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Southern Field and Fireside.
VOL. 1.
[For the Southern Field and Fireside.]
MOUNTAIN BUGLE SONG FOB BATrLE.
BY WJI. GILMOBE SIMMS.
. Let the Bugle blow along the mountain —
Bugle blow 1 Shrilly blow 1
We must leave the pleasant grove and fountain;
Arm for battle speedily, and go!
For the storm is gathered on the highlands;
It has swept with fire the plains below,
And up, from green savannas and fair islands,
Pours the foo—pours the cruel foe!
Bugle blow for battle—shrilly blow!
We must meet the foe— the hateful foe!
Blow fearlessly and fast, O! mountain bugle, blow!
Blowl blow!
See, as blows the Bugle, how they gather!
Bugle blow! bugle blow!
There rides u]i the old and bearded father.
And the son is speeding from below!
We must dye in purple this green heather.
We must free a country from the foe ;
And o'er mountain summits clad in snow,
Bugle blow for battle—shrilly blow!
Though we perish, we must strike the foe!
Blow fearlessly and fast, O! mountain bugle, blow!
Blow! blow!
Lo! they come—the bands from Connesauga!
Bugle blow! bugle blow!
And the rugged hunters of Watauga—
Kiflcs ready shotted for the foe!
• From the vales of Cnmbcrland they gather,
And from slop*s of green Saluda, lo!
There the beardless son and hearded father,
Eager all to grapple with the foe!
Bugle blow for battle—bugle blow!
We mnst crush the foe—the insolent foe!
Blow fearlessly and fast, O! mountain bugle, blow !
Blow! blow!
t»t ■—
[For the Southern Field and Fireside.]
FROM^^OMI^T^mVER;
OR,
Scenes and Incidents of a Tour
From New Orleans to New Yorlr.
BY ONE OF THE PABTT,
ARROW X.
“The Grand Junction”, what and where it is—a small
thing in a remarkable position; true of men some
times as well as things—A mishap of the Major's re
verted to—How the widow's sympathy consoles him
—A dangerous gush of sentiment on the part of the
Major, which Mr. Poyns kindly stops in time to pre
vent another mishap—The editorial corps of Memphis
particularly strong—The “undevlating precision” of
modern travel —Meets Miss Dix on the platform at
Memphis—The admirable and successful efforts of this
lady for the reform of prisons and relief of the insane
—her noble philanthropy—description of her person—
her birth-place and age—she visits Europe—her inter
view with the Pope—the origin of her twenty years'
labors—her disinterestedness—her glorious mission—
a noble woman, an honor to her sex and to humanity
—“God bless her! Heaven reward her!”
The Gband Junction, December, 1559.
And, pray, where is Grand Junction ? I hear
you ask. Not to know where this important ci
ty is, my dear sir, would be, in the estimation of
its ambitious citizens, evidence prima facie of
gross geographical ignorance.
From the name, you might suppose it to be
the Gretna Green of this region, where all run
away matches achieve a grand junction! On the
contrary, it is the union of iron, not of hearts;
the junction of railways, not of runaways! If
you are of an inquisitive turn, and are at all
posted in railroad progress, be so kind as to find
Tennessee on the map and then place one point
of your editorial scissors upon Memphis, and the
other point extend due east for one degree, and
it will impale “Grand Junction”! Fifty-two
miles east of Memphis, the “Memphis and
Charleston" railroad receives from the South the
great New Orleans road, running north, and the
great Cairo and Tennessee road, going south.
Their chartered appellations I will not trouble
you with! All I wish you to understand is that
the Grand Junction is the centre of an iron
cross, one extremity of which is at Memphis, an
other at Charleston, another at New Orleans,
and the fourth at the mouth of the Ohio. This
“ grand cross," you at once see, confers a digni
ty upon the point of intersection! and the place
which supports this dignity is yclept par excel
lence “ Grand Junction” I I trust that I have
made the matter so plain that the clever editor
of tte sprightly paper called The Quid Nunc,
published there, will take off his hat to me! for
the Grand Jnnctionites are very sensitive about
the universality of their city’s reputation. When
I say it has three taverns, Anglice “hotels,” two
drinkeries, one newspaper office, cme book store,
(chiefly yellow,) a billiard room and twenty-one
and a half other edifices, with a* wretched little
brick depot, and not a street proper in it except
the four railroad tracks, —yon will know the
place when you see it, which every traveler
coming north by rail from New Orleans,or going
east from Memphis, is bound t<? visit in transit.
