Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-03-10
THE LAST DlTCH-ITES.

What has become of those valiant South Carroll
ma heroes who have been proclalmlng their deter
mnation to die in the last ditch, and never, ney-
er, never surrender to the Yankee mvadersI We
don't hear syllable of one of them. None of our
Official b1lletlar make any renfinn ct the discov
cry OFT their remains The chiyalry of Charleston
seem TO have shown quite as much alacrity in ran
nmg away as any of the more ordinary and com
mon place specimens of the human race They
began to eyacuate we are told, about three
weeks before our army approached This was dis
eretlon-d decidedly the better part of their valor
There is great deal of human nature in South
Carolina after all
One noble exploit alone seems to have signalized
the fall of Charleston. Finding that they must
run away themselves the ehivalry blew np Their
powder magazine and killed about one hundred of
their Own people All that were left in the town
say the reports, were of the lower Order-people
who could not run away, and were, therefore. com
PEELED to stay by the last ditch, if not in it, In
no single instance, as yet, in any town taken by
our troops have the chiValric defenders of South
ern independence have been one whit more deter
mined 70 die than other people So long as dan
ger has kept at a distence, they have shown them
selves insolent braggafts the moment it has come
near them they have proved themselves selfish and
cowardly sneaks. Among the many lesso stanght
by this war that of the character of the South
ern chivalry is the most useful-Nee9 York Times.
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CRINoLINE ABANDONED BY THE Empress
According to a Partisan expositor of the fashions
of the day. crinone has received notice of its final
banishment from aristocratic circles 1t particu-
larry draws the attention OF the followers of high
ton to the fact that at the ball at the Tuileries ON
Wednesday evening, her Imperial Majesty dress
ed with her usual exquisite taste, exhibited fune
grdAde sObg7ete dams ta1z0Lcau des e1lt0uneves,
delicate way of expressing the absence of that de-
testable cage which adds so much to female dimen-
sions. The Empress example, il appears has
been initiated by all those who have pretensions
to mingle in the circles of fashionable life The
is, that the impediment to the free
circulation of the guests is now in some measure
and the grand staircase of the Tulleries
which has lately been almost imDracticable at a
certain hour of the evening" when the early party
departs and the later visitors present themselves,
is now ascended without the usual difficulty. AT
one of the representations at the Theatre Com
pegl the erinoline was voted an absurd and enor-
nous nuisance. The ladies only found seats
The cavaliers were compelled to stand the whole
of the evening, At the ball, on Wednesday even
ing, the Duchess de Persigny and Madame Say
were the theme of general admiration Their
toilet was announced irreproachable They too
had renowned the repudiated crineline A strug-
gle has commenced between the pro and the anti
the former being still in the majority,
The dressmakers will not let the fashion of exag-
gerated wide-circling robes and oyer-crowded dec
orations go out of fashion if they can help it.--
Morning lost
MANS DrrY TO WoMAN.--Let him learn to be
grateful to woman Tor this lndoubted achievement
# her sex, that it is she far more than he and
he. too, in spite of him, who has kept Christen-
lon from lapsing into barbarism- kept mercy and
ruth from being utterly overborne BY those two
needy monsters, money aud war. Let him be
atefnl for this that almost every great soul that
l1s led forward or lifted up the race has been fur
lished for each noble deed and inspired with each
,atriotic and holy aspiration By the retiring
ortitnde of some Spartan or more than Spar
an-some Christian mother.
Moses, the deliverer Oh his people, drawn out OF
he Nile by the Kings daughter, some one has
tinted, il onlea symbol of the way that woman $
,etter instinct always ontwts the tyrannlcal dlpo
macy of man. Let him cheeriully remember that
hough the sinewy sex achieves enterprises on
,uhc theatres, ii i the nerve and sensibility of
he other that arm the mind and inHame the soul
i secret. 4 a man discovered America, but Wo-
nam equipped thevoyage SO everywhere; man
xeeutes the performance, but woman trains the
nan. Every effgctual person, leaving his mark In
he world. il but another Columbus, forwhose fur
fishing. some Isabella, In the form OF his mother,
ays down her jewelry, her vanfEies, her comfort
rxfor