wounds, but during all this period her sex | est poison." "Yes," she replied, "and to was undiscovered. Her reason for enter- your hatred of the South, too." ing the service was that she might be near a young man whom she loved; but he proving a coward, she became disgusted with him, and then continued to serve in the hope that some friendly bullet would end her unhappy life. But finally becoming cured of her love, romance and misanthropy, she concluded to return to her proper sphere in life and live like a rational creature.

The flirtation nearly made her in favor of 'Union' and us the more so. But we had not gone far when we observed a company of soldiers approaching, who brought with them the 'lovyer'-a corpse upon a litter, returning to his sweetheart. He had been shot while trying to avoid the quick eye of our sharpshooters, near a house upon the York river shore, where his father had resided, and where a negro informed the soldier that his mother and sister were Speedy Realization of an Angry Wish. at the house where we had been in conA correspondent writing from the York-versation with the ladies, one of whom town peninsula tells the following:-While was his sister, and our soldiers had, after coming from a scout this afternoon we call-receiving orders, carried him to be buried. ed at a house and found a couple of ladies, quite young, and one as handsome as a Hebe. They were secesh to the backbone, and had each a "lovyer" in the rebel army; one of them was at Yorktown, and only left the day before to pick his way back along the York river, and carry such information as he had gotten from us. The young lady showed us his photograph, a good looking Lieutenant, and hoped we should meet him face to face, that he might leave us for dead. "Oh,” said she, "if all the Yankees were one man and I had a sword here, I should like to cut his throat!"

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We did not mar the sorrow of the relatives by stopping to witness the reception of the body. Her hasty wish that he might come home dead' was speedily and sadly realized

Kentucky's Joan d'Arc.

A marauding band of secessionists in Kentucky, on their way to Mount Sterling, stopped at the house of a Mr. Oldom, and, he being absent at the time, plundered him of all his horses, and among them a valuable one belonging to his daughter Cornelia. She resisted the outrage as long as she could, but finding all her efforts in vain, she sprang upon another horse and started post haste toward the town to give the alarm. Her first animal gave out, when she seized another, and meeting the messenger from Middletown, she sent him as fast as his horse could carry him to convey the necessary warning to Mount Sterling where he arrived most opportunely. Miss Oldom then retraced her way toward home, taking with her a doublebarreled shot-gun. She found a pair of saddle-bags on the road, belonging to a She spoke of poison in a glass of water Confederate officer, which contained a pair we drank, but I replied that "one look of of revolvers, and soon she came up with her angel face, one smile from her lovely the advancing marauders, and ordered them features would be an antidote to the rank- to halt. Perceiving that one of the

And she said it with a vim, too. We told her we would take good care of young Lieutenant White, and see that Miss Florill had an opportunity to change her name after the battle was over, hoping for an invitation to the wedding, and as she had called me the Divine,' or chaplain of the regiment, I proposed to marry them.

"Never," said she; "I hope he will come home dead before you shall take Yorktown. I would wade in blood up to my knees to bury his body."

thieves rode her horse, she ordered him to | 1864, and at the close it was urged to visit surrender the animal; this he refused, and Salem and spend Fast Day with friends finding that persuasion would not gain her there. This invitation she declined, sayends, she levelled the shot-gun at the ing that there were no hospitals or prisons rider, commanding him, as Damon did the there, and to these was her mission. Soon traveler, "down from his horse," and after, however, yielding to a strong im'threatened to fire if he did not comply. pression upon her own mind, that it was Her indomitable spirit at last prevailed, her duty, she announced that she would and the robbers, seeing something in her go. She attended Friends' Meeting and eye that spoke a terrible menace, surren- preached, her subject being "the value of dered her favorite steed. When she had early religious training." Illustrative of regained his back, and patted him on the this, she related the following touching inneck, he gave a neigh of mingled recog- cident :nition and triumph, and she turned his head homeward and cantered off as leisurely as if she were taking her morning exercise.

Soon after the terrible battle of Fredericksburg, she visited one of the hospitals in the vicinity of Washington, going from ward to ward, and from cot to cot, comforting and consoling the wounded Elizabeth Comstock and the Dying Soldier. sufferers. Upon one bed lay a young Elizabeth Comstock, a lady of English man, with eyes closed, and apparently inbirth, and a resident of Michigan, is an sensible. The attendant remarked that it eloquent preacher of the Society of Friends. For some years she had devot

would be useless to speak to him, as he had been constantly delirious since his arrival, and had now relapsed into a death-like stupor. But the good lady, full of motherly, christian sympathy, stopped by the bedside, and repeated Dr. Watts's hymn, in her sweet tones:

'Jesus can make a dying bed

Feel soft as downy pillows are,' &c.

As she closed, the young man looked up, with an intelligent smile, and seeing the female form, said "I knew you would come, mother, and speak to me of Jesus." By his side the good woman remained, till the youth's spirit left him, and catching his last accents on earth, "Mother, I am going to Jesus."

