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1863. NEW YEAR! 1863. NEW GOODS,

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A Weekly Hournal of Politics,

Literature, and dlews, -

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‘This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Euripides,

~ LITERATURE,

THE CUAPEI,.

| Like one who leaves the drampled street | For some cathedral, cool and dina, Where he can hear in music beat

fhe heart of prayer that beats for him ;

And sees the common light of day

' Through painted panes transfigure d shine And casts bis human woes awuy

i lu presence of the Woe Divine

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So I, from life's tormenting themes,

i Tara where the silent chapel lies,

} Whose windows burn with vanished dreams,

W hose altar-lights are memories

There watehed by pitying cherulim,

In sacred hush I rest awhile, Till solemn sounds of harp and hy mn

Bein to sw eep the haunted aisle:

A hymn that once but breathed complaint, And breathes but resignation now,

‘first snow of the season began to fall, and | Against this stone the unlucky Sexton | made a sudden stop, and was not to be

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, February 9, 1863.

that so thick and fast, that, in a very short time, the housetops presented a single field ‘of white, Immersed in his gricf, hemissed his way across the market-place, and, when he least expected such 2 thing, found him- self in the front of the cathedral, The great | clock chimed three quarters—it wanted then ja quarter to twelve. Where was he to ‘look for assistance, at such an hour, or, in- ‘deed, at any hour? He had already ap- | plied to the rich prelates, and got from them ‘all that their charity was likely to give. ‘Suddenly a thought struck him; he saw ‘his little Maria crying for the food he ‘eould not give her—his sick wife lying in ‘bed with the infant on her exhausted bosom }—and then Adelaide in her splendid coffin, |and her hands glittering with jewels that it jcould not grasp. ‘ Of what use are dia- |monds to her now ?"’ said he to himself. |“ Is there any sin in robbieg the dead to give to the living? I would not do sueh a

stumbled, just as the turret clock struck | | twelve, snd iqueneiataly he fell to the earth in a deathlike swoon. The cold, however, soon brought him to himself, and on recover- ‘ing his senses he again fled, winged by ‘terror, and fully convinced that he had no hope of escaping the yengeance of the dead, except by the confession of his crime, and gaining the forgiveness of her family. With this view he burried across the market- place to the Burgomaster’s house, where he had to knock long before he could attract any notice. ‘The whole housebold lay in a profound sleep, with the exception of the }anhappy Adolph, who was now sitting glone ou the same sofa where he had so often sat with his Adelaide. Her picture hung on ‘the wall opposite to him, though it might rather be said to feed his grief than to afford |him any consolation. And yet, as most ‘would do under such circumstances, he ‘dwelt upon it the more iutently, even from

brought any farther.

* Quick !’ exclaimed the Burgomaster, who was beginning to lose his patience, for his heart throbbed with expectation.

* Heaven and all good angels defend us!’ murmured Hans through his chattering teeth, while he in vain felt for his rosary, which yet bung as usual at his girdle.

* What is the matter now ?’ eried Adolph.

‘Do you sce who sits there?’ replied Haus.

*‘ Where ? exclaimed bis master ; nothing : hold up the lantern.’

‘I see

‘there sits our deceased lady on the altar, in a long white veil, and drinks out of the sacramental cup.’

With a trembling hand he held up the lantern in the direction to which he pointed. [t was, indeed, as he had said. There she sat, with the paleness of death upon her face—her white garments waving heavily io

Alse ew hand;

Since God has heard ihe pleading saint,

Boiled and Raw Oli, PAIN? Patty, Window Glass, SKATES Plough and Cart Mountjvg Cut Nails, all sizes, &e. &e. &e re” We bew to call the attention of City and Country ayers to oar Stock, which is now com plete inevery department. Wit regard to price, we are determined shag po fault shall be found in this respect. Our waods ane Loggia sn the cheapest markets, and will be sald us low. to say the least, us avy in the eity ; DELANY & WILSON Febraary Ind, 1363

“PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FASHIONABLE Tailoring Establishment! CHABLES BELL, QUEEN SQUARE....... CHARLOTTETOWN,

