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HARPER'S WEEKLY. [OCTOBER 4, 1862. 4, 18R2.] HARPER'S WEEKLY. (537 U'KA, MISSISSIPPI, SCENE OF THE BATTLE OF SEPTEMBER I9ru AND 20Tir.-[FROM A SKETCH BY AK OFFICER OF GKNEK.VL UUELL'S ARMY.] THE BATTLE AT IUKA. WE publish above a view of the town of IUKA, where General Rosecrans defeated the rebels on 19th and 20th. The town itself ia thus described: Thli town perpetuates the nmnfl of a distinguished son of the forest, who formerly dwelt on the prernl-ês. Wenry and worn by hl> day's journey, the prisoner wu wont to rat with aafet\ boncath I-u-k-a's roof; and tlir venerable chief wu equally beloved and honored by whites nnJ In- diaiu. Like the Immortal Logan, hi* nnme Is classed with tlie brave and generous of hie race. He died on the •pot about the year 1880-6. luka was laid out as a town plot In April, 1857, and numbtn three hundred population. The following ia General Grunt's official account of the battle: IP*J, MiuiHirri, Sift. M, 1811. To Itajor-Otnenl B. V. llalleck. General Ju-ChirS: General Rosecnos, with Stanley's and Hamilton's di vision* and MUener"s cavalry, attacked Price aonth of this village nbout two hours before dark yesterday, and had * sharp fight until night clued In. General Ord wns to the north with an armed force of about GOOO men, and had some skirmishing with the rebel pickets. This morning the fight was renewed by General Rosecrans, who was nearest to the town; but It was found Hat the enemy had been evacuating during the night, going south. Gen erals Hamilton and Stanley, with cavalr), are In full pur suit. This will no doubt break up the enemy, and possibly force them to nuun Ion much of their artillery. The IMS on rltlier vide, In kill, rt mid wounded, is from 4(10 to BOO. The enemy's Ims In nrms, tents, etc., will bo large. We hnve about 250 prim
638 HAEPEB'S WEEKLY. [OCTOBER 4,1862. OCTOBER 4,1862.] HARPER'S WEEKLY. 639 NO NAME. BY WILKIE COLLINS, AtrrnoB or "TUB WOMAN IK wmn," "DEAD ucarr," arc., no. Her first thought was to tell him all that had happened at North Shingles that morning. On reflection, however, Bhe rejected the idea. Once already (in copying the personal description from Miss Garth's letter) the had trusted her weapons in her roaster's hands, and Mr. Bygrave had con trived to turn them against her. She resolved this time to keep them strictly in her own pos session. The secret of the missing fragment of the Alpaca dress was known to no living creat ure but herself; and, until her return to En gland, she determined to keep it to herself. The necessary impression might be produced on Mr. Noel Vanstone's mind withont venturing into de tails. She knew by experience the form of let ter which might be trusted to produce an effect on him, and she now wrote it, in these words: 11 DEAR MB. NOEL,—Sad news ba> reached me from Switzerland. My beloved brother It dying, and his med ical attendant summons me Instantly to Zurich. The se- rioiu necessity of availing myself of the earliest means of conveyance to the Continent leaves me but one alterna tive. I must profit by the permission to leave England, If necessary, which you kindly granted to me at Uie be- £ uning of my brother's ULieu; and I must avoid all de. y by going straight to London, Instead of turning aside, as I should have liked, to we you first at St. Crux. '•Painfully as I am affected by the family calamity which has fallm on me, I can not let tblx opportunity pass without adverting to another subject, whlcli serious ly concerns your welfare, and In which (on that account) your old housekeeper feels the deepest interest. •' I am going to surprise and shock you, Mr. Noel. Fray don't be agitated I pray compose yourself! u The Impudent attempt to oheat you, which has hap pily opened your eyes to the true character of our neigh bors at North Shingle*, was not the only object which Mr. Bygrave had In forcing himself on your acquaintance. The Infamous conspiracy wltli which you were threatened ID London has been In full progress against you, under Mr. Bygrave'a direction, at Aldborough. Accldint—I will tell you what accident when we meet—has put me In pos session of Information precious to your future security. I have discovered, to an absolute certainty, that the person calling herself Mlw Bygrave Is no other than the woman who visited us In dlsguUe at Vauxlull Walk. « I suspected this from the first; but I had no evidence to support my suspicions: I had no means of combating