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BROWNVILLE,
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TO BIS
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JUST RECEIVED,
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Tbjse wUbtug any thins in bla line will do well to
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onnced incurable in the Cnited State, and afterward
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adjoining counties, and wilt give prompt attention
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ly made. S3fi articular attention riven to locat
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.September 2a. '61. nll-yly
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"LIBERTY AND UNION",
BROWN VILLE, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1863.
REVOLUTIONARY HEROISM.
BY ZMERSON BENNETT.
Men have been immortalized for dying
on the battle-field in some desperate ac
tion where their personal valor became
conspicuous and . changed an apparent
defeat into an important victory, and
though their courage was deserving of all
the praise it received, yet the glorious
meed of lasting fame was not more their
due than that of thousands who have gone
down lo an unhonorei grave without a
record of a single one of their many he
roic deeds and uebl self-sacrifices. It
takes more true courage for a fond and
loving husband, father, son, or brother,
actuated only by a high sense of duty to
his country, to tear himself from the em
brace of a weeping wife, child, mother,
or sister, and go forth to the tented field.
than it does to charge a belching battery
amid the exciting roar and carnage of
battle.
And what of the courage and sacrifice
of the loving wife and mother, who, with
the same high senst of duty, bids him he
idolizes, who is all the world to her, go
forth to peril his precious life, and leave
her to weep and mourn for him as one
she may never look upon again to pass
long, weary days of agonizing suspense,
and nights of starting, feverish sleep
perhaps, too, to struggle with poverty,
and suffer with sickness and privation, or
see those suffer, because of his absence,
whose lives are dearer to her than her
own? What of her courage and self
sacrifice, we say? He has gone to the
stirring life of the camp, the foray and
the battle-field, where the daily excite
ments of a soldier't life may give some
relief to his aching heart, by diverting
his thoughts from what he has left be
hind ; but she is left alone with her sor
row, to suffer in secret, and struggle on
in an almost unsympathizing, pitiless
world. Vho notes and praise her cour
age ? What reward has she for her
great sacrifice, save tbat her'conscience
tells her she has nobly done her duty ?
He may fall, and the awful intellegence
reach her that he sleeps in a soldier's
grave, never to be seen and greeted by
her again this side the dark Valley of
Death; and what has she to recompense
her for this loving life gone out, except
the reflection that he gave his all to his
country and she sanctioned the noble
deed? no glory, no fame, no surround
ing applause, to lighten the darkness of
dessolation nothing but the secret con
viction that the sacrifice was needful and
Heaven approves. ,
. This was the heroism of-the men and
women of the Revolution ; this is the
heroism of the men and women of to-day ;
and those who still live and suffer, should
console themselves" with the certainty
tbat Eternal Justice does not sleep, and
that the revejd of virtue will be meeted
out to them 14 eternity if not in'time.
, But the heroism of the women of the
Revolution was not always exhibited in
a passive manner. Besides having lo
bear the loss of their, supporters to
struggle on in grief and poverty, thank
ful if they could keep a roof over their
heads and starvation from their doors-7-they
were tometimes compelled to act in
a manner for which they were pot fitted
by either nature or education to handle
the deadly weapons of the sterner sex,
and defend themselves against midnight
robbers and murderers.
Whenever an invading army is en
camped in the country of an enemy, the
inhabitants for miles around are never
secure in either property or life. Vi
dettes, reconnoitenng and foraging par
ties, re more or less abroad in every
direction, to say nothing of a prowling
set of thieves and murders, who follow
an army as wolves do the hunter, or
jackals the lion, to pounce upon whatever
they can with impunity. During the war
of the Revolution, these villainous ma
rauders became very troublesome in some
sections of the country, and the unpro
tected citizens, between the lines of the
two armies, often strffered terribly in life
and property. In many cases thehead
of the family being away with the army,
the only inmates of the dwelling being
one or more women, with perhaps a few
children too young to afford their mother
any assistance in the event of an attack;
and such defenceless places the cowardly
marauders delighted to assail, plunder
and burn in the dead of night, not unfre
quently murdering in cold blood the en
tire household, or adding such foul deeds
to their black list of crimes as we care
not to relate.
