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Pa -13 k 18,34. , . , , , •, - . , - . _ .., ' •• - ' • • ~. .. . • •-• ' , •• • _.. . • ••• •. - - ' . - ... • ... . . _. ~ .---1 YK, . -- i - .:'-'' - ' ~0 , . , -. . . • - . „ • .. .. . 0 4 : - -. t r.! . . -. 1 -,, . ..,:. ..‘ 1 ~.. .. -,, -. . 1 --. i - -:' -' - .•' -• • • 0- Ai 'Or : • :,- - .- 4. • .... ... ... , • . • ... ... . . . ~ ..t . ..•, . _. ..... . .• • .. , . . . . .. • ~ :. . .. .. . :. . .. ....,„::._ ...._/.......;,..., ® ...,, ...:.,:..::....:: .• ~ . ~.., ...„...... ..,, .: .. . _ . ....._ ''GOOD NIGHT. 22 ' ------ R I s ee the new moon in the/east, Float,llike 'a slender, bioken ring, 4bove the foi-eat dark afid drear, : Among they white clouds Vhear, bflowi the little brook Strive ' with, ruiner-fetters strong " And, beatingj'gataSt the cruel chain, Send throrigh fr fnie dark ILs restless song; " 1; My heart throbs so, against its woe,,i- My hearys tired of waiting longs And fir across the star-lit snow ; It sea its restless song I The star shone calmer clearer, Once, ;With fee* sound the night-wiuds bler . The n mode's signet is the sky i GI I amed brighter,when stood with yonl Dot of for Me, that silver ring -Flashed thrO'the cloudsthat drifted white And not~to me the wandering winds Cailed corny through the glooms of night For tenderly you looked on me 1 Till imy dark life grew bright!— Yon claspe l d my tired, bands lovingly,' And whlspered low, "Good-night 17 q, love, once 'more to hear tne voice 1 1 1 1 That thrilled the keys of-silence then ! To hold yen Mesh with eager bands :And yearning eyes, but once again ! How still and cold the shadoWs lie ! In valley and on wooded bight; How the lonesome winds Go crying hrough the long, sad nightl: Mv life lie- so,all dark with woe,-- . heark cries for the light! No sweet eyes' thrill me With their glow No dear Voice calls, "Good-night!" March, 1'865. 1 ' . MEM ARDS 1, 1 ARLI NGTON PLACE. I-NRLIN&I'.O:I'PLAC. I , Va.,Feb.2l, '65. I + Arlingten Place-- . -the home of Robert lE. Lee ! l'ilint, a flood of memories crowd upon the visitor to this beautiful Spet ! ~: how 1 Alas pride and ambition. have 1 chequered and crimsoned their handl ! work in these venerSble halls. Here it ; ; . . worud seem that there was every incent ! ivel to fidelity, to honor, to peace. The 1 Old Mansion was sanctified to its mea -1 pants; by the beneficence of Washington. 1 g! , s Heihi' adopted child, George Wash. I . miter' Parke Custin., made his home nearly three-quarters of a century ago. • The .'same; deep, blue Potomac flowed serenely by its portals, and the same native forest 1 surrounded it that now 1, breaks the storm as it sing its plaintive 1 dirges in ' thl tieserte halrsof Arlington Place, But as 'we stand amidst the eollosiiial Grecian pil are which' grace the 1 immense 'portico, the sullen boonpinr , of I artillery breaks the painful silence that reiv,nS. here. ;The signal gun bad hardly ceaz;ed'to reverberate along the bluffs of I the Petoniae until it seemed as if Heaven itself had. reeponded with its fiercest ;thunders. The very earth trembled, and !the webs which • had gathered on the corners and niches of Arlinzfon waived 1 response to th'e deafeuin„,.. roar of a thou sand guns a ; theyshOok the ancient mln• ; Bien to its very-foundation. • Hard by an every. side ; farther still on right and left, land rear, the! hoarsi answer came, and i from the - oppoSite shOre rose the flitting smoke !that told how, loyal hearts were I there! to defend a• common 'capital and 1 rejoice ' ,over the triumphs of a common 1 " country. I; 1 Charleston !has fallen. The home - of , i treason—wher' e it was . nursed in' its !awaddling cloths and nourished by per ' fidy and treason until it became mighty, ; had but a feivl;daya before yielded to the ; triumphant tread of. Sherman, , and, its ;Sumter again" flaunted the old flag that • traitors had first stricken down in the ,i !mad triump lof crime over peace and ' government i and the various batteries' and forts of the defences of Washin g ton I ' saluted the victory at twelve o'clock to-1 iday: , I would, that Gen. Lee could bevel ; stood with Me" here in front of his idol-; ized home, and heard the loyal artillery; play their' "Wild melody" in honor of the ; restoration of kTharleSton to the Union. llt was in Qhnrleston I that the first overt .1 ; . act of rebellion i,was committed. Judge; . M'Gaath, th i e 1, presiding Judge of the; United Staten ",Court in Charleston, ad- 1 jonitted the court sine die the day ; after; !the election/of President Lincoln, and: displaced Ab l e; National flag from the; 1 buildin to fling the Palmetto banner to! the breeze. 