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A summer twilight under the green
awning of low-brane,hed linden trees—
clove pinks blossoming in the garden
borders, like chalices of spice—and stars
jhst trembling into the warm vioht sky
Clinton Audley bad lived to be a
hundred years old, he never would have
forgotten the dim, indistinct beauty of
the dusky landscape. No; for all that
happened on that summer night was brand
ed upon his heart in lines that,death it
selthad,cio power to efface I
;"Not yet. Clara; do not speak so firm
ly,!—Remetober that it is my life's doom
yoU are pronouncing. Oh, Clara! think
nit in."
Ha had led his men up to the very
CHl)noo's mouth without a thought of fear,
er, now he was a coward in the presence
of that tender blue•eyed girl I
"It is uselees," said Clara Mervyn,
with cheek whose color never varied, and
firm, pitying eyes; "my answer would be
the same did I take a whole year for de
liberation., I am very sorry -Clinton;
but!'
"Nay," interposed Audley, with a cold,
constrained voice• that scarce hid the an
gry 'emotions in his heart ; "do not waste
your. pity on tne. The matter is unfortu
nate as far as I am concerned ; but I can
!not see why you should grieve. I have
i been a toad foul, that is all
He lifted his light military cap and was
gone; and Clara Mervyn sat down on the
rustic garden seat and had a good cry !
Surely it was out her fault that Clinton
Audley was so f oolish — he might have
she didn't care for him.
While tite young, officer, restlessly pad
tog t o and lie. thought of the dark-eyed
mother whose head lie had supported at
Mauttssas while the life bubbled from his
breast io red :-drging drops—thought of
hi, last words, "It , isn't for myself;' but
Mary', heart will break when she hears
of it !"—uli why could he not have died
in that buy's stead r. .There was no heart
to break fur him!
"The idle dream is ended !" he said,
amid ; "and now fur the realities of life.
11 e shah .uever Inset again."
Could he but have looked forward to
ii,e tie when they two should meet again!
T LA IV
I busier;
IMITIM
MIME
Pa.. n•ill
,ptfrt .1
-.I St?
in), ‘vitn
MUM
••Otily my right hand, doctor? Pooh
\ ; there's many a pour fellow
.‘Jse lid than I am !"
••Aivery phiiusophioal view to take of
matters," Maid the surgeon, half smiling,
-hut lat the same time an unusual one.
ito:d ill Iniif a minute, can't you."
tvnat dues it matter after all ?
neither wife nor sweetheart to fret
labout 'Lliy disfigurements."
••ii4i I 2. uppuse you expect to come
into inisscssion of one or butii of those ar.
tunes :iutue day Y"
- Can't say that I do. .There, I'm coin•
hatable' enough now. I e:.y, though,
duccori:"
1 . ,..1 all'
)r t.
vil-
Mall
Indr • 0..
tit ly
=EI
1\ 15
Good:
t. Pa.
11e11?"
Cupid you persuade that fat old nurse
;eta pair or shum, that squeak in a
minor 'key ? Every s;e1: 'man has his
tri a ls, and mine are those calf-skin shoes.
Possibly I'm nervous, but I can't help
it!'.
Theisdrgeon laughed good-hUmoredly.
"Don't annoy yourself on Milt score;
there Will be a change of nurses to-night,
and I do not think the shoe question will
trouble' you further. Try to sleep a while
now!'
Clinton Audley closed his oyes, and
(strove t i n forget the sharp spasms of pain
that racked his poor wounded frame,
while the fire shone ruddily on the walls,
faintly illumining the long rows of narrow
white Wds on either side, and the gray
dusk . hhickened into night, and—
"l
lutist have been asleep?" he thought.
with a sudden start, as the little clock
chimed eleven. "Yes, I must; but who
on earthy is that ? Oh, the new nurse,
suppose.i She don't wear calf-skin shoes,
at all events--moves like a shadow'!"
For like a shadow she had glided to
his bedside.
