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Harrisburg Accomoclation, 50 P. M.
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trian, 11 45 A. M.
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Columbia train arrives, 820 "
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mg, proceeding to Baltimore, and the ono
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I).etry.
Written f r the Colinable Spy
THE RIVAL LOVERS.
EEEZE2
She never did return his.tove
While fiercer still she saw it burn;
Nor with one word did she reprove
The flame she never would return.
In vain he told with love-lit eyes,
Bow well he worshiped her alone:
She never heard his burning sighs—
They fell upon a heart of stone I
She slighted him, for ho was poor,
No fortune had at his command;
His humble lot was too obscure,
To win a noble , ady's hand.
With heavy heart away he turned,
And when thro' life he was more blest
The memory of the girl who spurned
His early love, he still caressed!
Sho had another suitor too,
A youth who left no art untried,
To prove his love to her was true:—
Ile was a wealthy lad beside,
She coldly heard his vows awhile,
But when he talked of his brood load,
Each frown was turned into a smile—
She yielded him her heart and hand.
They lived awhile in blissful state,
Profu.cly were her wants supplied,
But soon the ruthless hand of fate
Dash,d all her idol gifts aside!
And now sha learned his heart was cold,
The:vow+ he made her were untrue,
And that the girl who weds gold,
When 'tie too late her choice will rue.
Grief was impressed upon her brow,
The cherished hopes she had were set
She thought of her fret lov.!r now,
And whether /w was Lying yet.
And while she 1r54 a faithful wife,
Nor murmured at her lot ob , eure,
She rued the choice she made for life,
4nd wished that she had marric /poor.
WARITINGTO‘, D. C., Aug. 1814.
OriginaL
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
FIELD ITOSPITAL, 2D DIV. OTIC A. C.,
Ii EFORE PETE ES BURG, VA. 1
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Duo. RAMBO :—Quite a time has elaps
ed since my last letter to you, and for a
variety of reasons. At tinies I was too
busily occupied to find time fbr corres
pondence, then again a dearth of any
thing interesting other than that given
your readers through the medium of the
dailies, prevented my writing.
Since my last, a number of changes
have been made. The last flank move
ment on the left taking in the line of the
Weldon Railroad caused a change of po
sition along the whole line. Our corps,
after leaving its old position in front of
Cemetery Hill, took up and temporarily
occupied that vacated by the sth corps;
then when the movement across the rail
road was made our corps was advanced
to the support of the sth, coming up
just in time to prevent the enemy from
re•occupying the railroad.
Col. Curtin has again returned to us
and resumed command over our Brigade,
(Ist Brig. 2d Div.) His wound has
healed, and his return was gladly wel
comed by all the men of the command.
The Colonel has proven himself an able
military man, and is much liked as a
commander. Our brigade has recently
been strengthened by the addition of
several regiments from what was the Ist
division and now contains nine regiments;
these, through the addition of a large
number of convalescents and recruits
limn quite a large and formidable brig
ade; strong enough to deal powerful blows
for the cause of the Union and Freedom.
Four States are represented in the regi
ments, viz : Massachusetts, Rhode Isl
and, New York and our own Pennsylva-
The ranks of the 45th have been ma
terially increased in numbers during the
past two weeks, and we now muster about
three hundred and fifty men present, to
which many more will soon be added, as
convalescents and recruits are coming in
rapidly.
Major (late Captain) Theo. Gregg is
in oou of the regiment. During
the terrible contest of July 30th, Major
G. greatly distinguished himself by his
bravery. Sergeant-Major Jno. 31. Kline
has been promoted to the Ist Lieutenan
cy of Co. 13, vice Lt. Cyrus Bruner, who
resigned on account of wounds. The boys
all regret the necessity which caused Lt.
13.'s resignation; they had learned to es
teem him highly, and were loth to part '
with him.
