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London, England, 1865-09-22 00:00:00

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and took our station on the platform outside the
cafe-chalet opposite to the cascade. There were faint
lights wandering here and there in the deep gloom
of the fir-wood, faint and flickering lights like fire-
flies, marking the spots where the artificers were at
their preparatory work. It was as on the stage,-
when flashes of light steal through the side scenes
previous to the great moment when the decorations
are to go asunder, and some great, show, say the
Kingdom of Hades in " Don Giovanni," is to blaze
forth at one instant, to the amazement of the dazzled
spectator. The air was mild and.still, and the dark-
ness of the hour was hardly relieved in that hollow
gorge by the few stars twinkling overhead. The hour
was well chosen, heaven and earth were propitious,
and when the signal rocket flashed in the air, the soul
of every bystander was thoroughly ripened for the
coming wonder by those fe .v minutes of trembling
expectation. The rocket flashed up, the Bengal
lights blazed out—red lights, green lights, violet
lights. First the dark firs and the russet and gold
beech bushes were all on fire ; then the waters
gleamed out, rill after rill, blushing in the red, smil-
ing in the green, fainting in the violet beams. A
rich warm life rushed from end to end all along
that heaving stream—rich, warm life, where only
one second before there was only blank stillness
and gloom. Rapid and fitful the ever-changing
hues flitted up and down the successive leaps of
the fall, and calm, and pure, and solemn the silver
tide poured down, unmoved in its perpetual flow,
swelling its smooth arches, plashing on its hollow
rock beds, as unconcerned in all that glory of light
as if it were only basking in its wonted sunbeams,
or reflecting the pale glimmer of the genial moon.
The effect was magic. The flood of those coloured
lights did not merely flutter here and there on the
surface of the water ; it went through their liquid
mass from the rocky paths in their rear, shone
through it as through the purest crystal, setting off
each foaming billow, as one pressed upon the other
in endless succession, imparting animation to the
whole pillar of water, as if living things, tritons or
water nymphs, had been floating up and down be-
neath that smooth, compact surfaee—vague nonde-
script beings, dancing and fluttering, like motes in
a sunbeam. The effect was magic, not to be for-
gotten by any one who has seen it ; worth seeing at
the cost of much money and ever so much trouble.
All my theories on the true and false beautiful in art
and nature were blown to the ground, and as the
lights faded away, and the waterfall was replunged
into its nocturnal darkness, I had to avow that I had
been delighted in spite of my preconceptions, charmed
in defiance of my better reason.

PRICE 4d.,
STAMPED sd.'

it will, perhaps, be said, "But the South had no
food to give them." Now, in the first place, Ander-
sonville was in Georgia, and months later Sherman
marched through Georgia, finding abundance of
provisions on all sides of him. Moreover, the
United States' Sanitary Commission sent food to
Andersonville for the use of prisoners, and, among
others, J. H. Davidson, of the lowa Cavalry, de-
posed that he " saw four or five hundred boxes " of
this food stored at the depot, marked " United
States." They were never given to the poor fellows
inside that ghastly stockade. Lastly—for it is useless
to multiply the loathsome details—a Confederate re-
turn gives- the number of prisoners who died in this
one pen in August, 1864, as 2,993 ; and Dr. Balser
stated to the Commission that of 3,000 prisoners
discharged after the war, " not one-half will ever be
able to resume their former occupations." Here is a
copy of a note taken from the body of a prisoner
found dead. It was from a father to his son :

" August 27, 1864
" Oliver,—l died from sheer starvation, and don't for the
world tell your mother of the awful condition which I am
compelled to die in. " RICHARD FAIRCLOUGH."

This is sufficient to show that when I reported to
you that terrible cruelties had been practised upon
Federal prisoners at Andersonville, and that great
indignation was felt in the North on account of them,
I did not speak without being ready with " chapter
and verse " in proof. If the conduct described above
is " generous and humane," then very foolish and
nonsensical ideas about generosity and humanity
have heretofore been current in the United States.

" Ach wunderschon ! Sieh'mal, wie schiin !" eja-
culated the open-mouthed German Fr4ulein, with
incessant iteration. " Mon Dieu ! que c'est joli ! que
c'est joli !" que c'est joli !" screamed the fidgety
Frenchwomen, with whirlwind volubility. " Hold
your wretched tongues, and bottle up your tiresome
enthusiasm," grumbled John Bull, invisible in that
darkness, using far stronger epithets, than I like
putting down in writing. The jabber of the
enraptured spectators was quite overpowering,
and did not a little, indeed, towards spoiling the
grandeur of the sight, and drowning the rush of the
waters, which vainly strove to give the gorgeous
exhibition the accompaniment of their unceasing
music. It would be selfish, no doubt, to wish to be
alone at such a treat ; but if it were possible to gag
or muzzle nine out of ten of the heterogeneous peo-
ple who come in for their just share, there is every
probability that the enjoyment would be less dis-
turbed, and its recollection more unalloyed.