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VOLUME XXXVI, NUMBER 9,-1
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e Arrive at Reading at a. tn.
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The Wayside Inn.
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No more the traveler stops at the gate,
To seek repose for the night;
N o Liveried porter before it Wait,
When the old Stage drives in sight.
And next to the fare you shall miss most,
Should you but he tempted in.
You'll miss the face of the jolly flost,
Who lived at the Wayside Inn.
You 111189 the lamp that hangs in the hal ,
To light the tired traveler through ;
And she who was the best of them all,
Ton miss the good hostes too.
Yon miss her smiling proportions there,
And though her Butler was thin,
'Twos, not because of the scanty fare,
She sat at the Wayside Inn.
The good old Pump that stood in the yard,
For twenty long summers past,
Like a good soul, has got its reward,
And now stands idle at last.
13ut greater changes than those without,
Should cross your vision within i
For n hen you lies.. there is no one ahont
The door of the Wayside Inn.
The gay eongenial spirits all,
'Who met there at night by ehanee,
:Co more abandon the banquet hall,
To join In the merry donee.
In vain you seek the good-natural host,
Who never thought it a sin,
To mix a glass anti offer a toast
With all at the Wayside Inn.
The midnight traveler going along,
Who thought no one else was up,
No more shrill hear the revellers' sang,
When taking their parting cup.
And he whose laugh was nil others above,
Whose grin was the broadest grin,
No more shall chide you for making love
With the maids at the Wayside Inn.
Washington, D. C
JEFF. DAVIS' DREAM.
One day while sitting in an old fash
ioned high-backed chair in the parlor of
a hotel at Richmond in May, 1862, en
joying a good pipe and Northern paper
and had just become interested in the
latest news, I hoard the door open and
the footsteps of two persons approach
ing. They seemed to be talking conB
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some sign, so‘thet I might not hear any
thing not intended for' my ear, but on
peering into the room imagine my sup
rise when I recognized in the occupants,
Jeff. Davis and his traitor friend, Teembs
of Georgia. I hesitated no longer, but
settled myself back in my seat and bent
every energy to listen to the eonversation,
which was carried on in a low tone.
But, said Toombs, Mr. Davis, you
must .not give way to the vageries or
your brain. Come, tell inc all about
this wonderful dream, and 'my word for
it, you will feel better after the recital.—
Davis, rising, turned the key in the door,
and resuming his scat close by Toombs,
gave the following version of the dream
that disturbed him. Said he, "I had a
party of friends to supper last night, who
prolonged their visit to a late hour I
ate heartily during the evening, and ex
perienced a strange feeling of heaviness
before retiring. My room you know, is
well supplied with large windows, and
the night being a splendid one, 1 lay
on my back gazing out on the heavens
sparkling as it were with diamonds,
and ruminating on the destiny of the
Southern Confederacy. How long I
continued thus, I know not, but stealing
over ;ny senses, as it appeared to me, in
stantly came a clearer perception of our
cause from the beginning. I thought
myself in Washingtog, in that same room
where we all met that night to perfect
our plans for the destruction of this great
Republic. I thought that you were
there, Toombs, and Beekinridg,e, and all I
rest, and I seemed to live over again the
closing scenes whielt were. enacted in
Congress, and I was started from the
contemplation by a low, deep, solemn
voice close by my pillow, saying: 'Jeffer
son Davis—Jefferson Davis 1' This was
the beginning. I started and looked
around to see who it was that spoke in
those awful tones, and a cold chill of
horror crept over me as I saw a dim,
shadowy figure disappear in the dis
tance. Presently my gaze became fixed,
and before me passed the whole Southern
land,one, State after another.. Narylaud,
heaving and tossing as upon the waves of
the ocean, doubting which vfay to plunge; .
Virginia had a smiling exterior but the
most deadly, damning hate rankling
in her heart; Georgia, crazy with tho
enormous weight of her sins and her pas
sions, anxious to give them vent in_ the
warm blood of the Northern heart; and
so passed they all, one after another, the
last appearing more hellish than the first.
