time had him under their special notice, outbreak, and did not consider their lives and that the words he had now uttered safe. Scarcely waiting to hear the words fixed their determination to make an ex- uttered, the General sprung to his feet, ample of him, in order that his doom might and with a voice and a look of almost serve as a warning to others. Whereupon superhuman energy, exclaimed, they immediately killed him, in spite of

the entreaties, the agony and utter despair of his grief-stricken wife, and in the presence of herself and children.

Turning to the widow, they gave her ten days to get inside of the Yankee lines, and if she failed to do so, she would share the fate of her husband,-after which they rode away, leaving her to her gloomy forebodings and lonely wretchedness. The cries and sobs of her fatherless children fell in doleful accents upon her ear, which added, of course, still more to her wretched state. The sense of duty that she was now under to her children, together with the fortitude that woman is not unfrequently known to exhibit in extreme cases of peril, nerved her to the task of consigning her husband to his blood-wet grave. And then, remembering the words of his murderers, their parting threat also to her self, she procured an ox team, and after a trip of a few weary days, such as may easily be imagined, she arrived in Natchez, where she sold her oxen, and by the assistance of the Government procured transportation to her kindred in Indiana.

Union Men Safe in South Carolina in Jack

son's Day.

Purging the Prayer-Book. The venerable Judge Pettigru, for four score years one of South Carolina's noblest What a scene it would have been,- names, continued, to the day of his death, said Edward Everett in one of his speeches to bear witness to the value of the Union before the citizens of Boston in the autumn against the traitors who surrounded him. of 1864,-to witness the flash of President He had no faith in the practicability of Jackson's eye and to hear the thunder of their measures, and predicted from them his voice, when he heard of the attack on the worst results to the State and the Sumter. What that scene would have country. One day, while attending church, been, the following anecdote of 'Old Hick-where, by his presence, he for so many ory,' as related by Mr. Everett, will pretty years showed that the character of a statesfairly show: When the nullification phren- man was most complete when religion gave zy was at its height in South Carolina, the it grace and solidity, he found that the serUnion men in Charleston sent a deputation vices were purged (by nullification) of the to Washington, to inform the President usual prayer for the President of the Unithat they were daily threatened with an ted States. The stern old patriot rose

from his seat and left the church, thus giv-pay Major Bartling, Provost-Marshal at

ing a silent but most pointed rebuke to treason in its most rampant locality.

Paducah, the sum of ten thousand dollars, which is the fine I have levied upon him. This money, madam, is to go to make up

General Paine's Conversation with the Wife a fund that I am raising from you rebels,

of a Secessionist.

from which to pay something toward the General Paine, with fifteen hundred support of the widows and orphans your men, occupied the town of Mansfield, Ken- husband has made. Five thousand of it tucky, to the great delight of its loyal citi- will be paid to the widow Happy. You zens. It is a place situated twenty-eight know, madam, how the old man was led miles from Paducah, containing one thou- out in the front yard, across the street sand inhabitants and many fine residences there, and shot dead! not for having and public buildings. Soon after taking wronged any human being-no, not for possession, General Paine and his staff this, but because, and only because, he went to make a call upon Mr. John Eaker, was unconditionally true to his Governan old resident of the town, and one of ment. Oh! madam, it makes the blood the wealthiest rebels in it. They all boil to think of these things." walked into the parlor and took seats, when the General turning to Colonel McChesney, said:

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Colonel, you will occupy this room as your head-quarters, allowing Mrs. Eaker and family the privilege of remaining in the house ten days, when she, her family and husband, if he can be found, will report to me at Paducah, and I will furnish them transportation to New Orleans, and thence to Central America, where they will live hereafter."

"Madam, Mr. Eaker has been our enemy; he has done all that he could to destroy the Government of the United States -that Government which has raised him in the lap of luxury, giving him slaves, rich crops, tobacco warehouses-all that his heart could desire, and did he, could he, think that he could raise his two sons and send them out to murder that Government, and yet go unpunished? Is it possible that he could have been so insane? Now, madam, I want you to send your husband word to report himself to me immediately, and I will spare his life and let him go with you?"

"General, won't you write to him?"

"General, I have a very sick child in the other room, and don't think I can possibly move with it. Won't you let me visit my friends, five miles above Paducah? I have a daughter living there."

