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he went up stairs. In one room, a man with gloves on was rum¬ 
maging bureau drawers. He had a large pile of letters in one 
hand, and a daguerreotype in the other. Trunks which had been 
locked were opened, their contents strewed everywhere, and a fire 
was blazing in the bed. After throwing the bed out of the win¬ 
dow, this friend went into another chamber, and put out the fire 
which was kindled in a closet. 
This man, so busily prying into bureau drawers and private 
correspondence, was one of the principal men in the “ law-and- 
order party.” 0, southern honor! how her gloss has become dim, 
when her chief men, the self-constituted champions of southern 
institutions, attempt to gain their ends by stealing private corre¬ 
spondence, and pillaging a lady's drawers ! 
About seven o’clock, the semi-human creatures began to leave 
the town. The large covered wagons, which stood near our house 
to receive the spoils, moved off. Houses out of town, which had 
escaped molestation, were opened for the reception of the destitute 
and homeless. 
About nine o’clock the flames burst forth from the home on 
Mt. Oread, and the “ legally organized militia ” had completed 
their work. Many thousand dollars’ worth of property had been 
destroyed. People had been robbed of their all. Lawrence was 
destroyed; and the President bears the signal honor. Crown his 
brows with asphodel and wormwood, ye American people, for he 
has wrougit for your fellow-countrymen bitterness and woe! 
