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J am dyW. mi*’ dyinp."- Bhassl>bare.
1 a*n dying, dying !
Ebbe the onmson life-tide fast,
And the dark Plutonian shadows
Gather on the evening blast.
Let thine arm, oh! Queen! support me,
Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear,
Listen to the great heart secrets,
Thou, and thou alone, must hear.
Though my scarred and veteran legions
Bear their Eagles high no more.
And my wrecked and scattered galleys
Strew dark Actium’s fatal shore;
though no glittering crowds surround me,
Prompt to do their Master’s will.
I must perish like a Roman —
Die, the great Triumvir still!
Let not Caesar’s servile minions
Mock the lion thus laid low,
’Twas no foeman’s arm that felled him,
’Twas his own that struck the blow.
Hear, then! pillowed on thy bosom,
Ere its star shall veil its ray,
Him, who drunk with thy caresses,
Madly threw the world away.
Should the base plebian rabble
Dare assail my fame at Rome,
Where the noble spouse, Octavia,
Weeps within her widowed home—
Sleek her, say the gods have told me,
Altars, augurs, circling wings,
That her blood with mine commingled,
Yet shall mount the throne of Kings.
And, for the star-eyed Egyptian,
Glorious sorceress of the Nile,
Light the path to Stygian honors
With the splendor of thy Bmile t
Give to Caesar crowns and arches,
Let his brew the laurel twine,
I can scorn the Senate’s triumphs,
Triumphing in love like thine 1
I am dying, Egypt, dying;
Hark! the insulting foeman’s cry;
They are coming—quick, my falchion !
Let me front him, ere I die.
Ah! no more amid the battle
Shall my heart exulting swell;
Isis and Osiris guard thee—
Cleopatra ! Rome ! farewell!
THE CONFEDERATE DEAD.
BY WM. ARCHER COOKE,
Our exchanges inform us of a move
ment co-extensive with the area of the
late Confederate States, to provide
cemeteries suitable to the Confederate
dead.
The very term Confederate dead has
an eloquence which reaches the heart.
It does not embrace those who lived,
while they lived, on pelf, and died of rot
tenness in comfortable chambers, far
away from the roar of artillery, and the
rattle of musketry, where men laid down
and died with the life blood flowing from
them. No! the Confederate dead, means
those brave, honest patriots who for coun
try bared their breast to the storms of
war; for liberty died under the flag of
their native land, or with sickened body
and mutilated limb perished in the hos
pital. These are our Confederate dead,
who sealed their love of principle with a
death-bed scene that will forever stamp
their names on the roll of honor.
They are in character
« Majestic men whose deeds hare dazzled faith.”
Os each may it be said:
“With his back to the field and his feet to the foe.
And leaving in battle no blood on his name;
Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.”
Bury our Confederate dead in beauti
ful cemeteries. Let the chisel of the
artist, the cunning of the artisan decorate
their graves; let the innocent warble
of the forest songster be heard in the
willow that weeps above the monumental
stone. Let woman come with her plastic
hand and pure Christian heart, and plant
fresh flowers around the last resting place
of Liberty’s martyrs. Here the sweet
young wife may gather at early morn
and dewy eve, aud, as *she mingles her
tears of devotion with the dripping of
the flowers, she can tell her orphan child
ren how a noble father fell. Here the
aged matron and feeble sire may totter
around the heaving earth that holds the
remains of the only stay and prop of
their declining years.
Does any one ask ?
“Can storied urn or animated dust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ?
Can honor’s voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death ?”
Alas! no ; but the gratitude of a peo
ple for a soldier band of such worth and
character and honor as “our Confederate
dead,” should be perpetuated in history,
on the canvass, upon the breathing mar
ble. Ttie “cities of the dead” should
receive the embellishment of art and
the cultivation of taste, and, above all,
let the rising generation see aud feel
that though unsuccessful against mighty
armies, yet their names are to memory
ever dear, and those who are now youDger
brothers, or little orphan boys, may see
that brothers and fathers, though sleep
ing beneath the sod, are still remembered
by a grateful people.
Nor is it an empty honor, we do justice
to our own appreciation of all that is ex
cellent ; we erect a shrine where genius
and worth may offer their devotions, we
open a school where the ardent, young
mind may cultivate an undying admira
tion, not fur the glare of military tinsel,
but for high-toned, chivalric honor—for
unshrinking valor.
