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Death of Aitroiioiuer Ditchcll.
"He it* sent for to the Presence."?!.trnk?>. t
One more! and this the noblest of the train:
Like the grand star that guards the skirts of Bight
Could he not stray above onr murky plain J
Till the fair dayspriug bless our achingssiirht?
That beam millennial which salutes the Eight?
Inexorable Fate the beam will hold j
With equal hand, and show our scale As light
Tbo' youth, and strength, and wealth art fully tolled?
Genius must follow yet and mingle wilh the gold.
Hie feci were 'customed to the Milky Way..' v
On his high errand he but turned aside, '
like old Samaria*? Traveller, to stay ?*
The blood and tears abandoned by Tile Pride.
And as be knelt at tbe poor victim's side,.
* Toother ears a sound, to hia a song "
Game from the concave in a mighty tide. |
la! from hia loitering see him spend along? * .
Ms mantle and his faith to all orns belong!
He died where pois'nous weeds and poisonad hearts
Stifle the life of body and of soul;
From the cursed reaim uu iotphccn? unwru
As birds and flower* fly from the icy Pole.
"Rre-h to the rescue of the old control ;
Tlrongh Are and Wood redeem each hill and dell.
Aad when this dread sirocco hence shall roll
fOnward or backward; to its natlTe hell,
SharonV unfading rose shall flourish where he fell!
Taxing up a Collection.?A reverend
gentleman of Missouri tells the following
story:
Tie life of a preacher in a new country,
from * secular point of view, is hardly as
.smooth and free from difficulty as a position
in more populous communities usually
appears to be. The people are thinlv
scattered here and there, engaged in different
pursuits, though chiefly agricultural.
Being collected from all parts of the
older States, and gathered from every
clan of society, they meet upon the same
common ground, upon terms of easy familiarity,
and restrained by no irksome
conventionalities. People in a new country
generally have a pretty hard time of it.
They live a sort of a "rough and tumble"
life, wearing out their best efforts in a
fttrnggle for existence. Under these circumstances
the material often absorbs
completely the spiritual; and the people
not unfrequently "get so far behind" with
the preacher that tliev have to be powerfully
" stirred up" from the pulpit.
On one ocoosion we had a visit from the
premdiflg elder of our district at one of
our quarterly meetings. We had not paid
our preacher "an- dime," as the boys sav
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and we expected a scourmg jruiu iuc ci*der.'
Well, we were not disappointed. Ho
; preached us a moving discourse from the
k? - text "owevo man anything" At the close
L of the sermon, he came at once to the sub*
ject in hand.
iw ' Brethren," said he "have you paid
Brother anything this year ? Nothing
at all, I understand. Well, now,
your preacher can't live on air, and you
* must pay up?pay up, thats the idea.
He needs twenty-five dollars now, and
must have it! Steward, we'll take up a
collection now.*1
. Here some of the audience near the door
begem to "slide" ont.
"Don't run ! don't ran!" exclaimed the
elder. "Steward, lock that door, and
letch me the key," he continued, 'coming
down from the pulpit and taking his seat
the stand-table in front.
The steward locked the door, and then
deposited the key on the table by the side
' ?f tie elder.
I "Nowsteward,"said he, "go around
irith the hat. I must have twenty-five
dollars out of this cro ?vd before one of you
ahali leave this house."
Here was a "fix." The congregation
iras taken all aback.. The old folks looked j
astonished; the young folks tittered, i
The steward gravely proceeded in the dis- i
charge of his official duties, me nai, was
passed around, and at length deposited
on the cider's table. The elder poured
'** the*funds" on the table, and counted the
amount
" Three dollars and a half ! A slow
start brethren ! Go round again steward,
We must pull up a heap stronger than
that!"
Around went the steward with his liat,
^ain, and finally pulled up at the elder's
" Stand.
" Nine dollars and three quarters. Not
enough yet. Go round again, steward."
Around goes the steward the third time.
41 Twelve dollars and a half! Mighty
alow, brethren ! 'Fraid your dinners will
all get oold before you get home to eat
Ahem I Go round again, steward !"
By this time the audience began to be
i&r *j. They evidently.tliought the joko
wetting to be serious. %it the elder
was relentless. Again and again eircula
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lea file inaeiUUgUUic unt, uuu oiuny uuv
Burf-y the "pile" on the table swelled
jtoward the requisite amount.
" Twenty-four dollars and a half! Only
lack half a dollar. Go round again, steward!"
Just then there was a tap on the window
from the outside ; a hand was thrust in
folding a half dollar between the thumb
?dfinger, and a young fellow outside ext'laimed;
'iPere, Parson, here's your money.
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THE FREE SOUTH, SA
Let my gal out 'o there; I'm tired of
waitin for her.'*
44 It wjis the last hair tliat broke the
camels back ; and the preacher could exclaim,
in the language of Ike Turtle, "this
meetin's done bust up."
v A Southsidc View of the War*
iFrora the Providenc# Journal.]
