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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEABFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865.
VOL. 11.-NO. 33.
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FAREWELL.'
jfr flrrt child. I hare no ion to gir you;
Su Urk oould pip tb iki.t to dull ami grey;
Tt, er Prt X oan leave you
For erery day. : :-
$ good, tweet maid . and let who will be olerer ;
li tobl. ttiiiiKcotdram them, a'-l day long,
4ld t Hiaae lite, death, and at vaat iorever,
Uue grand, iireet lung.
A3 ORPHAN AND AN ANGEL.
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
A little pauper boy sat down on the curb
itoaa aal triad to chink.. His feet were
tare, red, and i.oid; but never uiiud that.
Ta. chill airponetrated hi ragged garments,
l it nover mini that. Hj wanted to think.
Vro are these people passing him, looking
u warm and coiuiortabie? W hat did it
tu-in that they ahoaid te happy and chejr
f i!. sa l hi so sad ? Nond or' ilieru had such
Lo a vy hearts; that ha was . sure of, lie
bjked up into the cold bine bky. What
was it, and who lived up there? Somebody
ea.d once that God w -u.d take care of nim.
Wiiero was God? Why didu't hj take care
cf h tn? Oh, if he could only see God for ;
cud U.tie miuute, or the angel that the good
Eiea told buu of when his mother died! ,
l.d t'olk ever see God? Did they ever see
Angels? '
Ail organ gnuder came near and took his
ttanJ. The melody he p'uyeeu lightened
the little boy'a heart somewhat ; but it did
nt make him luia hungry. He kopt shiv
eiiug in spita of th music; and he felt so
!l alone, ao despairiu.'! Then the organ-
f;rinier pastel away ; ha never heeded the
ittle child nittif g on the curb-stone ; he had
0 many thing to think oif. The carriages
parsed by, au i the carts, and a company of
eoldier; but it wai ail dumb show to him
he wn tryiog to think, with such a dull pain
: his heart. Presently three or four coarse
looking boy gathered behind him, and
winked and laughod at each other. In an
other moment the youngest gave a thrust (
uver Weill. IUC J'UUl uiuc uumuitM luuh
iut 0 tha -atter. One scream, one sob of
snzuiih. as he trathered himself up and
looked after the boys, now flying away with
ahijuts of mirth. On, how cruel it seemed
in them how cruel 1 The little hungry boy
walked slowly on, gobbing and shivering to
himself. He didn't kuow what he was
walking for, or why h was living. . He felt
out of place a poor liitle forlorn spirit that
tad lost ita way a bruised reed that any
cn u;:ght break a little heart so tender
that a look wae auguuh, how much more a
blow J
The little boy stood at lat near the corner
cf a street. Ad apple Etaud, at which he
fuzed with longing eyes, not far off, was
tended by a cross-looking old n 3n. There
wei cake on the ttand, and the poor little
mouth of tha homeless chiid watered as he
taw one boy alter another deposit his penny
ad take his cake. He had no penny, and
though there was hunger in hs eyes, the
ci'033-looking old man never offered him a
luorie!.
Tha tempter came. The old man's back
wa i t uned. A vile boy stood at his side
s: the side of the homeless child nudged
Lis elbow. "You take one," he whispered,
'Til give you half."
Tha little child gai2d at him steadily.
Hi sa v aomitliing ia the bleared face that
iuia him shrink something tet his heart
to beating.
. "I teifyou, hook one," whispered the
toy, "I woo't tell, and we'll go away and
tat it."
"I don't want to ileal," said thi homeless
child.
"Oh, you fool!" muttered the brutal
tempter, and emote him in the eyes," his
heavy hand dealing a blow that sent the
4'or little chiid quivering with anguish,
'tie terrible blow hal almost blinded him
for a moment. A great sob had came up in
his throat. "Oh, what have I done to be
t.eau-d so?" There never, never was a
G'id, or be should not let him suffer so, and
tbat beeamo ha refused to be wicked. I
cou't bvlieve that ever a man in his deadli
e t b reavement suffered more than that sad
ii t e child. II is heart was hterady swelling
ii.ii grief, anl th ju'h ha could not reason
a'---: ir. he felt as if there were great and j
sn irvustiee somewhere.
lit; 'tailed to cross the street A dark, '
finding pain still made his poor temples !
ui,j !
