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DUAL LIFE
Soft anil Bound be sleeps, my dear,
Dark fringed lids o’er tired eyes; '
Strong bauds, thrown la utter rest,
Qule on the quiet breast;
From lips half hidden in smile apart,
And the pulsing of the heart,
Scarcely fans my cheek who watch
The flutter ol his breath to catch,
So very still he lies.
Soft and sound he sleeps, outworn,
By the fret and strlle
Of the eager hours that All
Each long day of good or 111;
Of gallant battle for the truth;
Ol fiery thoughts ol gilted youth;
Of fighting olteu hand to hand.
With fate he ca-’not understand,
For full and hard his life.
Soft and sound ! No restless dreams
Trouble his repose;
Yet whl e the form exhausted sleeps,
' The spirit somewhere vigils keeps;
For he who lives, and loves, and makes
His impress on each tiling he takes,
To shape, or change, or mold at s> ill,
He does not lie there dumb and still,
As that his servant does.
Soft and sound It sleeps, while he
Breaks his prison bars,
Perchance to soar on fearless wiugs,
An In unconscious wanderings,
To hold communion full an I free
With the beloved we may not see,
Till all our earthly race 1 is run,
Beyond the moon, beyond the sun;
Beyond the great white stars.
Soft and sound, the while I creep
Noiseless ever near;
My sou. is captive as I sit
In the warm frame that waits with it,
And watch o'er him I love the best,
Hall Jealous of the tranq ill rest
That sets his spirit free to rove
Somewhere—where with all my love,
1 may scarcely follow, dear.
Soft and sound! My fingers glide
Into youi nerveless hold ;
Beside your hand my own I lay,
I try to call your eoui away,
WhateVr the holy naunts It seeks,
My will the passionate summons speaks;
My love and all its royal might,
I clothe my call in strength to-night ;
Durllng, will yon obey ?
War Reminiscences.
North Carolina was believed to be
loyal. President Lincoln bad un
shaken faith in her old whig record,
and her few still living statesmen. To
hold her back from active co-opera
tion with the rebellion, would erect a
barrier between Virginia and South
Carolina, aid loyal E vst Tennessee,
and give to Kentucky—-now vacillating
between the new born Conf 'deracy and
the Union—timely support. She was
being “dragged into the rebellion,”
and stifled cries f >r help came from
sea-board and mountain. Her scat
tered Q, taker population had emi
grated or died out, but the seed re-
maiued.
Her state convention had met at
Raleigh, and under whip and spur
of her fiery Southern sisters, had re
luctantly wheeied into line with the
Confederacy. Her time-serviug
Governor who presided, signed the
Act of Secession with a “grey goose
quill,” which he flourished aloft and
laid aside “for the admiration of his
children and of posterity.”
Her acc Aible sea coast and harbors
skirted by navigable sounds, offered
easy approach by sea to an armed
fleet.
The expedition was quietly planned
by Genl. A. E. Burnside, of Rhode
Island, who afterwards took entire
command.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts
Rhode Island, New Jersey and New
York furnished the principal troops,
which were distributed between the
commands of Major Generals Foster
Parke aud Reno, each with their fa
vorite.staff, and together constituting
for experience and ability, a magnifi
cent division of the Union army. From
New York the Hawkins Z maves
so named for the gallant c donel
who organized the regiment, gave
eclat to the command, and did splen
did service. They west down with
the expedition ; while another, called
the “D’Epneull Z >uaves,” lagged be
hind, squandered time in exhibiting
their Frenchified uniforms on Broad
way, and finally embarked in a ship
on * pleasure cruise along the S mth
ern coast, showing themselves in the
cfiiug once, but never landing. They
were ordered back and disbanded.
The purchase and outfit of vessels,
aud charter of steam and sailing
transports, were conducted with great
secrecy. N >rth River freight barges
of the largest class, coastwise pro
pellers out of service, and even
canal boats were brought into us.e ; all
selected for their light draft, while
several side wheel steamers of large
size were secured for transports and
to tow the lame ducks ox the fleet.
