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. . . *. - lr +* ' ^'" "*'' 11 I^WIfrJL^SP*[ 8? lamilg jttopgtr: Jfr l^lrcairfiflg af % jjolitital facial, ^grimltorat ani> flgmmmial lntmsts of % jSjl .' | VOL. 14-. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THUBSDAY, iAUGUBT 13, 1868. ^O- 88. Anginal fjtatreMfc. ? : b_: Written for the Yortville Enquirer. VICTOR: % Siqucl fa laaltttc, ^t^nwltS>|. t . + * fv^li; BY J. WIT HEBSPOOK KBTDf? w S Y CHAPTER n-Cwm*o*D. ' p* "Ah! my good boys," said Captain Carberry, "when you hare been in service a little longer, you will learn to shoot off, Hke a hungry pike, to some quiet nook, when yon have beat suecessfttl in foraging, to swallow and digest your windfall in quiet Ton throw your haversacks wide ope* Joemy < comrade, and yet can yon tell when your next meal is to eome from?" And the speaker smiled, pleasantly, while he looked Victor in the free. "We may not need another, Caption," responded Victor, in the ligkt tone of a caiefem sokBar. "And so yonr motto io ike that of many a lighthearted soldier: 'eat, drink and be merty. for tomorrow we die.' Is that it?" asked the Captain. "To-morrow? .'That promises too moch," replied the youth, with seriousness. "Say, rather, to-day. But come, Captain; help yourself, and let ns make one more good meal of it, for the smoke of the enemy/riSing nearer and nearer, shows we shall soon have a busy time of it." "We most not, however, let the anticipation spoil our appetites. It may eome won* bat 'snffinipnt for the dav is the evil thereof' let as foxti fy ourselves against a long fast; for if the enemy ! get to driving us, or sueoeed in making us prisoners, we shall hive a feirteo season of it Bnt, Victor, my good Mow, where didyou find this?" and the Captain, as he spoke, held aloft a junk bottle, the wire-secured cork of which was wrapped in tin foil. "A citizen?a jolly aid bachelor, I think he must be?hailed us frotp the portico of his house, as we were passing, and calEng Prescott and myself in, presented each of us with a bottle. He would have insisted on our emptying a bottle with him, but we were behind time and had not a moment to spare, so we thanked him ibr his kxndnesB and hurried away, just in time to climb into the cars as they were beginning to move." ''Pitch the staff over into the bushes, Captain," cried Giles Shorter; "it's nothing but champagne, and not fit for a dog to drink." "No, Giles; that will be making rather too free with Victor's property," replied CaptainCarbeny. "Let him keep it until we are done with the enemy, or they with as, and we will find some other place for it than the bushes. It is a good familiar creature when properly used." "I shall not take the trouble to cany it with me, Captain," replied Victor; "my musket and cartridge box, with my blankets, will be quite load enough for me. I only burdened myself with it, thus far, thinking it might be acceptable to yon." "I thank yon, Victor; it is a refreshing surprise to one who. like myself, has.ever delighted in the blood of the grape. Hew, Lawrie," aid the captain to his henchman, "plaoe it in the spring, to grow cool while we eatand the nimble Lawrie, who had been seated near at hand, sprang forward to do his bidding. "I hare another for you, Captain," saidPresoott, drawing forth a similar bottle from his haversack, and passing it over to the active henchman. "Well! it never rains but it poors," responded Captain Car berry, as be gratefully aooepted Presoott's present "I shall reserve this until we come out of the fight, and then we shall partake of it together. Seek me out, boys, 'when the hurlyburly's done,' and we shall?all of us who are aKve?take a cup together." "I should like to feel sure that we shall take a glass together then," responded Victor, as he seated himself on the ground and prepared to join his comrades in their meaL "We should lose ourselves in conjecture, should we attempt to guess when, where, and under what circumstances, that bottle shall he emptied." "Yes, indeed," exclaimed Captain Oarberry. ('Before that oork flies, we shall have gone through some eventful scenes in our history. A man's first sweetheart and first battle make memorable impressions. They are not soon forgotten." "Well, to my notion," chimed in Giles, "it's the last sweetheart that carries the day and wipes out by-gones completely. When a thing is over and done, I consider it as 'gone up the spout' " "But, Giles," rejoined the captain, "first love is too delicious a thing to be forgotten. I warrant mp nnft remembers?even when his head be gins to whiten?some pleasant, dear little school girl," bright eyed, rosy cheeked, with a step like a young fawn, and lips like an opening rose, that he has not seen, perhaps, siqce he was a boy, whom he thinks of to day with deeper and tenderer feelings than any one he has met with in years. It i warms the heart still, and makes you forget your years, to think with what eagerness you looked to catch even a glimpse of her form, and how your heart leaped and your cheeks burued when your eyes met There is no joy in life so sweet?no memory so tender." "I hardly think it worth a man's while to remember such tom-fooleries, Captain," answered Giles, drily. "I think it is, Giles," replied the captain. "It keeps a man's heart from growing old and cankered. When onoe a man cuts himself adrift from his youth and looks with oensorious eyes on all the acts and feelings of his early days, retaining no sympathy for his youthful self, he is like a girdled tree. Thelife-giviDgcirculation is gone and Spring is no more felt than Winter." "At my time of life, Captain, it's nothing more than natural, that one should be a tough old stump," replied Giles. "I think not," rejoined Captain Carberry, quite seriously. ' Tt is, on the contrary, quite unnatural.. If the tree be old and gnarled, let it still have its tender bads and green leaves. Let them adorn and beautify it still, while its broad shadow falls invitingly around. Old age is a cheerless thing to V look forward to, if none of the freshness and warm sympathies of youth are to attend it. Better to fall in battle in the fuD strenth of youth, riddled with bullets, than to reach three score and ten on such conditions. I warrant me, these youngsters are, even now, thinking of spine fair young girl whom they fear never to see again;" and the Captain waved his hand significantly towards Victor and Prescott, the former of whom colored up