announcing; to them their freedom. Ma
ny of them are running off into camp. ; I
hear of one oasj in which a negro who esoap-'
ed from Richmond into our lines sometime
ago, and was enlisted into our Corps d’Af
riquo, haa, on ,his return/sent word to his
master that he will “ shoot him on sight."
1 do not think, however, there will bo much
danger from this source. , T .
After the first alarm ofdangernndtrepl--
dation has passed, the citizens seem to bo
rather glad p,f„our advent. They have suf
fered and endured so much, have been so long
under a galling military rule, endured high
prices, lived oh the verge of famine, that when
once their persons are safe and their physical
condition bettered they begin to bo be recon
ciled to their .fate, independently of. this
there is a ttrong disposition to. give up ,the
Confederacy as a lamentable failure. Those
who have led in this matter feel very sehsa-,
tivo and sore. * They have been’ plunged into
a very humiliating position., They . are at
the mercy Of a conquering enemy. They do
not yet profess to bp willing loyalists. They,
are acknowledge the fact
with more frsnkneosfhaa one could expeot or
take pleasure iff, .extorting. Verily the Old
Dominion is restoyedl., ■ .;
The womeo.are,hourly all dressed in mourn
ing. Sad hade beeplthe ravages of death in
Virginia. Yesterday I visited the cemetery,
and the vast’ space,now occupied—for it has
been enlarged,to,nea|iy twice its ,size—con
tains sixty thousand,mow graves.’.. Hardly
any tombstones have been erected during the
last four yearq. ■ Eveniijte grava of ex-Pres
ident Tyler ia unmarked by anything blit
the.modest inscription. k There are some four
private tombs. Here ito the Ritchies, the
Faulkners, the' Letohery, Wises, and a bun,
dred'-others) besides .Madison, and
others of national celebrity, surrounded. ,by
lota of new earth. It was a’atd that General
A. P. Hill yiag privately interred here yes-,
lorday.' It is- a beautiful spot, and perhaps
the; most populous city,,of the.dead in the
South. Ah, what sighs and tears have been
lavished upon it! ■ Its inhabitants rest—
After life's fitful fever they sleep well. Do-'
mojtio treason, foreign malice, nothing can
touch them'further. 1
The moat remarkable object in the oity is
the Capitol and its square, wbio|i is very fine.'
The building is not imposing, according.. to'
our ideas, buf: must hare been so in its time.
So principal attraction is an equestrian
tne of Washington, herpic size, in the cen
tre X)f the yard,surrounded at the, base;by
thoTO of prominent Virginians, Henry, Mar
shall, Jefferson,'Madison.:! Two pedestals are*
vacant, on which, we suppose, it was tlipitjde-'
“sign to place the statues of Stonewall Jackson
and Robert E. Lee. It is now,, doubted if.
that selection is made. General Scott’s may,
perhaps, grace one of theqe instead.
There are some persons in the city who
think that Mrs. Gen. Lee is not so sick' that'
she cpuld not have traveled ha'dlt been her
husband’s desire ifo do soi Certainly Po One
kuew'jjhetter tbapj.'ho of .the necessity of pre
cautions for the future ;'*and I have'it oh ex
cel! 3nt';UHthorUy;.'.Umt he Wrote to her “ hot,
to be alprmod, tlidthe tvmild s’odn be with':
her;” whether this 1 means through the. force
of arms pr negotiations,' I cannot consider dt
all duxbtful. . ; '• '■
I Sfiy The famous Seminole Chief Oscepla
was l buried in Fort Moultrie 1 , Charleston HaV- .
hor. ‘ A press correspondent, Wpo“T6bentlyi !
visited tbe place; writes; '“lnside of-Fort'
Moultrie is Osceola’s gr-ve, a plain plab'.hf 1
inarble with an iron rail fence;. • -Ev’df Jthin'g'.
around it had been knocked to ;
shells,>but not one hkd 1 .toucbcditi pt'
clipped the flowers around ‘ his 'grkve. Thd
inscription-on-if was; “ * Td-t.he memory oft
Osceola, Indian Chieftain, died in Moultrie.
1838.’” -
teg* Tho :.“ oldoat rinhabitanf.’ has been'
found at last. Hedonists in the person of
Joseph CrelOiA iCssfient of Ifisqonsin, anjij
is one hundred find thirty-nine years old,' as
the record of-'bis baptism in the Catholro
Church at, Retroit, where he waa born, it w
caid, shows’-..-. '
'i, XT’Jpgbt infaptry movement. Agitating
a cradle with a baby in it.
no; 46.