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and books, letters and papers — some very valuable — were trampled in the dirt in every direction. A large map, hanging in the hall, and the piano, were the only things which seemed to have escaped the general confusion. --The latter, however, had several of its keys stripped of ivory. Nor did they confine their pillaging to private property and such things as are of use to the Government. Even the finest specimens of natural beauty were sacrificed to their love of destruction. I visited Weyer's Cave the morning after the Yankees had left. Here many of the beautiful scenes so graphically depicted by Porte Crayon were broken to pieces and much injured by the universal desire of sending something to home as captured from the rebels. Perhaps Porte Crayon himself took this occasion to carry off some of the most coveted pieces, as we are told he was with that army. As it may be of interest to these who are acquainted with the cave, I will state the names of those parts most