As I did not wish to travel by night, and as
we reached here from Memphis just at dark, I
resolved to remain and resume my journey to
morrow by the 2 o’clock A. .M. train from Mem
phis, which passes here at 6 o’clock. Thus, by
I JAIMES GARDNER, I
( Proprietor. . j
leaving Memphis to-day at 2 o'clock, we have
got a whole night here. The Adam’s House is
very comfortable, but oh, what a dirty table
cloth I The landlord is civil and attentive and
does his best to oblige us; but they should
change the table linen a little oftener 1
I write in a good room with a wood firo re
plenished by a little darkey with eyes as wide as
they are long. The Major went on, promising
to wait for me at Nashville. It was all the wi
dow in the cars! But Tim, like a faithful and
staunch fellow as he is, (he is learning more of
the world every hour,) resolved to stay with
mo 1 While I am writing, he is down to see them
play billiards!
I have not spoken of the Major’s adventure
at the depot in Memphis. We arrived there
from the hotel rather late and had to enter the
crowd to secure tickets. I had been forewarned
by a gentleman on the Eclipse that this depot
was famed “ wide and far” for the number of
pocket-hooks and purses lost there! I did not
forget to notify the Major and especially Tim,
who goes with his pockets gaping like hungry
oysters. After the Major had got his tickets, he
hurried to secure seats in the ladies’ car, in or
der to be near the widow I The door was locked.
A sentry stood before it.
“Can’t come iu here?” said the fellow,
gruffly.
“But I can,-sir!” responded the Major.
“No gentleman allowed in here without la
dies ! The back car, sir 1”
“But I have a lady in there—that is, there is
a lady I know in there 1"
“Orders positive 1 Other car, sir!”
The Major looked daggers at the man!
“Shall I pitch him outon the platform, Uncle?”
asked Tim, in that quiet, resolute way he has.
“ No, no! That won’t do I”
At this moment I saw the widow at the win
dow. I told her how matters stood. She said,
laughingly, “Poor, dear Major ! I will claim
him 1” and we were duly admitted in under her
wing, for she was so liberal as to claim the whole
threo of us as “of her party.”
After we had got # comfortably settled and in mo
tion, the Major seated vis-a-vis with the widow,
looked all smiling and well pleased, when the
conductor came in for the tickets. “Tickets,
g6n-tle-men.” The Major, on putting his hand
into his pocket, turned pale and then blue.
“ Bless me! Where’s my pocket-book ? I’ve
lost it! I had it at the ticket office! Stop the
cars, conductor! I’ve had my pocket picked!
A hundred and fifty dollars in it!”
“Sorry, sir! Common occurrence there!
Strangers should look out!” was the consoling
reply.
“ Where’s your police ? Where’s your Mayor?
Sir, it is au outrage! I’ll tell you how it was,
Madame 1” ho added, seeing the widow look very
sorry for him; “I took out my pocket-book to
buy through tickets for Tim and me to
NewYork —thirty-sqven dollars each —I paid for
them! I put the tickets in my side-pocket, and
have ’em safe, thank gracious; but my pocket
book I put back again in my coat pocket. Some
body then took hold of me and pulled "me round,
and pushed me back, saying: ‘Give us a chance
here!' I now recollect he put his hands round
me 1 It was then he picked my pocketl”
“ I am very, very sorry for you, sir,” said the
lady, in a tone of real sympathy, and with a
kindly glance which the Major no doubt felt
were worth all the money in his lost pocket
book.
“A gentleman lost SI,OOO at the same depot
last week,” said a passenger in the next seat.
“ So much the worse—so much the worse for
the town! , Why does not the City or the Com
pany provide better arrangements for the pro'
tection of passengers ?’’ demanded the irate
Major.