Embellish these hallowed spots ; en
grave upon marble and upon granite
your gratitude and your appreciation for
moral worth; you are re-enacting the
history of classic Greece and Rome ; you
are adding another tune to the melody of
song—additional fire to the blaze of elo
quence, a fresh stream of devotion to the
genius of Liberty.
INSULTING A BOSTONIAN
Not many days since, a gentleman
named Brent, quite well known in art
and literary circles, had occasion to visit
a hook establishment in Boston, and saw
there a painting of Raphael Semmes,
also one of Stonewall Jackson. While
looking at and admiring them, the mer
chant said:
“You are interested in those rebels ?”
Mr. Brent—Yes, they seem to be very
fine pictures. Have you any others ”
“You mean rebels ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Yes, sir; we have pictures of the
prominent rebels. Keep them as a sort
of curiosity.”
“Ah! If you have a complete set I
should like to buy them. I am making
a collection of leading rebels of the
country. If your set is full I shall be
very glad to purchase.”
“Well, it is full, we have all of them.”
“Davis?”
“Yes, sir. Avery good picture of
Davis.”
“General Johnson ?”
“Yes, sir. At least we have an en
graving of Johnson, said to be very
good.”
“General Lee ?”
“Yes; I believe so.”
“Have you Washington ?”
“Oh yes, sir.”
“John Hancock ?”
“Don’t know as we have a painting
of Hancock. Have an engraving, how
ever.”
Patrick Henry ?”
“Well—no sir; I believe we have none
of him.”
“Thomas Jefferson ?”
“No painting of Jefferson’ I think we
have an engraving ; I’ll see.”
“John Adams ?”
“No; we have no painting or engrav
ing of Adams.”
General Warren ?”
The Bostonion says, scratching his
head, “Warren? Warren? Warren?
“Yes, sir. General Warren who fell
at Bunker Hill.”
“No, Sir. We have no picture of him.”
“I understood you to say that you had
the rebels complete. Very sorry your
list is so imperfect, for I have long been
anxious to obtain pictures of all the
prominent rebels—lovers of their coun
try, who dared to fight for the rights of
the people. A partial list is not what I
want. I pill not take any of the pictures
this morning. Good-day.
The last seen of the Boston merchant
he was flattening his nose against a pane
of glass watching the retreating form of
his anticipated customer, taking in his di
mensions.
Washington’s Birthday. —The Twen
ty-second of February is made, now, a
day of public observance. Banks are
closed and public business is suspended.
We nowise object to holidays. It is
good to multiply them. The folly of
Protestantism in abolishing these days
of relief from labor, is becoming evi
dent.
But, why should a loyal population
celebrate the birthday of George Wash
ington ? Washington was a “rebel against
the best government under heaven”—as
it was called at the time. Washington
was a traitor to the government he had
sworn to support. Washington was a
perjurer, also, because as a commission
ed officer in the British army, lie had
taken the prescribed oath of the com
missioned officer of the army! This is the
kind of “rebel” and “perjured traitor”
whose birthday this city of New York
keeps as a holiday! llow can we hope
to he done with “rebellion,” having such
precedents thus honored ?
[N. Y. Freeman'a Journal.
, MR OREGON WILSON-
In the “Waverley” corner of Fourth
street and Broadway Mr. Oregon Wil
son has his studio., and is next-door
neighbor of the distinguished artist Mr.
MacDonald, whose “Somnambula” has
been already noticed in those columns,
Mr. Wilson is a young and rising
artist, and is a fair type of the versa
tile American painter. Instead of
creeping oil into an out-of-the-way room,
and burying himself in the gloom and
cobwebs of a g'anet, he has established
himself on the great thoroughfare ot the
Metropolis, in one of the grandest and
most elegant studios in the city, amd it
is here that he gives his unique and
pleasant receptions on Saturday aiter
noons. Members of the various pro-
msb m m vbs mm a.
sessions poets, painters, physicians, lawy
ers, members of the press, and last,
though by no means the least, the ladies,
form the greater part of his visitors’.
The first picture that strikes the eye
on entering his room is one he has now
on his easel, called
woman’s devotion.
Its size is six by eight feet, and con
tains two life-size figures. It is intended
to illustrate an incident in the late war,
which occurred near Winchester, Va.
The contending armies had fought over
a blody field nearly all day. The death
shots fell thick and fast on every side.