In a rather lonely part of the country,
a few miles northward from Philadelphia,
at the time the British look possession of
the city, there stood a solitary dwelling,
occupied by a Mrs. Parker, a maiden
sister older than herself, and two chil
dren of tender years, the husband and
father being in the army under General
Washington. The small farm, owned by
her husband was all Mrs. Parker had to
depend on for a living; and this, during
his absence, was carried on by herself
and sister, both working in the fields at
plowing, planting and hoeing, and only
getting a man's help for a few days in
haying. Neither Mrs. Parker nor her
sister, Miss Price,' was at all delicate in
person or strength but, on the contrary,
quite strong and robust and their out
door labors, of course, increased their
masculineness in some degree. Nor
were they as timid as the greater por
tion ol their sex ; but when thev found
the enemy near them, and heard of the
depredations and barbarities of here and
there a roving band of villains, they
clinched their hands, set their teeth hard,
and said it was well the scoundrels did
not have too such persons as themselves
to deal with. It, might naturally have
been asked what two women av., or for
that matter, two men either could do to
ONE AND INSEPARABLE, NOW AND FOREVER."
protect themselves against a party of ten
or twenty armed desperadoes ; but, as we
could answer the question to-day by
telling what they did do under just such
circumstances, we will- proceed to state
the facts that we wish to make known.
As one means of protection, and also
to destroy any game, troublesome or
otherwise, that might chance in their
way, a loaded rifle was always kept in
the house, and this weapon both of the
sisters had learned to haudle with nearly
as much skill as the master of the dwell
ing himself. In order, too. that there
might never be any lack of ammunition,
Parker, before enlisting for the war, had
purchased a keg of pjwder in the city,
and stored it in the cellar, in a little cell
prepared expressly for it, where it was
kept perfectly dry, and with little or no
danger to the inmates. '
Now, one dark night at a late hour,
the sisters were aroused from their sleep
by a rapid succession of thundering blows
upon one of the outer doors of their
dwelling, and th?y also heard several
gruff voices ripping out the most blasphe
mous oaths and demanding instant admit
tance. "Sally," said Mrs. Parker, starting up
in bed, "it's them cutthroats and robbers,
come to try their hand on us'
"Justso, Nancy," replied Miss Price,
springing out of bed and hurrying on
some of her clothes, "and you know what
,we always said we'd do in case they did
come.
"It's awful though, aint it?" returned
the other, in a tone of considerable
alarm and dismay, as she hastened to
follow the example of fer sister. "Oh.
my poor dear children ! if we should
fail, what will become of them ?"
"Die, I s?pose, like we will," said the
maiden aunt. "But it won't doo to fool
away any time in tajkmg we've got to
act and that, too, before, the scoundrels
get in. I'll go and speak 'em fair, and
keep 'em from breaking in if I can,
whilst you run and get the powder."
"Will we need a light?" asked Mrs.
Parker.
"Yes, but I'll lend to that ; you won't
want any to get the powder with, 'cause
it aint ourselves we want to blow up."
With this both hurried out of their
bed room into a large apartment, which
occupied nearly the whole of the front
side of the dwelling, and was used, as is
customary in farm houses, as a sitting
room, dining-room and kitchen. From
this apartment a door led outside, another
into the cellar, and a third into a wing of
small dimensions, which was much newer
than the main building, and was princi
pally used as n kind of . work-shop and
store room. 1
Who's there, and what do you want ?"
screamed out Miss Price, as soon as she
reached the kitchen, while her sister
hurried down the cellar stairs to get the'
powder. .
Open the door, you angel, and we'll
tell .you," was answered from the but-
side, accompanied with a laugh that was
neither merry nor musical.
"Well, you ought to' tell. us who you j
are and what you want before we open
the door, 'cau.e we're only two lone
women, that don't like - to let everybody
in at this time of night," rejoined Miss
Price, as she busied herself in lighting a
caudle.
"Oh, we're real gentlemen, we is
just the kind to suit two seen ladies as
yoJr said the same voice. "Come, be
quick now. will you? 'cause we're git-
ting tired of waiting, and some on us
might take a notion to stave the door in,
d'ye see ?"
