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A SIGH FROM THE SEA.
by arv. u. b. moobx.
The night-winds sweeping o'er the moor
Sigh not alone?
The waves that break along the shore
7 Echo thMr toneBut
here's a breast which noac can know,
iFor none hath felt Us secret woe,)
ThtistDl must heave whererc I go
A deeper moan.
Gay sea-birds coming o'er the main
Together cling,
In pairs they skim the watery plain
With equal wingTogether
porch upon the maei?
Together sport amidst the blast,
And when the latest perils past,
Their carols sing.
our gallant-ship is all aglee
With fhll aet esll?
vW^mine ftele the fceniingsen
The crew atofTbln^tho and strong
The cabins fall of rjM^gong:
Bat I?alooe amidst the
My tkte bewalL
1-ocean bears me on, but leasee
/ *' My heart behind2m
sad to think of oxx who grieves ** >
* Thai Im unkind? .
Unkind to leavd her?not alone >
Bok leave her whed Jove's softest tone
, Mnst Call upon my ears or none,
Is grief refined.
. '
We've been among the breakers, wbefe
The maddensd sea
Warrtl on our bark, as if twas there
? ?
I scarcely board the screaming gale Thy
prayer I knew conld acver Call,
And thought of thee.
Dim star-liffht fkliinc on the sea
Remind* of bom* ?
And could it* grief be 211 with met
W bad it come;
ftr th#ew a heart a* lone a* mine?
A head which often will repine,
Yet; like the needle, still hmilar
Wbarerc I roam.
O may that Power whichis above
Our fortunes keep?
His soothing balm begpfle that lore
Which cannot sleep?
His hand, be pilot on the spray?
jamw tii A shield amidst the battles fray?
" # ' THr^wgthto cheer through all my stay,
We seek these fields our flag uNl^ve?
God grant with life,
Bat better 6*11 among the brave \
* Than shrink the strife; >-?*v
my lot
To be in i0eBes ?' <*"? * hot
Then luav .* F?*?that >?? An **
Acov^wifcSteiuner
Amgo, off M,rcb " 1S*'
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the slave in t.^nne^see.
BT IXLE* MIBKAT:
A slave, say you ? and yet be ttood
Up straight beneath God's sky,
And recy rarely man on earth
Has uttered word* more high,
Roll back the scroll of history.
Recall each ancient wonl,
Find, if you can, a nobler phrase
By which oar hearts are stirred.
A slave! How do we measure man *
Not now by birth or gold,
By spear that led the listed field,
By finer, fairer mould,
With earthy past youth, these testa have passed,
We measure better now?
By size of mind, by warmth of heart,
By soul-light on the brow.
So measure them this man?or slave!
He wok? to sodden nope
Of freedom both for tool sod limb,
Of wider thought and scope;
Hie pulses met with eager beat
The first day of the year.
As larks that rise with harried wing
To greet the day spring near.
t'pon that dream of life broke in
The flital words, "not free,
To save the millions of the south
Our hauds must pass by thee."
Oh! many a heart break Jess than this,
And many a lesser wrong
Has swept away in ruin's flood
Our great men, and our strong.
But he, the slave, looked calmly back
Through grief to Calvary.
Then spoke, with sweetuess drawn from thence;
4*To make my people free
I take myself with willing heart
The fntnre of the slave.
And bless the hand that jeisse? me.
Jiy helpless race to save."
The measure of a man ! Not so!
We uml a wider span,
An angel's measure It must be
To measure such a man.
How small to our blind eyes may seem
The struggle and the pain,
?- Failing the while to comprehend
The victory and the gain.
It is somewhat singularly fitting that to
the query, 4,Is pity love? the anagramBUttK
ataer is, 4 4 Positively."
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JIY WIFE'S CLIENT.
BY FREDERICK XIILXES EDGE.
CHA1>TER I.
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| marriage is a lottery, jli it were nut j
for our gambling propensities, I suppose
men and women would remain single,
seeing what a terrible lot of blanks there
are in fortune's wheel, and so few prizes.
I, like others, " went it blind, "and drew?
well! no disparagement to other benedicts,?the
biggest land of a prize. Mrs.
Luke Blivius, I maintain, is the best lawyer
by long odds in the glorious Sucker
State.
Why don't women become lawyer's?