'Four years later he is chosen! Governor of Beath Carolina, and before; Ihe his, laffice one month, Sherman! 'ade him a fugitive, and hoisted the 1 starst and stripai over, his capital. It was' there, too,ltbat the first appeal was made' Ito 'the terrtblearbitrament of the'sword, I and it was Made most causelessly. In 1 the face of the profer of the loyal cow-: mender to.evl actiate Sumter in three days, i 1 because of his exhausted provisions, the; ; merciless spirit of treason Sung grim; visaged war upon a people whose whole ! i thoughts, hopes; and efforts were for peace. When the ...thunders of Forts Moultrie,' Pilackneh and Sullivan's Island, pre-1 claimed fraternal war, Gen. Lee was here I lin a homei consecrated to Union ly, the name, !the fame'and the hallowed patriotism of Vi r ashington. ' He had been the child ,of ;favor. A generous nation! I had educatiq and honored him ; an ac- 1 complished wife bad-brought him fortune; i from his own green lawn the National r‘3y ra I their zed by s, Hon. 3. 4'. W. Ksox, ER, oderport Pa. Xi „1,1 cir I ~,1- ), .1' 1,, q - of 1.15,111119, let-gilt 4 q1)0 . e ks., CCIIIDERSPORT, POTTER 061111117, PA., WEDNESDAY !ARCH 29, 1855. , , 1 in Capital, founded by 'Witshingto' n to be far all time the fountain'ef politiCal power of a united people, loomed 'tip in view, and the many 'monuments of ;National areatitess with which it has beeri adorned, must have struggled withibe Mail pride and ambition that made Robert B. Lee a fitgitivs from his home, .a stranger to his noblest inheritance, and a foe to lib erty and free government Long did he hesitate, and earnestly did his faithful wife—trne to her patriotic ancestry— plead for fidelity to the best of civil gov ernments. But Virginia faltered and was swept into the vortex of treason, and with it was swept Gen. Lee. I would, that be were here to-day to fake a retrospect of his murderous; deso lating work, amidst the deafening; thuu ders comiog up from his own once bloom ing fields, to tell a fathful people that an otherlink isbroken in the chain that would have . been woven in - the chaplets of the relentless despot upon thirty millions of freemen, but for the unexampled heroism of the sons of the North. Badly indeed would these salutes fall upon the heart of the once happy master of Arlington Place. They would come as the terrible proclamation of vindicated justice— "And make the key-note of the saddest dirge That fancy ever played to, melancholy." But although far off at the head of his shattered and despairing army of crime, he is there greeted with the same salutes coming from the shotted guns of Grant. Nor there alone, for from the green Sa vannah of the South to i the farthest grin on the North East , coast ; from the Atlantic shore io the sunset side of the Father of Waters; from the Northern Lakes to the very heart of the land once enveloped in the deadly grasp of treason, there are salutes this hour proclaiming that the day of our. National Deliverance is nigh at hand. Fitly} inde,ed, might he look out from has deserted home to the thausand graves which are hard, by his oldtime walks, each of which is an eternal monument to his perfidy. Should be enter the beautiful grounds of Arlington now, he must pass beneath a graceful arab, on which is woven in evergreen— . "HERE SLEEP OUR. PATRIOTIC DEAD,", and turn whence he might, the mournful: track of war would confront him.