Since the hot season has passed away
the sanitary condition of the army has
been much increased, and the r.ceut
news of victory from Atlanta and Mobile
Bay, with the death of the raider, John
Morgan, have chezred up the boys won
derfully, and never have they felt more
confident of success. With a hearty co
operation at the hands of the men of the
North in sustaining the Administration
and Government by their votes as the
men in the field have done by their blood,
no fear need enter the minds of any but
that we shall speedily see the establish
ment of peace; not such a' patched up
affair as some persons are willing to ac-
cept for peace, but a justand lasting
peace, established upon the.firm founda
tion of liberty and union, with the utter
annihilation of the rebellion. We hope
for much at the hands of you men of the
North who have enjoyed the comforts
of home during all these years of war,
and ask you now in this our country's
severeit trial, to vindicate the cause of
freedom to all mankind, and we may
hopefully look for a speedy return to our
homes. I do wish those who are now
disposed to be faint-hearted could feel
1 some of the vitality and determination to
conquer which is animating the whole
army. They would lay aside all croaking
and feel that our cause is the cause of
justice, and that an all-wise Providence
is shaping our course, and that in His
own good time He would bring us safely
through; a !iappier and better people
than ever before, having learned by a
severe test the value of the government
handed down to us by our forefathers.—
Pennsylvania having accorded to her
soldiers the right of suffrage, they can
vote as well as fight, and by that means
strike right and left at treason wherever
found.
The welcome face of the "SFr" pre
sents itself to us every Tuesday or Wed
nesday morning. Our mails are run
ning regularly, our commissaries are
kept in good condition, and clothing
more suitable for the cool weather of the
autumn months is being issued by our
Quartermasters; all goes on smoothly
with us. Our front and rear arc strongly
fortified and our position is daily grow
ing stronger. A good railroad has been
built, connecting City Point with the ex
treme left of our line, arid the familiar
rumble of passing trains greets our ears.
At some points the enemy have a view
of the road and greet passing trains with
shot and' shell, doing, however, no dam
age, yet making those connected with
the train feel uncomfortable.
The weather is pleasant, nights beau
tifully clear and moonlight, but quite
cold. To-morrow will be the second anni
versary of the battle of South Mountain,
in which one hundred , and thirty-six of
the Forty-Fifth's boys were laid low.—
One year ago we were en route for Ten
nessee, with a winter's campaign—the
like of which no other portion of our ar
my has seen—before us.
Through letters from Capt. Dibeler,
we have learned that some of our boys
lost on the 30th July, and mourned as
dead, arc sharing the rebel prison house
with him. We all hope for their speedy
release.
The Columbia boys now with us are
all well. More anon.
Fraternally Yours,
Badget of Accidents
As a gentleman was passing along
Fifth street, Cincinnati, he passed a place
where some boys were playing marbles.
One of them, in shooting his marble,
cleverly put it under the gentleman's foot.
The gentleman slipped and stumbled
against a lady, also passing, precipitating
her, along with himself, upon a large
hog, who was examining the gutter geo
logically for debris. The hog, frightened
out of his propriety, bolted off, and ran
between the legs of another gentleman,
who, in falling, drew the string of a kite
from the hands of a boy. The kite of
course fell, and in falling frightened a
a span of horses attached to a wagon in
an alley near by. The horses ran down
the alley. A man was building a fire in
a carpenter's shop, by which they pass
ed; started up to see what was the mat
ter; and in doing so dropped his lighted
match among the shavings. A. fire was
the consequence. The engines assem
bled, and, in the hurry consequent upon
the alarm, a man fell in the track of one
of them, and had his arm broken, which
ended this budget of accidents for the
day. Is the boy who shot the 'marble re
sponsible for all the consequent dama
ges
c, •
ANOTHER. correspondent
of the Boston Post writes to that journal
that Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb have got
a baby—a real genuine flesh-and-blood of
the old blocks, and three months-old at
that! Those who have seen the " blessed
brat" describe it as neither a world's
wonder nor a world's fright, but a little,
cunning crying doll ofa thing, and in no
respect peculiar or remarkable, except in
the promies it gives of being a full-sized
child, and, if it lives, of becoming as big
again as either of its immediate ancestors.
Thirty-six iron-clad vessels of war are
now under construction in the navy yards
of England, many of them nearly ready
to launch-
Grant's Earthworks Around Petersburg.