"Hack I back! Good heavens ! the child
is under his fce backl back!"
' Oii, luanima, it is our horses who ran
ever a poor little boy ! Oh. mamma,
Lijina !'
"Is he hurt much, coachman?" The
woman's face was pale as a-hes. "Yes, he is
hi.t la j'y. Take hiui right in ; don't wait ;
t:v in in riiiht in and up stairs. It was
J'unr carelessness. The child shall be at-tt-i'itd
to "
'J iiPie is no anguish now. Perhaps God
' ' U3 hii b )rno all he could, and so took
tie poor little broken heart to heal. How
T-'ry white and quiet ! "Oh, a sweet face, a
vect lace !" murmured the woman, bend
ing over the boy ; and tears fell upon his
forehead, but he did not feel them.
i( "Oh, the poor little boy!" sobs Nelly;
" 'he poor little boy ! I wish he had kept on
lie s-idewalk ; I wish he had stayed home
"h his'mother."
Alas ! in this world there was lio mother
10 keep him,
I he doctor came, said he was not dead
't would very likely die. There
verv nweiv ate. nere was a
, , fill
hospital near The noor thin? had better "
a nt there. But the good woman would '
Uut allow hat, . He had been injured by
c"-- o her horses, and she felt it her duty 1
l attend to him. Besides, it was likely
tbat the child had no mother. Such a boy
18 ke, with a face 60 sweet and girlish, so .
"e and loveable, would never be sent on j
ttrt Lie . that if h bad a mother
f Besides and here her tears fell there was
j a little mound, not yet green, over such a
'child. No, no; it was not in her heart to
put the poor wounded boy away. Let him
j stay whether he lived or died,
i The weary, weary days passed on. One
morning the little boy opened his dim blue
eyes, but he did not know himself. His
glance fell wearily on his hands. There
were white bands around his wrist, with
ruffles on them. The bed was snowy white,
too, and a crimson light fell over everything.
"Dear God! I am in heaven," miruiur
ed the child. "Yes, God will take care of
you now."
What visions of loveliness glanced forth
from the shadow behind the bed? The rich
ctirls fell around a face of exquisite beauty..
The beaming eyes looked love and gladness
upon him.
''Oh, yes, there is an angle!" he said soft
ly. '"I am glad. They won't knock me
over again ; they wont want me to steal apple-her.',
an I perhaps I .-hail never die a
gain. Now, I want to see my mother. "
"My dear boy, are you better this morn
ing?" aked a low, soft voice.
lie turned slowly ami wearily.
Is it mother? he murmured.
Ohves!" and there were nnick sobs
and tear-. "3-es, n.y little child, I will be
vour mother, and vou shall be 103' son.
Will
vou ;ove
! c dearly r
love you, mother ; and is it
"Yes. I
Heaven ?"
do
"Heaven !
no darling, it is earth ; but
God sent you here to our hearts, and you
shall be loved and cared for. See. here is a
! little sister, and vou will be very happy with
her. Kiss im, Nell v."
Her rosy lins touched his pae ones, and a
heavenly smile lighted up in his face. The
past was not forgotten, but it was gone.
No more mouldy crusts, oaths, harsh words,
and blows. No more bogging at basement
doors, and looking half famished, to envya
dog gnawing a bone in the streets. No
more fear of rude children, v ho never knew
where their own hearts lay ; no more sleep-
ins on doorsteps, ana nsr-nine in terror 10
the drunken quarrels of the vicious and de-
Drnved
Yes, the past wa- prone; and in the ro-y
future were love, hotne, cv ;i ol and the
anceR Certainlv, sweet spirits had guard
ed that child, and guided him out of seem
ing evil into positive good. Surely, hence
forth he would put hi- hand trustfullv in
theirs, and turn hisinee Heavenward. Yes,
it was so to be. The dear, teachable child
a jowel picked from the mire, a brand snatch
ed from the bumm? wa- yet to i!inmin the
dark pnths of this woM with his ho'y
Heave i-like teachine. L'ke the dove In
was to go forth over the waters, an 1 find 'hn
olive branch with which to garland his pr'ad
tidinis. Ulesfintrs. then, on all who bold
their arm out toward needv 11 f tie children
rti-ikinir their hoiuej arks of refutre.
