"Both. There's a splendid lot of them, and late." they are pleased with every thing."

"Small thanks to them for that," I said. Well they may be after all the pains the girls have taken. Who looks the best, Fred?" "I don't know, really. Sometimes I think it is one, and then another. The truth is, Mrs. Miggs, that we do have the very prettiest girls in this town that you can find in the State."

I smiled at his enthusiasm. "Indeed!" was my reply. "I know that used to be said when I was a girl."

"So long ago as that!" he asked, innocently. Margaret and I exchanged glances. "Yes, young man,” I said, severely, “just so long ago.' ." "I guess Frank Hall thinks the same thing," he went on, quite unconscious. I screwed my neck around a corner and brought my glance to bear on the young captain. There he sat, very "Beautiful!" said Miss Seymour. "A litpale and interesting, watching the stage intent- tle more powder on this temple, Mary, and the ly; anxious, perhaps, for the success of his lit-bridge of her nose. Now for the sheets." tle drama.

"Can't one of you life."

"Now where could they have got that stat- where she lived, excepting a few years of early ute?" inquired an old lady on my right.

"It isn't a statue, mother-nothing but one of the girls dressed up," responded her married daughter.

"You don't tell me! I'm sure it must be marble or plaster parish!" and, indeed, by that light, it was difficult not to believe with her. The statue, too, was perfectly immobile. She stirred not a finger, nor even winked, though the glare from the footlights must almost have forced her eyelids open.

This tableau vivant was found so attractive that it had to be repeated more than once, and the curtain went down at last amidst tremendous cheering.

childhood, till she went to New England to school. Her education was directed by a relative, whose poetic temperament, scholastic culture, and fervent piety doubtless had great influence upon her character and subsequent life. In the autumn of 1845 she left school, and began at once to write for the periodicals of the day. Indeed before this time some of her youthful effusions had attracted attention. A well-known lyric, "There's no such Word as Fail," she wrote when only fifteen. The Literary Gazette, published at Philadelphia, was then a favorite journal, edited by Joseph C. Neal, the author of "Charcoal Sketches," etc. Her contributions to its columns won his admiration, and a correspondence was the result. Her letters were signed by her nom de plume, Alice E. Lee. The real name of his contributor, Emily Bradley, becoming known to him

So the evening was over, and people got away as fast as they could; the door-keeper counted his golden gains, and announced a sum most gratifying to our feelings. I went home; the performers adjourned to Mrs. Hall's, where re-by accident, he visited her, and the acquaintfreshments awaited them after their arduous labors.

"You are willing to take a great deal of pains to make them comfortable."

"Of course I am," she answered. "I should be a very selfish girl if I could feel otherwise."

A sudden impulse seized Frank. He drew the little hand upon his arm down into his own 'strong clasp. "You would do so much for their comfort," he whispered; "will you do something for me too?—something to make me happy all these long nights when I shall lie awake in camp, thinking of you. Oh, Emma, say—" Their glances met-hers fond and timid; his fond and eager. The others had passed into the house; these two were half-way up the walk. Frank looked quickly around, then stooped and kissed the sweet lips with a long love-kiss. Nobody saw, he thought.

Well, nobody did-to mention. Only Mrs. Miggs, who, turning the corner in the shadow of the evergreens, beheld this little tableau, and considered it quite the success of the evening.

ance thus formed resulted in their marriage in the winter of 1846. At his request she retained the name of Alice always after, and by the name of "Cousin Alice" was best known to the reading public, especially its younger portion.

Seven months after their marriage Mr. Neal died, but during this period he and his mother, a woman of rare intellect and culture, fostered and directed the unfolding ability of the young wife. She assisted her husband in his literary work, and early displayed a remarkable versatility of talent. A playful boast led Mr. Neal one day to challenge her to the composition of sketches so to imitate the spirit and manner of some of the modern European litterateurs as that scholars would be deceived into believing them literal translations. She accepted the challenge and succeeded. Indeed one of these sketches, in imitation of a German writer, "The Chapel Bell," deceived Mr. Saxe, who paraphrased it in a poem "from the German." a volume of his poems may be found a note making the proper acknowledgment to Mrs. Neal, and confessing how thoroughly the German spirit of her story had blinded him to its real origin.

