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THE SWISS MOTHER.
KY J. K. CaBrXMT.8.
Eh" took his rfle from the wall.
The earn- his father bore:
She ^nve the l?>y his alpea-tock, _
Hie fathi-rs loo* before;
Sbe did not let him see her weep*
But kissed, his rosy fac e,
, Sh- l> !<te Idin boldly hasten forth
And take his father's place.
She thought but of her country's wtod**,
Yet prwssed hira to her heart.
Oh! well tu'ght that pn>udm<aher grieve
To see her boy depart.
A mouth before her husband Joiued
Ii;?> brethren of the *i?-u;
A week?his life'esa form tliey l?ore
iu sorrow nam a^ain:
Those warrior-peasants laid it down
Within her Alpine cot.
Then haaleued hack to meet the foe.
For thev mieht mourn bim not.
iiot slic most send another forth.
Her doubly stricken heart
ML'lit well be proud and not to break j
From her brave buy to part.
And so she took the rifle frotn
Toe chamber of the dead.
And till a the flask, and put it on.
Then forth her boy she led;
- ib> " she said proudly, o'er the hills
You'll ilud your father's foo,
Yet not hi* dea'h-bhAv to uTcnee,
Forfrr^viH strike the blow."
it was her blce?liu>: country* wrongs |
Th.it nerval that mother's heart.
V?*r bitter wew the tears ?he shod
To *ee her boy d.*j>arL
The yew Y?*rk Herald, in alluding to j
the unostentatious manner in \Vhieh Gen.
Grant arrived iu that eilv on Saturday
and lelt on Monday, remarks that "a second
lieutenant in "a regiment not yet ordered
to the field makes more sensation i
in tho city with his new unitorm, pit |
buttons and loud swagger than did this
greatest general in the world, with his
simple dress and unpretentious manners.
Josn Billing*, whose oracular utterances
are being more and more brilliant
every day, says: "Tew bring up a child
in the way he should go?travel that wtnf
yourself."* Solomon couldn't improve on
that. .
A writer ot a modern book of travels,
relating the particulars of Ids being cast
away,?thus coueludea: "After having
walked eleven hours without liaviug
tmeked the print of a human foot, to my
peat comfort and delight I saw a man j
hanging on a gibbet, my pleasure at the ,
cheering sight was inexpressible, for it ;
convinced me that I was in a civilized i
cinintiy."
Tiif. rebel Major General Patrick R. 1
Cleburne, who was killed in the recent:
light in Tt-nnc-v e, was boru in Jrelun I in !
March. 1 Si's, and was consequently near-1
lv thirty-seven years of age. He came |
to this country at the We of twenty-one, !
au<l settled iu Arkansas. He enternl the !
w iir as a private, but soon rose to a Cap- j
taincy, then to a Colonelcy, in which ca- ;
i. parity lie participated in many of the :
t?atth-s of the Southwest. lie was made !
a Major General iu December, 1862, and j
since tlien has served with the rebel army j
of Georgia, where he won all the distinc
tlou lietVtT IKM.
"Tom, ycu s.'fm to gaiu flesh every !
day: the grocery husiuettt must agree
with you. What did you weigh last?"
" Well. Jim, I really forget now: but it
strike* me it was a |H;uml id lulter." ;
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NORTHERN NEWS BY THE !
GENERAL SIIER.HAX.
[From the New York HcrJd. Dec. 11.]
Another expedition which went out |
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iron) > lCKauurg n^miy uuuer m?y??r- i
General Dana was very successful. The
enemy was" found in io: ce; but this did 1
not prevent General Dma's men from i
accomplishing the work they started out i
to do. They thoroughly destroyed the \
long bridge over black river.the Mississip- j
pi Central Railroad for thirty miles above i
that stream, two thousand live hundred j
bales of rebel cotton and about three huu- j
dred thousand dollars worth of oilier
reliel government property, and returned i
to Vieksburg with the loss of only five '
killed aud forty wounded and missing.'
The exchange of pi boners, recently stop-1
ped in the ?avanuah river, has been re- j
sumed in Charleston harbor, where the |
of U<>1 Mnifonl. Union Exehanire i
Commissioner,. now lies. The steamer
Victor, from off Charleston, arrived at
Annapolis yesterday with a further consignment
of exchanged Union soldiers. In
lute rebel papers we have the proceedings
of the North Carolina and Sooth Carolina
Legislatures relative to negotiations for j
peace. In the former body resolutions j
have been introduced in both houses in !
favor of sending commissioners to \V;isli- j
ington. and Jetf. Davis and the Legisla- I
tures of the other States are reqhested to J
c v-njK.nite. The resolutions offered in j
the S )Uth Carotin.* legislature deprecate |
any overtures for a cessation of hostilities 1
until a dissolution of the Union is conceded
by the national government. Gov- I
tTuor i)onham. of South Carolina, is in
union with the legislature of his State,
ami Is opposed to ah negotiation at present
except those ot* cold steel, iron and
lend. v
I From the New York Herald. Per. 1".]