Beau
tiful stars shall the have in their crown of
rejoictnar. for sure'v ibere is itf jewel bright
er in a'l the world, and perhaps in all eter-
1 nity, than the soul or a little child.
"What aa Array Corps Requires.
In the Army of the Potomac an Army
corps of 3U.00O infantry has a lout "00 wag
ons, drawn ly 3-50 mules. Including the
horses of oilieers and of the artill"ry, about
7,000 animals have to be provided for. On
a march it is calculated that each wagon will
occupy eighty feet : in bad roads much more,
so that a tiain of 700 vagoiia wiil cover
56, 000 feet or over ten miles; the amlm
lancjs will ojj'ipy a mile; ail batteries
three miles: thirty thousand troops need
bix miles to march in if they foi m one col
umn; the totHl length of a uiarcitingcolumn
of a corps is, therefore, twenty miles, with
out including the cattle herds, and trains of
bridge materials. Impatient critics of ar
my movements would often be more lenient
were they to familiarize themselves with the
details of the . immense difficulty of orga
nizing and moving large trains and artil
lery. A Sailors Love of Faiii I'lav. Tn a
ship yard in Pembroke, the other day, a
tar from a man-of-wsr was observed wash
ing two men dragging a seven foot cross-cut
saw through a huge oak log. The saw was
dull, the lor wa; verv tnuuh, and there they
went see-.-aw, see-saw, push,"' gu.l, pull,
pu-h. Jack studied the maitera while, un
til he cau:e to the conclusion that they were
pulling to see who would get the saw. and as
one was an immense bisr chap while the
; other was a little follow, he Ieci'Iel to see
I fair pl iv; so giving the bitr chap a blow iin
; der the ear that capsized h'mi. be jerked the
sow out ot the I.g. an I giving it to me
smali one, h sung out "now ruu, you beg
gar." Four years ago Jeff Davis. nd bis co-
: workers 111 crime. a-u ed the aristocracies
of the world that the .American Union had
i cea-ed to exist, and that the i iej of u an's
capability of self-givcrnment was exploded.
To-day Jeff Davis is little letter than a fu
gitive and an outcast, the American people
: having established on & bads stronger and
i broader than it ever existed before, not only
' their ability of self-government, but their
j power to resist the enmity of tha arisrocra
' cies of the world. We hope the world will
profit by the lesson.
Eels have been" skinned ever since Noah
am out of the ark : and orincers have been
I cheated out of their just due- ever since the
, Orientals pnntcd with blocks rf wood ; yet j
, , 1 ..I rt l.Aln l'...tl..f
jieitner uc eeis uet uim 'eoi;; '
nor the orinters to bein? fleeced. This a - ,
gues great obstinacy on the part of eels aui j
printers. . - I
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A schoolmarm in Enfant l-.a-" nd 'Pd a '
new and novel mode of punishment. H the
boys disobey the rules she stands them upon
their heads and pours cold water into their j
browser kg.
SHEEMAN ON HIS GBEAT MAEOH.
From the War Correspondent of Cincinnati Com j
The Bummers of the Army.
In order to systematize and more thor
oughly regulate the work of foraging for the
troops, a decail ot sixtj nun to a divisiou
was made. These men under proper officers,
were mounted, and were called by the boys
"bummers." They became an institution
in the army, and the history of their work is
not the least important part of the labors of
that army. Covering the Hanks and front,
and rear of the army, they served, to a great
extent, the purpose of cjvalry. They had
many skirmishes with Hampton, and Gen.
