Sunday dispatch. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1845-1854, 1852-03-28
CURRENT LITERATURE.

! worship her whose mytic rod
Exalts and draws the sol to God
WiliiamsblTgh March, 1852
a1asaanasHa, 1HHsasszaH
CURRENT LITERATURE,
"As Coon AS A CoMpY,' or the Tennes
seams Story. By an eitor. A Hart, late
Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, publisher.
This story is about as piuant narrative as
we have ever read. It's full of fun and
frOlic from the Openin to the close. We
may have read funnierbut never richer OF
more graphic sketohesthan are contained
within the covers of thivolume. The story
is located principally iITsnnessee, Georgia,
and Florida. From tB concluding part we
extract few paragraphs, as an average
specimen, which we sbll entitle the
MANIAC ULUNTEER
''Tom. hain't forgo'' said the Tennessean,
"that when the lngid in Florida, tn Pow
ell, the Wild Cat, and Tiger Tail, and twenty
more smart redskins, vs. p yiug hide and seek
with Uncle Sans rig'las Old Hickory seore
most stupendious oath TIT Tennessee could fnd
the boys that could cleatbem out | reckon
was ouuObS oh0 Hfe1 OF OuVOiunbe6lS JndJ JuineO
out when the Gov'nOr sid we was wanted.
won't tell you how we nde out in Florida, for
thats pretty much in thdbooks an newspapers
already It's enough to now, as / said before,
chat the Tennessee boys lon't do better than
other people. Fighting ,e had, aud fight we
did, whenever there was chance for it but,
Lord bless your souls, there vas no more seeing
your inimy till his bullet vas in your gizzard
than there was swallowing itafterwards with a
good digestion. And when yu did see the RED
KIN, 1t was on smart galop on the other side
Oh some etarnal swamp that Tou had to cross,
belly deep all the way befcre YOU could get at
hun; and then you didn't getlim no more than
the man who hunted the flea Well, it was on
the 2lst day Of fNovember, 1871 keep a. ths
dates IN black and white-tbatwe were ordered
TO push for the inimy in the Wapoo Swamp,
We had had a smart brush wi the red skins,
and drove EN- famous only tire days before
We charged with big shout int0he hammocks
Inc swamp and the Iniuns gve us yell
yell, and shot for shot. They hata smart sight
upon US for good bit, while We rere trying to
get at EN-, and they popt us DER, man after
man, as they run from tree to tree e,making every
tree speak a bullet 5000 as they could put the
tongue behind it. Nov, it happened that Just
when and twenty Others was wading through
good big bit of bog and witer, with a pretty
thick scrub in front, where te lugins barbered,
hhoofiest, who should We see ahead or III E. @
a man rather under the riddle size--& white
man- as ragged a. 8 gyFy, without any hat,
and with an old musket his hand, pushing
across, shouting his best, ad full in the face Of
the fire of the red skins Jest then, when We
were all beginning to feelsqueamish, he was
going ahead, and whoopig, without bit Of
scare in hun. Well, that Encouraged as We
saw the lngins aim at him, nd reckon his rags
had the marks of more t ana dozen bullets but
be didn't seem to mind en- and tn sartainly
never one Ofthem troubled I'm. Away he went,
shouting and shaking his msket, and away We
went after him, and away he Indians went be-
fore us ALL We drove EN- and got the Eictory.
