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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13

sUFFERINGs OF YOUNG QUAKER AMONG TUE
REBELS


REBELS
The Nashville Banner tells the story Of
George Nestal, Of Naury county, Tennesse,
a native Of North Carolina, and Quaker,
who refused on conscientious grounds to
pay the five hundred dollars exemption fee
demanded of the Friends by the rebel au-
thorltles, and was consequently conscripted.
He was taken to Tullahoma, where the OBJ
viOus sincerity OF his anti-war-principles
secured for him the friendship OF Generals
Maury and Polk. and he was released He
was again conscripted and sent to the Ten
nessee brigade III the army Of Virginia
He told his colonel that he could not fight,
and would suffer martyrdom rather than
bear arms.
The officer, who at that time was COM
manding the brigade Of Tennesseeans by
reason Of the capture OF General Archer at
Gettysburg, was irascibe and arbitrary
He became very much enraged at Nestal's
refusal, and ordered the cammandant of the
Fourteenth Tennessee to apply the bayonet,
saying that he never yet saw the man that
cold steel could not move. The colonel Of
that regiment acquiesced with reluctance,
o"' nc hho" 'id' III "dS HIS uu'y W oDcy
In few days an inspection was ordered
when 1t became necessary to clean up quar-
ters. arms, &c. and detail was ordered
to clean up the regimental quarters. 1t
happened to be Vestal's turn, and the order
ly sergeant detailed him. He signifed
fatty his purpose not to go. His captain
entreated him 10 comply. Numerous MEM
bers Of the regiment offered to pay the FIVE
hundred dollars required by the law rather
than see him suffer punishment. He firm
ly declined, assigning the same reasons
and alleging that the money would 60 into
the Trea sury and be used 10 carry on the
war
Finally the guards were ordered TO fix
bayonets and a shovel was handed them,
with instructions to make him work. When
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13

FRANKLIx's WIFE.-To promote her
husbands interest she attended in his 1T
tie shop, where she bought rags, sewed
pamphlets, folded newspapers, and sold
the few articles III which he dealt, such as
ink lampblack, and papers, blanks and 9TH
er stationary. At the same time she was
an excellent housekeeper : and besides be-
ING economical herself, taught her some
what careless disorderly husband to be
economical also. Sometimes Franklin was
clothed from head to foot in garments
which his wife had both woven and made,
and for a long time she performed all the
work of the house without the assistance
of a servant.
Nevertheless she knew how to be hbe-
raj at proper times. Franklin tells Us
that for some years after his marriage his
break fast was bread and milk, which they
ate out of a twopenny earthen vessel with
a pewter spoon. But one morning, on 60
ing down to breakfast, he found upon the
table a beautiful china bowl, from which
his bread and milk was steaming, with a
silver spoon by its side, which had cost a
sum equal in our currency 10 SO. When
/ he expressed his astonishment at this un-
wonted splendor, Mrs. Franklin only re
marked that she thought her husband de-
served a silver spoon and china bowl as
much as any of his neighbors.
Franklin prospered in his business until
he became the most famous editor and
printer in America. which gave him the
pleasure of relieving his wife from the
cares of business. and enabled him to pro
vide for her spacious and well-furnished
abode She adorned high station as sht
had borne a lowly one, and presided at hel
husbands liberal table as gracefully a.
when he ate his breakfast of bread anC
milk from a twopenny bowl.-Part0n!
Life Of Franklin.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13