A correspondent of the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican, writing August 30,
gives the following description of the
works constructed by Grant's army
around Petersburg :
After all the descriptions given of this
battle-centre, there are probably few at
the North who have a correct idea of the
position as it is. Even old soldiers, fa
miliar with siege operations, coming here
from other points, have been surprised at
what they saw and what they did not
see. The extent of ground occupied is
enormous. On this the excavations and
embankments—all systematic and correct
to the eye of an experienced engineer—
have the appearance to a casual observer
of incompleteness and confused irregu
larity. There is no well-defined chain
of works with finished front, as at Ber
muda Idundred,to be seen from any point
along the parapet stretching away in ei
ther direction as far as the eye can reach.
There is no succession of parallels and
saps clearly tending to a prominent ob
ject of attack, as on the Morris Island
sand waste. The whole country fur
miles about seems dug up and shoveled
over, with no other purpose than to make
as many heaps and as many holes as are
possible in a given space. There is a
long line of low rifle pits for our advanced
videttes. Back of these is a stronger
line of embankments before a wide trench
for the picket reserve. _
There are bomb-proofs, huge hemis
pherical heaps of earth and logs, like a
New England potato cellar, in the outer
line, for the videttes to crawl into when
shelled by the enemy. There are bomb
proofs in the second line for the pickets.
There is a large bomb-proof fur the pick
et headquarters. I write from that.—
There are covered ways,long trenches
to protect passing soldiers from rifle bul
lets—from the vidette pits to the reserve,
and from the reserve to the rear. Along
these covered ways are small bomb-proof
dodging holes in the side walls, like bank
swallows' nests. Then there are graves.
Away at the front a single grave ou a
barren sandhill; two or three graves un
der a solitary' tree; half a dozen graves
in a row on the plain ; low mounds of
yellow clay with head and foot-boards of
ammunition or cracker-box covers, rude
ly marked with the nama and regiment
of the fallen soldier, and the date of his
death. A strange place for burial. No
rest even in death. The roar of artille
ry and the rattle of musketry shake con
tinually the dead soldier's narrow bed.
At times oven his clayey covering itself
is torn from him, as though he had no
right to sleep while the war went on.—
Since T. sat writing here a rebel shell has
struck and exploded in the very centre
of a Pennsylvania soldier's grave, but a
few yards to my front and right, and
opened it anew, as if to call its inmate
KEYSTONE
again to arms.
The line of vidette pits and of picket
trenches are so crooked and complex that
it requires careful observation to decide
which is for friend and which fur foe.—
They seem to run in all ways—right and
left, forward and back, over one hill
around another, thriugh a ravine, now
almost touching the works where are
seen the rebel cannon and the rebel flag,
and again widely diverging therefrom.
A. battery faces this way—that is the
enemy's. A battery faces that way—
that is ours. Yet they look as if both
were in the same entrenched line. Other
batteries are seen at right and left, still
others in the rear. Covered ways run
from one line to the other—from one
battery to the next—from one covered
way 1.0 covered way again. Bomb•proofs
are everywhere, and so are the soldier's
graves—a cluster here and another just
beyond. The brave fellows were buried
where they fell.
CAUSE OF OnEsrrY.—Mr. Cancel, in
a paper to the Paris Academy of Scien
, cos, has directed attention to the impor
tance of water as the cause of obesity.—
Ile narrated two experiments—one on a
lean horse, from whow diet three pounds
of oats were subtracted, while it was pro
vided with abund•ince of water, into
which a pound of bran was put. In the
course of twenty-seven days it increased
about thirty-six pounds in weight. In
the same regiment an exceeding fat mare,
that oould hardly carry its rider, was re
duced
from an allowance of sixty litres
of water per day to fifteen, and speedily
lost its obesity, resuming its former vi-
gor.
The oldest Rebel in the country has de.
serted the cause of the South, and de
parted for a more peaceful land. Mrs.
Sarah A. Ezell, a-native of South Con
fine, died in Memphis, a few days ago,
at the age of one hundred ant
years and eight months.
$2,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,50 IP NOT PAID IN ADVANCE
go r try.
Written fir the Columbia Spy
I THINK OF YOU,
When the day has passed,
Faded into night,
And the moonbeams shine
With .softened silvery light;
When stars bejewel o'er
The liquid ether blue,
When all is hushed and still,
I think, dear one, of you.