-1 Thousands of the brave defenders of the Republic rest in the very shades of; Arlington, and ndw the warblings ofd Heaven's sweet ; choristers who people! this lovely forest in spring time, must be! alone for the heroic dead, or the sadl visitor who here learns his country's woes.; When he turned at once upon his home I and his country, treason held supreme I sway in all the Southern and Border States, and the cowardly treachery that 1 was-smoulderint , in the North, remised! . promised on easy victory to:those who would have : dismembered the Republic. Since then! four years ~f terrible, exhausting, &rait- 1 ads* and bloody war have been crowded! into history, and the fair land of the! Sarah is one vast cemetery • mourning anutwant shadow every household; despair reigns in the councils of crime, and soon I pray and trust an all wise and ever just . God will crown the Right with a decisive victory. Around me on every side may I now be heard the voices of the oppressed who have been freed in'the throes of civil 1 war, and thoie who confessed the lord of Arlington as master, now return thanks to Him who accepts alike the praise of ; the honored and the lowly, as the guns 1 of Fort Whipple shook the neglected! halts where they lived in servitude. - 1 --But a truce to painful memories.— George Washington Parke Custis was a grandson of Mrs. 'Alartha' Washington. She was the widow of , Mr. Cnstis when she was married to Gen. Washington, and G. W. Parke Custis was the son of her only son by her first busband l He C 73.9 adapted by Gen. 'Washington and raised hnd, educated by the Hero States man df the Revolution. He became proprietor of Arlington Place, whether by purchase or by devise from Wyshing. ton; I am not informed, and here he lived until he more than' attained the age allotted to mortals; He had but one child, who marrieitißebert E. Lee, and thus Captain Lee (aihe was then) became the possessor of the finest estate on the! Potomac, and also of a large estate known! as the White House on the James River —a place that has figured largely in military operations on the Peninsula. I am not familiar with the history of this' estate but the old mansion looks as if it I had braved the storms' of a century.— Everything seems to, have been in har-I mony in and about it. ' The sanctity of; venerable - age is stamped upcn every feature of the house and grounds. The! collossal pillars on the !large 'portico are nearly six feet in diameter ;the spider as woven his silken net in the crevices and on. the high :cornices apparently undisturbed by the tidy servant for a decade, and the bat may have reposed here as generations haVe departed with out resistance to his daily repose. The tall columns support a,plain roof covering the porticO, and rude elaborate carving finishes both the external and internal ranges ,of this massive structure. The house is entered by a c wide hall, on the walls of which are are aeries of very old painting,._mostly representing revola tionaryiittles. They are bat indifferently executed, displaying very moderate artistic skill,.and the frames a.,e heavy, stained pinepand have been innocent Of varnish fors quarter of a century. The doors inside of the ball, and the anglels toward the i stairway, are. graced with huge deer antlers, probably • trophies of some gay sporting days in the early hit , tory of Arlington Place. Over the win dows, and irregularly in various places in the hall, are indentations in the pla4- tering, on which the art of frescoeing seems to have leen invented. Here a pack of hounds are in full chased' a hare, and a troop of deer, and various othM. chrobieles of sporting life are daubed ih the rudest style. In the large rooms are but few evidences remaininc , of the once liberally furnished home of Gen. Lee. The paintings are still on the walls, ani a few toles- and chairs, all the worse of use and age, are here; but nearly, everyibing that could be carried off has crone as' a memento of the rebel General in chief. This curiosity seems to he irrepreible with the American people. An intelligent contraband, formerly one of Lee'S slaves, informed me that when Lee left he took only the furniture that belonged to Gen. Washington, and "My Lady Lee's" silver ware. A portion of the furniture and articles he left behind are now in the Patent Office, but van dalism has done much to make vacant places ib Arlington. • Hard by, the man%ion are the ne g ro houses;and a little to the rear are the stables- 2 —all bearing the same evidences of effort at display in architecture. The negro houses have frescoed pictures over the mildews—one of 'which represents an eagle with a serpent in its - claws, and the stable has the massive pillars of the mansion in miniature, and all beat the same Marks of age and ravages of time. It would seem as if no repairs had ever been made. , , The large estate of some hundreds of cres seems to have been wholly