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IL 00 .tnehaubsequentinsertion. 725 i 2.s.rgertavertise.nient.i a proportion , A I iberal I iscouncovi Ilbe matte to ourtrterly,lialf. em Iv a ..•esrl yi.l ve rti4ers,wh o are strietl3confined , o I ler., r huAness. fottrg. pndei the Snow. f TIY, GEN. LANpEir. The emring,ltad tripped and lost her Hoovers, The summer sauntered through the glades, The wounded feet of sutprran,togrs Left ruddy footsteps on the bisies. And ell the glories of the woods Had flung their'shodowysile'nee down,— When. wilder thin the storm It broods, She fled before the winter's froWn. For her sweet spring had lost its flowers, She fell, and mission's tongues 01 flame pun reddening through the blushing bowers, ;',?;owliaggard as her nuked shame: " . ; • One secret thought her soul had screened. When prying matrons sought her wrong, And Blame stalked on. a mouthing fiend, A And mocked her as .he red along. And now she bore its weight aloof, To hide it where one ghastly birch ,Field up the rafters of the roof, - And grim old pipe trees formed a church. 7wasbere her spring-time vows were sworn, And here upon its frozen sod, • While wintry midnight reigned forlorn, She knelt, and raised her hands to God. The cautious creatures of the air Looked out from molly a secret place, eee the embers of tle.pair 'Flu•), the gra y turbos of herifuce. And where the last week's snow had caught The gray beard ova cypre'ss limb, She heard the mw.ieoiiiihought Mere sweet than her own childhood's hymn vor ri=ng in that cadence low, 0' With“Now , l lay me down to sleep„!' ller mother rocked her to and fro, And prayed the Lord her mil to keep. And mill her prayer wan humbly raised, field up in two cold hand.' to God. That, white an some old pine -tree blazed, Gleamed fuj o'er that dark frozen sod. The storm Mole out.boyond the wood, She grew the vision of a cloud, per dark hair was a misty hood, Her stark face shone as from a shroud Still sped the wild to rm's rustling tett To martial mu.ic of the pines, Alta to her cold heart'. muffled bent into solemn lines. And still, its illicit secret's woe No mortal words had ever found, The dying ainnerdraped in snow al: Up her prayer-without a sound But when the holy angel baud; Saw this lone vigil, lowly kept, they gathered from tier frozen baud.' The prayer thus folded, and they wept Some snowflakes—wiser than the Tast 7 : Soon faltered o'er a thing of clay, First read thi4 secret of her hrea;t, Then gently roLed-her where she lay The dead dark hair, made white with onow, A still stark fate, two folded palms, And (mothers, breathe-hor sderet low!) An unborn infant—smking nlmu. God kept her council; cold and MOM Her steadfast moaners closed her eye!, Ilu head-Hone 4.4 no old tree's root, Be mine to utter, —"Hefe she lief [Atlantic Monthly gsisttimro. I.ove and . Marriage in Persia. When a poor man has a pretty daughter about eleven or. welve years old —the•age at ;ditch Persian ladies are supposed to have matrimonial views —it marriage-broker wait~ upon him, and endeavors to strike a bargain for her. The broker, generallya moolah or priest, will' perhaps offer frog two to Cour hundred tomauns, or, say, from one to two hundred pounds English money, ae a fair price for a - iiisug lady. The bargain eons : pleted, the girl probably be/mince:lhp wife of some khan, rich enough to afford himself such it 'fairy, and to tiie lim it er handsome profit on the p•ansaqtion. it is usually all a matter erbusinqqa, and a man poStink up his accounts the at' end of the year, might nude down that opqri.skqt; s day be bought a lady,,pretty muclras though bq had purchased a fine Turcoman horse or, an English rifle, only the price of the two latter articles would be considerably higher than the first. Ii la • that .either, of the Parties, hare. previously seen each other, so that the lifting of the veil upon the.wedding day may be a delightful surprise, cr a glum disappointment, according to circumstances. • A. Persian bride, when first bought: is queerlittle body, fattened up with rice 'and sweet-meats for the occasion, and sadly be.. smeared with cosmetics: -Collyrinm has has been Patin her eyi's to make them dirk and langluisbing, iid'they are also 'elionga : .: ted by some means, so that they have the shapeefahnonda_ Jas./lair .iadyed a coal black* indigo, or nfarediab brown by in digo and henna Mixedywith according to her own fancy or that of her broker.. ger Vebroirs ltrit'pilisfiird, and; pain ted.'sc thickly that Ihdy-Ltak:lnto ilarge pieces of court-pleaterbitibtoirdliesitnek = Viers/ Itutei'prikip becattaisibb'y :za 1.27.1..?