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Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24
From the Christian Messenger.
LETTER FROM KANSAS. /.
FORREST LODGE. NEAR BALDWIN ]
l.4 City, Douglas County, l !
--- August 22d, 1863. -
August 22d, 1863.

Mr.. Editor Little thought we when
we sent off those letters to Zion'S Heratd
three days since, with this note append
ed. "all is quiet here" that even then a
gang of murderous banditti, were but a
few miles distant, and that in a few hours
such horrid scenes would be enacted in
our midst as would make the check Of
darkness turn pale. Such day as yes.
terday and the previous night, Kansas,
with all her former scenes of blood, ney-
er witnessed. / and my little boy live
alone during Mr.. LIS absence in the Ar
my of the Mississippi, on claim between
Baldwin City and Lawrence, two miles
| from the former place, and ten from the
latter. A Methodist preacher on his way
to Lawrence had stopped with us for the
night, and our son, Capt. G. ]. Lovejoy,
Adjutant of the 18th, was at home on a
! visit. IS h. fi ya.oa ,t i,
At an early hour on Friday morning,
looking in the direction of Lawrence,
said he, " Mother, Lawrence is all on fire
aud in trice. he was in the saddle and
galloping down street. 1 rushed out and
saw the flames of the burning city, and
met the preacher who had spent the
night with us, and had started for Law
rene, painting for breath, and urging on
his horses to hide them in our woods
having left his wagon by che wayside, he
cried out, sister Lovejoy. Quantrell has
burned Lawrence and is within two miles
of us with 5000 men," some, have since
thought not so many, and could then
see every house this side of Lawrence,
with volume of dense smoke arising
from them, as they advanced firing every
house in their march of death. My
neighbors began to clear their houses Of
all their valuables, and secrete them
in the woods and corn6elds. | caught q
little tin trunk with our valuble papers
and husbands watch in it, that be had
left as kind of memento if he never re.
turned from the war, and concealed it in
some tall wee IS, and dragged out trunk
of clothing, and looked to Heaven fol
help in this time Of need Nearer and
nearer they came; again | hied to my
watch-tower. Thank God they have ta'
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ed, their clothes clean and everything ap-
pertaining to their outward tout en- sen4
Die in perfect order. sss tH r.
e A number of the officers and members
taking advantage of their close proximity
to their native state, have telegraphed to
their wives and families To come to this
city. Quite a number have arrived here
already, and happiness beams from the
countenance of each of them. Gro
As soon as it was noised among our
citizens that the regiment was out to the
barracks, the roads leading to that place
suddenly became lined with pedestrians
and vehicles of every description on their
way to have look at the 9 Green Noun
tain Boys" We promise them cordial
greeting from our citizens, and sincerely
trust that their services will not be need.
ed to put down any riotous assemblages.
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p" "Quocumque me Fortuna ferat, ibo hospes.''

after the discovery of her sex and there
are abundant reasons for believing that he
did indeed bear himself toward her in a
very honorable and manly manner. For
when he left her here. the tears started in
her eyes as she took his hand and express
ed her sorrow for what she had done, and
her determination henceforth to be wo-
man. ''''
This was the first port made after it
was known that woman was on board
the ship-and here she was placed under
the care of the consul, who provided for
her immediate wants and has secured her
a situation in which she can provide for
herself
From her own statement it seems she
has been soldier as well as sailor.
| Her story in brief is this: She married
man who was attached to another woman
but was over .pursuaded by his friends
to marry her. Soon after his indifference
to her became painfully manifest. HeI
father was cavalry officer; and with his
knowledge, if not consent, she donned 9
mans attire, and enlisted in his corps
and served under his immediate command
for many long months. At the battle O.
Fair Oaks her father was killed SooI
after, having been detailed to proceed tc
New York on some duty, she took the op
portunity to leave the army; and seeing
an advertisement for seamen as she walk
the street. suddenly and unaccountably
determined to try her luck at catching
whales. The result has already been de.
scribed.
A large-hearted American shipmaster
after having thoroughly informed himsel
of the circumstances, and after repeated
interviews with the young woman, finally
concluded to ship her as stewardess of th'
vessel. A number of generous-spiritet
American residents have made up purs'
for her outfit, and she has gone on her wa.
rejoicing, and in due time will probabl,
find her way back to her country anc
friends. Who will say that the age 0
romance has passed? p"
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24
JULIA L. LovEJoY.

