The Press., 1896-03-05
WAS HE A SPY?
By ALFRED R. CALHOUN.
ECopyright, 1895, by the Author.l

Copyright 1o90S by the Anthor.l
 There were spies on the Union side during the war and spies on the side of the Confectionery who were without doubt entirely loyal to the side to which they first pledged allegiance. I say ''first pledged" purposely, for it was nearly impossible for man or woman to be 8 spy in the proper sense of the name without pledging friendship to both and deceiving one. It was, how ever, only at the beginning and after spy had been thoroughly tested by an unmistakable confirmation of his infor- nation that credence was given to him. know of several cases in which men entered the secret service for what they could make out of it without seeming to have any particular leaning for either side and were actually paid by both contestants. think Kelley, the Song Man," as he was called in the Army of the Tennessee, was man of this char acter, but will state the facts and leave the reader to judge for himself.
 Kelley, as his name indicated, was an Irishman. April 1, 1862, when he first appeared in Grants camp at Pittsburg Landing, he was ahOut 60 years of age, with bluish gray eyes, a bald head, a smooth shaved face and bearing that became obSequiouS in his effort to be polite. He was of medium height, wore a faded blue coat with brass buttons, a napless bell crowned hat and an old fashioned black stock, above which could be seen suggestion of a soiled and wilt ed shirt collar.
 Kelley represented himself as a refu- gee. He had, he said, been a school teacher at or near Meriden, Mo, when the war broke out. "But, I heard him say when he was explaining his presence to the provost at the landing, II was for the Union. When I came to this country and took the oath of allegiance, I swore to uphold the constitution of the United States agin all foreign coun- thries, and more particularly agin the queen of Great Britain and Oirland, and with Gods help I'll sthand by me pledge"
 Kelley drank, but not to excess. Once. when he was feeling mellCw and refused further to test the canteens offered tC him, he became confidential as to his own past He said that he had been edu- cated for priest at Maynooth college, near Dublin, but that when near the ex- piration of his course, on the completion of which he was to have gone to the School of Propaganda ill Rome, he be- came shaky in his theology and was banished ito the secular world. He pro- fessed to be "a masther of seven Ian guages, :" and although he claimed Eng land as the first his syntax was at fault, and his knowledge of prosody, as l shall presently show, was decidedly limited. He said he could speak Latin as we'll as he did English, and for the edification of the enlisted men he rattled this, "Dominus vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo. Mea culpa, mea cuba, mea maxima cul- pa, " with other phrases, which recog- nized as part of the Latin mass, as celebrated in Roman Catholic churches, and with which any bright lad of that denomination might be familiar. He gave, as specimen of Greek, more quo tations from the prayer book, and as sured his listeners that "that's Greek aS Homer wrote it in his famous ballad, the 'Ilyud. This was delightfully."- funny to g few of us who were fresk