Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 April 1869 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

VOLUME XIV. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL I, 1869. NUMBER :;o.

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ilK WEAL FARMER WIFE. Ami ms IkmfDlkmtaetra extract !r-m a poem road by rroHwor H. W. P-uk.'r. nt the innnjrn ration wrvict-s of tho low i State A ;riclttal College, Mirth 17: The American Farmer, on of the Sun ! Uronzed with a low from its irlory won ; Am free as the air it is heaven to inhale. And trong a the steeds of the prairie sralc : Lord of hi castle and broad domain. The herd his rassals. the flock his train. Ami rich in the coin hi irrainrie hoard, lie sits at the head of hi- bormti'ul ho-ird. And laiijh at the crowded worin afar. Buzzing with ceaseless comnurcial war. 15 hold him at morn I his yolishod plow Trac. s dirk lin with his silver prow, Writing the verse in alluvial mould The dimmer shall print in letters of fold, And sotio the trill of tho oriok-s tunc. Behold him atrest In the lanirnid noon, SI tched on the irrassand cooled by the breeze, His kindly pavilion the clistenine trees. l'.o!d him ateve ; th.- ever, i R 'lis own, Hume joys are his that to few are known : The rnsset is brought from his last year s ftorc ; i! i fruity-faced children play on the floor. And hi wife, her cheek like orrTiard bloom. Is the crown, the queen or the cheerful room. TVit mine of riches that farmer! wife ! How hasy and happv and proud icr life ! Fmm her pans she a pans nnt " her rolls of gold, And her eg2 are all ncst-eTs of wealth nntokl ; It tries not her patience to try out her lard. And her lot, like her bread, i never h ird : She knits her stocking, but never her brow- -Givea the fowls a dressing, but not herspouse, h, busy and happy and proud the life f irmer lives, and the farmer's wife. I the picture too fair, too rosy it glow ? Tell u. thouhnsbandMan. John or Joe ! Wh it an thv mn-ir.s 'he livelong Say. r homi rctnrned in the twilight gray? What honest pride, what Mis of health Of peace, conten. wha' concions wealth ? What converge with Nature? wha hidden loe, Wiser than book, i it thine to explore? Whit science untaught, in schoo' unheard, Of soil and plant, or of beast, and bird ? John who isone of the rarer kind, Sr.nrv in heart and searching of mind. Replies in few words: M Ah. well do I know Life's (lowers and hriers comnvnirliu:: grow, And mm may pluck, if heao desires. The flowers alone, or only the briers. One thorn there is I feel it in truth The lack of a studious habit in youth,'1 T - worthy John. I h I right - it It SO! Come, give us thy mind, thou frequent Joe. Wall. now. I enesi." Joe anwcrir? says, A rnther hard time on't the farmers hez : Th r 's mithin to think on but work and eat. And arter his chores a man is dead beat; An' there's oiler- rnJ lurk a feller fret, ir.'jh price an' low price, notes an" debt. An' bre .chy criHers an' losin' a ho. An' somehow the gain's no more'n the lo. I wa down with the rhenmatiz May ;.n" Jure, An' the seed wa'nt sown the right o' the moon. Th-- sheep's got foo'-rot an' market is down. An" wheat I kept, hopir. price come "roun"; A i wife she is kind o' droopiu' je-t now. the children took sick. I can't tell how ; 1 in sart in we ein cm pi jnty o" pills. But a biiiou fever brings doctor's bins. Wal. honest folk-thny must oller wölk ; 1: - only your village sharpers can shirk. Thus Joe diseourc alas ' how the real Ki. k- ovt the pail of the creamy ideal. If Joe were honest there still would be --..m.- milk, remainin forpootry's tea. Hut he keep, 'tis said, the s'rlppinijs apart Whet he vends hi milk by the pint or jn.irt ; There1 a tallow-faced hue in his butter and lard, A-.d his four-foot wood is cut by the yard. I- it then but t dream this son of the soil, Noblo ami in hi primi'ive toilr Mail, these fair halls 1 ye teacher, hail ! llen e shall go forth no si'tcrs pale. Broodim: fine words, and those of an age That has reached the h v.lroruluhuric cta-v; diction not freshened by daily resort Dired to the eaJU'ie of Nature and Art. None shall go heuce, who, when they are Throneh." A i what the Lord Bat form-d them to do, S ue lOBgOB to paddle la learuin's pool. M oat enter perforce a professional school. Bat hither shall come and hence shall go Youth who their earnest work shall know The artisan's eon and the farme.' boy, Whoae father's calling is honor iind joy. In mind and muscle strong and skilled. By them onr ideal hall eradually be filled The woodman's name be a name of pride, Iy knowledge and charae'er gloridt-d. Would there were time the life to trace Of one. complete, who leaves this pl:re To -'-w his knowledge with his seed. n 1 re ipfar more than mortal meed. What if his corn be not tnereaoed! Me is a m'iid-a man -at least Not a machine like that he ride. Not like the plotidin? hoi e he iriiides. Be read in plant and -oil and snn Wouders undreamed by Solomon. Or miirht we track his after course po-ders here the laws of Force lie sees in every breath of steam Shot from yon mill, a cloudy steam, A tinnimoih BOWSI dissolved in air. He builds a townhip lau ndry there. And free- t he world its hapless wife i'r.nn i'ondaL'c to th" plague of life. But who the happy change may ?uess When w itn in takes her proud B. Bu Snule not ! She i in nature's plan hemist and doctor to every man. Shall she, through scientific! ick Shall she tie' duck bj but a quack DtlM not j o'er all bet daily toil s. enris thai! pour its wine snd oil The skill that smoothes her weary way. The lii'ht of thought's perpetual play; Thi- and relitrion are the wire Sh ail m.ike her lowly hfe divine. B. S. Bachelor of Science. Selected misceUatm V RIDE WITH A 140 BÖRSE FREIGUT C.VK. IX A '' U'Ki.h,'' UÜ 1 tue s'raDLrcr, as he loosened his belt an-1 stretched himself in an , rerurnbent position, u it is not more than fair that I should throw something into the stock of c- nirnon iitertainment ; but the story I am to tc'l you is a sad one, sod I fear will not add to the pleasure of Um vening. As you desire it, however, ;ui ! it cornea wilhiu the line of the request that I would ntrrate sunt- personal episode of th; war, I will tell it, and trust the impression will r.t hv altogether unpleasant. " It was at the battle of Malvern Hill a battle win re the carnage was more frightful, as it seems to me, than in any this side of the Alleghanie .luring the whole war that my story must begin. I was then serving as Major in the th V f chllOtUs Kegiment the old th as we uäed to oaII it and a bloody time the boys had of it, too. About 2 p.m. we Im been sent out to skirmish along the dge of trie wood in which, a our Gcnrra' suspected, the Kebs lay massing for a eh irgc across the p'ope, ur on the f.reat of wkn our army was posted. We tod barely entered the nnderbm?h when we met the heavy formations .f Magruder in the very act of charging. Ol course our thin line of skirmible rs was no impediment to those onrushing masses. They were on m and over us before we cou'd get out of thj way. I do not think that half of those running, screaming masses of men ever knew that they bad parsed over the remnants of as plucky a regiment as t r came out of the old Bay .State. But many of the boys had good reason to remember that afternoon at the bane of Malvern Hill, and I amon th? number ; f ,r wnen the lit line of Rebi had paacd orei me I wai left amid tie bushes witN the breath nearly tramp! 1 OVt of me. and an ujrly bayonet ga3h through my Udck ; and mighty little consolation was it for me at hat mumc! t to awC the fellow who run nie