deeply, while the latter only smiled at being thus indicated. . "As for me, Captain," said Giles, "I think much more about where I shall next spread my blanket for sleeping, and whether my next meal will be half so plentiful as this, than I do about such things. Champagne and tom-foolery of that kind may do for boys, who hain't hardly shed their milk teeth, bat I am a plain, matter-of-fact man, and like something more substantial and practical. " Yes," sneered Prescott, 4 'you are fbnd of something practical! I remember that little practical joke you played off" on us at Gramball's Point, and I don't think you have altogether forgotten it You didn't catch us with our milk teeth then?did you?" "Giles tamed npor the speaker, whose words had roused alaogh at his expense; his swarthy face darkened with sudden rage, and his brow contract- ; ed with an angry frown. He was about to make , all exceedingly wrathful reply, when the attention , of the group was called off and h? resentment di- , verted by an 'incident, well calculated to hash ah- , giy passions, at least, for a time. The booming of , a oouple of guns, from the quarter from which the ( eftmnymere advancing, smote upou the ears of the i party with the suddenness of an eleetrio shook, , awkiOg the hnait of emh one to leap with a start ( It canon to eaoh one aa the atern summons to a dee- , perate and bloody conflict All signs of wrathful- j ness disappeared at once from the visage of Giles, , ae-hetaraadhis face towards the quarter from < lUekhticMM, at so opportune a moment, the j aocoida that had checked him in the midst' of his i having listened, with open lips and in breathless si- , fence, ftr a few seconds; "the enemy are loeing do , torn en their mamh. That is a twelve pounder, and but little more than ntxule off. We shall have ( it hofc and heavy in less than an hour's time. Here, Lawriet give me my sword. How my cup?end , thee that bottle from the spring." The party had all risen to their feet. Knapsacks were gathered up* cartridge boxes buokfed on, canteens filed and each one sought his musket from the.tree where be had leaned it. Captain Carter rj, who was an excessively corpulent man, for an infinfaf oAoer, had, with the assistance of Victor, | succeeded in bodefing on his sword hy the time { fie henchman, Lawrie, brought the bottle from . the spring, where it had been put to cod. "Now, oat with your caps, men-!" cried the captain, "and let us empty this bottle before we , leave. Come up, Giles?you are the oldest man, , and & Ettle can do you no harm. Let me fill your cup. If it were only apple-jack, now," said Giles, deprecatingiy, as he approached, somewhat irresolutely, with his cup. "It can do you no harm, and will enable yon to bear the fatigue of a fight all the better. You will not have such another chanoe "until the blockade is brokenand the Captain smiled as he spoke, and preparing to let the oork fly, extended his hand with the bottle, 'towards Giles. There was a lie upon Giles' faoe. The eyes of the sly old sinner twinkled as he stood, cup in hand, with head slightly inclined to one ride, as if deba- , ting with himself the question, whether or not to partake of a beverage against which he had just { declaimed with such unction and seeming sincerity; but the twinkle in his eye and the giro upon his face, equally compounded of deprecation ana aelight, gave the lie to his attitude of?hegitataon. In fact, GQee had brightened up when die .bottle was first produced, and . had internally resolved upon extricating himself from the dilemma into which his denunciation of the sparkling beverage had involved him. For the sake of consistency, it was, perhaps, necessary to show a little coy hesitation; bat Giles did not intend, by any means, to ran the risk of losing his glass, by carrying his coyness too far. " Well,'Captain," said he, stepping forward with the air of a man who had resolved all his doubts, ! mrf W. -|i h Li.U iiwii?liiil . than a pint?every trace of hesitation having disappeared from his face?"I was jnst out of the measles when it served me so badly before. I hardly think it o&n put me in such a fix now, when I am hearty and strong. At any rate, even if I knew it would be the death of me, I won't refuse to drink a friendly cap with old comrades, on the eve of a fight." Giles did not view "with a critic's eye," the very liberal bumper which the Captain poured out to htm, ~but quaffed it off with every manifestation of delight, though, it must be confessed, he at first attempted to sustain his opinion of the taste of the wine, by a wry face or two, in which attempt he most signally failed. Robin Lassitcr and Harvey Haley also joined their Captain in a cup, but Victor and Prescott politely declined. _ "Why, Giles!" exclaimed Robin Lassiter, as he wiped his lips, "you talk about such stuff making a man drunk! To my thinking, an unweaned child might swig it and get no harm." "He'd a nation sight better stick to his mother's milk, if be know's what's good for him," replied Giles, with dry gravity. "The enemy are firing away at a rapid rate," cried Captain Carbeny, as gun after gun was heard from their quarter. "What on earth can they be firing at? We have nothing but a handful of scouts out there, and surely they would not waste 3o many shells on a few scattered cavalrymen 1" "Don't you believe it, Captain," interposed Harvey Haley. "They'd shell your grandmother's house oat, if he appeared in their front Don't you remember how the batteries on Folly Island, opened on the Point, when Grim ball's old sow t"* n?Ki rmt nf fViA hiioKm ? Thpv will shell IA/&CVI UVi MVUV VWVV* WV ^ ? anything, -air." "Come, boys, it is time for us to return to the station,'' exclaimed Captain Carberry. 