bush-whacking devils? ahead any, I should think.'

That didn't set your--your friend

"They arrested us as spies, and we had no choice. But he will leave them as soon as-' The poor fellow's feelings seemed to overcome him completely, and he covered his face with his hands and sobbed. I noticed, for the first time, I think, how slender his hands were. I also saw that he did not know of his comrade's death.

"At this moment, when I was pretty far gone myself, and unable to stand it much longer, the word was suddenly passed for Corporal Jukes. I went out. The hour for execution had arrived; the shooting party was drawn up. I needn't describe the details to you; you've seen the thing more than once. And as to describing my feelings, I can't do it any more than I could describe the battle of Waterloo!

"But just as the word was given Make ready!' a thought flashed across me, and it nerved my arm and steadied my eye wonderfully. If it hadn't been for this lightning-flash of an idea, I could no more have drawn a clear bead on poor Ned's heart than I could have sighted a musketeer at a thousand yards. But when the Aim!' came, I drew as sure a bead on the poor lad's life-spot as ever old Leatherstocking did on a Huron Injun.

"Then came the fatal Fire!' and I pulled trigger. *

*

*

"It was over. The lad who called himself Ned Kenton was but a shell, with the filling of life gone out of him in a flash. My thought-the thought that had steadied my aim-made me very anxious to examine the body. I found a bullet through the brain. This had killed him. Two more through the shoulder, one in the thigh, and one which had just grazed his right side. The others were wide. These, however, I only discovered afterward. My first impulse was to look for my own mark on the breast. In my hurry I forgot that the ball must first pass through the jacket, which was tightly buttoned from skirt to throat, and so hastily tore it open, wrenched the under-clothes aside, and-found the fair white bosom without a sign of wound!

"Yes! I had got the BLANK CARTRIDGE! This was the thought, the hope, that had flashed through me; and, strange as it seems, and is, it had so come to pass.

"But something still stranger than this it was that made me spring up with a sort of yell, as soon as I had laid bare the breast of poor Kenton.

"Biles! My God, Biles!' I shrieked to the sergeant, who was coming with a file to bury the corpse; 'come on! quick! It is a-a woman!'"

Jukes paused abruptly, and seizing the now nearly empty canteen, drained it to the last drop.

"Well?" said one of the party, interrogatively, seeing him. still silent.

"Well, what?" asked the sergeant.

"Why, who was she, and what-?"

Lieutenant," quoth Jukes, interrupting the speaker (who was not Bead), "can't you guess the rest of the story?"

"Perhaps," said the officer, slowly. The so-called Ned Kenton was, probably, the 'Miss Tilda, pore chile,' of the old negress, George was her lover, and the mortal wrong' that had been done by the Southern officer was

"Lieutenant Bead," said an orderly, putting in his head and saluting as he caught sight of that officer, "the colonel wishes to see you at his quarters, sir, immediately."

C. D. G.

"

ALLATOONA.

BY AN OFFICER OF THE SEVENTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.

THE battle of Allatoona Pass, Georgia, was fought October 5th, 1864, by portions of the Third and Fourth Divisions of the Fifteenth Army Corps, numbering about seventeen hundred men. Brave and devoted legion! At a cost of one-half their number they sustained the terrific struggle, and held their position, which was vital to Sherman's continued occupation of Atlanta, or his March to the Sea. Millions of rations were there accumulated, for the purpose of pushing into Georgia from the mountain-base. The rebels, six thousand strong, under Major-General French, made desperate and magnificent efforts to carry the position, but horribly were they defeated, and ruined! Then rose the cheer from hearts of oak, even the dying swelling the full notes of triumph. General CORSE, the commanding officer, still wears the scar which testifies to his splendid service on that day. V.

WINDS that sweep the Southern mountains,

And the leafy river-shore,

Bear ye now a prouder burden

Than ye ever learned before!

And the hot blood fills

The heart, till it thrills

At the story

Of the terror and the glory

Of the Battle of the Allatoona Hills!

Echo it from the purple mountain
To the gray resounding shore!
'Tis as sad and proud a burden
As ye ever learned before-

How they fell, like grass
When the mowers pass!

And the dying,

When the foe were flying,

Swelled the cheering of the heroes of the Pass.

Sweep it, o'er the hills of Georgia,
To the mountains of the North!
Teach the coward and the doubter
What the blood of Man is worth!

Toss the flags as ye pass!

Let their stained and tattered mass

Tell the story

Of the terror and the glory

Of the Battle of the Allatoona Pass!

THE knife was still,-the surgeon bore

The shattered arm away;

Upon his bed, in painless sleep,

The noble hero lay:

He woke, but saw the vacant place,
Where limb of his had lain,
Then faintly spoke: "Oh, let me see
My strong right arm again!"

"Good-by, old arm!" the soldier said,
As he clasped the fingers cold;
And down his pale but manly cheeks
The tear-drops gently rolled:

"My strong right arm, no deed of yours,
Now gives me cause to sigh;

But it's hard to part such trusty friends:
Good-by, old arm! good-by!

"You've served me well these many years,

In sunlight and in shade;

But, comrade, we have done with war,

Let dreams of glory fade.

You'll nevermore my sabre swing,

In battle fierce and hot;

You'll never bear another flag

Or fire another shot.

"I do not mourn to lose you now,

For home and native land:

Oh, proud am I to give my mite,
For freedom pure and grand!
Thank God! no selfish thought is mine,
While here I bleeding lie:

Bear, bear it tenderly away,
Good-by, old arm! good-by!"