Society, like garment, is full of seems.
"Oh, Stubbs, where is thy victory; oh
Boggs, where is thy S Tying" exclaims the
Chicago Post.
A lady of more wealth than culture ap-
piled to a Boston bookstore recently for
Dickens novel, David Copperhead."
Do you believe in the appearance of
spirits p" " No" said Josh. :" believe in
their disappearance, and have witnessed a
great deal of IT."
What is the difference between a spend
thrift and feather bed? One is hard up
and the other is soft down.
An exchange contends that notwithstan-
ding the popular prejudice in favor of the
innocence of the fair sex, while the present
style of head-dress continues in vogue.
their gilt is very manifest.
An English magazine has an article on
some Of Tennyson's late poems, entitled
"What is the Laureate About ?' The
Boston AdrertiSer thus answers the con-
nundrum. about exhausted"
We're in a pickle now," said man
|
another. Heaven preserve us " mourned
an old lady.
A man on Cape Cod having advertised
his wife as having left his bed and board.
she retorts that she went away for couple
of weeks to earn her board, and that the
bed belongs to her mother.
A hand-organ grinder was lately seen
turning away disgusted from deaf and
dumb asylum, in Hartford. His only
spectator was little deaf and dumb boy.
who was curiously interested to know what
he was turning the handle for.
Wife (anKiously)-" What did that
young lady observe, that passed just now?'
| Husband with smile of calm delightt-
4" Why my love, she observed rather good
looking man walking with an elderly fe-
male-that's all-ahem /"
Speaking of arguing the Erie-case before
the New York Legislature, Quilp said to
the Boston Post it would be of no avail
it was so apparent that there was buy
as 81 in the minds of the members
The late Bishop Meade. of Virginia, oc-
1
thing, though habitually very grave. He
was once lamenting the neglect of educa-
tion in the State, and remarked with a sig
niicant expression Our girls are poorly
educated, but our boys will never find it
out"
A SHARP student was called up by the
worthy professor of celebrated college and
asked the question
Can a man see without eyes ?"
" Yes, sir" was the prompt answer.
+" How, sir" cried the amazed professor.
+" can man see without eyes? Pray, sir,
how do you make that out? ="
He can see with one, sir" replied the
ready-witted youth; and the whole class
shouted with delight at the triumph over
metaphysics.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13
4 Game of Chess.

Napoleon had landed at Frejus in 1915,
having successfully escaped from his quasi
prison at the island of Elba At first not
much matter was made Of 1T at Paris, but
the Emperors rapid advance and his en-
thusiastic reception by the country people
and the small garrison on his route, at last
created serious alarm Marshal Ney was
dispatched with an army to oppose him.
and for better precaution an order was Is
sued that no one should be allowed to leave
Paris. Now, Immediately upon the restora-
tion of the Bourbons, in S14, the Roths-
childs had established q banking house at
Paris. with their brother james "a It's chief,
and about the time of Napoleons landing
from Eba, they had boarded fifty millions
fracs item millions dolarsl in the vault of
the Paris Branch. James Rothschild be-
came alarmed for the safety ofhis treasure.
He knew that Napoleon would want money,
and that the bank of the Roth schilds would
be the first one pIundered. He desired to
send confidential agent TO his brother
Nathan at London for advice. But to his
CONSERVATION passport was refused him,
and he was told that he could not leave the
city. Relying upon the full restoration of
peace with the abdication of Napoleon, the
old expedient of their father, carrier-pig-
cons, had been abandoned, and James was
completely at loss what to do
This state Of things was soon whispered
around among the clerks, and even reached
the junior employees, one of whom, a
sprightly Jew from Hamburgh, caught it
up and Immediately sent a message to
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13