Sherman asserts that he has n..ver known
them to have been driven in t3' the rebel
hor.se. In some instances they have been in
the aivance, a:i I it ii a iu uur of record
that tbe.se bummers actually cpured Mid
way, on the Charleston and Savannan Bail
road. The story is this: General Howard,
with 7.0U0 men of bis army, was carefully
advancing towards the road expecting atev
ery moment to meet the enemy. As he
was giving directions to the officers in com
mand, hj noticed one of these bummers
moun ed on a dumpy mule, with a rope
bridkt, and without a saddle, coming down
the road at full speed, beating his mule at
every jump with his cudgel. "Stop stop!"
said the General; "where are 3'ou going?"
"Haven'tgot time!" said the man, stUl
beating and spurring the mule. "Haven't
got time; i.i a d j'tl or a hurry ! The bum
mers of the 3d Brigade have 3Iidway, and
I'm after reinforcements !"
Tlie bummers were the first to enter
Fayettevillc. Their work has been well
done, and done in this manner : Knowing
about where the command would encamp
for the night, they would be ready near that
point, vith their rations all divided out, each
man having ten piles for his regiment, one
for each company. The road at such points
would be lined for miles with these foragers
and their piles or' meat, potatoes, rice, meal,
corn, &c. They looked more like market
men than poid.ers. The regiment, as they
Came to thiir place, wouid hault, and each
company divide out the r rations. It was
the work of but a few moments, when the
match was resumed.
These bummers and their vehicles for
transportation, following their division in
their march through the town, were the
mo.st amusing sight we ever saw. Mouted
on mules, horses, and oxen, with old sad
dles an i bridles, followed by carriages of ev
ery de.-cript ion from a gig to a carryall, drawn
by mules, horses, or oxen; carts and wag
ons of every description; then the pack
tuules and oxen, all loaded with chickens,
turkeys, gee.sc, ducks, bacon, hams, meal,
rice, and everything the country, afforded,
led by negroes, oi l and young, male and fe
maL All this o'rk-ered and guarded by
these bummers, was the occasion of many
jokes and hearty laughs.
So efficient has this organization been, and
of such great service and assistance to the
cavalry, that though general Hampton's cav
alry t'inte outnumber- General Kilpatrick's
nearly three toone.the relwls have never
e':ii eld- t' stti!;p. our wi'jnn tr-n'iis. and
from Atlanta to GoM.sboro, they have never
capture 1 even one wagon.
General Sherman O-anizcs "Bmmncra" for
the Peopie of isouth Carolina.
The burning of Coluu.bia has been heard
of by our readers. By this unfortunate
accident some S.OOO people were left without
homes a,.d food. A Genera! Sherman was
about to leave he wa visited by the Mayor,
who wanted to know what was to become of
him and those 8,000 people, dependent on
him. "Go to your friend, General Hamp
ton," said Sherman. "He," said the May
or, "i our worst enemy." "H'ell, then,"
the General told him, ."'he must live off the
country, as he bad done." "But," said his
Houoi "there Is nothing left in the coun
try, and I can't see h.w the-s people are to
live." "Vdl," said the General, "if you
really want my advice, I will give it to you.
First, I will teil you a great secret. I'm not
going to Augusta. There is a tract of coun
try that my foragers haven't touched yet. I
forbid them going there, that the people
might think 1 was saving that to live off of
in my march to that city. Nowv you can
f iraire out of that country." "Well," said
his llonor. '"that might do, but these peo
ple wiil resist us, ami we have 110 arms."
"I will give you arms," said Genera! Sher
man, and forthwith issue! forty stand of
arms to the Mayor, and thus organized for
these t bivalric South Carolinians a compa
ny of " 1. u miners."
"This Brute Sh rman, whom they affect to
despise, teaches thein their lessous of war
fare, lie supplies them with arms with
which to "bum." The strong oppress the
weak. The war bet we n the classes has be
gun. The people throughout South Caro
lina have acted more syconphautic than
those of any other State. They have man
ifested a willingness to kiss the hand
that was about to smite them. There was
not a secessionist to be found in all the
State. They always had bee j Union men.
An Engli-h or French officer, who never
sees so diers in any but the neatest of order,
would laugh to see Sherman's army, and
lmgh stiil heartier to hear it called an army.