A Cairo despatch stafes that a detach
ment from the retail army of Hood, estimated
at four thousand, under Uen.Lyoo,
are now on their way towards Kentucky,
if they have not already arrived there,
having on Friday lust crossed the CnrnItcrluud
river, some twenty miles above
Fort Donelson, on board tiie government
transport Thomas E. Tuft-, which they
seized tor the occasion. After the rebels
had all got across tliev burned the steamer.
which was loaded with government
forage. We have interesting accounts of
the lighting and skirmishing tor several
days m the vicinity of Murireesboru,
where Gen. Rousseau is in command of
the Union troops. The fighting commenced
on the tid inst, and was continued
on each successive day up to the 7th,
when finally the rebels, under command
of Forrest in person, were so vigorously
charged that they fled iu complete rout,
aud have not since made their appearance.
On this occasion Rousseau's men
captured two hundred and seven r?bel
prisoners, including eighteen officers, aud
fourteen cannon.
There was much excitement in Memphis
on last Friday, caused by a report
that Beauregard, with a strong three, was
marching on Fort Pillow. About oue
hundred and fifty negro soldiers were recently
drawn iuto ambush, on the Ar:
kansas side of the Mississippi, opposite
Memphis, and nearly all of them, it is
said were either killed by the rebels or
drowned iu the river. A despatch states
111 It t f U'/tlOlla Ituo ItitAt % < VA/ttl kill! 1 1 ttf o
iiinv v/av.wuia iif? uuu ialuuivu uy a
small force of the eueray. There arc
several towns oi' the name ot Osceola;
bat probably the one alluded to is Osceola,
in Mississippi county, Arkausas. on
the Missisippi river, eiguty-seven miles
above Memphis.
(Fioai the New Yorh WiriJ of Dec IS.;
The advance of Gen. Warren upon the
line of the Wehlon road, in the direction
of Weldon, b invested with cuusiderai l.?
importance, and its object is no little
mystery; It is made iu formidable
strength, and is well supported, ii W?-jdou
b really the dcK'inniii n of tlii* uln;
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EISOAY, DECEMBER
of the ww, the movement must have I
becu made with a view to destroy Lee's !
hue of communications, and thereby act ;
indirectly upon Petersburg and Richmond
: etill it would seem that a movement
upon Burksvilic junctiou would '
have Iwen attended with more immediate
and decisive results.
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OIOCV UCii. vn\uu 3 wi iuu
upper portion of the Wcldon road, the
enemy has lieen confined to the Bouthside
anil Danville roads for direct means of
oominuniciition wiili the South. He has
also used the \Yeldoa railroad Mow Stony
ejvck station to a considerable extent,
wagoning supplies Irom that station to a
favorable point tipon the Southside road,
and thence to Petersburg. In order to
(gfliltate traus|H>rtation, he had caused
tWfcr instructed a branch leading from
Stony ^reek station, over the turnpike in
a southwesterly direction, to the Southside
road. Tins was nearly completed
when General Gregg :ilade his recohnoisuoisanee
on the :WtU ult., and has now
doubtless been fully destroyed by Gen.
Warrufi's advance.*
Wdpoii is an important point, and
eomnisnds tiie seaboard and Roanoke
road leading irom Norfolk, and the Gas
t on awi iioanoKe v HI icy, ie:unng 10
ClarhiHlU*. The latter road is part of
tbe grand chain of southern communiciftion,
aqd it' held, can materially interfera
with the movement of supplies for lice's
army, or the disoateii of troops to aid the
armies in departments south of thU point.
Wcldofo is situated upon the Roanoke
river, a stream which w navigable nearly
i its entire distance front Plymouth, which
i lias recently been captured by our forces.
I It is ahy within littoen miles of Wuiton
| on the Chowan river, which is also navij
gable tor quite a large class of gunboats,
i ^ince General Warren's movement vaj
rions theories have been advanced re.
speeding his intentions. The Richmond
and Eetersburg pipers assert that the
i movement is really toward Wcldou ?
! 5 ?uie northern military critics have de!
dared that the expedition intended to
saving around upon the Southside road,
and endeavor to sever that important line
j of communication. Others of this class
: uave irwocutieu wun me movement u
co-operation oa the part of the fleet in
i Albemarle Sound, which should pene!
trite the Roanoke and Chowan rivers sufficiently
far to open communication with
: General Warren when he should reach
j WeUloiL Others still look upon it as a
grand rcconnoissanee made fur the purpose
of ascertaining the true position ot
; Lee's army, and toakl in drawing off part
; of the rebel force, so that General Grant
) may make a demonstration uixm the im*
! mediate defenses of Richmond. Whiehi
ever theory is correct will be shown veiy
, soon. In the meantime, it . is believed
' that every portion of Gener\l Grant s
command is prepared i.?r active opera;
tions, which arc intended to seriously
I disconcert Lee's plana, and materially
change the position of his ariny. Lee
j cannot satFer General Warren to progress
! unopposed to his destination, whether it
be Yt ekion or Brecksrille Junction, ami
i if he withdraws any large number of his
troops front Petersburg or Richmond to
' operate against \Varren, he will weaken
j his lines in Qeneral Grant's immediate
J fnmt to such an extent as to certainly eu;
daugcr the safety of Petersburg and, perhaps,
Richmond.