"I think your draught was to be taken
at eleven, Sir !" and she glanced at her
written
# irections.
And Clinton Audley silently exten
ded his 'eft hand for the slender vial, lie
knew that the "new nurse" was Clara
Mervyn.l She recognized him at the
same imitant—there was a slight start,
but neither spoke.
Fate had brought them together once,
again ! L •
The January snows melted away from
the purple 11.laryhtnd hills, and Februa
ry's blue heavn smiled overhead. Spring
was nigh,at *id, : yet the. lost roses had
not blossomed - again on Clara Mervyn's
cheek
MADE
ain
IEI2
onned
"Don't overwork yourself, Miss Mer
vyn," said tho kindly surgeon; "there's
no earthly occasion for it.. They are all
doing well, except that young Audley !"
The color rushed in soarlet to Clara's
cheek, then receded,. leaving- it add as
marble.
"Will
RECAPTURED.
lie die, fir'
Deboita to theles of Inge @etooelleti, qqa 4isseNipoiioo ofNoNlifg, ~itehatgha_~ga Delos.
COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11; 1860,
"Die ? oh no ! not the least &Inger of
Ibis dying. What I mean to say was, that
his recovery is slow. Never knew such a
lagging convalescence. A fine young fel
low that—very. We surgeons are COM
monly supposed to have no feelings, Miss
Clara; but I can tell you it went to my
heart to take that boy's hand off. How
ever—but bless me it's nearly noon. Be
sure you take care of youisell, Miss Mer
vyn ?" and away hurried Dr. Wilde, who
never knew what it was to have a mo-
ment's leisure!
Clara was left alone,.her head drooping
on her breast. - The next instant shp rose
up and looked at her own 'slender right
hand with a shuddering, sobbing sigh.
"Oh, if I could have given my useless
hand to save his I" she moaned. j"lf I
had but the right to cheer and comfort
him ! Ah me ! what can a woman do but
endure 1"
-Clara was learning a bard lesson in
life's saddest school—to suffer and Ibe si
lent.
"Miss Mervyn'!" •
She started at the words. He had
never called her "Clara" since their part
ing under the linden-trees.
"Are you very busy to-night?"
"Not particularly so; why do you ask?"
"Then come and sit beside my pillow
for a little while. I feel conversational
just now."
She obeyed silently.
"Are you better this evening, Lieut.
Audley ?"
"I think so. The red, glorious sunset
has done me good. Did you know that
this was St. Valentine's Eve ?" •
"The 13th of February--so it is !"
"Do you believe-in the goodly offices
of St. Valentine, Miss Mervyn J I as
sure you my faith is limitless in the pat
ron saint of lovers !"
Clara smiled as she remembered all the
timeworn "valentines" idle kept under
lock and key at home.
"I confess to a little superstition in the
subject," she said, coloring, for she felt
that Clinton's eyes were fixed en her
downcast lushes.
"Very well, then; you won't consider
me mawkishly sentimental if I ask you
to be so kind as to act as my right hand
for once."
"I should be so gltid. But how —L"
"Will you write a St. Valentine's love
letter for me ?" 1
"Ceriainly."
"Stop, though Answer me one ques
tion first, frankly and fully. Do you think
it would be apiece of presumptuous folly
in me to ask a woman's love to bless a
mimed, useless wretch like me ! Nav do
not spare my feelings. I wish to hear
th 3 truth,."
Clara Mervyn was silent fora moment;
and when she spoke it was in a distinct;
though very lew tone. 1
"If the woman you love be worthy of
the name, you will be far dearer to j ber
now than ever you were in the prime 'of
health and strength."
"You have taken a great weight froth '
my heart, Miss Mervyn ; and now iwilt
•you assume the role of amenuensis
Writing a love-letter for Clinton And
ley to another woman—it was a strange
duty—yet Clara Mervyn went through
with it with a sort of mechanical calm
ness, heedless of the sore heart that Robed
so bitterly in her breast, While every Word
seemed the knoll of a death -warrant. It
was the bitterest cup she had drunkivet
—a cup that must be swallowed to the
dregs dregs !
