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VOLUME 32, NO. 2.
CADIZ, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, MAT -10, 1865.
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OrK IIOl S ARE CO.MISG DOME,
Thank Cod, the sky Is clearlngf
l'b.9 clouds lira hurrying past;
Tliank Ood, the day i nnar'afcl
Thedawn to coining fust.
And when glad herold voices
Si hull tell us pence has com,
This thought shall wont rejoice us;
"Our buys are coming homo!"
Boon shall the voice of sinking
Iirown war' tremendous din;
Soon shall the joy-bolls' ringing
Bring peace and freedom ill.
The jubilee bonlires burning
Shall noon light up the dome,
And soon, to soothe our ycaring,
Our boys are coming home.
The vacant fireside places
Hare waited for them long;
The love-light lacks their races, '
j. Xh chorus wait thair song); -,
A shadowy fear haj haunted
- he loug-desorted room;
Bat now our prayers are granted
Our boys are coming home!
0 mother, calmly waiting
For that beloved son!
O Bister, proudiy dating
The victories lie has won!
O maiden, softly humming
1'ho love song while you roam
Joy, joy, the boy are coming
Our boys are coming homel
And yet oh, keenest sorrow!
They're coming, but not all;
Full many a dark to-morrow
Shall wear its gouie pull,
For thousands who are sleeping
Heneath the empurpled loam;
Woe! woe! tor those we're weeping,
Who never will come home!
O kiA hoart, hush thr grluviaz;
Wait bat ftliltle while!
witU lidding and believing
Thy won and fear beguilo.
YFuit for the joyous meeting
Beyond the starry dome.
For Uieruour boys are waiting
j iau u wtiuome noiuj.
lonmaANiA, April 2, laji.
w. a.
- Til S U'OMA.V WITH OXE UAXU.
the schoeox's Hior.r,
I do tmt believe in ghosts. I have no
faith in any supernatural manifestations or
tippearauees whatever. I beg any one who
peruse this narrative to understand that 1
. i.iu no superstitious creature afraid ol' uiy
own shadow, lending an attentive ear to
old women's stories aud seeing "something
white" in every corner where the shadows
, father thickly after duck. It is scarcely
Lkely that an old surgeon who has stood be
side so many dying pillows, and watched mi
many saints take aight from racked and
vouiu'ed bodies, should tremble at the
thought of a disembodied soul, i know too
well the release death often is to the poor
pain stricken mortals, to lear their volun
tary return to the sci-nes of their 'uuhappi-
' tics and niiffoiin;'. Neither ;un I the vie-
' tim of discs deled nerve or fevered imagi
nation. have performed operations in
which one tremor of the hand would have
been fatal when, had my hand swerved
uut u Lair n breadth to the right or left, 1
would luve boeu a murderer. Kay, I, Dr.
Uraystoatt, can do whit many able energetic
wen have found impossible, for I have had
those'deaiest to uiy soul beneath my hand;
at J though each uiuan of anguish, every
tiuttor of the heart went through my every
nerve.- (he kindly cruel knife worked on as
steadily as thoug li it carved a block of seuse
less wood.
I was born in a quiet and retired country
village- My lather mingled the professions
of doctor and , apothecary, and at times
rew teeth' or set a fractured limb any
thing 1'or a living, poor man, tor ho had 'a
Urge family, and neither property nor ex
pectations of a legacy. His patients were
distributed over a wide tiaot of country,
during the unhealthy season ho was
often upon horseback from morning until
iiight, endui ing the scorching sun or sum
mer, the cold blasts of wiuter, or tho niiiu,
luatic vapors of the marshy grouuds over
'which he was called to travel upon many a
rainy mid night, to prescribe for some crea
ture "who was very low with the'ierer."
killing his frequent absence I presided over
the mils and portions, mixed washes, made
tip prescription, aud amused myself by the
perusal ot Mveral works upou anatomy,
which graced the bdok shelves of the room
behind the Bhnp. That fccience was my
rthief delight; aud in a little while the do.
termination to become a surgeon filled uiy
mind. Much experience had made me
doubt the power of medicine. Tho myste
ries of the unseen machinery within us
might Imiilu the most learned, but the tur
Keon, dealing the outer ma", could see his
work and really benefit his fellow creatures.
1 knew the strength of my nerves and the
value they wtiuid be to me in the turgieal
profession, and X declared my indention to
ndopt it before I hqd reached my sixteenth
..year. My lather was phased and gave his
con.-ent at onc but there were some prelim
inaries to be arranged und some funds to be
accumulated before I could enter upon reg
ular study... Meanwhile 1 staid at home im
patiently, and. gathered all I could" "f row
books and my father's instructions. The
time passed tediously enough, for I was.
anxious to commence my career and start
upon the high road to wealth and eminence,
and many were the anxious days aud sleep
less nights which I spent ere the time ar
rived which witnessed my departure for the
City, At last, however, all was leady. I
Uctowdk-u to my mother, my fathrr.ami my
Vofihgest brother, from whom I had never
been separated for one night, and with a
jieari wnicn rat with high hopes, oven
aiuiu inagneror parnng, iook my place m
the stage, and left, for the first time, the
home of my childhood. In a month 1 had
become accustomed to the separation, and
thought only of niy profession.
Medical students are generally wild, reck
less and dissipated. I was neither. The
discretion of old age seemed to have come
suddenly Mpnnme. I shared my comrades
studies but refused to mingle in tharr orgies,
lor l ha J determined to retain my strong
norves an 1 unshaken head to the last. Nev
ertheless I wasa general favorite, and form
d wany friendships among the giddy band,
which lasted long after they became gray
headed men. There was one among the
iiuuiovi itiiusc name was ivooerc itoalaw a
ij Jrohck. and terribly addicted to practical
seemed lieart les a lifeless body being of no
more value in hi eyes, than the trunk of a
dead tree. "Would you value your eld
Cise?" he would say when any one lenion
stratcd on the subject , '"The string broken
nayj the instrument destroyed of , what
value is that which was but liirmed for its
protection. For my part, when my soul hits
taken flight, I cure not what you do wiih
the compilation of flesh and bones which
now contains it." And upon this principle
he seemed to act inroluntaiily.