In the meantime, Nathan himself, by his
agents and underlings. so Influenced the
money and stock markets, tha,beiore his
Lordship had even resolved upu the first
step for the British government take un-
der the circumstances the House,f Roths-
child had 'discounted " the evnt to an
extent that even the loss of the tire sure at
Paris would have been made up y the
gains at London. Late in the day he at
tache arrived, but the exclusive norma
ton for the government" of which h was
the bearer, had already become thttown
topic. He was never again employd on
diplomatic errand. William retrned
safely to Paris and informed James bths-
child of what his brother Nathan had aid
James at first mistrusted the memoy Of
the young messenger, but being assred
over and over again that the very wrds
were - Buy all the French paper issuedby
Louis XVIII, at whatever price he an
get it," james went to work without dely
Napoleon was within two or three da.s'
march from Paris; Marshal Ney had G.
poused his cause and surrendered all hs
troops; ; and King Louis was making a.
rangements to leave. The Bourbon Lily wa
fast disappearing, and the Napoleonic Be
swarmed numerously from its hive. Th
public debt which the Kings short govern
ment had incurred was unsaleable, and it
holders were despairihg. They were gla'
to take few cents for every dollar of it
nominal value, and Rothschild bought i
all
Napoleon entered the Tuilleries in tri
umph, and his reign of hundred days
began by his sending Cor James RothschilC
and asking for money. The banker regret
ted very much his inability to crafty tn
wish of his Imperial Majesty, since tn
Bourbons had completely emptied hi
chests by forcing their paper on him;
that was of any service to his 1mperia
Majesty, about two hundred and fifty mil
lion francs in nominal value would be place
at his disposal OF course, Napoleol
wanted none of it, and finding it true tha
the banker had no money, James Roths
child was not further molosted Waterloo
on the Nth of June, 1915. finished \ 20
Icons Europeon career and restored (. ui
XVIII a second time to the throne G tn
Bourbons Then Nathan's advance an,
James prompt action brought golden har
vests. They did not forget young William
As late as 1860, this enterprsng and dar
ing messenger was still living, wealth
banker at Hamburger, and the agent of th
Rothschilds-PuJic Spirit.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13
Hamlet as q Yankee.
,st-I am tby fathers shirt

Ghost.-I am thy fathers spirit.
Hamlet-Y eou don't say 50 7, Old man
give us your fiipper. How de do ? | amt
seen you in coon's age Whend We
come down?
Ghost-Doomed for a certain term to
walk the night.
Hamlet-Why on airth don't you take
a hoss car and ride? Or do they quit too
airly for you? l say, where do you hang
eout day time?
Ghost.-And for the day confined to tas,
in fires
Hamet-About heow fast are you on
direct road? Tew-forty?
Ghost-Till the foul crimes done III the
days of my nature are burnt and purged
away.
Hamlet-Are you purging bad? Try
little of this cholera medicine. Knock 1t
higher'n Gilderoy.
Ghost-That I'm forbid TO tell the
crets of my prison house, [ could tale
unfold
Hamlet.-Don't unfold ii here, old man,
/ don't
+ Ghost.-Whose slightest recital would
harrow up the soul.
! Hamlet-Fetch on your harrow.
/ Ghost.-Freeze thy young blood.
/ Hamlet.-Get eout, you tarnal old re-
trigerator.
Ghost-Make your two eyes like stars
start from their sphere
Hamlet.-Dew tell, You couldn't tell
about what time they'd start
Ghost.-Thy knotted and combined locks
TO part
Hamlet.-I've parted with about all
them locks now, especially on the top OF,
my head.
Ghost-And each particular hair
Hamlet amt particular TO hair.
Ghost.-To stand on end like quilts upon
the fretful porcupine
Hamlet-Neow look a-here, old poppy.
don't fret your porcupine over me.
Ghost.-But this eternal blazon must
not be to ears of flesh and blood List. list.
oh list
Misunderstanding angry Yeou be
gol darned Didn't list in Sol Peabody's
hum guards when yeou fed into Canada,
takin yer draft with ye? And when yeou
was killed by the Finnegans, and it served
yeu right. Better go and list yourself,
you tarnal old critter, stead of prowlin'
round nights disturbin your blood rela-
tions. Git eout. Exit Hamlet in rage
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13
Little Rose.