"No, madam, I cannot; think of the four thousand widows in Illinois-think of their little orphan children coming to me for help and protection! You must go with your husband. God and nature have ordained that woman links her fate with her husband, for weal or woe. You have shared his prosperity, you have sympathized with him in his rebellion, and now you must abide with him in his exile. I am sorry to say these things, to you, madam, but the outraged law must be avenged. How can you expect to live in a country you have robbed and murdered as you have this? Did you think that the hand of justice would never reach you? Madam, you will pack your trunks, take all your silver plate, and your linen, bedclothes, all your ready money, (except the ten thousand dollars which I fine you,) but your heavy goods, such as that elegant bedstead, and this sofa, you cannot take; it would cost too much to freight them. All your lands and tobacco will go to the United States, and this will be the end of John Eaker, his estate and family, in the United States; and you will not go alone,

colonial state. Calhoun said, "Yes, pretty much; but it would be forced upon them."

Mr. Adams inquired whether he thought if, by the effect of this alliance, the population of the North should be cut off from its natural outlet upon the ocean, it would fall back upon its rocks, bound hand and

madam, one hundred families from Graves county will go with you-these rebels who cannot live under our Government must go out of it. And, madam, for every day your husband refuses to report to me after to-day, I shall increase his fine five hundred dollars." Then turning to Colonel McChesney, the foot, to starve; or whether it would retain General said: its power of locomotion to move Southward by land.

"Colonel, I want you to act as commander of this post. You must levy on as many men, white or black (not soldiers) as you may need, first to sink a well that shall supply all your wants; then repair this railroad, so that trains can run regularly to Paducah; after that, you will send your cavalry out with instructions to rebel farmers who have been raising crops to feed the southern army, to bring all their hay, corn and oats, and fat cattle in here, and send to Paducah all the grain and provisions you collect, so that I can operate my whole district free of cost to the Government. For I tell you, Sir, these rebels must pay the cost of this war, pay five hundred dollars for every widow they make or cause to be made, support and educate the orphan children of our soldiers, and finally go to Central America, South America, or the jungles of Africa, to eat the apple of their discontent, and die depised of men."

"Good morning, madam.” "Good morning, sir."

Mr. Calhoun replied that in the latter event it would be necessary for the South to make their communities all military.

Mr. Adams pressed the conversation no farther, but remarked, “If the dissolution of the Union should result from the slave question, it is as obvious as anything that can be foreseen of futurity that it must shortly afterward be followed by a universal emancipation of the slaves. A more remote, but perhaps not less certain consequence would be the extirpation of the African race on this continent by the gradually bleaching process of intermixture, where the white is already so predominant, and by the destructive process of emancipation, which, like all great religious and political reformations, is terrible in its means, though happy and glorious in its end."

Hard-Up for a Blacksmith.

On the 4th of March, 1864, the citizens of Fort Smith, Arkansas, raised a palmetto flag in town, and one of the soldiers, private Bates, company E, First cavalry,

John Quincy Adams Foretelling the Future went out and climbed up the tree upon

to Calhoun.

which the flag was suspended, took it down, and brought it into the garrison. Captain Sturgiss ordered him to take it and put it back where he got it. He said he never would The Captain ordered him to the guard house, and in going he tore the flag in pieces. He was then ordered to be put in irons, and was sent to the blacksmith shop for that purpose; but the smith,

One day, during the debate upon the Missouri bill in Congress, Mr. Calhoun, the great South Carolina leader, remarked to John Quincy Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union; but if it should, the South would, from necessity, be compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, a citizen, refused to put them on, and he with Great Britain. Mr. Adams asked if was discharged in consequence. that would not be returning to the old pany, First cavalry, farrier, was then order

D com

ed to put them on, and he refused, and as the successor of the late Commanderwas also sent to the guard-house. E com-in-chief. pany, First cavalry, farrier, then put them on. The soldiery gave three shouts for Bates, and for the blacksmiths who refused to put the irons on.

Reading the Amnesty Proclamation at "Buzzard's Roost."

