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close and unnatural prison. We coult
not fall down in gloomy despair, nor ye
could we calmly enter that prison resign
ed TO our fate SO we compromised the
matter by having a grand 'Pow-wow.'
The rebel officers swore-we laughed
The story was told in the streets the
papers took it up, and for a while we
were handled very roughly. The Mer-
curry had an article in which it was af
firmed that we had commenced our work
of vandalism on The very Jail we lived
in {! 1t was urged that we be placed in
dungeons and fed on bread and water
Thus from few coal marks on the wall
and some Union songs, we got the name
Of 'vandais,' 'unprincipled villains and
'insubordnate Yankees
While here, Lieut.. A. NJ. Undelhill,
IL N. Y, (Fire Zouaves,) was taken
sick with fever, and Chaplain Dodge
with jaundce. Both were sent to the
Marine Hospital. We had been here
but week, when an order came for Us
to be sent to Castle Pinckney in Charles
ton harbor, and given all the liberty pos
sible That was glorious newsl 1t
was lifting the load of ennui from our
hearts and letting hope once more show
her head. We were taken on a steam
boat and carried to the Castle.
il was then in an unfinished condition;
piles OF brick, rubbish and gun carriage,
filed up the enclosure, and the bomb
proofs and casemates, where we were to
live, were filed with all sorts Of odd,
and ends. The castle mounted but one
sun--a 24-pounder-hsd a garrison OF
so men, and could have been taken by
US al any time but what will we do
with Il? came up for consideration, and
the frowning walls Of Sumter said Lei
ii alone
Oar condition in this fort was much
better than in the Jail We had the pure
air, the bright blue sky above us, aud
The lsshng sea around US, while in the
distance we could see our ships and the
Stars and Stripes floating proudly in the
breeze. But we could have all said;
n only heard the reckless waters roar
Those waves that would not bear me from the
shore,
only saw the glorious sun and sky
Too bright, too blue for my captivity.
Here the seeds sown in the flesh by
he impurities Of Charleston jail sprang
up, and fevers, measles, dysentery, and
,gue prevailed. Three died and over
wenty were sick. We had besides the
,ficers $50 men, mostly from the New
York llth, 69th and 79th, and from the
Michigan 1st. They began to suffer
rom want Of clothing and medicine, and
Col. Wilcox, who was always seeking
low he could make bis men comfortable.
wrote letter to the commander of the
Blockading Fleet, telling him our condi-
ion, and asking such clothing and blan
,ets as be could spare. This letter waS
lot sent as directed by the Confederates.
,ut forwarded to Washington. Not long
liter this the President ordered clothing
# all kinds to be forwarded TO the prs-
'ners South. But owing to delays we
lever got them until March.
The guards over us were mostly very
'oung men, and mostly from the North
They were gentlemanly set, officers
nd all, and while there we had no in
ults.
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FREEDOM PAID FoR.-The number
Of applicants for the benefit of the act
abolishing slavery in the District of
Columbia was 1000 for nearly 5000
slaves, who were examined and valued
by slave dealer of Baltimore. The
law appropriates 100000 but only
100000 will be paid, the authorized
average being $300.
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BY CAPT. J. T. DREW.
CHAPTER V.

The most "insolent and iRSubordtndte
sent a,oay, from Richmond to Charles
ton.
The unexpected success at Manassas
left the rebels a complacency that inclined
them to mildness tbe surprise at defeat
at Hatteras inclined them to severity.
The Southerner knows very well how
to conduct himself towards those whom
he considers bis equals, but cannot un-
derstand the claims of the needy and un-
fortunate. Long usurpation of unjust
power over part Of mankind has ncli-
ned him to the belief that he is a supe-
rior being, possessing more rights, priv
ileges and favors than any other. Hence
his arrogance and naughty air when
speaking to one who does not agree with
him hence. his impatience at contra
diction, his superciliousness to those who
fall under his power, and finally his ha-
tired to all that is liberal or free in dis
cussions or arguments.
From the time that our army began
to show signs of life, their hatred Of tie
North began to kindle afresh, and, Afri-
can like, they vented their spleen on the
unfortunate prisoners in their hands
The crowds outside Of our prisons in
creased. The jeers, taunts and Kisses ol
the rabble grew in bitterness and ire-
quency. Our guards were ordered to
FIRE on any one who should look out OF
the window. The officers in charge be-
gan to take special notice Of our actions
and words--and on the 10Th Of SepJem-
Der, 1861, in the morning, list of 80
officers was read, and we we're ordered
to Charleston Jail, S. c.
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Southern Hospitality

Az experienced by one who spent thirteen
months In Richmond black hole, Charles
ton Jail, Castle Pnekney, Columbia Jail,
Richmond Hospital, Salisbury Prison, Bell
Island, and few other holes.
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BUcKwHEAT A BAD CRoP FOR THE