through lying stark dead at my tide, with a ballet-hole in his head, his shock of coarse, black hair matted with blood, and his stony eyes looking into mine. Well, I bandaged up my limb the best I might, and started to crawl away, for our batteries had opened, and the grape and can ister that came hurling down the slope passed but a few feet over my head. It was slow and painful work, as you can imagine, but at last, by cint of perseverance, I had dragc,cd myself away to the left of the direct range of the batteries, and creeping to the verge of the wood, looked ott over the green slope. I understood by the crash and rof r of the guns, the yells and cheers of the men. r.nd that hoarse murmur which those who havo been in battle know, but which I cannot deseribein words, that there wr.s hot work goincr on out there ; but never had I seen, n, n t in that three days' desperate meUt at the Wilderness nor at that terrific repulse we had at Cold Harbor, such absolute slaughter as I saw that afternoon on the trrcen tlope of Malvern Hill. The guns of the entire army were massed on the crest, ard thirty thousand of our infantry lay, musket in hand, in front. For eight hundred yards the hill snk in easy declension to the wood, and aeroa this mooth expance the RetM roust charge to reici our liv.e. It was nothing short of dowr.rieht insanity to order men to charge that hill ; and so his Generals told Lee, but he woald not listen to reason that'day, and so he sent regiment after regiment, and bric 'e after brigade, and division after division, to certain death. Talk about Grar.t's disregard of human life, hi3 effort at Cold Harbor and I ought t-" know, for I got a minie in my shoulder that day was hopeful and casv work to what Lee laid on Hill's and Macruder's division! at Malvern. It was at the close of the second charge, when the yelling mass reeled back from before the blaze of these sixty guns and thirty thousand rifles, even as they began to break and fly backward toward the woods, that I saw from the spot where I lay a riderless horse break out of the confuted and flyinc mass, and. with mane and tall erect and spreading nostril, come dashing obliquely down the slope. Over fallen steeds and heaps of the dead she leaped with a motion as airv as that of the flying fox when, fresh