When morning dawns so fair,
And golden sunbeams shine,
And joy and gladness dwells
Within this heart of mine;
When on the fragrant flowers
Still rests the glistening dew,
When all is bright and beautiful,
I think, dear one, of you.
When 'mid rich scenes of splendor,
When music sweet I hear,
When merry feet aro dancing,
And smiles and joy are near;
When clouds float o'er my sky
Obscuring all the blue,
Wherever I may lie,
I think, dear one, of you.
Watts Wass.
Written for the Columbia Spy
THE IdIISE.
BY LU LIGHT
What is tho matter, Muse, to-night?
I cannot think, I cannot write!
nava you forsaken mo for aye,
Or will you sing another day?
How strange you will not hear my prayer,
And thrill me with a sootbing a r,
Like those whose music long ago
Swept o'er me with their gentle flow:
Fair :Use, appear, and lend thine aid,
Bid all my cloudy fancies fade.
And fill ma with poetic zeal,
That I may think—that I may fuel.
Teach mo the magic of thy power,
And let my lowly fancy tower
Into thy realm of wondrona hgh t,
Where all is fair and pure and bright
Alasl stern Muse, I pray in rain,
I may not hear a single strain,
But slowly now I seek my rest„
With sad and gloomy thoughts oppressed
How naughty, Muse, I'll say iltrowell,
Since you will not consent to tell
Your wondrous tale of song to-night,
But sulky stand as if in spite.
And when I seek for you again.
0 911 with sacred power my pen.
That I may call thee from thy throne,
And make thy music all my own!
How to Win a Woman's Favor
It's very easy to make youself popu
lar among the ladies. Do not stand
back and tremble, and think because
you havn't the figure of Adonis or the
face of Apollo, you stand no chance at
all. It is not Innustaches and straight
noses that do the business. Women,
bless their souls, don't care a fig for such
things ! Only re.montber a few little pre
liminaries, and you can nuke them like
you, even if your hair is red and your
mouth wide ! When you go to make an
evening call, don't start too early. La
dies are not well pleased to be caught be
fore their curls and basques are arrang
ed.
Be particularly careful not to sit down
on the cat or kick the dog across the floor
—the girls are sure to appreciate any
one who knows how to bo polite to their
pets. If their's a piece of worsted work.
admire it; don't mistake the artificial
flowers in the vase for real; if the young
lady is doing crotchet-work, ask her if
she can't teach you. Beyond everything,
don't tip in your chair; for every crack
in the fragile furniture there'll be a
worse fracture in - your friendship. And
when she begins to pawn behind her
pocket handkerchief, take up your hat
and go. "Short and sweet, long and
bitter," is our motto.
When you are out walking with a lady,
don't go striding along until she has to
run to keep up with you—the first thing
you know she will run off home. Notice
just how she walks, and modulate your I
gate accordingly. If she meets a femi
nine acquaintance and stops for a nice
little chat, you should not manifest any
impatience by balancing on the one
foot and then on the other. If she
wants to look into a shop window, stop
and admire too, though you may not
know a ribbon from a railway station.—
When you come to a crossing, give her
the whole of it and go meekly into the
mud. Tell her how becoming her bon
net is, and implore her to wear it the
next time she goes to the opera with you.
If pia meet a rival young gentleman at
her house, don't be rude to him—it is
the worst policy iu the world. Be as
polite as possible to him; crush him it
you can, with courtesy.
Never laugh loud in a parlor, remem
ber to speak low, It's just as well not to
talk very much your self; let the ladies
have the preference and they will prefer
your society accordingly. Be blind and
deaf to whatever they choose to keep
from your sight and hearing--a steel
spring escaping from a crinoline, for in
stance, or papa in the hall- wondering
" whether that young fellow means to go
home to-night or not!" Nothing is easier
than to be a favorite with the ladies.
Humor them, wait on them, study their
peculiarities, be always ready to escort
them any where, amuse them when they
are dull, and laugh with them when they
are lively; and though you may be home
ly as a hedge fence, they will like you
ten times better than the handsomeblock
head who thinks his looks are going to
do everything for him
[WHOLE NUMBER 13775.