BUCKwHEAT A BAD CRoP FOR THE
SoIL.-Judge Colburn, of Springfield,
VI, writing to the Country Gentleman,
says: sin the last number of your paper
Mr.. Holden, of North Clarendon Ver-
mont, inquiries for the reason of poor
crop of corn the next year after crop
Of buckwhest on the same land.
! can give him what little experience
| have had in this way. Several years
ago turned in a light crop of grass the
last of June, and then sowed the sward to
buekwheat and had heavy crop. The
next year manured the same field well,
and planted to corn. 1t came up feebly,
looked pale aud sickly for all the first
part OF the summer, but seemed to recoy-
er in a measure towards the latter part,
but did not mature before the first hard
frost, so as TO make fair crop of sound
corn, fair growth of fodder, with an un-
due proportion of soft corn. Not think
ing that the previous crop had much to
do with the failure of the one following,
and liking a crop of 40 bushels per acre
of buck wheat, which is good swine feed,
| repeated the same process within
year or two after, and all with the same
results. | then made up my mind that
buckwheat is not only an exhausting
crop, but that it leaves the soil unfit for
good crop after it, until it can recover
from the deleterious effects of the buck
wheat. II seemed TO create an acidity
in the soil, for ! noticed before blowing
the next spring, that sorrel started up
pIentifuly. l abandoned the growth OF
buckwheat from that time, and have
never found any other crop that left the
soil unfit for good crop of corn, with
proper preparation and culture.
In my case, lost more on the corn
crop than the whole value of the buck
~ heat. A crop that will create cold
acidity in the soil, SO as to sensibly affect
The one following, is unit to be grown
upon good soil.
Buck wheat will thrive fairly on rath
er poor, sandy and gravelly soil, if the
season is not too dry. If | had such
land, and was desaous of cultivating this
crop, would put it upon this kind of
soil once in two years, letting it rest the
alternate year, bot never upon good soil
designed for corn the following year.
No crop that can exhaust more than the
value of the crop can be a paying one in
The long run on good productive lands.
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The most "insolent and ihSubordindte"
sent away, from Riehmondto Charles
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Of highland and lOwland chiefs, ailusions TO
their fathers conflicts in the simple strains
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edness she had never known before and
Lee gazed with something like parents
pride and fondness on her. He went out
to his work, and at night--late at night,
after the poor little child had waited for
long, long hours-he reeled home drunk.
Oh what bitter disappointment! 1t
almost crushed her. But the angel came
again and whispered, sCourage-love never
faileth-hope never faileth and that
night she was repaid by the early return
of her father in his right mind.
" We learned afterwards that the rum
seller, when Lee tried to reform, would
waylay him coming from his work and en-
tice him back to the den of DEATH If the
tempter found him, he would yield and
fall. Otherwise he would come home a
sober mana kind father to his mother
less and loving child. Her patience and
cheerfulness were unsealing the fountains
of his heart, and had there been no human
spider to thread snare for his feet, he
would then have been restored. Rut alas !
ever and anon the meshes were too skill
fully woven and too strong"
"And is he still drunkard Y' l asked
Wait moment-my tale is nearly
told. Millie heard one day of Mr.. Dar-
land, the eloquent reformed drunkard, of
Westville. AT once she concluded that
she could save her father So, without
word to any one, she set out, as soon as
her father had gone to work, and walked
the whole six miles to Westville. She
sought out the lecturer, and told him her
artless, touching story. He came back
with her, and took his seat in the cabin,
and sent Millie to bring her father from
his work. Mr.. Darland knew how to ac-
cost him, how to encourage him, for he had
gone through the same fiery ordeal and
fully conquered the appetite for rum.
While the Washingtonian and the drunk
ard talked, Millie listened and prayed. She
thought she heard the rustling of an an
gels wing in the cabin, and as the sun
beams played upon the walls, she imagined
it was her mothers smile of love and hope
That night her father signed the pledge,
and by the help of kind friends, he has
kept it to this day.
1t is now six months from that men,
orable night, and though they live in the
same cabin still, and are poor, there is not
happier home in all the place, nor a hap
pier, nobler heart, than beats in the breast
of little Millie Lee. What do you think
now of my heroine ?"
1 answered. al s1S,s She's an angell and as 1
luUixeGi at the delicate child carrying her
basket along the dusty road, l thought
how many an embryo cherub may be
trudging along the paths of human poverty
and scorn, and how we shall wonder at the
revelations yet to be, when the tinsel shall
fall from the false greatness of the earth,
and its true nobility shall rise to shine for
ever in the holy light Of Heaven.
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LOST I'm THE ICY SEA.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
NV old sorrow wakes and cries. lJ.
For know there is dawn il the far, far north,
And scarlet sun doth rise;
Like a scarlet fleece the snow, feldspreads,
And the icy tounts run free,
And the bergs begin to bow their heads,
And plunge and sail in the sea.
oh, my lost love, and my own, own love,
Aud my love that loved me so! la nj
Is there never chinck in the world above
Where they listen for words below2
Nay, spoke enoe, and grieved thee sore,
remember all that said,
And now thou wilt hear me no more, no more,
Till the gives up her dead. 2Hr'
Thou didst set thy foot on the ship, and sail
To the ice-ields and the snow; a&,
Thou vert sad, for thy love did naught avail,
And the end could not know
How could tell should love thee to-day, q.
Whom that day held not dear? -l
How could 1 know should love thee away,
Wben did not love the anear?
sv. star, ali 20 more through the sodden plain
with the faded bi'nts o,'erspread,
we 81 ~ ii I- stand no NOR. by. the seething main
While the back wraek drises ernea1,
Ne shall part no more in the Si+u a"U '"' -"'-''
Where thy last farewell WAS SAD;
Bnt perhaps shall meet and know lucy 's"'1
When the sea gives up her dead 70
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Sslfft Gale.
MILE LIE E.
by CLEMENT F. BABE.