Foot to foot and steel tosteel thecomba
tantsdisputed the ground, and many a
gallant soldier fell on that fateful day. At
last the Confederates retired, and the
Fcderals bivouacked for the night. The
fight had been contest over a large extent
of territory, and the dead and wounded
were scattered far and wii«. In some
places the disabled of both sides lay to
gether. The ladies of Winchester and
surrounding country left their homes to
attend to the wounded. A young lady
of the vicinity, who was well known for
her great devotion to the then fallen
fortunes of the South, encountered a
young staff officer who was suffering from
a dangerous wound in the breast, his
life current ebbing fast away. To staunch
the blood was her first care. This done
she placed his head upon her lap, and in
this position determined to hold him
until assistance arrived. It was not long
before a Federal surgeon, with his aides,
approached, and examined the wound.
He told the fair attendant that if the
wounded officer could have perfect rest
he might recover. She looked upon his
deathlike and pallid face; it touched the
tenderest chord of her heart. She felt
that he was fighting for the independ
ence of his native State; that he had
offered his life in its service. These
reflections and the mute, but eloquent,
pleading of the pale features before
her filled her heart with the tenderest
emotions for the sufferer, and she de
termined to save him. To her he was
more than a Confederate soldier.—
Through the long dreary night she never
moved her patient, but held him as if
the fate of her own heart and the des
tinies of nations hung upon Ins waning
life. She heard the cries and moans of
the wounded that went up towards a
cold and pitiless sky. Nature’s lamps
burned dimly, and the new moon soon
sank below the distant horizon. She
was alone. Finally sleep and death had
silenced all, but still the brave girl held
her charge. Long hours passed, and at
last the grey light of the comming day
began to streak the eastern sky, and the
rosy tints, lovely heralds of the sun, had
given the first blush of morn, when the
grey mists yet hung over the damp
ground, or enveloped the hill sides. Just
at| daybreak is the time seized upon by
the artist to fix the scene, and there he
has seated on the field of death one of
Virginia’s beautiful daughters. The
youth lays stretched at full length on the
cold ground, his head resting in her
arms. The scene is one which will call
forth the highest effort of genius in one
of the most difficult walks in the ait of
painting The morning’s light reveals
the wreck and carnage of the fight; and
when we give reigns to our imagination,
and attempt to follow the thoughts, the
hopes and fears of that devoted girl, we
can but faintly surmise what they must
have been through the long and gloomy
night.
Be this as it may, Mr. Wilson has
painted a beautiful girl, plainly dressed;
tier golden hair falls in a disheveled
state about the temples of the wounded
soldier. She looks earnestly, but hope
fully, into his face. The artist has only
got fairly to work, but sufficient has been
done to justify us in saying that it will
be a brilliant success.
We shall, therefore, look farward
with great interest to the public ap
pearance of this work, which is to be
the first of a series illustrating the
heroic deeds of Southern women, and
just here we would request of our South
ern friends to send us accounts of well
authenticated events or incidents of
female heroism that happened during’
the war.
We have already alluded to Mr. Wil
son’s three pictures of “Sunshine,” Au
tumn, ’’ and “The Orphan.’’
His portraits of citizens of New York
and vicinity are deservedly popular, and
his long residence in Europe, where he
studied his profession in Germany,
France and Italy, lias given him many
advantages, w’hich, with his industry
and perseverance, have won for him a
high place among American artist.s
Metropolitan Record ,
rQP’The Banner of the South can
be had of News Dealers in every city
in the country. Specimen copies sent
free to any address.
President Grant’s Inaugural.
Washington, March 4.— -After taxing
the oath of office, General Grant said :
Citizens of the United States :—Your suf
frages having elevated me to the office of
President of the United States I have, in
conformity with the Constitution of our
country, taken the oath prescribed there.
I have taken this oath without mental
reservation and with the determination to
do, to the best of my ability, all that re
quires of me. The responsibilities of the
position I feel but accept them without
fear. The office has come to me unsought.
I commence its duties untrammelled. I
bring to it a conscientious desire and de
termination to fill it to the best of my
ability to the satisfaction of the people.
On all leading questions agitating the
public mind, 1 wili always express my
view’s to Congress, and urge them accord
ing to my judgment, and when I think it
advisable will exercise the Constitutional
privilege of interposing a veto to defeat
measures which I oppose. But all laws
will be faithfully executed whether they
meet my approval or not.
I shall, on all subjects, have a policy to
recommend, but none to enforce against
the will of the people. Laws are to gov
ern all alike—those opposed to as well as
those who favor them. I know no method
to secure the repeal of an obnoxious law
so effective as their stringent execution.
