Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1874 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY; OCTOBER 20 1874.

MELANCHOLIA. BY ER5EST KV-BS From the Coruhlll 5fagazlne. I. Saldt thon. Tie nignt la ending, day 1 near? 'ay now, my soul, not so; We are sank tack Into tbe darkness drear, And scarcely soon shall know Even rememb-ance of the sweet dead day , Ay, and snaU lose tuU soon The memory of the moon, The moon of euly nlsht, that cheered our sunless way. t Once, from the brows of Might, Iapt with a cry to light

Then straight to htrive with her , 8he called the Lord of Sea ' In royal rivalry Kor Athens, he Supreme of things, The company of crownless kings. splendid strife the Queen began. In that her kingdom making man ' Kot less ihan equal her own line Inhabiting the hill divine. Ah Fate, how short a span tiavest thou then to god and godlike man . The impiou fury of the storrablasw now Swttps unrebuked across Olympus' brow; The fiir Foreflghter in the strife For light and grace and glorious lifo They bought aud found not ; she and hers ir..li-i..W.J tr. the trnilhlnilH VCftrS! No more they walked with men, heaven s high interpreters. III. Yet, o'er the gulf of wreck and pain, Iow snfi'v strange there rose again, Against t lie daraness dimly seen. Another face, another queen, The Maiden Motner.m whose eyes The smile of God reflected lies; Who saw around her gracious feet The maddening waves of warfare meet, And stretching forth her fingers fair Upon the hushed and wondering air Shed round her, for man's yearning sight A trace of splendor in the night. Are her sweet feet not stayed? Nay, she Is alo zone, the Mother-maid ; And with her all the gracious company That made it hope to live, and joy to die. The Lord Is from the altar gone. His golden lamp In dust o'erthrown. The pealing organ's ancient voice 1 1 , W 1L.an.lirkil InflTI PTIintT nOlsf. AtiUllthe angel heads and purple wing? are 11 JWU. IV. Vherefore In this twice-baffled barrenness, this onconsoled twice-tlesolate distress, For our bare world and bleak We only dare to seek little respite lor a little while. Knowing all lair things brief. And ours mwt brief, seeing our very smhc, T.Ii.l these our fates forlorn, Is only child of grief, And uato trief returneth, hardly born. V. "Ye wi'.l not have desire for the sweet spring, Nor niellowiDg midsummer We have no right to her The antumn primrose and late-flowering I'ale-leaved Inodorous Viele, aud rose shall be enough for us ; Enough for our last boon. That h;iply where no bird belated grieve, "We watch, through some November atternoon, The dying sunligat on the dying leaves. TI. Ah, heard I then through the sal silence falling Notes of a new Orphean melody. Not np to earth but down to darkness calling, Down to the fair Kiysl.m company, Ah then how willing an Kurydice, 'Abe kindly ghoits should draw, with noiseless hana. My shadowy soul into the shadowy land ; JFor on the earth is endless winter come. And all 6we?t sounds, and echoes sweet, are dumb. NEWS AND GOSSIP. Though M. Guizot's history of France is not finished, all the materials for it had been j prepared, and will be completed by his son-ln-jaw, m. 1)8 sv nt. Hepworth Dixon fears that his library was partially or wholly destroyed by tho recent powder explosion at London, by Which his houe was badly injured. The R3v. Arthur Brooks, ot St. James' (Church, Chicago, has been elected roctor of 5t. Paul's, Cleveland, Ohio, to succeed his brother, the l ite Rev. Frederick Brooks, f.vhose accidental death occurred in Boston a few weeks ago. f Arternns Ward will never die. He was a general in the continental army; he was in iter years one of the most distinguished xhibitors ot moral wax figures that I itcrAvir manfiAna a r i I n aw Via ia tin Dnf n IB AO A J lllCUllVUOi UI1U -l V TV 1IO AO) OCVIO" :ary ol the Philadelphia produce exchange. The Salem Gazette is the only New Eng land paper, so far as heard trom, which is Lble t make its contribution to the literalure of the centennial period by extracts roui "our own files one hundred years ago," lavs the Evening: Tost. That is ail nonlens?. The Hartford Courant, Worcester py, and a number of others, can do the ime. The New York Tribune calls attention to condition of things in that community, rhichisat ouco a striking evldenco of the ct of the laws delay, and a mournful monImcnt to thfl injustice whioh i smmetimaa iilictcd under the namo of law. Ot the itnossss now in confinement in that city r safe keeping, ono has been held 314, and iother 23 daya, one 108 days, and three S2 13 s, while all the others have been held ore than two months. It is eh iract?rUtic of the primitive charac r of Syrian Christianity,that both his holi:ss tbe patriarch of Antioch and the bishop Jerusalem, who arrived in England the her day, have come out without Bcrip or rse for their journey, and whilst there 11 be the guests ot the Society for the opagatlon of the Gospel and the Church ssionary Society. The Rev. Tunas Titus Kendrick, ol Wiluisburg is in the hands ot tho brethren 1 un tor trial on appeal, having been desed and expelled from tho conference on 1 Vious charge-. It must be tun for the h. Tunas Titus for his congregation to rk to him through thick and thin, no Itter what the rulers of the synagogue do. I is out wim a "statement" denying all sou cuarir.es, uns ne win aeicnd dancing. oably that is tne reason 01 his unquenchJe popularity. bout 700 persons tako their meals at morial Hall, Harvard Collego, and the k building is very popular. Some forty rlicanU for admission to the university Je rejected at the examinations this year. ty have presented themselves for ad mis - h at the October examinations. All tbe lese rooms have been rented for tbo first h in several years. Bacon and Otis ot gcientiuc school will retain their places pe university crsw. ue prevalence of bratal crime among the ping classes in Engla is exciting eral alarm, and t rall Gazette 'pose some evil. It . by the of the son thehorr" hod of " 'foris of thm, casts hav men 1 of a nst in 1-

