heavy that no means could be found of confining powder sufficient to blow it up. It was, therefore, set on fire and consumed. When Mr. Lewis beheld his property in flames, he said— had been engaged extensively in the man- to utterly destroy the property if it could ufacture of iron plates for rebel gunboats, be avoided. But the machinery was so officer Johnson, of the St. Louis, was sent ashore to find the proprietors and inquire about it. He found Mr. Lewis, who at once presented himself as the proprietor, and in response to the officer's inquiries, stated that the mill had been occupied lately in the manufacture of a good deal of iron of various patterns; but it had been done for contractors and other individuals, and not directly for the rebel ⚫ Government.' Mr. Lewis was asked if he did not know from the pattern of the iron that it was for war purposes. He said that a good deal of it had been square iron, which he supposed was for wagon axles, and a considerable part had been heavy plates which might be for gunboats. He stated that he had been a strong and decided Union man as long as he could be with safety from mobs, which threatened his person and property, and likewise applied the rather doubtful assertion to Mr. Bell. He was asked why he did not décline orders for making war materials, as Mr. Hinman-proprietor of the Cumberland Iron Works, lower down the riverhad done; to which his reply was, that Mr. Hinman was in Kentucky, which did not secede, while he was in Tennessee, and above the fortification of Donelson, which was erected in May, thus shutting up the Cumberland river at the Tennessee "I hope that my private residence will be spared." "Sir," said the noble Commodore, "we came not to destroy any particle of your property which has not been used in the carrying on of this most unnatural war against the Government." Other Side of the Case. A New York journal in one of its is sues published the opinions of respectable Emancipation Proclamation. In the afcolored people, favoring the President's Emancipation Proclamation. In the afternoon the reporter met a well-known colored man, named Cooley, who whitewashes for a living, and is generally found about Ann street. The reporter said: "Well, Cooley, what do you think of the Proclamation?" Cooley-"The worse thing for the black man that ever was done." Reporter "Why?" Cooley-(coming close up, and in a mysterious whisper,)—“There's too many niggers starving here now. By'-n-bye these fellows will come down on us from the South, and drive us out, for then I tell you, then there would not be a place where a decent colored man can put down his foot! Mark my words!" Another of the Uncle Toms. In view of the inevitable fact that the works had been engaged in making and furnishing materials of war to the rebels, During the secession conflict in KenCommodore Foote considered it his duty tucky, a Union gentleman on the other to disable them, not knowing then that the side of Green River had his attention atUnion lines would soon embrace them, and tracted, one morning, to a little group comthe river beyond, to Clarksville. He in- ing up the hill. First were two intelligent formed Mr. Lewis that this would be ne- looking contrabands, next, a little ‘go-cart,' cessary and also that he must require him drawn by a mule, in which was a female to go on board as a prisoner. An attempt slave and about a dozen little negroes, was first made to disable the machinery carefully wrapped in sundry and divers of the establishment, the desire being not coats An Uncle Tom sort of a chap, with a Miss Dinah, brought up the rear. Mr. Vallandigham himself had just fallen "As they came by," says the gentleman, into a doze, when Colonel McKibben "I addressed Tom.' waked him, informing him that it was "Well, Uncle, where did your party daylight, and time to move. Some poetcome from?" "We's from de town, dar, sah." "Then you do not live in the village?" ical remark had been made about the morning. Mr. Vallandigham hereupon raised himself upon his elbow, and said, dramatically, 'Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tip-toe on the mountain tops.' He had evidently forgotten the remaining line of the quotation; but it seemed so applicable to his own case, in view of the wrathful feeling of the soldiers toward him, that some one near by could not forbear adding aloud, 'I must be gone and live, or stay and die.' The extreme appositeness of this quotation startled every one who heard it, including Mr. Vallandigham himself. "Dat I do, sure, massa. Jim (to the other leader of the mule-cart,) you go on wid the wagon, an I kotch you fore you gits home. Now, I tells you, massa, all 'bout um. My massa am Union, an' so is all de niggers. Yesterday, massa war away in de town, an de first ting we know, long come two or free hundred ob dem seceshers, on hosses, an' lookin' like cutfroats. Golly, but de gals wor scared. Jus' back ob us war de Union sogers-about six miles from Fayetteville, ArkanGod bress (reverentially,) for dey keep de secesh from killin' nigger. De gals know dat. an' when dey see de secesh comin' dey pitch de little nigger in de go-cart, an' den we all broke for de Union sogers." Good Charlie, the Union Guide. sas, the owner of a tract of six hundred acres of land, with comfortable dwelling, stock, etc. Obnoxious to the secessionists, his property was plundered by their foraging and other parties during the winter, his place being only about a mile from McCulloch's head-quarters. The family "God bress you. massa, nebber. Nig- consisted of Mr. Smith, his wife and child, ger gits ahind dem Union sojers, secesh his mother-in-law, and also his brother-innebber gits um. Secesh