“Sister,” says the bearded brother, “you
had best see if you’ve got your purse of gold I
got for you at the Baifk 1”
# “ Yes, brother. It is all safe!” ,
“ I congratulate you, my dear Madam,” said
the Major. “ I would rather it had been me
than you the loser! It matters little how much
money a poor-devil-bachelor loses! He has
nothing to make oise of it for but lift solitary
needs! No wife, no chil ”
Here the Major, who was warming with the
subject, while his voice was getting watery, and
his whole manner alarmingly demonstrative;
and apprehensive of a declaration of his passion
there and then, I drew his attention to a stately
mansion in a park we were flying past.
The suburbs of Memphis are not much im
proved. They have few villas and landscape
garden-scenes! Everybody lives in town ma
king money, and have hardly began to retire on
fortunes in the environs.
I had little time to male any acquaintances
in Memphis! I had met Col. McMahon, the
veteran Editor, otherwheres, and left my card
for him, as he was out. There is more editorial
ability at the head of the Press Lere than in any
other place in the Union of its size. Beside*
the talented gentleman just named, of the Bul
letin, there are two ex-Editors, Mr. Borland and
Mr. Clemens, who edit a daily journal with
marked success. The Avalanchi and Appeal
are newsoapers in the foremost rank of journals.
It requires a man of talonts-to succeed in Mefn-
AUGrUSTA, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1860.
phis in all fields of action. It is becoming a
great rendevous for men of ability and wealth
from all the Southwest! Prominent men in all
professions and pursuits are moving thither,
while it is becoming a favorite residence for
planters of wealth.
It remarkably encourages art. A son of In
man, the eminent New York artist, has » studio
here, and his fine pencil is constantly employed.
I saw at his atelier a noble portrait of Bishop
Otey, who resides here, which ho is engaged
upon. The book stores here are of the first
class and numerous, and speak well for the in
telligence of the citizens.
We were three hours reaching Grand Junc
tion, stopping at numerous places to receive and
put out way passengers. When I got out here,
a striking reflection passed through my mind,
as I saw the four trains of the four roads, each
on its track ready to start north, south, east,
and west, on a given signal! How wondeiful
it is to travel now-a-days with such speed, and
in such various directions, departing and arriv
ing with undeviating precision! Leaving here,
lean tell the minute I shall reach New York,
Quebec, Charleston, or Augusta! and this re
minds me that in something more than thirty
six hours I can bo in your city. Grand Junc
tion is but fifty-nine hours from Washington
City via Richmond.
I must not close this letter without an allu
sion to one of the most remarkable women .of
her age, whom I met on the ptatfonu hero, as I
left the Memphis ears. She had alighted from
the Cairo train, and was entering that for the
South. I knew her well. I had met her seve
ral times in the past few years, on her missions
of merqy! I had only time to shake hands
with her, and learn from her that two weeks
before she had left St. John’s, Newfoundland,
where she hal been to get a grant from the Col
onial Government for the establishment of an
Asylum for the Insane there, and was on her
way to Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, to
urge upon its Legislature to enlarge, by forty
rooms, the State Asylum there, which her own
noble efforts a few years since had caused to bo
erected.
I speak of Miss Dorothea L. Dix I Who has
not heard of the name of this benefactress of
her race? She has been called the “Flora
Nightingale” of this country. There is no need
of making this comparison! She stands alone
in her own lrgh place! The two are wholly
unlike! Each has hSr own mission on earth!
I will describe her as I saw her on the plat
form. Tall and naturally graceful, plainly dress
ed in black silk, with a dark bonnet simple as a
Quakeress’ in its style 1 quiet and dignified in
her manner, and with the air of a true and gen
tle lady she moved along, holding a leathern
bag of papers and documents in one hand, and
her satchel and shawl hanging on the other
arm. Her face fair and florid, but browned a
little with exposure in travel, had that steady,
benign expreasion, mingled with decision and
energy which characterizes her. This, with her
calm, blue eyes, her fine expressive mouth, her
intelligent aspect, marked her as no ordinary
woman. Shrinking from observation she was
moving towards the other train, when I accom
panied her to the cars she sought. Ten years
ago I met her at Nashville, where she was try
ing to get the Legislature to appropriate
SIOO,OOO to a State Asylum! and succeeded,
too I She was then vffry fair and interesting
looking, but constant travel over the Union and
in Europe had told upon her, and her face
was strongly marked with lines of thought and
energy.