NNOGUNCES the arrival of his FALL and WINTER GOODS, which are aij of the

newest designs af present ju the Market every Department of the Woollen Drapery Trade ix amply represented in hie Establishment. His GOODS are decidedly of the Newest and Best Class mana fuctured ; they have been earefully selected from the best Wholeaule Houses in Britain for hia trade, ; and bave been perchased for CASH, which is a very iueportant artic ( ia the warket at present

CHARLES BELL is, therefore, in a position to

ee hie customers the very best value, and can, at}

the same time. coufidenthy recontmend the article he sells. He enumerates « few leuding articles us} tullows:— West of England agd Yorkshire CLOTHS; Heavy Beavers, Whitneys and Pilot COATINGS; Doeskine ; Cassimeres; Kuylieh and Seoteh i TWEEDS; Velvet, Silk, Valentia, and Marseilles Vussrixus lriyee Edward Island Howtpseg se; Twilled and Shirtigpng FJ,ANNELS; Geutleman's Shirts and Collars; Shetland and Lamb's Wool UNDER CLAPTHING,; Searte, Tres, and ' Mutiera; Far, Cloth, Wool & Kid Gloves; Braces, Soaks, Unpbrellas, and Trunks, Fur, Cloth, Gianed, |

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Revereable, and other WINTER CAPS; Silk Felt, Wool, and Glazed HATS; FUKS—Rus sian Dog, Siberian Lamb, Nutria, aud Muskrat, ete., ete

The best assortment of TAILORS TRIMMINGS ever imported to this Island, in Coat Linings, Sleeve Linings. Vest Backs and Linings, Coat Canvus, Pudding, Waddiug, Cout and Vest Braids and Biad

nus, Battons of all kinks, and other TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS,

Too numerous Lo pw niin

(of the holy Three Kings inscribed.

And laid his hand upon my brow.

Restored and comforted, T go

To grapple with my tasks again ; | Through silent worship taught to know

j The blessed peace that follows pain. | I I

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THE SEXTON OF COLOGNE. | In the year 1571, there lived at Cologne | ja rich burgomaster, whose wife, Adelaide, | } then in the prime of her youth and beauty, | | fell sick and died. They had lived very | | happily together, and the doating husband, |

throughout ber fatal illness, scarcely quitted |her bedside for an instant. During the |latter period of her sickness, she did not ' suffer greatly; but the fainting fits grew

more and more frequent, avd of increasing | duration, till, at length, they beeame inces-} ‘sant, and she finally sank yoder them. {

It is well known that Cologne is a city} which, as far as respects religion, may | compare itself with Rome ; on which account | it was galled, even in the middle ages, Roma |

Germanica, and sometimes the Sacred City It scemed as if, in after times, it wished to compensate by piety the misfortune of having| been the birth place of the abominable Agrippa. The principal church is the ca- thedral! of St. Peter—one of the handsomest buildiogs in all Germany, though still not, so comp'cte as it was probably intended by | the architect, The choir alone is arched. | The chief altar is a sing'e block of black

{ Sa- |

from Namur upon the Mass. In the

cristy an ivory rod is shown, said to have belonged to the Apostle Peter; and in a chapel stands a gilded coffia, with the names Their | skulls are visible through aa opening —two | being white, as belonging to Caspar and | | Baltesar -- the third black, for Melchior. | | ft is easy to be understood that the-e re-|

'markable relics, rendered sacred by time, eessively flashed upon the sculptured marbles, |make a deep impressiun on the imagination | tt seemed to him as if the pale figures

itheown fiom some column that waved to | ° ‘and fro as the lamplight flickered in the | claimed.

| thing for myself if L were starving—no, | the pain it gave him, and it was not till the heaven forbid, Bat for my wife and child | Sextoa had kaoeked repeatedly that he awoke —ah! that’s quite another matter !” (from bis melancholy dreams, Roused at