I should like to sec the man who possesses
the tithe of their adaptability for the profession;
passive tact, active Jttiesse, penetration,
perseverance, and decision, are
natural to them; and, as regards pleading,
show me the male capable of holding
an argument Math them! When things in
general are managed. n? they ought to be,
Airs. Luke Blivius will be chief justice of
the supreme court of the Unffed Sfc^es.
Law wasn't of much account in Snickertown
when Airs. B. installed /herself as
the guardian angel of my household,
Sol Gregsly, my lean, lank, six-foot-thneqa
clerk, had an easy time of it like his emu
plover, and both of us would hare had
hard work to make both ends <taseet but
for a mania on the part of the Snickertonians
for speculating in corner lots.
Times have changed wonderfully since
then: corner lots don't very often ge^into
the market, and Sol (he's my partner
and myself have more cases than we cSlfl
attend to comfortably. It's all due to Airs.
Hhsjjis, but like a dear, good wife as she
is, she wants her husband to have the
credit of it.^She says she is only the
sleeping partner in the concern. v
Let nm see! it's just about twelve y^ars
ago that Sim Barker came running to our
house in a lowering passion. Mi's. B. and
myself were sitting at breakfast, and Sol
un^uiy mai mmciiu-inu 111.111 'nis 'mum*
ing walk, wliicli ho sententiously called
his " matectinal." Hearing Backer's
voice outside calling in excited tones for
lawyer Blivious, I left the room and en- i
quired, with all the coolness befitting the
profession, the meaning of the disturbance.
"Why, Lawyer," answered Sim, "that
darned thief Thad Harlan's been and
cheated me out of my hundred dollars,
and I want you to make him give them
up. You see, I went to his slianty last
night, and "
Sim Barker rattled out his complaint in
a much shorter time than I can recite, and
in so loud and excited a tone that several
of the neighbors ran to their street doors:
I thought it best, therefore, to ask my unexpected
client into the house, and a miuStte
afterwards we were continuing the
conVN^ution in my office. Sim Barker, I
must telTyou, was the most unpromising
client any attorney could desire; I cannot
say he was a man of no character?that
would be flattering him?for his reputation
in Snickertown and the surrounding
country had long stamped him as the
idlest rascal in the vicinity. Nobody ever
mjde out how lie managed to live, and especially
how he found it cheaper to be everlastingly
intoxicated than to remain sober:
he was, in fine, a loafing sC?mp naturally,
improved for the worse by a long 1
course of training. The only thing to be
said in liis favor was that he had never, as
yet, been caught openly transgressing
the Law.
Arrivedju the little apartment which
served me as an office, and which by the
bye adjoined the room where I had just
left my wife at breakfast, I told Barker to
continue his complaint. His story was a
hard one for a lawyer to believe, and I
made up my mind he was attempting to
play the confidence game on me, perhaps
with the intention of enlisting my services
against the man whom he spitefully accused
of robbing him. As to believing
I nie statement. that was clearly out of the
question. He told mc in the same rapid,
excited manner, that he had asked Tlwd
Harlan, the liquor dealer, to take charge
of a hundred dollars for him the previous
night, and that on applying for his money
an hour ago, Harlan had professed entire
ignorance of the affair and ordered him
out of the store as an imposter. I enquired
whether he had not demanded a
receipt on giving up the money, and mv
disbelief of his story became conclusive
when he informed me that not merely had
no such acknowledgement been obtained,
but that no witnesses wore in the bar-room
when he delivered up the sum stated.
" Well," said I, "your tale, may be as
true as last year's almanac, but I reckon,
Barker, you'll not get any judge or jury in
Sniekertowu to believe you."
' L>urn you lawyers," rowed out Sim,
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BEAUFORT, S. SATI
"blame me if you ain't ell on the side of
the thieves! Jeb. Bell told me thaf same
tiling before I came to you."
'' And all the lawyers in the town will
tell it you too, Barker, as well as Mr. Bell
and myself; but I'll give you this bit of
advice gratis; when you hand over money
again, mind you always get a receipt for
it." And having said this, I got him out
of the house.
Returning to tne breakfast table, my'
I wife received me with- the sarcastic remark:
"And that is what lawyers call justice,
Luke!"
"Well, my love," I replied, "Barker
may or may not have lost the money as lie
relates, but any lawyer will tell you he can- I
not recover under tho circumstances.