For twenty years this noble Christian lady
has been devoting her time and private means
to improve and elevate the prisoner and the lu
natic. She has been their advocate before every
Legislature in the States! More than twenty
States havo Asylums erected through her elo
quent appeals to Legislatures! She has visited
others, and had them enlarged and reformed!
Those which she has compelled (I use the pro
per word) Legislatures to erect, she has revisit
ed. Every one she keeps under her eye, and
jealously watches against abuses! A few years
ago she induced Mississippi to build an Asylum.
“It is now too small,” she said to me. “ They
have to put beds on the floor! Igo to ask an
appropriation for itk ehlargement.”
And not only does she make Legislatures erect
Asylums in all States, but she makes them re
form their prisons! She has personally inspect
ed every Penitentiary in the Union, and report
ed on them to the Legislatures, and recom
mended reforms and improvements, and ways
and means for the moral and.physical benefit of
the prisoners. She presents libraries to Prisons
and Asylums! Last year, at Natchez, she so
licited and obtained $3,500 from opulent citizens
to furnish pianos, pictures, books, and other
means of passing time; for the use of female
and male patients of the State Asylum. She
said: “The State provides buildings and officers
and food, but wealthy citizens must contribute
comforts, and even luxuries, to the unhappy in
mateg
A' few years since she visited England,
France, Italy, Russia, Austria. She was re
ceived with distinction by Victoria, Louis Napo
leon, the Emperor of Russia, the Emperor of
Prussia, and by the Pope. Facilities for in
specting prisons and asylums were freely fur
nished her by these crowned heads. At first
the Pope refused her application to visit his
prisons 1 She then addressed him a letter!
«It obtained for her an audience. It lasted for
an hour, and she left him with the keys of all
his prisons in her hand, in the form of a general
order to their governors to admit her. He said
to her: “ Report to mo what you see." At the
end of a fortnight she made her report, rebuk
ing certain cruelties and recommending reforms,
‘‘especially the separation of lunatics from con
victs.” His Holiness thauked her, and (what is
more) adopted to the letter all her suggestions 1
She left a blessing on the prisons of Europe, as
if an angel had visited them, and with large ex
perience returned to this country. And now,
one week in Newfoundland, and another on her
way to Mississippi, she still goes on her mission.
Quiet, retiring, self-possessed, full of courage
and love for the suffering, she traverses State
after State doing good 1
"And where,” do you ask, “does she ob
tain the means?’* They are from her own re
sources! She lias never asked for a dollar, for
herself) or for defraying her expensos in travel.
Now, indeed, she is so well known that she
goes free as air from Maine to Texas on all
routes! Superintendents of roads eageily give
her free tickets for a year!
She is not rich 1 A native of Salem, Massa
chusetts, she was born forty-five years ago of
an old and aristocratic family. At tho age of
twenty, with a party of ladies and gentlemeD,
she visited the State’s prison in Charlestown,
Mass. At tliat day lunatics were always confined
with criminals. There were no separate asy
lums for this unhappy class. The incongruity of
this struck her! There were twenty mad men
in the prison! “ Misfortune, disease, is not
crime! Why site these here ?” she asked of
a member of the Legislature, who was one of
her party. "It is customary 1” was the ear
less reply. “ You ought to appropriate money
to erect a separate institution for the insane I”
she said.
“ Draw up your bill, Miss Dix.” he said pleas
antly, “and I will introduce it
She took him at his word! the bill was in
troduced. Much debate followed. She address
ed letters to its bitterest opponents, pleading for
it 1 She prevailed. It was carried, and an ap
propriation of a large amount of money was vo
ted, and the next year the walls of an insane
asylum began to be upreared! This noble
young woman did not 6top here 1 She visited
Rhode Island, Connecticut and other States!
She mado it her mission to build up asylums
and to reform prisons! She has traveled on
her own paternal income of two thousand dol
lars, or little more, and out of it has borne all
of her expenses, and done all that she has
done!
