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COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER, 19, 1864. T °tit y. Written for the Columbia Spy My Brother's Grave. Dr HENRY J. lIORAIt.D "lionqeholil gifts that memory saves, But help to count the househo'd graves." Look! beneath yon silvered willow, Where its weeping branches wave, Is my brother's lonely pillow In the dark, and dreamless grave; There his body peaceful slumbers, Low beneath that grassy sod, While his spirit swells the numbers Of the "chosen band of God." Well, too well do I remember, (Oh! that memory lied died,) Of the morning In November, Brother last sat by my side; Re then seemed tet happy ever As rd seen him o'er before, Yet, that day, we parted, never, Ne'er to meet on earth no more! Alone life's path I've wandered, Since death rudely spread his pall,— And the hours I have squandered, May I ne'er again recall; Yet, me thinks I fain must love him, Tho' beneath death's dauntless gloom, Ile sleeps—while we above him, Weep o'er the imperial tomb. Oh 1 how long upon thnt pillow Will ho lie in dreamless sleep, Where the silver'd, bending willow Bows in silent awe to weep? But his body peacefully slumbers, There, beneath that grassy sod, While his spirit swells the number Of the "chosen band of God." Had I loved him not so dearly, In a world so cold as this, Then, perchance, he'd not so early Flown to Heaven's eternal bliss ! Hat since death has bereft us— We'll no longer mournful weept— For SI While, but short, he left us 'Heath the silent grate to sleep. Then, oh! rest thou, dearest brother, In the dark grave's dauntless gloom, Or, arise to greet thy mother, Who LILY triumphed o'er the tomb; And I'll strive, whet. life is riven, And my soul from clay hat!' fled, There to join you both in Heaven, When the graves return their dead. Ortoinal. For the Spy Leaves of Travel, No 9. EY HENRY J. HOWARD -• I awoke not far from Carthage, on the Genessee, just as the blushing east was awakening to the ray of the morning.— Not caring to tarry an hour or more, for the cars, I walked on towards Rochester, sonic three or four miles distant, pausing in a charniing grove,vocal with the songs of early birds, and sparkling with morn ing dew, to look at the lower falls of the Genessee, whose subdued voice filled the wood. Without imprdssing one with any great idea of grandeur or power, it must be conceded that nothing could be more picturesque. A view obtained from•the ern Shore, on the following day,was ore beautiful. I descended from place called "Lorimer Hill," an en- ....anting residence and grounds, over king city on the South, and the adjacent country on the North, to Onta rio, through beautiful sloping meadows, redolent with the delicious Rerfume of white 'apd purple clover,to the very edge of the bank, and surveyed them with the highest gratification... Who upper fall is of greater descent, yet it lacks the at tractive adjuncts of its younger brother. Both, however, are respectable lions, and would make the fortune of any village within fifty miles of New York, merely as natural spectacles. Of their utilitarian qualities I shall doubtless speak hereaf ter, not now, since I have not the room. The Falls of the Genessee, however, are not the only scenic attractions in the vi cinity of Rochester. There is one, of such singular and various beauty, as to warrant especial mention. I allude to the suburban cemetery of Mount Hop , which has long since been purchased b the city, laid out, and intersected with paths and excellent carriage roads. It is a succession of rounded hills,and grad ual hollows, raised and scooped by the hand of nature, on a wooded eminence, which rises some two or thee miles born the town. You wind along its Feiraes, more deeply impressed, at every turn, with the manifold beauties of the spot and the good taste which selected ap . • appropriated it. Here flashes upon d o eye a glimpse of the river,- lapsing along its green shores, and there an opening discloses a meadow field below; while farther onward sparkles a clear spring, that will hereafter feed the brooks which run among the hills... From the gunainit you look, on one hand, far over umbra geous woods, to the blue Ontario; the city, with its steeples and turre^ies the foreground, softened by distance, the blue vapor of the falls rising slowly be yond, and like the vain shower of human life, soon vanishes away ; and on the other, a long stretch of verdant landscape terminating in an undulating range of pale, blue mountains, bounds the view. One can imagine no lovelier burial place than this must become, when garnished by the hand of taste and affectinn. Such repositories of the dead, exercise a be nevolent and salutary influence upon the living; and when "Hero the long concourse from the mourning town, With funeral pace and slow shall enter in, To lay the loved in tranquil silence down, No more to suffer and no more to sin:' it will beguile death of half of its terrors to reflect, that the beauties of nature are scattered with such liberal hand about the graves of the departed. I encountered a literary gent, and a contributor to many of the weekly jour nals, soon after my return from Mount Hope, as I stood gazing from the old aqueduct, at the magnificent scale and massive material and proportion of a new, "I have seen that person before," thought I, as a thin man, of florid complexion, with a rusty coat that had once