No sooner were these ended than by son e
1 singular change in my position, I imag
lewd myself standing on the top of Bun-
ker Dill, and once more the panorama of
the States was presented before me.—
This time it was of the North.' ]hut why
enter into the details of this vision, for I
saw them in all the beauty of their sys
tem ; the children on their way to school,
the old people to the noon day prayer
meeting, the fanner in the field and the
scholar in his study. All this passed
rapidly before me, and I felt a fire in my
heart that to my disordered brain threat
ened to consume me entirely. Again
the scope changed, ttpd I found myself
on a height overlooking Charleston har
bor, just at the moment the Starof the
West mis attempting to carry provisions
to the starving garrison within. I saw
the shot fired, forcing her return,and my
heart sunk within me as I heard that
deep, solemn voice close beside me say,
Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis ! this
is your preparation for the halter !'—
Again, I saw another fleet sail for the
relief of Sumpter—saw the bombard
ment and its final fall. Once more I im
agined myself standing on the summit of
Bunker llill, and the whole North lay
spread out at my feet, and, my God ! the
change that had come over this land !
Where, from this very spot and extend
ing out to its. farthest corner, there was a
hurrying to and fro, men with their mus
kets and all tending to one point, Wash
ington. My eyes fairly blazed from my
head,when from the clear blue sky above
me, I heard once again the mysterious
voice ringing in my ears, g Jefferson Da
vis, Jefferson Davis ! liehold the armed
legions of the North ; see the agony of
parting ; see the misery and desolation
that are to follow. Jefferson Davis, this
is your work !' My limbs trembled as I
heard these words uttered in those awful
tones. My brain reeled, and I fell head
long from my position.
At this point, Jeff Davis stopped talk
hig'and wiped the cold sweat from his
brow. Toombs remarked that it was a
most wonderful dream—most wonderful,
when Jefferson, resuming,said,l thought
that my fall was not sudden,. but that I
occupied some months in m desecntland
cola's Ariaiouda tighTdui ;g its r 0
around the confederacy-, and I felt the
certainty that all was lost, that we would
be crushed in one common de4truction.
I saw the capture' of Forts Henry and
Donelson,and a thrill of horror crept over
me as I saw that traitor to the North and
South, Floyd, steal away in the darkness
of the night, leaving the rest to destruc
tion, Along the lines I saw our armies
possessed of a,fearfal dread, flying from
Nashville and Columbus; saw the battle
of Pea Ridge, Pittsburg Landing, and all
the others, and almost:in the twinkling
of aft eye, the Great Army of the Poto
mac under Meade pressing on Richmond
in all its mighty preportions,appcared be
fore me, and I felt that all was lost.—
Again the solemn voice rang in my
ears, "Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis
thy doom is sealed ; meet thy ren-Ard."
No sooner were these words uttered than
iu the distance I heard an tmearthly
shouting and yelling that grated on my
feelings like red hot iron drawn through
every portion of any body. Soon there
came in sight what I found to my horror
to be a body-guard of "imps" sent from
the bottomless pit to bring me to judo
meat. Placing themselves around and
under my body, we descended rapidly to
wards Hades. Soon we found ourselves
landed on a barren rock in the most deso
late place possible for you to imagine.—
Stepping round to one angle, it disclosed
to my view a wide entrance, and all
around it grew the most beautiful flowers,
and I seemed to hear the most beautiful I
sounds imaginable. One of my guards i
here spoke to me and said, "Child of mor
tality, follow!" He led the way and I
followed closely. ft was not long before
the beauty of the outrauce passed away
and all became dark, dreary and desolate.
Traveling what seemed to mc a great dis
tance, wo at. last came to a great iron,
door, the nails upon which seemed to
sparkle and blaze with some intense heat
within. Here sat an elderly imp as a
doorkeeper, and by his side was a very
large book, in which. were written in let
ters of tire the name's of all the damned
who had proceeded mc. "Child of sin,"
spoke the old man, "who art thou ?" and
I answered, verily, my brain reel and I
know not. "Child of sin, tell me by
what name thou wert known on the
earth 7" and I answered, Jefferson Davis.
No sooner had he uttered this name, than
the imps, with a horrible, never to be
forgotten scroech,sprang to a distant cor
ner, and stood staring with gleaming aye'
halls, that seemed to loathe me with a
most tremendous loathing—l tried to ap
proach them, but they would not permit
it,secming . fearful of any contact with me.