God bless her! Heaven reward her 1 On
earth tecs of thousands of the hapless insane and
of the unhappy prisoners lift up their hands
and voices in grateful benedictions upon her
head! nonor to her sex! Honor to her race!
What homage shall be withdrawn from her, that
a grateful age can give! Long may she live to
pour balm upon the burning brain of the lunatic
and ameliorate the condition of the “prisoner
and captive.” Am revoir.
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POTICHOMANIE, OS GLASS ORNAMENTING.
About forty years ago it was the fashion for
ladies to amuse themselves “ and pass their
time away” in cutting out flowers, birds, and in
sects from old pieces of chintz, and by the ex
ercise of a little ingenuity, they 'fastened them
into the interior of bottles; finally the bottles
were filled either with challf; salt, or any white
material to form a ground-work to the fanciful
picture. Such bottles, the handiwork of grand
mama when she was a girl, are still to be seen
here and there on the high mantel-shelf. This
art —if art it can be called —has been recently
revived, and slightly improved, under the title
of “ potichomanie.” At the shops where fancy
goods are sold will be found all the materials
required—vases in transparent glass, of classic
forms, Etruscan and Pompeiian, curious designs,
Chinese figures, flowers,/Reptiles, &c., printed in
colors upon paper, gum, varnish, brushes, Ac.
As of old, the designs are cut out of paper, var
nished at the back, and then- gummed into the
interior of the glass vessels. Instead of using
bottles, used foi ornamentation
are now manufactured; hence the work, when
complete, are forms worthy of the work. The
designs, too, are very superior to the old chintz
patterns, being now printed upon paper, with
all the designs and brilliancy ■of chromo-litho
graphy ; the effects are more pleasing, especially
as gilding is introduced into many of the pic
tures. After the picture or design, all are fas
tened into the ground color is applied,
the shade of which should harmonize with the
subjects. The ground color being poured into
the vase, a rotary motion is given to thepotiche,
for the purpose of diffusing it equally over all
parts. The ground color is prepared with flake
white and varnish, thinned with turpentine,
tinted either with chrome, ultramarine, Bruns
wick green, Prussian blue, or carmine with
1 Two Dollar* Per Annum, I
| Always lu Advance. (
chrome, Ac. After the ground color is perfectly
dry, the vases or potiche should be lined with
a coating of plaster of Paris made with water
as thin as cream. Being poured into the vase
it is run around in the same way as the ground
color, by turning the vase until the plaster is
set, which takes place in a few minutes. This
gives weight and solidity to the vessel. If the
vase is required to hold water for cut flowers,
the plaster lined must be saturated with good '
dry linseed/(il. Taking all things into conside
ration,^♦potichomanie is as likely to improve the '
taste of those who pursue it as crochet, leather
modeling, and such like amusements.
— lit ■
CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
ENIGMA LI.
I am composed of twenty-fonr letters:
My 9,10, S, 2, 84, 8,5, 20—Name of an eminent Georgia
Jurist
18.14.15, 12—Name of an English essayist and poet.
20, 7, 18, 4, 10—Name of the greatest of French ac
tors, some fifty years ago.
20, 28,18.18, 5, 21, B—Name of a prominent charac
ter In the French revolution during the time of
Robespierre.
22, 5,4, 21,8,9,24 —Name of a Spanish statesman.
24,18,8, 20.16. 10,8, 8, T-Name of an exiled Mexi
can General.
16.18.14.15, 18—Name of aTexas battle-field.
11, 18,18,18, T —Name of» Spanish naval officer.
1,6, 7, 20, 20.14, B—Name of an eloquent Irishman.
2,4, 8,14,17, 18,12, 21, 6, 20, 24—Name of the early
frlenu of the ill-fated Miss L. E. London.
19,18,22—Was an eminent and eloquent Englishman.
My whole is the name of a distinguished Southerner,
who has died lately.
Joneeborongh, On. Pcss Poexr.
ENIGMA LII.
I am composed of eight letters:
My 4, 5. 6, B—a production of one of the Southern
States.
2,5, 8, B—a term applied to a young lady.