NEW YORK CITY, 1865.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE,

AND

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

MANUAL FOR THE QUARTERMASTER's DepartmENT.-Colonel Crosman, Assistant Quartermaster-General, has occupied himself during the past year in preparing, under the instructions of the Quartermaster-General, the manuscript and drawings of a Manual, similar in its plan and arrangement to the French "Aide Memoire." It contains correct and minute specifications of every article supplied to the Army by this Department, from a set of barracks for a regiment to a tent-pin. The book is divided into sixteen chapters, which embrace descriptions and explanations for the erection of barracks and quarters, general and regimental hospitals, storehouses, &c. ; means of land transportation, and of horses by sea; stables for light artillery and cavalry; specifications and rules for the inspection of timber, iron, leather, horses, mules, harness, &c., &c.; shoeing of public animals; tools and implements for the field; clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, and materials; besides numerous tables, showing the strength and quality of materials required for all textile fabrics, iron chains, rope, &c., &c. The manuscript contains much valuable information of a miscellaneous character, all of which has been so long needed in our Army, and which cannot fail to be useful. One hundred and twenty-seven drawings, skilfully executed, accompany the specifications.

A Board of experienced officers of the Quartermaster's Department will carefully revise the work before it is published for the use of the Army. The manuscript and drawings show great labor and study in the compilation and preparation of this large mass of information, the result, mainly, of the practical experience and observation of an old officer of the Army; and when approved and adopted by the War Department, they will establish the Army Standards for all the variety of materials and articles to be supplied by the Quartermaster's Department.

In all the armies of Europe such manuals or hand-books have been long in use in all the various branches of the service, and we are glad to see, at last, so important and useful a work authorized for our Army.

Had such a book been published prior to the late war of the rebellion, a large sum of money would probably have been saved to the treasury, and more exact uniformity in the dimensions and quality of field equipage, clothing, &c., secured to the troops.

At the commencement of the war, the want of such information was seriously felt, as no general and fixed standards or specifications for the multifarious supplies of the Quartermaster's Department had then been established or authorized, and much, therefore, had to be left to the discretion and judgment of the officers in charge of the principal depots; and hence the want, often, of uniformity in the character and dimensions of many of the important articles of equipment furnished to our soldiers, all of which should, if possible, be always exactly of the same material and pattern.

Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., of New York, sent us, some months since, a book which we have taken the time to read before reviewing it. It is entitled, "What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands;" by H. Willis Baxley, M. D. It is a large octavo of 632 pages, and our first emotion

was one of anticipated weariness when we took it up. We confess to a charming disappointment. The book is worthy of perusal from beginning to end, as it contains information on matters not generally known: delineations of society and manners, and descriptions of natural scenery, rare vegetable and floral products, and political moralizings of great value with respect to our international relations in that direction. Dr. Baxley was a Special Commissioner of the United States to visit those countries in the years 1860-'61-'62; and he has given us candid and fearless criticisms upon the institutions and people whom he met. He sailed from New York to Aspinwall, thence by Panama to Callao, visited Lima and Valparaiso, made a journey to Santiago, returned to Panama, and then went to San Francisco, and thence made his voyage to the Hawaiian Islands. Evidently a High Church Episcopalian himself, he does not scruple to condemn the Roman Catholic idolatries on the continent, and the entire failure of the Protestant missionaries in the Islands; and doubtless tells some home truths about both. The book is illustrated with numerous wood-cuts, which really describe the places and events to which the letter-press refers. Books of travel are usually very tiresome, simple itinerarys of individuals, whom we do not know, and for whom we care nothing. This one is fresh, piquant, entertaining, and of practical utility; it is handsomely published, and with large print.

Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, announce the preparation of the "Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams, by William V. Wells;" to be published in three volumes 8vo, of five or six hundred pages each; containing three portraits on steel. Elegantly printed on laid paper. Price, $10.50. Of the distinguished subject, Governor Hutchinson said to George III., that "he was the first man who asserted the independence of the colonies." Of the author, Mr. Bancroft says: "I know of no one so well able to do this public service, from zeal, industry, and opportunities of investigation, as Mr. Wells."

We have received, from the author, "Q. M. D.; or, Book of Reference for Quartermasters. By Captain Walworth Jenkins, A. Q. M., United States Army." Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., 1865. 12mo, 303 pp. Unlike most other manuals prepared during the war, which presented only the rescript of forms and tables, this book is a clear, well-arranged system of instruction and reference, on every point which can possibly arise in, or in any manner connected with, the Quartermaster's Department. We find its value, 1st, in its admirable arrangement. Not only can a quartermaster find all that he wants in it, but any inexperienced officer can answer any question which may arise in his mind, at once, by a reference to its table of contents and its excellent and full index. 2d. Its details are posi, tively astonishing. Captain Jenkins, like Goldsmith's schoolmaster, excites our wonder, "that one small head" could learn and thoroughly digest all that is here. 3d. The information is given in terms of Orders and Regulations, wherever possible. The book has called forth the unqualified commendations of several quartermasters of high rank and distinguished abilities

Our old friend, Major-General Robert Allen, a prince among quartermasters, says:

"I have examined carefully this work in manuscript. It is a digest of the Regulations and Orders pertaining to the Quartermaster's Department, and comprehends the whole duty of its officers, arranged and classified under appropriate heads, with the authority for each paragraph annexed.

"Captain Jenkins has labored assiduously on this compilation for eighteen months, and the service at large is to be congratulated that one so competent has undertaken it. The best informed will be astonished, on perusing this book, to find how imperfectly they are posted in the orders and decisions which have been