Ilorror-stricken and amazed at this con
duct of those I though would be my
friends, I returned to the door which I
now found open. As soon as I entered, the
door closed with a sound. and I heard
rolling in the distance my name as I was
thus introduced to the society of ,tlie
damned. Onward and onward I found
myself traveling, and ever and anon as I
passed by some poor wretch writhing in
all tbe misery of the lost, I would turn
my eyes to catch one look of sympathy,
one glance of commiseration for my fate,
but in vain.
All seemed to look upon me with a
dreadful horror,and pointing their burnt
fingers of scorn as I passed, whispered to
each other, " nu is disgraced ! Hell
disgraced'"is Hurrying fastar on, I at
last found myself before an open door,
having printed overhead in letters of fire
the words, " Enter and receive thy
doom !" I entered, and there in the mid
dle of a large apartment was raised a
throne of living fire, and upon it sat the
most awful being I ever beheld. On his
head was a crown of living scorpions and
round his neck and coiled in his bosom
was the deadly rattlesnake, I had but
a short thee to look, when, in a voice of
tbunder* said to me, " Who art thou?"
And through the long arches through
which I had passed came the answer,—
" Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis ! Hell
is disgraced, cast him out !" Transfixed
with horror, the Devil seemed to gaze
upon me and in a voice of awful depth
and hardness, said to mc, " Jefferson
Davis, once upon a time, I who now sit
here, jailor of the damned, ambitious to
be something greater than the greatest,
rebelled, and was cast forth, and this
sentence was passed upon me,—to sink
down to hell and have dominion over all
the iniquity of the world until a greater
than I should appear, when I should be
released and my dominion be given to
him. Jefferson Davis, lung I have
waited, long have I tempted,but in vain,
until to-day you appear before me load
ed down with,a.„qthat oven shad
,:ce 1 - : 4' ~ r scar<Da.vis said
As he uttered tho Set awful words; my
blood seemed to freeze in my veins and
the most horrid wail of agony rose from
the myriads of the damned, and with a
shout I awoke, trembling in every limb,
a oold perspiration all over me, and
broad daylight streaming in through my
windows The scenes seemed so real,
and my doom so prophetic, that it preys
upon me like a canker, and I find myself
unable to cast it off.
Davis here ceased speaking, and they
both rose, and unlocking the door,passed
out, and as they passed, 1 caught a
glimpse of them, and never till the day
of my death shall I forget the haggard,
Careworn f4ces of those two traitors.
A STItA.NoE VISITOIL-A bird, which
we suppose to be a house sparrow, and
which we are slue is not a raven, attract
ed by the lights in our composing room,
applied for admission at an early hour
this morning. A hospitAtble compositor
throw open his window and our feather
ed visitor entered with as much ease, as
his half famished _condition would ad
mit of. After describing the circuit of
the room,he was eaptured,and as we write
he is enjoying a temporary imprisonment
under our hat. We shalt issue a procla
mation of emancipation, as soon as prac
ticable, not forgetting however to give
the bird his liberty at the same time.—
Buffalo Courier.
If it is according to the generous im
pulses of humanity, and perfectly "con
stitutional," to proclaim freedom to those
birds which voluntarily seek the protec
tion of captivity and confinement at our
hands, what would tho Courier man say
in regard to those forced against their
own will and instincts into human cages
and irons?
E MBARRASSING CASE.--%Whell
, the war first broke out, a young married
man of Steubenville, Ohio, volunteered
i lie was reported killed at Perryville, and
subsequently his wife received a inetalie
coffin which purported to be the body of
her husband. She buried it with all due
oeremony and affecting. and, after more
than a year elapsed, she married again.
A few days since, an exchauged prisoner
passed through Steubenville and left a
message from the husband supposed to be
dead, that he would probably be soon
exchangs.d and be home again, Her pre
eat husband is a worthy man, and the
cam becomes somewhat embarrassing. ,
The peach crop of New Jersey this
year will be the largest over raised in
that State. One man in Ocean oonnty
has 180,000 trees in full hearing and will
send to market 225,000 baskets of the
fruit.
$2,80 PEP, YEAR .= ADVANCE; $2,50 IPROT PAID INADVANCE
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Writteu fur tee Columbia tipy
A WEDDING WISH.
