Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-10-07
Miscellaneous.
Not Impossible"

InUE STORY of PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
During the summer Of the most di,
asirous and doubtful year of the LAT
war the Colonel of New Hampshir
regiment lay for some weeks exiremcl
i'll Of camp fever, near Hampton Road,
in Virginia. Hearing Of hts critic.
condition. his wife LEFT her Mother
home, and, after much difficulty. madl
hcr way 70 his bedside Her chcerft
presence and careful nursing 50 II
restored him that he was in -ho,
time able To hc transferred to Was
ington.
In the Potomac river the steamern
which the invalid officer. Colonel SEQ,
and lis wife had taken passage as
sunk, IN a collision with a larger yes,l,
in the night time. The crew and pr-
~ all the soldiers on boari were,s-
cued, or saved themselves but sid
tLc horrible confusion of the sue
Colonel Scott became separated I'm
his wife, and she was lost. The Colei
was picked up i'll the water by the Nv
OF the larger steamer. and und,as
directions every effort was ina 10
discover hi, wife. Or rather her ~.
for all hope Of finding her aliyaas
soon abandoned. The sad srarcIas
irultless /. was re- umed in the Tn- 4
ing. the people along the shore hui
manc Contcdcratcs) lending thci,ld. \
But the gray. sullen river reful to .
give up its dead, and the Young cer.
half frantic with grief, was comllci :
10 ~ on 10 Washington. Wilma
week, however, he received worrom
below that the body Of the In had
been washed on shore--fhat thoyood
country people, g.scrous foes. A Sc
CURED il, cared Tr it, and were bplng
it for him.
1t happened that Just at thatime
lmperuAns rrdeH were Issued fri the
War Department prohibiting aInter-
course with thepssfinsuls--a nec.s,ry
precaution agauet the ,remat,r dis
closure Of important piss. sos was
with some MI giving, that olonel
Scott applied ID fr. Secretary sun,on I
1or,SashoiT for lsa1s to dn Ia9" '"flFsiniapShis
..Impossible{olo rcpEd Mr.
stanton, firmly mo- /ne can have d
90 down the r.. a1his tirndcn any
private miss, What per. OuHhkent '
exigencies d shd Ie most klrent 9
regulations, hdPe | need lot say 4
to you tha> merely persoisl con- '
sideration " Allowed Ater-
fere with fat Rational interests. t
Your casof sad one; but this is a d
critical, Ms, cruel time. 1.-The a
dead musk the dead. - a
The c would have entreated. -
but the tSecretary cut him short ri
with anot'impossible," from which b
there W. solutely no appeal. He ;;
went fo pm the presence. and re- tr
turned hotei' quite o'erwhelm- L
ed. III
Forty, he was that afternoon IN
visited friend, TO whom he told the
story unsuccessful application 81
and petty, and who immediately ha
exclaii why not apply to the C'
presid Pi
Thfnel had but little hope, but,
ackn$ $ing that the plan wa worth p-
tryinv We with his friend to the ba
Whiflse. rio
Tfre too late. 1t was Saturday sn,
even ind Mr.. Lincoln had gone to RI,
speI Inday at Soldiers rest" his n,
sun retreat. This was but few ~,
mil m town and the Coloneps in On
dof friend proposed that they ,
shf fllow him out, and they went. co,
was then popular belief that ,
all wronged. and troubled and Pr.
81, could find refuge in Father tn,
An's' capacious bosom-a belief tar
II not far out Of the way. Yet Iv :
tas time when, Overburdened. Son
4, tortured, the patriarch long VA,
flear that asylum Of its forlorn ed
Is, to bolt and bar and double. the
Y against the world times when N :
|ecame too hard and perplexing to i
genial honest nature. too serious him
.ragic and rascally thing by say
., l ht
lappcned, unluckily, that the Door in /,
el and his friend found the Presi- ford
in one Of his most respondent 4
}. he was in his little private var,
, alone in the cleaning. He was wa,
ng loosely in q large rocking But