...There." said friend to me one day,
,t there goes a heroine. l looked around,
hut seeing only little girl trudging bare
foot along the road, with a basket almost
as Iarae as herself / turned my eye with
glance of inquiry to the Speaker lie
answered it by pointing to the unromantlc
object lust described. 'i" mean her, MIL
lie Lee. You think she is only poor,
shoeless, stockingless child but tell you
she is a heroine with nobler heart than
ever beat in the bosom Of Joan d Arc, or
Margaret d'Anjou." ..s..,s. .ftr.
NV friend was not accustomed to tax
at random; hence my curiosity was exclted
and drew from him, as we sat in the shade
to rest. the story of Millie Lee
Give years ago there came to our VII
laoe alaborer named Robert Lee. He was
idle and Incorporate, his wife feeble and
beart-broken, their children so pale, so
hungry. and SO sickly-looking, that it made
INV heart ache to see them. They had
been beneath the shadow of a fathers ne
glect--a mothers hot tears had fallen on
their faces as they drew nourishment trt m
her breast, and lay upon her breaking
heart. How could they be like other
children? On the desert shrub, every
leaf tells by its Premature searness, OF the
arid sand in which the root is withering
Hence those children never played OF
smiled. They crept about so still and sad
they ate their hard dry crusts with such
a melancholy look, that you would. have
thoughttheir home must have beenia houst
of DEATH And so it was. Their tathel
would lie for hours as one dead dead T.
all the beauties of nature, to the activities
of the world, to all the claims and suffer
ings Cf his family, to all the nobility o
the nature that he was burning to a cinde
of everlasting remorse with the ires Of rum
Often have l accosted those children
crouching together by the door Of thei
wretched home, and tried TO draw fror
them smile | gave them food when
knew that they were very hungry, an
thew would thank me sweetly; bat not
CLEAN of sunshine would pass over thei
faces. They were grateful but could nc
be gay. ed .,dI .ays4
1--WE tried to do something for his fam
lv Init the wretched father would not L
apv of them leave him, and would squal
der for rum, or destroy for spirits whatevt
we gave them. He had great deal
maudlin independence, and our klndne
he scornfully refused as an oficlous lnte
ference with his affairs, Hence we cou
only carry food to his Starving wife an
children when he was at the dram-shop.
isAt last Mrs Lee died. Never saw
such scene before, and God in mer'
save me from ever witnessing the like agai
Lee was rolling on the hoer, too drunk
understand what was going on, or even
rise. But his tongue was loose, and
accompanied the groans Of his wife, Al
the sobs of his children, with snatch
of ribald songs and curses that made !
blood curdle in my veins sg-r ra
10 / need not dwell upon the funer
We managed to keep Lee sober until
poor wife was under the ground. But
seemed to have little feeling; he went
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She ,apet'sg' Garner.
[ Written for the UniOn.1 shs :
AURA.