The country having just emerged from a
great rebellion, many questions will come
before it for settlement in the next four
years which preceding administrations
have never had lo deal with. In meeting
these it is desirable that they should be ap
proached calmly,w ithout prejudice,hate or
sectional pride, remembering that the
greatest good to the greatest number is the
object to be attained. This requires se
curity of person, property and for religious
and political opinion in every part of our
common country, without regard to local
prejudice. All laws to secure these ends
will receive my best efforts for their en
forcement.
A great debt has been contracted in
securing to us and our posterity the
Union. The payment of the 'principal
and interest, as weil as the return to a
specie basis, as soon as it can be accom
plished without detriment to the debtor
class or to the country at large, must be
provided for. To protect the national
honor every dollar of Government indebt
edness should be paid in gold unlessother
wise expressly stipulated in the contract.
Let it be understood that no repudiator of
one farthing of our public debt will be
trusted in public place, and it wili go far
toward strengthening a credit which ought
to be the best in the world and will ulti
mately enable us to replace the debt with
bonds bearing less interest than we
now pay. To this should be added
a faithful collection of the revenue,
a strict accountability to the Treasury for
every dollar collected and the greatest
practicable retrenchment in expenditure
in every department of the Government.
When we compare the paying capacity
of the country now, with ten States still
in poverty from the effects of the war, but
soon to emerge, I trust, into greater pros
perity than ever before,with its paying ca
pacity twenty-five years ago, and calculate
what it probably will be twenty-five years
hence, who can doubt the feasibility of
paying every dollar, then, with more ease
than we now pay for useless luxuries.
Why it looks as though Providence had be
stowed upon us a strong box of the precious
metals locked up in the sterile mountains
Oi the far west, which are now forging the
key to unlock, to meet the very contin
gency that is now upon us. Ultimately It
may be necessary to increase the facilities
to meet these riches, and it may be neces
sary also that the General Government
should give its aid to secure this access,
but that should only be when a dollar of
obligation to pay secures precisely the
same sort of dollar to use now and not
before. Whilst the question of specie
payments is in abeyance, the prudent busi-
ness man is careful about contracting debts
payable in the distant future. The
nation should follow the same rule.
A prostrate commerce is to be rebuilt, and
all industries encouraged. The young
men of the country -those who, from their
age, must befits rulers twenty-live years
hence—have a peculiar interest in main
taining the National honor. A moment’s
reflection as to what will beour command
ing iuliuence among the Nations of the
earth in their day, if they are only true to
themselves, should inspire them with Na
tional pride- Ail divisions, geographical,
political, and religious, can join in the
common sentiment. How the public debt
is to be paid, or specie payments resumed,
is not so important as that a plan should
be adopted and acquiesced in. A united
determination to do is worth more than
divided counsels upon the method of do
ing. Legislation upon this subject may
not be necessary now, nor even advisable,
but it will be when the civil law is more
fully restored in all parts of the country,
and trade resumes its wonted channels.
It will be my endeavor to execute all
laws in good faith, to collect all revenues as
sessed, and to have them properly account
ed for and economically disbursed, i will,
to the best of my ability, appoint to otiiee
those only who will carry out this design.
In regard to foreign policy, I would deal
with nations as equitable law requires
individuals to deal with each other, and I
would protect the law-abiding citizen,
whether of native or foreign birth,
wherever his rights are jeopardized or the
flag of our country floats. I would re
spect the rights of all nations, demanding
equal respect for our own. If others dtv
part from this rule in their dealings with
us, we may be compelled to follow their
precedent.
The proper treatment of the ori
ginal occupants of this land, the In
dian, is one deserving of careful study. I
will favor any course toward them which
tends toward their civilization, Christiani
zation and ultimate citizenship.
The question of suffrage is one
which is likely to agitate the pub
lic so long as a portion of the citizens of
the nation are excluded from its privileges
in any State. It seems to me very desir
able that this question should be" settled
now, and I entertain the hope and express
the desire that it may be the latiiioation of
the loth article of the amendment to the
Constitution.
In conclusion, \ ask patient forbearance
one toward auother throughout the land,
and a determined effort on the part
every citizen to do his share toward C( 1
menting a happy Union, and I ask thl
prayers of the nation to Almighty God \
behalf of this consummation. * ,n
The Household.
roasting meats.