One night how well I remember it a
Cold bleak evening in mid-winter I sat
ilono beside hiy (ire, absorbed in meditation.
The book I had been reading lay beside me,
upon the table, and my caudle burned dow
within the socket, for it was nearly one
o'clock, although I had not ri-tirt-il. Sud
denly I was aroused by a loud ringing of my
door bell, and a sound of sand thrown
against my window iioin without, and
lighting another taper, descended and open
ed the door.
There, unon the sterts. stood ltoWt Ited-
law and lour other fellow students, nil .the
wore lor liquor, and all n boisterous tpi
rit. "Ix't us in, old fellow," cried Hubert.
we want to tell vou ot our ark. Hv
George! we've made a nieht of it! mu-Ii
punch as we've been having at Tom B 's'
while you hav been moping over your
iiiuty books, lou must go next time.
There was no use ot remonstrance, anil
one by one. my unexpected visitors mounted
the stairs and took their places around my
fires'de.
"I ay, Bob frightened m all a while
ago," began one of them after a temporary
eiienc".
"Flow?" Iaed.
"How?" laughed Bob, "why with this."
And withi ut another word of preface, he
drew a folded 'kerchief from his pocket,
and unfolding if, exhibited a. human hand.
"Hob, where did this come from?" I
asked iuvoluut.irily, drawing back a atep or
tv.o.
. "He look it from a grave which the rain
had washed oprn," answered a tall young
fellow, turning away with a shudder. ""Cut
n off with his knife as. coolly as he might a
bit of wood, although I'll swear a igh or a
groan or a scream, or all of them together,
came troni the body wheu he first laid his
linger upon it.
Uf ii. Lmim,iuiuji-jjt.wMBimjaa. 'iTVTTI I Tl 1 HI! .HIM IIBIIM 'lllll I
that it is the work f iniagina i n, yet no
one in the boune is ill, and my lam'ludy w ill
not confess that she has ever heard the slight
est noUe. (irrystm k, it must be a teriible
thing to be insane,
"Bah!" laughed Robert Bi-d'aw. "vour
vcntrioqmst tricks can never impose upon
me. I took the little hand in spite of them,
y. handsome boy; he was full of fun and
nu icrrioiy aauictea to practical
jokes, but, nevertheless, kind hearted and
generous to a tuult, he would haw given
his last penny to any one who;aeuied in
need of jt. To tho living he was all tender
ness; to the woundtwretch at the hospital,
his band was as ft sis: any woman's: and I
have seen his eyes fii wth; tears while ho
inflicted neaeswy pskl hot to the dead
and snail keep it. A pretty creature it
must n;ive ' clonucd to. Look at Uio nl-mond-shapttd
nails, Graystock."
"A woman's hand," I said, "and oh Bob
there is a wedding Hug upon the finger!"
"So there is," said the boy, leaning across
the table, ''so there is. iStrange that I did'
not notice it before. Come, gentleman,
Graystock is in a serious mood let us leave
him." And wrapping his strange prise
once more in the 'kerchief, my wild friend
and his comrades departed.
I "pent the night in restless d ream!. in nil
of which that pale little hand which had
been laid before mo, played u .eonspicious
pint, and aro'e tit daylight unreficshed and
dispirited. While I was putting the finish
iug touches to my toilet, pome one rapped
at my door, and "u my culling-, "come in,"
opened it and entered.
ItwiisBob. ' "How do you do, my dear
fellow?" he said, "I hope you feef better
than I do. Fur my part, I never passed
so restless a night. S.une one in tho house
or next door kept a continual moaning, and
the strange part of it was, when 1 arose to
listen, fearing some one was ill or dying,
the sounds ceased, until I once mine placed
my jieau ution me pinow, when tticyiesnm
eu more loudly than before. At one time
I thought the other fellows were trvinu to
frighten mo about the hand, but there was
no chance of that. You remember mv lit
tie pet hand, Graystock. I have bottled it
in spirits, in a private cupboard, where mv
laundi 'ess, who once iainted at th
sight of a skeleton, will never be alarmed bv
it
He spoke merrily but there was somethina-
about him different from his usual manneiy
i tnnugnt, as we went out to breakfast to
gether, it was a ioggy morning, und the
streets were very dreary, lucre were but
few people abroad, but as we turned a cor
ner, we came face to free with a woman,
whoe head wax bent upon her bosom, and
ne was m ahing bitterly. Mio wore no
bonnet and was drefsed in wl.re, but the
mud an l rain had drenched and dabbled her
until she was a in. table object to behold,
paused and spoke to her.
''What is the matter?" I asked. ."Can I
do anything to help yon"
As I spoke, the raised her eves and show
ed me a face, the beautiful features of which
were of tin le-hen palter; then, without
speaking, held both her arms towards me,
Up r i tho lift there was no hand. In my
astonishment, I stepped aside, and as 1 did
so the whito robed figure glided past me
aud vani.-hed in the fog. In vain we looki d
for her. aha was goue Itj'ond our sight or
neaing.
"That is ftrange," I uid, turning to Bob
ert. now miserable the poor creature
looKca.
And my poor triond, turning from me a
cheek of ashy palenessj muttered between
his tecih; "The left hand, too. Good
heaven! the lett hand I .
