lls or pipe-clayed crossbelts. I saw, too, with these other
laid-aside trappings, dozens and hundreds of Minie and other
cartridges, never now to be fired at an enemy by the hand that had
placed them in the now discarded cartridge box.

'The walls of the various rooms of the Lacy House, like those of
most of the old houses in Virginia, are ceiled up to the top with
wood, which is painted white. There is a heavy cornice in each
room; there are the huge old-fashioned fireplaces, the marble
mantelpieces over the same, and in the main dining room, where it
was the custom for the men to remain after dinner, and after the
ladies had retired, was a curious feature to be observed, that I
have never seen but once or twice. Over the marble mantel, but
quite within reach, runs a mahogany framework intended for the
reception of the toddy glasses, after the various guests shall have
finished the generous liquor therein contained.

'There are still some vestiges of the family furniture
remaining--some rosewood and mahogany sideboards, tables,
bedsteads, etc., which the family have not been able to remove, and
which the occupying soldiers have found no use for. The most
notable of these articles is a musical instrument, which may be
described as a compound harp-organ. It is, in fact, an upright
harp, played by keys which strike the wires by a pianoforte action,
which has an ordinary piano keyboard. This is, in fact, the
earliest form of the modern pianoforte. Then, in the same
instrument is an organ bellows and pipes, the music from which is
evoked by means of a separate keyboard, the bellows is worked by a
foot treadle, like that most detestable abomination known to
moderns as a melodeon. Thus, in the same instrument, the performer
is supposed to get the powers and effect both of an upright piano
and a small organ. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that
this instrument (which, doubtless, originally cost at least $3,000)
is now utterly useless, the wires, many of them, being broken, and
the whole machine being every way out of order. The maker's name is
set down as 'Longman & Broderup, 26 Cheapside, No. 13 Haymarket,
London.' The poor old thing has doubtless been in the Lacy House
for more than a hundred years. It has been rudely dragged from its
form