Quieting his conscience as well as he last, he opened the window and inquired could with this opiate, he burried home to who it was that disturbed him at such an get the necessary implements ; but by the | unseasonable hour? ‘ {tis only 1, Mr. time he reached his own door, kis resolution | Burgomaster,’ waa the answer. ‘ And who began to waver, The sight, however, of his are you ?” asked Adolph again. * Bolt, wife's distress wrought him up again to the| the Sexton of St. Peter's, Mr. Burgomaster ; sticking place; and, having provided him-| I bave a thing of great importance to dis- self with a dark lantern, the church keys,|}cover to you.’ Naturally associating the and a crow to break open the coffia, he gat|idea of Adelaide with the Sexton of the out for the cathedral. On the way, all) church where she was buried, Adolph was manner of strange fancies crossed him; the immediately anxious to know something exrth seemed to shake beneath him.--It| more of the matter, and, takiog up a wax-

| was the tottering of his own limbs; a figure | light, he hastened down stairs, and himself

seomed to sign him back—it was the shade opened the door to Bolt. ‘What have you to say to me?’ he ex-

night wind. But still the thought of home| ‘ Not here, Mr. Burgomaster,’ replied drove him on; aad even the badaess of the! the anxious Sexton; * aot here—we may be weather carried this eonsolation with it— | overheard.’ he was the more likely to ficd the streets | Adolpb, though wondering at his affecta- clear, and escape detention, ‘tion of mystery, motioned him in, and closed Ile had now reached the cathedral. For! the door; when Jolt, throwing himself at 4 moment he paused on the steps, and then, | his feet, confessed all that happened. Tne taking heart, put the huge key into the lock. | anger ot Ado!ph was mixed with compassion To his fancy, it had never opened with such | as he listened te the strange recital ; nor readiness before. The bolt shot back at the | eould he refuse Bolt the absolution which light touch of the key, and he stood alone the poor fellow deemed so essential to his in the church, trembling from head to foot. | future security from the vengeance of the Still it was requisite to close the door behind dead. At the same time he cautioned him him, lest its being open should be seen by | to maintain a profuund silence on the sub- any one passing by, and give rise to sus- ject towards every one else, as otherwise the picion ; and, as he did so, the story came | sacrilege might be attended with serious

Vor a sigu that he had really been there, | matters belonged, would view his fault with he was to stick his knife into a coffin; but} equal indulgence. lle even resolved to go through the skirt of his cout without being | might investigate the affair more thoroughly. aware of it, afid, supposing himself held But to this proposition the Sexton gave a back by some supernatural agency, dropped prompt and positive denial. ‘1 would down dead upon the floor. rather,’ he exclaimed—* L would rather be

Full of these unpleasant recollections he dragged to the scaffuld than again disturb tottered up the nave; and, as the light sue- the repose of the dead.’ This declaration, so ill-timed, confounded Adolph, one hand, be felt an undefived curiosity to

|of the Catholics; and that the three skulls,

frowned ominously upon him. Butdesper- | look more narrowly into this mysterious bu- |

the night wind, that rushed through the aisles of the church—and holding the silver gublet to her lips with long, bony arms, wasted oy protracted illness. Even Adolph’s courage began to waver. ‘ Adelaide,’ he eried, ‘L conjure you in the name of the blessed Trinity, answer me—is it thy living self, or but thy shadow ?”

‘ Ah!" replied a faint voice, ‘ you buried me alive, and, but for this wine, I had perished from exhaustion. Come up to me,

shall be with shadows, unless I receive your | speedy succour,’

‘Go near her!’ said Hans; ¢ it is the Evil One that has assumed the blessed shape of my lady to destroy you.’

‘ Away, old man!’ exclaimed Adolph, bursting fromthe fecble grasp of his servant, and rushed up the steps of the altar.

It was, indeed, Adelaide that he held in his eager ewbrace—the warm and living Adelaide ! who had been buried for dead in ‘her long trance, and had only escaped from ithe grave by the sacrilegious daring of the

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Sexton of Cologne.

‘The Civil War in the States. ‘HOW THE FEDERALS CONDUCT THE | WAR.

_ We give below a few extracts from North- ern papers, to show the vandalism that cha-

| ° ,racterizes the Northern armies wherevee they

‘across his mind of a man who had visited a consequences—it not being likely that the £9- marble. brought along the Rhine to Cologne |church at midnight to show his courage. | ecclesiastics to whom the judgment of such 5 . }

NEW ORLEANS.

| A correspondent of the Boston Courier thus

speaks of the conduct of the Northern officers j

in his hurry and trepidation he stuck it! himself te the church with Bolt, that he 1 Bayou Lafourche, near New Orleans :—

** Alas! for the change L found in their moral sentiments, if these young government | officials were a fair specimen of, and the re- | presentatives of the character of the present | generation of young New England. The con- |versation changed from habits at home and ‘here abroad. Ilere, in the broadest and most selves to be ‘* appropriators,’’ ‘* takers,’’ ** stealers,’’ avowing their determination to squeeze out of the people any and all property

dear Adolph ; Iam no shadow—but 1 soon |

Ready - Made Clothing.