When Sherman's men were climbing the sides of "Buzzard's Roost," in their gallant and successful movement at that point, the rebels attempted to resist the advance by rolling down heavy stones from the cliffs and rocky sides of the mountain. The following story is told of the occasion, on the authority of a staff

officer:

The President, accompanied by every member of the cabinet, now visited General Scott at his own residence, and read to him the order of retiracy, accompanied with highly eulogistic expressions of the national gratitude for his brilliant services in times past, and regret at the necessity of officially parting with him. The aged General stood up, and with him rose the President and the members of the cabinet. Deeply affected by the occasion, the old veteran said:

has placed its interests in this trying crisis in safe keeping. Their counsels are wise: their labors are as untiring as they are loyal, and their course is the right one."

"President, this hour overwhelms me. It overpays all services I have attempted to render to my country. If I had any claims before, they are all obliterated by A corporal of the Sixty-fourth Illinois this expression of approval by the Presihalloed to the rebels, and told them if they dent, with the remaining support of his would stop firing stones he would read cabinet. I know the President and his to them the President's Proclamation. cabinet well. I know that the country The offer was at first received with derisive yells, but they soon became quiet, and the corporal then read to them the Amnesty Proclamation. When he came to some part they did not approve, they would set up a fiendish yell, as if in defiance, and then sent down an installment of rocks by way of interlude. But the corporal kept on in spite of such uncivil demonstrations, and finished the document, when there was another outburst of yells, mingled with laughter, and the old business of tumbling down the rocks and firing was again resumed. That corporal deserved an appointment as President Lincoln's Secretary-at-large.

Official Farewell to General Scott.

After these few words, overcome by emotion, and tottering from the effects of wounds and infirmities, the old hero sat down.

The President and each member of his cabinet now bade farewell to the General and retired.

Preaching the Sword-and Using It.

The following telegraphic correspondence passed between a mother in Baltimore, and her son, the pastor of a church in Boston:

BALTIMORE, April 17th.

MY DEAR SON: Your remarks of last

Sabbath were telegraphed to Baltimore, and published in an extra. Has God sent you to preach the sword or to preach Christ? Your MOTHER.

An event of profound interest to the country occurred Oct. 31st, 1861, namely, the resignation of Lieutenant-General Scott, the veteran commander-in-chief. This was owing to his advanced years and various bodily infirmities. The request, on such grounds, could not, of course, but be complied with, and General McClellan was at once notified that he had been selected me not only "to preach the sword," but to

BOSTON, April 22d.

MY DEAR MOTHER: "God has sent"

Irish Military Imagination. The following took place at a flag presentation in the Army of the Cumberland, May 1, 1863. The flag was presented to the Fifteenth Indiana Volunteers (on behalf of the young ladies of Hascall, Indiana,) by the chaplain, and received for the regiment by General Wagner. The regiment was in line, and the rest of the brigade assembled to witness the ceremony. The General, in the course of his speech, said:

"Tell the young ladies of Hascall that when the war is over their then sanctified gift shall be returned to them, unless torn to shreds by the enemy's bullets."

"An' thin we'll take 'em back the pole!" cried an Irishman in the regiment.

The brigade, officers and men, created a breach of discipline by laughing immoderately, and Pat received a pass to go to town next day.

Brownlow Prefers the "Direct" Route to

Hell.

Parson Brownlow, at that time editor locks and sat down. At the first lull in of the Knoxville (Tenn.,) Whig, was re- the debate, he rose slowly and said he quested by General Pillow, in the early had a word to say, but was aware it was part of the secession movement, to act as out of order for him to speak before the chaplain for that General's brigade in the legislature while in session. His dignified rebel service. The Parson replied in his and venerable appearance arrested attenusual scathing and trenchant rhetoric, as tion, and "Go on!" "Go on!" from sevfollows: "Sir-I have just received your eral voices, seemed to keep him on his message through Mr. Sale, requesting me feet. Again expressing his diffidence to serve as chaplain to your brigade in at speaking out of propriety-"Hear! the southern army: and in the spirit of hear!" resounded generally over the room. kindness in which this request is made, The members' curiosity as well as respect but in all candor I return for an answer, for the appearance and manner of the that when I shall have made up my mind man, was up, and a silence followed the to go to hell, I will cut my throat and go" Hear! hear!" when the old hero dedirect, and not travel round by way of the livered the following eloquent but laconic Southern Confederacy." speech:

"Gentlemen; I am delegated by my Legislative Scene for a Painter. county to inform you, that if hold a you The secret schemes of secession under- secret session here, as you threaten to do, taken by certain members of the Ken- not one stone of this capital will rest upon tucky legislature gave great impetus, at another twenty-four hours after-good