gy Brother Johnathan does chuckle
inwardly, even in the midst of his misfor-
tunes and ruin and bloodshed, over the
bigness of the very row that has been
kicked up in his household. As he has
the greatest country iu all creation"
the tallest mountains, longest rivers, larg-
est lakes, and most extensive coal veins !;
as he has built the most miles of railroad,
invented the greatest variety of notions
printed the most newspapers, established
the most common schools. aud indeed is
infinitely ahead of the other benighted
nations and races of mankind in educa-
tion, civilization and religion, h all the
institutions of government and the arts
and comforts of social life, 50, of course,
getting into difficulties he finds grim
consolation in the thought that they are
the toughest difficulties that ever nation
yet fell into. If he has rebellion to
crush it is some comfort to know that it
is rebellion that extends over quarter
of continent and materially effects the
interests of every nation under heaven.
If he must turn his attention to war, he
glories in the thought that it is being car
ried on, on the grandest scale that the
world has hitherto seen !; that he fires
the biggest guns, brings into the field the
most formidable armies and feeds them
with the largest piles of hard bread and
barrels of beef that mortal contractors ev-
er yet bargained to furnish. Othern ma
tions have contracted in the course of cen
turies their little public debts or gone into
bankruptcy perhaps for few hundred
million. He walks right up among the
billions in no time at all, AID will soon
be carrying on his broad shoulders bur-
den that would crush half dozen ordin-
ary nations. Other nations are slowly
increasing their navics year by year and
trying occasional experiments with metal
ic sheathing and various new devices of
attack and defense, He is every month
ordering iron-clads by the score and gun
boats by the hundred, and increasing his
flock of rams as if they were nothing but
common merinoes. Other powers think
they do well if they blockade two or three
or half dozen ports. He employs.a
small part of his navy in maintaining o
blockade four thousands miles long, but
occupies its chief strength in grand naval
expeditions. two or three at time, of a
hundred or two sail apiece. to knock to
pieces harbor defences. Dunn Brosone.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24
DEPTH OF Coal BEDS. Heath's coal