This Branch of his Trade is unusaally large at present. Owing to the depressjon of the thes per nous requiring Salts will yet them at very KE

DUCED PRICES.

MOURNING,

and al! other orders for Clothing promptly attended to, and goud fitting Peshiouable Articles guaranteed

te” Gentlemen who have been in the habit of

getting their Clothing made up, through Tailors

vhoosing their Cloth and Trimuwings for them, from

the ditferent Stores, would fiud it to their advantage

to examine the Stock of Cloths and Trimmings, and

evuecuire the prices for truking up at this Extublish-

ment, before they purchase elsewhere, at they can | fave time and momey, by wetting all the articles) required

At the lowest rate in One Place.

‘with their silver setting, are eonvineing

procfs of genuineness to religious feelings. It was iu this church that Adclaide was buried in great splendour. I[n the spirit of \that age, which bad more feeling for the solid and real taste — more devotion and confidence than unbelieving fear—she was dressed as a bride in flowéred silk, a motly garland upon her head, and her pale fingers

ation supplied the place of courage. He kept on his way to the ohoir—deseended | jthe steps, passed through the long narrow, passage, with the cead heaped up on either side—opened Adelaide's chapel, and stood jat once before her coffin. ‘There she lay, stiff and pale—the wreath in her huir, and’ jewels on her fingers, gleaming strangely in | the dim light of the lantern.

He even “such despair in his eyes, that he might him-

sines*; on the other hand he could not help which wes portable. . Whep I gently told,

feeling compassion for the Sexton, who it | fur instance, a Judge or Marshal who held was évident, was labouring under the in- | court, that the law and governmental orders fluence of a delusion which he was utterly | required receipts to be given to the quiet and unable tosublue. The poor fellow trembled | loyal citizens for any property which the go- all over, as if shaken by an ague fit, and | Yernment required, to the end that the United painted the situation of bis wife and his | States might compensate the sufferers, the

a dng pe le fi d | Judge's reply was, that to be sure such was Greens Pay uch a pale face and the law, bat we don’t mind such things so

far from headquarters; and *‘ we are bound

covered with costly rings; in which state | fancied that he already smelt the pestilential self have passed for a chureh-yard speeire. | to suck this region dry ; and when there is

she was conveyed to the vault of a little,

chapel, directly under the choir, in a ecflio with glass windows. Many of her forela- thers were already resting here, balmed, and with their mummy forms, offer-

The principte recognized and practically carried | ing a strange contrast to the silver and gold

out at this Establishment ie Speedy Sales wud Light | Vrofite, for CASH The LATEST FPASAIONS are always secured Charlotietowsa, Uect. 27, U2

LONDON HOUSE. |

NEW CHEAP GOODS, JUST RECEIVED,

CW At the Stand formerly Dempsey 's, opvosue Apothecaries® Hall, Queen Sirecet.

ti HASZARD begs to inform his

Be friends and the public that he has reeeived

by the“ Uranus,” from London, the * Prjoress"’ aud

‘Theresa,’ from Liverpool, a large supply of

Firitish Dry Goods, Faney Goods, Hardware and

(iroceries. Having beeu purchased on the best

with which they were decorated, and teach-

| ing, in & peculiar fashion, the difference be-

tween the psrishable and the imperishable. The custom of eajbalming was, iv the pre- sent instance, given up; the place was full; |and, when Adelaide was buried, it was sct- _tled that no one else should be laid there for | the future.