Condition of the Rebel Capital•
A lady who left Richmond the 25th of
Aagust, and who arrived at Boston with
in a few days, says the Boston Tran ,
script, gives an accout of her sufferings
and the state of affairs in the rebel cap
ital, a synopsis of which we deem of
terest to the public. She is a native of
Fredericksburg, Va., but the principal
part of her life has been passed is Mass
achusetts. In January, 1861, she• went
to Richmond to visit her mother, sclitai
whom she remained until her decease.
"In December, 1863, being anxious to
return North, where her husband and
son resided, she obtained a pass for her
self and a little daughter through the
rebel lines. On reaching the Black
water river, she was arrested as a spy,
taken to Petersburg, and subjected there
to an insulting inquisition by the rebel
General Picket and his officers, who used
every exertion to obtain evidence suffi
cient to bring her to trial by court-mar
tial. Failing in this, they sent her to
Richmond, where she was imprisoned in
Castle Thunder four weeks and subject
ed to great indignities. She was finally
released through the influence of two
Scotchman by the name of Gibson and
Capt. Alexander (who was in command
of the prison,) by whom she was kindly
treated, so far as was in his power with
out being suspected by his superiors.
"Receiving her trunks from Peters
burg, all valuables were found to have
been abstracted, for which the officer
would give no account.
"On her release, she in company with
a Mrs. Beach, who with her three chil
dren had also been her companions in
prison, opened rooms, and engaged in
making pies, which they sold to the sol
diers at two dollars each. In this way
she managed by great self-denial, to lay
up about $7OO in Confederate money.—
Last month hearing that the ,Confeder
ate authorities had determined to send
all Northerners oat of their territory,sbe
determined to make another attempt to
reach home, and finally succeeded in ob.
taming a pass from - Major Carrington.
"In company with Mrs. Beach she
rode in a wagon over rough roads from
Richmond to the lower PotomaC river,
where she engaged a noted blockade run
ner named Richardson tq convey her
across to the federal side. After one
fruitless attempt to cross in a canoe, and
remaining three days on the bank—sub
jected all the time to to the threats of •
Richardson who had taken her last
dollar, of returning her back to Rich
mond as a spy—she at last obtained pas
sage in a boat belonging to him, manned
by four negroes, who after rowing fifteen
miles down the river, at last found a ape&
to land, as they thought, in safety.
"On nearing the bank, however, they
were startled at the report of a musket ;
but as they were too near to attempt to
put off, they were taken prisoners by a
detachment of sth Alassachusetts caval
ry, under Lieut. White. In the boat
was the noted Balla Somers, who has
made several trips to Washington, and
who is considered by Richmond people
aspy in the service of Jeff. Davis. She
was arrested, together with a companion
named Annie Maguire, but both were af
terwards released.
"The lady reports the people of Itioh
mond decidedly in favor of closing the
war as thorhest can. They have lost all
faith in the establishment. of a separate
Confederacy. The streets are now guard.
ed by old gray-headed men, who have
shut up their places of business and been
substituted for boys who have been asnt
to the front. '
"Captain Poindexter, who km hod
charge of the recruiting, said he had en
listed his last man in Rishmond, and
now has proceeded to Monde in . searoh
of recruits. The prices.. oC aftioles of
consumption are enormous--wood being
$lOO per cord, cora meal $3O per bushel,
flour 82.50 per pound to the poor, and
bad at that ; $5 per dozen for tomatoes,
and $3 per quart-for potatoes."
THE LARGEST CITT.-A very emote
ous idea is prevalent regarding the largest
city in the world; many confidently assert
ing that London is far superior to any
other both in size and number of inhabi
tants. But such is not the cue. Jeddo,
the capital of Japan, is without exception,
the largest and most populous city in the
world. It contains the vast MidalieY :of
one million dwellings, and five million of
human souls. Many of the streets are
nineteen Japan earls in length; which is
equivalent to twenty two English yam
—Pittsburg. has forty six figundriokaon
suming forty-six thousand tons or Ideal
annually, and paying $300,000, oasis
ally.