BY DELAWARE.
Dark the day, and chill the rain
Sweeps in showers across the, plain, :,
Black the night is closing round,
Der the sullen, wintry ground. . N4f
Boreas comes on rolling car n4d li asfa
Loud proclaims direr war,
Rivers rush, and forests moan 'tiii''
In n solemn undertone.f s4ns, lD r,E
Where art thou fair Aura? say. n ...,.
Hearest thou the stormy day2 -'
All no storm shall ever more, no i1iiH
.. Rolling from the Northern shore, ann. e..
Wake thy slumber deep and still,
In the dark tombs, Iona and chill; a1'
Spring shall come, and flowers shall bloom
Gaily Ger thy mournful tomb,
Zcphyrs bend the long grass low,
,Phoebus shine with milder glow. sa.
Summer spread luxuriant Ger, q
Cynthia shine as neer before;
Autumn turn to sadness ALL so4 Vt
Forest, mountain, field and mall;
Idiot WINTER old and stern
Wrap in sn,W thy funeral urn, q 9fs
Howl along the darkened sky,
On black wings in tempests fy,-
Yet thy sleep shall silent be, aa' a''"a
Sun, nor storm shall waken thee. ..,s.
Milton, Del, Noe 18Th, 1868.
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E.W. CAN'T, elected to the National Con-
gress in 1860; subsequently of the Rebel
Congress, and still later Rebel General,
has issued an address to the people of Ar
kansas, dated Little Rock, October 7, 1868.
The fore part of it is devoted to the local poll
tics of Arkansas. That we omit for the sake
of placing before the public in full that part
of it relating to the great question of the res
toration of the Union, the defeat of the Re-
bellion, and his eloquent appeal tothe South
ern people to abandon their useless war.
We commence our extract at point where
Mr.. CAN'T does full justice to the scheming
head of the conspiracy :. t.r5
jefferson Davis.
This gentleman has proven himself totally
unsuited to the emergency. With the whole
cotton crop and wealth of the South at his
disposal, and the friendship ofmany European
Powers, he has accomplished nothing abroad
His foreign policy has been a stupid failure
He has permitted himself to be overreaehet
and out-managed in everything. His policy
at home, while proving him to be strong in
some respects, has shown him to be weak
mean and malignant in others. He is cold
selfish, and supremely ambitious. And un
der the cover of outward sanctity and patriot
ism flows concealed the strongest vein of ny
pocrisy and demagogism. u5G alslo n
i He has never been up to the magnitude Q
the undertaking. lie refused troops for tn
war in May A. ID. 1861, because he did no
g know that they would be needed. Hi
idea at first seems to have been that hostili
ties would soon cease, and he bent his energie
for cheap war. His preparations and outti
were accordingly contracted and parsumc
noius. Awakened to a sense Of his error
his next aim seems to have been to conque
his foes and put down every man that ha
crossed his pathway in life. The latter SUI
cess at all events Instances Of this are nj
I merous; but thatof Senator Brown, thepeer
n Mr.. Davis in everything, hissuperior in man
i. and his rival and successful competitor f
4 the United States Senate, is pointed. i
!. Joined a company in Davis army and W.
: elected captain. He had capacity for Az
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aatisrelIamknns.
STIRRING APPEAL 10 TIE PEOPLE VI ARAANSAS'
The Submission of Prominent heoei'
Address of Hon. Il. w. CAN'T, o.
IN. the Rebel Congress.
DAVIS FLAYED ALIVE.

The Re5elliSn Coaquered.-The last man ~
The efeld.-iSubpaissio no more hunttiati'S
than surender.-An eloquent appeal to re
f,ir,1 to the Union.
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quit hOpsless struggle, The so,d, arns and
prosperity will return. >S' S'ir daSs OF
Nebraska advertiser., 1863-08-15

~ ID AnrfI.rIsI9ls

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Yearly adVoriisenerfs, quarioliV ln afTauce
IN TEanscieiIs Ady yertiserueats fraet0n9 over ona
square viii Be charged for ~ he ps ne Fato o. tsp
cents the lrst week. end cents each subs8qHout eek
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s r r A lO0th TAKT

Al 5 Is 50
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A WORD OF SOLEMN, CONSCIENTIOUS ADVICE
TO THOSE WHO WILL. REEIEl,I

"A WORD OF SOLEMN, ADVICE
TO THOSE WHO WILL REFLECT.
class Of malades prevail to fearful extent 10 com
munhy booming at least 100 00 youth of both sexes
perleey nnde,ood Their extspnsI msn,eststiops s o.
symptoms are Nervous Debility, Relaxation and ex-
haustion; Marasmus or wasting and consumption OF
or hurried breathing on ascending hilor fight Of
stairs great pslpitaton OF the Heart Asthma Bron-
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Limbs, aversion TO society and to Dusines study
d,mness Of Eye sight; LOSS of Memory; Dizziness OF
the load Nenragic Pains in vsrious parts of the body
Pains in the Back or Limbs; I-nmblgo, Dyspepsia or
ons of the Kidneys and other glands OF the body,
Leucorrh9 Fleur Alous, Gc. Likewise Epilepsy
Hysteria and Nervous Spasms! g. 81. ..l..... .. ;
Now, in ninety nine out Of every one hunt
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Others not named, Is Consunp pton of the Lungs and
that most nsidious and willy form OF Consumption OF
the Spinal Nerve known Tabes Dorsales and bes
mesenterics have their seat and origin diseases OF
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Phyfican to the Troy Lung and uyglenc la ttute and
Physician for Diseases)i tha de4rr Fhroat aud
Lungs, 9j Fifth street, rOy, New Yor<