New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-12

mourning, even including the touching tearfulness
which speaks the Tiven heart and eais up sympathy
40 largely for the tereaved As she looked around
with dewy eyes uron the necessary but very suggest
i've parapherDaa Of the grave her grief almost over
came her, siyhs and sobs voiumed themseves forth
from her torn heart; and it only through Mo-
bean flood Of the briny Dick Swveller classies
has il-that she managed to inform Mr. Peak that her
ton-the one lamb Of her fold-(which, by the way,
was The soil of sinful Seces la -wlo was student
az Harvard, bad died, and that ste desired to carry
home bis precious dust, TO mngle It with that OF bis
progenitors. Choking with sobs she asked: "Do
yon think, Sir, that would be allowed to pass the
blockade with the body Of my dear Charlie !"
NJ. Peek assured the lady that such mission as hers
could but be respeced that dead boOies were not IN
any sense contraband Of war among civilized people
leas); ard that TO the END that trouble could
70 tie lady, and that needless detention shonld
be made Of the body he added that he could 80 ar
range matters that the body could be made visible IN
minute.
Alas! this necessary vi-ibility was the very thing
which grated tie already narrowed feelings OF the
Southern matroD. Her beloved Charles should not be
spectacle for the prynB gaze OF fabkee eyes; on
no. The very thought Of such thing Was unenduTi-
ble-and fresh flood of tears from the well OF her AZ
ilic,ion poured out.
But the casket be bad wherein the body OF the
dcfunct Charlie shoud be sent home; aud the sohc-
tude ON that score-like the act of making choice OF
mourniog-d,ed led mp her tears at once Nay, the ous-
bess-like sy e in which she went 10 work IN this re-
spect was qoite as remarkable the sudden cessation
Of her grief She examined all kinds Of cases and
caske,s. Her object was to have something which
could be- as IL were, hermeically sealed against n-
anstiveness of all rptionsocers of blockading
ships in particular; for yon know" she said, 1.-THE
idea of every body being liberty to invade the pre-
cions dust of my dear boy with their impertinent in
quritiyeness, quite intol.rablequite intoerable
Mr. Peak. q, it would kill me 70 have IL sO could
not possibly survive it; il would be so crueso rude
SO unIaturl!"
Another idea seemed to be very strongly impressed
Oh her mind, and that one including the m
possibility of exposing the corpse without absolutely
breaking open the c.sket. OF course nobody wonld
lie 30 rude and mmanly-" 30 bTutal"- lir
mourner said superlavely speaking, M to proceed TO
apy sneh sep were she TO all interested that the
casket contained the body of her dear defunct Charlie
and nothing else. As this idea mooied, Mr. Peak
who had begun TO siIsI &c; something wrong, became
very suspicious. lie replied TO inquiries relative to
the weight Of an iron cssket which replies did not
seem TO please his intern gator, who unq1cstionaby
having discovered thai she suspected, suddenly
lett the shop saying that che would call again almost
Immediately.
Very shortly after her departure couple Of police
officers can into Mr. Peak shop, and made anxious
inquiries after the lady, She had been doing an ex-
tensye busnoss in the way OF buying percussion caps
all around town. for day two before, and no doubt
their conveyance South the object OF much earn
es socitude with hec. The coffin scheme was one de-
signed 10 carry out this object.
II IL needless 10 say that finding inquiries had been
made Tor her at her hotel by the police, and that her
scheme bad been blown Ia part, she did not revisit
Mr.. Peak, az she had prOmired. person very like
the aii ted Southern matrOp-Out by 10 means dress
ed lin amy thing Ike mOgn ing-was seen TO take the
train Tor Newiork on the evening OF the day the above
described circumstance occurred. Boston Journal.