1 'We shall have our line of battle formed in ten minutes. The enemy wDl not leave us 'much leisure, now." "You are leaving your bottle, Captain," remarked Harvey Haley, pointing to the unopened bottle which the captain had deposited at the foot of the tree, from which he had just risen. " "True,'.' answered the person addressed; "the firing had quite driven it from my mind. It is too precious an article to be abandoned even in -a retreat I shall not trouble you to carry it, Lawrie ; you have burdens chough, my boy. I shall deposit it in my own haversack until the fight is over, and then it shall be drank, according to the programme, in the presence of us three, "Victor, Prescottand myself, of of whichever one of us may be the survivor. God grant we may all be there. Let us go." Thus saying, Captain Carberry, accompanied by * 3 1-?? j.J v:n CQ6 group arpuna null, jcswuucu luc inn uu wvu return to the railroad station, where the most of the soldiers had assembled. They had scarcely reached the top of the hill, when Colonel Giles came riding by at a leisurely pace, calm, quiet and unexoited, looking, for all the world, like a burly easy-tempered fanner taking his ride around his fields. "Put your men in line as soon as you can," said he to Captain Carbeny, as he passed. "The enemy will be on us in half an hour, and I wish to get my men in position and give them a breathing time of a fewminutes, before coming to an engagement. I shall have the'long roll' beaten at once." A bugler who followed on horseback, in the steps of the Colonel, at a nod from his commander, sounded the signal, and forthwith the drums, some two hundred yards off, began their stirring sounds. The soldiers, who were generally congregated near the 'tank,' wbioh supplied the locomotives with water, sprang to their arms And hastened into line. Those whp had straggled off to a distance, hurried up to take their places by the side of their comrades. The rolls were rapidly called, and in three minutes' time the line was formed and ready to move. By the orders of their Colonel, the soldiers disencumbered themselves of their knapsacks, and a small detail being made to guard the baggage, the line moved briskly forward, to take the position selected by their commander for meeting the enemy. . The courage of the soldiers was unabated, and notwithstanding the fearful odds against them, they marched on confidently and eagerly to meet the enemy, whose rapid advance was shown by a cloud of dust that now rose close at hand. CHAPVER m. a Scarcely two hundred yarda, in an easterly direo- ^ tion from the took by which the engioee oa the tl r&ilroed were supplied with water, wasim old rood ? running from the north-east to the south-west, and * orostaog the railroad a few hundred yaris south of the 'junction.' Interacting this road it an acute *? ingle, it led down, through a hilly and broken tb soon try, to a crossing over Swift Creel:, by which fe the city of Petersburg was approached. Into this "j earth road the enemy were about to debauch, along & the road which led from their landing place on the ba river, which entered it at nearly right itngels. A- > long this road, Colonel Giles formed his Hoe of bat- & tie, and stood awaiting the approach of the enemy, ti Ihe road bed had, by long travel, been worn down ? into the soil, and it was skirted on either ride by a h thin straggling growth, such as will spring up along old fence tracks, which have been long neg-7 ft looted. As the batallion filed into Kno along the tl road, they found themselves in a depression of a- w bont two or three feet, and the protection which the ai sunken road afforded them, was still further in- h creased by * straggling growth of null oaks that tl ? * __ -* At- ?n j? .iij. ? grew on me tine ox uw nu nun*, iwihw nwui B' they were'drawn np. Before them wan an irregu- til lar clearing extending from three to fi re hundred h Tarda, through whioh, in attacking their position, tl the enemy must advance without- shelter or pro- ft tection, save such as was afforded by a. few stag- d ling old field pines, that dotted the clearing here q and there. Towards the left, yet very nearly in front, was. a-low bottom with a dispersed and tl scanty growth of spreading pines running up to the k foot of high and heavily wooded hifin, sweeping ? away semi-ciroularly to the right, ths crests of *| which afforded admirable positions from which u the enemy's batterifes might open upon them with a terrible effect. The whole line of hills 'ires skirted ft below, with a dense growth of 'old-field pines,' from it the dense shelter of which they looked soon to see ft the gleaming bayonets of the enemy emerge, as u they advanced to the charge across the open field, ft , For several minutes, in silence and suspense, the tl battalion awaited their ooming, and the thoughts oi of many a young soldier were busy amid thesoenes si of home, which rose up before him with a peculiar tl distinctiveness and vividness, in that hour when life g and hope lay trembling in the balance. v< Oh! how doubly dear to one about to imperil g his life, on the distant battle-field is the retired u and humble home far away, where so roany sweet p recollections of childhood and boyhood (luster! It d may be an humble and unadorned spot to smaQ A his memory travels back, bat, inthatfttefol hour* b every tree that shelters his childhood's home) * every dinging vine and flowering shrub tint re- w sponds to the gentle warmth and invigorating tl Bhowers of Spring-^the stream where he swam, and each remembered spot where he loved to stray m with his boyhood's friends?rise up before him in- y, vested with charms they never possessed before. a Perhaps, too, while he stands in the sinned line, b each moment expecting the low marmor around a him to be swallowed up in the din ami clamor of m battle, and whilst his eager eyes are seinning the ft copse in front, from which he looks to the hoe- ? tile line emerge like a dan, angry dnid, some v soft, sweet face seems to steal before his vision?the a loving face of a sister, full of the sweetest aodholi- n est aBection that man may everTroow; or, perhaps, ft that of one whose eye awakens a tumult of stronger h emotions in bis breast. All the tender and endear- n ing sympathies that give a charm to life and hind n him to existence, crowd in upon him and. he feels? ti as he never before felt?the otter insignificance of all those trials and discomforts which, in ordinary a times, swell up into such magnitude, and he real- d izes that with all its pains and perplexities, and g mortifications, life is still full of blessedness and en- f< joyment. b The battalion?this thin, extended line of six ^ hundred devoted men?had not long held its posi- j tion, when, across the open field, the oolnmns of a the enemy appeared in front, emerging from the Q shadow of the woods, and forming rapidly in order ^ of battle. Two regiments were, plainly discovered, ^ thrown out right and left, under cover of the ^ woods, where a casual opening permitted them to be seen. Here, however, they disappeared, and their movements were hidden from sight; hut n a shade of anxiety settled upon thofiice of the brave Colonel