writtentbe whole of Senator Jones' first speech on the currency question. ' It contained 8.G9G words, and the transcript of it was written with the finest pen made. The writing is legible to the naked eye. On the reverse side of the card is a seal of the Stave of Nevada, tbe monogram of Senator Jones, and the wordsr "Compliments of J. F. Jones," all executed with a pen. It is intended . a present to the president. Mr. Bamberger asserts his ability to write the constitution of tbe United States on a piece of paper the size of a fivecent piece. There is a probability that tbe Rev. Robert Collyer will accept tho call of the Church of the Messiah in New York. The Chicago Tribune savs that he has lost none of his interest in hü church in that city, for which he has done eo much, but that he feels that, after having been there sixteen years, and preached to his congregation nearly every Sunday, be may be something like an old story, and that his sermons may be no longer so grateful to the people and may not accomplish eo much as they would elsewhere. The large salary ($10,000 per annum) offered him here would have no influence on his decision indeed, hp says, that if he accepted tbe call he would make it a condition that the chcrch should not pay him so large

a salary to begin with, as he does not thmk tho conzrecration are In a position to afford it, the church having passed through some vicissitudes of late years. THAT NEGRO LYNCHING. THE HOLLY SPRINOS TRAGEDY HANGINQ OK TWO PRISONERS BY NEOROES IN MLSSISbippr. Mention of the Holly Springs tragedy has already been made in the columns of the Sentinel. The details of the affair arc given in a letter to the Courier-Journal, dated Holly Springs, Miss., October 10: This bas been a week of startling occurrences in the usually quiet and orderly citv ot Holly Springs. Events have transpired of such a nature as to eatisly tbe desires of the most ardent lovers ot excitement. The exercises bsgan on Tuesday morning at day-light by a desperate attempt to break jail by a number of negro convicts connned therein, which resulted in the death of Mack Hill, a negro turnkey, and closed on Wednesday night with the bloody execution of his murderers by a mob ot infuriated negroes. The telegraph ha3 announced to you both occurrences, and I have waited to see what developments would be made by the coroner's investigation befoie giving you a more detailed account of the affair by letter. The killing of Mack Hill eo aroused the indignation of his negro friends that it could only be quieted by tho death of his murder era," Jim Perkins and Wm, Ravenwood.two negro prisoners ono of them, Perkins, already under sentence to be hanged on tbe 2Sth prox. It is said that remarks made by a white carpet-bagger, who preached to a negro congregation in this place, and who officiated at the funeral of Ulli, did not have a tendency to quiet their aroused indignition. Accordingly on Wednesday night between 10 and 11 o'clock, disguised moD, composed wholly of negroes, went quietly to tbe jail, which is situated in a remote quarter ot the town, demanded the keys of tbe jailer, who surrendered them with little re luctance, and took the two prisoners out. and carrying them to a secluded place in a bottom a mile westward from town, there wreaked their vengeance on them in tho most cold-blooded and diabolical manner. and then BURIE THEIR BODIES in the sand with their faces downward. As soon as it was known on Thursday morning mat a mob had taken the two negroes from the jail the proper authorities instituted search for their bodies, which they soon lound, tracking their executioners by their footprints in the road. When the grave was opened and the bodies were examined it was found that tbe mob had followed strictly the savage mode of retaliation on their enemies. The negro, Ravenwood, was shot twice, in retaliation for firing two shots at the jailor on tho morning ot the attempted escape. 