By this time Mrs, Parker had reap
peared, with the keg of powder in her
arms, and, lighted and directed by her
sister, whose sharp features expre.-sed a
desperate determination, she hastened to
place it in the shop-room, about half way
between the door opening from the main
building into it and another that led to
the party outside. Miss Price then took
down the loaded rifle from the hooks on
which it rested, and, having1 reprimed it
from a horn, hastened to set the candle-
on the floor, a little beyond the keg of
powder, so that the light shone full upon
it.
"Oh, my poor children ? God help us
all !" said Mrs. Parker, in a low, agita
ted tone.
"It will all depend upon one single
shot, Nancy," returned her sister, with
compressed lips and an unquailing eye,
as she placed a chair in the doorway,
between the larger and smaller buildings,
for her rifle to rest on while-she sighted
it. "I dont hardly 'sped I'll live through
it, whether our plan succeeds or not,"
she added, solemnly ; "so just kiss me
good-bye. Nancy."
The sisters now embraced, Mrs. Par
ker giving way to tears and sobs, but
Miss Price remaining firm and outwardly
composed.
"There, Nancy," pursued the maiden
sister, as if she were giving directions
about some of the ordinary affairs of
life, "we're as ready now as we can be,
I 'spose so just run and shove back the
bolts of the shop door, but don't make any
noise about it, and then hurry into the
bedroom, to your children, and pray for
all of ns. If God is pleased to smile I
upon ail our hopes, ,you and they most
likely will be saved, and my poor life aint
much matter one way or t'other."
"Oh, Sally," sobbed Mrs. Parker,
"how can I see you give yourself up to
die for me and my children?", .
"Oh, that's nothing, -Nancy.: I've got
to die some time, and I don't much care
about living, except for you and the little
dears, and you can often kiss 'era for me
and tell 'em about aunty. . William, that
should have been mine, he's in Heaven,
you know,' and may be when I die I shall
meet hinv again. But, come! come!
there aint no more time to talk for al-
Ay Ay Ay Ay ax
ready them scoundrels is trying to break
down the door.
This was literally true. The party
outside becoming madly impatient at the
delay of those inside to throw open the
door to . them, were now in the act of
battering it down, and loudly cursing and
swearing at the occupants of the dwell
ing. Mrs. Parker then hastened to
undo the bolts of1 the -wing door, which
for some reason the assailants had not
touched, and when she got back to her
sister, the latter was kneeling before the
chair in the doorway. hir rifle rested and
pointed at the keg.
"Go, Nancy go and may God bless
you!"
"And you, Sally !" sobbed the other,
as she again kissed her and hurried
away to the room in which her innocent
children were still sleeping, undisturbed
by the noise, and unconscious of their
danger.
"Hallo, outside there!" now called out
Miss Price, in a loud tone ; "what are
you trying to do?"
"Break in, you she witch !" cried
one of the robbers. ,
"Well, can't you wait for me to open
the door ?v
"Not unless you quick about it !"
"Well, I can't get that ere door open ;
but t'other one's all right ; come in that
way, will you ?"
The pounding ceased, and a moment
after a voice exclaimed, "Ah ! here we
are !" and as the door swung back a
dozen men came crowding into the room.
The foremost had just barely got a
glimpse of our heroine, sighting her rifle,
and was in tne act of springing aside to
escape being shof, when she fired the
whole charge directly into the keg of
powder, which instantly exploded with a
tremendous report, tearing the wing all
to pieces, considerably shattering the
main building, and killing ten of the fif
teen midnight marauders blowing heads
and legs and arms and bodies in every
direction. Of the five that now remained
alive two were wounded, and all so ter
ribly frightened as to think nothing of so
much importance as a hurried flight from
the scene of the disaster.
The noble-minded heroine herself was
blown back across the kitchen, but for
tunately was not killed, though seriously
injured. Her sister found her in the
darkness and confusion, by her groans,
and cared for her so tenderly afterward
that she finally recovered.