and unjaded, he leads away from the hounds, whose sudden cry has broken him off from hunting mice amid the bogs of the meadow. So this riderless horse came vaulting aloner. Now frem my earliest boyhood I have had what horsemen call a ' weakness' for horses. Only give me a colt cf wild, irregdlar temper and fierce blood to tame, and I 'am perfectly happy. Never did lash of mine, singing with cruel sound through the air. fill on such a colt's soft hide. Never did yell or kick send his hot blood from heart to head deluging his sensitive brain with fiery current?, driving him to frenzy or blinding him wi:h fcp.r ; but touches, soft and gentle as a woman's, care&sing words, and oats given from the open palm, an 1 unfailing kindness, were the means I used to 'subjugate' him. Sweet subjugation, both to him who subdues and to him who yields! The wild, ur.manncrlv, and unmanageable colt, the fear of horsemen the covintry rounl, finding in you, not an enemy but a friend, receiving his daily food from you. and all those little 'nothings 'which go as far with a hore as a woma.n, to win and retain affection, grows to look upon you as a protector r.nd friend, and testifies in countless way? his fondness for you. So when I saw this horse, with action so free and motion so graceful, amid that storm of bullets, rcy heart involuntarily went out to her, and my feelings rose higher and higher at every lean she took from amid the whirlwind of lire and lead. As she plunged at last over a little hillock out of range and came careering toward n.e as only a riderless horse might come, her head flung wildly from side to side, her nostrils wide ly spread, her Minks and shoulders Decked with faun, her eye dilating, I forgot my wound and all the wild roar of battle, and, lifting myself involuntarily to a sitting posture as she swept grandly by, gave her a ringing cheer. ' Perhaps in the sound of a human voice of happv mood amid the awful din she recognized a resemblance to the voice of him whose blood moistened her shou1ders and was even yet dripping from saddle and housings. Be that as it may, no sooner had mv voice sounded than she Mung her head with a proud upward movement into the air, swerved sharply to the left, neighed as she might to a master at morning from her stall, and came trotting directly up to where I Hv, and, pausing, looked down upon me as it were in compassion. I cpoke again, and stretched ont my had caressingly. She pricked her cars, took a step forward and lowered her n.se until it came in contact with my palm. Never did I fondle anything more tenderly, never did I soe an anirral which seemed to so court and appreciate human tenderness as that beautiful mare. I say beautiful.' No o'her word miht describe her. Never will her imsge fade from my memory while memory lasts. " In weight she might have turned, when well conditioned, nine hundred and fifty pounds. In color "she was a dark chestnut, w'dh a velvety depth and soft look about the hair indescribably rich and elegant. Many a time have I heard ladies dispute the shade and hue of her plush like coat as they ran their white, jewelled fingers through her silken hair. Her bodv was round in the barrel, and perfectly symmetrical. She was wide in the haunches, without projection of the hip bones, upon whic. the shorter ribs seemed to Ian High in the withers as she was, the line of her back and neck perfectly curved, while her deep, oblique shoulders and long thick fore arm, ridgy with swelling sinew, suggesting the perfection of stride and power. Her knees across the pan were wiile,thcCannon-bone below tnem short and thin : the pasterns long and sloping; her hoofs round, dark, shiny, and well set on. Her mane was a shade darker than her coat, tine and thin, as a thoroughbred's always is wh.e blood is without taint or cross. Her car war, Ujljli sharply pointed, delicately curved, nearly Uaefe round the borders, and as tremulous as the leaves of an aspen Her neck rose from the withers to the head in perfect curvature, hard, devoid of fat, and well cut under the chops. Her nostrils were full, verv full, and thin almost as parchment. The eyes, from which tenrs might fall or fire flash, were well brought ont, soft as a gazelle's, almost human in their intelligence, while over the small, b-ny head, over neck and shoulderp, yes, over the whole brdy aud clean down to the hoofs, the veins stood out as if Um skin were but tissue paper against whu h the warm blood pressed, and which it might at any moment bant asunder. ' A Perfect animal,' 1 said to myself, as I lay looking her oyer an animal whhh

might have been born from the wind, and the sunshine, so cheerful and so swift she seeinj : an animal which a man would

present as his choicest gift to the woman he loved, and yet one which that woman, I wife or lad v -love, would give him to ride i when honor and life depended on bottom and speed.' All that afternoon the beautiful mare stood over me, while away to the right of us the hoarse tide of battle flowed and ebbed. What charm, what delusion of memory, held her there? Was my face to her as the face of her dead master, sleeping a bleep from which not even the Wildest roar o! battle, no, nor her cheerful neigh at morning, would ever wake him ? Or is there in auimals some instinct anwering to our intuition, only more potent, winch telH thm whom to trust ana whom to avoid? I know rot, and yet some such sense tbev may have, they must have : or else why should this m:re so fearles !y attach herself to me? By what process of reason or instinct I know not, but there ehe chose mo for her master; for when some of my men at dusk came searching, and found nie, and, laying me on a stretcher, started toward our lines, the mare, uncompelled, of her own free v ill, followed at my side ; and all through that atormy night cf wind snd rain, as my men struggled along through the mud and mire toward Harrison's Landing, the msr followed, and ever aber, until she died, was with me, and was mine, and I, so for as man might be, was hers. I named her Gnln&TO. " Aa quickly as my wound permitted, I wss transported to wsshfogtoa, whither I took the nr-.re with mc. Her fondness for me grew daily, and soon became so marked a? to cause universal comment. I had her boarded while in Washington at the corner of - street and avenue. The groom had instructions to lead her .-.round . to the window against which was my bed, at the hospital, t i c every day, so that by opening the sash 1 might reach out my hand and pet her. But the second day, no sooner had she reached the street, than she broke suddenly from the grooai and dashed away at full speed. I wss lying bolstered up in bed, reading;, when I heard the rush of flying feet, and in an instant, with a loud, joyful neigh, she checked herself in front of my window. And when the nurse iiftf d the sash, the beautiful creature thru; t her head through the aperture, ar d rubbed her no?c against my shoulder like a dog. J um not ashamed to ay that 1 pt b- th my anus around her neck, and, burying my face in her silken mane, kissed her again and again. Wounded, weak, and away from home, with only strangers to wait upon mc, and scant service at that, t';e alfection ot this lovely creature for me, so tender and touching, seemed almost hu man, and my heart went out to her beyond any power of expression, as to the only being, of 11 the thousands around me, who thought of me and loved mc. Shortly alter her appearance at my window, the groom, who had divined where he should find her came into the yard. But she would not allow him to come near her, much K-ss touch her. if he tried to ap preach she would lash out at him with her heels most Bpitefhlly, and then, laying back her ears and opening her mouth savagely, would make a short dash at him, and as the terrified African disappeared around the corner of the hospital, she would wheel, and, with a face bright ps a happy child's, come trotting to the window for mc to pet her. I shouted to the groom to go back to the stable, tor I had no doubt but that she would return to her stall when I closed the window. Rejoiced at the permission, he departed. After some thirty minutes, the Lst ten of which she was standing with her slim, delicate head iu my lap, while I braided her foretop and combed out her silken mane, I lifted her head, and, patting her softly on either cheek, told her that she must ' go.' 1 gently pushed her head out of the window and closed it, and then, holding up my hand, with the palm turned toward her, charge 1 her, making the appropriate motion, to g away right straight back to her stable.' For a moment she stood looking steadily at me, with an indescribable expression of hesitation and surprise in her clear, liquid eyes, and then turning lint'eringly,w;dked slowdy out of the yard. " Twice a day for nearly a month, while I lay in the hospital, did Gulnare visit me. At the appointed hour the groom would slip her headstall, and without a word of command, she would dart out of the stable, and, with her long, leopard-like lope, go sweeping down the street and come dashing into the hospital yard, checking herself with the same glad neigh at my window ; nor did she ever once fail, at the closing of the sa?h, to return directly to her stall. The groom informed mc that every morning and evening, when