* se' arra - joined artificially across the nose. Her cheeks are painted in excessively bright col ors and two shiny locks of hair, guuomed to gether, and stuck on each side of them in the shape of number sixes, placed the wrong way. Her bands and feet, finger nails and toe nails, are dyed a. light mahogany color with henna. She has no more shape or figure than a bolster. Poor little thing! She plays such tricks with herself generally. that at twenty she is an old woman, with her skin all shriveled and burned up by caustics-and poisoned pricks of needles. This odd undersized creature waddles about the apartment of her new lord in the finest and largest trosysers possible. She puts on a great any pairs of them, and is as proud of the size of her legs as an Amer-- can damsel is of her crinoline. idle :wears a smart embroidered jacket with short sleeves, and a pretty chernisette of emu light white silk material, embroidered with ! gold threads; but her arms, and legs, and neck ore bare. She hangs upon her little person as many jewels, gold coins. and trink ets as she can rH.:ibly get at. She is es pecially fond of pearls and diatnondt:, but is not particular as to their beauty or value; a diamond is a diamond for her, whatever its shape or color may bp. is vei.y fine. bat never elegant. Her mind is entirely uncul tivated. She has neither education nor at- , complisliments, but she has a gond deal of flowery talk about roses and nightingales, with an undencurrentof strange roundabout wit and drollery. There is a,i utter want of delicacy•and modesty in her conversation.— She knows a groat many things which she ought not to know, and child as she is in years, she could out-wit the wisest man who .over wore a gray beard. OE One of the fist visits she receives after her marriage rill most probably be from her father, who will tell her that his home is cold and cheerless since she has left, and that her mother is getting old. This pathetic appeal is certain to touch her heart, end she will employ the first money she can coax out of her husband to buy her father a new young wife. All Persia seems fair7y wifezmad, accord ing to our northern notions. A beggar ask ing fur alms in the street will fund his stropgpst claim to your charity on the startling fact that be has five wives at home, and has just married a young one. You take a sevont from rags and hunger, and he spends the first Or tomnuns he can serape together in your service, in buying a bran-new wife. But the eldest, or first married wife, •is .usually house- I keeper and mistress. She usually distri butes rations of food to the rest, who hold her in • much respect and some awe. 7.11.0 number of marriages is undoubtedly in creased by the strange conditions under which some of them take place. A mar riage contract is seldom intended to fast the life of either party. A lady may be taken on lease, like a house, for a definite period; and this ,species of matrimony is much en .pouraged by the moolahs, who derive liberal fees 'fiom it. Children are not the source of etnbarrasir meat, even to poor people, tl?at they are supposed sometimes to be in more civilized o atntris. where need be no anxiety at all about them, indeed. They can al ways pick up rice enough to live somewhere, and the family of a rich man is often far too numerous fur his children to expect to be rich men too. Hence it happens that pov erty, far from bringing contempt on a than in tho East, seems oven to be invested with a kind of majesty. All men, therefore. think they have nature's own right to marry; simd few trouble themselves at all 'Am.'s the care of a family; the world is wide enough for everybody, the say. The shah, however, is under some diffi culty occasionally in' finding a new wife. shah sent to one of the khans to propose for the daughter, a very beautiful woman. But her father begged that she might be excnss4 so inconvenient an honor, for that when his majesty had enjoyed her society fir a month he would probably forget all about her, and she mu.t then, according to custom, remain in a state of widowhood for the rest of her life. A shah being an avrftil person in Per. sit!. his majesty is said to have expressed such resentment at ,being crossed in his ca price, that for a long