We breakfasted together, but throughout
the im.al Robert Bedlaw was utterly unlike
himself. No merry jests passed his lips, no
laugh rang out upon the air und every now
aud then his eyes fixed themselves on va
cancy, as those ot one whose thoughts are
fur away are prone to do. As foruivsclfl
was also strangely low spirited and abstract
For a week subsonuent to that dav I taw
nothing of my friend, but at the expiration
..i'.l.... f . . . n i i, i
oi nun nine i ttcni to can upon mm. lion
vas standing bv the mantel when I entered
his room, but he turned towards me, and
cnnie forward with both hands outstretched,
"My dear Greystoek," he said, "I am glad
to see you. 1 should have come after you
to-aay it you had not tound your way hsre.
Lo you know 1 have been ill since we met
last?"
"l am sorry to hear that," I replied.
"Yes, extremely ill," continued Hubert,
"I caught a cold that night in the damp
grave-yard, and have been feverish and de
lirious I believe 1 would not pass such an
other week, Greystoek, for all the diamonds
of Golcondo."
He paused a moment, and then drawing
closer to me, placed his hand upon my
shoulder. "Don't mention it to the other
fellows." he said, "but I absolutely imagin
ed that I saw a face looking at me from the
window yonder, and that a tall woman's fig
ure, dressed in white and having only one
hand the left one was gone stood upon
the parapet of the next roof, and waved her
arms towards me. Such a mad idea, you
know, for there is scarcely a foothold upon
it for a monkey, let alone a woman."
"But these funcies have left you now," 1
said.
"Yes, I hope they have' replied Robert.
"I have suffered from an optical delusion
for two days, but I do wish that terrible
groaning could be put a stop to. t hear it
erory night, but cannot persuad? myself
"1'ut such fancies out of your mind, Bo
liert.y I said. "The truth is, you hare been
feverish, aud the remembrance of your silly
piece of work with that hand has acted on
vour mind and caused the apparitions.
Take my advice, my dear ti How, and nbstsin
from the punch bowl and wine cup; they
will lead one into committing foolUi, if not
criminal actions. Come lot us go into the
open air to-day; I will devote myself to you
and we will see what a country walk Will do
to the cxerci.-ihg of these tiincies."
lioliert assented to my -proposition, and
wo sc on togeiner. ai nist no was more
serious than usual, but as the day passed on
I. saw with delight that his spirits were
once more resuming their wantfd tone. The
rich color came back to his dark cln'k, his
eves, beamed with their wonted Lightness.
'I he ghost seer was gone, and the careless
boy stood once more before me. I rejoiced
in the happy change, as a mother might in
the returning smiles of her ailing infant,
and at duk we returned to the city, as hap
py a pair as you wnum wisn to meet.
"Now. Bob," 1 said, when we had dined,
we will fini.-h this evening at the theater,
and banish those gloomly fancies even more
effectually among the lights and music",
'Glooming tl oughts!" lai.glied mv friend
"I am in high spirits to-night, and feel
utterly ashmed of my ghotly stories.
Come, if you are ready, I am.''
We went out into the hall as ho spoke,
and my hand wa upon the door when Hub
ert suddenly exclaimed:
"I had nearly forgvtten my gloves and
handkerchief; Dinah," und be beckoned to
the little black waiter, "Dinah, run on and
bring them to me. My gloves are upon the
table, and you will find a handkerchief in
one of the bureau diawerv, which is un
locked." The little darkie started with alacrity, but
while he waih d lor her to retuin. a teni-
screari sounded through the house, and .-he
came lunijiiiL' down again, without the ar
ticles lor which she had be. n dispatched,
"Oh, de ghosi! de ghost,!" she screamed,
"dar's a gho-.t in Masa KedL-uv's roou I"
hat do. vou mean? elucidated Hubert:
and "what do .vim mean?" was leiteiati d
by the landlady and her bom del s us thy
flocked to the scene of action.
"I went after de han aeicher to Massn
Hedlaw's room," gasped Dinah, "and 1 tell
yor de blessed truff, der was a woman all in
de midle of de room, holding up a jar, and
in dnt jar dor was hand, and do woman she
hasn't only one herself, for I seen her jest
as plain as daylight. True as I'm alive, it
was a ghost."
I snatched the candlestick from Dinah's
trembling fingers, and rushed up stairs. Ihe
apartment was empty, and the window upon
the roof closed; 1 opened the cupboard door
and looked in. There stood, the glass jar
in winch the hand was preserved, on a re
mote corner of the shelf. Nothing had
been disturbed that I could discover, and
perplexed and distillled I clo.-ed the door.
As I did so, a low wailing moan, distinct,
despairing and horrible, broke upon my ear;
and with the blood running cold within my
veins, I descended to the hall once more".
Robert sin upon a chair, his pale ffiee hid
den in both anus. I touched him upon the
shoulder, and found that he was senseless
At first I thought that he was dead.
For four weeks Robert Redlaw trembled
on the margin of the grave and we. his
con rides, watched ovr h m with gnd fore
boding, for the excitement which he had un
dergone lmd developed a heart ili ease,
which might at any moment prove fatal. At
last however the danger seemed to grow
less imminent, nnd although yet weak, he
seemed to be upon the high road to recov
ery. All this time T had never h ft him day, or
night. Study had been thiown aside, und
business abandoned all earthly interest
seemed centered in the dying friend, beside
whose pillow I watched so anxiously. When
the happy hour of convalescence "came, I
could have wept for joy.
One day I had been sitting beside Robert
reading from nn old book to which he loved
to listen until the twilight fid', and the room
grew so daik (hat 1 could not see the words,
fin n my friend said to me, "Lie down be
side me, Greystoek, and rest a little while;
you must be weary," and in my happy con
fidence of safety, I obeyed, and had scarcely
flung myself upon the pillow ere slumber
overtook ni'. flow long I slept I knew not
but I was awakened by a low moan, and lift
ing my head, I saw Robert sitting upright
gazing throng the window.
"Bob, dear Bob!" 1 ejaculated, "what is
the matter?''