She comes with fairy footsteps
Softly their echoes fall
AMI her shadow plays like summer shade
Across the garden wall.
The golden light l. dancing bright
Md the maZes Of her hair,
And her fair young locks are waving free
To the woOins of the air.
Like a sportfuI f4wn she boundeth
50 gleefully along;
~ Will Young bird she caroleth
The burden of song.
The summer flowers are clustering thick
Around her dancing feet,
Aud on her check the summer breeze
Is breathing soft and sweet.
The vervsunheams seem TO linger
Above the holy head.
And the wild flowers At her coming
Their richest fragrance shed.
And Oh how lovely light and fragrance
Nlingle in the life within;
oh how fondly 10 they nestle
Round the soul that knows NO sin.
She comes the spirit Of her childhood
\ thing OF mortal birth.
Yet bearing >ull the breath of Heaven
To redeem her from the earth.
she comes in bright-robed innocence.
Unsoiled by blot or blight,
And passeth by cur wayward pain.
\ CLEAN Of angel light
On blessed Things are children
the -,i(> NJ heavenly love.
They stand brtviXt our world-heart-
And better things above.
They link IL with the spllt-World
OF purity ami truth.
tud keep our hearts still fresh and young
With the presence of lheir youth.
EieScooFs Miga-iat
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13
From the Atlantic Monthly for May.
he Clear Vision.
by JOHN "a. WHITTIER.

EY JOHN "a. WHITTIER
l dld but dream. never knew
What charms our ~terne~t seasons wore.
Was never yet the sky - blue.
Was never earth so white before
Till now never SAW the glow
OF sunset ON Won hills of snow
And never learned the bou-h's designs
OF beauty IN its leaflcss lines.
Did ever such morning break
As thai my eastern windows see2
Did ever such moonlight take
Wierd photographs of shrub and tree
Rang ever bells 30 Wild and feet
The music Of the win or street:
Was ever vet sound 10y half
:" merry a yon srhoolboy's laush2
O Earth with sladness overiraugh,
No ad let charm tiny face hath found;
Within MY heart the change Is wrought,
Ny footsteps make enchanted ground.
From couch of pain and curtained room
Forth to thy light and air I come,
To hnd in all that meets my eyes
Ene freshness of a glad surprise.
FaIr seem these winter days, and soon
shall blow the warm west winds Of spring
To set the unbound rlll> IN tune,
And hIther urge the blueblrd's wing.
The wales sha Laugh IN flowers, the woods
Grow misty green with leafing buds,
And vioIcts and wIndhOwers sway
Against the throbbing hearl OF May
Break forth, my lips, in praise, and own
The wiser love severely kind;
Since, richer fer its Christening grown.
see, whereas l once was blind.
The world, . Father! hath not wronged
With loss the life 10y thee prolonged;
But stlll, with every aided year.
More beautiful thy works appear
As thou hast made thy world without
Make thou more fair my world within;
shine through its lingering clouds OF doubt;
Rehuke it> haunting shapes OF SIN:
FIJI, brief or long, my granted span
OF life with love To thee and man:
strike when thou wilt the hour of rest.
But let my last days be my best
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13

men under heavy weights and carries them
well over prolonged course. They can
look seriously at the obstacles which are
Immediately in front of them, and can
overcome them with difficulty. but they
never think of the obstacles that lie a lit
tie way ahead, or at all events rather make
preparations for shirking them. Most
men suffer much fewer and much less
damaging injuries from the actual false
steps they take than from that timOrous or
incapable temper which makes them stum-
Die slipshod through life, not knowing clear
ly whittier they Wart 70 go, or how they
are ever to get anywhere at all, contented
or discontented with little, but IN either
ease equally incompetent to make that lit
tie greater It Ia the slavishness of men
and women which for the most part makes
lives so unsatisfactory. They do not sit
at the loom with keen eye and deit fin
ger, but they work listlessly, and without
sedulous care to piece together as they may
the broken threads. We are apt to give
up a work too soon-to suppose that sim
gle breakage has ruined the cloth. The
men who get on in the world are not daunted
by ono or thousand breakages.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13
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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-15