Eight or ten of the largest ware con
verted into gun boats, armed with
nine inch dahlgreu smooth bores, or
Parrot guns of larger caliber ; others,,
with^ pounders of the old style, and
batteries of Howitzers for u e in land
fighting.
The fitting out of this incongruous
fleet was completed with the greatest
dispatch—too ruych so f >r thorough
ness in detail; yet when ready for
sea, and assembled at Annapolis, it
presented a formidable sight, and one
calculated to rouse the ambition and
kindle the enthusiasm of the young
students of the Naval Academy.
The armada set sail early in Febru
ary, '61 by night, without announce
ment ; the commander first taking the
precaution to visit, in the flag ship of
the squadron, each vessel carrying
representatives of the press, and hail
ing, warning them to send no facts of
the sailing of Hie fleet to their papers.
Alas, for all human preciution, a
reporter of the New York Times, J. D.
Urounih, had sent to that paper, and
it was already in type, a full list of all
the vessels, with their size aud arma
ment, and the number aud character
of the troops comprised in the com
mand—every thing which the South
cared to know of the expedition.
That reporter never showed himself
to Burnside but once afterwards, when
he was summarily sent to the rear,
with a warning never to enter his
command during the war.
While the public press was Of incal
culable advantage to the country
throughout the war, premature revela
tion of military plans and movements
often embarrassed the Generals, and
frequently enabled the Southern lead
ers to thwart,the best laid plans of the
Union armies.
Ho w much of disaster and prolon
gation of the struggle was caused by
newspaper rivalry, may never be
estimated or known. The evil and
the good, here, most surely traveled
hand in hand. Without the
aid of the press, the country might
never have emerged successfully
from the war — by its mismanage
ment, and the chilling influence of
Rebel papers, who can tell the
years of unnecessary fighting, and
how many thousands of brave lives
were sacrificed ? Toe fleet sailed un
noticed out of the Capes of Virginia,
aud the first daylight of the sea voy
age found the long, scattering line of
odd looking craft—steamboats with
side wheels and propellers, some with
heavy tows, schooners, aud other rigs
bearings away bef ire a fresh north
east wind rfhd sea. To one with his
weather eye open a storm was brew
ing.
On the morning of the second day
the fleet,rounding the Ctpe, approach
ed Hatteras inlet, before a heavy
north-east blow, which made it risky
to enter. Tue ship New York, with
arms, ammunition, and provisions,
had made the attempt in the morning
without a pilot, and already lay a
helpless wreck on the south side of
the inlet, bilged, and the sea w T ashing
over her. The crew, driven into the
tops, were two days and nights in the
rigging, vainly looking for rescue,
which the rough sea made Impossible,
aud most of the officers aud crew per
ished.
The sailing vessels anchored outside,
w r hile the steamers found their way
to smooth water, and anchorage in
the narrow harb ir within. H itteras
Inlet never bef ire saw so large a fleet
in its w r aters. General Butler had
bombarded the sand fort at Clark’s
Point months before from on board a
man o’ war, at a safe distance, demol
ishing their rude bomb-proofs of sand
and timber, and scattering its garri
son, after a heroic defense. A day’s
amusement at the expenditure of
much good ammunition to little pur
pose. When the enemy’s two ships
withdrew, a shout of “victory ’’! rang
all along the Southern line at the “re
pulse of old Abe’s gun-boats.”
A whole week passed before there
was even a lull in that north-easter,
and the discomfort suffered on board
those rolling, pitching hives of impris
oned soldiers, many of whom had
never seen salt water, may be imag
ined, while they gazed longingly
through their glasses at comrades
riding smooth ly at anchor under the
lee of the land.
Drowning of Ofiioora and Man.
A ship having on board the 9‘h
New J nsey regiment lay some four
miles oil. Watching for the first lull
in the storm, they lowered away their
boat, and attempted to reach the fleet.