"I committed sacrilege," moaned . my
friend "and this is my punishment. Grey
stock, the has been , here again. But your
srin about me. and let me die on your shoul
der." Horror s'ricken, I supported him upon
my breast, culled to God for o'd, and prayed
lor one tm'-h, for one more word from those
tuile lips, but all in vain. The voice was
hushed forever, the eves ckw glassv. tho
cold hand stiffened in my own, and the white
moonlight fell upon a dead man's face, as I
No fevered imagination conjured up the
fo m and face which he believed was of an
other world.
Here it was nowerless in mr linnit nn,i
I would exercise it or die. While I stood
irresolute, the light of a tsper gleamed
from out the darkness, and I saw a man
standing by the opened sash. He looked
upon the bed and the still thing beneath its
snnjy covering, uwn me and the being 1
grappled with, and then whispered:
"For God's sake don't hurt Imt. ir' Rim
ULs not know what she is doing; she has
lost tier senses!
( "Who and what is this being?" I asked;
"and why does she come to the chamber of
death tit this silent hour? You must tell
me, for she is ulreadva murderess?"
"Shai rtf.i i..,;.l .i
rum mc man, we
have lived in the same hou e for ten years
and all that time she has been mad. "She
lias not had her s-nscs since her only child
wa burnt to death in the san.e lire in which
she lost her hand. ' She was ulwuv fond of
peeping through this window, and Iliad
not heart to hinder her. But one night she
saw the doctor, poor fellow. d"ing some
thing with her hand, which. I suppo-e, be
had brought from his disserting room, and
has been wild ever since. I have not been
able to keep her from this room; for, you
see, she thought the hand was her own and
w. n'ed it bai k. Tinea times I have follow
ed her and brought her back once when
she had the jar in her srins and was bring
ing it away. God help her she would not
Harm any cm ; give her to me und let me
tike bur way. "
I let the wretched creature go, and he
took her about the waist very tenderly,
"Do you know what she has done?" I
asked.
"No," replied the man. "To my knowl
edge she ha: done nothing."
"Nothing! Is that nothing?" I asked,
pointing to the. white cotich. That is her
handiwork. She killed him. Her presence
frightened him to death."
"i hope not, sir," said the man.
1 speak tho truth,' I muttered bitte lv.
"Jake her out of my sight. Oh! why did
I not learn this in time?"
"Why did I tarry on tho tond idii while
my dwelling was in nanus, and mv wife and
..i.:m 1 . i ., i ,
viom emeu pcu in UI0:r til ;U st; Why Is
this woman, once so good and beautiful, a
senseless maniac? said the strange man.
sadly. "It was God's will, sir, ami we can
not alter it. Goodnight, May JI.j com
fort you. t
And thus speaking, ho I d the wretched
woman through the window, aud away over
the sloping roof, with the soft, caressing
kindness of a lover, while I. sinking upon
the floor, gave way to a wild and bitter
burst of grief.
Enough ! my tale is done. In a Innelv
graveyard, from the city's hustlt. a white
stone marks the gave of Robert Redlaw,
the victim of the strangest coincidence
which ever yet has been recorded on the
book of fate.
dipt. Hampton, of Johnston's staff. Gen. I Speec h of Ex-1'rexideiit Pierre
Shrrman. a:tcr a pfivdie iiteniew with on the Assassination.
General J. hnston, and after the leirts of, p the -pi)t (U,x.eej;,1t tne horrllo
agreement Ot w render had been cone tided assis-im.lion of Tiesident Lincoln, a furious
and draw n up. called in his t.wn and Jehu- ,!, ot- ,anollrous and vicious partisans. a
stun s Generals to witness the signing. sembled in the stnets of C ncord. New
lliUiipsnc. and waited the house of Ex
John-ton is said to have been affected to
tear". Much freedom of disscussion follow
ed upon the past and future, the prestfit
state of the eonntiy, snd the best policy to
be pursued in securing the South Iioin pre
datory Lands, in which discussion Johnson
slid Jjutlcr took equal parts, furni-hing
both information and suggestions. John
ston sigti' d an agreement to surrender upon
the same terms as the Army ot Northern
V lmn:.
Butler, in reply to a question, answered
that probably not more than four thou
sand cavalry remained to be paroled. The
rest bad already left tor home. Jeff. Davis
l,-,l fl. .,1 ;,!. ..'law,.. ti,. ,...,, I ,0' ..,..!...
U ,.1,1, U.UIf., fSlini'l v., V.OHM.I,
us soon as soon as Shei man's dispatch had
reached Greensboro, on the 4th. He hid.
probably, sought the mountains. There
were, in all probability, eight thousand m
in the cavalry corps. Wade Hampton had
probably left too, as he went to Gicensboio
from llillslioro on tuber the iMth or 25th.
Major Gen. jSchoficld. now commanding
the center f Sherman's army, will be left
in command of the whole middle district
from Viiginia to the Savannah headquar
ters, at Raleigh. Brevet Major Gen. Kil
pntriek now commanding Sherman's cavalry
wl al o remain to assist in icponing to
Maj. Gen. Shcofield. und holding tlui head
quarters at Greensboro. These two Gener
als will suppress the banditti, and promote
order. As soon as they can be known, trus
ty men will be unpointed in each county Jo
superintend the local citizen police. Thin
iTtic SmrtiKl. r t.f Johnson Full
D.efalWor tlic Affair What the
I'euplc Think of Mierntun
Muruiaii Complimented hy
lirant.