the false Impression produced on you. My hands, I thank Heaven, are tied no longer. I possess absolute proof of the assertion that I have just made—proof that your own eyes can set—proof that would satisfy you U you were CHAPTER XI. Judge In * Court of Ju.tice. THE peat-mark and the handwriting on the address (admirably imitated from the original) warned Mrs. Lecount of the contents of the let ter before she opened it. After waiting • moment to compose herself she read the announcement of her brother's re- laps*. There was nothing in the handwriting, there was no expression in any part of the letter, which could suggest to her mind the faintest suspicion of foul. play. Not the shadow of a doubt oc curred to her that the summons to her broth er's bedside was genuine. The hand that held the letter dropped heavily into her lap; she be came pale, and old, and haggard, in a moment. Thoughts far removed from her present aims and interests, remembrances that carried her back to other lands than England, to other times than the time of her life in service, prolonged their in ner shadows to the surface, and showed the traces of their mysterious passage darkly on her face. The minutes followed each other, and still the servant below stairs waited vainly for the parlor bell. The minutes followed each other, and still she sat, tearless and quiet, dead to the present and the future, living in the past. The entrance of the servant, uncalled, roused her. With a heavy sigh the cold aud secret wo man folded the letter up again, and addressed herself to the interest and the duties of the pass ing time. She decided the question of going or not going to Zurich after a very brief consideration of it. Before she had drawn her chair to the breakfast table she had resolved to go. Admirably as Captain Wragge's stratagem had worked it might have failed—unassisted by the occurrence of the morning—to achieve this re sult. The very accident against which it had been the captain's chief anxUty to guard—the accident which had just taken place in spite of him—was, of all the events that could have hap pened, the one event which falsified every pre vious calculation, by directly forwarding the main purpose of the conspiracy I If Mrs. Le- connt had not obtained the information of which she was in search before the receipt of the letter from Zurich the letter might have addressed her in vain. She would have hesitated before de ciding to leave Eugland, and that hesitation might have proved fatal to the captain's scheme. As it was, with the plain proofs in her posses sion—with the gown discovered in Magdalen's wardrobe; with the piece cut out of it in her own pocket-book; and with the knowledge, ob tained from Mrs. Wragge, of the very house in which the disguise had been put on—Mrs. Le count had now at her command the means of warning Mr. Noel Vanstone as she had never been able to warn him yet; or, in other words, the means of guarding against any dangerous tendencies toward reconciliation with the By- graves, which might otherwise have entered his mind during her absence at Zurich. The only difficulty which now perplexed her was the diffi culty of dividing whether she should communi cate with her master personally or by writing be fore her departure from England. She looked again at the doctor's letter. The word "instantly" in the sentence which sum moned her to her dying brother was twice nn- il lined. Admiral Bartram's honse was at some di- nice from the railway; the time consumed in driving to St. Crux, and driving back again, might be time fatally lost on the journey to. Zu rich. Although she wonld infinitely have pre ferred a personal interview with Mr. Noel Van- stone, there was no choice, on a matter of life and death, but to save the precious hours by writing to him. After sending to secure a place at once in the eul* coarti she sat down to write to her master. n a court 01 JU.HCO. ••rerhens even yet, Mr. Noel, you wUl refuse to believe me ? Be U SOL Believe me or pot. I have one but favor to ask which your English sense of fair play will not deny » This melancholy Journey of mine will keep me away from England for a fortnight, or at most for three weeks. You will oblige me— and you will certainly not sacrifice your own convenience and pleasure — by staying through that Interval with your friends at 81 Crux. If before my return some unexpected circumstance throws you once more Into tin company of the Bygnves ; and If your nat ural kindness of heart