the hour o her visit drew near, i he would , Tiew tue boys, she moved with all her old begin to ( hale and worry, and, by pawing battle grace and power. Only now and and pulling at the halter, advertise him then, by a shake of the head, was I rethat it was time for her to he released. minded of her actions during the night. " But of ad exhibitions of tappiness, ( I Faid a few words of farewell to the men either by beast or man, hers was the most ' whom I had led so often to battle, with positive on that afternoon when, racing t whom I had shared perils not a few, and into the yard, she found me leaning on a j by whom, as I had reason to think, I was erutr h outside the hospital building. The loved, and then gave, with a voice slightly Whole corps of nurses came to the doors, unsteady, the last order that they would and all the poor fellows that could move ever receive from me: 'Brigade, Atten-themselves.-for Gulnare had become an tion, Ready to break ranks, Brmk Hunk: universal favorite, and the boys looked The order was obeyed. But ere they for her daily visits nearly, if not quite, as scattered, moved by a common impulse, ardently as I did, crawled to t le windows ' they gave first three cheers for me, and to see her. What gladness was expressed then, with the same heartiness and even in every movement! She would come more power, three cheers for Gulnare. prancing toward me, head and tail erect, And she, standing there, looking with her and, pausing, rub her head against my bright, cheerful countenance full at the shoulder, while I pitted her glossy neck; i men, pawing with her fore feet, alternatethen suddenly, with a side-wise spring, she ly, the ground, seemed to understand the would break away, and with her long tail compliment ; for no sooner had the cheer elevated until her magnificent brush, tine ing died away than she arched her neek and silken as the golden hair of a blonde, to its proudest curve, lifted her thin, delifell in a great spray on cither flank, and ' cite head into the air, and gave a short, her head curved to its proudest arcb, pace joyful neigh. around me with that high action and " My arrangeme nts for transporting her springing step peculiar to the thorough- bid been made by a friend the day before, bred. Then like a flash, dropping her A large, roomy car had t een secured, its brush and laying back her ears and floor strewn with brigh' clean straw, a stretching her nose straight out, she would bucket and a bag of oats provided, and speed away with that quick, nervous, low- everything done for her comfort. The car

lying actior. which marks the rush of racers, when side by side and nose to nose lapping each Other, with the roar of cheers on either hand and along the seats abeve them, they come straining up the home stretch. Returning from one of these arrowy flights, she would come curvetting back, now paeing side wise as on parade, now dashing her hind feet high into the air, and anon vaulting up and spring'ng throngh the air, with legs well under jcr, as if in the net of taking a five-barred gate, and finally would approach und Staad happy in her reward mv caress. "The war, at last, was over. Gulnare and I were in at the- death with fdu ridan at the Five Forks. Together we had shared the pageant at Richmond and Washington, and never had I seen her in better spirits than on that day atthecapital. It was a sight indeed, to m . tier as enc came ;iowu renn sylvan!'! Vycuup If thp lrittn

phant procession had been all in her honor and mine, she could not have moved with greater grace and pride. With dilating eye and tremulous ear, ceaselessly champ-