In

For five years after her husband's death Mrs. Neal continued to reside with his mother in Philadelphia, discharging various editorial duties upon the paper which he had conducted, and contributing freely to many other periodicTHE journals of August 24th announced the als. From that time till the year before her

IN MEMORIAM:-ALICE B.
HAVEN.

one of the contributors to this Magazine, at Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York. She had long held an honorable and peculiar place among the female writers of this country; and her death will be mourned, not only by those who knew her, but by many who have perceived her worth in the purposes which she sought to further by her literary labors. Not yet thirty-six, the age when man is "half-way home," she had filled up the full measure of a life that led no ignoble days.

Godey's Lady's Book, and was associated with Mrs. Hale for some years in its editorial management. In 1853 she was married to Samuel L. Haven, Esq., and removed to New York, and afterward to Mamaroneck, where she passed the remainder of her days.

The books which Mrs. Haven wrote for children have had the greatest popularity. She knew how to reach the hearts and minds of the young. The sale of a series known as the "Cousin Alice's Home Series" has been imMrs. Haven was born in Hudson, New York, mense. Several volumes, beginning with "Hel

IN MEMORIAM:-ALICE B. HAVEN.

en Morton;" and "Loss and Gain" and "The Coopers," written for older readers, have also had extensive circulation. Besides these, every year stories, sketches, and poems in great variety, fell from her pen, and were published in this and other periodicals.

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sell best, I use them almost entirely. They will
never bring me the fame I might win, perhaps,
but they give pleasure: they do some good, I
hope, and they bring me that which enables me
carry out the purposes of my life." And these
purposes! To educate the fatherless, to sustain
the widow, to care for orphaned and forsaken
children; to stand between want and its victim,
the tempted and the tempter, the sufferer and
the woe impending-these were the purposes
constantly carried out in the simplest and most
When the
unostentatious of lives, and by the practice of a
strict and self-denying economy.
war sent home to us the sick and wounded who
had periled life and health for their country, it
was not in her nature to do less than enter with
all her heart upon the task of relieving their
sufferings and ministering to their needs.
purse, her pen, and the purses which were open
to the solicitations, not easy to a sensitive nature
like hers, were devoted to these charitable and
Few could resist an appeal
patriotic offices.

Her

Her poetry is marked by great delicacy, grace, and religious feeling. A few lyrics written since the war began have shown an inspiration and exaltation of feeling surprising to those who knew her best. Her juvenile books show great insight into child-nature, and a tenderness, simplicity, and secret power that wins the admiration of "children of a larger growth." With purity of thought and a graceful and graphic style, she always wrote as one must who never used her pen without first asking God's blessing on her work. It would seem almost incredible to say so much as that of her speech, yet she alone of all who knew her would have denied its truth. She was a brilliant and even fascinating talker, with a wonderful faculty for narration and the suggestion of humor; but her earnestness and sincerity poured too many of the sweet or sad lessons of life upon her lips for them to distill even the bitterness which is bright in the parlor and the salon. She kept subdued and A trouble in her eyes in early in the back-ground, if she did not entirely conceal, those mental traits which few who are gift-life sometimes produced months of continuous ed as she was control so wisely. She had great powers of sarcasm, a keen perception of the ludicrous, a fair wit, an abhorrence of cant in society and religion, and an insight which unveiled character and exploded social fictions. Thus endowed, with her affluence of language and illustration, there was great temptation to become a satirist, and to show up the shams of life.

But she withstood the temptation, and resisted even the bribe of large compensation, made by one who knew her peculiar genius, for a series of articles of this description. She even tried to suppress the sale of one of her earliest books, "The Gossips of Riverton," in which she had given play to the faculty mentioned, because it had occasioned some wounded feeling. For daily she grew in the charity which covers the multitude of others' sins, and strives to "make allowance for them all." With her every thing, though it were her rarest gifts, was made subordinate to the purpose for which she lived.