BY MRS. V. J. A. SIMONS
Blessings on you happy pair
Life and bliss are MI before you,
,Ilearen's propitious rains descend,
Scattering choicest blossingseer you
Life 'a before you happy pairl
Enter en its path relying
On his strength who can nnknin,
When the hours are dark and trying
Prosperous winds your sails now fill,
Brightly now -die sun is shining,
Friends are Lilthful warm and true,
Peace and plenty are reclining
At your board,—l truly wish
Thus they might thro` life attend. you,
And that from the woes of life,
Gracious Heaven might e'er defend you
litit the soul dig trusts in Him,
Whether genii or ill attends it,
Bettie secime, mid all that
Knowing 'tic his hand that sandli it
When lifo's cares have silvered tier
Your now dark loeks,—the slow• 'voting
Of your pulse that now heats strong
Tells you that your days are fleeting,
May you there reign to Him;
Hearts on which His seal is I..ra :en
Calmly may you drift along.
Safely anchor in Ilk haven.
fhi g iitaL
Written fur the Celnvbin
7P-M14.1-
THE MUSES
.1,1111 S. WATKINS.
Methinks I hear the nine rirgin :Mu
ses, with united minds, voices and hands,
make an agreeable concord arise from .
their ditTerent instruments, governing
their several voices in such a manner as
to prcduce the most noble harmony.
They are the presidents of the poets
and musicians, and the governors of the
feasts and solemnities of the gods. 13a
husius, a modern poet, comprised the
names of all the Muses in a distich; that
is, he has made the nine Muses to stand,
which is something strange, but upon
eleven feet. Their names aro as follows
rolyinenial! Erato,. Clip, At-
I " •- .1
e sore, U:
Time was,ere Babel was my habitation,
and unbounded leisure (?) my heritage ;
ere the green and balmy days of youth
had ripened into manhood, or ere I,
athirst,bent for a draught at Ilelicon,and
the sweet face of Poesy gleamed up to
me through the clear, bright waters ;
when Baltimore street was not,.anethis
proud, devoted city was the utopia of my
imagination; when I, an untraveled, un
sophisticated villager, and country lad,
ambitious of a character fur notability,
like the little busy bee, " improved each
shining hour."
When T, a lesser orb, under the tute
lage of' my maternal planet, shone in the
household as " cook's oracle, and house
keeper's assistant," and an infallible re
generator of' superan nated indescribables.
What time I, emulous of Atlas,the great
Globe-bearer himself, took my world of
duties lightly upon my back, and in my
circumscribed sphere, sped on through
time and space, with a velocity compara
ble to his, the worthy sometime wearer
and proprietor of the " seven leagued
boots," shadowless Master Peter Schema!
Ah, me ! and have I then shot from my
sphere of usefulness, to court the Muses
with " a voice, and nothing more ?"
Our Life ! Is it not as the banquet of
the ancient Egyptians, where the skele
ton Present is evor before us ? And
from that hidden Isis, the Pnture, who
hath ever raised the veil ?
t ania."
I ant tint sail—the world far trio
Twirls on its axis merrily;
No grave 3E. D. prescribes my diet,
My couch yield. reoc—areet dreams ate quiet ;
MR , heart feel. flat lie weight of years,
What,' high hopes—it bath no (aura;
nut this deep impress it doth bear,
The mime. of dear friends graven there.
Lot no person, however, despise the
Muses, unless he designs to bring de
struction upon himself by the example of
Thateyras or Thamyris ; who, being con
ceited of his beauty and skill in singing,
presumed to challenge the Muses to sing,
upon condition, that if he was over
come, they should punish him as they
pleased. And after he was overcome, he
was deprivixl at once of his harp and
his eyes.
Baltimore,
LOVE.—Love is the woapon which Om
nipotence reserved to conquer rebel man,
when all else had failed. Reason he par-
ries; fear ho answers blow to blow; but
love—that sun against whose melting
beams winter cannot stand—that soft,
subduing slumber which wrestles with
the giant—Owe is tiot ono hntuan crea
ture in a million, not a thousand men in
oirth's large quintillion, whose clay heart
is harden d against love.