They are the motliest troops evjr marched
through the country. Scarcely a soldier has
an entire suit of blue. They are ragged and
manv bars-footed. Some have appropriated
the finery of the Southern lords ; some you
ee with'fine high-hats, swallow-tailed coats,
tight.-les.-ged breeches, and round-toed boots.
Some have the broad-brimmed plantation
hat- and sheep-gray clothes, others have the
retel uniform entire. Some wear their
iv hire shirts, other have their woolen.
Some have yad-1 of fine carpets for bedding,
others have" counterpanes or qnilts. Some
carry their knapsacks others have nothing
but "their blankets. Some carry.their change
of clothing, others depend on the country
for that, and change at the fire fin houM
1 they come to. Some carry china dishes,
! others tin-ware. The rebels would have us
! believe that tJiese men all luxm silver ware to
eat from, but the boya say the "chivalry of
the bouth . all have bogus-icare, and darned
little of that."
The rebels claim that this army has de
stroyed all their tine furniture,' Brussels car
pets, French mirrors, &c. The boys say
they have but a very tew of these articles to
destroy, and that it they thought the people
in South Carolina were so poor off", they
would have brought them something from
t he North. The army has suffered for cloth
ing, &c, and iu this respect are badly off.
It makes them appear in a worse condition
than they really are.
While the army was marching by General
Sherman, many laughable incidents occur
red. The General's attention was called to
a soldier marching by with a chair on his
back. "Yes," said the General, "I see,
but they can carry what they please, just so
they carry enough ammunition to fight
with."
An officer in the line, marching by in
front 6f bis company, carrying a basket on
bis shoulder, was noticed by the General.
"Tnere," said he, "that's the way my offi
cers live. It don't look vcell on review, but
then that's the way they have to get along."
SOLDIERS' TUN.
There has been some mention made in the
papers of a scarcity of commissary stores
which came upon General Thomas' forces at
Eastport. It is not material who wa to
blame for the failure. It may have been
the Ohio, river, which unexpectedly congeal
ed its forces by a superfluity of cold. It
may have been Colonel Parson, who had
charge of river transportation. It may
have been the contractors, who did not get
the supplies ready in season. In fact, it
might have been any body's and every bo
dy's fault as some say was the fact but of
one thing there is no doubt for a few days
the commissary was compelled to issue to his
men rations of shelled corn, in lieu of the
hard tack and bacon to which the soldiers
had accustomed. Now, corn makes excel
lent whiskey : it is good to cat when it is
ground and manufactured into dodgers ; it
is savory as mush; it is fair when "hulled;"
it is fine when parched, ground up and eat
en with fresh miifc ; but in its unhulled, raw
state, one would thiuk it rather unpalitable
and indigestib'e alimant, anl so is is. But
the men at East port had to put that in
their haversacks, one quart each day, and
transfer it thence to their stumachs, or go
hungry. Some of the men had been taught
to live on nothing befoie, but they had now
to learn how to masticate corn. They had
seen horses and mules grind it up and grow
fat and sleek upon it, but their teeth had
not tound out the modus operandi of the
miniature grist mill. But they soon acquir
ed the habit, and in one day one hundred
and sixty bags of raw corn were issued to
Western soldiers, and by them instmeman
ner consumed. And the boys lived through
it. r
While this corning process was going on,
the soldiers, more for mischief sake than
anything else, perhaps, took every occasion
to brings before Gen. Thomas the scanty
fare they were kept upon. One day an of
ficer saw a file of men passing headquarters,
each couple fastened together by a halter
round the neck and led b3' a thong. Taking
them for depredators of some sort, under
going condign punishment, the officer ask
ed, "What prisoners are these?" "Them
aint no prisoners." was the response.
"They's soldiers. They've had their corn,
now we are leading them to water."
m This explanation was substantiated by a
confirmatory bray from the entire squad.
and a kicking up of heels in imitation of
mules, which brought all head quarters to
the scene. It is hardly necessary to state
that those mules soon scattered to their cor-ra'-
On another occasion a soldier came def
erentially into General Thomas' quarters,
cap in hand, and, with the usual salute, re
quested pel mission 10' address the General
in person. He was allowed to do so, when
the following dialogue took place:
General "Well, my man, what may you
desire!"