Harlan bears a respectable character in
comparison with his acAfcser, but who in
Snickertown would believe Sim Barker on
his oath even?" '
"Luke," said Mi's. B., to my ineffable
astonishment, "go and bring Barker back
frgaifr"
. V^Thftt!" -I ejaculated.
1 ?o as I say. I mean to hike this case 1
in hand myself."
I had made up my mind during my '
courtship, that lire. B. was a woman of i
great rftecisioiiy of character, auu tliree
ayears of married life had considerably intensified
that impression. So I put on
pfy hat, and, five minutes afterwards, Bar- j
i^ker and myself were walking back to the j
&0use. Leaving my wife's client in the j
office on our arrival, I sought Mrs. B. for '
f frftther instructions, and found lier up 1
stfirs in consultation with Sol Gregsly. j
; *** Sim Barker," I said, "is down in die
PPce, and now I would like to know what !
ure going to do with liim. I tell you
beforehand, you'll never recover this m?ney
by any process of law. Barker has no
Receipt for it, and he says liimself that 10 j
witnesses were present when he handed i
Jfcver the himdred dollars to Harlan. The j
&we is simply ex parte, and between the ,
iths of Harlan and Barker all Snickertown
lill si&o with the former. Besides,
s^i^SjS^^C^fttiiatadnmkcmloa^
iDgmscaTGSR^iW wouTA. n^f^ftTHmdreA
dollars in lau^o^sesstKm?"
^Drunkfwl ami loafer he may be," answered
my j^ife, ifcut that is no reason
why he should bo>obbed of his money!
Did he not tell you how he obtained posr\i
sa lnvnrft ft *111)1 ?"
vr. VU VTA WV M4AQV ~ ?
"Yes, and that makes the matter still
worse! He says he von it at poker, and
he had the assurance to tell me that he
.knows the game?meaning, of course, that'
he cheated."
r "Well," replied Mrs. B." all yon say
does not justify Harland in robbing him,
and however disreputable a character Barker
may be, he certainly does not cause a
twentieth port of the misery and wickedness
that the whiskey-seller does. Now,
Luke, you must go down stairs and tell
your new client you will recover the money
for him, but he must first obtain another
hundred dollars."
Down stairs I went, more mystified than
ever. Putting the best face possible on'
the matter, I told Barker liis money might
be recovered if he would raise an equal
sum amongst his friends and acquaintances.
Sim's phyaiogmony did not wear a
benign expression when I made this statement,
and it took me several minutes to
convince him that he could never get back
the stolen money unless he consented to
do so. At length he told me that h?'
might, perhaps, obtain the sum from hia
brother at Snakeville, but as that place"
was fifteen miles from Snickertown, he
could not possibly get back before next
day. Upstairs I went again to consult.
Mrs. B.
I " He must be back here this evening,"said
my wife. "You can lend him your
mare, aDd Gregsly will ride over there
with him. Gregsly says he can borrow a
horse from one of liis friends, and don't
forget this, Luke; make Barker promise
not to touch any liquor until his return."
"Well," I replied, "I will do as you
say, but the more I hear of the matter,
the more I am mystified."
44 That's my case, too," added SdlGregsly,
44 but I reckon Mrs. Blivius will pull
us through all straight. I'm for doing
anything she orders so we can make that
whiskey }>oisoner, Harlan, disgorge his
plunder."
4 4 He will do that within twenty-fourhours,"
observed my wife, 44 but see here
Gregsly; I wish you to lmud a note to
Guimauve the barber, at Snakebille; he
will giro you a package for me."
44 Hem!" said I, 44 Sim Barker, the loaler;
Sol Gregsly, the temperance lecturer;
and Guimtuve, the Snakcville barber: I
suppose it's my turn next!"
Wait a little, Luke," replied my wife,
44 you lawyers can't sec an inch beyond
your <tliereupons,' 4morcovers,'aud ^foresaids,'
and half the cases you take in hand
i could be far better scttlcel without the
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nystificntion you call law. Now, Luke,
go and tell Barker what he has to do; and
nind, Gregslv, that both of you get back
Lere as quickly as possible. You had better
not leave the town together; you can
overtake Barker on the road."
CHAPTEn n.