Inclines you to receive the excuses which they will In that case certainly address to yon, place one trifling restraint on yourself, for your own sake, If not for mine. Suspend your flirtation with the young lady (I beg pardon of all other young ladies for calling her so I) until my return. If, when I come back, I fall to prove to you that Miss Bygrave Is the woman who wore that disguise, and used those threatening words In Vauxhall Walk, I will engage to leave your service at a day's no tice; and I will atone for the sin of bearing false witness against my neighbor by resigning every claim I have to your grateful remembrance, on your father's account as well as on your own. I make this engagement without reserves of any kind; and I promise to abide by U, if my proofs fall, on the faith of a good Catholic and the word of an honest woman. •• Your faithful servant, YiBorarB LIOODHT." The closing sentences of this letter — as the housekeeper well knew when she wrote them — erflbodied the one appeal to Mr. Noel Vanstone which could be certainly trusted to prodnce a deep and lasting effect. She might have staked her oath, her life, or her reputation on proving the assertion which she had made,- and have failed to leave a permanent impression on his mind. But when she staked not only her posi tion in his service, bnt her pecuniary claims on him as well, she at once absorbed the ruling passion of his life in expectation of the result. There was not a donbt of it in the strongest of all his interests — the interest of saving his mon ey ; he would wait. •' Checkmate for Mr. Bygrare !" thought Mrs. Lecount, as she sealed and directed the letter. "The battle is over — the game is played out." While Mrs. Leconnt was providing for her roas ter's future security at Sea View events were in full progress at North Shingles. As soon as Captain Wragge recovered his as tonishment at the housekeeper's appearance on his own premises he hurried into the house, and, guided hy his own forebodings of the disaster that had happened, made straight for his wife's room. Never, in all her former experience, had poor Mrs. Wrafige felt the full weight of the cap- . tain's indignation as she felt it now. All the little intelligence she naturally possessed van ished at once in the whirlwind of her husband's rage. The only plain fact* which he could ex tract from her were two in number. In the firbt place, Magdalen's rash desertion of her post proved to have no better reason to excuse it than Magdalen's incorrigible impatience : she had passed a sleepless night ; she had risen fe verish and wretched ; and she had gone ont, reckless of all consequences, to cool her burning head in the fresh air. In the second place, Mrs. Wragge had, on her own confession, seen Mrs. Lecount, hau talked with Mrs. Leconnt, and had ended by telling Mrs. Leconnt the story of the ghost. Having made these discoveries, Captain Wragge wasted no more time in Contending with his wife's terror and confusion. He withdrew at once to a window which commanded an unin terrupted prospect of Mr. Noel Vanstone's house, and there established himself on the watch for events at Sea View, precisely as Mrs. Lecount had established herself on the watch for events at North Shingles. Not a word of comment on the disaster of the morning escaped him when Magdalen returned and found him at his post. His flow of language seemed at Inst to have mn dry. " I told yon what Mrs. Wrngge would do," he said; "and Mrs. Wragge has done it." He sat unflinch ingly at the window, with a patience which Mrs. Lecount herself could not have surpassed. The one active proceeding in which he seemed to think it jiecesoary to engage was performed by deputy. He sent the servant to the inn to hire a chaise and a fast horse, and to say that he would call himself before noon that day and tell the hostler when the vehicle would be wanted. Not a sign of impatience escaped him until the time drew near for the departure of the early conrh. Then the captain's curly lips began to twitch with nnxiety, and the captain's restless fingers teat the devil's tattoo unintermittingly on the window-pane. The rumbling wheels were heard at last, the coach drew up at Sea View, and Captain Wragge's own observation informed him that one among the passengers who left Aldborongh that morning was Mrs. Lecount. The main uncertainty disposed of, a serious qnestion—suggested by the events of the morn ing—still remained to be solved. Which was the destined