She never forgot her stewardship, and was "spent for this world's help." Establishing herself as a writer on the plane where she could command the largest sweep of influence, she sought the level of those who needed help as conscientiously with her pen as with her purse. Fame, larger remuneration, enjoyment in the exercise of more attractive powers, were all sacrificed to "this world's help." Nor these alone. The personal tastes which would have been gratified by the beautiful in the arts, or the surroundings of luxury, were laid upon the same altar. The income from her pen was consecrated to others. It was unusually large, for, as she once playfully remarked, "Finding water-colors

from that sweet-faced, fragile woman, who knew
how lavishly her own days and nights were spent
in such service as she commended to every true
Her health was
heart in the sketch "One Day," published in
this Magazine just a year ago.
always frail.

blindness.

Maternal cares added to this heavy burden. Consumption came in its most insidious forms, and several of her last winters she was compelled to spend in a tropical climate; yet the little white hand that had wrought so much kept bravely on, nor rested from its labor till those months of wasting agony came which ended her life.

The little parish at Mamaroneck never assembled for a sadder service than when they gathered to bury her who for years had been among The poor them an efficient teacher for the Master. The whole community came to mourn. were there, whom she had helped; servants whose long service had made them her friends; men whom with sweet courage she had counseled or warned; women to whom she had been adviser and guide; children whom she had won by written or spoken words; and those whom she had borne and left motherless: her husband and their kindred, and nearer friends: these were gathered to look their last upon the pale, wasted face, and to bury the precious dust from sight.

The impressive rites and hymns of the church were followed by an address from one whose office and kinship fitted him to speak justly and faithfully of the departed, and the lessons of her life and death.

Her favorite hymn, "Rock of Ages cleft for me," was sung, and the mourners thrilled as they looked upon the hands clasped over the lilies, and heard "Simply to Thy cross I cling." Upon these almost every eye dropped its tearful tribute ere the coffin lid was closed. And now, to such a life as hers, so full of selfdenial and all the gracious ministries of charity and love, it is given, though death has closed it, still to speak.

UNITED STATES.

|August 22, but up to September 4 the bombardment

UR Record closes on the 7th of September. had not been renewed. According to the accounts

city of Charleston, no actual damage was done.. Fort Sumter, though apparently in ruins, was not abandoned by the enemy, and there was reason to believe that he was still determined to hold possession of it, and had been mounting new guns upon the ruins. In accordance with a request from the Admiral, fire was again opened on the fort on the 30th of August. The result was a still further de

upon Charleston, the military movements in Tennessee and Arkansas, and the reports of new iron-clad steamers built for the Confederates in Great Britain. From Charleston our intelligence comes down to September 4. After the repulse of the attack upon Fort Wagner on the 10th of July General Gilmore commenced a regular approach to the works by means of parallels, and at the same time erected batteries in the rear from which he expected to re-molition of the works. Our latest dispatches indiduce Fort Sumter, by firing directly over Wagner. cate that a renewed bombardment of Charleston was The formal attack was opened on the morning of at hand. Meantime the siege of Wagner was vigthe 17th of August, the navy co-operating mainly orously pressed; on the 1st of September 75 of the by keeping up a bombardment upon Forts Wagner enemy's sharp-shooters were captured in the rifleand Gregg. Sumter was found to be perfectly in pits before the works. reach of our guns, although the distance was from two to two and a half miles. The fire was accurate and destructive. Thus, on the 23d, according to Confederate accounts, 604 shots were fired, of which 419 struck the fort. General Gilmore's dispatch of the 24th gives, as the result of seven days' bombardment, during two of which a powerful northeasterly storm diminished the accuracy of the fire:

"Fort Sumter is to day a shapeless and harmless mass of ruins. My Chief of Artillery reports its destruction so far complete that it is no longer of avail in the defenses of Charleston. He says that by a longer fire it could be more completely made a ruin, and a mass of broken masonry, but could be scarcely more powerless for the defense of the harbor. My breaching batteries were located at distances varying between 3300 and 4240 yards, and now remain as efficient as ever; but I deem it unnecessary at present to continue their fire upon the ruins of Sumter. I have also, at great labor and under heavy fire from James Island, established batteries on my left, within effective range of the heart of Charleston, and have opened with them, after giving General Beauregard due notice of my intention to do so."