Sim Barker returned at seven o'clock in
tie evening, and much to my astonisliaont
he brought a hundred dollars with
' ? Cil - it #1 i n _i /i l_
I mm. onoray nuerwara, 001 uregsiy
j joined U8, and handed a small package to
I my wife. Mrs. B. then ,told me to dismiss
Ebr&er, after first taking the money from
him, ordering him at the same time to return
precisely at ten o'clock. Sim tried
-fatd to get at the meaning of all this, but
II put on the dignity beStting the circumstances,
and told him -that lawyers never
disclosed their intentions until absolutely
necessary. After again pledging himself
to remain sober, and promising not to
mention anything relative to his movements
during the day, he doggedly left
the house.
On rejoining my wife and Sol in the parlor,
Mi's. B. said:
*? This swindler, Harlan, has evidently
presumed on Barker's bad reputation to
cJtl?at him, and his very contempt for a
mpa who would confide to liis care a large
sum of money without requiring a receipt
for it, will enable us to recover the amount
with little fear of exciting his suspicion."
Well," said I, 4'howare you going to
set about it, my love? It seems to me we
are no nearer the result of which you appear
so confident than at breakfast time
this morning!"
44That is my secret, Luke," she answered;
44 but we have not yet had supper,
and Gregsly must be hungry after his
hard ride."
This cut short the conversation and we
adjourned below. Sol ate truly like an
ogre, and the meal lasted much longer
than usual; but Mrs. B. studionsly refrained
from any reference to her case,
and quietly put down all attempts on our
part to discover her secret.
?^ 1.HAT 11111 ibi _
Ten o'clock came and so did Sim Barker.
As soon as my wife heard from me of liis
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arrival, sue caiieti-vrrejjuijr mw mc
and said to him:
" I want your assistance again Gregsly.
Do you know at what hour this Harlan
closes his store?"
"Well ma'am," answered Sol, "I reckon
it's about half-past ten: folks hereabouts
turn in pretty early."
As he said^this, Mre. B. undid the
package from Snakeville and produced an
enormous pair of false whiskers. Didn't
Sol and I stare at each other and shriek
with laughter!
* "I dare say they will fit you," she said,
looking at Gregsly, "for I told Guimauve
they were for you."
" For me?" roared Sol, " this is a queer
way of conducting a suit of replevin. Am
I to frighten Harlan out of Barker's hundred
dollars?"
"Put the wliiskers on," said Mrs. B.,
"these hooks go round the ears. And
now, listen! Barker is going to give Harlan
these second hundred dollars as soon
as the topers have left his store. You will
disguise yourself as much like a traveller
as possible, and get to Harlan's a few minutes
before Barker's arrival, so as to wit!
ness his handing over the money. To
prevent suspicion, you had better order a
drink, and if you would only sham a fit of
intoxication it will be still better. Do
vou understand?"
" Quite so, Mrs. Blivius, and I beg respectfully
to suggest that as a prominent
I member of the Teetotal Society, I decidj
e<lly object to entering that Tile shanty;
that it's against my principles to call for
a drink, and, as to shamming intoxication,
i I don't know how.!"
[ " Gregsly," said my wife, " our success
j depends upon your consent: remember we
j are forcing a restoration of stolen properf
ty, and by the only means possible."
I joined my entreaties to hers, and Sol
finally consented, though with some reluc]
tance. Light, in fact, began to break npI
on us. and Gregsly promised to do his
best to assist the operations. The next
thing to be done was to prepare Barker.
Having received my instructions from
Mrs. B. I returned him the hundred dol!
lars and told him he must go back to Har|
Lin's, apologize for having accused him of
1 stealing the first amount, and request him
to take charge of the second sum until the
morning.
"Thunder and hounds," ejaculated
Barker, " reckon you take me for a fool!"
"NoI don't. I shall get you back all
j the money Harlan has stolen from you.
j When you reach his store, the coast will
j be clear; give him these hundred dolkirs,
j and leave without speaking about any re!
ceipt. Mind this; and if you'll reel some
J and hiccup now and then like when you're
i tight, it will be all the better,"
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"Well," lie said "you're the only man
that's shown nic any kindness this many a
long day: reckon you mean right! I'll do
it."
" You must look inside the store to
make smi all the folks arc gone, but if
there's only one person there, you needn't
mind. But don't notice him at all."
I said this to prevent his speaking to
Sol Gregsly, and I added:
"As soon as you have handed over the
money, wish Harlan good night and come
back here. No dnpks remember."
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CHAPTER IT.
. More than an hour elapsed before the
two returned, and not exactly understanding
the full import of the proceedings, I
began to fear that something had miscarried.