Washington, May . On Mondav,
April 24th, General Sherman as directed
from Washington, sunt a dispatch through
Major General Kilpatrick, to General John
son, demanding the surrender of the force
under him, on the same condition allowed
by Lieut. Gen. Grant to Gen. Lee and the
army of Northern Virginia, and notifvinv
din that otherwise, within fortv-eiirht Imnra
f. !. .! ,v iS ,
in mii me nine ine message mourn do re
ceived at the picket front, hostilities would
be resumed. In reply, the following from
M jor General Butler, enclosing the nceoin
if inng from Gen. Johnsi n, was received at
Kilpalriek's post at Duihain, at four o'clock
R M., on the i5th, and transmitted' to
Raleigh by telegraph:
IlEApy's Rutler's Cavalhy Div.
IS T1IK 1'lKl.D, A pill 1!4. J
Sh
'uvmun, Commanding U.
m t r
10 Mi i j. (.um.
S. Armu:
Gknkual: Tn obedience to orders from
Gen. Joe. E. Johnston, commanding tinny
of Tennessee, I have the honor to transmit
the dispatch, of which the above is an offi
cial cop v.
Signed. M. C, Bl'Tl.En, Maj. Gen.
IltAJlQ S Ak.MY OFTrNNKSlK, )
p In '1I1K FlrXP, April 25.
To Maj. Gen. S'immi, L'. IS. A.:
Your dispatch of yesterday is received.
I propose a modification of the terms you
offer' d such twins for the army as you
wrote on the )8th. 1'hev also modified ne
cording to the change of circumstances, and
a further armistice to arrange details and
meeting lor that purpose.
I Signed 1 Jos. E. Johnston. Gen
The following additional was received at
J2:.'10 A. M., Ajj ril 20, and also transmit
ted:
In the Field, April, 25, 1805.
jum Gm. II. 7. Micimun, Commanding
v , . v . . . :
preseu u y last kiss upon his lips.
Have you ever watched beside tho dead,
dear reader? Do you know what if is to see
a form which once was once full of life and
mirth lay like n marble block before vou?
All sweet emotions frozen within its sunken
eye, nnd those changeful and well loved ex
pressions, which charmed vou so in life set
ting into that ficd and r'gid rnvle, whiih,
even in its beauty, seems totoibid vour gaze
and toll you that your part in what lies there
is blotted out forever. Oh, if you know
the grief of such a scene. I need not tell
what I felt. 'as the hours of that sad night
wore on towa'd the morning.
llis watch lay on the mantle piece, tick
ing as tmsiiy as ever. Uh, how stiauge it
seemed, to tiling its master s hand would
never rest upon it more. 1 looked upon it;
hands were pointing to the hour of three,
the night was over and the miserable dav
was close at hand. I turned away and walk
ed toward the window. I was alone, for I
would not. pcnnit another to thare that vigi
and the tears ti iekled slowlv down mv checks
as I walked the floor.
Just then I bend once more that low mel
ancholy mono, apparently just without the
casement, and starting back held my bicnth
to listen. By the fairt light of a shaded
temper upon the table, 1 saw the window
opcn.a It was a 1 rench window and turned
upon its hinges like a door, and as it unfold
ed, a figure crossed the sill and stepped soft
ly in. It was that of a woman, dressed in
garments; and I saw as she crept stealthily
toward me, that ono hand was gone. This
was no fancy; if spirits ever came to mor
tal man one stood before now.
Ihe apparation advanced, and so did I.
Horror gave me courage, and I crannied
with it. I held it in a firm, unshrinkinir
grasp, and found that it was solid as a thing
of blood, and that it moaned and trembled
as if in terror. Should I call for aid? The
thing livingordead had killed my poor young
frivaOs
General: I have had the honor to re
ceive .vour dispatch ot yesterday, summon,
ing this anny to surrender on the. terms ac-
cipted by Central Lee, at Appomattox
Court House. 1 Droiiosc. instead of such a
surrender, terms based on those drawn up
by you on the 1Mb, for disbanding this ar
my, and a further nrmistics snd conference
to arrange these tcims. 'ihe disbanding ot
Uenernl tice s army has afflicted this coun
try with numerous bands, having no means
of subsistence but robbing, a knowledge of
winch would, 1 am sure, induce you to
agree to other conditions. Most respectfully
your obedient servant.
J. E. Johnston, Gen. C. 8. A.
In reply Gensral Sherman simply said:
" ill meet you at the same time and place
of foi mer meeting, and the matters of which
you speak will then be considered." This
r.'p'y was carried by Lieut. Fuller, of Kil
patrick's staff, who, having waited for an
answer all night nt the nicket nost. returned
in themoiuing with the following:
"GiiKt NKBOno, April 20, 2 A. M.
Mm. Gen. W. 'J. Sherman:
Through Maj. Gen. Butler, I will meet
you ut the time and place you designate.
Is armistice with itatnt quo renewed?
Sigucd J. E. Johnston,
i General."
At 12 o'clock on tho 13th hist., Major
Sherman, accompanied by Major General
Schfield, Major General Howard, Major
Gencral Blair, and Brevet Major General
Kilpatrick; also Major McCoy' and Mnjor
Audenreid, of Sheimuo's rtaf'; Lieutenant
Colonel Strong, of Howard's staff; Colonel
Wherry, f Schofield's staff; Major Tomp
kins, of Blair's staff, and the whole ot Kil
patiick's stuff, escort, ito., arrived at the
house of Jas. Bennett, already described
by your correspondent, who has been the
only representative of the press present at
any of these meetings. Five miles from
Durham and eight miles from llillsboro.
General Johnson was delayed by a railrond
accident, and did not arrive till an hour la
ter. He was then accompanied by Major
General Butler and Col. Logan, command
ing a brigade in MoLaw's division of cava!- j
ry; ak-o Major Pretitoik of Butler'ti, mi
police f'urci! w ill have the countenance of the
government, and will receive arms and ra
tions. Gen. Meade will also bo requested
to supply quartermasters with funds to re
compense country dealers for supplies, and
thus restore confidence, currency and enter
prise. Cob Wright, Gen. Sherman's Chief
Railroad Engineer, will at once repair the
niiiroad between here and Greeieboro.