Giles, as he detected the manoeuvre and contemplated the probability of being attacked ^ simultaneously on both flanks and in front, by the ^ overwhelming masses of the enemy, .Ajb quick m , thought he rode up to the line, and detiehing two companies, gave orders that they should be thrown out on the flanks and deployed as skirmishers, to , meet the threatened attack of the enemy. This movement had scarcely been carried out, when the whole field in front was darkened by the masses of c the enemy, advancing at a quick step, to the at- ^ tack. At the same time, a glimpse was caught of ^ a battery of the enemy, moving to take up their position on a wooded eminence, somewhat to the Z left of the Confederate line, and scarce lialf a mile distant. A glimpse was caught, now and then, as their road wound over the hills, of here a caisson or gun, around which, clustered the enemy's artillerymen, rendered the more conspicuous by their ^ red facings, moving steadily and Rapidly on, to open 01 their fire upon the devoted line, that had not a gun J* to hurl back its angry and defiant answer. Sud- . denly, a lone and solit&iy soldier appeared, in front " of the left extremity of the line, pausing for a moment irresolute, and undecided, and standing as if ? he had just emerged from the ground. Instantly a cry rang along the lines from those who had discovered his approach, bat hesitated to " fire until orders should be given. " "I will give him my blessing, any way!" ex- p claimed Giles, leaving the sunken rood, and resting u his musket upon the fence, for greater accuracy in his aim. Here, goes! boys. I will open the ball? " music; or no music!" b Giles rested his elbow upon the fence, itnd taking b deliberate aim, fired. b The soldier slowly turned his face in the direc- u tion from whence the 6hot had come, and began f< deliberately retreating, keeping his face still to his n foes. A half score of men, without waiting orders '< from their officers, leaped forward to the fence, and | hurriedly leveling their muskets, opened upon the o retreating enemy who had now nearly jjained the s; cover of the woods. As the last gun was fired, he v gallantly touched his cap and, giving a military h lute, turned and entered the wood. w By this time, the line of the enemy had ap- e preached within three hundred yards of our small o band of Confederates, when Colonel Giles, who h had continued to ride leisurely and coolly along his n line, ordered his men to take their position along a the fence, and sheltering themselves as well as they a were able, to open their fire upon the enemy when fa they could do so with effect tl At this moment, the batteries of the enemy hav- t ing taken up their position, began to open.their o fire upon them from the wooded hill, a little to the a left of their front, but their shells flew by unheeded o and unnoticed. Their whole attention was oocu- fa pied by the enemy in their front, who continued to advance rapidly and steadily with fixed bayonets, b preceded by a formidable line of skirmishers. Save o the steady and rapid step of the enemy, and the u firing of the batteries, not a sound was heard., u Even the breathing of' those who awaited them a was hushed, in that moment of terrible suspense, a The dark, dense lines of the enemy swept on, the r grass rustling beneath their feet, and the ground tl trembling under their tread, as they came on like t Mack waves of the sea rolling upon the shore, p driven by the tempest. If there was a craven in tl iq line that awaited their onset, hit heart in cut ( iv? daad within him, and, in that awftil paoae 1 tat preceded the shook, he moat have experienced i agony ^ suffering aodfeer, irwuMwwhht in ocda, The spell tint fear oaats around its wretched viems, is more drusd and agonising than any which te magiritn or pecromanoer can weem It is no rporof the intellect or mere low of voHtiou that apoees upon him a sense of nftring each as die ideoos and distorted fancies of the night-mare rag. With any. inteHecutoal faculty aroused id active, and every paaakm absorbed in the one spaded fading of ftar, he undergoes pangs a Knxsandftld more keen than thoeoof death, scorn-, if sad despising himself becanse he know* not dw to dl j with oouznge, or to fiw without shame. Bat the Hne shmak not iwtbe preseooe of the w that same en so osdUMj/hd with munbem mt thieatened to swaiesr them np. Not a voice as beard from their maks) as they lay with fiery ad eager eyes awaiting the fear&l trial of mannntPa ImiHI ifirihlttM. ?wl ximolp ?Ani<i kemaeftres if tbcqr oould, for* moment, hold their 1 round against umbers so very far superior to ?b own. ; like roar of the battery on thehill, < m?ng down its shot and shells, was to them as " ie earth that broiled unheededjy 'beneath the 1 et of the armies that fboght, a long summer's 1 ly, by the quiet waters of the land-looked Thra- i rmene. Haey heard Hnot?they heeded it not 1 There was no word of command given. Even ' lenroAoen stood sflent and voieefem in that boor, 1 > foil of fkta. No snmdwas attend until the \ lerny had advanced, in Us eoafidenee, to within ?ut two hundred yards of the fton, and then, i if each one una animated by a eemmou impulse, 3 fleroe and well-directed in burst out along the tie, and a wild and defeat yell told that the spir- 1 s of the Southern boyi vh nnawed by the ftar- | il odds agmnst them. The enemy seemed startled 1 ad shocked by As radian banting loath of the * re that had haded w many of their number to J ie earth, hut responding to the appeals of their ' leers, they stood their ground bravely, and entered the rixrats erf the Confederates with a volley j rat tore through the fenoe, splintering the rails 1 i lightning splinters the pine. As volley after ' alley from etch side vat delivered, the smoke 1 red nally formed n dense cloud between the oonmding parties, and settling in the humid atmoa- J here of that still Spring evening, by like n dark oud inwwmndy Hg^ated npby flashes of lightning. | wrin and acain the enemy attempted to charge, | atthe individuality and herobia of the Southron ; deck in the pine of * hob, and the baffled foe ere repeatedly driven back by the murderous fire iat was poured into their ranks. 