1 erkins, wno struck Mack mil the blows on tbe bead which caused his death, was found with his head mashrd to a jelly. evidently done in a spirit of retaliation, as no was heavily ironed and could not have attempted escape from tho mob. lie is said to have buried the body of his victim, a woman, for whose murder he was condemned, with her face downward: and in that position his body was found. No one regrets the death of the two- negroes; lor there is not the slightest doubt that they richley deserved to die; yet even one sin cerely regrets the manner of their death, and condemns the lawless conduct ot their executioners. The coroner's jury have not yet terminated their Investigation, but will probablv conclude on Monday. as enough evidence has been elicited to determine at least who the ringleaders of the mob were. Several arresta were made this afternoon, all negroes, and rnmor has it that several more are to be made as soon as the guilty parties can be found. It is clearly shown that not a single white man was concerned in the matter, and it remains to be seen whether the United States authorities will display the same zeal in ferreting out and punishing this band of negro Ku Klux that is displayed when white men are supposed to be the guilty ones. THE ANTI-RENT TROUBLES. A RKMIJtlSCEXCE OF ACLD LANG SYNE DEATH OF A FAMOL'8 ANTI-RENTER. The violent death of Calvin Finkle, says the New York Herald, better known, perhaps, as "Big Thunder," from his long con nection with the anti-rent troubles cf this State, recalls the period of disturbance on account of tbe almost leudal tenures of the patroons. Though the land tenures, copied from those of England and Holland, had been abolished by act ot the legislature, many of the lords of the old manors had continued a form of deed by which their lormer vassels became their tenants on terms precisely similar to those abrogated by the laws of the State. The rents and services nndcr these deeds were accorded to the descendants of the patroons till 1S31, when associations were formed to devise means for getting rid of tbe burdens. The opposition to manorial rents soon caxne to bo a disturbing element in politics, and deeds of blood, not dissimilar to that which Finkle lost his life on Saturday, were committed in a number of places. Governor Seward discussed the question in his message in 1S12, and a commission to settle the difficulties was appointed, but it failed to accomplish anything. The disturbances grew more frequent as time elapsed, and in 1813 Gov. "W right was compelled to issue a proclamation declaring Delaware county in a state of insurrection. Sobtrong was the feeling against him on this account tnat the next year, when he was a candidate for re-election, he was defeated by over ten thousand majority by John Young, whom 'the anti-renters had nominated. In 1S4J the question came before the constitutional convention, and a provision was adopted making twelve years the limit ot all agricultural leases. After this tbe excitement died away, and the manor grants have since given so luuo trouble that it is only an event like tne death of Finkle which recalls the disturbance between 1S39 and 1847. "Big Thunder" was famous In his day as the leader In resisting the claims of the Van Rensselaer estate, ana his fate, so terribly provoked by himself, wiM'be beard with regret by many 'er.iOLs to whom hid name was once lami- . . .'

LA DAME AVX CAMELTAS.

BYT. B.ALD RICH.' ' I think that was the play; Tbe boose was packed from pit to dome With the gallant and the gay, Who had oorae to see tbe tragedy, And while the hours away. There was the ruined spendthrift, And beanty In her prime : There was the grave historian, - And there was the man of rhyme, And the surly critic, front to front. To see the play of crime ; And there was the pompous Ignorance, And vice In flowers and lace ; Sir Croesus and bir Pandarns, And the manic played apace. Bnt of all the crowd 1 only saw A single, single face! . ' ' ' That of a girl whom I had known In the sammers long ago. When her breath was like the new-mown hay, Or the sweetest flowers that grow; Wrheu her heart was light and her soul was white As the winter's driven snow. And there she sat with her great brown eyes, They wore a troubled loon ; And 1 read the hWtory of her life An it were an ooen book : And saw her soul, like a slimy thing in the bottom of a brook. There she sat in her rustling silk. With diamonds on her wrist. And on her brow a gleaming thread Of pearl and amethyst. "A cheat, a gilded grief !" I said, And my eyes were filled with mist. 1 could not see the players play ; I heard the music moan ; It moaned like a dismal autumn wind That dies in the woods alone; And when it stopped I heard it still Themournfal monotone! What If the count were true or false? I did not care, not I; What If Camille for Armand died? I did not see her die. There sat a woman opposite With piteous lip and eye ! The great greet curtain fell on all, On laugh, and wine, and woe, Ju-t as death some day will fall 'Twlxt m and life, 1 know ; The play as done, the bitter play, Tbe people turned to go. And did they see the tragedy? They saw the painted scene; They saw Armand, poor Jealous fool, And the sick Parisian queen ; But they did not see the tragedy The one I saw, I mean ! Tbey did not see that cold-cut face, That furtive look of care; Or, seeing her Jewels, only said, "The lady's rich and fair." But I tell you, 'twas the Play of Life, And that woman played Despair! THE TENNESSEE SEN ATORSH I P. ANDREW JOHNSON'S CAMPAIGN. INTENSE INTEREST FELT A. J.S OrPONENTS A E ITT EU FIGHT EXPECTED THE EX PRESIDENT'S BETE NOIK A TEAM THAT DOES NOT FULL TOO ET HEB. A correspondent of tbe Inter-Ocean writes an amusing letter from Tennessee in regard to polities from which an extract is eiven: When we come to the senatorial succession, then matters take the liveliest sort of a turn. Brownlow's term expires on the 4th or