With heavy heart had Adolph followed his wife to her fina! resting place. Tue tarret bells, of two hundred and twenty ‘byndred weight, lifted up their deep voices, ‘and spread the sounds of mourning through \the wide eity; whie the monks carrying

breath of deeay, though it was full early for | corruption to have began its work. A) | sickness seized him at the thought, and he

all em-|!eaned for support against one of the |immediate wants, sent him home te bis wile

lecolumns, with bis eyes fixed on the coffia ; | |when—was it real or was it illusion ?—a| | change came over the face of the dead! He, | started back ; and that change, so indiserib- | | able, had passed away in an instant, leaving

(a darker shadow on the features.

| «If Lhad only time,’ he said to himself — if [ had only time, L would rather) ‘break open one of the other coffins, and | leave the Lady Adelaide in quiet. Age bas destroyed gil that is human in these

mummies ; and they have lost that resem- |‘ In the way of wy duty, yes,’ replied Haus ;

'blance to life, which makes the dead so ‘terrible, and I should no more mind hand- ling them than so many dry boaes. [t’sall

| bousense, though ; one is as harmless as the

terws and personally selected, they will be sold » | tapere and seattering incense, sang requiems | viher, and since the lady Adelaide’s house

the lowest rate for Cush only, comprising :

7 cases Dress Goods (2 bales Striped Shistings

I ense Silke and Kibbons | do Bleached do

I do Buttons & trimmings | de Printed Cottons

1 do Ladies’ Mantles, "2 do Cloths and Doeskine

3 do Hate and Caps (great 1 do Blankets and Sheets | do Wadding

| from their huge vellum folios, which were spread upon the music desks in the,choir, But the service was now over; the dead lay alone with the dead; the immense clock

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which is only wound up once a year, and

is the easiest fur my work, 1 must e’en set about it.’

| But the ooffin did not offer the facilities he ‘had reckoved upon with so much certainty. ‘The glass windows were secured iuwardly

variety) a : , 5 do Keady-made Clothing t do Cyrpecdug & Hearth | ghows the course of the plonets, as well as| With iron wire, leaving no space for the ad-

bdo Ladies’ and Gents’) Rugs Waterproof Mautles & 7 do Paper hanging (3000 Coats pheces) I do Gloves and Hosiery 5 casks Hardware I} do Haberdashery I cues do J do Shirts, Collars, Braces 1 do Cutlery Ke 1 erate Coal Seuttles and i do Snawle and Mafflers! Zine Buckets e do Jewellry, Powstgy 0 chests Tea, cheap and and Soaps Kunal 2 do India Kubber Shoes |5 casks Soda + Bales Brown Cottons

—~— ALSO ——

Crashed and Moist Suger, Molasses, Coffee, Rice, Mustard, Stareh, Blue, Raisins, Currants, Spices, (lass, Patty, Nails, Leather, Buckets, Broome, Soap; Onudles, Manilla Rope, Vlongh Mounting, iron, all sizes, Sheet bron, &e., &e. Charlottetawn, Dec. 15, 1882.

the hours of the day, was the only thing that bad sound or motion in the whole ca- |thedral. Its monotonous ticking seemed to mock the silent grave.

| It was a stormy November evening, when | Peter Bolt, the sexton of St. Peter’s, was | returning home after this splendid fuoeral. | The poor man, who had been married four years, bad one child, a daughter, which his wife brought him in the second year of their | marriage, and was again expecting her con- ‘finement. It was, therefore, with a heavy heart that he had left the church for his cottage, which lay damp and cold on the

; Complaint, Indigestion and Dy ape pels,

AUCTION! banks of a river, and which, at this dull

y ILL BE SOLD BY PUBLIC 804800, looked more gloomy than ever. At AUCTION, without reserve— the door, he was met by the little Maria,

100 Crates and Casks of who called out with great delight, ‘ You CHINA, JLASS and EARTHENWARE, ™¥*t vot go up stairs, father; the stork well assorted, suitable for Country Merebants, early bas been here, and brought Maria a little gy aa or on arrival of the Spriag Ships | brother !'—a piece of information more ex- "Whee ‘site. and will be made known at| Peeted than agreeable, and whieh was soon time of Sale after confirmed by the appearance of his B. O'NEILL & CO. | sister-in-law with a healthy infant in her

—_ arms. lis wife, however, bad suffered much, and was in a state that required as- sistance far beyond bis means to supply. Lo this distress, he bethought himself of the Jew, Isaac, who had lately advanced him a trifle on his old silver watch ; but now, un-

February 2nd, 1863,

Important to the Afflicted. Located at Last. D*: J. HOMER, Physician and Sur-

geon, late from Boston, has opeued a Medical Office at Summerside, where hoe can be consalted, yuEE by letter or otherwise, on all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, Lunges, Heart, Liver, and Gene- rative Organs.

