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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

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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 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.

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Union Men Safe in South Carolina in Jackson's Day.

Edward Everett.

"The lives of Union men not safe, while Andrew Jackson is President! Go back to Charleston, and tell the nullifiers that if a hair on the head of a Union man is harmed, that moment I order General Coffee to march on Carolina with fifty thousand Tennessee volunteers, and if that

does not settle the business, tell them (he

added with an attestation that need not be

repeated) that I will take the field myself with fifty thousand more."

Purging the Prayer-Book.

The venerable Judge Pettigru, for fourscore 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."

"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, mad

"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, am, but the outraged law must be avengrich crops, tobacco warehouses-all that ed. How can you expect to live in a his heart could desire, and did he, could country you have robbed and murdered he, think that he could raise his two sons as you have this? Did you think that and send them out to murder that Gov- the hand of justice would never reach you? ernment, and yet go unpunished? Is it Madam, you will pack your trunks, take possible that he could have been so insane? all your silver plate, and your linen, bedNow, madam, I want you to send your clothes, all your ready money, (except the husband word to report himself to me im- ten thousand dollars which I fine you,) but mediately, and I will spare his life and let your heavy goods, such as that elegant him go with you?" bedstead, and this sofa, you cannot take; "General, won't you write to him?" it would cost too much to freight them. "No, madam, I have no correspondence All your lands and tobacco will go to the with rebels, except at the cannon's mouth. United States, and this will be the end of You put your boy on a horse and send him John Eaker, his estate and family, in the to him to-day, and tell him that he is to 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.

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

"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 Mr. Adams pressed the conversation no this railroad, so that trains can run regu- farther, but remarked, "If the dissolution larly to Paducah; after that, you will send of the Union should result from the slave your cavalry out with instructions to rebel question, it is as obvious as anything that farmers who have been raising crops to can be foreseen of futurity that it must feed the southern army, to bring all their shortly afterward be followed by a univerhay, corn and oats, and fat cattle in here, sål emancipation of the slaves. A more and send to Paducah all the grain and remote, but perhaps not less certain conprovisions you collect, so that I can oper- sequence would be the extirpation of the ate my whole district free of cost to the African race on this continent by the gradGovernment. For I tell you, Sir, these ually bleaching process of intermixture, rebels must pay the cost of this war, pay where the white is already so predominant, five hundred dollars for every widow they and by the destructive process of emancimake or cause to be made, support and pation, which, like all great religious educate the orphan children of our soldiers, and political reformations, is terrible in its and finally go to Central America, South means, though happy and glorious in its America, or the jungles of Africa, to eat the apple of their discontent, and die depised of men."

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

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, One day, during the debate upon the and brought it into the garrison. Captain Missouri bill in Congress, Mr. Calhoun, Sturgiss ordered him to take it and put it the great South Carolina leader, remarked back where he got it. He said he never to John Quincy Adams that he did not would. The Captain ordered him to the think the slave question, then pending in guard house, and in going he tore the flag the nation's councils, would produce a dis- in pieces. He was then ordered to be solution of the Union; but if it should, the put in irons, and was sent to the blackSouth would, from necessity, be compelled smith shop for that purpose; but the smith, 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. D comthat would not be returning to the old pany, First cavalry, farrier, was then order

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:

66 President, this hour overwhelms me.

their labors are as untiring as they are loyal, and their course is the right one.”

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 Presi halloed 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 deri- has placed its interests in this trying crisis sive yells, but they soon became quiet, in safe keeping. Their counsels are wise: 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"

USE IT. When this Government tumbles, look amongst the ruins for your SON.

one time, to the rebel movements in that State, especially as it was known that John C. Breckinridge, one of the political Irish Military Imagination. idols of the Kentuckians, would, under The following took place at a flag pre- certain circumstances, be found on the sentation in the Army of the Cumberland, conspirators' side. During the session of May 1, 1863. The flag was presented to that body, there appeared one day in the the Fifteenth Indiana Volunteers (on be- Legislative Hall, a patriarchal old farmer half of the young ladies of Hascall, Indi- from a neighboring county, one of that ana,) by the chaplain, and received for the kind for whom Kentucky has an instinctregiment by General Wagner. The regi- ive veneration,-who uncovered his snowy

ment 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.

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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 to go to hell, I will cut my throat and go direct, and not travel round by way of the Southern Confederacy."

man, was up, and a silence followed the "Hear! hear!" when the old hero delivered the following eloquent but laconic speech:

"Gentlemen; I am delegated by my Legislative Scene for a Painter. county to inform you, that if you hold a 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

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