ing her bit, her heated blood bringing out the magnificent lace-work of veins over her entire body, now and then pausing, and with a snort gathering herself back upon her haunches as for a mighty leap, while she shook the froth from her bits, she moved with a high prancing step down the magnificent street, the aelmired of all beholders. Cheer after cheer was given, huzza after huzza rang out over her head from rxfsand balcony, bouquet after bouepuet was launched by fair and enthusiastic admirers before her ; and yet, amid the crash and swell of music, the cheering and tumult, so gentle and manageable was she, that, though i could feel hr frame creep aad tremble under me a3 she moved through that whirlwind of excitement, no check or curb was needed, and the bridle lines the same she wore when she came to me at Malvern Hill layunlifted on the pommel of the sadd e. Never bef re had I seen her so grandly herself. Never before had the tire and energy, the gra-e and gentleness, of her blood so revealed thornselves. This was the day and the event she needed. And all the royalty cf her ancestral breed, a race of equine kings, flowing as without taint or cross from him that was the pride and wealth of the whole tribe of desert rangers, expressed itself in her. I need not say that I shared her mood. I sympathized in her every step. I entered into all her ro'al humors. I patted her neck and spoke loving and cheerful words to her. I called her my beauty, my pride, my pet. And did she not understand me? Every word? Ehe why that listening ear turned back to catch my softest whisper; why the responsive quiver through the frame, and the low, harpy neigh? 'Well,' I exclaimed, us I leaped from her back at the close of the review, alas! that words spoken in lightest mood should portend so much ! ' well, G ulnare if you should die, your life has had its triumph. The nation itself, through its admiring capital, has paid tribute to your beauty, and death can never rob you of your fame.' And I patted her sncist neck and loara-fltcked shoulders, whilu the grooms were busy with he:ul and loins. That night our brigade made its bivouac just over Long Bridge, on the identical spot where four years bef re I had camped my ompany of three months' volunteers. With whut experiences of march and battle were those four years tilled ! For three of these years Gulnare had been my constant companion. With me she had shared my tent, and not rarely my rations, tor in appetite she was truly , human, and my steward always counted 1 her as one of our 4 mess.' Twice had hc , been wounded once at Fredericksburg, i through the thigh ; and once at Cold ' Harbor, where a piece of shell tore away a part ot her scalp. Bo completely did it stun her, that for some moments I thought her dead, but to my great joy she shortly recovered her senses. I had the wound carefully dressed by our brigade surgeon, from whose care she came in a mouth with the edges of the wo.-ud so nicely united that the eve could with difficulty detect the scar. This night, as usual, she lay at my side, her head almost touching mine, is ever oetore, unless Würm on a raid and in face of the enemy, had I seen her so uneasy. Her movements during the night compelled wakefulness on my part. The sky was cloudless, and in the dim light I lay and watched her. Now she would stretch herself at full length, and rub her head on the ground. Then she would start up, and, sitting on her haunches, like a dog, lift one fore leg and paw her neck and cars. Anon she would rise to her feet and shake herself, walk off a few rods, return and lie down again by my side. I did not know what to make of it, unless the excitement of the day had been too much for her sensitive nerves. I spoke to her kindly and petted her. In response she would rub her nose against me, and lick my hand with her tongue a peculiar habit cf hers like a dog. As I was passing my hand over her head, I discovered that it was hot, and the thought of the old wound flashed into my mind, with a momentary fear that something might be wrong abou' her brain, but after thinking it over I dismissed it aa incredible. Still I was alarmed. I knew that something was amiss, and I rejoiced at the thoughsehat I should soon be at home where she could have quiet, and, if need be, the best of nursing. At length the morning dawned, and the mare anel I took our last meal together on Southern soil the last we ever took together. The brigade was formed in line for the last time, and as T rodo down the front, to rwwas to be attached to the through express, in consideration of fifty dollars extra, which 1 gladly paid, because of the greater rapidity with which it enabled me to make my journey. As the brigade broke up into groups, I glanced at my watch ami saw that I had barely time to reach the cars Im fore they started. I shook the reins upon her neck, and with a plunge, startled at the energy of my signal, away she flew. What a Rtnde she had f What an clastic spring ! She touched and left the earth as if her limbs were of spiral wire. When I reached the car my friend was standing in front ot it, the fSflM plank was ready, I leaped from the saddle 'ami, running up the pi ink into the car, whistled to her ; and she, timid and hesitating, yet unwil ing to be separated from me. crent rdowlv I and cautiously up the steep incline and ; !,. ;do me. Inside I found a coml . .,,:, ,m: ol ü inuc rhdhes with a banket . ,; tetter than all, R ;ueh baake. Mv