A sore cure for Asthma, Catarrh, Deafness, Liver

and was forced to ground all his hopes op the Jew's comipassion—a very unsafe an- chorage. With doubiful steps he sought the {7 Dental operations on Teeth, and Surgical

Operations on Tamors, Cancers, &e. &

Having recently imported a nice large ease of occalar instruments, he will cure Cross Eyes in #) minutes, and operate ypon the Eve for dislocated | eed aor eee e, jn & Very Short time, with g favourable answer to bis petitian. pertect sutisfachon. Pi . h Jew

t¥" All letters received, giving full descriptions | ""* disappointed ad ; of disease, &c., will receive immediate attention ; him out, coally repli , . und medicings sent by mail, in care of the Postmaster. | no moneys on a cojld—that it was £oO to any part of the Jsland. ledge.’

Charges to spit the times jn all eases. pledge.

Examination and adviee rret to all on Tuesday of each week.

Professional veite made in ap Summerside, Nov, 22, 1362.

tears and sighs; ! tened with great patience —so much so, ‘indeed that, Bolt began to flatter himself with

fortunately, he had nothing else to pledge, |

having heard rushed through the vaulted passage, ‘that he could lend steps, through the choir, and woyld have good found his way out, had he not, in his reck-

With bitter exocrations on the usurer’s Pevil’s Stone, | hard-heartedness, poor Bolt rushed from his the chureh, and which, according to the le- - of the Island | door ; when, to aggravate his situation, the 'geud, was ast there by the devil.

| mission of the hand, so that he found him- | self obliged to break the lid to pieces, a task ‘that, with hie imperfect tools, cost both — and Isbour. As the wood splintered and cracked under the heavy blows of the

the cold perspiration poured in streams ‘dowa his face, the sound assuring him more jthan all the rest that he was committing ‘sacrilege. Before, it was only the place, ‘with its dark associations, that had terrified

| iron,

him; now he began to be afraid of himself,

| business altogether, if the lid had not sad- 'denly flown to pieces. Alarmed at his very ‘success, he started round, as if expecting to see some one behind, watching his sacrilege, and ready to clutch him; aud go strong had been the illusion, that when he fuand this was not the case, he fell upon his knees be- fore the coffin, exclaiming, ‘ forgive me, dear lady, if I take from you what is of no use to yourself, while a single diamond would make a poor family so happy. It is not for myself—ob, no! it is for my wile and children !*

| THe thought the dead looked more kindly ‘at him as he spoke thus, and eertainly the livid shadow had passed away from her face. Without more delay, he raised the cold hand to draw the ring from its fingers ; byt what was his horror, when the dead returned the | grasp |—his hand was clutched, ay, firmly clutched, though that rigid face and form lay there as cold and motionless as ever, With

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f the miser, and told his tale amidst a ery of horror he ran away, not retaining tion. | ate to all of which Isaac |is-|so much presence of mind as to think of the who was taking the opportyuity of seeing

light which he left burning by the coffin. ‘This was of litthe consequence, however ;

up the

less hurry, forgotten the stone, called the

which lies in the middle of

‘and would, without doubt, have given up the and followed his master without further op-

The Burgomaster again admoaished him to no more to steal here, we will go to the Red be silent for fear of the consequences, and. River country, and there will be a fine field giving him a couple of dollars to relieve his | fr plunder. We shall clean this place out

ina few months.’’ I was amazed at their audacity and sach conduct. Uere you see

and family. . . in the persons of the army sent here to restore Being thus deprived of his most natural | the Union all plunderers, from the late Com-

ally on this oecasion, Adolph summoned av | manding General down to the negro soldiers. old and confidential servant, of whose seerecy |The latter are encamped in single companies he could have no doubt. ‘I’o his question of | all along the railroad, say one company to —‘ Do you fear the dead ?’ Hansstoutly re- | every ten miles, men sent ostensibly to fight plied, ‘They are not balf so dangerous as | tebe! soldiers, ong te pootecs te yout he livia !° they have been engaged in plundering private ie 6: - *4 houses, and scattering their contents in wild

' Indeed! said the Burgomaster. ‘ Do | gigorder in the camps, and reducing to desti- you think, then, that you have courage

tution a class of men who have been loyal enough to go into the church at night ?'— | citizens tu the United States, and who have been so far removed from actual scenes of strife that there was a fuir prospect that the planters would return to the Union, particu- larly on the march of the army into the in- terior.”’