devoted Ito pleasure. "Master, Lee," said one of bis old slaves, "didn ‘ t raise nothing here, and he kept only sixty slaves on this I place. He raised all be used at the 1 White House—dere be kept over three !hundred slaves." This was the whole i story in a few, words. Arlington Place was peopled with consumers—with sixty rmenials to minister to the wants of half la score of whites, and indolence has left ;its tracks in . wide spread decay. Now, however, a village of freedmen nre guar- Itered on the place. Much of the native forest hbs been felled to clear the sweep for the guns of the forts, anti the long: Iworn oat and neglected fields are now. made to bloom and give golden fruits by the lab6r of the same slaves who hastened its decay. A portion of the - estate, tn.! circling the mansion on the left and in!, the rear, is devoted to a soldiers' ceme. i tem and there ate thousands of graveal in regular rows to tell the sad story of. this wicked rebellion. Terrible indeed has been the retribii-1 Lion that has rollowed the efforts to .es.! tablish Slavery by an appeal to war. Lee! yielded to the mad current of perfidy that swept the South in 1861, and drew his sword against the most be:neficent. gov..! ernment of the earth to make human bondage eternal. Since then font long years ° of bloody, :trilling:war have crim,' Boned our history. At times-, the tide of. victory hs.s seemed to swell toward the I deadly fees of the Republic, and again it, has trembled in the balance as if ready to sweep resistlessly upon either side of the unnatural conflict ; but at , last, after years of agonizing doubt, of fearful sac-' rifiee, of sublimest heroism alike in bahalf; of tight and wrong, the fulness of His time seems to be reached and. the life ofi government to be fullyassured. The ; slaves who once exhaust d the fields or Arlington as menials, now make them i rich with the fruits of industry inspired; by freedom; and their once proud mas-1 ter is driven to the sorest extremity to! defend the capital of treason, and appeals: in vain to those who plunged him into! war, to emancipate their slaves and send them to his side to save the remnant of 1 his shattered army. Truly— i 1 'The mills of the Gols grind slorrly, But they grind excedding fine I" —But- enough of Arlington, an 3 I must hasten from this grand theatre of retribution and death to deal with the future and theliving.—A. K. M., in the Cita ntberslairg Repository. We returned home on Thursday, says an editor,after a trip of six hundred miles, in about; three.and a-half days, l having in that time passed oier four States, nine railroads: four oxen and a baronehe. Any person who has done more in that time, will please forward his address,. and'' the small Wane° he owes us. A DILAPIDATZD pster day met a rebel deserter from the Btb Tennessee (rebel) infantry, who had just been released, and, knowing him. very well, I inquired after a . number of the men and fqund that not one of tthem re matned in the ranks.- lat length asked him "when did yea leave ?" "Just.; after ii - 60d,crossed the river," "How many men did the reginient number then 7"— "Why thelfact is," said he, "there is onlY the colonel and one man left ;: there were two of us before I deserted, and the other man will leave at the first oppertnnity." --4Vashville Correspondence; . Chicago Journal. ". , SUNDAY USEFUL 11,EcEm9.—A hot shovel held over varnished furniture will take out white spots.- -A bit of glue dissolved inj skim milk and water will restore old craPe. Ribbons of any kink shoald be washed in cold s ap suds and not rinsed. i: :, If yo r flat irons are rongh, rub them well with fine salt, and it will make them smooth. ~ , Oat straw is the best for filling beds. It should be changed once a Year. If you are buying a carpet for durabil ity, chose small figures. - A bit of soap rubbed on the binges of doors, *ill Prevant their - creaking: . Wood ashesland common salyset with water, will stop the cracks of a stove j or4 prevent the smoke from escaping: A gallon of strong lye put.in a barrel of water, will make it as soft as rain water. Half a cranbery bound on is corn will kill it. • In the winter, set the handle of your pump as high as possible at night, or thrOw a blanket over it: AN 41Pot.pur—Senator (Sandler, o 1 3lichigan;teade the other day in the Sen ati-the fo)