Corn-fed "If it is in 'conformity' with
practice a id the army regulations, I will ask
for a permit to buy a small quantity . of
com."
General "What corn, sir? That will be
issued to you by the proper officer. You
need not bring such a request here !"
Corn-fed "But, sir, I want permission to
buy some."
General "But why buy it?"
Corn-fed "Well, to tell you the truth, I
lorrowed some from a mule last night, and
I wish to repay the animal."
The soldier was not punished for his ap
parent disrespect to a superior officer, but
he left headquarters rather precipitately,
and a distant bray attested lis mulish pro
pensities were not entirely wiped out, as he
retreated in good order to his company.
An instance is also related of a soldier
who heard a bray from an adjacent mule.
The soldier said with semi-comic face that
would have done honor to a first-class low
commedianof a firsf-class theatre: "Bray on,
bray on, Misther 'mule 1' You can afford it,
shure ! Ain't yez had two quarts of corn a
day, while I have but one, entirely."
The remark was followed by a roar from
the entire regiment or from as many as
cold hear what Paddy had said.
A Boston storekeeper the other day stuck
upon his door the laconic advertisement, "A
boy wanted." The next morning, on open
ing the stQre, he found a little urchin in a
basket, labeled, "Here he is."
Uncomfortable to be seated at the table
opposite a pretty girl, with a plate of hot
soup- on a hot day, a troublesome moustache,
and bo handkerchief.
THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.
A True Story of a Great Change Arlington
and its Proprietors.
The Washington Intelligencer has the fol
lowing description and narrative ;
A visit to the Arlington Mansion and sur
rounding estate, a few days since, tilled us
with oppressive and melancholy reflections.
Four years agoltobert E. Lee, tl en a Lieu
tenant Colonel of cavalry in the Union army,
and now Commander-in-Chief of the rebel
army, was with his family in the happy pos
session ' of that magnificent inhenteuce.
More than one half of the estate, consisting
of a thousand acres, was covered with a splen
did forest.ot oak and other timber,aodthe rich
and productive fields adorned with tbe hand
of culture To-day what a change ! The
venerable ancestral mansion, erected by the
son, by adoption, of the Father of his Coun
try, and tor half a century hiscultivated and
delighted home, is now in the centre of a
cemetery of those who have fallen in the
sevice ol their country.
Two hundred and fifty acres of this estate
surrounding the mansion have been perma
nently appropriated for burial purposes by
the Government, and inclosed by a substan
tial and handsome fence. Nearly five thou
sand soldiers have already beeu there buried,
and the number is daily growiug larger. In
1853, Mrs. Custis, the mother if Mrs. Gen.
Lee, died in the Ariiugton Mansion, and
was buried in a sequestered and delightful
grove near the mansion; and in 1857 Mr.
Custus died, and his remains were de
posited by her side, a vast concourse of per
sons of every rank testifying their reverence
for the departed by their presence at the ob
sequies. That sequestered grove, thus selected by
its owner as the last resting place for L im
t elf and his, has been in the tempest of the
times invaded, the forest has been transform
ed into afield of the dead, and the two mar
ble colums markine the remains of George
Washington, and Parke Custis and Mary
Lee Fitzhugh, his wife, now rise in the midst
of more than tour thousand patriot soldiers'
graves. Nearly the whole of the timber
and wood has been swept from the entire
estate and used for war purposes. The
Freedman's Village is established upon one
Eortion of the land thus cleared, ana it is all
eing put under cultivation by contraband
negro labor.
The mansion is now occupied by the offi
cer in command of the post and his subordi
nates. The dining hall is used as an office. In
this room are three old fashioned book cases,
containing some four hundred volumes, prin
cipally old books broken sets of very small
value. The parlor adjoining tbe hall is not
occupied, the only article in it being a ma
hogony side board, which came from Mount
Vernon. In the parlor, beyond, are two
sofas and six stuffed mahogony chairs, cov
ered with scarlet velvet : two marble top ta
bles, a side board and a piano stool, matching
the chairs. On the walls are several coarse
large portraits, and one or two oil paintings.
