Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-05-28
WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE
AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY, MIENEs(

tho flag he lived to deny. And anon
others was u young lieutenant, the qua
term"ster of our chronicler's regimen
, good fighter when tlere was work
be done but SO quiet alld unprctondin
that he attracted little notice, and VIII
would have been quito rs much as
tonishcd rs any of his comrades, if fat
had revealed her secrets to him an
showed him himself, the commander g
the American army, the conquerer q
Lee, the President of the United States
There is n, great deal said about silve
spoons, but very little about tho study
industry and energy to make that spoo
dip out the soup. Unknown to others
possibly to himself, that young soldier
I helicvo, was quietly working out !.
problem in Lis Mexican tent and learn
ing slowly, silently, but very surely yth
lesson Of self discipline sdeliberat
judgement aud ,indomitable. :perscver
ance that, unaided by any brilliant quail
ties, have made the name of Ulyssc
5: Grant what it is to-day. The ranl
OF government employees are not mad.
famous by the exploits of men alone
Side by side with those soldiers, whose
strong arms have done the rougher ser
vice, arc delicate women whose ouicl
intelligence, supplementing the brute
force Of the others, has nobly done dut,
to their sex. .;,~>
GENTLE LITTLE QUAKEREss,
now in the treasury, saved the Union
troops at Winchester. Her family was
the only loyal family in the town. and
Sheridan, in sore need, determined to
risk the chance of q message reaching
them, asking for any information they
could give about tho rebels. So he
dispatched an old negro to the house.
When the messenger arrived this girl
WAS the only. one at home Appreciat-
ing the need of promptness, she sat
down and wrote a full and accurate, ac-
count of the enemy's position and re-
sources. She folded her message in q
little ball of tin-foil, and made the COL
ored man carry thunder his tongue.
She dispatched him at midnight. and
beyond the success Of the battle next
day, she heard nothing othe distin-
guished correspondents for months.
War seldom respects the ,courtesies of
life, but tho first leisure moment Gen.
oral Sheriden had, he sent her a beauti-
tul watch with an Inscription testifying
his gratitude in very complimentary
terms and dangling from the chain is a
tiny gold cavalry sabre that can be
drawn out of its sheath.
ANOTHER HEROINE WHO AIDED FEDERAL
SOLDIERS.
In the same metdepartment there is an
other heroine;ywho was one of the few
loyal inhabitants of Richmond when the
days were darkest for Northern people.
The horrors. Of Libby prison were l,n-
m'tisated, and every effort to relieve
the wrctched1ictims, exposed the help
crs to equal shardships. Notwithstand-
ing this vigilance, four of the prisoners
10y some chance managed to partially
excavate passage for escape. when
suspicion was reused and their plan
threatened with. discovery. The inevi-
table conseqn6nce would be death. of
course. Evensif they could have pot
out of prison, their condition would not
have been much better, for they were
utter strangerstin the country. In this
extremity the news of her patriots peril
was brought to this brave woman. She
sent word to them that if they could get
outside the walls by tho earliest dawn
the following day, she would guide them
safely. They worked, yo, may be sure.
Poor creatures it was for life itself
they were trying, and in the faint grey
cold morning light their eyes fell upon
o tall, handsome market woman, who |
signaled them to follow her. They did
so. She walked boldly along the high
way with her basket of vegetables on
her head, they creeping stealthily
through the brmbles ain the wood that |
skirted the roads. And so she guided |
them twelve miles remember, they
were men whOmSsh never saw before. |
and to serve them she was abandoning
her husband and home, for there was
no going back to Richmond after that.
They all reached the Union lines safely.-l
and subsequently, one hundred and five
more escaped by that subterranean pas
sage. Her erhusband rejoined her shortly, |
The men she never heard of again, nor |
would she know them if she did. They |
never saw her face nor she theirs. Il
RoMANcEs oFsrHE DEPARTMENTS. I
Besides these, there are many who
lost health and beauty in long watches
by the bedsides of wounded soldiers.
and many whose hearts are buried in |
the unknown graves that stud every
battlefield. Nor are gayer romances |
A foreign nobleman, rich, ac-
complished, and worthy of his title in
every way, walking through the Treas
ury halls one day, caught sight of a
sweet pretty face bending over desk.
Perhaps the spell, that wrought upon so |
many of his co,intrymen in the dear old |
days was over him, for afterth |
true fairy book fashion, he fell in love
On the spot. They arc married now.
living on the border of the poetic Rhine,
and the lovely Baroness keeps herwarm-
est welcome for those who knew her
when she was nothing but i" Treasury
girl" Miss Smead, whom newspaper
readers know as Miss Grundy, used |
to be in the Treasury Department., and
her mother, who is doing for the Louis
Vile Courier-Journ rs good work as
ever her daughter did for the Now
York World, is there. And higher |
still, in literary honor, is Mr.. Bur-
roughs, of the same department., whose |
"charming little book, Wake Robin"
him to Carlyle and other |
distinguished authors during his visit
abroad.
THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN LETTERS,
in the Postof6ce, employs women rs !
translators exclusively. There are three
of these clerks who are required to |
know thoroughly French, German,
Spanish, and italian, and to translate
from either of them into English. or |
vice vc,s0. It is not necessary to add
any compliments to the ladies who fill
these positions. There was formerly
at one of these desks, Mrs.
Pettigrew King, who afterwards. as the !
wife of Boden, the bigamist member of |
Congress from one of the Carolinas