The explosion was heard for miles
around; and the next day the news flew
so rapidly, that before night at least fifty
people were gathered vat the farm, be
sides a small body of American troopers ;
all of whom assisted in collecting and
burying the dead villains, clearing away
the rubbish, and putting things into as
comfortable a shape as possible for the
sisters, who had resolved to remain where
they were.
On being questioned as to why she did
not fire the powder by a train, instead of
shooting into it, Miss Prise replied, that
she had feared it might fail, and she
preferred, risking her life to make the
thing sure and thus save her sister aud
the children.
Such noble heroism had many parallels
during the war of the Revolution.
Married by Chancte.
The Count de M lived in a state
of single and independent blessedness.
fie was yet young, very rich, and was sur
rounded by everything that could give
enjoyment to life except a wife. He
had frequently thought of becoming a
husband, but always declared off before
the knot was tied. Once, however, he
found himself very nearly committing
the folly of matrimony. . A young per
son, the daughter of one of his friends,
pleased him her fortune pleased him
not less, perhaps, than he'r beauty and
accomplishments, and there were other
reasons of convenience, etc., to justify
the union.
The Count, who so frequently made
the first step towards matrimony, but as
frequently drawn back, had not yet de
cided upon the course he should adopt in
this case he had promised the friends
of the lady repeatedly, but had made no
outward sign of performance. His future
mother, however, knowing his weakness
in this respect, resolved to bring matters
to a termination, and therefore demanded
of the Count whether he would not many
her daughter, and requested an immedi
ate reply. The Count found himself in
great embarrassment. At this moment
his fears and hesitation returned with
more force than ever he trembled at
the consequences.
To give up his cherished habits of
bachelorhood, he found, was hard it
was almost impossible to abandon them.
In this emergency he resolved to appeal 1
to chance. He wrote two letters in one
he accepted the hand of the young lady,
in the other refused it. He tten put
them into a hat, and called his servant,
"Take one of these letters," said he,
"and carry it to the Chatteau de ."
"Which sir?" "
"Which you please."
The servant chose t. letter. The
Count burnt the other without opening it.
A distance of ten leagues separated
the two chateaus. The domestic must
be absent twenty-four hours ; twenty
four hours must elapse tefore the Count
knew his fate. His situaf ion is anything
but sgreeable he knows not during
twenty-four hours whether he is a mar
ried man or a single one whether he
has still tha power to dispose of himself,
or whether he is alread y disposed of.
The domestic returned he had carried
the letter of acceptation, and M. de M
is, even at this time, the happiest hust and
in that part of the country. ,
Slight or Hani. Refusing an offer
of marriage.
Ay 4r
NO. 10.
Dollars In Dixie.
When we hear of a pair of boots being
sold for S100 in the South, it is not so
much an evidence that boots are enor
mously high there, as the rebel shinplas
ters are almost valueless. The exchange
brokers of Richmond are now. it is said,
buying all the United States currency
they can lay their hands on, at the rate
of from ten to twelve Dixie dollars for
every one dollar greenback. Union pris
oners are importuned by rebel specula
tors to part with their funds on these
terms, as it is rumored that several lead
ing "Seceders" are endeavoring (under
the rose) to provide for a rainy day by
exchanging the "legal tenders" of Trea
son for Union bills. The Richmond pa
pers denounce all such transactions, and
recommend that parties engaged in them
be dealt in as public enemies ; but the
fact that the authorities do not interfere,
renders it highly probable that members
of the rebel government aud probably
the arch-traitor himself are implicated
in the business.
The light value placed by the rebels
themselves upon their government car
rency, and their anxiety to barter it on
almost any terms for our paper, indicate
as clearly as the defeat of their armies
and the capture of their stronghold, that
the end of the great revolt approaches.
When four hundred dollars, currency,
are given for a double eagle, as was the
case not long ago in South Carolina, it is
a tolerably significant sign that the "sin
ews of war" are snapping. One may
believe, therefore, that the great con
spiracy against the Union is now totter
ing to it-j fall.