March, and the incoming legislature will, of course, have to fill the vacancy. There will scarcely be more then 20 republican votes in tho general assembly on joint ballot, and the senator will necessarily be a democrat; but it is very possible that the handfnll of rads will hold the balance of power, as they did four years ago. Candidates for the ex alted position are already as pientilul as blackberries in July. Your correspondent had the honor of smiling with three ot them in succession, inside of an hour, at tbe Maxwell House the other day, and, singularly enough, all three took straight bourbon. If there is a pronounced temperance candidate in the field, I have not heard of him. Prominent, of course, amoDgtbc aspirants, is A. J., who, having "filled every office from alderman to president," now tiosircs to wrap the drapery of a senatorial toga about him, and sit down at Washington to pleasant dreams of future 'possibilities Then (Jen. William B. Bate, Col. John 11. Savage, Gen. William A. Quarks there are no privates in this war; even Andy is an ex-brigadier and Judge William H. Stephens are avowed candidates, while Gov. Brown and Ex-Gov. Harris, although tbey do not openly sav that they are aspirants, will, it is certain, be before the legislature. When to these vou add the names of the distinguished patriots who would be willing to sacrifice their private iBterests for tho general weal by ac cepting the position, the list lengthens out Indefinitely. You observe that Tennessee has no lack of senatorial timber. Who will draw the prize is, ot course, a mystery ot the future. Every man has bis Individual opin ion, and none of them are worth much. Of this, however, you may he assured, the man who beats Andrew Johnson is tho senator; that is to say. tbo race is between the cxpresident and everybody else. "Anybody to beat Johnson" is the cry now, just as it was four years ago, and I shall be badly mistaken if the result is not the same. Bate and Brown. Harris and Savajre, all have their partisans of course, but there is not an adherent of either of them who would heart ily support either of the others in preference to Johnson. You could form no adequate idea, unless jou were on the ground, of tho intensity of tbe OPPOSITION TO ANDREW JOHNSON in Tennessee. It is, in many instances, not merel3T opposition, but hostility bitter, implacable, and frequently personal hostility. Savage does not speak to h'm when they meet; Brown has publicly denounced one of his statements as a malignant lie, and "defiantly hurled back" the base aspersion, in the most vigorous Eatanswill fashion; Harris and Bate have the same aflection for him that the devil is popularly supposed to entertain lor holy water while there are hundreds of private citizens throughout the State who would gladly walk any distance to see him banged. On the other hand, Andy's adherents are numerous, and devoted Indeed, when we consider the cold, nnsvmpathetlic, phlegmatic temperament of the man, the personal attachmentof his henchmen seems little less than miraculous. They ewear by and lor him, and at his opponents ; tbey denounce "military rings" and "capitol cliques" in the most vigorous English; and some of them notably IIuss, of the Sbeibyville Commercial, who is the Mr. Pott, of Tennessee journalism, and who edits "the only democratic paper in the State" make devotion to Johnson a test of democratic fealty. This being the state of afiairs, you can imagine that I did not overstate the case when I asserted the vehement boiling of our political pot. Do you ask me a s to the result? I can only give you my individual opinion, but that is as valuable a3 anybody's, for anybody's is worth a confederate's treasury note. It is this: Tho contest will be narrowed down to a fight between Bate, Brown and Johnson. Now, while either ot the first two would be very glad to bent the otbaw, cither would yield Ids own claims to beat Andy; and so, whenever it shall become apparent that Bate is stronger than Brown, or Brown is stronger than Bate, the entire anti-Johnson strength will concentrate on the man so Indicted and elect him. If this can not be done, then some man not a candidate, and not now mentioned in connection with tbe senatorship some such man as Judge Robert Lu Caruthers will be chosen. Johnson vb. Savage. Do aspirants for senatorial honors stump the State openly among you Bourbons? That's the style down this way now. The great ex-impeached set the fashion. lie published, a week or

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proposed to address his fellow citizens upon tbe questions of the day the question of prime importance being, ot course, the election of Andrew Johnson to tbe Senate of tbe United States. Now, Col. John II. Savage is also A CANDIDATE for senator, and, as the imp of the perverse chose to ordain it, both, he and Johnson made an appointment to speak at Winchester on the same day. This did not suit tbe great commoner. Conscious as he is of his own ability and there is no doubt that he bas the biggest brain in Tennessee he eenerally prefers to have his audience all to himself, so that whatever sophism be may choose to tender the dear people may pass unquestioned. He seems to have a peculiar aversion to meeting Savage, and there be those who assert that this arises from