There are, also two old engravings, of a clas
sical mytbological character, hangiug with
the rest. The room in the Southerly wing,
and used by Gen. Lee for his office, is now
used as a bedroom; and all the upper
part of the mansion is used for a like pur
pose. The building is not injured. The
flower garden has been enclosed by a new
fence, and is laid out and tastefully adorned
this spring.
The grave of each soldier is neatly mark
ed by a wooden slab at the head and foot,
painted white, inscribed with the namo of
the soldier, and his company and regiment,
at a little distance these slabs have .the ap
pearance of marble. The mounds are to be
neatly covered with sod.
Gen. llobert E. Lee was born in lS08,and
is, consequently, fifty-seven years of age.
He graduated second in bis class, in 182,
(Judge Charles Mason, of Washington City,
and formerly Commissioner of Patents,stand
ing first in that class,) and was assigned to
the Engineer corps, as Second Lieutenant ;
in 1835 an Assistant Astronomer, fixing the
boundary between Ohio and Michigan ; in
1836 promoted to First Lieutenant ; Captain
in 1838 ; Chief Engineer under Gen. Scott,
in Mexico, and greatly distinguished, being
promoted successively, by merit, Major, Lt.
Colonel and Colonel, for his gallantry; in
1852, Superintendent of Military Academy ;
in 1856, transferred as Lieutenant Colonel of
the new regiment of cavalry : 3J arch 16th,
1861, promoted Colonel of the First Cavalry;
resigned April 25th. following, and embark
ed in the rebellion.
The following are the children of General
Lee: George Washington Custis Iee, about
thirty-three years of age; Mary Custis Lee,
about thirty ; W illiatn Henry Fitzhugh Lee,
about twenty-seven ; Annie Lee died at
Berkley Springs in 1863, and would have
been now about twenty-five; Agnes Lee, a
bout twenty-three : Robert E. Lee, alout
twenty; Mildred Lee. about eighteen. None
of them have married except William Hen
ry Fitzhugh, whose wife. Miss Charlotte
Wickham, died in Richmond in 1863. The
eldest son, George, graduated at the head of
his class, at West Point, in 1854, and was
first lieutenant in the corps of engineers
when he followed his father into the South
ern service. William Henry wa3 farming
upon the White House estate, which be
longed to the Custis inheritance when the
war opened. He was commissioned second
lieutenant in tbe Sixth Infantry in 1858,but
resigned in 1850. Robert was at a military
school in Virginia. The sons, it is well
known, are all officers in the rebellion. The
three surviving daughters are with their
mother, who, it is believed, has latterly been
at Lynchburg.
Mr. Custis, at the time of his death,own
ed some two hundred slaves, who, by his
will, were to be free at the termination of
five years from his death, which period ex
pired October 10, 1862. : TKemofc of these
slaves were kept on the White House es
tate and all tb yalaable portico we ear
ned South ; some twenty cr more bid mn
and women and young children were lerVal
Arlington. Mr. Custis' mother owned the
White House estate, and resided there whaa
she became the wife of Gen. Washington.
A Scene in Eiohmond Since the Capture.
A correspondent relates tbe following;
Here, in the House ot Delegates, only yes
terday, as an eye witness tells us, occurred a
scene that would be criminal not to describe,
A well dressed, well educated, every way re
spectable looking man, named J. Morris
Chester, strolled into the House,- and with
tbe natural desire every habitue of the Cap
itol at Washington has observed a hundred
times, straightway seated himself in the
Speaker's chair. His business in Rich
mond was to write in fact he was a corres
pondent of Forney's Philadelphia lrtti
and so he began writing.
Presently a rebel officer, Just captured and
out on parole, Lieut. Butler by name, son of
the rebel cavalry General Butler, passed the
door, and saw the correspondent writing.