The armies of the West, under Rosecrans and Burnside, have commenced moving-the former toward Chattanooga, and the latter toward Knoxville, Tennessee. A portion of Rosecrans's army, under General Wilder, appeared before Chattanooga on the 21st of August, and commenced shelling the place. The enemy's works were found to be very strong, and no formal attack was made. Appearances, indeed, indicate that the direct movement upon Chattanooga was a feint to cover other operations, which involved the junction of the forces of Rosecrans and Burnside. Kingston, an important point, nearly midway between Chattanooga and Knoxville, was captured on the 1st of September by detachments from the two armies, Burnside's advancing from the north and Rosecrans's from the west. It reported that Knoxville was captured on the 4th by Burnside.

Our recent advices from Arkansas placed General Steele at Duval's Rock, on the Arkansas, 54 miles from Little Rock, the capital of the State; while the Confederates, under Price, 25,000 strong, were 14 miles from Duval's Rock. The latest official dispatches, dated August 26, state that on the 25th the advance of Steele's army attacked the enemy at Brownsville, driving them out of the place with considerable loss, and were then in hot pursuit.

The notice to General Beauregard contained a demand for the immediate evacuation of Morris Island and Fort Sumter. In case this was not complied with in four hours after it was received by the commander of Fort Wagner, fire would be opened upon Charleston. General Beauregard, in reply, complains of informality in the direction of the demand, and then goes on to protest against the short time From General Grant's army we have no intelliallowed for the removal of non-combatants. He gence of importance beyond the fact that the Comsays that, in civilized warfare, when a city is about manding General declares Tennessee and Kentucky, to be attacked, from one to three days is allowed for west of the Tennessee River, to be free from any the removal of women and children. He then ar- organized forces of the enemy, and has issued stringues that the firing upon Charleston could in no gent directions for preventing guerrilla warfare and way further the attack upon Wagner and Sumter; recruiting for the enemy. He recommends the peoand closes by threatening retaliation in case the fir-ple of Mississippi within his lines to return to their ing-which had been commenced, the time of notice usual avocations. The President, under date of given having elapsed-should be resumed. Neither July 3, dispatched the following characteristic letter Sumter nor the works on Morris Island would be to General Grant: evacuated on this demand; but he had commenced measures for removing the women and children. The Spanish and British Consuls protested against the brief notice given. General Gilmore, in reply to General Beauregard, justified his course; said that Charleston had really had forty days' notice, and said that he had abundant reasons to believe that most of the women and children had long since been removed. But, upon General Beauregard's assurance to the contrary, the bombardment would be suspended, so as to give full two days' notice from the time when his first demand was received by General Beauregard. This correspondence is dated

"MY DEAR GENERAL,-I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg I thought you should do what you finally did-march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass Expedition and the like could succeed When you got below, and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make a personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN."

ence.

The armies of Virginia have made no important and fifteen days' subsistence." Other resolutions, movements during the month. The position of both proposed by a committee, were also unanimously armies, in fact, still remains a secret. The most re-adopted. They ascribe the massacre at Lawrence liable accounts place our army of Virginia along the to "the inefficient policy of the commander of this Rappahannock; that of the enemy being scattered department, and the criminality of his aiders and from the Blue Ridge on the west to Port Royal and abettors ;" and demand the "immediate removal of the Rappahannock on the east. They appear to be General Schofield, and the appointment in his stead widely scattered, in order to find means of subsist- of a General who has both the ability and the will Skirmishes, mainly between the cavalry to exterminate the guerrillas now swarming upon corps, have occurred, but nothing decisive is report- our border."-We give these details for the purpose ed. The details of these, as given by reports from of showing the feeling existing in our Border States. Northern and Southern sources, are so discordant that it is not safe to reproduce them. Thus the Confederate General Samuel Jones reports officially that on the 26th of August he had an engagement, near the White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County, with Averill's cavalry, 3000 strong, who at tacked him, and were "handsomely repulsed, when he abandoned his position and retreated, pursued by our cavalry and artillery. Our loss is about 200 killed and wounded. The enemy's loss is not known. We have taken about 150 prisoners, and one piece of artillery." Our own accounts represent that the action was merely an incident in an expedition undertaken to destroy the saltpetre works in Pendleton; that at Rocky Gap, where the action described by General Jones took place, our loss was about 100; and that General Averill returned, bringing in many prisoners, having completely succeeded in accomplishing the objects aimed at by the expedition.