"Thank you, Miss Mervyn. I -wsYn't
trouble you to direct it. Ah, if I• Were
but certain that St. Valentine would spPed
my suit!"
fie smiled ; but it would have been
difficult to tell which was the paler—the
cheek' that lay against the pillows of the
hospital pallet, or that shadowed by Chira
Mervyn'sbown tresses.
She gave him the folded letter, with
ite earnest words of pleading, and then
went away to her own roam ; for, fortu
nately, the "night watch," as it was called,
had been confided to another. And only
the quiet stars saw the convulsive burets
of grief that shook her frame ere at last
she eobbed herself to sleep, her flushbd
cheek lying on her drenched hair, and
the lips quivering in her dreams !
How gloriously the crimson banners la
Valentine's dawn were draped along the
sky wuen at length she opened her eyes
—how radiantly the morning lighted up
those blue, far-off hills ! Ifnconsciouoly
her lips formed themselves into a smile,
and then—ah, then the old pangs of heart
ache came baok to her !
She was nearly dressed before her eyes'
fell upon a tiny bunch of violets, dew
liesprinkled and fragrant, that lay on hdr
toilet-table—sho caught it up with an
exclamation of delight, and a noto fell
from its blue heart—a note directed in' 4
strange, straggling hand.
"Some hospital directions," she marl
inured, and, smiling at Dr..lVilde's cot:len:
trinities, she unfolded the paper.
"Great Heaven! can it he p'ossible?" l
she fait -red )' as she recognized' her own
handwriting. "DiC
to become his wifel
too much happinqs
,She clasped her
fora moment, then
side the little white
whether it were not
Five minutes la
held out his loft LI
little nurse who 118!
bedside.
"Well ?" he alike
smilingly.
"Oh, Clinton, I 'nni so happy !"
And then she burst into tsars : it was
well that there were not many patientS iii
the convalescent ward I .
• "Are you really, Icapiured; my little,
shy, tremulous bird ?" he whispered. .
"Nay" said Clara, shaking back her
curls with a spice ICS the old mischief,
"it is you who are recaptured; brave soi
l.
dier thou ,h you deem yourself !"
• "And bad you nOrsuspieion! of the des
tination of that valetitine ?" '
"If I had known lit would'have spared
mo a great many tears. But qh, Clinton,
I think I shall nevo shed any but happy
tears emir' 1"
With the radiant. dav'n of St. Valen-,
tine's Day; had. risen) the morning-star •of
Clara Mervyn's life 'and love ,
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From the llist Regiment.
NEWBERN, N. 11 C., Feb. 5, 1863.
I hear that the editor of the Journal
thinkp I grumbled too much in my last.
It was written in no grumbling spirit,
nor with a thought of fault-fiuding. Many
of my-friends: desired I should write to
them the -winutta of a soldier's life, ex-.
actly as it appeared to me, and if I in
serted too much of my own thought,while
still sore, from one t of the hardest marches
on record, I must still assert ite truth and
the belief that time will, at last, set, all
things even.
The health of the Reg't is first•rate.--
But very few attend to the Doctor's morn:
ing call, and there is..but one of the Pot
ter Counts men id the Hospital—Manas
sa Courtwright of 'Harrison. Ile has
been and is very sick with ai fever, but
is gettingl better. The care of the sick
in hospital is first-rate; the , Sisters of
Mercy, like angels ,of• merey,
around their bedsides. Just as we Lad
fitted up our quarters and camp eumfort
ably we Were ordered to pack and'
march. We moved two miles'and pitch
ed our tents on the bank of the nue
River, one ;mile South of the city of New
bern. Wi moved Jan. 23d, and imme
diately commenced fortifying. . , We are
surrounded by many other camps, ours is,
flanked on the left hy the River Neuse--°1
here some two miles wide, float large ves-1
sell—arid on the right by a deep creek
and swamp. The Merehead and Golds-1
borough R. R. runs through. Our camp.