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,770.
Incidents of the Burling of Ob.amtiera
burg-
Many instances of individual bravery.-
occurred during the raging of the corda
gration, a few of which I narrate.
Miss Mary Black, daughter of Judge:
Black, a fine girl of eighteen summers,
having packed up a bundle of•clothing,:,-
threw it over her shoulder and left the
'house. A few steps distant she was con
fronted by a fellow who presented a pis
tol, and told her to lay down her load, as
it was too heavy for,4er to carry. Look
ing at the man an instant, she said
" What's that to you," and+tjuickly
drawing a revolver from the folds of her!'
dress, she knocked his pistol from his ,
hand and . passed op without further nu"-,
lestation.
Mr. A. J. Miller,keeping a drug store ,
Oil the main street, .was engaged putting•
some valuable drugs in the vault in his
cellar, and had just laid away his watch'
and money, when a rebel confronted•bins
and demanded his valuables. Seeing the
property lying on the shelf, the fellow
helped himself without further parley,
and marched off. Mr. - Miller then re-.
paired to his garret with the intention of
rescuing, if possible, a dog which he
highly prized, the affrightedanimal hav-:
ing fled thither. Being unsuccessful he
returned to his store, taking a double:
barrel shot-gun, heavily loaded. Upon
entering be saw two fellows who had ac.•
cidentally locked themselves in and loth
the key. Without ado he fired upon one
who was groping about the floor for the
key, killing, him instantly. The other
rebel ran for the back door, and was
about escapiag, , when Miller gave him the
contents of the second barrel, and left
him bleeding upon the floor. The build
ing was soon after fired, and the bodies,
of both the rebels wore consumed in the - ' .
flames. Mr. Miller, in effecting his es
cape, came sear being crushed• by a fat-
ing Win
A young lady, whose name I could net
learn, wrapped an American flag abort
her person, and, pistol in hand, defied
any man ;to enter her house. By, her der;
tertninatimx.
• gti;~the
•
perty. o
Mrs•Waison, after extinguishing two
fires which had been kindled in her
house;aroro the rebels out with a broom.
stick. Presently,however, they returned,
and pursuing her to an upper room, so.
cured her between a bedstead and tie
wall, then, locking the door after them;
they again fired the building. , Some
women, hearing Mrs. Miller's senatts,
broke open the door, and with great dif
ficulty rescued her from her perilous
position.
Shearer Bowser, a returned soldier.
and one who had frequently been em
ployed as a Union scout, ran up to one
of the rebels, and with a " How are
you 7" grasped the fellow's hand,but be
fore he responded to the salutatioe,How.
scr had secured his carbine, and ordered.,
him to dismount. The fellow,not caring
to have his head blown off so uncereino
niously, exchanged places with 'Bowser,
and was driven off a prieoner to a neigh
boring village. Bowser returnedin the
afternoon, with horse, oarlsine,the rebel's
clothes, which were new,and a large roll
of greenbacks,tench elated at his SUCCOSS.
Not the least active among the incen
diaries was captain smith, son of ex-Gov
enter Smith, better known as Extra Bil
ly Smith. lie was observed by many
people going from house to house' Si/W
-ing the match, and scoffing at the defence
less and housoless women as they palmed
him in search of a retreat from the darner , .
Et will be remembered that his father's
property has always . been protected' by
the Union troops.
After the departure of the main holy
of the rebels, in the afternoon, a Mijor
with seven men returned to the town,
the officer swearing that not it' faille
should be left, and that he would carry
out Gen. Eaily's order to the letter.. He
didn't care fE McCausland or Gilmore,
and should finish their, ineompleted work.
The partferainttacked by 'a squad of.piti
rens, and the men captured. The Major,
whose name, from some papers found in
his pocket, is supposed to be Cock, was
shot in twenty-five different'itlaeetaliiiitt
the body before he fell. The `infu riat ed
people trampled him to death, and . eonl4l
scarce be restrained from ciecutinifin
summary maner the seven privates" in
their bands. The prisoners weretaken to
Harrisburg under a strong guard.—Cor.
of Tribune.
A woman in London Set her husband
afire when ho came home drunk, and en
joyed the conflagration farmer° than h•
did.
EIIS