ID.
DEPTH OF Coal BEDS. Heath's coal
mine, in Virginia, is represented to con-
tain a coal-bed SO feet in thickness. A
coal. bed ner. Wilkesbarre, Pa, is said to
25 feet deep, and in the basin of the
Schuylkill are so feet deep, alternate
seams of coal, % of which are more than
three feet in thickness. In Nova Scotia
is coal formation l,40O feet deep, and
containing rs alternate layers of coal.
The Whitehaven coal mine, in England,
has been worked 1900 feet deep and ex-
tends mile under the sea, and the New
castle coal mine in the same country has
been worked to the depth of 1900 feet,
and boared to similar additional depth
without finding the bottom of the coal
'i'eaeuiio. h'e'aeeuHii. gq.r .t. + 3i H. tmeH tHl upt
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ken another road-the Santa Fe Road,
running parallel with this from Law
renee to Baldwin city. At this instant
rode up squad Of United States troops
three hundred in the whole, and near
ly famished. cmptied the contents Of
my bread box, which sufficed for few (;
they ate as they rode alcng. The rob-
bers we're at that moment firiug Brookline,
two miles off. and there our men, hund-
reds of whom were galloping over the
prairies in every direction, headed them
off Baldwin City and Prairie City, both
of which they had designed to burn, and
murder the inhabitants. These SOL
diers had learned their intentions, and
had followed them from Kansas City, Mo-,
thirty miles, eand traced them by the
smoke of the burning buildings after they
left Lawrence, and headed them Just the
moment they were gong to burn our city
and had it not been for the promptness
of these troops. who had ridden until a
humber of their horses fell dead in the
road, our beautiful University Building
would to-day a be heap of ruins. At Plai
rie City our company of troops and citi
zens had augmented to 800 or 1000 men
Our men chased them, loading and firing
to Paola, twenty-five miles, killing sever
of them on the road, and not one of ou,
boys were killed. Then Quantrell's bant
broke andsfun into the woods and corn
fields, and up to midnight last night
they had killed twenty of them, aho
were still chasing them in Missouri
| u = n
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Morning dawned, and | was lying al
most frantic in my agony, when heard
a young, fresh voice singing above me.
l called loudly.
Helpl Help!"
Where?" The singing ceased, and
the question came in startled tone.
"Here!" l have failed down into
welll" "
The boards above me were pushed aside,
and the daylight, further advanced than
l had perceived in my darkencd position,
poured in. 44 g4-a.l 4a .3
Down here! Oh you must be fear
fully hurtl George John! Come
quick s.. a,.a.a, F.
hurrying feet came above me,
Some one 60 down." said the first
voice again. Have you rope? r
"Ay, the old rope is here; but it amt
over and above strong! 1t won't bear a
man." -...r ".... ....-... .,
"rll trust it'll He has tainted"
For | was too 1nuch exhausted to an
swer any of the questions they shouted
to me. The reaction of promised relief,
was too great after such night as had
passed. Before realized the purport of
the last sentence, knew by the darken-
ing of the open mouth that some one was
descending. | felt tthe dress of the brave
woman, then a slender girl, touch my
cheek; | heard her plying tones; knew
she raised my head, as she stood in the
twilight beside me; but could not
speak. Others had hurried to the farm,
and one for the surgeon. Wine was
lowered and she knelt beside me to re-
vive me by it. Two long hours, they
told me later. passed before the arrange.
ments were completed to hoist us up, and
she mad not left my side. She bathed
my face with the water they lowered she
gave me wine; she spoke words of cheer
and comfort she aided me. when the bas.
ket was at last lowered, in rising from
my painful posture, and almost lifted me
into the vehicle after reaching the upper
air. And when the long fainting fit that
followed my arrival above was succeeded
by days of delirium, she was my faith.
full nurse. How | loved her cannot be
told. When the truth became known
that my left side, arm, and leg, were
crippled and useless forever, then tied
to smother my love and learned hers
Mary Lee, the pet of the vill.ge, the lido
of home, centre of many loving hearts
left all to follow her crippled husband tc
his city home. a.s# "a tas 50
II, by the exercise of the talents God
gave me, have made my brain work fol
my hands-if my right hand has earned
a home of moro luxury than competence
If by the love of lifetime, have
humbly endeavorM to make her happy
did she not earn all this, and more, ay
more than l can ever give her?" af
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24

WHAT A YANKEE WILL DO WHEN He
GETS MAD.-A person who claims to have
had conversation with Mr. Dayton, the
American minister at Paris, has given an
account Of it to the London Times. The
talk was about the iron-clads now build
ing in England, and the indisposition or
impotence manifested by the English gov
ernment in not preventing the Alabama
and Florida from sailing. Mr.. Dayton
is represented as saying, "if, in conse-
quence of your negligence, or of your self
inflicted impotence, these ironsides escape
and plunder us, the American people, ir-
ritated enough already, will be ungovern-
able. You have seen enough of them to
know that their resentment is not under
the control Of their intrests. They will
really become as mad as your French
friends call them. They will be quite
ready to ruin themselves in order to ruin
you." Whether the American minister
ever said this or not. it il the truth. The
Yankees are good natured, long suffering
and kind, but once get them mad and
they are terrible spunky. England has
taxed our good nature very severely by
sending out 50 many vessels to the rebels,
and if the iron clads are also allowed to
sail, it will thoroughly rouse the Yankee
dander, and there will be a war such as
England would not care to engage in.
The sudden tacking in the course Of the
London Times shows that this is begin
ming to be feared, and there are increasing
signs that at the eleventh hour, the En-
glish government will consent to accede
to our just demands.-SpringfeM Re
publican. '' ~ .''.' '.'a. '" 3'1
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24

COMING HOME.