We picked up some scalps, put nothing to speak
of, and lost some good febws. But [ tell you
that ragged volunteer wentahead of us all, and
he was this same Jon Bay, about whom Eve
been telling you this longstory. he had run
all the way rom Georgy no Florida after kilt
ing Hammond, without knWiDg much where he
went. Never in his life ha any man so bad
scare. He had run, as my say, into the arms
Of the lngins, without hea.ng their rifles and
| do believe, as | am FIRE white man, that he
scared them great desl Drse than our whole
Tennessee regiment Forlook you, he was a
man to scare people, He ras, as | tell you, In
rags from head to foot. He had been living
among the briars, running into them almost az
every sound He had no 0Vering for his head
His eyes were bloodshot hiface scratched over,
and his hair grown half whEe in twenty days
He looked for alf the orld Ike mailman. lie
was mailman; and, thoun he fought with us,
and marched with US, anddid everything pretty
much as he saw us do, yetlis senses, tm mighty
sure, were all the time more than hundred
miles away" ION his eturn to Georgia the
gentleman whom the poor fellow supposed he
had killed in duel was sen riding in buggy,
alive and kicking, with he girl tor whose love
the quarrel originated, @d supposed death oc-
CURED
THE MAIDEN AND MARRIED LIFE OF Ma
RY POWELL, aftera0ar's Mistress POlOeH
D. Appleton & Company, publishers. The
biography of the rife of Milton, just
issued as one of the seies in the Popular
Library will be an acceptable volume to pur-
chaser and reader May Powell was the
daughter Of Cavalier strong partizsn
of the Stuarts-who, firm his extravagsnt
style of living, became pcuniarly involved,
and much indebted to his afterwsrd son-in-
law, John Milton, whom her father forced
Mary to marry The marriage of the ILL
assorted pair was at first far from being q
happy one, and almost from the date Of the
union, separation was resolved upon by the
lady. Her untoWsrd conduct gave Milton
occasion to publish, in 1914, g The Doctrine
and Discipline of Divorce" and the 6 Judg-
ment Of Martin Bruer concerning Divorce" +"
The author, acting upon the arguments he
adduced, repudiated Mary Powell. and paid
court to the daughter of DR.. Davis Mary,
alarmed at these attentions, finally humbled
her spirit, and sued for pardon, which her
pOet-husband granted. She lived with Mil
ton until her demise, which occurred few
years after. The Journal Of Mary Powell
commences May Jst, l643, on her seventeenth
birthday, and is continued, with occasional
insermissions, till October, 1646 The jour
nal is written in the quaint style which char
acterized the writer's Of the seventeenth cen
tury, and which we love so we'll The auto
biography is simple in its structure and
gomanly in thought. We advise those anx-
ious to obtain an insight into the domestic
life Of one of Englands greatest poets, to
purchase the "MemOirs Of Mary Powell. p
There are 30 many gems in the book which
we could wish to extract, that we know not
what to present to our readers. However,
the following will not be uuinteresting
NLToN's TRUST IN GOD.
BarbicGa, September,-In the Nighs-seasOn,
We take noe Rest; we search out our Hearts, d
commune with our Spirits, and checque our
Souls Accounts, before we dare court our Sleep;
but in the Day of Happinesse we cut shorts our
Reckonings; and here am ], q ioyfulle Wife, too
v,~ou1 nd buafo mid Iosl - hos
Leisure for more than brief Note in my Diari-
tDl, rs Ned woulde call it. 'Tis large House,
with more Rooms than we can FL, even with the
PhltlpS'S and their Scholar mates, olde Mr.. MI
tan, and my Husbands Books to boot. feel
Pleasure in being hOusewifeie; and reape the
Benefit of allie that learnt of this Sorte at Sheep
scote. Mine Husbands Eyes follow me with de
light; and once with perplexed yet pleased
Smile, he sayd to me. " Sweet Wife, thou art
strangelie altered it seems as ough have in
dsede lost sweet MoH' after ALE -
Yes, am indeed changed moro than he knows
or coulde believe. And he is changed too With
Payn percsive more stern, severe Tone occa
siOnallie used by him doubtesse the Cloke as
sumed BY his Griefe o hide the Ruin had mad,
within Vets more genial Influence is fast mel
ting this away. Agayn, note with Payn tha
he mplay much of his Eyes AT first, oh
served he rubbed them oft, and dared not men
tion 1t, believing that his Tears on Account 0
Ine, siniulle Soule had made them smart. Soc
perhaps, they did in the first ms ance, for it ap
pears they have beene ailing ever since tho Yea
| left him; and Over study, which my Presenc
mighte have prevented, hath conduced to tn
same i'll Effect Whenever he now looks at
lighted Candle, he sees Sort of Iris ale abou
il and, this Morning, he disturbed me by men
tioning that total Dsrknesse Obscured everi
Thing on the left Side of his Eye, and that b
even feared, sometimes, he might eyentuallie los
the Sight of both g In which Case" he cheer
fully sayd, ''you desre Wife, must become m
Lecturer as well as Amanueusis, and eonten
yourself to read to me World of Grabbed Books
in Tongues that are not nor needle ever be sour
seeing that Woman has ever Enough of h
own %
Then, more pensivelie, he added, &c [ disciplin
and tranquillize my Mind on this Subject, eve
remembering, when the Apprehension afiicts m'