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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. •c-