We worked diggiug ow the breast works.'
three days and part of the nights, with
out relief, until they were done. The!
men worked with a.will,- and the General;
remarked, (although he believed in using
the blacks where ;they can be useful,)
that we moved more sand in three days,
than so many negroes would in 'it month.
There are other extensive fortifications;
around here, and more continually build
lug, all of which
,seems to indicate our;
stayidg here for sonic time. •
The expedition which left, here some
time since, took off a)l the troops which
could be spared, .and these later move
ments here 'seem , to point to a smaller
force holding,the place than formerly.—
We have no Word from tbe expedition yet.
There ars, besides large; numbers of ne
groes gathering in here, who must have,
the protection of a considerable body of
men or their "liberty might be out short. I
There are several extensive quarters fors
blacks here, all well filled up and contin
ually enlarging. One is on the_bauk of
the river_ to the left of our camp, in which
are several hundred families : 1 all regular
ly rationed by the Government. To go
atnengstitheM of al warts, pleasant Su
nday, when taking their holiday, visiting,'
talking and showing in their rude way,
those courtesies to one another which all
people do in 'some way or other, is •bottil l
laughable and pitiable. The men are ]
smoking, and 'conversing with a look of i
wisdom which! would do Credit to a knot
of Congressmen; the Women chatting
their gossip and, eating snuff; the child-I
ran, barefooted and in raga, playing the
usual games of childhord . -I have seen
many of they men 'With !spelling books
learning their ; lettere and reading short
words, but never a woman; nor have I
yet seen a ward who was a slave who could
, I bevel seen] a few bibles among
them, and have sometimes, at their re
qThit,st, read a chapter or two to them, at the
recital of the sublime and simple language
at which they appeared enraptured:—
Standing on this long wharf in the twi
light where yen have a fine view of river
and shore; the cabins peeping. from
among the trees, the - watermen in their
boats, the sound of singing voieesfrom the
shore and the blaze of the light, wood
fires, present a scene romantic and eu-
chanting. Many of them lure incorrigi
bly lazy. I went over one morning to
hear their roll call and• see theta set to
Work : . 1 , A few , came oat readily, but the
most reluctantly, and some not until they
Were fairly pulled out of their shanties.
"Joe Pickens 1" calk, the overseer. ; But
no Joelcomes forth. "Where is Joe ?"
"He's hid. under de bed," cries a little
black urchin ,of ten years. "Come out
here Jee, you, or you'll get no crackers
to-morrow;" mid out crawls a dumpy
twentvlyear old, in soldiers blouse and
cap and brawn cotton breeches. "Pomp
.
Cotton I Pomp, yoU lazy scamp, where
arb you!? Come out here sirrah l",mak- .
ing for an old sibly tent, Pomp's quer-
Iters. Pomp hearing the decidedlstep of
the boss crawls out, dodges under his arm
land lakes his place in the ranks of chop
pers; the tallest slimest, blackest and .ug
liest specimen of Young Africa I have
seen. I•Pouip! If you serve we so again
Iyill pot you with old Pete to.saw, on
half rations for three days.", "Rows
step outl in front." Six of ' the most in
telligent step out with each a frow in his
haiid. "Go to" your -work," and they
march off. "Now mauls in front,"; and
they . stop off in like manner. Then the
cross out saws, the axes and the barriers,
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each in turn come out, and undeia over
seer go I about their daily labor. ;
. 1 But
moot of the time they have nothing to do,
unless, they can get an odd job now and
then. While throwing up our entrench-'
meats and digging our ditches, many of
the strollers found unexpected employ
ment. We had worked two days, and a
haft', when on Sunday-afternoon a t great
many bloks were strolling- through our
camp and looking at' the men digging.----
We bore this for some.time when each'
seiaiug a darkey by the arm, put shovels
in rhetr hands and bade them try it for
an • hour L They resisted, "What is that?"
sai Gen ral, who was just passing, "Are
you boys
boys to good to work, while my men
must work day and_ night, Sundays and
all to keep-your old masters from carry
ing iyou off?" "Jump in there for an
hour or two and rest the boys or ----
-1, I'll have you io to do the whole it."