? -- T---i ? ,1?:
iniii [.lutuici uir^iaics iu uu auuiti.sfcuieut,
that, among other portrai's, be
has a representation of44 Death, a* large
I as life.''
4* Ha."l you ever broken a horse ?" inquired
a borne jockey. 44 Xo, not, exactly,"
replied Simmons, <4bul I have broken
three or l"o.ir wagons." 4
A r.?; vvt gentleman asked us the other
C. a a la/ k leg sheep were more disposed
to gonj ?i than others. We huve retf-rr
i the nu.'f.'r to tjcnrrnl Word.
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raid.
22, 1864. {fIvc1 Cell t?.
CONSCRIPTION IN FRANCE.
From an interesting article in Temple
Bar Magazine, we copy the following :
In France,, when a lad arrives at the
age of twenty-one, he i3 liable to bo
drafted into the army. To the poor, fate
is inexorable; to the wealthy she affords
! a loop-hole, a chance of escape, in the 9
! shape of h substitute. Within four aucl
1 twenty hours after its biith, every infant
| is carried by its nurse and its father, or
some other relation, to the Mnirie, and
there its name and sex an; duly entered
into a vast volume in the registry office.
If it be a boy, it is followed about by the
; police all over the country. Jeannot's
i parents cannot move from" one place to
another with<5\it giving notice to trie commissaire
of his migration; and when,
years after this civic persecution, lie enters
the threshold of manhood, the luckless
lad finds himself invited by the Minister
of War to present himself at a military
bureau.
I Tivi vi*p!I Iip knotra tho. monnintr of
that ominous invitation, and with beating
heart amf heavy step obeys the summous.
He knew that it must come; his brother
knew that it must come; his sister knew
that it must come; yet none the less sorrowful
he goes, and they accompany bint
to the bureau, and uone the less cheerful
they behold him descending the steps,
with gay colors pinned to his cap iu
mockery of hi9 misfortunes. For a mi<tbrtune'it
is regarded.
Few.-very few Frenchmen, however *
valiantly they fight in the field, however
loudly they afterwards talk of the glory
of arms, rejoice when they first draw th?
evil scrip which tears them from their
homes, from their ihrtlv business, from
,i.. :_ .u. _:il
uieir inline tuicuif iu inn lut; nui-u-uivwisp
cbas.", alter the problematic marshal's
baton, wliicli every French soldier
is told he carries in his knapsack. If
anything 'could reconcile him to his loi,
or soften the horrors of this forcible abstraction
from his family, it would tie tliu
idea of promotion which characterizes
the French army; but even this fails to
cheer or to compensate liiui for the serious
check which his prospects iu life receive.
A cloud has descended thick and
dark upon his hopes, upon the delicate
little projects ol love au^l matrimony be
had formed, aDd at twenty-one he is compelled
to abandon himself to a barren,
j if not a vicious course of life he detests,
; abandoning the designs he had probably
cherished lrom his youth.
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i tiucii is iue social piiase ox me ?onj
scriptioa. Yet one hundred thousaui
! youths ure tuus annually torn from their
: "homes; by an imperial decree of 1Sj7,
j the number was fixed at this high figure.
I Previously it was lett to the discretion or
caprice ot" the war minister, who raised it.
i Substitution, however, ia allowed in the
French army. Up to the year lt<55 pri;
vate agencies existed, where substitute*
could be procured for a stipulated sum;
: siuce then, however, thcBe Hgeneie* have
i been abolished, and tlio Government has
! entirely monopolized the business, with,
the view of creating a domestic fond,
j wherewith to encourage enlistment when,
i the original term has expired. The price
j of a substitute is fixed annually, and rs,
ries considerably; yet is at any time ?
lurrrn nnm tar a vitiilh fsf illA
Mm 0141U IVJ a jwma uuu VAI iuv uuvivm<
! clawcii to pay. Ia 1AV> the sum was
i JtflU; ia ^72; ncd 16C2,
. To show how poorly voluntary enlist-.
I mnnt succeeds iu Franco, and also how
i the true campaigning ia declining, we
may regard the fact that whereas in ISSo
&XHJ presented themselves to the re cruit |
ing sergeant, not more than 1 lU'J displayj
ed their martial zeal in 18<;2; so iitllo
! pugnacious ii our real French nun ii ltf.
lu uiinsell'. No army in the world otter*
| greater prizes; and it would not be lair
: to the military system ,pf France not to
I state that rapid advancement is open to
; every soldier, and that no man with su
perior education over remains long in t!?
nnkn.