New York Ruffiawism. Among the
'institutions" that have made most head
way in the city of New York during the
l.tst five-and-twenty years, may be classed
we think the Noble Order of Ready
handed Ruffians. The palmy days of the
N. O. of R. R. commenced some twenty
odd years ago with the hiring of pugil
ists and bullies, by opposing political fac
tions. These men were engaged by silk
stocking politicians to do the knock-down
and drag-out business at sharply-contested
elections, for so much in money
down, and a chance at the spoils in case
their backers triumphed. The conse
quence was just what might have been
expected. The rowdies appreciated their
own value. They formed terrorist asso
ciations, and offered their services to the
highest bidder in open market. Little
cared they for the police. Their friends
were the very men who at that time
controlled the police department. We
cannot be too thankful that it is not so
now. After a time these bandit rowdies
came to be recognized by the different
party "organizations as matter-of-course
auxiliaries an'! retainers, and received
wages from their employers as regularly
as if they had been journeymen mechan
ics. The rowdyism with which our city
has ever since been infested sprang from
a political root, and was fostered, encour
aged and rendered formidable by men in
high places. - '
Job's Patience as Viewed bt a
Lady. "if there is a proverb that needs
revamping, it is 'the patience of Job '
Now, in the first place, Job wasn't pa
tient. Like all the rest of his sex, from
that day to the present, he could be he
roic only for a little while at a time. He
began bravely, but ended, as most of them
do under annoyance, by cursing and
swearing.. Patience of Job ! Did Job
ever try, when he was hungry, to eat
shad with a frisky baby in his lap ? Did
Job ever tiy, after nursing one all night,
and upon taking his seat at the breakfast
table the morning after, to pour out coffee
for six people, and second cups at that,
before he had a chance to take a mouth
ful himself ? . Pshaw ! I've no patience
with Job's patience. It is of. no use to
multiply instances ; but there's not a
faithful house-mother in the land who
does not out-distance him in the sight of
men and angels every hour in the twenty
four." The lady who writes the above,
would probably admit, however, that Job
was rery patient for a man.
British Superstition. The other
day a laboring man from Worplesdon
called upon a chemist in Guildford, and
gravely informed him that his wife had
been bewitched two years ago, and that
she had remained in that state ever since,
much to the grief of her husband and
family, and the anTopyae of her neigh
bors. He said that heTid been informed
that if he got a quarter ot a pourjfl of
mercury and mixed it up with the yolk
of two eggs, and gave a dose to his wife
night and morning in water, "over which
the living and dead had been carried,"
she would recover.. Of course the chem
ist tried to ridicule him out of his silly
notion, but the foolish man went away as
fully pursuaded as before that his wife
was bewitched, and avowing his inten
tion of getting the mercury and the water
before he quitted Guildford.
Long Range. It is said of the Ferris
gun that it throws shell nine miles, or
nearly twice the distance the big gun at
tained with which Gilmore stilled Char
leston. Such a range as this seems in
credible, but so would a distance of fire
miles have beea considered a few months
ago.
An Excellent Baboain. -It is re
ported that the Princess Alexandra, when
asked by the Prince cf Wales for her
hand in marriage, prcpss? J to grant it
for twenty-five shillings, which, said she,
archly, is equal, you know, to one sov
ereign and one crown in England.
When a thing does not suit you, think
of some pleasant quality in it. There is
nothing so bad as it might le. W hen
ever you catch yourself in a fault-finding
remark, say something approving in the
same breath, and you will soon be cured.
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General Bnrnslde's Operations.
The dispatch of General Bumside, an
nouncing the capture of a rebel brigade
and fourteen pieces of artilery, at Cum
berland Gap, will be read through the
country with gratification and surprise.