friend explained that he had bought the clothes as he came down to the depot, thinking, as ha said, that they would be much better than your regimentals,' and suggested that I doff the one and don the otter. To this I asserteel more readily as I reflected that I would have to pass one night at least in the car, with no better bed than the straw under my feet. I had b:irely time to undress before the cars were coupled and started. I tossed the Clothes to my friend with the injunction to pack them in my trunk and express them on to me, and waved him my adieu. I arrayed myself in the nice, cool flannel and looke t around. The thoughtfulness of my friend had anticipated every want. An old cane Mated cha:.r stood in one corner. The lunch-basket was large and well supplied. Amid the oats I found a dozen oranges, Borne bananas, and a package of real Havana cigar?. How I called down blessings on his thoughtful head as I took the chair and lighted one of the fine flavored ros, gazed out on the fields past which we were gliding, yet wet with morning dew. As I sat dreamily admiring the beauty befre ne, Guluare came r.nd, resting her head upon my sh raider, aeemea to share my mood. As I stroked her fine-h dred, satin like nose, recollection quickened and memo ries of our companionship iu perils thronged into my mind. I rode again that midnight ride to Knoxville, when Burnside lay intrenched, desperately holding his own, waiting for news from Chattanooga of which I was the bearer, chosen by Grant himself because of the reputation of my mare. What riding that was ! We started, ten riders of us in all, each with the same message. I parted company the first hour out with all save one, an iron gray stallion of Messenger blood. Jack Mnrdock rode him, who learned hi3 horsemanship from buffalo and Indian hunting on the Plains not a bad school to graduate from. Teu miles out of Knoxville the gray, his flank? dripping with blood, plunged up abreast of the mare's shoulders and fell dead ; and Gulnare and I passed through the lines alone. had ridden tht tetribU rae$ withoui ichip or pur. With what scenes of blood and flight sh? would ever be associated ! And then I thought of home, nr. visited for four long years that home I left a stripling, but to which I wa3 returning a bronzed and brawny man. I thought of mother and Bob how they would admire her! of old Ben, the family groom, and ofthat one who shall be nameless, whose picture I had so often shown to Gulnare as the likeness of her future mistrtss; had they not all heard of her, my beautiful mare, she who came to me from the smoke and whirlwind, my battle gift ? How they would pat her soft, smooth sides, and tie her mane with ribbons, anel feed her with all sweet tuirgs from open and caressing palm ! And then 1 thought of one who might come after her to bear her nam? and repeat at least some portion of her beauty a horse honored and renowned the country through, bi cause of the transmission of the mothers fame. "About three o'clock in the afternoon a change came over Gulnare. I had fallen asleep upon the straw, and she had come and awakened me with a touch of her nosj. The moment I starteei up I saw that something was the matter. Her eyes were dull and heavy. Never before had I seen the light go out of them. The rocking of the car as it went jumpingand vibrating along seemed to irritate her. She began to rub her head against the side of the car. Touching it, I found that the skin over the brain was hot as fire. Her breathing grew npidly louder and louder. Ecli breath was drawn with a kind of gasping effort. The lids with their silken fringe drooped weaiily over the lustreless eyes. The head an!i lower and lower, until the nose almost touched

the floor. The ears, naturally so lively and erect, hung limp and widely apart. The b dy was cold and senseless. A pinch elicited no motion. Even my voice w at last unheeded. To word and touch there came, for the first time in all our intercourse, DO response. I knew as the symptoms spread what w as the matter. The signs bore all oneway. She was in the first stages ot phrenitis, or intlimimtion of the brain. In other words, y bdcnttiftt mare iran goinq most "I was well vcr3cd in the anatomy of the horse. Loving horses from my very childhood, there was little in veterinary practice with which I was not familiar. Instinctively, as soon as the symptoms had developed themselves, and I saw under what frightful disorder Gulnare was laboring, I put my hand into my pocket for my knüe, In order to open a vein. There was no kn'ft there. Friends, I have met with many rurpriscs. Store than once in battle and scout have I been nigh death ; but never did my blood desert my veins and settle so around the heart, never did such a sickening sensation possess me, as when, standing in that car with my beautiful mare before me marked with those horrihle symptoms, I male that discover'. My knife, my sword, my p:stola even, were with my suit in the care of my friend, two hundred miles away. Hastily, and with trembling fingers, I searched my clothes, the lunch basket, my linen ; not even a pin could 1 find. I shoved oprn the sliding door, aud swung my 1 at and shouted, hoping to attract some brakeman's attention. The train was thundering along at full speed, and nunc saw or heard me. I knew her Stupor would not last long. A slight quivering of the lip, an occasional spasm running through the frame, to'd me too plainly that the stage of frenzy would B004B begin. ' My God,' I exclaimed in despair, as I shut the door and turned toward her, must I sec you die, Gulnare, when the Opening of a vein would save you? Have you borne mc, my pet, through all these Years of peril, the icy chill of winter, the heat and torment of summer, and all the thronging dangers of a hundred Moody batUea, only to die torn by tierce agonies, when so near a peaceful home f "But little time was given me to mourn. My Ufa was so n to be in peril, and I must summon up the utmost power of ej t and limb to cseape the violence of my frenzie 1 mare. Did you iver sec a mad horse when his madness is on him. Tike your stand with me in that, car, and you shall sec what suffering a dumb creature run endure before it die". In no malady does a horse suffer more than in phrenitis, or inflammation of the brain. Possi bly In severe cases of colic, probably in rattM i" Re fiercest form, the pain is equally intense. These three arc the most agonizing of all the diseases to which the noblest Of animals is posed Had my piatoll been with me, 1 honld then and there, with whatever strencth Heaven granted, Hkcn my com nanion's life, that she might be spared the suffering mch was soon to rack and wring her sensitive frame. A horse laboring under an attack OJ phieflitis i as vioout as a ton caa ho. I lo vot lcrocioi!

