The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-05-17
BLOOMSBURY. COLUMBIA COUNTY, Pa WEDNESD

J bune and wait on his customers. As Tor tne
! pretty, spirited Nellie Bradshaw, she had
apprenticed herself TO the milliners, the
1 Misses Clark, and tried to think she was
happy reading Charles letters, and writing
TO him, and busying herself with her needle.
The Misses Clark, two spinsters OF un-
certain age, however, made peace and hap
piness a moral imposstility for Nellie !;
thew made Mr. Smmonds a welcome Wis
lor, 'ssuch good loyal young man he was"
and they heartily enjoyed Nellie's discom-
fiiure when she would leave the room, or
get into remote corner TO avoid him.
Mr. Hugh Simmonds used to entertain
his hos,essess, and vice Uersa, with long
TRADES about the "copperheads in the army
as we'll as at home :" and one day of great
gIee, when pretty little Nellie had more
than usually evidenced her dislike for nim,
he drew daily paper from his pocket and
tossed it into her lap, exclaiming, $50 may
il be with all lories.D
The paper was marked with pencil at
this passage:
"Among Ihose who fell at -, was
Charlie Bradshaw. He was shot By bis own
captain, while attempting to desert TO the
enemy. We learn from good authority iha:
he was notorious copperhead at home, and
richly deserved his faie.p
The shock was too great for poor Nellie,
and she fell heavily to the floor. a gleam
of satisfaction passed over Hugh Sim~
monds' couniensnce.
"a rather tough joke" he said. I've
paid the lille vixen well :or the way she
has treated me since Bradshaw went away.
| paid the editor ten dollars for publishing
that little paragraph, but didn't think she'd
take ii exactly this way"
$50 Charlie Bradshaw didn't aitemp, TO
desert, eh 2" queried the elder Miss Clark,
as she rumaged in closet for camphor.
"No; at least | never heard as he did,
and for all that, he might have done so, you
know a traitors traitor, for all Urcle
Sans uniform"
Gard is he dead ~
''I believe that's not fact either for all
know he's az we'll as I am.p
''You are tco bad, Mr.. Simmonds," smiled
Miss Clark. GAS you remarked, it was a
hard joke poor girl, that brother was all
she had in the worldi'
swell, he was a blamed "cepperhead,"
and she is too, and ,here's nothing 100 bad
for such trash," remarked the young man,
taking his leave "of course trust you TO
kee? my secret in regard to The notice"
Miss Clark protested that she would not
hint word of the affair-and perhaps she
never wOuld have done SO, bat iha; poor
Nellie never recovered from the shock she
received, lived only few days, TO rave Of
her (as she supposedly murdered brother.
The day few friends OF humanity hid
Nellis's pale face away beneath the sod of
the church-yard, Miss Clark made Mr. SIM
monds' joke somewhat public by relating il
after the funeral but, unwilling to have
justice done to Charlie Bradshaw, the affair
was hushed up by these loyal people.
When young Bradshaw learned of his
sisters death, the life he had valued for her
sake grew worthless TO him he 90 longer
had anything TO live for, and became daring
and reckless. His companions could but
admire his courage, and but that he fought
for the Union and the Constitution instead
of the negro, he would have received pro
motion,
One day came the terrible Jackson fight,
and among the killed was found the white,
up,urned face of Charlie Bradshaw, his
golden brown curls dipped With gore, one
of the many victims of Louman's terrible
mistake.
"Whal's the difference if he was killed, %
sneered the loyal people of his town when
they saw his name in the list of the killed
"Only copperhead IFS good thing he
enlisted, as it helped to fill the quota and
prevent tho draft but lis we'll enough he's
out of the way"
AS for Hugh Simmonds, he is as loyal as
ever-no voice so loud as his in denuncia>
ton of secession, but none so unwilling as
he TO shoulder gun and practice what he
breaches.
!. Our story is not overdrawn-rather too
Lightly coIored, for we all know that the
vIIifiers of Mcclellan have no respect for
The coun;ry's heroes. But day of retri-
button will come justice TO the true palri-
OF, the lover and defender of the Union and
Constitutional liberty, wiH be done at the
last. for God rules.
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