1 Colonel Giles, aa may well be oottfeotumd, had i ot witnessed the charge of the enemy without 1 ary serious misgivings as to the result All the J meequenoaa of a panic, and of a disgraceful and | eadbog root ware praaent to his mind. Mounted s horseback, he roderiowfy along his line to rewore his men and oheek the first symptom of oonision or yielding that might appear. His thoughts ere as painful as those of a gallant offioer can be hen he isfbroed to sotyeot his command to an 1 rdeal, trying erea to the eocmge of Veteran ho-' ms. But, when their first volfey was defraud, (flowed by the hearty aiuf enthusiastic cheers of is small band, he felt that whatever superior ambers might ultimately effect, the honor and iputation of his command would be amply bus- 1 lined. Rising in his stirrups he waved his sword od answered the cheers of his brave men, while? nd it shames us not to record it?the relief of his eeply taxed feelings found expression in tears, eeing the animation and gallantry of his qieu, he sit no hesitation in leaving them, for awhile, to asten to another part of the field, where he felt is presence would soon be still more necessary, lot one member of his staff had accompanied him, od as it was requisite that orders should be tnuwlitted from point to point, with celerity and romptitude, he called upon Captain Carberry, to etui some suitable man of .his company to act as iscourier. "Hallo, Victor, my good fellow," cried the Captin to Victor, who stood a few feet distant ramting down a cartridge?"step here if you please." Victor came forward, begrimmed with smoke, od Was informed that Colonel Giles wished him ) mount a horse instantly, and follow him. A lort distance to the rear of the fine, Sdpio, the ody servant of Colonel Giles, , was keeping a rople of spare horses in waiting for his master's 1 se. Victor was directed to mount one of these . orses, and rejoin the CfoloneL 1 The sable hostler's thoughts contemplated no itastrophe in battle, as equal in importance and lagnitude to the Ion of the dumb creatures, his 1 aily companions, that bore bis master through the 1 azards and perils of the fight His eyes opened < vie with annrehension and interest when : rictor, hastening up on foot, made a requisition poo him for a spare horse, in the Colonel's name. I tell 'em so?I bin know it dis marnin', Mass i 1c, when I gib him his corn and he torn his head iro or. tree times an' look at me 1 I know if he xild talk he bin say?'Brudder Soip, dis oorn no se to me I What use I hab for 'em when yanees gwine for kill me dead 'fore night?' I see it1 i his eye den, mass Vic. It's de Lord's trute I now den, sarten and sure, dat poor Remus nebowine for come back any more! Which way de ullet hit him, mass Via" "He is not killed yet, Scip," replied Victor, as e finished Ibis work of adjusting the stirrups to be proper length and gathered up the reins to lount. "If it is your master'shorse you are speak>g of, he issafe bo far." " ' J "Git away, mass Via" cried- Scipio, bestowing, i the gladness of his heart, a blow upon Victor's j ack with his open palm, and bursting into a wild lugh. "I sway, (swear) mass Vie, you make my eart leap rite into my treat! What you scare le so for? I knowyankee bullets never-gwine )r kill Remus. Yah! yah! yah t But look here lass, if Remus ain't killed, what masserwant wid ulipse?" Without pausing to reply to the eager enquiry f the anxious Scipio, Viotor gave the reins to the pirited steed, and applying a touch of the heel, r&s soon by the side of Colonel Giles, who at once urried away to watch the issue of the attack rhioh was about being made on his flanks. Threatned on both flanks, it was a matter of vital oonern to encourage the handful of brave men who nd Kapm fhwiwn rmt to meet the shook of the ene- : ay, to sustain their position until he could cheek nd dishearten the masses of the enemy who were ttacking him in front. Acoompauied.by Victor, < e galloped rapidly away to the left, and deploying he Company which had been thrown out to prosot that flank, in a semi-circular line, gare them rders to conceal themselves, as far as practicable, nd to gall the enemy, as soon as he came in range f their position, by an unexpected and well subrined fire. The sun was now setting in the west, and the rave offioer so sorely beset by the countiess horoes f the enetny, only hoped to prolong his resistance ntil the shades of evening should enable h?w> to rithdrsw his force, with some tolerable degree of ifety. The steady and rapid firing along hfsfine, nd the hearty cheers of his men, gave him assuuoe that so long as their flanks were protected, bey would maintain their position to the last .exre mi ty. He had barely rime to deploy rim oomany assigned to the left Jbofc, so as to protect bem as far as posrible bytfcenattnal ooveis which he locality afforded, when the flanking party ( he tammy appeared moving across the thiol rooded bottom, which ioterrened between his p< sitiou and the wooded hill, wham the battery < he enemy was posted. Guided by the firing froi he main line, they oame on rapidly in full am lanoe of the success of their manoeuvre, nnoot (otoos of the dispcM&on that had been'made to n aire them. They had advanced within a few rod nrhen the detachment that lay awaiting then poured in a fire well-aimed and deliberate, thatwi ?fatal as unexpected. Their ranks wore thinne iad broken by the discharge, and rootling froi he deadly rolling fire which still continued to thi heir fine, the greater portion of them fled to tb ?ver of the wood, lie remainder were great! lemorafiaed, and though they at length goffideni y reoovered from their panic to return the fire,: km delivered so wildly, and ih each confusion, thi heir shots were, for die most part, thrown away irhSe the Son there boys, raising their wild yd sprang forward from cover to cover, and hocomin in tarn the aamOants, thinned their ranks fea fully. Victor was, in the meantime, dispatched wit wdere to the officer in command of the skirmisl ing party that had been thrtwn out to protect tb right flank. Being ordered to make a detour I the right, in order to avoid the bullets of the em my who were making theattaok in front, he passe dong a depression of the ground, about one hoi lied yards to the rear of the line, where the Coi federates were so gaDantly maintaining the eon tee Just above his head flew the bullets of die enem vith a fierce Hiss Hke molten lead spattering upo irater. A shell from the battery of the enemy ei ploded in the sir quite near, scattering its fan meats around him, bat he prestod on to carry h orders through to the skirmishers on the right, h fore the enemy should have engaged them. Hai ing paand through this hollow?where