The swell was still heavy, aud the
long rollers broke roughly a mile from
the anchorage. The boat was too
deeply loaded to be properly handled,
and was swamped in the first rollers.
It was halt an houi befoiethey were
readied by a boat from the schooner
Highlander, going io with the right
wing of the 281 Massachusetts regi
ment on board. Col. Allen, in com-
m und of the regiment,and thesurgeon,
were taken unconscious from the boat
to which they had clung, and'hurried
ly brought alongside, and q lickly but
tenderly lifted hr the quarterdeck.
How many of the others were drown
ed is not lemembered.
Two hours of unceasing effort was
made to restore the drowned officers
without success. Their bodies
were wrapped iu canvas, which
were again enveloped in a sec
ond covering of the same material
thickly spread with tar, and sewed up.
The next morning their remains, tnus
rudely prepared for their last resting
place, were lowered into the boat
which was sadly pulled to Clark’s
Point, followed by a brief cortege of
boats from vessels near by. Openings
were made in the sand, and the two
laid side by side in their shallow
graves
“Not a word was spoke, or a
funeral note as the brave to t ieir rest
were hurried.” Tne waves alone
drummed their requiem upon the
sandy shore. The same desolate point
became, afterwards, the cemetery of
many who died on board the trans
ports while detained at this rendez
vous of the fleet.
Three weeks of continuous north-east
gales had swept this desolate coast.
Measles broke out on board the old
Chesapeake steamer, Louisiana, and
other vessels. Diarrhoea of violent
type prevailed from the change of
food and cramped condition of the
men. Deaths became frequent. Water
became scarce, which aggravated the
situation, and many a poor soldier in
the darkness of the night, found a
watery tomb, instead of the less pre
ferred grave in the sand when stormy
weather rendered it impossible to
land. The segurge of all military
camps thus situaiied—vermin—became
universal in the fleet, with all their
vexations, from which escape was im
possible.
Thus a month passed without com
munication with the outside world.
No word reached Washington of the
situation, and the most alarming re
ports were spread of disaster to' the
expedition. President Lincoln gave
it up as lost. Hundreds no doubt
mourned their friends as dead. Dur
ing all this time, however, Burnside
was alert, and with his Generals de
vising measures for the success of the
movement. A sandy shoal—“the
swash''—interposed a barrier of near
five miles between the fleet and the
navigable waters of Albermarl S mud,
Only craft of the lightest draft could
pass it, H >w to get steamers and war
vessels through five feet of water
which drew eight and ten feet was a
question to puzzle sailors, but army
engineers from West Point were equal
to the emergency.
A t^jree or four-knot current swept
this shallow middle ground at ebb
and fl >w of the tide. Steam tugs were
set to work dragging pouderous
ship’s chain cables to and fro to stir
up the sand on one straight course of
the deepest wa'er. A’l ballast, and
even coal was thrown oveiboard ; the
boilers of the steamers were emptied,
the vessels careened upon their bifte,
lifting their keels at an an cJe with the
bottom, and thus lightened, after iu-
orediole exertion with the aid of tugs,
Surnside had the satisfaction of see
ing the last vessel of his armada safely
, afl >at in the Sound. Here two or three
days were rtquired to re-load and Al
for the movement northward to
Roanoke Island
and its formidable land batteries,
which were to furnish the next busi
ness of the fleet. G eat was the relief
experieuced by the long imprisoned
soldiers and marines—great the j >y
in Washington aud throughout the
North at the escape of the Burnside
expedition. A very different feeling,
however, seized the rebels of the old
North Stale when, despite the prayers
of saint and sinuer.the Yankee fl dillu
was afloat and on its way to the at
tack.
The bombardment of the land de
fences, the landing of troops and cap
ture of the enemy’s work, with the
battle and occupation of Newburn,
will form our next chapter.
Agricultural,
Novel Glass Plates.