personal tear of the fiery little ex-congressman, who has served in three wars, and who, as everybody knows, would fight his weight in wildcats. From several little incidents, .which have recently come under the observation of your correspondent of which more hereafter he is seriously inclined to take this view of the matten Be that as it may, Savage went to Winchester and Johnson didn't. Reaching Decherd, where passengers for Winchester change cars, the x-president inquired if Savage was at the latter place, and, being answered in tbe affirmative, he retained his seat and came on to Nashville. Savage, after concluding his speech at Winchester, presented a formidable indictment against Johnson, took judgment by default against him, and declared him forever barred troin epeaking to the people of Franklin county unless he should give bim (Savage) ten days' previous notice in writinsr. He then proceeded to print a card in the

Nashville Union and American, wherefrom I extract: "Ex-President Johnson did not meet his appointment yesterday t.t Winchester. It is to be presumed that he has abandoned the others, and the race for Senator. I am willing that the people shall be disappointed and will therelore address them at " and he tbca cooiy ap propriates all Mr. Johnson's remaining ap pointments. The nrst 01 tneso was at ieua non. lor October 0. and, as I had an intima tion that both tbe gladiators would be on hand, I determined to go up and see the fun. Both Johnson and Savage were on the train, both rode in the same 'bus Iroru the Lebanon depot, and both stopped in the same hotel. I occupied a seat between them in the 'bus. and you may imagine that I felt like a very small mouse between two lions, u be col ored barber who shaved me this morning tells me a funny incident. He says that, immediately alter nreasiasi ne was shaving Col. Savage, when Mr. Johnson came to tbe door of tbe shop, evidently on tonsorial thonehts intent. Seeing Savaere. he dodged back, and was leaving, when the latter called to him, "Come in, sir, come in YOU SHALL BE SHAVED as well and as promptly as though the civil rights bill were already in operation!" "And, sah," said the barber, a broad grin irradiating his features, "Mr. Johnson, be didn't say a word he jes slipped in as easy and sot down on the edge ot a cheer, and be looked like he wished be was at home." And the omnibus driver told me to-day that when Mr. Johnson saw Col. Savage enter one 'bus at the depot last night, he tried to get in the other, and that being already full, he inquired if it was too lar to town to walk. Surely, if the creat commoner isn't afraid of Savage, he has no liking for his society. Col. Savage sent a message to Mr. Johnson this morning, asking a division of time to day. This the latter declined, on the ground that, both being members of the same party no good could result from a joint discussion. Ho commenced speaking at 12 o'clock and spoke for a little more than three hours. Immediately on concluding, he left the ball, and returned to Nashville on tbo 4 o'clock train. A synopsis of Mr. Johnson's speech is unnecessary, as it was almost identically tho same as that previously delivered at other points, lull accounts of which have already been printed. He devoted much time to finance, and his utterances on the question of repudiation were unmistakable. If he is not for repudiation, then I confess that I do not understand the English language. Else what do such sentences as this mean : " No nation has ever yet been burdened with permanent public debt and remained frca. Sooner than have our posterity become a race of serfs under an Immense debt, 1 say, throw oil every dollar ot it." "Our people can not much longer bear the burdens. They cry for re lief, and they must have it; and we must get clear of at least a portion ot our public debt.' "If refusing to pay all of a debt be repudiation, then the country is full of repudiators." Savage's speech occupied about two hours, and was mainly a vehement attack upon Johnson's record. It was extremely bitter and personal, and seemed to aiiord great delight to the immense crowd, who-cheered lustily. The next joint appointment or simultaneous, for Johnson declines joint appointments is for Franklin, on Monday; and, as Savage declares he will speak first, there is a probability that there will be another lively time. THE NEW YORK HERALD. ITS INCOME A STUPr OF FIGURES. The New York correspondent of the Bufflo Commercial has been reckoning up the Herald's income: A few days ago I had the curiosity to ge over a Sunday issue ot the Herald and reckon up the advertisements and the amount ot cash represented by them. Those appearing under the head of houses and rooms wanted and to let occupied nine columns, and cost tbe advertisers about 650. Board and lodging came next, taking up nearly eight columns, and costing about ?