a thi growth of old-field pines grew?hecroesed the tun pike a couple of hundred yards to the right of th Confederate hne, and hen, ascending a hill eovere with oaks and rhododendrons, he bore slightly i the left, each moment expecting to come upon th fine of skirmishers. He poshed his way throng the forest until, at hut, he had gone so far from tl annt whom tha firhfc was in nrosress. that the 001 notion forced itself upon him that be had miase the detatchment of which he was in search, on had gone beyond them. He paused a moment i thought, and rightly conjecturing that a detacl ment would not hare been pushed forward so fi from the flank it was designed to cover, he retrace his coarse. He had gone scarcely a hundred paces on hisn torn, when, in an opening of the forest, he can suddenly upon the head of a regiment, whose lit of march intersected the route he was pursuinj Suddenly emerging from the cover of the wood he found himself in a few feet of the leading file To his surprise and horror, he discovered that was a regiment of the enemy with which he four himself face to face! He was so close upon then before he was aware of their presence, that would have been a most desperate step to attem] to escape. Quick as thought he rode boldly np 1 the commanding officer with a confident air. "What Regiment is this?" demanded be, wit an air of authority. "The ?rd Massachusetts, Major Grigsly i command," replied the officer, seemingly astoun< ed at the sodden encounter. "The General's compliments to you, Major, wit orders to withdraw in all haste. He has just a oertained that the enemy is present in foroc, an that, while flankitfe them, you are exposed to e attack in flank and rear, by an overwhelming fore Your situation here is extremely critical, and tl whole line is to be withdrawn. I must now can orders to the regiments that are engaged." Thus saying, Victor sainted, and without awai ing question or reply, pressed on at full gallop, i the direction of the enemy's line, where the firir was heavy. He was scarcely out of sight, howei er, when, taming to the left, he hastened inseait of the detachment to whioh he had been sent wil orders. In a few minutes he had the good forttu to come upon them, closely sheltered in the wocm some four-score yards to the right of the poii where he had entered it Hastily recounting i the officer in command, the startling adventu which had jost befallen him, he urged him to moi forward, and by a spirited attack on the fiankii party, to increase their apprehensions of beii surrounded and attacked by a superior force. H suggestion was promptly put in execution. Tl cautious, but brave and alert officer, at onoe set h men in motion, and gnided by Victor, soon can up with the regiment of the enemy falling ba< upon their main body. A wild yell and a few w< directed shots, made them fearful-of being attacl ed and overwhelmed by superior forces, and throi ing aside everything that could impede their fligh their retrograde movement was converted into wild and shameful rout. Hie panic extended i self to the lines that were engaged. Twilight w; deepening on the field when the enemy discovert ^A kaJ Kami varuillni urn ULK3 UI UUJ IllUHIHg JMluvg uau wvu v^vuvn and the other put to a shameful root. A cry pass* along the lines that they were themselves about i de flanked by superior forces. Just at this oppo tune moment, a portion of the Confederate lin carried away by their ardor and impetuosity at no longer under the control of their officers, leapt over the fence with a yell and went charging don upon the enemy. The line before them, seize with a panic, wavered and broke; and then was pr sen ted the strange spectacle of thousands fleeir across the field pursued by some five or six htu dred half-disciplined men, whose darkening figure in the dim twilight seemed, to the fear-stricken fi gitives, a countless host of merciless avenger The pursuit continued a few hundred yards, ar the flashing of the muskets of the pursuers, i they fired volley after volley, Ht up the gloomit sky and the shadowy field with a lurid light Tt wild cries of rage and fear, and the shrieks of tl agonized sufferers who foil wounded on the plaii and in the wild oontortions of anguish, breathe out imprecations or cried aloud for mercy, seeme to come from phantoms of bell, into whose fearf state shuddering humanity was permitted to tai an awful glimpse. It was Victor's first battle-field, and a sense i ? liim au Vio oaf nn Tiiu honw hv tl awe vouiu v?v4 *?< ? borders of the wood, and looked down through tl deepening twilight upon the flitting figures and tl flashes of musketry, that brought out in strong r lief, like fitful gleams from an angry cloud, tl strange figures of excited men and the dark mas? of shadowy trees that, here and there, dotted tl field. Theshoutsof triumph and exultation, mini ling with the shneks and groans of the wounde* came to his ears, like sounds that stupefy the sei ses in those uneasy dreams that visit the coucb i the disturbed and fevered sleeper. Carried aws by his ardor and enthusiasm, he had seized tl musket of a disabled soldier, and, on horse-bac still, joined in the pursuit of the fugitives. Fin< ing himself entangled in the wood, he bore to tl left and soon emerged intb the open field whei the chief contest was going on. Coming sudden! upon a group of men who had made a temponu halt tinder a low and wide-spreading pine, at were re-loading their muskets; at a loss to kno whether they were friends or foes, yet doubting a that it m a detached squad of the Confederal iu pursuit of the enemy, h^ rode confidently, fe want and asked to what regiment they belongs There was silence for a moment, when (me of tl i. - ? party stepping torwara, near ms mm neta, n y torted the enquiry. > "Not so fkst, my good friend," said tie spokei if man of the party. "There, am fir* of of, and yw n are bat one; fiat answer oqy question?1wbatregi i- merit do you belong to?" h Victor vm, ibr a moment, oomplatriy tahm a back. la "I am a loyal soldier," repHed ha, partying th i, direct question of the party, in his dears to gai is time. /. t . .. d "Yes, no doubt of that; we are all loyal soldien d ibr that matter," interposed another one of th n group, coining forward and taking bis place a e Victor's right band, between hia stirrup and bridl y bit?"we an all loyal enough?but to .what ar \r you loyal?" it "To our lag, of oouree," replied Victor, with it choking sensation; for, to