steal nigger-law, James Watkins and wife, married Union man nebber steal um. Dat's a fac, only about a year previously. Besides massa." So you are not afraid of the Union soldiers?" And with a chuckling smile on his face, the clever old darkey bade good morning, and trotted on after the go-cart. On the Road to Dixie. When Mr. Vallandigham was being conducted to his Southern friends, by order of the United States government, because of his treasonable utterances, a halt was made by the escort, on nearing the out posts, for rest and refreshment. After an hour passed in conversation there was an effort made to obtain a little sleep, and these, Charlie, the slave of Mr. Smith. Upon news of the approach of Curtis's forces to Springfield, the secessionists began pursuing all the Union men to hang them, and Smith and Watkins fled, hoping to make their way to some of the Union camps. The women thus left behind, being in fear of outrage and torture on their husbands' account-if not death-departed from their home on the night of Feb. 8th, with Charlie as their guide and protector, leaving the aged mother and child, who were unable to move. On foot they wended their way, sleeping what they did sleep in the open air, upon such straw or litter overcoat doubled up for a pillow, and he as Charlie could gather for them, and cov- in the agonies of death. His wife came ered by the single blanket which he car- to visit him, bringing her youngest child. ried, subsisting on the food which he which was but a babe. They were rehad stowed in a pair of saddle-bags. He fused admittance. Parson Brownlow here would have been seized as marketable put his head out of the jail window, and property belonging to a Union man, and entreated them, for God's sake, to let the the women regarded their own jeopardy poor woman come in, as her husband was as something more than that of their dying. The jailer at last consented that lives, if met or caught by the secessionists. she might see him for the limited time of They traveled about eight miles the first fifteen minutes. As she came in, and day-the women being feeble, and one of them in a delicate situation, - fording creeks, and avoiding the traveled roads. On one occasion, crossing a creek upon a log, one of the ladies fell in, and was with difficulty extricated by Charlie, who, as he said, "cooned it on de log," so that his mistress got hold of him, and when she reached the bank he pulled her out. Thus for nearly a week, foot-sore and with short and painful journeys, having no shelter, and not seeing a fire, subsisting on the scant provision which Charlie carried, they slowly made their way until they first met the advance guard of the Union forces at Mudtown. Here the ladies were at once cared for by the Colonel, while Charlie was taken some miles on horseback to "Mister Sigel," who examined him at great length, as a General knows how, comparing his stories with his own maps of the country. He was satisfied of Charlie's truthfulness, and gave him a pass for himself and the two ladies. He was rightly termed "good Charlie." Refusing to Volunteer. looked upon her husband's wan and emaciated face, and saw how rapidly he was sinking, she gave evident signs of fainting, and would have fallen to the floor with the babe in her arms, had not Parson B. rushed up to her and seized the babe. Then she sank down upon the breast of her dying husband, unable to speak. When the fifteen minutes had expired, the officer came in, and in an insulting and peremptory manner, notified her that the interview was to close. Refusing to Volunteer in the Rebel Army. In the same prison with Parson Brownlow and other Unionists in Tennessee, was a venerable clergyman named Cate, and his three sons. One of them, James Madison Cate, a most exemplary and worthy member of the Baptist church, was there for having committed no other crime than Entombment of a Virginia Loyalist. that of refusing to volunteer in the rebel Mr. John A. Ford, a respectable merarmy. He lay stretched at full length chant of Petersburg, Va., having expressed upon the floor, with one thickness of a a wish that the Boston troops had killed piece of carpet under him, and an old "fourteen or fifteen hundred" of the mob in Baltimore, instead of "fourteen or fif- tion on its way north, Mr. Ford sat on teen," was soon after waited on by an ex- one of the car seats, with his child cited crowd of people, who demanded to wrapped closely in his arms. Arriving at know if he had used this language. He Richmond, he attempted to procure a replied in the affirmative, whereupon a cry ticket, but was told that no passenger was raised of "shoot him! hang him! kill could leave for the North, unless exhibithim!" and demonstrations were made to ing a pass from Governor Letcher. With carry out the demand of the excited mob. many misgivings, Mr. Ford (it was still Meantime, however, it had become early in the morning,) wended his way to quite dark, of which some friends of Mr. the executive mansion. He represented • Ford, fellow members of a Masonic Lodge, to the Governor that his business called took advantage, in dragging Mr. Ford out him out of the State, and desired credeninto an open store, through which he was tials which would enable him to continue urged into an alley-way in the rear, while the journey. Mr. Letcher asked no questhe crowd in the street who had lost sight tions, but promptly made out the papers of him, were clamorously in search. A and handed them to him, by the aid of friend and Masonic brother accompanied which he in due time arrived in Washhim rapidly through the alley, and conducted him to the only place of safety which probably could have concealed