ö00. Ileal estate occupied five and a half columns, and represented 1 100. The dry goods houses sent in the same amount of natter and paid the same amount of money. The "wants" department occupied nearly eight columns and brought in about $100. Tbe Herald charges less for advertisements under this head than for any other. Theatrical and musical announcements filled four columns, representing $300; financial notices nearly three columns and $200; instructions two and a half columns and nearly the same amount; railroads and shipping $185; horses and carriages two columns and $150; auction and miscellaneous sales tbe same; death notices, $100; religious notices, about $50; and tbe various advertisements not easily classified, about $500. The whole receipts for advertisements in this one issue of the Herald amount to about 4,000, witr perhaps a lew hundred over. I tiieh examined the Times of tbe same date, and found 21 columns of advertisements, representing about $6o0. The disproportion between space and receipts is accounted for by the fact that the advertising rates of the Times are much lower than those of the Herald. The Herald took in over $1,000 lor about ü3 columns, and the Times ?650 for one-third the same space. The London Telegraph says: Capt. Wigcins hd3 just returned to Dundee, in the steamship Diana, from a voyage of exploration in the Arctic reglons,having started from that port on tho 4:h of June last. . His object was to reach the Gulf of Obi by way of the Kara Sea, in order to ascertain whether commerce could be carried on by water between Europe and Asia. He arrived at the mouth of the gulf on the 5th of August, and then returned home, after having endeavored to find the Austrian expedition. Capt. Wiggins is of opinion that the Kara Sea will be entirely open till the middle of October, and sees no reason why steam navigation should not be carried on annually tvk n vklu Egl&itvl MUd ih G ulf ot Obi, 1

THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD.

COL. T1IEODOBE O'lIAKA. The muffled dram's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; So more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And glory guards, Wuh solemn round, The blveuao of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind. No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind ; No vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dread alarms. No braying horn nor screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust. Their plumed heads are bowed, Their haughty banner, trailed in dust. Is now their martial -shroud And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are tree from anguish now, The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle' stirring blast. The charge, the dreadful cannonade, The din and shoal are passed Nor war'n wild note, nor glory's peal, Shall thrill with fierce delight Those breasts that never more miy feel The rapture of the fight. Like the fierce Northern hurricane That sweeps his great plateau. Flushed w ith thelilumnh yet to gain Came down the serried foe Who heard the thunder of the fray Brea t o'er the field beneath, Knew well the watchword of that day Was victory or death. Foil many a mother's breath has swept O'er Angostura's plain. And long the pityine sky has wept Above its moulder d slain. The raven's scream or eagle's flight, Or shepherd's pensive lay, Alone now wake each solemn height Ttat frowned o'er that dread fray. Sons of the Dark and Blooly Ground! Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air; Yonr own proud land's heroic 601I Shall be your Otter grave; (She claims from wp.r its richest spoil The ashes of her brave. Thun, 'nealh their parent turf they rest, Far from the gory field. Borne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield. The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them here. And kindred eyes and hearts watch by The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave. No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of yonr grave. Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor point the hallowed spot Where V alor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless 6tone, In deathless song shall tell. When many a vanished year hath flown, The story how ye fell: Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Can dim one ray of holy light That gilds our glorious tomb. SAILING THROUGH THE SKIES. UP IN A BALLOON. GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OP A VOYAGE IN THE AIR TWO HOURS ABOVK EARTHLY THINGS THE OMNIPRESENT STILLNESS A THASTOM BALLOON. The experience of a gentleman who accom panied Prof. King in bis last ascension from Akron, O.', is pleasently given in the Cleve land Leader: The rope was cut by Piof. King. Snap! I was in a dream. All that I had read, all that I had imagined, was as nothing.' I heard a wave of confused sounds which so rapidly santc a way that it appeared as if the voices of those who made the sounds had failed them, and their utterance had been suddenly choked. The whole world seemed in a moment to have been reduced to miniature by some geni in a vision. Soon all sounds from below were hushed, and we drifted nay, the earth moved away, softly and almost imperceptibly. "Now we Mill put out the drag rope," said the professor. So, carefully, coil after coil was paid out, the utmost care being taken to prevent its getting in a tangle, the professor all the while humming a Tune. After the drag rope was out. the ballast, which consisted of only a single bag ot sand, overcoats, basket of provisions ana other articles were so disEosed of as 'to afford us tbe most room. The urometer at this time indicated threefourths of a mile high. Akron appeared like a lilliputian city. The canal moved round like