bit amaaement-^-M ; horror too?in the last speaker he recognised tb 1, voice of the notorious Michael Walsh, while era g in the gloomy twilight, bis eyes were able to dL r- .tingoiah the savage and brutal features of tha malignant bong who hated him with vindictiv h animosity, litis discovery, however, was of son i- adyantage to Victor, since he now knew, bepoo ie all doubt, that the party before him were his e? o mies. It gave Wm a chie to their iharaoter whi] ' - 1 U? 1 J - Kly.rfM 4 3- OB oimwa wis iitmwim, mm wmm m* huh \j < d practice whatever deception upou them he migt i' see fit to practice. It contributed no little to hi i- success in deoeiving them, that he wore a figft L blue overcoat, each as thoee with which the Fee y end soldiers were generally famished. Fearful < o being recognized by the savage outlaw, who seeme c- intently peering into hit face to distinguish hi p. features, he drew hiaslooched hat down yet fie is thar over his hraw, aa he- replied to his snamhia j- interrogatory. ... r "Which flag do you mean?there an two < a them, you know?" again questioned Walsh, pee i- ing still more inquisitively into Vkm's face, an ie laying his hand?yet so quiet^ as if it seeme d merely for support?upon hisbridle reina x> . "My own flag, of comae,", answered Vietoi ie somewhat tartly; for he was now even mm en h pentad than alarmed by the threatening attitod ie of affiuTB, and at the presumption of the outlaw; i- laying his hand upon his bridle. Knowing, ti d partytobeepemies, be might easily, byafalsehoor d have extricated himself from his dilemma f bufci n scorned a falsehood as one of the basmt apd mq i. degrading acts to which a man ean stoop. "lai u* a Federal soldier I" would have removed all difi d eulties from his way, bat he had been trained t tell the truth and his tongue refused the utters* j. of a falsehood. As he spoke, his quick earb <k ^ tected the tread of men hurrying up ffotntbe j*sr ie whom he conjectured to be his oompatriots in p? . suit of the enemv. Readv to declare tiimmlf ill ^ equivocally on their appearanoe, he fofe theneca 6 sity of temporising until they should come uj it "I am loyal to my flag," repeated Victor; "be 4 remove your hand atonoe ftouuay bridle Tsha permit no such threat as that from fiaeud or foe. it "Fire on him, men.! I fcpow him, no*,"?* 3t Waifch excitedly. UI know his face aod his voic< ^ He i? o rebel and a spy to boot" With a motion so sudden that it toot, the speal v er by surprise, lmhamiafliaMl ln ing.his flank with his heel, caused him to leap sue 2 denly forward. Walsh was nearly overthrown b the unexpected movement, and to save himse k from being rode down and trodden under foot, b ' was obliged to release his hold on Victor's bridk [(j while his musket was knocked from his grasp b the pluoge of the horse. in The attention of Walsh's comrades was, at tb ie moment, engaged by a group of men hurrying u to the spot, in pdrsuit There was no time for d 7 lay. Casting a glance of ahum towards the ne comers, whose dark skracbedhateshowedtavrbk party they belonged, they sprang off under tl In shadow of the low branching pine, and were- soc ,g out of sight In a few seconds, however, a bolli ? from the direction in whieh they had fled, alb *r catting off s few smalt twigs of the pine, whizzc harmlessly by Victor's head. Walsh, too, hi *e dashed off with his comrades, not venturing an a ' tempt to recover his fallen musket. - * Victor turned to the new comers, and amr at glanoe thai they were members of the regiment I re which he belonged. * re ' "Here go a squad of the enemy* boys!" cried b lg pointing out the retreating fugitives. "Give the ? a volley 1" 13 At the same time, he leaped to the ground ai ie leveling his^nuaket fired with as accurate ii av LS as the deepening shadows of evening permittei J? There were some six or eight in the group of Co * federate soldiers, who had so opportunely oome c ' the scene, and these were not slow in following h *' example. They fired in rapid succession, and b *' fore the smoke cleared away, a volley wae return* ltl by the fugitives. a "I shall, at any rate, see what damage your 1 ?" ring has done," exclaimed Victor, throwing hln self into bis saddle and following in the directic ^ taken by the fogitivea ' He. had not gone mar rods when be came upon two forms, not* mar yards apart, lying upon the ground. The one ha fallen upon his face and lay still and mntirmina r" His attitude and unnatural quiet were painfhl e' suggestive of his fate. Victor dismounted, as ' turning the body over, gased into the face, almo ** hoping it might 'prove that of his old enem; ro Walsh. The features were those of an unknow id stranger, and the body was quite cold Leadic e. his horse by the bridle, he approached the spc where the other was lying. As he approached the Bpot, the poor creator* a' raising his hands in supplication, turned on him s> wildly entreating eye and tittered a whispered pc a- tition for his life. s. "My poor fellowt" said Victor, tenderly stoopin , j over him to examine his wound and ascertain he conld do anything for his relief?''this is n mere scratch : you are very badly wounded." "I know that,"-said the/wounded man. in ie faint whisper, "but worse wounds get well ] le will be a good six weeks, I fear, heme I am up a, but worse wounds than mine get well" l(j "I hope yon will do well," replied Yictort wl i saw at a glance, that the wound,, which was in th . left side, where one or two ribs were badly sphate 111 ed, was of a most dangerous character. "I wi te pat yoar cartridge-box under your head, and oovc you with your blanket, until the surgeon takes yo in charge." "I wul be a long time in getting weDj I know,1 said the wounded man in the same faint whispei ie and then, after a long pause, he turned his*ey ie upon Viotor, and said. Don't you think so ?" e- "I fear it will be a very long time," replied "Vic ie tor, iq a grave manner, end in a very sad tone for his unprofessional eye slw that the wound Wl 38 beyond the aid of surgical skill 16 tlI shall get a furlough, though, at last?mayb ?