been black, and a shocking bad "'at," cast a hurried glance of recognition towards me, as he slowly swept past on the deck of a "liner," with an old brown cotton umbrella over his head. At once his vision was classified. He it was who I once found, on a cold winter's morn,with a bundle of MSS of various kinds, in the " Standard" office,with which he desired to regale tho readers, by "giving them something new." He had the thorough Yankee countenance, and " believed the reader would find his articles acceptable." He seemed modest and looked needy, but not remarkably intelligent. Still, thought I, his outward form is after all, but his "husk or shine," and although he lacks big speech and an imperative presence, he may have a mind that makes the body rich. The editor of the Stand ard told me he accepted au article from him, and it was a solid article, solid enough for any manner of use. Heavy writing was evidently his forte. Mr. Editor said there was a dullness,an ultra sobriety of tone. about it,that would have suited the tastes of the drained and parchment intellects, who sometimes ten der us gratuitous counsel, touching the proper conduct of a journal like the Standa . rd. Tie said . lie returned the MSS to the author, and desired hiin to - leave a light article in its stead. One was soon enclosed to the Editor, and I had the pleasure of a perusal. What a tale it was ! Words can scarcely tell how feeble in invention, how puerile, diffuse,aud ar tificial ; in erlarded at briefest intervals, in the bombastic style of a stage struck 'prentice, with dramatic misquotations misapplied. It reminded me of a a story concerning a certain red-wigged woman, who said she was a relative of the great Shakespeare, until, in proof, that his great genius ran the fiunily,she produced a MSS play of her own composition,which soon set at defiance all belief in her con sanguinity. This case was not dissimilar; and when, by appointment, on the fol lowing morning, after I had read his wonderful MSS., met the identical au thor, and congratulated him on his geni us. I ventured to enquire what it was he had written for the " Ledger ?" . He blushed to the very tip of his nose, au intellectual rudder of most porteptious amplitude, the lax smile of a sic lyena, as lie stammered out; " I mad if out the index for several years!" But nothing daunted by his confession, he prom" to add : " I have a MSS plat in this city which I would like to sell, dii you think the Editor of the Standard will purchase it of ine ? I sent it to Mr. Bonner,but he returned it to me the next day, with a cold note of two lines, saying that " it wculd'ut do;" or words to that effect.— ~ hat was, however; because it was not acting play; it is more for the closet, you will find it to read voll in print. `was composed in two nights, after the modcl o lof the " Sea Serpent" of old, whichlnce had so long a run. I call it " The.Chesepeakc, or the first run of herring." ItWould you like to—" I imagined his wish, and very politely told him I'd %them:4A, with aboutaromuch courtesy as .T - said well command. -Idl ing to mind, alAls • isaweare.4l di street, an nod. d "writio mss '' er—it ra ro . • rnt gTow,"—/ Towardithe bott.. .f th# pagi soy ght Gut, was t recorded : Mr. said he thought that althopgh thor's mind wa: yet Tel might become, b roper care a blessilig to him am abou to close my " Leav, Travel," reader, but if at any faun' pe rioUlishall have the good fortune to travel again, you may once 'more hear from me. And now farewell, (methinks I hear 31r,131dItor and the reader say,— " So mote it be." Baltimore, 1864. IMke jaeklet; buttoned and double breasliore tunong late female fashions. I want no stone of marble white To deck my humble mound, I want no blooming flowers gay Planted all around. I want when life is o'er with me, To rest within a grave, Far down among the coral roofs Beneath an ocean wave. I want the wild, wild waves to chant A requiem for me, I want to rest where careless eyes, My grave can never see. WiorelLantotto COQUETRY AND RETRIBU LION. The south winds blew gently through the branches of the stately old elm and pine trees in the beautiful park owned by Judge Auburn, whose mansion was situated on the out skirts of' the beauti ful village of L—, in the eastern part of Pennsylvania; and on that calm warm June evening might have been seen seat ed in the little cosy summer-house in the aformentioned park, with a volume of Tennyson's Poems in her lap, beautiful Viola Auburn, Judge Auburn's niece, and the belle and coquette of the village. She was in deep reverie. I fear my pen would fail me if I were to attempt to give to my readers a description of her as she appeared in her evening wrapper. Suffice to say, that her jet black hair which fell in long curls around her beau tifully moulded shoulders her fairy-like form and her winning ways had wrought for her countless. admirers. Among the most ardent of' these ,wer.e E'ugone . Mon tour and Harry Worthingtop.." Viola was started from the reverie into which she had fallen by Wirustling of the bush es on the outside, and the next moment she was. face to face with a young lieu tenant—Eugene Montour. "Go.od evening, darling," he said, taking her proffered hand. "How is my little one ?" "Very well, I thank you. Why, Mr. Montour, you look like the hero of many battles already, with those regimentals on." "No flattery, darling." "Indeed it is not flattery in the least." A few more commonplace remarks were made, when Eugene seated him self by her side, and taking her hand in his, said : "Viola, the train which will carry me to my regiment below will be due in a few moments, therefore, what I wish to say must be said in a few words. Our regiment leaves the day after to-morrow for Washington, and I could not go away and leave you without once more asking you to be my wife. I have already ask 'ed you twice, but I venture it the third time. You little dream how dear you are to mc,.and what a great pleasure it , will be . to me to know, while on the bat 'tlefield,Alutt. when I return it will be to, elsim yota'st_my bride." Ile paused.