end of Mrs. Lecount's journey— Zurich or St. Crux? That she would certainly inform her roaster of Mrs. Wragge's ghost story, and of every other disclosure in relation to names and places which might have escaped Mrs. Wragge's lips, was beyond all donbt. But of the two ways at her dis)>osal of doing the mis chief—either personally or by letter—it was vi tally important to the captain to know which she had chosen. If she had gone to the admiral's, no choice would be left him but to follow the coach, to catch the train by which she traveled, and ontstrip her afterward on the drive from the station in Essex to St. Crux. If, on the contra ry, she had been contented with writing to her master, it would only be necessary to devise measnres for intercepting the letter. The cap- fain derided on going to the post-office in the first place. Assuming that the housekeeper had written, she would not have left the letter at the mercy of the servant—she would have seen it safely in the letter-box before leaving Aldbor ough. "Good-morning," said the captain, cheerful ly addressing the postmaster. "I am Mr. By- grave, of North Shingles. I think you have a letter in the box addressed to Mr. ——?" The postmaster was a short man, and conse quently a man with a proper idea of his own importance. He solemnly checked Captain Wraggo in full career. "When a letter is once posted, Sir, :> no said, " nobody out of the office has any business with it until it reaches its address." The captain was not a roan to be dnnnted, even by a postmaster. A bright idea struck him. He took out his pocket-book, in which Admiral Bertram's address was written, and returned to the charge. " Suppose a letter has been wrongly directed by mistake?" he began. "And suppose the writer wants to correct the error after the letter is put in the box?" "When a letter is once posted, Sir," reitera ted the unpenetrable local authority, "nobody out of the office touches it on any pretense what ever." Granted with ail nut neart," persisted the cnptain. "I don'i .v, ifm to touch it—I only want to explain myself. A lady has posted a letter here addressed to 'Noel Vnnstone, Esq., Admiral Bartram's, St. Crux iu the Marsh, Es sex.' She wrote in a great hurry, and she is not quite certain whether she added the name of the post-town, ' Ossory.' It is of the last import ance that the delivery of the letter should nut be delayed. What is to hinder yonr facilitating the post-office work, and obliging a lady, by add ing the name of the post-town (if it happens to be left ont) with your own hand? I pnt it to yon as a zealons officer—what possible objection can there be to granting my request f" The postmaster was compelled to acknowl edge that there could be no objection, provided nothing hut. r. necessary line was added to the address; provided nobody touched the letter but himself; and provided the precions time of tha post-office was not suffered to run to wasta. As there happened to be nothing particular to do at that moment, he wonld readily oblige the lady at Mr. Bygrave's request. Captain Wragge watched the postmaster's hands, as they sorted the letters in the box, wilh breathless eagerness. Was the letter there? Would the bands of the zealons public servant suddenly stop? Yes! They stopped, and picked a letter out from the rest. " ' Noel Vanstone, Esq.,' did you pay?" asked the postmaster, keeping the letter in his own hand. " 'Noel Vanstone, E«q.,' replied the captain, " 'Admiral Bartram's, St. Crux in the Marsh.'" " ' Ossory, Essex,' " chimed in the postmaster, throwing the letter back into the box. "The lady has made no mistake, Sir. The address is quite right." Nothing but a timely consideration of the heavy debt he owed to appearances prevented Captain Wragge from throwing his tall white hat up into the air as soon ns he found himself in the street once more. All further doubt was now at an end. Mrs. Lecount had written to her master, therefore Mrs. Leconnt was on her way to Zu rich! With ms head higher than ever, with the tails of his respectable frock-coat floating behind him in the breeze, with his bosom's native impudence sitting lightly on its throne, the cnptain strutted to the inn and called for the railway time-table. After making certain calculations (in black and white, as a matter of course), he ordered his chaise tt be ready in an hour, so as to reach the railway i. time for the second train running to London, v th which there happened to be no communica ion from Aldborough