as is one in a fit of rabies. He may kill his master, but he docs it without design. There is in him no desire of mischief for its own sake, or cruel cunning, no stratagem and malice. A rabid horse is conscious incvryact and motion. He recognises the man he destroys. There is in him an insane ledrc to kill. Not so with the phrenetic horse. He is unconscious in his violence. He sees and recognizes no one. There is no method or purpose in

his madness it. He kills without knowing ( "I knew what was coming. I could not jump out, that would be certain death. I must abide in the car, and take my chance of life. The car was fortunately high, long and roomy. I took my position in front of my horse, watching, and ready to spring. Suddenly her Iiis, which were CiOSeo, came open with a snap, as if an electric shock had passed through her, and the eyes, wild in their brightness, stared directly at mc. And what eyes they were ! The membrane grew red and redder until it was of the color of blood, standing out in frightful contrast with the transparency of the cornea. The pupil gradually dilated until it seemed about to burst out of the socket. The nostrils, which had been sudden and motionless, quivered, swelled, and glowed. The respiration became short, ejuick and gapping. The limp and drooping cars stiffened and stood erect, pricked sharply forward, as if to catch the slightest sound. Spasms, as the car swerved and vibrated, ran along her frame. More horrid than all, the lips slowly contracted, and the white, sharp-edged teeth stood uncovered, giving an indescribable look of ferocity to the partially opened mouth. The car suddenly reeled as it dashed around a curve, swaying her almost off her feet, and, as a contortion shook her, she recovered herself, and, rearing upward as high as the car permitted, plunged didirectly at me. I was expecting the move ment, and dodged. Then followed exhibitionsof pain which I pray God I may never see again. Time and again did she dash herself npon the floor, and rollover and over, lashing out with her feet in all dircctions.. Pausing a moment, she would stretch her body to its extreme length, and, lying upon her side, pound me noor wun iht neaa as it it were a m&uL Then like a flash she would lenp to her fret, and whirl round aad round untH from very giddi ness she would stagger and fall. She would lay hold of the straw with her teeth, and shake it as a dog shakes a struggling woodchuck; then dashing it from her month, she would seize hold of her own sides, and rnd herself. Springing up, she wonld rush against the end of the ciir, fat . ..11 in a heap from the violence ti Ike concussion. For BOmO flf teen minufc I without intermission the frenzy lasti !. I was nearly exhausted. My efforts to avoid her mad ruahea, the terrible tension of my nervous system produced by the spectacle of such exquisite and prolonged suffering, were weakening me beyond what 1 should have thought it possible an hour before for anything to weaken me. In fact, I felt my" strength leaving me. A terror such as I never yet felt was taking possession cf my mind. I sickened at the sight before mc, and at the thought of agonies yet to come. 4 My God,' I exclaimed, ' must I be killed by my own horse in this miserable car!' Even as I spoke the end came. The mare raised herself until her shoulders touched the roof, then dashed her body upon the floor with a violence which threatened the stout frame beneath her. I leaned, panting and exhausted against the side of the car. Gulnare did mt stir. She lay motionless, her breath coming and going in lessened respirations. I tottered toward her, and, as I stood before her, my car detected a low gurgling sound. I cannot describe the feeling that followed. Joy and grief contended within me. I knew the meaning oi that sound. Gulnare, in her frenzied violence, had broken a blood-vessel, and was bleeding internally. Tain and life were passing away together. I knelt down by her side. I laid my hea l upon her shoulders, and sobbed aloud. Her body moved a little beneath me. I crawled forward and lifted her beautiful head into my lap. , lor one liiere Bign of recognition before she died ! I smoothed the tangled masses of her mane. I wiped, with a fragment oi my coat, torn in the struggle, the b!"(,.i which oozed from her nostrils. I called her by name. My desire whs granted. t - nw. i i - - uaiuuyK vjuiu.ni; umwu uvi cjx:. The redness of frenzy had passed out of them. She saw and recognized mc. t spoke again. Her eye lighted a moment with the old and intelligent look of love. Her ear moved. Her nostril quivered slightly as she strove to neigh. The effort was in vam. Her love was greater than her strength. She moved her head a littie, as if slu would be nearer me, looked once more with her clear eyes into my face, breathed a long breath, straightened her shapely limba, and died. And there, holding the head of my dead mare in my lap, while the great warm tears fell one after another down my cheeks, I sat until the sun went down, th i shadows darkcm d in the car, and night drew her mantle, colored like my grief, over the world.'' Athtntic Monthly for April, APOSTROPHS O TO A PEDES. YE LOCISI A VELOi irK!ANTie e'ONTKl ItCTOR. Oh thou Velocipede 1 Marvel oi Itreutli and eiK-od. Tny CUM 1 prl.-. . 1 love thy motion free. Thy lawleM liberty, Vot. thou art di'ar to me, ( At any price.) Thy skeleton astride. I lake my morning ride ; And afternoon, wnii (atenisjuaf pace, I join the hcalthlul race. Annihilating space, t In a bis; room ! When trot I tried thy ppecd. Thou maic, malchic-s ctc'd. My pintf row : I mounted in hot baidc. And m u'i' clrctea traced. TU with the wind 1 raced, (And lore my ctothff. ) Hut for all pVin ondurcil 1 found In Hpet'd r-et med My recompense ; And all that joy may share. Who artafe to do and dare, Free a a bird of air, (For nrty cental So may I pcrwvoro, Seeming to doubt or feu. And nothing reck ; I ill can with viu-v My iwtft bicycle seize And gallop to the breexe, ( i area! my nerk ) SHS Y"ih Waal Tana Is an rid English statute which probits people from getting married after a certain hour la the day, because such a j solemn obligation ought to hfl Battered i hU) only when the ptjtjjfl arc hily lObflT.

