Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-10-06
Disttll aafpns.
Prom tho Iredall Express.
LIFE PICTURES OF OUR TIMER.

LIE xICxU&M OF OUR f1lIkA |
Rwss evening. "A lady sat in . hand
sone drawing-room in Philadelphia. The
Gas had not yet been lighted, but the coal
6re burned brightly in the CRATE, the rich
heavy c~urtsias had not yet been drawn,
and the soh rich carpetiDg gave not the
sOund Of the footsteps of her young daugh-
ter who entered. All around betokened
wealth and ease. Presently q step was
heard in the hall, and the husband and faN
thsr entered, with some papers IN his
band. The lady rang the bell for lights,
and carelessly asked the news"
Oh he said, we have had = glorious
victory, the rnmor is confirmed, and we
have taken Newbern. Hundreds of houses
were thrown open to receive our victorious
troops Thousands of prisoners have Ieen
taken, and hundreds of the redeemed
slaves are focking to our quarters. The
REBELLION asiI soon be crashed, and the peo-
pie will return to the best government the
world has ever known. The Stars and
Stripes again float over the river, and from
the tops of the public buildings
Then he read paragraph after paragraph,
from the papers he had brought.
Father said q boy of twelve, with a
pale thoughtful brow, you remember our
pleasant visit to Ncwbern the winter be-
fore last. Do you think MI. IS house
was burned mp ; and do You think Charlie
is in the army, be must be eighteen now ;
and do you think old Uncle Peter would
leave his master and mistressP
i don't know my son ! don't doubt
Charlie ism the army. But he is a Rebel,
my son, and we must bury private friend
ships. We mast subdue them ; we must
preserve OR glorious Union
Henry was silent a minute. But IA
ther,' he said, s our is a war Of invasion.
Look here, and here he added, pointing
to some articles 10 the paper in his hand.
North Carolina and Virginia waited, and
waited, trusting to what our President
said in his Inaugural, and hoping that the
Peace Congress would settle matters. And
all the time our people were building gun.
boats, and manning ships and sending then
off secretly
'You are q little rebel, Henry said hi
mother, and don't know anything abou
it.
'Bnt I want father to explain il TO me
And Mary thinks as / do,' he said, turn
ing to bis elder sister. she says if tb
Revolutionary war was right, the South j
right now and if the South is wron,
now, II wss wrong
Go me to tea, yOn young rebsls,' cal,
the mother and withon+ sigh Ae- n
miseries esactiDg at Newbern, for the fes
ing, homeless mothers and hungry chill
dIeS, phe seated herself at her sumptuou
board.
MuMBxR TWO,
Come TO that handsome mansion, in =
street, Newbern q; where the lights glesl
and Sissppear so rapidly in different room
and yxtciisf, while the booming Of csnno
SD tAs soAr Of musketry, seem TO sbal
II from is iorpdasion. The mistress II
mother is.tbeIe, surrounded by her scream
ing and teYror-stricken children. o.
servants with her, with quaking limbs, b
strong IL the love Of her faithful hea1t.-
She nursed her mistress when . babe, an
has nursed Charlie and these little on
since, and she will not forsake her now
The babe hes cried itself to sleep the e.
dest child, in sympathy with It's mother,
exertiDg its little strength to aid in pack
ing one of the trunks and trying to sootl
little Buddy" who has been her speci
pet, since Baby has supplanted him
mothers arms. A basket of provisions
packed; her purse is in her bosom. Old u
Gle Peter has a cart at the door, in which
few trunks hastily packed are placed ; 81
in . few minutes the mother, the childre
and nanny, are on board the train B
Federal soldier siezes old Peter Just
bis lasi trunk is safely lodged, and in spi
Of his ensreaties to be allowed to folle
his mistress, forces him off. On, and c
speeds the train. Faster, and still fast
under q head of steam that, in case 8
distraction should be met, would la
them aJ in Eternity. And listen !! aga
and again, do the shells fall thick and fl
near and around the flying train, VIII
contains more but Nomen and children .
the few hands who tend the engine!
That happy home is left, with its eleg
oiss and cOntorts, Its well filed rooms, {
al the y ousand little things which &c
make up home, many of which W
once lost money never can be replaced. 4
the husband and father is left, for
militia were called ont, and she knows
where be il. And Charlie was left,
mothers pride and JOY, her FIRST born
ling SOL. her pride for eighteen year
His post was near the intrepid Camp
and he she knew was in the thiCkss
the fray, Exhausted nature could END