An expedition, under General Sibley, against the Sioux Indians who were concerned in the late massacres in the Northwest, advanced into the Territory of Dacotah, and had several sharp encounters with the savages toward the close of July. The last was on the 28th, when a body of 2000 Indians was routed and driven across the Missouri, losing 125 warriors, besides many women and children drowned in crossing the river, besides all their stores of provisions. Our loss was only six killed and two wounded. The expedition, finding their provisions exhausted, and their horses and mules giving out, then returned. It is apprehended that the Indians, who are reduced to starvation, will return and recommence their devastation upon the border settlements.

The President addressed a letter, dated August 16, to Hon. James C. Conklin, who seems to have criticised some of the measures of the Administration. This letter, which was designed for publication, sets forth the views of the Administration. The leading

maintenance of the Union is now possible. The strength
"I do not believe that any compromise embracing the
of the rebellion is in its army. That army dominates all
the country and all the people within its range. Any offer
of terms made by any man or men within that range, in
opposition to that army, is simply nothing for the present,
because such man or men have no power whatever to en-
force their side of a compromise, if one were made with
them. No word or intimation from the rebel army, or
from any of the men controlling it, in relation to any peace
compromise, has ever come to my knowledge or belief.
"You dislike the emancipation proclamation, and per-
haps would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitu-
tional. I think differently. I think that the constitution

invests the Commander-in-Chief with the law of war in

time of war.

The most that can be said is that slaves are property. Is there any question that by the law of war property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed; and is it not needed whenever taking it helps us or hurts the enemy? If the Proclamation is not valid in law it needs no retraction; if it is valid it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life. There was more than a year and a half of trial to suppress the rebellion before the proclamation was issued, the last one hundred days of which passed under an explicit notice that it was coming unless it was averted by those in revolt returning to their allegiance.

On the night of the 20th of August the city of Lawrence, in Kansas, was attacked by a body of guerrillas, 300 strong, under the command of Quan-points are contained in the following extracts: trell, from the border counties of Missouri. The attack was wholly unexpected, and there was no opposition. A great part of the town was burnt, and about 150 persons were killed. The guerrillas then scattered into small bands, and endeavored to make their way home. They were pursued by squads of the people, much of the plunder which they had carried off was recaptured, and at the latest accounts fully a hundred of them had been killed. At Leavenworth a public meeting was held on the 27th of August, where General Lane, who had narrowly escaped from the Lawrence massacre, made a fiery speech. The purport of it was that the slaughter at Lawrence was owing to the conservative policy of the Government in relation to the guerrillas in Missouri; that the safety of Kansas required that "there should be an extermination of the first tier of counties in Missouri; and if that won't secure us, then the second and third tiers and so on, tier upon tier, until we are secure.... How are we to have peace if guerrillas are to live and subsist within our lines? The only way to stop it is to lay waste every foot of country which they inhabit.... "The war has certainly progressed as favorably for us since the issue of the proclamation as before. Some of I want to see every foot of ground in Jackson, Cass, the commanders of our armies in the field who have given and Bates counties burned over....then the bush-us our most important victories believe the emancipation whackers can not remain: they will have nobody to feed them, nobody to harbor them, nobody to provide them with transportation, no place to sleep in, and will have thirty-five miles further to march before they reach Kansas....the safety of Kansas demands the devastation of the border for a distance of thirty-five miles into Missouri." A significant resolution, proposed by General Lane, was unanimously adopted, that "so many of the loyal men of the border as can be spared from home-protection be requested to assemble at Paola on the 8th day of September, with such arms and ammunition as they can procure, each twenty men to select a captain, and bring with them a wagon and one blanket each,

policy and the aid of colored troops constitute the heaviest those important successes could not have been achieved blows yet dealt to the rebellion; and that at least one of when it was but for the aid of black soldiers. Whatever negroes can be got to do as soldiers leaves just so much less for white soldiers to do in saving the Union. But negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do any thing for us if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us they must be prompted by the strongest motive-even the promise of their freedom. And the promise being made must be kept.

"The signs look better. The Father of Waters goes unvexed to the sea. Thanks to the great Northwest for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey hewing their way right and left. The sunny South too, in more colors than one, also lent a hand. On the spot their part of the history was jotted down in black and