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From the Overland Monthly.
YO NO ME QUIERO CASAR.
BY AGNES M. MANNING.
One sunny morn, alone I strayed
Along the beach at Monterey.
With brown, bare hands, a Spanish maid
Was picking sea-moss from the spray.
And as she toiled, her clear voice ringing,
Woke the sweet echoes near and far;
A rich soprano, gaily singing
“ Yo no me quiero casar.”*
Her audience, the waves and skies,
The long-necked pelicans in white,
And gray seagulls with watchful eyes,
And tawny sands with spray-drops bright,
A pair of linnets, lightly winging
Their way towards her from afar,
And flying low, to hear her singing
“ Ko no me quiero casar.”
Her nut-brown hair in clusters fell
About her slender, swan-like neck;
In her dark eyes there lurked a spell.
Her lovely face had just a speck
Os sun and tan, through warm tints spring
ing.
Her beauty shone like some fair star.
I breathless stood, while she kept singing
“ Ko no me quiero casar.”
A Raphael face on far-off walls,
Has the dark depths of her soft eyes;
The same strange light upon her falls,
Where she stands framed against the
skies.
While ever softly chimes the ringing
Os Mission bells in note or bar,
As if they knew the wondrous singing,
“ Yo no me quiero casar.”
O, Spanish maid, with small brown hands,
Spreading sea-tangle’s dainty lace I
’Tis years since I have paced the sands,
Or seen the light on thy young face.
Yet oft will come old memories, bringing
The beach, sand-dune, and drift-wood
spar;
You, framed against the blue sky, singing
“ Yo no me quiero casar.”
*“1 Don’t Wish to Marry.” Popular
song amongst the native Californians.
Courage Respected.
The following incident, we believe,
has never before been in print:
About the time of the battle of
Chancellorsville, or shortly thereafter,
the Federal army was at Fredericks
burg, and it was necessary to make
some movement around the Confeder
ate position on the hills south of the
town.
The Confederates had dammed up
a creek, and their position was not
fully developed to the Federals, who
were also uncertain of the Confederate
intentions respecting the dam.
General Warren, of the Federal
army, requested some of his orderlies
to ride down before the Confederate
lines and discover the true situation, if
possible. None of them, however,
were willing to do this, and according
ly, without saying another word, he
mounted his horse and rode, himself,
down the lines to a point within a
couple of hundred yards of the Con
federate works.
Several Confederate soldiers rose up
and prepared to take aim at him, inas
much as they correctly supposed he
was a prominent officer endeavoring
to get a view of their position.
Instantly, however, from one or two
officers on the Confederate side rose
the command : “ Don’t shoot 1 Don’t
shoot! Put down your guns!” The
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cry went down the line at once, “ Don’t
shoot! Don’t shoot! ”
And General Warren, after riding
a short distance, rather coolly turned
and rode back to his own line, not
even a shot having been fired at him
so great was their admiration for the
undaunted courage and coolness which
he exhibited.
Such is the regard which is felt by
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
military men for those who exhibit
true fearlessness.
From Kingston or Cartersville it is
a pleasant trip out to the great Salt
petre Cave, which can justly be called
the Mammoth Cave of Georgia. The
underground passages and “halls of
kings” afford an abounding interest to
visitors.
A Lost Opportunity.
At the battle of Chancellorsville,
where Stonewall Jackson struck a part
of the Federal flank, a regiment of
Dutch troops was stationed at that
point to guard the flank.
Unsuspicious of all danger they had
stuck their guns with bayonets down
ward into the ground in front of them,
and were sitting down smoking their
pipes, and in other, respects having an
easy and sociable time.
Suddenly, Stonewall Jackson’s men
burst upon them, and the appalling
sound of the “Rebel yell” smote their
ears. Consternation seized the mind
of every one, and without waiting to
grab a musket or take a second look
at the Confederates, who appeared to
have arisen out of the ground, they
stampeded and started down parallel
to the rear of the Federal main line.
General Hancock happened to be
near the opposite flank of the army,
and seeing the stampeding Dutchmen
rushing pell-mell, ordered his men to
close up and stop their retreat. After
some exertion, this was done.
Hancock, afterwards remarked that
this action on his part was a great mis
take ; that if he had only ordered his
men to open ranks and let them go
through, they would have run right
over that portion of Lee’s army which
was in front of the left flank of the
Federals, and that he could have fol
lowed this up and have inflicted a very
bad defeat upon the Confederates.
Thus it appears that this was one of
the “lost opportunities” of the w ar.
At the battle of the Wilderness a
funny scene is said to have been ex
hibited when a spent ball, (grape-shot)
fired by the Confederates struck the
side of a mule which was aiding to pull
a wagon in the Federal wagon train.
The mule not understanding the true
situation, supposed that he had been
kicked by the other one which was
hitched to the same wagon, and in
stantly turned himself and began fu
riously kicking at his comrade. The
latter retorted by giving kick for kick
and for a few minutes there was a
frantic scene which came very near be
ing contagious and stampeding the
wagon train.
A Georgia Madstone.
On the 10th page we present a list of
the minerals that abound in North
Georgia; but the “Madstone” doesnot
appear therein, notwithstanding Pick
ens county has produced one of the
finest specimens extant. Many years
ago, a member of the Allred family,
in Pickens county,reached bj the West
ern A Atlantic, and Marietta and
North Georgia railroads, shot a deer,
and in its stomach was found this mad
stone, which is shaped like an old
fashioned round, flat-top biscuit, two
and a half inches wide and an
inch and a half thick, smoothly
and regularly formed, and w r eighs ten
ounces. This stone is very hard and
of a dark color. Several wonder
ful cures of mad dog and poisonous
snake bites have been effected with
this madstone. It is now the property
of Capt J. L. Matthieson, of Ed
wardsville, Fulton county, Ga.
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