The success of every branch of cookery
depends upon the good management of the
kitchen fire ; roasting, especially, require-;
a brisk, clear and steady fire. Meat
should never be sprinkled with salt when
first placed to roast, as the salt draws out
the gravy. Old meat requires more cook
ing than young, but the longer the meat
has been killed, the less time it requires to
roast it. Fat meat requires more time
than lean. The general rule is to allow
ten minutes to every pound of beef or mut
ton, if one likes it to cut rare; twelve min
utes, if desired well done, and allow ten
minutes “for the oven,” as the sayinw
is. This rule, if the fire is brisk, cooks
mutton “to a turn. ” Turkeys and chick
ens require fifteen minutes per pound, and
fifteen for the over If old and tough
twenty minutes per pound is none too
long. Veal, pork and lamb require longer
cooking. A leg of lamb, weighing eight
pounds, will cook well in two hours. Veal
and; pork require twenty-five minutes per
pound. Perfection in roasting is very
difficult, and success is so dependent upon
circumstances, which are continually
changing, that no certain rule can be given
for it; the ace and size of the pieces, the
quantity of the coals, the weather, the
current of air in the kitchen, the more or
less attention of the cook, and the time of
serving, are all to be considered. Hence
epicures say of a well-roasted joint, “it is
done to a turn.” Roast meats should be
sent to the table the moment they are
ready, if they are to be eaten inperlection.
We all know the difference between a
well-roasted, juicy piece of meat and its
reverse; but few gentlemen can understand
the many obstacles to its success, and
wives are often blamed when the fault lies
far from their door. Most of them are
compelled by circumstances to bake meat,
and it is the least advantageous mode of
cooking ; for by it meat loses about one
tbird of its weight. If meat must be baked,
it should never lie in water and parboil on
one side, while it browns on the other.
Four skewers can be laid across the drip
ping pen, and the joint of meat placed
upon them; in this way the juices of the
meat are retained, and not boiled out into
the gravy.
BROILING.
It is not every one that can broil a beef
steak “to a turn.” There are certain con
ditions needful else ♦he nicest “porter
house steak” will be a tough morsel. The
gridiron must be the hottest possible, so as
to seer the surface of the meat rapidly,
and forces it to retain its juices. It must
be covered with a fiat tin while cooking,
and turned from side to side continually.
In eight or ten minutes, if the coals are
very clear, and brisk, it will proves morse!
for Charles the Second. No salt and pep
per should be added until it is laid on a
very hot platter, then add a little butter
also.
RECIPES.
Graham Bread. —Twice as much m ea ‘
as water. To be mixed slowly by stirring*
sifting in the meal with the hand. Th e
batter is put in patty pans of tin or cast
iron and baked in a hot oven—hot enough
to brown over the top in twenty minutes.
Second Kind. —Tepid water; flour stir
red in stiff; better for dyspeptics, as it
requires more chewing.
Third Kind. —Hot water; stir very care
fully, but not too much. So much lor
w’heat bread, of which we preferred ti.c
first.
Corn Bread— Have one quart oi van
sweet milk, four weil beaten eggs, a
spoonful of sugar, three tea spoomuls 1
baking powder, mix all the ingrcuie--:
into the milk, and then stir in silted uqd
until it forms a thick batter: pour
mixture into a bread pan and bake it.
A Nice Way to Prepare App
a dozen tart apples, take out the * •
place sugar with a small lump cl bu -
the centre of each apple, put t o.em •
pan with half a pint of water. Bok -*
tender, basting occasionally.witu hie m
while baking; when done serve tnem
cream.
Wheat and Corn Bread—^ n Jworn
corn; three quarters wheat ; pcaia - ffa .
meal; stir it until smooth; add a-
- it may be hot it you are in
a little crystallized cofiec sugar, j D
purest; stir in the wheat meal. ,
small tins; and as number one, c j J j-
meal usually requires a hotter ',^F aa
ways sift your meal ot all kinds t • or
oat sieve to free it from bits o
stones, which sometimes get in R
the loaves should be pricked.
To Make Calicoes Wash 'f'U yfo;
three, gills of salt in four quaru ;hi
water, put the calicoes in wn co lon
leave tbem till cold; in this • j' n0 t fade
are rendered permanent, am a j a jy
by subsequent washing. b v‘ D eri® ent '
who has frequently ina *e u* L aU ickly
Nothing can be cheaper and muu
done. water
For Burns Take str J uQt jl tF
and mix with liuseea on, wbitF
oil is cut, and the whole -° rl m. : g a pptied
mass of creamy consistency. Vootbin?-
freely to the bur t surface, .j - DO t
and may save life where meuitaia.
to be obtained speedily.