a glistening thread, whilst tbe railroads were only black lines stretching off in curving distances until they were lost in obscurity. The panorama at this time was magnificent. As far as tee power of vision could extend, towns and villages were scattered in thick profusion. It seemed as if they all lay close together, and the intervening country, the forests and fields, were only little dots of white and green. Hudson Cuyahoga Falls, Kent, and other villages which we could not identify were distinctly . visible. In about eight minutes after our start we were nearly above tbe falls of the Cuyahoga at an altitude of 3,000 feet. We now encountered a current of cold air, and Prof. King immediately exclaimed, "We are going down!" "Weih" added he, "Itwill be well enough to have a little chat," and so be refrained from casting out much of our scanty supply ol sand. An easy descent was made in' a corn field near CJaylord's Grove. After a briet conversation with the large crowd that gathered around, the sun having meanwhile emerged from behind a cloud, the balloon again shot upward. The course lay for some distance over forest trees, the drag-rope rattling merrily through tbe leaves and branches. Soon, however, the balloon began to ascend rapidly. Up, up, HIGHER AND HIGHER we went, until, shooting through what was iiterally a hole in the clouds, we were coon above them. Away, as far as the eye could reach, was an ocean of mist. The earth was gone. We were in the region of eternal silence. Hut still higher, and I seemed to bear the professor talking as in a dream. I heard his voice distinctly, but my ears seemed lazy. My own voice sounded strangely. It was as if some one else was talking, and I all the time knew so well what he was going to say that my lips moved in sympathy. Above the clouds. We had by this time gotten so high above the clouds that tbey appeared as far beneath us as the earth did before we entered them. To one on terra lirraa the clouds, when entirely obscuring the sky, appear dome-liko. To us, from above, it seemed as if we were gazing on an immense plain of silvery ice, from which vast mountains rose in volumes of splendor. Mountain towered alxve mountain, but all out of a horizontal plain. This appearance was bounded by a horizon of blue sky. "la that Lake Erie?" asked the protessor as he leaned against the edge of tbe basket and long and carefully scanned the edge ot tbe horizon. We were both of us on the alert, as it was for a little while a problem whether or not we were approaching tbe lake. At this time we had not the faintest idea in what direction we were going, having entered the clouds so suddenly that the professor could not get our bearings. Pretty soon he came to the conclusion that it was only a .peculiar appearance in the sky, and that we were in danger of getting over the lake, as our last bearings showed that we were traveling northeast. I have read of a phantom bhip but I know there is euch a thing aa

phantom balloon. All the time we were above the clouds, we were lollowing a shadow which kept about two hundred yards in advance--a perfect image of our bonnie cloud nymph. Around It was a peculiar halo that Prof. King pointed out to me, one of the wonderful things we saw in cloud-land. A peculiarity of the air currents may be mentioned here. Sometimes we seemed to be going In an opposite direction from the clouds. A novice would have declared that such was the case, but the experienced areonaut who had the direction of our air-ship said that it was only because we were in a current that was traveling faster than the one in which the clouds were moving. Presently we began our final descent. Gradually we came down, nearer, and nearer to the clouds, until at about twenty minutes of 4 o'clock, we were completely enveloped in what below would be called a dense fog. I looked up into the balloon, the gas in which had before been transparent, and it was filled with a dark, murky vapor. Our breath condensed as on frosty morning, and the penetrating air chilled us. Soon a hazy something opened out below us, and as it grew more and more distinct we saw that we were approaching Mother Earth again. We had gotten into another cold current of air, and as soon as we struck it the professor had remarked that that would bring us down. "We are going down rapidly," said Prof. King, as he leaned over the side of the basket, and with his practiced eye anxiously scanned the face of the country. We were yet at a great elevation, and tbe landscape again assumed that lilliputian beauty that has already been spoken of. Lower and lower sank the Cloud Nymph, until the fences and branches of trees became visible. We were heading apparently right into the center of a grove. But the Cloud Nymph was fickle and had no intention of landing us there. Gently we were wafted over the tree tops, across a large Field, with the drag rope by this time just touching the ground. Still we did not come down, and as we were then approaching a wide stretch of forest, the possibility of landing in the tree tops was not so far distant as such things should always be. By this time tbe drag rope was trailing for 50 feet over the tops of the trees, and the "sizzing" over the leaves could be clearly heard. Then came tbe only moment of anxiety during the voyage. Prof. King