, 1865-03-31

had been entertained by series of grand
old hymns, anthems, and few patriotic airs,
when some one requested the song, "When
Johnny Comes Marching Home" And
they sang it-that orchestra of two hundred
singers-sang it spiritedly, oheerily, gaily,
putting new cheer into the hearts of that
vast audience. The concluding lines of the
refrain ran,
80 wen all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home p
turned laughingly to my brother, eyes,
that is the way we shall feel when our John
nies come home /"
He replied gravely,
Some JOhnnies won't comehome !"
could not smile again. The words fell
like death knell on my heart. remem-
bered now that he had not joined in the
general merriment. / turned to him again
How noble he looked in the neat uniform of
the "67th"-but so grave! l knew what
was passing before his minds vision-those
terrible war scenes, of which we, away in
our quiet homes, could never know Three
years he had been soldier in South Caro-
lima, and now he had re-enlisted for another
three years, or during the war" Would
he De among those who would ne'er re-
turn again
" Some Johnnics won't come home v
No. Many fond father shall give the
last embrace to his soldier boy many moth
er's tear shall fall upon his neck many a
mothers hand shall rest upon the head of
her Johnny for the last time A wife's sob
blng embrace many Jonny shall receive
no more, and little quivering lips pressed to
his bearded cheek, shall not thrill his fathers
heart again. Mourning is in the land. For
months on months the wall has gone up for
lost Johnnies. Here house mourns hus-
band and father; here, a son, and
brother; there a lover. Soldier-graves fill
the land, and fill thousands of hearts with a
great mound of grief But the war-ery is
still heard, Three hundred thousand
more" All other Johnnies must 60 nowl
Other households are made desolate-other
hearts are weeping. What is their low,
smothered cry? All Johnny's gone
And mothers and wives and sisters go about
the house with heavy step-busied with
cares for which they have no heart-dust-
ing little here, stitching here by the win
dow, while every heart beat is for the poor
boy away upon the battle field, hoping, yearn-
ing for the day when "Johnny comes march
ing homew
But "sOme Johnnies won't come home p
Alas! no. Away in Southern prisons, damp,
foul, and loathsOme, many of them will pine
away. In close hospital wards many John
ny shall lie, with burning veins and throb-
bing brow, with none but strange hands to
wipe the death-damp from his brow In
the tents wounded, bleeding, dying, some
Johnnies shall lie,-Jobnnies who have
been the light Of some far away home
with head pillowed upon the long-carried
knapsack, and none save comrade near to
catch the last whispered message. And
when the battle is raging fercely, and
deaths missiles are falling like hail around
them, amid shouts and groans, and smoke
and din, some Johnnies, aye, thousands,
will fall, without a groan or sigh, and the
cold earth will drink up their life-blood, and
the dear forms-sO dear, so precious to
some hearts-shall be unheeded, uncared
for.
BY the murmuring waters of the Tennes-
see, by the beautiful Cumberland, by the
james and Roanoke, upon mountains and in
valleys, shall lie the green mounds of sol
dier boys-our Johnnies.
No, "some Johnnies won't come home !"
ENLIGHTENING THE MINISTER
was preaching one evening"" writes cleri-
cal friend who relishes good thing richly,
from the passage in the history of Moses,
where he with his two friends, Aaron and
Hur were standing upon a hill and behold
inc hattie bptwaen Israel and Amalak
My text was Aaron and Hur stayed up his
hands : and l argued the duty of the peo-
pie to hold up the hands of their minister,
from the example of these good men of old
who thus supported Moses.
On my way homeward from church,
one of the leading men of my parish Joined
me, and after expressing his great satisfac-
tion in my discourse, begged leave to sug-
gest one point that 1 had quite overlooked.
All l" said 1, " and what can that be p
"I mean," he answered, the powerful
argument in favor of female influence"
81 must confess, said I, that [ do not
perceive that the subject is limited at how
do you discover it, my dear sir z"
Why, does it not read, said he, with
some surprise, that Aaron and her held up
his hands p 1 suppose the woman helped
az much as the man !"
a DOMESTIC PLATFoRM.-On who has
had considerable experience in the house
keeping line, says that home should be
supplied with such necessaries as piety,
pickles, pots and kettles, brushes, brooms,
benevolence, bread, charity, cheese, faith,
four affection cider sinceritv onions in