Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02
Che family Circle.
Gen. Canby's Wife.

A writer in the Indianapolis Journal
has this beautiful tribute for noble wo
man:
More than thirty years ago, in the little
town of Charlottesville, Ind, there was a
merry old-tashioned wedding, and Capt.
L. Il. 5. Candy and Louisa Hawkins
were married. Both were young, the
bride was beautiful, gifted with reed
like grace OF movement, and a rich and
exquisite voice that still haunts nv ear
with the echo of its remembered music
The old people shook their heads that
night and said she was too tender for
soldiers wife ; it would not do for her to
brave the hardships and dangers of the
new countries. His calm, earnest way of
loving had won her whole soul, and
throug bout the shifting changes of all
this tract of years she has gone with him,
and where he was there has been her home
her very home. Along the lonely frontier,
at desoate outposts, in Florida. in New
Mexico, In California, even on the rough
edge OF the battle, that gentle, delicate
woman has lowered near her husband, and
the banner over her head was love.
In the trultless march to Utah, under
Buchanan's administration, her tent was
pitched among the mountains where the
troops wlntered. And | recollect a letter
written to kindred at home, describing
their camp, and how gladly she ate the
wild garlic as a preventive to scurvy,
when it started under the melting SHOWS
OF late-coming spring.
What the husband gained in moral
height by companionship of the Christian
wife, how much he owed her. and we
through him, has not been recognized. His
inherited tendency to gloom was charmed
away IN that serene and gracious pres
ence. There was healing in the wings of
the guardian spirit, and through her
ceaseless vigilance, whatever could harass
and annoy was smoothe1 from before him
as by the unseen agency of fairy hands.
Partly to this unfailing care is due that
even poise of brain which kept his
judgment so finely balanced that, as has
been said of Washington in action, "he
never Jailed to observe all that was posi-
BILE, and at the same time to bound his
aspirations by that which was possible"
Nothing could exceed the knightIv
tenderness, the courtly Difference Of his
manner to her. He early learned-as
sooner or later all must learn--that a
little love is much better than fame. and
those who knew him merely as the silent.
infex'ble officer, could not guess how the
loneliness of her life was blended with his
and filled it with an undersong of wonder
full sweetness.
She has not lived like the lilies who
toll not, but has ever been an active earn.
est worker, mindful of others, forgetful Of
nothing but self. Her household was di
rected with wise and elegant thrift more
abundant than any waste, and once, when
the General laughiDgly complained. of being
kept on short allowance, she surprised him
with a sum saved from bis pay sufficient
tor the purchase of farm in Missouri
This, too, was for others. In Richmond
she made our enemies love her, and in
New Orleans said, &" can hardly keen
anything, there is such suffering about u.s.
how many she has warmed, and cheered
and comforted, only the recording angel
has written.
During their first married years her
early beauty sprang up anew at their feet
ana little girls caressing chatter filled
their house with music; but the divine
Friend OF children took the young child in
His arms, even as he took the child of old
and has kept her safely housed in heaven
safe from sickness, from the battle from
the temptations. from the weight of years.
immortality would seem but a chest if