DOINGS IN THE SOUTH WEST.

A letter dated a few weeks ago from Wyatt, Miss., to the Newark (New Jersey) Journal, says :—

** | believe the time has come when I am ashamed to acknowledge that I belong to the Union army. Cf all the disgraceful proceed- ings that (ever witnessed, I think what I have seen on this march caps the climax. Two-thirds of Sherman's army is composed of new troops from Indiana, Ilinois and Wis- consin, and they have come down here with the intention of burning and destroying, and well are they carrying out their intentions. The whole line of our march is one continued scene of destruction. Private dweilings burn- ed, women and children driven out of their houses, and even the clothes stripped from their backs, to say nothing of acts committed by the soldiery which would make the black- est-hearted libertine blush for shame. ‘This very day I have witnessed scenes from which [ turned with loathing and disgust. ‘True,

Adolph hurried into the church with (stringent orders have been issued against hasty steps; but the old man, who went be- | these excesses, but 1 fear they will do no fore him to show the way, delayed him with geod, Ee ae he oe aie bis velinetions pape: that thei progress wes about as al a mob as ever aaa ie face but slow. Even “ the threshold he stopped | of the earch. It is perfectly frightful. Ut1 and flung the light of his lantern upon the | jived in this country, I never would lay down gilded rods over the door, to which it is the my arms, while a ** Yankee” remained on the custom to add a fresh one every year, that | svil. Ido not blame Southerners for being people may know how long the reigning | secessionists now. I could relate many Elector has lived. | things that would be laughable if they were

‘ That is an excellent custom,’ said Hans: 2° °° horribly disgraceful. For instance, ‘one has only to count those stayes, aad one.

imagine two privates in an elegant a i Ithy South ) learns immediately how long the gracious a eee Elector has goverved us simple men.’

with a sjlendid span of horses, riding in * Excellent!’ replied Adolph ; ‘but go on.’

‘not otherwise, with holy matters.’

* Do you believe in ghosts, Hans?’ con- tinued Adolph.—*‘ Yes, Mr. Burgomaster.’

‘Do you fear them ?’—* No, Mr. Burge- waster. I hold by God, and he holds up me; and God is the strongest.’

* Will you go with me to the Cathedral, Hans? 1 have had a strange dream to- night ; it seemed to me as if my deceased wife called me from the steeple window.’— * I see how it is,’ answered Hans, ‘ the Sex- ton has been with you, and put this whiuw into your head, Mr. Bargomaster. These gtave-diggers are always seeing ghosts.’

‘Put a light in your lantern,’ said Adolph, avoiding a direct reply to this ob- servation of the old man, * Be silent and follow me.’—‘ If you bid me,’ said Hans, ‘1 must of course obey; for you are my magistrate as well as my master.’

Herewith he lit the candle in the lantern,

{it is not right to trifle

ition.

state along the we were marching over,

with a nigger roenen boas, the polen ' been i in all the style of an English nobleman, an

j -aggs Mygp dani “ reins ntnien? then two es drummer boys going it at a

ior B) Tae fee om, bO. Gamenne DIP two-forty pace, in an elegant buggy, with o

pace at thisadmonition. Not a monyment fast horse, and the buggy loaded with a

| would he pass withoyt first stopping to ex- strange motion of household fyrniture and

amine it by the lantorn-lght, and request- kitchen utensils, from an elogent parlor mir- |ing the Burgomaster to explain its inserip- ror to a pair : es ¢ which -

ik lier *‘cramped’’ from some fine house, w Ta thert, he Maree Be. 8. pveliee | from sheer wantonness they have rifled and

‘the curiosities of the cathedral, although be | na of suoh svenes gre constantly had spent bis three-and-sixty years ip Co- | occurring alopg the fine of our march, #8 T-

But he fear can find its way in the dark; and be Jogne, and, dyring that period, had been iv \dieuloas and absurd as they are a burning

shame to the army of the Union.” VANDALISM ON THE WA¥ TO VICKSBURG.

the habit of frequenting it almost daily.