The following (according to La Na
iure) is the way in which those glass
plates are prepare 1, which show an
image, or writing, only when Breathed
upon. The piece of glass should be
of the kind used for mirrors, and may
be either transparent or silvered, and
a little powdered flour-spar iu put in a
porcelain capsule and moistened with
ordinary sylphuric acid, to an extent
which will allow of lining it to write
with, by means of a q fill pen, on the
oar^ully cleaned gl^ tss. Tue drawing,
or writing is then traced, and allowed
to stand live or ten minutes. Then
the plate is wa bed with ordiuury
water, and dried with a cloth, after
which It is ready for use.
Coarse salt, in crystals, is the best to
use for pickling.
Geese can be plucked twice a year—
May and September.
Potato tops make an excellent ad li-
tion to the compost neap.
Canada thistles should always be
cut when iu blossom, or before.
Iu their native climate century
plants bloom when nine years old.
The English harvests will fall short
of what was expected two months a;;o.
Indiana is making claim to the
largest yield of wheat over any other
State.
Variety in feeding does more for the
animal than'excess of one kind of food.
A hedge that is not thick at the hot-
tom is no hedge at all. Keep it cut
back.
Honey should be kept where it is
perfectly dry if desired to be in prime
order.
Coal oil should be used carefully
around fruit trees, as it sometimes
kills them.
A Massachusetts farmer .claims that
Paris green kills the birds when ap
plied to vines.
Prune in autumn to insure growth,
an 1 in spring to insure fruitfulness, is
a grape max m.
When manure begins to heat too
much turn it over and sprinkle it with
plaster while so doing.
Professor Budd notes the fact tint
no trace of blight of pear or apple trees
can be seen iu Europe.
Lancaster county, Pa., ranks as the
banner county of the United States
for agricultural products.
The value of the agricultural pro
ducts of New Jersey exceeds that of
any other S;ate in proportion to area
cultivated.
Charles Downing says it is not safe
to give a decided opinion concerning
any new strawberry or raspberry short
of five years trial.
The creameries of Iowa now aggre
gate upward of 500, while the high
price of dairy products this year wi/l
cause an increase in the number for
another season.
Pastures given to excessive moisture
should, as far as possible, be avoided
for sheep grazing, excepting, perhaps,
in the middle of the day, when the
surface moisture is dispersed.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker ciairns that the Washington
oats are identical with a variety intro
duced some years ago into western
New York, and known as early S >m-
ersetshire.
Many western farmers are substitut
ing millet and Hungarian grass for
oats, the latter crop being liable to in
jury from severe aroughts, or to fall
down and be of little value oh the
black soils.
By constantly removing decayed
flowers before a seed pod can swell,
the growth of the plant and the con
tinued development of new buds and
fl >wers upon the new growth are mat
ters of course.
The Agricultural College at Hanover
will admit women pupils at its next
term, who will be given a special
course of study, including butter and
cheese-making and dairying gener illy.
We believe til’s is a move in the ri^ht
direction.
Boot Pruning.
The experiments were made on the
apple aud pear. A vigorous apple
tree, eight or teu years o’d, which had
scarcely made any fruit buds, has
done best when about half the roots
were cut iu one season aud half three
years later, by going ha'f way round
on opposite sides in one year aud fin
ishing at the next pruning, working
two feet underneath to sever down
ward roots. It liai always answered
well also to cut from such trees all the
larger afld longer roots about two an l
a half feet from the stem, leaving the
small and weaker ones longer aud
going half way around, as already
stated. The operation was repeated
three or four years later by extending
the cut olrcle a foot or two ‘further
away from the tree. By this opera
tion unproductive fruit trees become
thickly stu lded with fruit s iurs, aud
afterwird boro profusely. This short
ening of the roots has beeu conthaued' 1
iu these expeiimeuts for twenty ye irs
with much success, the circle of roots
remaining greatly cir juuisoribed. The
bed time for the work has bten found
to be iu the latter part of August aud
beginning of September, wlieu growth
has nearly ceased, and while the
leaves are yet on the trees, causing
greater iuoreaseof bloom buds the fol
lowing yei.r than wheto perlormed
after the leaves had fullen.