But the most remarkable part of this affecting story is to come.

As the meeting broke up, and the Friends were leaving, the preacher's attention was arrested by a female face in ed herself particularly to visiting prisons the throng, and she remarked to a friend, and hospitals, and with the self-denying "That must be the mother of the young spirit of a Howard or a Fry, has minis- soldier, of whom I spoke." They met, tered to the suffering inmates. She was the preacher and the mother, and upon in attendance at the Yearly Meeting of comparing notes, the fact was established, Friends, at Newport, Rhode Island, in that it was the son of that mother, to

whom good Elizabeth Comstock had ministered in his dying hour, and had thus brought to her the first knowledge of that son's death. Perhaps none but a parent can imagine the consolation thus given by the assurance that, in his dying hour, the young soldier thought of his mother, and coupled her name with that of the Saviour, whom she had taught him to revere. Who shall say, that the Good Spirit did not lead Elizabeth Comstock, out of her chosen path of labor, to carry comfort to the heart of that Salem mother?

Music in the Hospital.

A young lady was heard to say, "I wish I could do something for my country; I would willingly become a nurse in a hospital, but I have not the physical strength. What can I do?"

"You can sing," a friend replied. "Yes, I can sing, but what of that?" "Go to one of the hospitals, and sing for the soldiers."

ing upon it the following endorsement: "This bill was paid for one plate of ice cream in Jersey City, at a fair for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers, by J. A., Esq., April 11, 1863. H. M. H." This raised the little query, "How much change did J. A. get? or, if he did not receive any, then who is J. A?" Well, there was, it seems, a fair at Jersey City, for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers; and among other things provided by the benevolent ladies in charge was a bountiful supply of ice cream. In the course of the evening a well known and excellent gentleman called for a plate of the cream, ate it, and laid down a five hundred dollar treasury note in payment. The lady from whom he had procured the delicacy was thunderstruck-declaring her utter inability to make the change. "Never mind the change!" said the gentleman, and walked away. The gentleman who chose this pleasant mode of contributing to a noble cause was Mr. John Armstrong, of Jersey City.

The idea pleased her. She accompanied a friend who was long used to such visits, and who introduced her by saying Two made One: the Sergeant and the

to the patients:

"Here is a young lady who has come to sing for you."

Daughter of the Regiment.

The marriage of a favorite Massachusetts sergeant with the "daughter of the At the mere announcement, every face regiment" constituted one of those pleaswas aglow with animation, every eye ant episodes in military life which every was rivited upon her with expectant pleas- body loves to witness or see chronicled. ure. She sang a few songs, commencing Says 'Carleton,' that admirable delineator, with the glorious "Star Spangled Ban- Six bold riflemen, clad in blue, with ner." As the thrilling notes of that song scarlet doublets over the left shoulder, and rang through the apartment, one poor bearing blazing torches, six glittering man, who had been given up by the phy- Zouaves, with brilliant trappings sparkling sician as an almost hopeless case, raised in the light; and then the hollow square, himself in his cot, leaned his head upon where march the bridegroom and bride; his hand, and drank in every note like so then seven rows of six groomsmen in a much nectar. The effect was electrical. row, all armed cap-a-pie, with burnished From that moment he began to amend, weapons, flashing back the lustre of the and finally recovered. Zouave uniform; and all around the grand regiment darkening the white tent-folds, as their ruddy faces were but half disclosed between the red and yellow glare of the fires, and the soft, silver light of the May moon.

Five Hundred Dollars for a Plate of Cream.

A treasury note for five hundred dollars was sent to the United States Treasury at Washington, for redemption, in 1863, hav

Marching thus, preceded by the two ty-four men, who, with their musical infiles of sixes, and followed by the glitter- struments, occupied a car by themselves ing rows of groomsmen, the little cortege from Philadelphia to Baltimore. By some moved out of the great tent on the edge accident, this car got switched off at Canof the circle, and went slowly, amid the ton Depot, so that instead of being the bold strains of the "Midsummer Night's first, it was left in the rear of all the Dream," toward the regimental chaplain. others, and after the attack had been made The bride was fair-haired, blue-eyed, by the mob upon the soldiers, they came rosy-cheeked, darkened in their hue by furiously upon this car of unarmed men, exposure to the sun, and in just the dress assailing them violently with stones and worn by les filles du regiment. She was other missiles, wounding some severely, formed in that athletic mould which dis- and demolishing their instruments. Some tinguishes the Amazon from her opposite of the miscreants jumped upon the roof extreme of frailty. She was, in a word, of the car, and, with a bar of iron, beat a a young girl apparently about eighteen years of age, with clear, courageous eye, quivering lip, and soldierly tread.

