The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-02

The Round Idbte publ 5he6 the tOHoWlng,
which is the most spirited of oil the Southern
war sones that have fallen under our notice;-
"Your correspondent *, in your last issue, has
something to say ABOUT the ReOel ballad Sionewau
Jackson's Way which was so popu ar IN Contede-
rate camps and homes during the war. AS the SONG
is given incorrectly IN most OF the Northern cOec
lions perhaps YOU will object to print the true
version; and SO obhge that Sergeant OF the Old
Stonewall Brigade who wes not killed at Win
cbesfer 'and 90 whose dead body 1t was not found.
New York, July 10, 1866.
STONLWALL JACKSON's WAY
Come, stack arms, men! Pie on the raus;
Stir up the campfire bright!
No matter II the canteen fails,
Wen make a roaflng night
Here Shenandoah brawls along,
There burly Il ue Ridge echoes strong
To swe the Brioade's rouslng song,
OF Stonewall Jackson's Way.
We see him now: tho old slouched hat ..
Cooked DER his eye askew;
The shrewd, dry smile; the speech so pat
80 calm so blunt, so truel
The Blue Lght Elder knows 'em we'll;
Says lie, That's Banks; he's tond of shell,
LORD save his soull we'll give hm"-WelI,
That's Stonewan Jackson's Way.
Silence! Ground arms! Kneel all! Caps of!
Old Blue Lights gong to pray.
Strangle the fool that dares to scoG:
Attention. it's his wav,
Appealing from his native sod
In t0Tmd pGuperis to God,
Lay bare thine arm! Stretch forth thy rod!
AmenP' That's S'OnewaLi's Way.
He's in the saddle now: Fall in!
Steady the whole Brigade
Hill's AT the Gord cut off, we'll win
HIS waV out, bail and blade.
What matter 1t our shoes worn?
What matter If our feet are tolny
Quick step i-we're with him before morn,
1haps StOnewal Jackson's Way.
Tie suns bright lances rout the msts
Ofmorningi and, by GeOrge!
Here's LOngstreet struggling in the lists,
Hemmed IN ugly gorge.
Pope and his Yankee whipped before
"Bay nets and gIape" hear Stonewall roar.
"ChaTgs, Suarti Pay off Ashb, = score,
In Stonewall Jackson's Way"
All, maiden wait, and watch, and yearn
For news OF StonewalPs band.
All WIDOW! read, with eyes that burn
That ring upon thy hand.
All, wife! sew on, pray on, hope on,
Thy ii o shall not all be torl0rn.
The fee had better ne'er cen born
That ge IN StOnewall's Way.
1T has recently been proposed that the In
diana Legislature should pass and be done Will
1t, general act declaring that all men ant
women, from any American State or Terrltor.
situate to the eastward OF the one hundred ant
seventh degree OF longitude west from Green
wich, who may be living together in legal wed
lock at the time of the passage OF the act, shall
by virtue of travelling across the State oflndap
in any express or accommodation tram, be, ant
be cons idered divorced. Such an enaCtmen
would save the Judges trouble, build up th
railroad system of the State, ana not be mucl
more sweeping than the usual practice OF tn
Indiana courts. Certainly, there is lamentabl
tendency in parts o. the West to degrade tn
holy estate of matrimony, or The very importan
civil contract of nalrimony, into something no
much different from the tortuitous concnurse o
animals. 1t seems, however, as If the disgrace
tul reputation acquired by the Western State
were to be shared by some of the Eastern. Il
Connecticut itself once the Land of Stead
Habits, it is officially reported that during tn
last six years one marriage in every eleven ha
been broken in the courts