their mothers. 1t is no uncommon occur
renee to find mere infant whipped until
the blood flows freely, or q girl of tender
years dashed for o quarter of an hour at q
time. No one who has ever had the control
of large body of negroes has failed to re-
mark the frequency of instances Of this
kind, urgently demanding white interfer-
ence. But then there was some one whose
interest it was to interfere. Now there is
no one authorized to curb the wrath of the
negress, or to protect the little mig from
cruel torture These remarks are, in fact,
suggested by the case of regress who Is
in the habit of beating her little daughter,
six years old, in the most outrageous and
horrible manner. Now, we recommend this
subject to the newly fedged legislators at
Columbia, as more practical object of ex-
perimsntal legislation than social equality.
They seem to feel themselves specially
called to improve the laws Of South Caro-
lima up to the high standard of New Eng
land Jurisprudence. Now, if there be a
glaring defect in our laws, it is that man
can be punished for cruelty to animals, but
there is no way of preventing negress
from torturing her child. Let the black
Solons find remedy!
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-15

merchants. Don't deny it. Be candid. forA
oyer. Plank down. Shell out. Pony up. Pay
ere it be, alas! forevermore too late. ihe
secret, sad and silent sea chinch hath meWea
The loud, ungodly gobat doth whinny the
cluttery, rizzly air! Come down to conu9n
punishment. What, hol Bring out the oiaseeo'
brazen boot.jacks from the bitter, boiling Bal
tic ! Send for the seven-fold sledge-aammer Oh
sneezng steel. Fetch the circumamblent iron
a1e-helyes, and the eleven hundred CHASTITY
hammer-handles of molten putty Let down
the onnipresent No7y skoshy wilow-wattilng
erindstonel Whirl thu everlasting cut-glass
well-swoep, and smash their drotted and de-
linquent skulls into iue1pun gable chaos and
old nightl We ,oar& item three dollars.
Hon. John T. Hoffman, Democratic candi-
date for Governor of New York, made aspeecn
at Buffalo last week, il the course OF which,
alluding to General Grant, he said: "The ma
ton has placed three stars on his shoulders,
and would be the last man in the world TO
say that they ought lot to have been placeC
there. would not take one Of them OIL. 4
would let him wear them as he has earned
them; but I would not by my voice or vote,
sustain the policy of the party which puts him
IL nomination, which, while it leaves the stare
upon his shoulders, takes them off the flag OF
the country. They stand emblazoned upon
that glorious old flag, each star the represen-
tative OF sovereign, independent and equal
State. But we want no military President.
The country wants statesman. The day of
the sword is passed"
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-15
UNIVERSITY oE THE SOUTH.

Sc " A N e E.
RT. REV. wM. NJ. GREEN, D. D., Chancellor.
BIT. REV. C. T. QUINTARD. D. D., Ii. D., Vice.
Chancellor.
7fustees-The Bishops of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas and srkansas obico,
and one Clerical and two Lay Trustees from each
of said Dioceses.
The Board Of Trustees of the University announce
that they will open the Junior Department at Uni
versity Place, on Wednesday. the 10th day of Sep
tember next under General J. GORGAS, of Ala
ban a. as Head Master, distinguished graduate OF
West Point, very highly recommended by General
Lee and other leading men Of the country.
=. Desiring to make the school simply selfsusta1n-
ing, the Trustees have fixed upon the sum OF $500
per year to coyer the entire charges, except matrtcu
lation fee $50, and medical attendance. Students
will be required to furnish their own Sheets pillows,
cases and towels Payment will be required semi.
annually in advance.
The frst term viii close December 15, and the
School will reopen after the Christmas vacation, on
the 10Th day Of February, remaining In session dur
ing the summer except short recess.
Communications 10 reference to the School ehould
be addressed to GEO. R. FAIRBANKS, Eaq., Tieasu.
rer Of the University, University Place, Franklin
County, Tennessee.
Tie location of the University the beautiful and
salubrious plateau Of the Cumberland Mountains Is
too wen known to require description.
Persons coming to University Place change cars at
Cowan Station, Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,
and take the cars Of the Tennessee Coal Company to
University Station 10 miles) on tho University do.
main. WILLIAM MERCER GREEN,
Septembere Chancellor.