grasped the provision basket and leaned over the side ready to drop it at any moment. "Get that canvass cover up in the seat where I can reach it," he coolly Faid. "If we light on the tree tops be sure to stick to the basket," came his next order, in a calm, even tone. Lower and lower we sank, but still the extemporized ballast was not thrown over, and great was our satisfaction to see that we were clear of the tree tops and approaching a grassy field. Over to the right of us were some persons hoeing potatoes, and Professor King shouted to them to run up towards the drag-rope. So filled with astonishment were they that he had to repeat his order several times before be could arouse them to action. By great exertion one of the men reached the rope before it had passed him for we were going rapidly and, obeying the orders shouted to him, he took a turn of it around the fence. "Look out for a slight bump!" quickly exclaimed Prof. King, and a moment afterward we struck the earth. In a moment the balloon went up again with a bound, but by this time three or four had hold of the rope, and we were slowly drawn down. We were soon surrounded by an eager crowd, and found upon inquiry that we had landed in a field be-

longing to Mr. Cyrus Rice, near Auburn, Geauga county, having been in tbe air just two hours. Assistance was promptly offered, and soon the balloon was neatly folded and packed for shipping. SHANKS' SON. HIS SICKNESS WHILE ON HAYDEN'S EXPLORING EXPEDITION--HIS MOTHER'S HEROISM --CONVALESCENCE OF THE YOUNG MAN. In the columns of the Denver Tribune is found the following in regard to the son of the Hon. J. P. C. Shanks of this State : The readers of the Tribune will remember that a messenger was dispatched by Prof. IJaydea trom nis division of geological survey.which was making investigations at the foot of Elk Mountains, informing Mai. Stevenson, in this city, of the serious illness of tbe son of theHon. J. P. C. Shanks, member of Congress from Indiana, and directing him to come immediately and devise means for getting the sick man out of this almost inaccessible locality. Major Stevenson started at once and arrived in Fairplay in two days, where he awaited the arrival . of General and Mrs. Shanks, who had been telegraphed for by Prof. Hayden. They arrived at Granite a few days after, and immediately the party started on horseback for tun iUK Mountains, iransnortation was very limited, and Mrs. Shanks, with heroic determination, decided to visit her son with the party. Although warned of the dangers and difficulties attending such a journey. she still persisted in 'going. Accordingly sho was furnished with a small Indian pony, which she rode astride having no stirrups, rude straps were irupro vised in which she placed her feet. In this manner Mrs. Shanks accompanied tbe party, telling them to take their own gait, and she would surely follow, which she actually accomplished. Tbe route was over two ranges of mountains, and through a country regarded by Prof, llayden as inaccessible to all except mountaineers and the most intrepid explorers. Deep gorges were crossed, high, rough, rocky ridges climbed, im- . mense tracts of lallen timber traversed, and, beside all this frequent and severe snow storms were encountered. Yet the party, in three days from their departure from Granite, arrived at the camp. Here, in an alkaline locality, in a rude hut, which had been hastily built by the division. young Shanks was found just barely alive. His condition was somewhat improved from tbe day before, but still he was far from be ing OCT OP DANGER, yet recognized with joy his father and mother and Major Stevenson. The following day he was moved half a uiile for the purpose of obtaining purer water and a fresh camp. Here several days were spent in constructingan aparatus which would be adapted to the delicate condition of the patient, and the rough nature of the country which he must traverse. The apparatus consisted ot two long poles, about 30 feet in length, with two braces far enough apart to admit of the body of tbe sick man in a horizontal position. Between tbe braces, cords were woven. Over the frame willows were bent, upon which canvas was placed to protect the sufferer from storms. To tbe larger end of these poles a mule was attached, being provided with a rude harness. The smaller ends of the poles being limber, wero left to drag upon tne ground. This contrivance was found to meet all emergencies, and even surpassed tbe expectation of the entire party. The sick man made but few complaints of being jarred by this . method of transportation. The early part of the return trip was over sage brush and across large streams, and other impediments spoken of abo ye, yet five miles was made the first day, 13 miles the second, and the latter part of the journey 2 and .".0 miles per day. The party reached Twin . Lakes in safety, tbe condition of the young man being much Improved, on the 29th of September last; and the rapidly recovering n an, with his friends, will probably arrive in , Denver to-morrow. The members of the Hayden party have become much attached to the young man on account ol his industry, energy, and amiable character, and it is with great pleasure to them, as well as to the anxious parents that he was safely brouät ixou (he wilderness.