Adolph who well knew that ng represen- | tations would avail him, submitted patiently | to the whuns of bis old servant, contenting gonounce the atrocities committed by the himself with answering bis questions 4 expedition against Vicksburg.

|last got to the high altar. Were Hans! Commerce ;-—

The progress of this expedition down the

will be remembered by the dwellers along the banks of the Mississippi to their latest days and will forever embitter them against everything Northern. Were peace deelared to-day, and the war to eease, I would hesi- tate to risk myself alone over night in any town by which we have passed, for twent years to come, should it be known that was a Northern man. An army without discipline! Imagine, if you can, the ex- cesses it will commit.

The armada, of necessity, halts at night. The urmy transports tie up to the banks, and the soldiers are permitted to go ashore and

| the marke of their presence have been left. Oar first landing was at Friar’s Point, a quiet place, from which it does not appear that any hostile demonstration has ever been made. I do not suppose that a majority, or any considerable namber of the citizens, are Union people ; nor do I know to the con- trary. It is a Southern town, and prima facie evidence would convict the people of being secessionists. But go loug as they re-

they should be disturbed. Bat, where so

justice displayed in its execution. place, during the night we lay off the town, the torch was freely and indiscriminately ap- plied, and about half the town was laid in ashes. The ruins embraced eyery business house in the place, besides a number of dwell- ings. Of course, no one committed these outrages, aud no one is brought to account for them.

Moaday night we tied up a few miles be- low the mouth of the White river, and for- tunately in a somewhat uninbabited region. There was bat a single plantation withio reach, but this was desolated during the

burned up.

Arkansas shore, and sarrounded with exten- sive plantations on buth sides the river. Here the excesses of our troops exceeded all belief.

cated to one or two buildings edioining, which as Gaston's Landing, was visited,

spoxen, fearless, Union man. But this did not save bim. is dwellings and outbaild- ings were all fired aid destroyed. A little below was a splendid Dlantation, cne of the finest on the river. his was éompletely destroyed, not a building being left upon it. A number of dwellings in the town were des- troyed, including one uceu pied by thece un- protected females. : fly for their lives at midnight, leaving all their effects to the devour. ng element. Just above the town another plantation, with a splendid cotton gin, was wholly destroyed. On the opposite bank there w 1s a large quan- tity of wood piled, estimatea at twelve or fifteen hundred cords. This, to’, WS Set on fire and burned up, notwithstana ing the faet that wood is a great searcity on the river,

Ono the | unequiyucal language, they avowed thew- but very little having been cut and hauled This fleet of

| : out since the war broke out.

transports will require all the wood they can

this destruction they will be compelled to cut their wood as they may need it.

Is not the record a sickening one? Is it not a bright commentary on the teachings of those journalists at the North who insist on making this a war of devastation and exter- mination ?

VANDALISM OF UNION SOLDIERS.

The oaarprae of the New York World with General Grant's army, gives the follow- ing account of the eonduct of the Federal soldiers :

As soon as General Grant's army com- menced falling back from Coffeeville and | Oxford, every house not guarded was burned, or an attempt made to burn it, especially in Holly Springs, and the city was only saved from total destruction by placing ana entire regiment on patrol duty.

The explosion of ammunition in the public ‘square was 80 great that hardly a window in the city but was blown to pieces. The Epis- ,copal Church, a very great edifice near the ‘court house, was perfectly wrecked; the pews were thrown out of place, the organ and chancel demolished. Bat all this fell short of the desecration to churches in that city and La Grange by Union soldiers. From the church in question they carried off the pipee of the organ, and puffed them, like children, through the streets. A group en- tered the chancel and played cards on the consecrated tables, the bibles and prayer books were trodden under foot, and the pews were used for purposes too base to mention. A handsome marble tablet, erected to the memory of Rev. Dr. Ingraham, an author of some note in American literature, adorns the wall of this violated edifice, and it was onl saved from destruction with the greatest dil- ficulty. In La Grange all the churches have been occupied for some military purpose, but setting this necessity side, the soldiers have broken and destroyed all the furniture, win- dows and ornaments.