time the khan did not dare to marry his daughter to any one. There appears to be no such thing as a m. • esalliance in Persia. One of the innu merable sons of Faxell Shah fell love with a very old and ugly woman in humble life. The king tried to joke the young man out of bis • fancy. ".4h, sir," replied the prince, "if you could see kii r with my eyesl" This veva anewei of ; senteationa Oriental flavor was considered to settle the "affair completely. and 't.; 'reply to all Objections, • which perhaps it did. Persians have not the same jealousy abOut their women as the Ti ritti have. If you are really intimate with' a man, he would be very likely to introduce you to his wife; and the anderuen is by no means' closed like a harem. , The life of the anderoon is made up of do rnestic plots and • quarreling: goasipping, iting, smoking, bathing, and • palling about finery. It is chiefly governed by doctors and old women, who pretend to a knowledge of necromancy and magic, with the making of lov'e ptsilteo. Fearful cruelties are said Eo to prabtioed among women. tisPeoisly to ward , thiir servants; and it is to homer* than sos,oted $b the deep inner nature of ilit'Peirnian i kin!. n in: is" that g - k tiips e tli. panth er or .Sliodigroso. .ao 4oroor. , dsc.ll •-", f "NO ENTERTAINMENT'S SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1862. ragos in the world than some of those dyed AO painted Orientals. An acquaintance of mine having dust a sum of money, suspected his Amenity' housekeeper of having stolen it; he was imprudentenough to tell her so; asd the next morning, as tie was taking tea, be was disturbed hy.strange noises, whiCh appeared to him to coote r frornst room at the other side of the house. lie went to see what was the matter there, and found that the Armenian woman having discovered the real thief. had enticed him into a room with some of her female friends; they had then thrown him down upon the ground, gagged him, trussed him like a fowl with his legs and arms behind him, and had then pro ceeded to nip little pieces out of his body with red ho't pincers which they heated in a pan of charcoal. They were thus agreeably etoployed when my friend found them, and they would doubtless have extracted a con fession 01 the robbery if they had not been interrupted. The women's opartmentc are nqually very dirty and slovenly, untidy, and out of order. Beautiful china, cot glose, gold trays, and jeweled ropes; everything to eat, everything to drink, the sweetmeats, the coffee, the tea, the fruit, are all eoually and abundantly dirty. There is great license in manners at Tehe ran; women of the highest rank pay visits. to men without scruple, usually coming: dressed like beggars, to avoid observation. ) The vis.ts of the ladies to each other are in terminable. They call at seven o'clock in, ttw, morning and step all day, smoking and eating, and bragging about their clothes and husbands. Pubic scandals are rare. If a husband should be too inpisitive, re is apt to be, poisoned, and if a lover should be indiscreet he may chance to be short-lived. A great t khan was stabbed by ap unseen band, in broad daylight not long ago, at Tabrees,, fur boasting of a love affair. Owing to the almost unrestrained liberty they enjoy, women mix themselves with everything in Persia; nothing is done with out them: they have immense .political in fluence; and they, with the wretched tribe of beldames and fortune-tellers who bang about the anderoon, overturn viziers and ministers at will. As there is neither comfort, cleanliness, repose nor attraction in Persian houses, as wives are neither companions nor friends, and the sweet ties of home are almost un known, eo there is little domestic affection. 4 good-natured old lady of two or three and twenty, once told me, with a sly look, "My husband would have divorced me long ago, but that am suoh a good cook." "Ile likes me best," said a plump little lady, proudly speaking of her position in the nnderoon, to a ,Itmly 9f my acquaintance—"he likes me best because I arn . fat and ooft liken feather bed." ~?.o it bappens that the connexion be tween husband and wives being of so light n kind, when a man fulls into diograes, his wives and relations tuke part against end their first concern is to ask fur thei,r dowry and divorce. When a an dies, his widows go, accord ing to immemorial custom in the past, to his nearest relative, who is bound to support them. If they