Mrs. B., however, insjnred me
with a partial degree of confidence by her
calmness, and the result proved she was
right. Gregsly and Sim Barker came
back within ten minutes of each other, the
latter silent and evidently anxious, Sol
laughing heartily at the success of the operations.
" We had to wait some time," he said,
until the sots had left the establishment.
I went in, called for a big 'un of whiskey,
sat down in a corner by myself and poured
out the vile poison on the floor. It was
more than twenty minutes before the
crowd cleared out; that's why we were so
long."
"Did Harlan," I asked, " take the second
hundred?"
" Take them? No he didn't; he grabbed
them. I could see the smile of astonishment
and satisfaction on his villianous
physiogmony the moment Barker offered
him the money."
"And he didn't care for your being
present?" I added.
"Not a bit! You see I had prepared
him by passing myself off m a traveller
before Barker entered. My own mother
wouldn't recognize me in this disguise,
and I told the villian I had come from
Snakeville this evening, asking him how
far he called it to Cairo. I reckon he sets
me down for-^peddlaiy and on l^yjvay to
"How did^Barker manage his part?"
my wife inquired.
"Just as yon ordered; if he wasn't
drunk he shammed it mighty well. I
stayed a few minutes after his departure,
and then bade Harlan good night."
"You had better not leave Barker alone
any longer," said Mr. B. "Go and tell
him. Luke, to return here at half past six
to-morrow morning, nnd to be particular
not to speak about tbe day's proceedings
1 to anvbodv."
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| I went below and gave tbe instructions
as directed, but the poor fellow seemed
dreadfully nervous as to the result.
"And now that Harlan's got both hundred
dollars," he stamtocred out, "bang
me if I see bow I'll get back a cent from
him."
"Well, Barker," I replied, opening the
door for him, "have confidenoe in me.
You shall have both amounts to-morrow,
without the loss of a single dollar. Good
j night."
CHAPTER V.
I My wife explained her plan to me next
' morning, and I could but laugh heartily
! at her finesse. Sim Barker arrived in due
i time, and I told him to go forthwith to
Harlan and demand his hundred dollars,
taking good care that no one was present
when he made the application. If Harlan
refused to give up the money, he was to
remind him that a witness was present
when the amount was handed to him the
night previous.
Barker returned after some fifteen minutes'
absence. "Here," said he, "are
the second hundred dollars; and now I
want to know how I'm to get the first."
" Why, these are the first hundred, you
silly fellow; you'll have the second direct!
v. .You must go back there again
' with my clerk Gregsly, and ask Harlan
; for your hundred dollars; but mind this,
1 Barker! you must demand them in an off|
hand manner, as though he had not re;
turned you any money at all Do you
j understand?"
Sim gave a jump, and his face twisted
| itself into abroad grin as lie answered:
"Bless me if I don't see it all now! I'll
be chawed if you ain't the biggest lawyer
in these United States."
It seemed to me that Sol and Barker
had only been gone five minutes when
they came back, laughing, and showed us
a pretty considerable roll of bills; the same
hundred dollars. Sol related the circumstances
of the recovery as follows:
"I remained outside while Barker went
into the store and asked Harlan for the
[ money he had given him last night. Har!
lan began to swear horribly at him, saying
, he had paid him the hundred dollars ouly
a few minutes before! 'Nonsense!' said
j Sim. and then 1 stepped in and inquired
I the meaning of the altercation. When
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the mraseller repeated his version of the ^|H
story, I immediately replied: 'You had V
better hand over the bills forthwith, Harlan
; you are not the man to pay money
without getting a receipt for the payment.
Produce your receipt, or your witn&ses! >
The rascal looked at me with an awful
expressson of rage and discomfiture, and
then handed over the 4 spondulics.' As
we left his store, I said to liim, by way of
adieu, 41 reckon rum-selling and roguery
will bring you to state prison before long!'
He didn'^ like the observation, for tjiere
were three loafers in the' shanty at the %
time, and they'll be sure to spread the
affair all over town.
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, . Sol Gregsly's anticipations were correct.
Harlaii left Snickertown soon after the
above occurrence, and set up in Chicago,
where he was eventuallv detected in an11..
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I otuer aci 01 villainy, ami ue is now uuuci*
. going ten years in the state prison. Barker's
recovery of his inoncj led to an
entire change in his life. Under my wife's
counsels he gave up his bad associates and
pledged himself to abstain from liquor
i and gambling; that promise he has kept
I faithfully ever siuee. With his hundred
! dollars, gained, as he assured me, "hon1
estly" at poker, ho commenced peddling
about the country, and three years ago he
opened a thriving store in Snickertown.