Thal l next day, the fourth day's steady
shochug, we were ditching our streets.
t tire
f, g d, drafted .a darkey who came
stro l ling by and bade him spoil me for an
hour, he protested against My right to
make him work for me without paying
him, and said he would report me to the
Colonel. "What's that ?" says Col. Bierer,
who was ;standing nearer than darkey
himself, "what's the, reason you caret'
take hold I and work a little?" -Indeed I
Kennel, I's givine to de woods to tote;
some shingles, and must go right along."
"Are you to work for the Governiment ?"
"Ye ni ! indeed I is, Kunnel." "Then
you have got a pass I suppose ?" "Yes I
has,'{ and he took out a greasy paper and
haded it to the Col. "Why, thee II that
is good ter nothing in this camp., you
havemo business in here, you hatf - better
take hold and do ai this man telli yee,
and
. you will get off a good deal quicker.
Ile not a hard torn at- all, but if he
want you to work an hour or two for
hier I think the best thing you can 'cbs /
is to do it." Blaekey took , hold and
worked wish awill for half an hour when
I let bite off aid took another is his place.
A hundred were at work; but then were
idle, strolling blacks enough to' use all,
the tools. jThe blacks, according to the I
Proelthuati
l e, are being enlisted in ,con•
sideradle numbers for some purpose or ,
other, I knew not what, it 'is high tinie.,
There is, aknong them good material for 1
an army to a certain extent, but in my'
opiniof they have a very different fiddle
tight upon than we. They :must go
tnroli th swamps to the black doors,
of the old masters, and carry terror and'
dessoletion t the households. Last Sun-1
day, the I t of Feb.,- by invitation ofl
c l o
Lieut. I Wood I visited the "Battle
Ground" of the 14th last March, with a
I -
guide i•
who fought through the battle, and
was ad eyel witness to many incidsnts .
contieced with it.. ,The,ground [maybe
said to,end just where our breastivorks
are raided, fir there the last 'artillery se
lute was given the Rebels as they, broke ;
over t 4 kn 0.11.1 The entrenchments are!
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four miles below here. . I
[Berle our correspondent gives a dia.'
gram of the field which we have uo means
of publishing.] 1 .
' 1 I
;• The Rebel's bad built strong breast!'
works and forts and awaited Burnside's
attack with a great deal of confidence.-L- 1
Their , fong lino of. works was mounted
with a Cannon once in eight rods, quad
ruple fil'es of infantry behind them to sup- .
port thecri, and forty pieces of artillery in
the rear!; to support the whole - a strong
fort onlthe river mounting 16 pieces,
'with thb timber for three-fourths of a
mile in f'ront, felled to make it impassible
for cavalry or artillery to advance. Burn
side haffclanded his men sorno miles below,
soon after landing a farmer looking man
came to him, Professing - to be Union and
offering to guide .him , through. On the
evening of tliti 13th Mbroh he had arrived
near the ITeas;tworka which the guide as-
he mean to ask me
Oh, it'is too much,
hands over her eyes
sank to ber knees be
bed, .half uneemin
all a dream.
ter Clinton 'Andley
nod, to the blushing
i d stolen Softly to his
d, soanOng her face
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stired him were_ abandoned,. it.. visa ,dark.
and rained hard. The General trusting
his gtfide still 'advanced; *hen negro,
waiting On an officer, apprised them.that
the works! were manned in great strength :
and that if it was light' they. were then-itt
sight of them. The General commanded:
a halt. The men threw themseltes. by
the roadside for the night; the .white
guide was; taken 'to a farmhouse in the
rear and 'guarded. In the morniorbe •
was brought to the bead of, ;the coinnin,,,, ,
where. the General . and Staff Y
Morning broke and with it came a heavi,
shell from the enemies breastmorks•right
over their 'heads, as the .black tied said
they were in sight of them. "I thought :
you told me those works were abandon- ,
ed?" said the General turning' to the
spy, at the same - time drawing 4 a revolver
and shooting him dead. The army their
moved up the road, Sled right and left
by regiments, and having left the road,
a left flank Movement brought them up -
in line of battle at the edge of the wood'
with the large slashing between them and
the enemy., Our artillery: on the land
was by the road side with the gunboats ,
on the river, playing, on the forte and. ;
breastworks.' The fort was knocked to .