The General's plan of operations for the
occupation of East Tennessee, seems to
have been well laid and admirably exe
cuted. While every body not posted
(and the beauty of it was, few were
posted,) though his movement into East
Tennessee would be timed by the march
of his infantry, he divided his forces, mov
ing his infantry, under General Hartsuff,
direct upon Cumberland Gap. He then
put himself al the head of his cavalry,
and moved with the utmost celerity to
the right of Cumberland Gap, and crossed
the mountains, was soon deep in East
Tennessee, and was joined, near Kings
ton, as is supposed, by a division of
General. Ro.ecrans's army. Turning to
the left he appeared at Knoxville, doubt
less as much to the astonishment of ths
rebels as to the gratification of the Union
people. The enemy appeard to havo
been confounded by his evasion of the
mountain passes, where they had looked
for him, and the almost unexampled ra
pidity of his movements. John Morgan :
never made better time. Grant's swoop
through Mis-issippi was not more star
tling to rebeldom. After the capture of
Knoxville, General Barnsidf disap--peared
for a time. Some corjectured
that he would effect a junction with Gen
eral Rosecrans, but they probably were
not infoiraed that he had not his infant
ry with' him. Now, we can see plainly
what he"was about. - The prize of two
thousand prisoners and fourteen pieces of
artillery at Cumberland Gap tells the
story. This appears to be one of iht?
most interesting and brilliant episodes of
the war. Cincinnati Commercial.
One of the most curious instances of
eccentricity occured iu England so lately ?
as 1833 in which a will, where the testa
tor had left his money, away from his
relatives, to his housekeeper, was dispu
ted on the ground of intrinsic evidence
of insanity in the document itself.
Therein the testator had directed his ex
ecutor "that they should cause some part
of his bowels to be converted into fiddle
strings ; that others should be submitted
into smelling salts; anl that the remain
der of his body should be vitrified into
lenses for optical purposes." Sir H.
Jener, however, held that insanity was
not " proved, although the deceased had
certainly exhibited a most uncomen de
sire of making himself generally useful. .
A man near Cleveland, Ohio, applied
for exemption from the draft because an '
old mother needed his cherishing care.
To showhow much feeling this affectionate
son has for his old mother, the neighbor
say he haj had her coffin in the house
for over two years. Ho came to town
with a load of wood one day, and being
unable to sell it, he contrived to trado ;
it uff with an undertaker for a coffin, his .
mother being old, might die suddenly,
and then, a3 Mrs. Toodles says, "how
handy it would be to .have it in the
house." Being of a frugal as well as an
ingenious turn of mind, he put the coffin
in the cellar to keep turnips, against
such time as the old lady might drop
off. '
Reorganization or Florida. Mr.
L. J. Stickney, Tax Cornmi-soricr of
Florida, arrived in Washington a few
days since. He came for the purpose '
of representing to he President the de- -sire
of the people of Florida that a force
should be sent to that State to relieve '
them, from rebel rule of which he says
they are heartily tired that they may
be enable to reorganize the Staty Gov
ernment and elect members of Congress.
He says that if such a force is sent im- .
mediately their Senators and Repre
sentaves can bo elected in time to' tako
their seats in Congress at the commence-
raent of the next session.
A little chivalry was minifest among
the rebels at Charleston, in their treat
ment of those who died in their hospi
tals? Quite a number of small articles
and money, belonging to deceased mem
bers of the New Hampshire Reg., were
sent to the regiment under a flag of truce.
This is one of the best indications that
the Union will soon be itself again, as
such acts on the part of the rebels un
doubtedly betray that their reason is re
turning. .
We do not die wholly at our death ; wo
have mouldered away long before. Fa
culty after faculty, interest after interest,
attachment after attachment disappear ;
we are torn from ourselves while liing
year after year stes os no longer th-i
same, and deatn only consigns the lat
fragments of what we were so the grave."
It was John Armstrong of Jersey City
who ate a plate of ice cream at a fair
for the benefit of sick an dwouuded sol
diers, laid down a frvehundered dctlar
treasury note and cooiTy declined tho
change. The circumstance was indorst d
on the back of the note by a lady atten
dant, and came to light in Washington".
Coal Oil. To illustrate how one dij-
covenr or invention onens the way for
others, we hive seen it stated that the
discovery of coal oil has given rbe to
more than a thousana inventions: over
three hundred of which have laen paten
ted for lamps to burn it in. '
Fanny Kemble says in. her recently
published Journal, "I have always
thought that the death I would prefer to
all others, would be to break my neck off
the back of a horse at a full gaihp on a
fine day." .
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