1.4, G—any portion of a circumference.
7.8 a personal pronoun. t
1, 8,4 something essential to life.
8,8, 7—a Latin word signifying Or.
My whole is a thriving City In Southwestern Georgia.
Americas, Ga. M. T. N.
ENIGMA LIII.
I am composed of twelve letters:
My 1,10, 9,4 —a proper name.
5,2, 7, B—used in making heat.
6,10, 2,12—a wild quadruped.
10.8— an inteijection.
12, 2,11, 4—a common name.
My w hole is the name of on eminent American States
man. «
Athens, Ga Delta.
ENIGMA J.IV.
I uni coinposed of twenty-seven letters:
My 12.15, 6.1, B—a musical instrument.
2, 5,10, 24, 27—a very useful animal.
4, 28,17—a l*ge body Os water.
8.18, 7—an article worn by men.
14, 9,15—a kind of fish.
25, 11,18 —a-place of entertainment
20.18. 16. 19, 15, 27—a mnsical instrument
20, 21, 22, B—visible light and heat
24.18.11 what too many people are fond of.
26,17, 12, 20, 5,19, 25, 15—a flower.
My whole Is what every southern family should have.
Alston, S. 0. T. C.
ENIGMA LV.
I am composed of fifteen letters:
My 1, 4,12, 9,7 —an Indian idol.
2.11 a pronoun.
3, 9,8,11—a fragrant flower. * '
4.8.6.11, B—a sign of the Zodiac.
5,4, 8, B—the “God of War.”
6, 5,14.4, 6, B—to invalidate.
7, 6,1. 8,4, B—a serpent whose bite causes thirst.
8,11,1, 9, 2—a soldier of India.
9.15.15.11, B—an amphibious animal.
10.6.10.11 — a musical instrument
11.4, 8,15—a point of the compass.
12.8.9.15.15, 9—an artificial cave made for coolness.
18, 4, s—an American root
1,4, 8,6, B—oae of the largest cities In the world.
15,6, 4,8, 4—The crown of a certain Sovereign.
My whole stand as wonderful achievements of ancient
Industry.
Burke Co., Ga. Gvssis C.
LITERARY PUZZLE.
There are at least two words in the English Language •
which contain all the vowels, (a, e, 1, o, n, y,) and in
their regular order. What are those words ?
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, ETC,, OF LAST WEEK.
Enigma XLVI: Ellen C. Mason.
Enigma XLVII: Demosthenes and Cicero.
Enigma XLV III: Thou shalt not kill.
Enigma XLIX: Children's Column.-
Enigma L: Alexander the Great
ANSWERS RECEIVED.
To Enigmas from XLII. to XLIV., inclusive, from
Myth, of Carthage, Ala.; M. E. Thomas, of Casseta, Ala.;
Marsena R. Parker, of Mobile, Ala.; C. M. 8., of Troup
Factory, Ga.; Argonaut, of Savannah.
To Enigma XLV., from Mollle Jimie, of West Point
Ga.; C. M. 8.; Marsena R. Parker; Argonaut; E. R
Thornton, of Campbellton, Ga.; M. E. Thomas; Myth.
To Enigma XLVI., from Fanny, of Washington; Old
Lincoln, of Savannah, Bettie Gray, of Augusta; C. A.
Orangeburgh, S. C.
To Enigma XLVII, from Bettie Gray; Fanny; W. D.
W, Carncsville, Ga.
To Enigma XLVIII, from Fanny; Geo. P. Meredith,
of Orangeburgh, S. C.
To Bfiigma XLIX.< from Gussie N., of Augusta;
Fanny; Geo. P. Meredith.
To Enigma L, from Fanny; Old Lincoln.
To Problem, by B, from Means- Davis, (ten years of
years,) of Ridgeway, S. C.; W. D.AV, of Carnesville, Ga.
Children think becanso they are children,
there is littlo they can do; but there is one
thing harder to learn than all science, better to
have than all gold, sweeter to friends than all
outward loveliness, and attained by the child
easier than by man. It is patience, the secret
of all true happiners, the securer of lasting af
fection, and the strongest lever of success.
NO. 42.