— He saw th.ifflie was about to speak, but lie interrupted her, saying: "I fear your answer. If you love me as I love you, you will *not blast my future happiness." 'iriola rose and facing him said : "Well, Mr Montour, !I may' as well be frank with you : I do love you, but I am engaged to another." How harshly those words grated on the brave young lieutenant's cars; and j§st as he was going to a.11:.1vlio had been his rival, a third partyi l appeared on the the scene. It was Harry Worthington. "I hope I do not Illtrudei'.. "eltinot in the reo.st. th`e con trary, 'we ar 3 glad to ime yo," she said, advancing and taking his kotted hand. ..-:Th two gentlemen w* then intro aimed to each Ohm?, and ufter a few re marks wire made atzr t:tlitevening, the war, and a few other subjects, Lienten- MEM id bim tha this• I was to..ca;ry their regiment on tagton, there to join an army corpsditroute 8- Gettysburg. And the next siay found our hero in Washington awaiting further orders!' Lem' return. to our heroine, whom we left in company with Harry Wort ingbon.r "Viola," ho said, after they had -co.- viirsed some time, "tell rdb what Mr. Montour is to you?" 4 ,1' "Why," she said with alaugh and g, aril' y . Written for the Columbia Spy MY GRAPE• MEWED Li18: 14 :0 Lod hi way tine't aboard to hi coi bolow ; but only occu of ids feka $2,00 PER. YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,50 IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE coquettish toss of the head, we are be trothed to each other !" "Viola, I had long hoped to win your love and to some day call you my own. I have long loved you, and now that I know that you can be no more to me, the world will be dark at best. Miss Auburn, I hope you will allow me to see you home, as the evening is getting quite dark." "No, I thank you; I do notsish to put you to so much trouble, and Trove to be out after dark by myself." "Than I will have to bid you good evening, for I have made an engagement that must be fulfilled," he said, rising and taking her hand. "I hope we part as friends, Mr. Wor thington " "Yes, as friends , but nothing more." So saying he left her. "Oh, the simpleton !" she said, after he had gone, "to think that I would bind myself to a confounded husband ! No, indeed ! When I want a husband I'll let them know. Two more lovers struck from my long list; yet it is still long enough. Why, I'll have a dozen offers yet before the month is out ! But what do I care ? I can tell them al the same tale I have told to-night. And then see them wince, as though a shell had exploded at their feet. Oh, it is so dratnatical !' But still, in the long list of my admirers, I belidvit Bugeiiii Montour receives the Jar er Ortion of ml affections, and if the truth werAnown, I believe I love him,and I almost wish I had accepted of his offer instead of telling I was en gaged. But Still it is not too late.— When ho comes home from the war I will tell him tow I deceived, him and and then I will set my cap for him in earn est." • So saying she flirted out of her retreat and started for home. In the garden she met her uncle. "Ali you little 'truant ! I was getting alarmeikat lone absence, and was coming to hunt you.", '"Oh, never fear me. uncle. I have been having a splendid time with my lovers, you know, uncle." "Yes, I know," he said, as he return edto his litirary, and Viola passed on to her bed-chamber, there to dream of her many lovers The follotving morning, as Judge Au burn was perusing the columns of the morning paper, his eye caught sight of a paragraphileaded "Suicide," and at the same moment he heard Viola's merry laugh on the outside, and-calling her in to him, he said : "Listen to this : 'Last night, about ten o'clock, the dead body of Harry Worthington was found in the :outskirts of the village. He was shot through the heart. A pistol was found on his person, so that it is supposed he came to his death by committing suicide.' " The horror which was depicted on Violo's face on hearing this can be bet ter imagined than described. "What can be the cause of •this?"—= asked her uncle. . "Indeed, I cannot tell. Why, it was only last evening I saw Mr. Worthing ton in very good spirits." No more was then said on the subject. Both were too busy with their own thoughts on the sad occurrence to give utterance to speech, and •Viola soon re fixed to her own room, there to give way to grief in a flood of tears, for well she knew what was the cause of Worthing ton's death. But after the first shock was over she seemed to pay very little attention to the melancholy occurrence, and was soon carrying ou her old tricks of coquetry. The dreadful battle of Gettysburg had been fought, and the papers contained long lists of killed and wounded ; and one evenim i g, as Viola was looking over one of her eye caught the name of "Lieu agene Montour, killed."