* Mr, Charles B. Riclmrdsog/of New York
has /republished an exceedingly interesting
Volume, published at Richmond, and
writ(sn by Edward A. Pollard, wdil known
as ait .editor of a Richmond journal, and
also somewhat widely known as author of
a book entitled Black Diamonds. This
work is .called "The First Year of.the
War." It has passed to a second edition
in the south, aud is well worthy of perusal,
as it affords a view of the war from the
south side, and abounds in racy criticisms
of Jeff. Davis and his policy. We should
like, if we had room, to make copious ex-1
tracts from the work. We propose to direct
attention to some points of special interest
in it. We aim to give glimpses of
the author's views, not now to criticise
them!
It is very noticeable that throughout
the whole book the rebel government is
censured for incompetency, failure to understand
the exigencies of the times and
to meet them when perceived, slowness,
and neglect of its best officers; and our
government is lauded for its enterprise
and activity, its quickness in availing it- j
self of advantages gained, and the wisdom
of its preparations for the work it
had undertaken. One is often tempted
to ask in reading the volume whether the
author has not borrowed some articles
from northern newspapers and dexterously
adapted them to his purpose by changing
the name of the administration assailed
aud of the administration praised.
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the rebel authorities ordered the attack on
Sumter in order "to fire the southern
heart." This writer says that "the send,- i
ing provisions to a starving garrison was
aa ingenious artifice to commence the
war that the federal government had resolved
on."
In proceeding to describe the battle of
Rich Mountain, in Western Virginia, the
author says:
"lu the progress of the history of the
war we shall meet with frequent repetitions
or the lesson of how the improvident
spirit of the south in placing small forces
in isolated localities was taken advantage
of by the quick strategic movements and
the overwhelming numbers of the north."
Though evidently friendly to General
Garnett, who was killed in the retreat, the
writer, in effect, admits that the general
showed a want of skill.
The description of the,battle of Manassas
or Bull Run forms one of the most interestin
g chapters of the volume. According
to the author, one of the most remarkable
features, of the Battle was that it was
fought by tire rebels without any other
plan than to suit the contingencies arising
o'.Vc of the development <5f McDowell's desiorns.
as it aiwcared in the progress of the
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action. Beauregard had formed several
plans, but all bald been defeated by circumstances.
He bad been unwilling to
receive tbe federal army on the defensive
line of Bull Bun, and bad determined to
attack at Centreville. But Johnson's
forces did not arrive soon enough from
"Winchester. Meantime McDowell passed
os to tbe attack. We cannot fallow the
narrative in detail. But it is painfully interesting
to see the clear proofs here that
early in tbe afternoon tbe victory was entirely
within our grasp, owing to our overwhelming
attacks on the rebel left. The
troops in front of Burnside's brigade, consisting
of the Seventy-first New York State
Militia, First and Second Bhode Island
Militia, and Second New Hampshire Volunteers,
are represented to have suffered
most, and to have suffered terribly. It
was not till afternoon that Beauregard
fully penetrated the plan of McDowell.
44 The condition of the battle-field," says
the writer, 44 was now, at the least, desperate,
Our left flank was overpowered."
The reinforcements were brought uy, and
the sequel every one knows but too well
Mr. Pollard is unsparing in his criticism
of the rebel commanders and the
rebel government for not pushing:.on to
the rapture of Washington. He also says
that m the final result the victory was a
misfortune to the south, because it inspired
the people with a false confidence,
'n beliove that Peace would<
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soon ensre, and therefore they neglected j
to make preparations for the future, while j
the north, with tremendous energy, called :
half a million of new men into the field>
fitted out four extensive armadas to fell
upon a defenceless line of seacoast, opened
a new theatre of war in the west and 1
011 the Mississippi, and coveted the frontiers
of half a continent with her armies
and navies. The energy displayed by
the Washington government, he contiu
TURDAY, JUNE 13, 1863.
ues, is perhaps the most remarkable phe- j
nemenon of the war.
He says that Scott fell from popular fa- j
vor by a righteous retribution, and that i
there is no reason to suppose that McClellan,
wjio succeeded him, was anything
more than the oreature of a feeble popular
applause.
In describing the first campaign in
Missouri, he speaks of Gen. Lyon as "an
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I able and dangerous man, wno apprecnueu
I the force of audacity and quick decision
in a revolutionary war, and as an unmitigated,
undisguised and fanatical abolitionist"
He has no praise too high for
Gen. Price, and no reproaches too severe
for the neglectful and insulting manner in *
which Jeff. Davis lias treated him. He
tliinks it not improbable that had Price
been properly supported he would have
wrung Missouri from the Union.
In describing the Western Virginia
campaign, in which Gens. Wise, Floyd,
and Lee took part, he assails the rebel
government for its improvidence, and its
neglect of Floyd and Wise, and states that
it was the opinion of the best military men
that Rosecrans entirely outgeneraled Lee.
He says that Rosecrans is esteemed at the
south, one of the best generals the north
has in the held.