When the ordeal and details of the suiren
Her, upon the rolls now b"ing made out by
Johcslon's a tnv be per feet i d.
'Jl;e Raleigh and Gaston railroad will
probabIy.be in operation before this reaches
you. as there is lint one bridge down, upon
which Col, Wright is already woiking. In
consideration of the Government restoring
this bridge, the railroad company furnishes
locomotives and passenger cars.
The r'ght and left wings of his army
(Gen. Sherman) will inarch to Maivl and to
be disbanded. I he troops will move pro
visioned and without forage.
(Jen. Sheinian has authorized parollcd
officers of Lee's anny in North Cai lina to
resist the unlicensed operations of his own
bummers, who, evading d sjipline. scout to
the distance of thirty miles from the, army,
and arc an unmitigated swurgs to the coun
try. ',.'.
Your correspondent, with only two scouts,
Win. Conger. Kilpatiick's Chief of Scouts,
and John Risdon, traveled the whole dis
tance from Durham Station to Suffolk on
horseback, not. only unmolested, hut hailed
all along the route with emphatic hospitali
ty. The country through which I passed
lias all the appearance ot being utterly sub
dued. 1 met numbers of Lee's soldiers,
mostly paroled, some that had escaped how
ever, as they claimed, without sttriendcring ;
but, all with one voice seemed rejoiced at the
capitulation of Johnston and the close of tho
war. Nowhere was my progress question
ed, but on the other hand, every where 'was
manifestf-d a disposition tn keep me on my
wu Thonk God, was the frequent respon
ses to my news of Johnston's surrender. I
crossed the Roanoke nt Halifax Ferry, nnd
the Chewrn at Wintnn's; started from Dur
ham. Thursday, the 27th, y.J A. and ar
rived at Suffolk Saturday, li'.ith, at 0 o'clock
'. M.. without changing horse.'. Major
General Barry, Co!, roe, Mnjor Nicollf,
aud other officers of Sherman's staff, joined
me at Foit e s Mi n c, having left Raleigh
Fciday night, and come up thiongli the
canal. Also. Colonel Jones-of tl C Eighth
Indiana cavalry, who left Durham station
Wednesday night. General Sherman has
started on a tour of Wilmington, Charles
ton and Savannah. 1 list j art ofhisairny
destined to be immediately oisbunded were
already on the march to 1'ctersburg and
Richmond by the direct routh.
It is dun to Sherman to testify that from
what I could see on my tide through Ninth
Carolina, meeting citizens and soldiers of ill
ranks, Shciman seems to luve conquered
twice, the second time by his magnanimity,
and so effectually that those I spoke with
coupled a niimo so hated by them with .sin
cere honor and reverence. Sherman, by
the South, at least, seems likely to be re
membered next to Lineoin as a pacificator.
A prominent officer who came down on
the same car with General Grant from Ral
eigh reports the following; G neral Giant,
glancing at a newspapercontu'mingthe report
of General Sheininn'snrnposednrrangememt
submitted to the 1'rcsideiit, accompanied by
a very severe editorial criticism. "1 regret
tho publication of Sherman's report at this
time. Sherman has done too much for the
country to be slighted now for a slight mis
take ; a mistake that instead of being trcach
eiy, ol which General Sherman is utterly
incapable, grew alone out ot sincere patriot
ism. 1 chose Sherman for t'ie western
campaign because he was at that time the
only one who had developed sufficient qual
ifications. Neither has any other since il
lustrated the same ability. Sherman's suc
cess at Goldsboro necessitated mv own at
Richmond. When Sherman is fully under
stood, the public tonguo must do him bet
ter justice.'
The Gospel.
This isthe word preached ; it is neither
spent in its descent from Heaven, not
wasted in its transmission through ages
fresh and beautiful and holy as at first ; re
peated every Sabbath, read in every Bible
the eloquence of many thousands pulpits,
and the music of many tongues. It is Hea
ven's jubilee, sounding the cells of the
great prison-house ; it is the light ot eternal
day shining through its gratings. Christ
crucified is the commencement, the end and
the coronal of Christianity a truth that
endures for ever : it is enshrined in clorv.
Languages change, ceremonies vary, sacra
ments are temporary ; Sabbaths, like little
pools, will be swallowed up in tho ocean of
eternity; prayer will continue only while
there are wants, ahd a ministry while there
is ignorance ; but around this dissolving
world, one thing kbides the Word of the
Lord, that endures for ever. Whatever op
poses this must rerish, whatever contends
againstit must be crashed. In fidelity tho
word of man, however musicol its utteran
ces, will be hushed Its airy frost-word glit
tering in the sunbeams, will be dissolved.
The Gospel is divina in its birth and efcr.
nal in its destiry. Christianity enunciates
truths that are above the tide-mark of timo
and rooted in the attributes of God ; it can
not, be extinguished, for God is it lioht it
cannot di, for 0VJ i" it !"...
J'residiiit J rank.in 1'ierce, with a view to
bully and abuse him. It is gratifying to
know that the dignified manner and fe ling
words of tin- Ex-l'resident who-c ,-en:i-ment
upon such a subject as the assassina
tion could not be doubted by a reasonable
man had the effect ol quieting the mot
and making the lew respectable persons in
it feel heartily nshmcd of themselves. The
inflowing is fiom the New Hampshire Put-
r o :
At about 9 o'clock th's tnob. numbering
then (rem 200 to 4U0 appeared about the
door of the residence of Gen. Fierce, and
surprised him by vociferous colls; Impio
dintely the door was thrown opeit, and in
the blaze of the entrv light the Ex-Presi
dent appeared upon the steps and addressed
to the assembly the remarks which follow.
it is due to the crowd to say that the mo
ment our distinguished fellow-citizen SO'
peared and uttered one or two sentences.
with the exception of occasional remarks
such as "that s so,' and that s good,
"that's true," absolute quiet and silence
prevailed while he was speaking. When
lie uttered his "pond night," and they re
snonded with a heurtv "cond nifiht.'f and
three cheers for the general, and retired as
quietly as though there had been no scene
of excitement in the day. This at least was
redilablc.