pieces and blown up, some of the cannon
on the breastworks dismounted when 11,'
charge was made and at the third trial
the works were carried alid the enemy
commenced retreating. The remain of
the battle show the violenef of the eon.
test; broken and shattered accoutrement*
of cavalry, artillery and infantry thickly
strew tho ground, cannon balls, grape and
cannister shot, bullets, &o, may be any,.
where picked up. ' The timber, girdled,
shattered, broken and
~ torn; large tries ;
shot clear off; others with great holiW
through them mark the effects of the ea 4
wines fire. Our party sat, down on a fall. ;
en gum tree near the graves of the fallen
which were filled with grape shot. We '
dug out a few as mementoes of the lat.
tlefield. I visited the graves of the Masa
saohusetts soliiier4 (our guide was onset
them,) a -Union farmer has fenced them
all
in with rails at his own expense. It.
was no small task, for they lay singly audio
in groups allover the woods. • lam inefirci •
ed to think the litory of Burnside's shooting
the spy apoorYphal, yet it isi told here as
as an 'incident) of the war, and I made
note of it accordingly. The fort, in its
present condition, looks like:a ' , ivies of f
large potatoes heaps,. holes having been
plowed through sand-bags and timber by.
shot and shell ; one of the latter fell into 1 1
the magesintisii - ad must, from the look.
of things, created a small earthquake.__g
Part of the ohamber is still remaining in
which is a clear spring of water, our par.,
ty drank with ,relish' from it. . To the.
West of the Railroad the hardest infant,.
ry fighting was' had. The ground is full
of ravines and swamps, strongly entrench•
ed, and must, from I the appearance of
thit ' ts, have been hotly contested. The
Rebels retreated to and through Newborn " burning the splendid new bridge *curse ,
the Trent River, by running downs scoW
against it'loaded with turpentined cotton,
The loss of this point has been severely
felt by the enemy, besides its being the
means of their loosing great numbers. of
their_slaves. ,
If there is any Union feeling in the
South ;I have failed to' see it. There it
now and then Union I man,, and a pod
many professing. to be such ; who wonld
cut your throat;if they •had an oppertn.
i nity: The , men will say nothing, but the
women, taking the license of the sex,
curse the Yankees, as we are elways'called, --
to our faces, and breathe their 4nathetuas
upon the North without stint. ',
The weather has been mild' and dry
most of the time, some of the time warm
like summer. There has been but few
Mornings this winter that I have nog ,
heard the robins and blue birds singing '
and often, as this morning, the , peepere
in the swamps are vocal, February 6tbt
The evening of the 4th set in Windy tibcl
rainy. In the morning the ground was
covered with snow, while the cold would
'hare . done credit to a morning in Potter f
Litit'Ovening it comnienced raining and
has kept it up until noon to-day. It ie
now as warm as any of otirApril'weatlierf
The men are occasionally fishing in the ,
river, catching eels and cat-fish. What
it will be here in: warm weather can be
imagined, when the malaria of the swamps
creeps into our blood and the ague placuef i
get hold of us. 1 E. 0. AUSTIN. '
A "DEMORALIZED" SOLDIER —The
New York .754bwie tells a story of a stuuti
athletic Zonave, who, running away front
the battle at Fredericksburg, wns checked
by .a Lieutenant with a drawn sword....r
Said the , latter "Stop sir l 0 I back. le
your regiment, you infernal cowsrd, - .yoe
are, not wounded." "For Heaven's sake
let - me pass," implored the fugitive, "1
know not wounded, but I'm fearfully
demoralized.
An• Irish attorney says-uv Hetet
should puhlish a death unless.atpilse4
of the fact l y the (leeeneed, •
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