The Home of Gold.
A Pret y Story of the Sierra Kadre—A
Lrv9i’« Unsuccessful E ise.
A story about which there is a fasci
nation which it is impossible to resist
when you hear men tell it is of the
“ Hi me of Gold.” Homewbere in
southwestern New Mexico, iu the Sier
ra Madre, it is said, there is a wonder
ful valley. Small, incited in high
ro ;ky walls, and accessible only by a
] secret passage, which is known to but
few, is this extraordinary place. It is
about tea acres iu extent, has running
through it a stream, which waters it
thoroughly and makes it a perfect para
dise, with its exq lisite fl >wers and
beautiful trees. in it are thousands
of birds of the most beautiful plum
age. Running across it is a ledge of
pure gold, about thirty feet wi le, which
glistens iu the sunlight like a great
golden belt. The stream crosses this
ledge and, as it runs, murmurs around
blocks of yellow metal as other streams
do around pebbles. The ledge of gold
is supposed to be solid gol 1 and to run
down into the center of the earth.
The legend is of Indian origin, and
around it cluster a number of Indian
stories, in which tire name of the Jib
ft ted Montezuma occurs frequently.
The descendants of the Azecs believe
firmly that the day will come when
M mtezuma will return and free them
from the dominion of the descendants
of the Conquestodores. They believe
that the money necessary for this-
work will be taken from the Madre
d’O o. The secret of the tntrance
into the valley is carefully guarded by
a tribe of Indians living near' it, and
among them it is only communicated
to the oldest men, amid the solemn
ceremonies of the medince lodge.
Having such a story to work upon,
there is little wonder that the vivid
imagination of the M ‘xicans should
have built upon it tales of men who
have found this wonderful place. O ae
is that a certain J >se Alvaraz, while
wandering through the mountains in
se rch of game, saw the vdlej' from
the top of the wall. Finding that he
could not hope to enter by climbing
down, he took his abode wi b the In
dians who guard the canyon leading
into it. The daughter of the chief fell
in love with him and betrayed the
secret to him. Exactly bo v she found
it out they do not tell. H ving been
shown the entrance, J >se went in,
and would possibly have gotten away
with some of the gold had he not
weighed himself down to such an ex
tent that ho could not get up the de-
clivi y at the lower end of the passage.
He was discovered, and the Indians
sacrificed him on the golden ledge with
all the terrible ceremonies of the old
Aztec religion. She. in despair of
losing him, threw herself from the
the high walls into the valley below.
Hund'eds of prospectors have spent
mouths of toil trying to find the Madre
d’Oro, but, it is scarcely necessary to
say, without result.
Culli igs.
The man who thinks himself a great
gun is alway a big bore.
With tome meu the penny’s migh
tier than the sword, sure enough.
Why are seeds, when sown, like,
gateposts? Toey are planted in the
„earth to propagate.
People learn wisdom by experience.
A man never wakes up his second
baby to see it laugh.
Leisure is s veet to those who have
earned it, but burdensome to those
who get it for nothing.
‘ I am a broken man,” said the poet.
“Well,” said his friend, “I inferred
that from your pieces.”
Be deaf to the quarrelsome, bfind
to the scoruer, and dumb to those who
are mischievous’y inquisitive.
Tue crow ft not so bad a bird after all.
It never shows the white fea'her, ami
never complains without caws.
The excesses of our youth are drafts
upon our old age, payable with inter
est, about thirty years afterdate.
Why is it that men always cross a
muddy place on their toes an 1 women
on their heels? Jo get on the other
side.
R dies are often thorns that pierce
the head with c .res in getting them,
and the heart with grief in parting
wfth them.
A bi nd mendicant wears this in
scription round bis neck. “Don’t be
ashamed to give only a pen ip l can”,
see.”
A mai^saved from drowning a night
or two sinee, abused the n. u wh i>
r* sciied him because he did not .saw.
his Juat.
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