The battle of Leesburg or Ball's Bluff,
like that of Manassas, was not followed up,
and, like that, it" bore no fruits but those
of a confidence on the part of the south which
was pernicious, because it was over- ,
I weening and inactive, and a contempt for
the enemy wliich was injurious, in pro[
portion as it exceeded the limits of truth ]
j and justice, and reflected the self-conceits ]
'of fortune." j
la passing to notice the campaign in j
Kentucky and Tennessee, Mr. Pollard
oomments with much asperity upon the (
lack of chivalric southern spirit in the <
Kentuckiairs. He evidently blames Gen. i
Crittenden for attafciiig at Mill Spring,
the first in that series of battles so disastrous
to the south. He blames the Richmond
government very severely for its i
failure to sustain Sidney Johnson in Ken- 1
tucky, and for trusting to so weak a work
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as j: on ricniw as xue uuy ucieucc ui iuc j
Tennessee river. He tries to excuse Floyd j <
and Pillow for stealing out of Fort Don- ' ]
elsop. He seems to censure Beauregard (
for not pusliing on at Shiloh at the close
of the lirst day's fight, when he might
have annihilated Grant's army before 1
Buell's arrival. The Indian allies, whqjii t
Mcintosh raised for service in Arkansas, (
were evidently more trouble than help.
In no'part of th^history does the writer
show more indignation towards the 1
government at Richmond than in bis 1
chapter on the capture of Roanoke Island
by Burnside. Gov. Wise had almost z
with tears in his eyes represented to the i
authorities the vast importance of that ;
post, but he could get no help. A committee
of congress, to whom the matter
was referred, reported tliafj Gen. Huger
and Judah P. Benjamin,: Secretary of
War, were to blame. Yet Benjamin l
Sadeno defence, and did not resign,
ay, Davis afterwards made that very man
Secretary of State. From that date,*Mr. 1
Pollard informs us, the people had their c
confidence weakened in the government, j
and trusted only in the patriotism and
vi^lor of the troops in the field. Mr. Ben- j
jamiu, he says, had never been held high- t
er than "asmart, expeditious and affable
Official." Mr. Mallory, the Secretary of
the Navy, he remarks, bad been, wnen on t
our naval committee, "the butt of every i
naval officer in the country for his igno- r
ranee, his sang froid, his slow and bian- <
dering manner, and the engrossment of *
his mind by provisions for the gratifica- <
tion of his social habits. " President Da- I
vis he pictures as swallowed up by impe- 1
rious conceit, as playing the autocrat, re- (
ducing his cabinet officers to mere clerks, 1
disregarding the publio will, and adhering s
to his "defensive policy " in spite of all
the warnings of terrible events. '
Mr. Pollard closes his history of the
first year with the fall of New Orleans,
though he adds a hasty* sketch of the cam- 1
paign of last summer in Virginia. He
thinks that these benefits were gained by
the first year's war : 1. The theory of the
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impossible. Had there been no war,
there would have been, he believes, a reconstruction
on the basis of concessions
from the northern statoa. 2. It has proved
a vindication of slavery. 3. It has given
a new bond of union to the states composing
the confederacy.
Mr. Pollard promises to continue liis
Irork. In the preface to this, the second
edition, he retorts very sharply upon some
of the critics of his first edition, and expresses
his opinion of the " drunken patriots,
cowards in epaulets, crippled toadies,
and men living on the charity of Jefferson
Davis," who assail him because of his
criticisms of the President.
" Too big for his buisness," as the lady
said to the sweep who stuck in the chimney.
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NO. 23.
Miscellaneous Items.
At one of the "windows on Broadway
there is on exhibition a piece of plate that
attracts attention. It is a massive silver
butterdish, in a crimson case. The cover
of the dish has on it as an ornament, an
eloborately. chased cradle, which holds the
figure of a child. It has been made in
accordance with an old and quaint custom
of the graduates of Columbia College.
The butterdish is made at the expense of
the graduating class, and becomes the
property of the member of the class who
is first the father of a child.
"Borne ingenious German has invented a
paper eup which will completely hold a
drunaht, of the hottest, linnirl. and oun lie
bought for a pfenning. By means of this
invention the good people of Berlin take
up and drink at their ease, as they go along;
the railroad, the cupl of coffee which the
comfort loving Englishmen find it impossible
to swallow without scalding their
throats. *
All the army orders, circulars, blank,
forms, envelopes, Ac., for the Army p4'
the Potomac are printed at headquarters?two
small portable presses and sufficiency
of type being provided for the purpose;
A. two-horse wagon, when necessary, re- ?moves
the entire establishment. This department
of the Adjutant-General's office
is under the charge of Lieut. Brown, of ^
bhe late 23d New York Volunteers, an exjellent
printer. Five assistants are g?a- *
srally kept busy. Lieut. wn. is from: 2
jjt. Lawrence county, N. Y. 7
When part of Stoneman's forces reached Z
;he Rappahannock, they had to swim the iver
; and the cannon were dragged across v
Dy swimming horses !
The President has changed the sentence- W
>f Vallandigham from confinement im ^7*
Fort "Warren to transportation through* c
>ur lines.
Adjutant General Thomas arrived at. ^
Vlemphis on the 11th.' He had organized ?
regiments of ^gioes, and expected to- pe
>rganize ten more.
Hans, who is judge of morals as well am
noney, says that being tender to another
nan's wife is not a "legal tender." Weiccept
Lis opinion?though w? have no*
nterest in the question.
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