by coach. His next proceeding was of a far more seri ous kind; his next proceeding implied a terrible certainty of success. The day of the week was Thursday. From the inn he went to the church, saw the clerk, and gave the necessary notice for a marriage by license on the following Monday. Bold as he WHS, his nerves were a little shaken by this last achievement; his hand trembled as it lifted the latch of the garden gate. He doc tored his nerves with brandy-and-water before lie sent for Magdalen to inform her of the pro ceedings of the morning. Another outbreak might reasonably be expei-ted when the heard that the last irrevocable step had been taken, and that notice had been given of the wedding-day. The captain's watch warned him to lose no time in emptying bis glass. In a few minutes he sent the necessary message up stairs. While waiting for Magdalen's appearance he provided himself with certain materials which wen now necessary to carry the conspiracy to its crowning point. In the first place, he wrote his assumed nnme (by no means in so fine a hand as nsual) on a blank visiting-card, and added, underneath, these words: " Not a moment is to be lost. I am waiting for yon at the door—come down t« me directly." His next proceeding was to take some half dozen envelopes out of the case, and to direct them all alike to the following address: " Thomas Bygrave, Esq., Mtissared's Hotel, Salis bury Street, Strand, I.on-ion." After carefully placing the envelopes and ;he card u: his breast pocket he shut up the dcs>k. As he rose froiH the writing-tublc Mngdalcn came into the room. The captain tcr.k n Tioment to decMi on the best meth Hunting, H'hinc, and m«ny othtr flrmt firrrrtu all In the Hi-knf Hon&r*. 7,BOO fold. 8thEd. Price only 20c. 8 for*!. Mailed fret- Address * (B. E. HBSTES & C«., HUn*ue, N. H. J. H. Winslow & Co. 100,000 Watches, Chains, Beta of Jewelry, Gold Pens, Bracelets, Lockets, Rings, Gent's Fins, Sleeve Buttons, Studs, &c., &c. Worth $500,000, To b* gold for ONE DOLLAR each, without regard to valve, and not to be paid/or until you knote what you are to gH. Send for Circular containing full lilt and particulars. Send 26 cents for a Certificate. Certificates of all the various articles, stating what each one can have, are first put Into envelopes, sealed np, and mixed; and when ordered, are taken out without regard to choice, and s nt by mall, thus giving all a fair chance. On receipt of the Certificate you will see what you can hare, and then U Is at your option to-send one dollar and take the article or not. In ail transactions by mall, we shall charge for forward- Ing the Certificates paying postage, and doing the business, 26 cents each, which must be enclosed when tbe oejtlficate Is sent for. Five Certificates win be sent for $1, eleVen for $2, thirty for $fi, sixty-fire for $10, and one hundred for $115. AOENTB.—Those acting as Agents will be allowed ten cents on every certificate ordered by them, provided their remittance sunounts to one dollar. Agents will collect 26 cents for every Certificate and remit 16 cents to us. either In cash or postage stamps. Great caution should be used hy our correspondents in regard to giving their correct ad dress, Town, i 'ounty, and state. Addre.-s J. H. WINSLOW & CO* 208 Broadway, New York. N.B. We wish It distinctly understood that all articles of Jewelry not giving perfect satisfaction can be returned and tlit money will be refunded. BURNETT'S Cooking Extracts. Hontelceepen will find Buroett's Cooking Extracts an agreeable and economical assistant in their labors. They have the endorsement of the fint Hotels In tbe States and Canada*. BvBNETT'e FLAVOBINQ EXTRACTS, In their delicacy and strength, rival the frnlt from whlcli they are prepared, and are less expensive. AGENTS WANTED, tô Humbug /] CmouLABa FUB. "The Craiff Microscope" Magnifies small objects 10,000 times. So simple that a child muy use it A most Miitable present for any person. Price by mail, $2 26; with six mounted objects, $3. Ad dress HENRY CRAIO, 181 Centre Street, New York. BEAUTY.—Hunt's Bloom of Roses, a charming and perfectly natural color for the cheeks, or lips. Will not wash off, but remains durable for years. Can only be re moved with vinegar, and warranted not to Injure the skin. Used by the celebrated Court Beauties of Europe exclu sively. Mailed free from observation for one dollar. HUNT A CO., Perfumers, 133 8. Seventh St., Phllad.
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