BFElXtl OF GEN. PJSBC.T. '
Ffllow-townsmcn: I cou.e to ascertain
the motives of this call. What is your de
sire !
Some prrscn in the crowd replied;
We wish to hear some words from you on
this occasion. "J General Fierce proceeded:
I wish I could address you words of solace.
But that can hardly be done. The magni
tude of the calamity, in all aspects, is over
whelming. If your hearts are oppressed
by events more calculated to awaken pro
found sorrow and regret than any which
have hitherto occurred in our history, mine
mingles its deepest regrets and sorrows with
yours.
It is to be honed that the groat wicked
ness ard atrocity was confined, morally and
actuary, to the heads and hearts of but two
individuals of all those who still survive on
this continent and that they may speedily,
and in obedience to law. meet ilic
punishment dui to their unparal
leled crimes. It is well that vou it is well
that 1 well thai all men worthy to be called
citizens ot the I niteu hiai'i, make manifest,
in all suitable forms, the emotions incident
to the bereavement and distress which have
been brought to thc hearts and homes of the
two most conspicuous families of the Re
public, I give them my warm, outgiishing
sympathy, as I am sure all persons within
the hearing of my voice must do.
But beyond personal grief and loss, there
will abide with us inevitably the most pain
ful memories. Because, as citizens obedi
ent to law revering the Constitution, holding
fast to the Union, thankful for the period of
history which succeed the revolution in so
many years of peaceful growth and prosper
ity, and loving with the devotion of true
and faithful children, all that belongs to the
advancement and glory of the ration, we
can never Jorgct or cease to deplore the
great crime and deep stain.
A voics from the crowd: "Where's
you're f!ag?"J
It is not necessary for me to show my de
votion for the stars and stripes by any spe
cial exhibition, or upou tho demand of any
man or body of men. My ancestors follow
ed it through the revolution oho of them,
at least, never having seen his mother's roof
from the beginning to the close of that pro
tracted struggle. My brothers followed it
in the year of 1812; and I left my family in
the spring of 184", among you, to follow
its foi tunes and maintain it on a foreign
soil.
But this you all know. If the period du
ring which I have served our state and coun
try in various situations, commencing more
than thirty-five years ago, have left the
question of my devotion to the flag, the
Constitution and the Union, in doubt, it is
too late now to remove it by any f uch exhi
bition as the inquiry suggests. Besides, to
remove such doubts from minds whera they
niay have been cultivated by spirit of dom
ination and nartuan rancor, if such a thing
were possible, would be of no consequence
to you, and it is certainly of none to me.
The malicious questionings would return to
reassert tluir supremacy and pursuo the
woik of injustice.
Conscious of the infirmities of tempera
ment, which to n greater or less extent, be
set us all, 1 have never felt or found that
Violence of passion was ultimately productive
of beneficial results. It is gratifying to per
ceive that your observation, briefer than
mine, has led your minds to the same con
clusion, What a priceless commentary upon this
general thought, is the final -reported con
versation between the President and his
cabinet, and with that dispatch comes news
to warrant the cheering hope that.' in spite
of the knife of the assassin, the life and in
tellect, of the Secretary of State may,
through Providence, bd'sparcd to us in this
appalling emergency.
I thank you for the silent attention with
which you have listened to me, and for the
manifestations of your approval as my neigh
bors; and will not detain you in this storm
longer than to add my best wishes for you
nil, and for what, individually and collec--tively.
we ought to hold most dear our
country our whole country. Good night.
The Crentest Accident of Ihe Aire.
Beyond itll doubt, the Iat9 blowing up of
the steamer Suhtfna oh thk Miosis-fppi, at
tended, as it wis, wlih a loss ot 1.400 lives,
is one of tho greatest accidents recoidfd in
the annals of time. Nothing of the kind
can be compared to it. save the burning of
the Catholic Cathedral in Valparaiso. Chiii,
a year or two since. The magnitude of the
horror N perfectly shocking aud astounding.
The most of our river and ocean uicidenU
fade into insignificance by the side ot this
overwhelming waste ot Lfj, terrible aud cal
amitous as many of them have been.
When the dispatch was first reteived, we
Indulged the hoj.e that there m'uht be seme
mistake, tor the number lost was perfectly
inconceivable, judging by past experience.
It is nn accident that ill carry mourning
and desolation into thousands of families in
the West, over whom already the clouds of
mi fortune hnve darkly gathered. Among
all the terrible slid saddening t-pisi ds of
the war, there is none to exceed this tCald
ing. burning, and drowning of .near 1,500
victims,', beneath the turbid waters of the
Mississippi. The Moody tragedy that h is
been going on fi the last four j'eaia has
had no darker scene of woe than thus terri- .
fie and culminating accident.
'The scenes of di tress and suffering that
occurred on board the doomed steamer,
packed ftt closely with its precious living
freight, can hardly be estimated as they de
serve. Humanity revolts from the control'
plation. 'Jhere were tw.o thousand of our
unfortunate but gallant sons, who have bceti
languishing for months fthd years in the
prison of the South. At length the light of
home beamed brightly upon them, and the
period of their sorrows seemed to draw nesr
itsend. The prisoiwloorswere opened, and.
with boating and anxious hcatts. tbousamii
of the lute inmates turned their faces home
ward. Unify the steamer floated upon tho
po i d Qui n of R v.'i-.-. and, as fa-1 as ste m
could carry them, they weie borne toward
that North where existed all their affections
and fond recollections. As thedi-tnnce he-
foie them became less and less, the visions
of home became brighter and brighter:
They thought of their wives and ehiidieh, of
tneir brothers ana sisters, nt their lathers
and mothers, whom they were soon to clasp
in a lond embrace, after a long and horrible
absence. They were returning liom the
war, ftever tn go again, and in fond ex pec
tancy they thought of the greetings of Old
and anxious friends, who, perchance,, had
given them up for lost.