be young, he finds them new husbands; if old, food, raiment, and a home. Something About the Chinese THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS M. Hue thinks that every nation has a, pe culler smell, and hence he was always de tected and barked at by Chinese dogs, though 4ressed as a Chinese' The odor of a China man is something like musk, and they all know the smell of the Europe in, though it is well understood that we smell less strong ly titan otter nations. But the Chinese have some sensible ideas (though perhaps more economical than graceful) us to Dasssrvo Wanuor Exam:nu—They can not itutnagine, says Mr. Fortune, how the Eg urope4Pg Cutt gist with the thin clothing they generally go about in. When the weather was cold, I used always tO - wear stout, warm great-coat above my other dress, and yet the Chinese were continually feeling the thickness of my clothes. and tell ing me that surely I must feel cold. Their mode of keeping themselves warm in winter differs entirely from ours. They rarely or never think of using fires in their rooms fur this.purpose, hut as the cold increases, they put-on another jacket or two, until they feel that the warmth of their bodies is not carried off faster than it is generated. As the raw, damp cold of morning gives way to the ge nial rays of noon, the upper coats are one by one thrown off until evening, when they are again pat oti. In the spring months, the upper garments are cast off by degrees, and when the summer arrives, the Chinese are found clad in their dresses of cotton, or is the grass-cloth manufactured in the country. In northern towns, the ladies sometimes use a Small brass stove, like a little oval besket, having the lid grated, to allow the charcoal tq barn and the heat to .. escape; this they place upon their tables or on the floor, for the nqrpose of warming their hands and feet. Ifarsg also carry these little stoves in their huticlo, tutAer the feet of the children. ,Such, hovrever, i 4 ;he thickness and•warmtb of their digeS4s, that it is on ly twilit! coldest weather they require them:" Little -children, is winter, are so covered op that they liok like bundles of clothes, nearly as breid ;Si they are long; and when the_ padding is retuned "Itt *arm weather, it is difficult to imagine that you see before you the same individuals. The prodigality of clothing is rendered the more necessary .by the ,swereiep of the Chinese, of which M. Hue speaks, for P.gyAn nastie promenades." The most patient, industrious, _And persevering of ,mankind, where there is an oki.ect,to.be gained, exer tion without proet a..rtction they cannot comprehend. To _watch Europeans recreat ing themselves, by .pacing up And 410jrn.,With the activity of travelers hurrying to a goal, is a spectacle which rises in them the same emotions with which Cowper contemplated the barren speculations of philosophical theorists:- - 'lletzatd me. therefore, comtnott-sense.{ say, - From reverse 4 air), from the toil Of dropping into empty wells, And growing old nt drawing nothing up.'" Mr. Fortune and some &Wish friends, who went up the country by canal from Ningpo, were ❑eenetomed to get out from the boat, when tired with silting, and walk awhile upon the hank. ••Is it not strange," they heard a Chinese say, "that these r eople prefer walking when they have a boat a , well as ourselve.?" TUE cIiINE3E NATURAL Cloi110:--"You have only to take the first man that comes, and after a few days' practice be will acquit himself of his duties to a miracle. The most astonishing thing of all all is the ex cessive simplicity of their means; a single inn sauce-pan is the sole implement they require for executing the most difficult CUM binationx The national predilection is for made dishes more after the manner of the French than th uglieh. The humblest peasant expW,in concocting savory messes out of the simplest materials. A Chinaman, 4.lr.,Foxtutte states, wppld starve upon what used, and perbaps.cort4inpes, to be the harvest diet of Scottish laborers,- milk and porridge far breakfast and sapper ; and bread and beer for dinner. The tea makers whom we took over to India could not live upon the salt-beef and biscuit of our English sailors. They bad a private store of articles with which, atesmall expense, they compounded dishes that gratified the palate, as well aq appeased hunger. "A real Chinese dinner cannot appear otherwise than strange to an unreflecting foreigner, who