am coming home to you, mother, I am coming
home to-day; es@N
shall never go back to the war again, am CON-
ing home to stay tk&
Coming home to lay my head again, as used to,
on your breast,
For your boy has grown very weary, and is COM
ing home to rest. y eNssftH H
| am coming home to you, mother; you cannot
N3r know how Ipine, ' ''''
For mothers love- for mothers care and that
warm, sweet kiss of thine. ..,-... ..,.tf
The thought of home and you, mother would al
A'i' most Danish pain;
But I'm coming home to you, mother am COM
ing home again. ae at.,s.. .4
have not been coward, mother; you will new
le er be ashamed Tt#lI.Ht a#sga1 aH|
OF your boy. and in the future you will some
times hear him named
AS one who-but no matter--I fought for truth
H and right; E.to
And now am coming home, mother, shall be
with you tonight.
am coming home to you, mother,-oh, be brave
and strong to-day, .-l p
For mother, your boy is not coming the same as
he went away;
He was brave and strong then, mother, and now
he's--oh, so low
But it is his constant prayer, mother, to be with
you once more.
So I'm coming home to you now, mother, | am
coming home to-day,
shall never go back to the war again I'm com
ing home to stay.
Can You bear it darling mother? you must know
it bye and bye,
So will tell you now, mother,-l am coming
home to die.
know it will be very hard, mother, for you tc
give me up.
Hard to say ut is well,' mother, and drink the
bitter cup
But I've fought the good fight, too, mother, ant
in the world on high,
The victory will be mine, mother, to crown me
when die.
So to-day, when come to you, mother, oh dc
not mourn and weep,
But kiss me, and smile upon me, and let me &c
to Sleep .r
With my head upon your breast, mother, ant
your soft breath on my cheek,
For oh if see your tears, mother, it will make
me very weak .... AID
am coming home to you now, mother, I'm com
tr ing home to-day, a.5I1 90. aNu u.
Never to go to war again, for Pm coming hom'
to stay
Till the angels come to bear me to my brighte
t home on high ya.t ..H-f #. sr
Oh I'm coming home dear mother, | am coming
home to die
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24

HEMLocK FOR SHEEp.---A correspond
ent in Wyoming County, N. y, writes us
that be kecks his sheep healthy in winter
by placing hemlock brush in the sheep
yard, The sheep cat the brush readily,
as well as the bark from the limbs. In
the sumner, if his sheep have the scours,
he takes them off the grass for few
days, aud confines them on hemlock bark
or boughs. y.o8s ngjds,.,y
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24
1.-THE SECOND VERMONT

We copy from the Poughkeepsie Daily
Eagle the following relative to the Sec
ond Vermont regiment on duty there du-
ring the draft: f4gs eEr.g
The appearance of the rank and file Of
these war SCARED veterans as they march
ed up the street with heavy tread in the
dead hour of night was grand and i'm
posing. Not word was heard save now
then the usual military orders. The reg
ular tramp, the close ranks and the erect
position of their bodies showed plainly
the excellent drill and disipline they have
acquired by over two years service in the
field. " Asb J4 as ..if .laonAiH
-aTbey have been on duty in the city Of
New York during the draft in that dis
trict and their presence in that city was
marked by their extreme politeness and
orderly conduct. The citizens among
whom they were quartered speak highly
of their character as a regiment and re-
gret that they left so soon. One thing in
connection with their appearance we for
got to mention, and that is their cleanli-
ness of person. We saw number Of
them around the streets Of our city yes
terday, with their shoes and boots polish
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24
SUSPENSION OF THE WRIT OF HABEAS
CORPUS. E'+@'" a'
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
A PROCTAM NATION ! a.

pA AhD HhnoiDENl of iuh ONllbD SlhlEo
A PROCLAMATION ! a.
Whereas, the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States has ordained that the writ Of
Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended
unless when in cases Of rebellion or inva-
sion the public safety may require it, and
Whereas, rebellion existed on the Sd
day Of March, 1868, which rebellion is
still existing; and whereas by Statute
which was approved on that day, it was
enacted by the Senate ard House of Rep
resentatives of the United States in Con-
gress assembled, that during the present
insurrection the President of the United
States, whenever in hisjudgment the pub
lie safety may require it, is authorized to
suspend the privilege of writ of Hobe-
as Corpus in any case throughout the
United States, or any part thereof; and
Whereas, in the judgment Of the Presi-
dent, the public safety does require that
the privilege of the said writ shall now
be suspended throughout the United
States. in cases where by the authority Of
the President of the United States. mill
tary naval and civil officers of the United
States or any of them, hold persons un-
der their command, or in their custody
either as prisoners of war, spies. or aid.
ers and abettors of the enemy, or officers
soldiers or seamen, enrolled, drafted, mus.
tered, enlisted in or belonging to the land
or naval forces of the United States, or as
deserters therefrorn, or otherwise amena.
BILE to the military law or to the rules
and articles of war, or the rules and reg.
ulations prescribed for the military or la.
val service by the authority of the United
States. or for resisting draft. or for any
other otfense against the military or ma.
val service. ............ .,......
Now, therefore, |, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States. do hereby
proclaim and make known to all whom it
may concern that the privilege Of the writ
of Habcas Corpus is suspended through.
out the United States in the several cases
before mentioned, and that this suspen
sion will continue throughout the dura
tion Of the said rebellion, or until this
proclamation shall by subsequent ont
issued by the President of the United
States, be modified or revoked; and | de
hereby require all magistrates, attorneys
and other civil officers within the United
States, and all officers and others in tn,
military and naval service of the Unitec
States, to take distinct notice of this sus
pension and give it full effect; and all cit
izens of the United States to conduct anC
govern themselves accordingly, and il
conformity with the Constitution of thu
United States, and the laws of Congress
in such cases made and provided @i3d
In testimony whereof, / have hcreunto Sc
my hand, and caused the seal Of th'
United States to be affixed this fifteenth
day of September, A. D. 1868, and O
the Independence of the United States
the eighty eighth.
| .' ''' ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
by the President.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Sec'y of State.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24