— One shriek 'was all that escaped from her lips, and her uncle, on bursting into her room, found her in a state of insen sibility . - od her to her to her room.— I :'.lcian was summoned, who pro nounced her in a very critical condition. After this, days and weeks of delirium followed, and t only utterance to which -ho gave v*nt was, "Eugene, Eugene! how I level' you and cruelly wronged you ;" She finally recovered; but all her co quettish ways have left her, and she re fuses to receive the attention of any of er late admirers. She says that her • o is buried in, the grave of Eugene .ur, whoinlihe so cruelly wronged ; ' she has_ never frequented that mmer.hou-se since the night she re. sic - gpt of the offer of the only n she ever loved. , 4 [WHOLE NUMBER 1,783. Jeff. Davis' Message to the Rebel Con- BIM The message of Jeff. Davis to the reb el Congress, which assembled on the 7th instant, has come to hand. He reviews the campaigns of the Federal• generals, and deduces consolation from his own statement of the facts. About the Fed eral successes he is extremely reticent.. It is plain, however, from the attention he gives to the subject of arming the negroes, that the recruitment of the reb el army is an extremely urgent matter. Davis opposes in general the arming of the negro slaves,and says he cannot see the propriety of arming the slaves while there are so many white men out of the ranks. He would only drill and arm such negroes as are already employed in the quartermaster k and commissary de partments, &c., and fill the places of such by a draft of negroes from the planters. He would give only the reward of man umission to such slaves as shall have serv ed efficiently with arms in the field. In regard to the rebel currency, he says it has become so depreciated that Congress must provide some remedy. The ques tion of foreign recognition or aid is dis cussed, and he informs Congress that there is absolutely no hope of any help from abroad. Ile gives foreign nations a loud and lofty scolding for their lack of sympathy with the struggling 'confed eracy, and comforts them with the assu that the rebellion must rely on its own resources. The Richmond Whig, of the 9th, says of Jeff. Davis' message : "Two propositions are plainly deduci ble from the President's Message,to which we cannot for a moment believe he would deliberately give his sanction. The first is, the condition of freedom is so much bettor for the slave than that of servitude that it may be bestowed upon hiurai a reward and boon. The second is that the confederate government bas'• a right to acquire possession of slaves by' pur chase or impressment, with compensation and then emancipate them without= the consent of the States, or in case of im pressment even without - consent of • their masters. • "The first propoSition is a rotudiation of the opinion held by the whole south, and by a large portion of mankind in other countries, that Fervitude is a di vinely appointed condition for the high est good of the slave, and as that condi tion in which the negr, o race especially may attain the highest moral and Intel lectual advancement of which they are capable, and one itrivhich they may en joy the most largely of such comforts and blessings of life as are best suited to them. Of this we have no doubt, and we hold it to be an act of cruelty to de prive the slave of the care and guardian ship ot a master. If .the slave must fight he should fight for the blessings he enjoys as a slads, and not for the miser ies that wouldigtand him if treed. "The second proposition is still 'ilCire startling. and it is a concession that the confederate government has the power and right to exterminate slavery by the simple process of puchasing or impress ing all slaves, and— then emancipating them. Lincoln Nffivever gone so far as this, for in his ;Mr for compensated emancipation he expressly referred , the question to the Stays, acknowledging that they only could determine it. It is unnecessary to dwell on the subject— We are perfectly sure the President could never have designed to give his as sent to so monstrous a proposition as this - • The multiplicity and magnitude of the subjects that claim his attention will sug gests sufficient excuses for inadvertanny of expressions, and the immaturity of the views from which theories so out of place in a communication from the President of these slaveholding States aro deduci ble." THE VALUE OF A BAu OP Isorr.—A bar of iron, originally valued at five dol lars, is worth when worked into horse shoes ten dollars and fifty cents ; into needles, three hundred and fifty five dollars; into penknife blades three thou= sand two hundred and eighty-five dollars; into shirt buttons, twenty nine thousand four hundred and eighty dollars ; into balance springs of watches, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Thirtkone pounds of iron have been made into wire upwards of ono hundred and eleven miles in length, and so fine was the Ramie that part of it-was converted—in lieu of home , hair—into a barrister's wig ! A company organized for the purpose of building Pelee Type Setting Machines, have nearly completed a machine for the Manchester (England,) Guardian.. .This machine runs by steam, both sett type and distributes at the same time. • "
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