hole through it, while others called for powder to blow the whole concern up. The poor fellows had now to jump out The bridegroom was of the same san- and meet their fiendish assailants hand to guine, Germanic temperament, as the hand. They were at once stoned furiously, bride, and full six feet in height; dress-a and ran swiftly through the crowd, fightcocked hat, with blue plume, dark blue ing their way along, and going they knew frock, with bright scarlet blanket, tartan not where. As they were thus fleeing at fashion over the shoulder, and small sword, random through the streets, a rough look-looking every inch a hero. And there ing man suddenly jumped in front of their they stood before the regimental chaplain, leader, and exclaimed, "This way, boys! with his robe and surplice and great book, this way!" amid the stare of a thousand anxious It was the first friendly voice they had hearts, and to the music of glorious old heard since entering Baltimore; their new Mendelsohn. The music ceased; and then guide took them up a narrow court, where a silence, succeeded by the clear voice of they found an open door, into which they the preacher a few short words, a few rushed, being met inside by a powerful heart-felt prayers, the formal legal ceremo- looking woman, who grasped each one by nial, and the happy "amen." It was done. the hand and directed them up stairs. The pair were man and wife. The grooms- The last of their number was knocked people formed a hollow square around the senseless just as he was entering the door, newly-wedded couple. In one corner a by a stone, which struck him on the head, gateway was left for the entrance of the but the woman who had welcomed them, Then came one by one the mem- immediately caught up their fallen combers of that troop, with a kind word each, rade, and carried him in her arms up the as each touched the bride lightly on the stairs. cheek, and grasped the bridegroom heartily by the hand-of one the sworn fathers, of the other the friends and brothers, comrades in arms.

men.

The drums rolled forth again!

Anna Manley, the Baltimore Heroine. The band of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment that left Boston, numbered twen

"You are perfectly safe here, boys," said the Amazon, who directly proceeded to wash and bind up their wounds. After having done this she procured them food, and then told them to strip off their uniforms, and put on the clothes she had brought them, -a motley assortment of baize jackets, ragged coats, and old trowsers. Thus equipped, they were enabled to go out in

quainted with and enamored of a young lady of culture and fortune, a distant relative of General Pillow, and was soon en

search of their companions, without danger of attack from the Plug Uglies and Blood Tubs. They then learned the particulars of gaged to marry her. The love-stream of the attack on the soldiers and of their the young couple flowed smoothly enough escape, and saw lying at the station the until the fall of Sumter and the secession two men who had been killed, and the of Tennessee, when the affianced husband, others that were wounded. On going a strong advocate for the Union, returned back to the house where they were so home, designing to wed after the troubles humanely treated, they found that their were over. The betrothed pair corresclothes had been carefully tied up, and ponded regularly; but, some weeks after with their battered instruments had been the lover had gone to Harrisburg, the girl, sent to the depot of the Philadelphia rail- who had suddenly grown a violent secesroad, where they were advised to go sionist, informed him that she would not themselves. They did not long hesitate, become his wife unless he would enlist in but started in the next train, and arrived the rebel service and fight for the indein Philadelphia just in time to meet the pendence of the South. Eighth regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under command of General Butler, who told them to hasten back to the Old Bay State to show their battered faces and broken limbs, and that they should yet come back and play "Hail Columbia" in the streets of Baltimore, where they had been so inhumanly assaulted.

The noble-hearted woman who rescued these men, dressed their wounds, fed them at her own cost, and sent them back in safety to their homes, was a well-known public character in Baltimore-an outcast, according to the verdict of Christian society; but she was a true heroine, nevertheless, and entitled to the grateful consideration of the country. "Anna Manley" is the name by which she has been known in the city of Blood Tubs.

Love and Treason.

A young man, belonging to one of the Tennessee regiments-he held the rank of First Lieutenant in his company-received a mortal wound in the Fort Donelson conflict. This young officer was a native of Harrisburg, Penn., and had resided there until the autumn of 1859, when he went to Columbia, Tenn., and there engaged in the practice of law with considerable success.

The young man was exceedingly loth to take such a course, and remonstrated with his beloved to no purpose, and at last, in the blindness of his attachment, and the goading selfishness of passion, he informed his parents of his intention to win his mistress on the tented field; the field of his country's enemies. In vain they endeavored to dissuade him from such a resolution. He went to Tennessee, raised a company, received the congratulations of his traitorous friends, and the copious caresses of his charming tempter.

The Lieutenant proceeded to Donelson, in December, and, a few days before the fight, heard that his betrothed was the wife of another! His heart had never been in the cause, though it was in another's keeping; and, stung by remorse, and crushed by the perfidy of his mistress, he had no desire to live. Unwilling to desert on the field of battle the cause he had embraced, lest he might be charged with cowardice, he resolved to lose that existence that had become unbearable to him; and in the thickest of the fight, while seeking death without endeavoring to inflict it, he received a mortal wound.

Those who have not read "Edmund Kirke's" marvelous delineations of life and character in the midst of "the instituWhile in Tennessee he became ac- tion," have yet to feast themselves from