FACTS AM) FIGUKES. Texas is supposed to contain 5,000,000 cattle. At the latest count, Louisville had 3M Smiths. Tint King of Burmah is buikUug school houses. The estimated cost of the Isthmus canal is $100,000 000. PaM io tr Vi Q vrr o n ow Tavinlr rm- i t V o i

ital of $30,000,000. QUEEN VICTORIA is seven years the senior of the Empress Eugenie. It cost $5 000 to bury a New York gentleman who died recently. The Congressional library now contains 170,965 bound volumes. THE National Bank circulation of the United States is $299,854,840. WILLARD'S HOTEL in Washington took in $4,000 a day during inauguration week. EX-POSTMATER GENERAL RANDALL taken up his residence at Elmira, N. Y. A NEW music hall, with a seating capacity of 2,500, is to be erected at Boston. THE loss by the International Exhibition at Havre, last year, was 100,000 francs. It is estimated that there are $2,600,000,000 worth of horseflesh in the United States. CUBA'S population, last year was 1,370, 000 of whom 764,500 were whites and 605,500 colored. ENGLISH papers speak of a girl still living in Wales who has not eaten anything for 10 months. A FUNERAL in Brownstown, Pa., was attended by five sisters, all of whom were aged over eighty. AT his death, Eugene Sue was worth only sixty thousand francs. He spent $150,000 francs in eight years. THE estate of the late Senator Guthrie —valued at about $1,000,000—has been divided among his three daughters, ARTEMUS WARD'S works are to be republished in London, with thirty-five illustrations from his panorama. —D.r Judson baptized the first Burman convert in 1819. Since that time more than 40,000 have been baptized. HAMILTON FISH is the fourth Secretary of State furnished by New York. The others were Van Buren, Marcy and Seward. A MELANCHOLY news-vender in England committed suicide by pouring petroleum over himself, and then lighting it with a match. IN Massachusetts, in I867, there were 35,062 births, nearly a thousand increase over 1866. There were 1,445 marriages, more than ever before. AN ingenious citizen of New Albany, Indiana, with too much time on his hands, has been two years in making a checkerboard that contains 6,491 pieces. THE Kentucky University has an attendance of 730 students the present year. The buildings are located on the old homestead of Henry Clay, at Ashland. THE Secretary of War is Rawlins, without a "<g;>" the Secretary of the Navy is Adolph B. Borie: the Postmaster General is Creswell, with only one<s>," and there is not a final "<e>" in the name of the Attorney General, Mr. Hoar. MILTON MERRYFIELD, of Sheffield, caught forty-two rats in one night, recently, by exchanging a barrel of oats that had often been visited by rates [sic] for a barrel of water, covering the surface with chaff. The varmints unsuspiciously pitched in and met a watery grave. THERE are in France fifteen coins, as follows: Gold pieces of one hundred, fifty, twenty, ten and five francs; silver pieces of five, two, one and one-half francs, and the four sous piece; bronze pieces of ten, five, two, and one centime. To these we may add the Emperors, of twen-ty-five francs, soon to be coined. ACCORDING to recent reports on inebriety in this country, 122 men out of 900 never drink intoxicating beverages, 100 drink moderately, 50 are ephemeral drinkers, 25 drink periodically, and 3 are habitual drunkards. Of every 700 women, 600 never "indulge," 30 take wine, 17 taste ardent spirits, 36 drink beer habitually, 14 drink periodically, and 3 are habitual inebriates. SAMUEL SEDGWICK of New Lebanon, N.Y., recently killed and dressed a hen because she produced no eggs; but, upon being dressed, fifteen eggs were found, six of them with hard shells and full size, and two with soft shells, also full size. This was one of ten fowls which produced 1,000 eggs in four months— the one dressed above having laid during that time ten eggs measuring seven by eight inches, No wonder she stopped. MR. WILLIAM CHURCH, of Seymour, Conn., who cultivates trout on his farm, estimates that he has five hundred trout which will weigh from one and a quarter to one and a half pounds each; five thousand which will weigh one pound; twenty thousand which will weigh from eight to ten ounces, and one hundred thousand from two to four ounces. In three years' time he expects to send to market yearly at least two hundred tons. THE experiments which have been made over the telegraph lines between Harvard College and san Francisco show that the traveling time required by electricity is as follows, from Boston: To Buffalo and back, 0.10 seconds. To Chicago and back, 0.20 seconds. To Omaha and back, 0.33 seconds. To Salt Lake and back 0.54 seconds. To Virginia City and back, 0.70 seconds. To San Francisco and back, 0.74 seconds. A queer bet was recently made in Swansey, Mass. One man wagered that no horse in town could pull four bushels of corn (two hundred and twenty-four pounds) in a bag or bags, four feet on a barn floor, the bags bring fastened to an inch rope one hundred feet in length. The novelty of the bet attracted quite a crowd to witness the performance, but the first horse did the business easily. The principle which induced the wager was that a small anchor attached to long cable, will fasten a large vessel, even in a verv high wind. By the annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the "great centres" appear to have paid taxes to the Government for the year ending June 30, 1868, as follows New York city, $22,111,004; Philadelphia, $9,038,972: Boston, $6,817,457; Brooklyn, $5,315,440; San Francisco, $5,145,256; Cincinnati, $4,498,125; Chicago, $3,993,282; Baltimore, $3, 509,007; St. Louis, $3,483,788; Newark, N. J., $3,340,287; New Orleans, $2,848,019; Pittsburgh, $2,764,290; Cleveland, $2,503,217. Forty-Seven collection districts returned each more than one million dollars, the largest amount being $7, 577,692 for the Wall street district, known as the Thirty-second New York.