The outrage to the Speaker's chair (I have
neglected to mention that Mr. Chester is at
black as a coal, and accompanies the negre
troops) was too much for Lieut. Butler'a
blood. Assuming the plantation air, he
shouted : "Get out of there, you d-d nig
ger!" The neirro sat perfectly unmoved,
and continued liis letter (which I sincerely
hope was a good one) for the Philadelphia '
Press. The wrathful rebel shouted again,
and showered down abusive epithets. Tha
negro wrote on. At last, Lieut. Butler
thought it wise, after the established plan
tation fashion, to proceed further; and with
renewed orders to the "d-d nigger" to get
out, he undertook to seize him by the collar.
In an instant the negro, Chester, straight
ed up out of the chair of the Speaker of
the House of Delegates of the ancient com
monwealth of Virginia, and, duly mindful
of the motto of the State, dealt a splendid
right hander full between Butler's eyes,
which sent the rebel sprawling down the.
aisle. Then, with an eye to business, which
(I specially call CoL Forney's attention te
the point,) deserves an increase of salary,
the negro resumed the seat of the Speaker
of the IIoue of Delegates, and continued
hisl etter to the Philadelphia Press!
Meanwhile the rebel recovered from hit
sudden confusion, and in a wonderful rush of
wrath, went foaming to the nearest officer..
"Lend me your sword till I cut the d-d nig
ger's heart out!" "I'll do nothing of the
sort," responded the officer besure he wa
a Yankee, if not from Boston itself "but
if you want to try a fair fight, I'll have a
ring made for you here, and see that there'i
no interference." "You'll get more damn-
ably thrashed," he pleasantly added, "than
ever you were in your life before." LieuL
Butler considered it wise to retire with hia
swollen eyes ; and the negro wrote on, in tha
chair of the Speaker of the House of Dele
gates of the State of Virginia.
A Eioh Story.
A Parkersburg paper says that several
members of the Legislature took oars at
Grafton late on the evening of the 16th ult.,
for Wheeling, and among the number wa
Mr. G., of somewhat large proportions phys
ical ly, and a Mr. D., of proportional under
size. These two, the stalwart Mr. G. and
the smooth-faced little M r. D. , took a berth to
gether, it. seems.in a sleeping car. The littlav
man laid behind, and the good-natured,
waggish Mr. G. before. Mr. D. soon waa
snoring furiously. Mr. G., more restleaa
under his legislative burdens, soon arose,
and was sitting bv the stove, "when an el
derly lady came aboard and desired a sleep-'
ing berth. "All right, madam," said Mr.
G., "I took a berth with my son, and you
can occupy my place in that berth where my'
little boy is sleeping." Taking G. at hie
word, the lady disrobed, and laid down with
the "boy." After .a quiet repose of some
time, the boy, Mr D., became restless from
some cause, and began to kick around, to
the great annoyance of the old lady. So in
a maternal manner she patted the boy on
the back and said, "Lie still, sonny; pa said
I might sleep with you." "Who are ycu?".
said the Lejijslator. "I am no boy! lam
a member ot the West Virginia Legisla?
ture 1" It is said the old lady swooned.
The School Master follows the Yankee
soldier in all his victories in the South. Im
mediate'y upon tbe occupation of a rebel
stronghold by the Federal forces, schools are
opened and free newspapers circulated.
These are the influences which will soon re
generate the South ; while the contemptible
aristocracies which have so long devoted the
fairest portions of the Union to slavery. will
find it as hard to resist free schools and a
free press, as to battle against the majesty
of a free Government.
"Call that a kind man," said one gentle
man to another, speaking of an absent ac
quaintance, "a man who. Ls always absent
from his family, and never sends them a
farthing call that kindness!" "O, cer
tainly unremitting kindness,'" chuckeled .
his waggish friend.
A paragraph is going the rounds, to the
effect that "since the 1st of February all re
ceipts of what ever amount must have on a
a two-cent stamp," &c. This is incorrect.
No change has been made in the law, and
only receipts for $20 or over need the stamp.
An old Irishman who had witnessed the
effect of whiskey for many years past, said:
a barrel labelled 'whiskey' contained a thou
sand songs and fifty fights, besides an un
known number of drunks.
The vinegar of life sour bread, a sou'
wife, poor tobacco, and no money.
. What is the best tar for making the wheel
of life run smoothly? The al-tar.
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