- my discharge^-and go home. I will br so glad t 1, see home-again. It isn't a fioe pkoft?only a k i- cabin?but then it,is home?home?home! don't mind my wound so much when I think ho pleasant it will be to reach home again, and leav y Ellen and my little Katie no more. Bear wife an 16 dear daughter?I ought never to have left them.' k "Do you not wish a drink of water?" aske 1- Victor, who found the pulse of the wounded ma ie growing very feeble. . . re "Wul you give inesome?" asked the poor felfoi . eagerly. "I would give half my money for' on * drink/' - - * 7 "I will fill your canteen for yxm, and place it I k! your side," said Victor, companionate^ tad fi w ling; the canteen of the soldier from ha own. ,1 at gently raised his head and applied it Jtp hie hp M As the wounded man. after aoopiooe draught, su fered his head to a&k back upon his rude'piflov r~ Victor wad startled by a'voice dose at hand. - > i "Hallo, there, comrade! you will bedxamkea* ie edfir that, if you don't share with me gold an ' V W 1 1 ? h gniirtiiBrtla/SaklwIulii i ilji f I in Uo edge of the wood. ed !" muttered Michsel wS, oontnJS^toTnove off to the edge of the wood, bat a few peoeaatiB tent^ from which he had joet eteqpd t ^ B Victor. "YaawoaU herwftted quok tooiA Victor (j Garoett," answered the hanh raiee of Walsh, ? 'W wifewt* jri. ttp,if^laAftmjoat I too* human netor' well aaoMfr to he sore of that ? You are a fine fellow, end pre one A feirWtnung. I am not quite ao good eg that You shall feel m? d word shaBgive joa WJtfmg of ittcooA^.'1' g dn*m(rvpoQ flUM MBDIIL j He remained sBeotor stole awayfrom the spot, where he^^bj^b^ ind^d^h^jer f^the ^ wi^ which k offiwt is erer ae ocepri Uh^eeamormaemooffflwksto tfeefittgrydJ thepmrefremlue boeoa *to* hehadkwt it J a^ftw^aedgf^it^inhLiW ie .'Eyep if I fft^th^ehaU^rob m^J^hall 0 sky disappeared before hit w&oderins butsearch fattiatiSklSrft'vssW &jnta*Siw death flat 5- ms ateaW udoq iSlT rt wings who bad swooped down to touch him with his n guide the ? Victor, with a sigh, tamed away and left the '^^mo^^Thaaje*agstoT^aag EBen and t- Katw,*io tbear-fiia?4foottage, at thathoosv-tlriak*' oiomcD^caine sighing orer the hamble dwelling, L' whispenng among the tree-tops as it pasrod? 7 "NxVZEMOEE! NKVELMOar!" If ? i JUSTICES WI1XA&D AND HOGE. \ The Colombia eorrespondeot of the Charleston y Nam furmahes the subjoined fetches of A. H. WiBard and Solomon Hoge, recently dented Asso date Justices of iheSoprame Govt of Sooth CarB otitta: P "Th? aoteoadentiof GoLA.fi. WiHnd, whahu e- been Ajp tot the Am yeff' term, are nmiished w in the following stetcbvfbr~ which* am indebted h teone flf his fneodf . ^ -He was bom in. Albany, N. Y., is 1822, and m consequently is fcftyaix yean of age. Commen" dngthe study of the law in 1842, under Hop. Wilrt Ha Ball, then ^ttorney-Genenu at the State, he sr was admitted to piietioe in the (Sty of New York d in 1845. In 184# be was appointed Aawstant. a Counsel of the corporation of New York, under , Judge Davies, now Chief Justioe of the. Court of Appeals of New York. During the four years in which-Cob WiHard thus- serted, questions of the * grareet character^ growing out of the changes of to; She constitution, iad inrolring large interests, idaiifta4 his attention. It wwit tbi? tmw that ? mode of ^procedure adopted, were tried' erjTeri, mentally and applied to practical afeira. -Deprived d offeiaoffioem 1849 by the election of d Demterst, m he formed a eopartoership with Peter B". Sweeny, i a-well known politician of New York, and with , him was engaged in many of the most important undwiakin^ ttahow- foot?eoch, for mrtunn, as the preaent City Bailway system, the enhrgament M of the Batter? and other looal improvement*. La- * - ?? iin ?)ia nf. law with sr 6CT n?y WttB ubwumw ?U t y .. d the present Judge MoaeD, or the New York Supreme Court, and Judge Howe, an appointee of s Hen. Sheridan in New Orieaoft In November, 1864, be joined the army, re*" eehred a commission as Lieutenant-Colonel or the 10 35th oohred troopar?the eeoood regiment that ?n7 tend Charleston, after its falL Soon afterwards j Colonel WiBard was. appointed Judge Advocate, d and in that capacity tried Mi?h Crawford, Keys, , Byrem andfitowein?aoaaeyetfiashin the rsoolr" Isctioo of the people. In 1866 he toft the service, v audio July, 1867, was selected as Solicitor of the ? Second Mffitaiy District, and to take chaige of the rt Boreaa of Civil Affairs, which position be has oo7, copied tifl the present time, n Id person, Colonel Willard is not an uncanny ig looking being. He has a soft brown, peaceful eve, >t that' twinkles with genuine "cnteness," a race which corresponds handsomely with two hondred ;, pounds of flesh, six feet high, and a broad, fag a bead, ooveied with grayish brown hair. SfaBfof i- this hides his month, and is pendant.to th6 breast? a right good heard for children to play with. He g is a right good talker, argues with the moot voluu. Be equanimity, don'tloeehis temper, and is never 10 mqrehapjfty yum when 'discoursing on one-of his pet theories. of which he has more than yon can a shake a stick at The chief concern of his friends [t is that, when on the bench, such will be the voli; canic'eruption of his ideas in making a decision, ' that neither the Chief Justice dot the poor attor>o neys will be able to tell where 4he law begins or te Republicanism ends " r- * Solomon L. Hoge, the Associate Judge, who 11 is elected for the two years' term, is a captain and sr brevet major io the Sixth Infancy, and Acting Inu apeotor-General of the Freedmen's Bursas for onth Carolina. He watbonrth Logan County, " Ohio, but his mother una a Janoey, of Loudon r, County, VW Most of his kindred now live ie that e State. The weO-kaqprt) Rev. Dr. Hoge, of BSeh" mood, is his cousin. The Captain is a remarkably J- young mho to fiu so solemn a position as that to ; which he has been elevated, befog only thirty-two a [years of age, tad will probably find tt to arawafeoe written over with much woridjy expee rieooe down to that punctflious end tuna-hoooied o shape which makes aJudge look so swfbt His fknowledge of the law is confined to praotieefe Logan County and in Cincinnati ^008 1858, when he w graduated, untfi the war.whew he entered the e army. As a judge-advocate he haa-had some eid perieoce in mflrtary law Ibd praotice, but his re'' oMt transfer from the army to the bench proper, n HowS? weiTnr'tn^wi^ki^Vn''',Jnfatl^il^rinn^rwn' tine? to put hiuvin hsok, what ngBhinaqrin three w days maguetrted enough of the Ljgislatuie to see eure the office for him, are questions that still disturb the astonished outriders. J Pobtioaiiy, constitutionally sad chronically, CapK tain Hogs is said to be a OeasMr^t, akhooghmost * of theXedmembommistook Wfcra^licaL a He informs me.that he iswpswMbwk- Has been f- ^^five timea^ts a free hver, apd,like^fcis^col