az The State Of Illinois claims that
she has raised the biggest OK that has
been known since The food. His ox-ship
is five years old, twenty -one hands high,
nineteen and one-balf feet in length, and
weighs thirty six hundred pounds, with q
prospect Of weighing six thousand if he
gets fat enough. y iad! iasmiisqAs iauion
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24

:, ca Fred F. Streeter, formerly barber
in this village, and who went out fora
while in company of Sharp shooters, has
been arrested, charged with having COM
mitted horrible murder in Ohio.--B.,
r. Times. loU ig alaJ n ma aaa
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-09-24

LARGE FIsH.-AD. M. Varney. caught o
pickerel a few days since in the Winaoski
river, near the Bradley farm, which was
80 inches long, and weighed IL IL Lbs.
varney may take the lead.--BurGagt0s'
Times. s0iha4ii mlGqF li 99d {i9f
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-29
The Painlessness of Death.

All who have thought upon the subject
know how nearly pleasure and pain are allied
TO each other. II appears as if they were two
adjoining spheres or elements, and that you
cannot overstep the domain of the one with
out entering the opposite state.
1t is this proximity Of opposites that will
explain many of those remarkable occurren-
ces which are recorded in histories and biog-
raphies. Martyrs roasting at the fire, crimi-
nails under the rack, and soldiers mangled
upon the battlefield, have all shouted in costa
cy, and never were so happy in their lives
George Fox relates in his journal how that
on certain time, when he had been beaten in
most horrible manner and thrown into a
sinking prison, he was so happy that he sat
up In the dungeon and sang for JOY. Just
think OF that,-a Quaker singing when a bru-
tai populace thought they had killed him and
yet this is nothing more than would have hap
pened to any of us in similar circumstances
Here, then, are the limitations which the Gre
ator has fixed to our susceptibility of suffer
ing-faintness, delirium, pleasure, death, and
all is over.
A still better conception may be formed of
the painlessness of death by comparingit with
what Homer calls
Deaths haf.brother sleep''
for the phenomena in one case bear a close
analogy to the other. We sleep whenever
the circulation of the blood in the brain is so
low as not to stimulate the gray matter which
overlays the involutions and convolutions. II
one particular part be excited, and not the
others, we dream; dreaming. is therefore a
partial wakefulness. If the circulation be en-
tirely Withdrawn, the sleep is profound. and
IL the brain DC full OF blood, we are thorough
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-29

FOR SALE.

o. HOUSE No. liz Cumberland Street, be
Iii: tween Elm and Chestnut, now occupied by
XeA Rev. w. X. Clark. Said house IL In good re-
pair is built of brick, and contains thirteen rooms
lighted with gas. Good cellar and furnace. Title
clear
For particulars enquire of THOMAS II. JONES,
or j. G. PRoCTER, Lime Street
mch14 diff
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For Sale.

O. THE Three Story Brick Dwelling House,
LII. No. 1875 Congress street, corner Quincy street.
Gsh Said House contains fourteen finished
rooms; is warmed by furnsce; plenty of hard and
soft water; an abundance of closet room Enquire
of JAMES T.. FERNALD,
ap23u II 81 Middle Street.