him -a tomb in his family burial ground! ington. Unwilling to Forfeit his Right to Escape. One of the prisoners at Fort Warren, Taking the key from the vault hastily Boston, managed to escape about the time from his pocket he opened it, urged Mr. he was sent there from Fort Lafayette. Ford in among the coffins, locked the door He then enlisted in the navy under an upon him, and quickly disappeared. That assumed name, in the hopes of being night and the following day every place placed upon a vessel from which he could and by-place in the town was ransacked escape, and join his friends at the South. in the eager search of the mob for the Finding that his chances of success in this victim who had so terribly and so narrow- project were small, and not wishing to ly escaped their clutches. They finally serve against the Confederate States, he concluded that he had been spirited away, revealed his true name, and the fact that and relaxed their vigilance. Meantime he had escaped from custody, whereupon Mr. Ford remained undisturbed, with he was sent to Fort Warren. Col. Dimdarkness and the dead. There were sev- mick, of that institution, had an interview eral bodies deposited there-far less feared, with him, and told him that he might have however, by him than the living. the same privileges as the other prisoners, The man At three o'clock the following Monday if he would give his parole of honor not morning, the train was to leave for Rich- to attempt to escape again. mond. At an earlier hour, Mr. Ford's hesitated a moment, and then frankly reprotector and friend came to deliver his plied: friend from the charnel house, where, for two nights and a day, he had fasted with the dead. He was faint and weak from exhaustion, but the emergency lent him strength. While his friend went for his daughter, a litle girl seven years of age, Mr. Ford wended his way cautiously and alone to the depot. Here they met again, and when the train rolled out of the sta- confinement. "No, Colonel, I cannot do it; if I make the promise I shall feel bound by it; but really, I cannot consent to give up the right to escape if an opportunity occurs." The Colonel told the man that if he did not give his parole, he should put him where escape would be impossible, but he remained spunky, and was placed in close Left to Dine Alone. may be named Mr. V. B. Marmillon, one A person from Baltimore, temporarily of the richest and most extensive sugar a resident in the city of Boston, invited planters in the whole valley of the Misfive of his friends to dine at the house of a sissippi. He refused, however, to work female relation,—which invitation was duly his plantation, unless he could have his accepted. On going to the dinner table, the own negroes returned to him. He had party found the rebel flag topping a piece about fifteen hundred acres of cane under of ornamental pastry, in the centre of the cultivation, but his whole family of planfestive board. The insult was at once no-tation hands left him and went to New ticed by the guests, before they were Orleans, reporting themselves to the Union seated, and, as it appeared, by all of them officer. Among them could be found nearly at the same moment. Not a word every species of mechanic and artisan. was spoken, but every man left as by a They were called up and informed that mutual impulse, and the Baltimore secesthe Government had taken possession of sionist had to dine alone. Next morning their old master's crop, and that they were he was waited upon for an explanation of needed to take it off, and would be paid his misconduct, but his discretion had for their labor. All consented to return; prompted him to take the first westward train for home. but next morning, when the time came for their departure, not one of them would One of them said: "I will go anywhere else to work, but you may shoot me before I will return to the old planta Circumstances alter Principles. An anecdote is told of a Union officer, by Prentice, which is somewhat illustra tive of the fact that circumstances not go. tion." It was afterwards ascertained that only alter cases but principles also. The Marmillon, whom they called "Old Cotton gentleman in question was a violent Re- Beard," had boasted in the presence of publican, and both before and after going two colored girls, house servants, how he into the army opposed, with all the zeal would serve the hands when he once and ability of which he was capable, the more had them in his power. These girls Crittenden Compromise. At the battle had walked more than thirty miles in the of Chickamauga, when our routed wing night, with all the risks of personal safety was falling back in great disorder, and the staring them in the face, to bring the inmass of the enemy pushing forward with formation to their friends. The hands a shower of shell, grape, canister and were set to work elsewhere. musketry, this officer, who was in the midst of the deadly torrent, and who stuttered somewhat in his speech, turned to a General Garfield aptly illustrated, by fellow-soldier and said: the following quotation from an old Eng"G-g-g-george, if G-g-g-governor Crit-lish nursery rhyme, the policy of those tenden were to r-r-r-rise up now f-f-f-from extra-bleached and super-superior patriots his g-g-g-rave, and offer me the C-c-c-crit- who sought to put down the rebellion tenden com-com-compromise, by Iwith conciliatory mesmerism: would take it!" Old Cotton Beard and his Girls. Among those who took the oath of allegiance to the United States Government, Conciliatory Mesmerism. "There was an old man who said, how I will sit on the stile And continue to smile, Which may soften the heart of this cow." |