They had pas; cd fiuo'y thrnuvh al dsngef,
through the perils of the battle-field, the.cx-,
posures of the camp, and the sufferings of
the prison. Unconscious of peril, they
imsKca in a complete sense or security : the
first time lor years. Alas! alas! in one fa
tal moment the boat was rocked from stem
to stern, und ah explosion was heard that
sounded the death-knell, of thousands. As,
if steam was not enough for the horrors of
the scene as if a shower of broken legs and
arms, snd headless trunks was not sufficient'
ly infernal fire was added ; snd that most
terrible .and cohsuminit of al) the elements
soon licked up what ti e steam had (pared,
and drove it beneath the engulfing waves:
Oh, the horrors of that scene! Who cari
portray thchi? The frenzied rush of the
frnntre ftihltitnde backward and forward;
the groshsi the cries of auguish, the.ferrible
splash, nil lit up by the glare of the turning
boat ! What a scene for Pandenioninni !
In a few minutes all was over. The fear
ful struggle of a mighty crowd ceased, and
only a charred wreck sufficed to tell of the
proud steamer, with its two thousand p
sengcrs, that a shoit time lebre was steam
ing rapidly against the swif t current of the
Mississippi. 'J he blood 6f the farvrrorsOf
this terrible nccident will ever curdle in re
collection of it. Cin. Eng.
One Solid Reason for Marrying.
"You ought to marry. "
"Never."
"I know a good girl for you." .
"Let me alone!"
"But, perhaps you don't know heri . She
is young. ,
"Then she is sly."
"Beautifil." : . ,
' 'The mote dangerous; ' .
"Of good family."
"Then she is proud."
"She istender-heartedi"
"Then she is jealous."
"She has talents."
"To kill me."
"And one hundred thousand dollars."
11 I'll take her!"
Oil on Cross Cheek. The Wasliing
ton, Pn., Examiner of the 27th inst., re
ports that oil has been struck at Sander's
Mill on Cross Creek, one mile frohi tho
Ohio River and three from the Pennsylva
nia line. Tlie same paper snys that a sci
entific writer in the New York Jtrolnnn
Record "puts down Hanoock county. West
Virginia, as the great oil centre." It would
seem, from several notices in the Examiner.
that the furore aloi g Cross Creek about oil
is increasing, and that there u flattering
pros poet of suwess
Proclaitialion by Ihe xOVernrj
The State of Ohio, 1
Executive Demktmekt,
Coi.VMEfS, May 2, 65. j '
In view of the afflictions of Divine Piov-'.
idenco upon the nation, the President of
the United States has designated Thursday;
the 1st day of June next, as a day of hu
miliation and mourning, and recommending
uui ijwjjic in, tutu uu.v, iu ineir rv
spective places of worship, unite in folcniB
service to Almighty God, in memory of the'
good man thjt ha3 been removed, so that
all shalfbe rceopied at the same time in con
temptation of his virtues and sorrow for his
sudden and violent end."
Fully concurring with His Excellency, the
President, in this measure, I do rwn-incca
to the people of the State of Ohio, a uni
ted arm solemn observance of the same. '
That all plaeos of business be closed,, and
that the day be observed as a Sabbpth of
the Nation; that all our people unite flit
only in humiliation before the Lord, and
contem illation of the services and virtues of
the great and good man who has been ta
ken away from us. but in earnest DrtvW
that Almighty God will ssctify this great .'
affliction to us as a nation and a people; that
in Hiswiie providence he will rule all these'
things for fcur good; and that He will
strengthen and guide out present rulers and
endow them with wisdom to conduct the
Nation to peace and unity again; -
In witness whereof 1 have he'rvtihto set
mv hand and seal, the dsv nnd vetir frsl
alovewriifen. JOHNBROUGH;
By the Governor.
V. A. MARBjEyJ'riTate SfEfc;;, '' ' .
Governor Hi ough and tne Obitf
. Soldier.
' A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
tette, writing from Sherman's army, saya
the Ohio soldiers hcjd a meeting at the Stale
House in Raleigh, North Carolina, and re .
solved to appoint delegates to the tonven-, ;
tion in June, from each regiment, lattery
and independent command, in accordance
with the action of the Central Union Com
mittee. ; , . , .
The feeling against Governor Broiigh ii
almost universal among the Ohio soldiers.
Not even a respectable minority desire his
re-nnniinatiom ., .,...
This army will probao'y start to inarch
home within a fortnight. Let the people
welcome the lest army that the wmld has
ever seen, Sandvsky Register, Abolition i
TnE Pittsburgh and STtTJRENViu.it
Raii.koai. This lond has been cotnplehd
to within five miles of Pittsburgh, and it is '
expected that a train will he run from the
borough Jof Tcmperanceville to Bui get ts-
town, Washington countv, within six weeks:
This train will connect with another at I!ur
gcttstown; which will run to the Onio river
opposite Stftubenville. Arrangenitnh have
been ohtered into by thecempshy with the
Excelsior Omnibus Line to convey pat-sen-
gcrs ana bitggnge to and from Tctuperaiice
ville until the bridge nvar the river at Put-,
burgh is eohipleted. 'He cpwiihg of this
road will be of f rent advantage to the busi- ,
ness prosperity of the city, ae ,'.t will brir.g it v
in clo.-e cAnnuctiori with one of the fine -a,
agricultural regions io the tftate.,$feui '
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