bad he been alive in 1861, would have| been found? Would he have been found standing side by side with the Virginian Lee, striking deadly blows at the heart and life of his country?

Same old Planter's Crotchet.

"Old Zack" and his Son-in-Law. When the usual committee was appointed by Congress to wait upon General Taylor, the President-elect, and announce to him his election by the people as Chief Magistrate, an incident occurred which the events of 1861 served strongly to recall in the minds of those who were knowing to it.

To General Mitchell and his brave troops belongs the distinguished honor of being the first Federal commander to penIt was doubtless with a courteous intent etrate to the great Charleston and Mem- that those who moved the springs in this phis railroad, and the first to break little matter induced Congress to appoint through the enemy's line of defence, ex- as chairman of that committee Jefferson tending from Chattanooga to Corinth. A Davis, his previous domestic relations strong Union feeling was discovered by with General Taylor suggesting him as the Nationals as they entered the State an acceptable medium; though, had the of Alabama, but it was mingled with the public been as well informed as the priusual Southern political crotchet of State vate mind, such a choice would have been Sovereignty, and the duty of submission the last adopted. The duty in question thereto. One old Gentleman, a planter, is, of course, only a form, to be fulfilled with an extensive estate, expressed the views of the majority of the people of Madison county. Said he

"It seems like tearing out my heart, to give up the old Union, but when Alabama voted to separate, I thought it my daty to sustain her."

with the gravity and the grace adapted to the occasion, but calling for no display of rhetoric, and no assumption of official dignity; it is simply a constitutional observance, whereby the representatives of the nation testify to the result of the ballot, and state the same to the successful candidate.

But," said his Union interlocutor, "Alabama, in attempting to break up the General Taylor's want of oratorical acnation, did what she had no right to complishments, his aversion to display, his do."

"Ah," responded the old gentleman, "passion and prejudice blinded our eyes to that truth."

modest demeanor, and his conscientiousness, were known as well as his bravery and patriotism, and would have been delicately respected by a thorough gentleman in the discharge of this simple duty, which

"Are you then willing,' he was asked, "to see the authority of the National Gov-needed for its performance only quiet ernment restored?"

"Yes, and to pray from this time forth that all her people may be willing to return to their allegiance."

courtesy and respectful consideration.

Instead thereof, Jefferson Davis, entering the hotel parlor, where General Taylor was seated, with the aspect of a quiet, This final answer of the old planter in- honest old farmer, threw back his shouldicated his resolution to abide by the ac-ders, turned out his right foot, and with tion of his State, whether the majority precisely the air of a complacent sophoof her people became loyal or remained more, began a loud harangue about the treasonable. It was the old planter's blind-"highest office in the gift of a free people," ing and blundering crotchet, as it was of the "responsibility of an oath," and other the South generally, among the planters. rhetorical platitudes;-the needless pitch

of his voice and dogmatism of his empha- | the spot, and standing for several minutes sis, the complacency and elaboration of apparently fixed to the place, hastily turned his manner and assumption of his tone, and left the chamber, exclaiming that he in connection with the meek attitude and could stand it no longer, for he "felt his deprecatory air of his auditor, made the Fourth of July rising too fast." Would tableau resemble a prosecutor and prisoner that all whose names are familiar with the at the bar. The difference of age and the scenes enacted in that Chamber in 1861, former relations of the parties, (Davis had been susceptible to the spell of that having by a runaway match married Gen- same great name.

eral Taylor's daughter, who died a few

sissippi.

months after,) and the utter novelty of Witnessing and Dying for the Truth in Misthe good old man's position, made the scene, to say the least, a flagrant violation About fifty miles from Natchez, Missisof good taste not less than good feeling. sippi, lived an unflinching Union man. It was one of those unconscious and During the war, his residence was aptherefore authentic revelations of charac- proached by an armed gang of guerillas, ter, which reveal a

man's disposition and

temper better than a biography. Though ostensibly doing him honor, the speaker seemed to half defy the gray-haired soldier, whose eyes were cast down, and whose hands were listlessly folded-to challenge, as it were, with his fluent self-confidence the uneloquent but intrepid man of action, and ungracious

ly make him feel how alien to his habits and capacity was the arena to which popular enthusiasm had elevated him

Magic of Washington's Name.

who soon succeeded in securing him as a prisoner, and told him, that if he did not immediately and in their presence, recant his former sentiments, and take an oath that he never by word or deed would again favor the principles that he had formerly all along adhered to, his fate would be instant death. His reply was:

While the disunion Senate of Maryland were in session in the State House at Annapolis, in 1861, a number of soldiers entered the ante-room and inquired if the Senate Chamber was not the place where General Washington once stood? An employee of the house answered that it was, and showed one of them as near as he could the very spot where Washington stood when he resigned his commission. to brand me as a traitor." The young man reverently approached

"In the sight of God and man, I am clear of the crime of treason to so glorious a nation as this was till your wicked and selfish designs have caused it to be what it is; and while I draw the breath of life, I intend never to give my children cause

They then replied that they had a long

fine 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 con-. signing 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 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."

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

of a Secessionist..

pay Major Bartling, Provost-Marshal at 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 you rebels,

General Paine's Conversation with the Wife a fund that I am raising from 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 :

:

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, madam, but the outraged law must be aveng

"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 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 eannot 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 dle 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, 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