My success in the legal profession dates
from the recovery of Sim Barker's one
hundred dollars, and I believe is greatly
due to liis spreading the story about in
his travels. Sol Gregsly and I have as
much business outside as in Snickertown
itself; and what is more, we are scarcely
ever unsuccessful. We consult Mrs. B
on most cases, and when she advises us to
go ahead, we are bound to win.
Death of General Simmer.
! Major Genen^omner, whose death is
: announced to-tmyin a despatch from Svraj
cuse, was a capable and earnest officer
who had served for forty-four years in the
army of the United States, Bora in Boaton
in 1797, he came to this State at an
early age, entered the Military Academy
at West Point in 1815, and was graduated
in 1819, at the age of twenty-two. Entering
the army as brevet second lieutenant,
! he rose to the rank of captain in the First
regiment of Dragoons in 1833, after fourteen
years of active service on the western
frontier. In 1846 he was appointed major
of the Second Dragoons, which regiment
was then in service in Mexico umW Gen.
-ututi. mailing lium New Mexico
'assume his new command, lie was met
New Orleans by an order from Gen. Scott
assigning him to the command of the
Mounted Rifles, then an ineffective and *
disorganized corps, but afterward, through
his exertions, one of the best in the service
> For his distinguished bravery at
Cerro Gordo, while in command of this
corps, Major Sumner was breveted lieutenant
colonel. At the battle of Molino del
Bey his gallantry was so conspicuous as to
obtain for him a still further promotion,
and he was breveted as colonel.
In 1851, Colonel Sumner was appointed
military governor of tne territory ol .NewMexico,
which post he occupied for two
years; in 1854 he was sent to Europe by
; the war department on official buanes^
aq|l received marked attention from Napoleon;
in 1855 he became military governor
i oF Kansas, and in 1858 was appointed
i commander of the department of the westK$
the outbreak of the rebellion he took
an active part in the defense of the gov*
i eminent. Accompanying Mr. Lincoln in
: his journey from Springfield to Washing;
ton, he received the appointment of brigadier
general on the 16th of March, 1861.
He was immediately sent to California to /
j supersede the traitor Albert S. Johnston
i in the command of the department of the
j Pacific, and on his return to the east
1 arrested Senator Gwin as a traitor, conveying
him as a prisoner across the Isthmus
of Panama in spite of the remonstrances
; of the New Grenadiun government. Im:
mediately entering upon active duty in
the army of the Potomac, Gen. Sumner
was appointed a division commander, servI
ing through the disastrous Peninsular
I campaign, and often saving the iliy for
1 our forces by his bravery and skill. On
1 the 31st of May, 1862, he was breveted
! major general of volunteers, and on the
4th of July last was confirmed in that
I rank by the United States senate. On the JU/T^
| 14th of November hist he was appointed
' commander of the right grand division of
the army of the Potomac by General Bnrn"
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the battle of Fredericksburg. Upon the
acceptance of the resignation of General
Burnside, on the 25th of January, General
I Sumner was also relieved of his command,
i and has not since been in active servu-e.
j He had been assigned, however, to the jm.
1 command of the department of the west,
to sujiersede General Curtis, and was exi
pected to reach St. Louis this week.
The long career of General Sumner, uni
stained by excesses or treason of any kind,
closes suddenly, but liis memory will be
warmly cherished by his comrades in the
field and the personal friends, who admired
i his frank spirit and his undaunted bravery,
i Long in command of the cavalry post at
1 Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania, it was
touching to see with what enthusiasm he
, was welcomed by the people of that region
I at the time of the court-martial which was
! held upon him at the instance of General
: Hnrnev. Tlie charge against Gen. SumI
nor (tlien colonel) was that of sending a
challenge to Harney, hut the offence was
not proved. The citizens of Carlisle
warmly espoused his cause during the
progress of the trial, serenading him at
his hotel, while they snubbed Gen.
i ney. During his career in the e^-my of
! the Potomac, Gen. Sunmer endued ym!
self to his men, who bestowed pet names
! upon him, and whose Comforts he always
| cared for. His deyh js loss to the country,
which liecds all the earnest and capnI
We Cmcers who, like him, believe in hand*
r iittg rebellion as it deserves.