Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-02-06
VOL. xxx.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR FEB
RUARY.

by Rev. ID. a. Wasson At Port Royal, 1861,
by John G. Whittier; Fremont's Hundred
Days in Missouri, by William Dorsheimcr, late
secretary of General Fremont; Mason and Sl-
dell, Yankee Idyl, by James Russell Lowell.
"At Port Royal, 1861, ;" contains "Song of
the Negro Bootman." This stanaa is good
"Olc massa on he trahbcls gone;
He cub de lard behind;
De Lords breT blow hlu furdcr on,
Like coru-,hucl in dc wind.
We own de hoe. we own de plough,
We own de hands dat hold;
We sell de pig, we sell de COW,
But ncber child be sold
De yam will grow dc cotton bow
Wen hab de rice an coru
Oh, ncbher You fear, if nebber you hear
De driver blow hi, horu.'
The installment of "Fremont's Hundred |
Days in Missouri" contains some account OF
the body guard at Springfield, preiaced by
few words on the
oRGRNl2ATIoN OF THE BODY GUARD.
Among the foreign officers whom the fame OF
General Fremont drew around him was Charles
Hagonyi, Il Hungarian refugee, hut long resi- !
dent of this country. In his boyhood Zagonyi
had plunged into the passionate but unavailing
struggle which Hungary made for her liberty.
He at once attracted the attention Of General
llcm, and was by him placed in command of
picked company of cavalry. In one of the dcs-
perate engagements Of the war Iagonyi led
charge upon a large artillery force. More than
half of his men were slain. lie was wounded
and taken prisoner. Two years passed before
he could exchange an Austrian dungeon for
American exile.
General Fremont welcomed Zagonyi cordial
", and authorized him to recruit company of
horse, to act as his body-guard. Xagonyi was
most scrupulous in his selection; but 50 ardent
was the desired to serve under the eye and near
the person of the General, that in five days after
the lists were opened two full companies were
enlisted. Soon after whole company, COM
posed of the very flower of the youth of
Kentucky, rendered its services and requested
to be added to the Guard. Zagonyi was still
overwhelmed with applications, and he obtained
permission to recruit fourth company. The
| fourth company, however, did not 20 with us
| into the field. The men were clad in blue jack
cts, trowsers and caps. They were armed with
| light German sabers, the best that at that time
could be procured, and reyolvers; besides
which the first company carried carbines They
were noun ed upon bay horses, carefully chosen
from the government stables. Xagonyi had
but little time to instruct his recruits but in
| less than month from the commencement of
the enlLstments the Body Guard was well
disciplined and most etficcint corps of cavalry
| The officers were all Americans except three
one Hollander and two lEungarians, Zagonyi
and Lieutenant Maytheny who came to the
United States during his boyhood.
Zagonyi left our camp at o'clock on the
evening Of the oath, with about hundred and
and sixty men, the remainder of the Guard
being left at headquarters under the command
of non-commissioned officer.
In Professor Agassiz's interesting paper on
"Methods of Study in Natural History" the
second Of the series, we find this anecdote of
an animal known to almost all country boys:
TIE "HoRsE.HAIR."
A gentleman from Detroit had had the kind
ness to sent me one of these long thread like
worms (Gordins) found often in books and
called Horse-Ilairs by the common people.
When first received it, it was coiled up in a
close roll at the bottom of the bottle, filled with
fresh water, that contained it, and locked more
like a little tanglc of black sewing silk than
anything else. Wishing to unwind it, that
might examine its entire length, | placed it in
q large china basin filed with water, and pro-
ccedcd very gently to disentangle its coils, when
! perceived that the animal had twisted itself
around bundle of eggs, holding them fast in
a close embrace. In the process of unwinding,
frQnnpl H0ntpl n
G;stoTSc9o Uoy;n,r Ali, .tretcbn1 il ont - lie
h,ll Ion,,,h rn,l'a,, Laif ,orI cot ,ro.oLin,,
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Ior@ biccl, tbreo1 IN ,lo ,o,or wo,,ld ,,;yo on,
;o9s or Eto Al,','t ;,n,.'dia,oi,, r. ,,,,,,.oi
,n,,.rds ,ho Lr,ii,c ,i', n,,J aaoIo
!, Lnoon to sew itsoir 5TonGb o'J ,bTongL tba
,bo I1,In wbitc mace s.;6, ono and of i,s
LoJ,. ,hror"b II n,,J ,f'o,, r9,rr,;ro, - ,,oi,a
onoiban s,;b -, !, ,,.,r, IN ,La ' -,
I'st ol,,ln,lI,, il "1,oir 60 go i,rioo,o
o, n ~ o;Is 7. soloI 60 ~ -" ~,
'ss;rjo ,ba. Ike o,ro C b
result of any instinct Of affection in creature
of so low an organization, and ! again sepora-
leo It l'ou 'llI essI "''u l"'r 'V''i "1 s.to5-
On irving the eyprrimcnt third time. the
e bundle of eggs had become loosened, and few
of them dropped of singly into the water
Inc enof'S Whch 'he amman iheh maze 10 re,
md ronnI ,bcm h1t f,ilino to b,ing then, inta
-, the fold with the resi- because they were too
X small, and evodcd all efforts to secure them
n Mnen @ once por'su IRON 'h9 nlS' llt'e c1mp9c'
e nurnose in its attrmuts. and that even n bcino
so low in the scale Of animal existence has some
! dim consciousness OF relation to its offspring