itnazines that there can only exist one method of living among all the na tions in the world. To begin with dessert and finish with soups; to drink wine but and smoking out of small porcelainsc.ups; to employ two little sticks, instead of a fork, to take up the food, which is brought to the table ready cut into mouthfuls; to use, in stead of napkins, little squares of soft, col ored paper, of which a supply is placed by the side of each guest, and which a servant carries away as they are done with; to leave your place between the courses, to smoke or to amuse yourself; to raise your chop sticks to your forehead, and lay them upon your cup, to announce to the company that yoy have finished your dinner—these are all singularities which rouse the curiosity of 4uropearo. The Chinese, on their part, neyer get oyey their surprise when they see us at table, and they inquire how it is that we can swallow our drinks cold, and how we came by Mae singular and extravagant idea of making use of a trident to convey our food to our mouths, at the risk of running it into our lips or our eyes. rsey think it very odd that our nutse.nd almonds are served in their shells, and that the servants do not take trouble to peel the fruit, and cut out the bones from the meat. Though they are not very nice about the nature of their food, and relish fritters of silkworms and preserved tadpoles, they cannot understand the predi lection of our epicures for a high pheasant, or a cheese which has all the movements of an animated being. At a dinner which was attended by Captain Laplace of the French navy, salted earthworms formed part of the first course, but so disguised that the con fiding guests ate theta without a suspicion of the truth." A Fling at Dressing-Gowns My name is Albert Fling. I am an ac• tire, business. married man, that is, wedded to Mrs. Fling, and married to business. I had the misfortune, some time since, to break a leg; and before it was mended Madame Fling, hoping to soothe my hours of convalescence, caused to be made for me a dressing-gown, which, on dye reflec tion, I believe was modeled after the latest style of strait jacket. This belief is con firmed by the fact that when I put it on, I am at once confined to the house, •'get mad," and am soberly convinced that if any of my friends were to see me walking in the streets, chid in this apparel, they would instantly entertain ideas of my in sanity. In the hours of torture endured while wearing it, I have appealed to my dear wife to truly tell me where she first conceived tile thought that there was a grain of com fort to be found in wearing it upon my back? She has candidly answered that she first reed about it in divers English novels and sundry American novels, the latter in variably a re-hash of the first. In both of these varieties of the saute 4Pooleo of books , the hero is represented as being very com fortable the instant he dons this garment, Rem his feet in slippers, picks qp 4_p per— goes to sleep. 4 friend of mine who has discovered that Shakspetre knew all about stesm•engines. eleetrie telegraphs. cotton-gins, the present r0. 4 0 1 ! 0 . 3 4 and - . gawligktg. 2 : l Pqra4 ulathott dressing-gaws are .distinctly alluded .to in The Tempe* ..ravccip.o: ()Xing Stephano!..look, what a ward robe Isere is for thee. CALIBAN: Let a alone, thou fool; it is but trash.' Slaving•thus proved its age let us next prove that it is in its dotage, andAsas much out of place in this nineteenth century as a monkey in a bed of tulips. We find in the Egyptian temples paint ings ofpriests ,dressed in these gowns: proof that they are antiquely heathenish. And as we always associate a man who wears one with Mr. Mantilini, this proves they are foolish. ..Frgo, as they are old and foolish, they are in-their dotage. I have three several times, while wearing this gowil, been mistaken for Madame Fling by people coming .to the house. The first time 1 was shaving in my chamber: in bounced Miss X—, who believed, as it was rather late, that I had gone down-town. She threw up her hands, exclaiming: -Good gracious, Fanny! du you shave?" N. B.—Fanny is my wife's first namo. The second time I had brought the wood saw and horse up from tLe cellar, and was exercising myself sawing up my winter's wu,,d. in the summer-kitchen. according to Dr. Howl's athice, when the liishman from the grocery entered, bearing a bundle. My back was to him, and only seeing the gay and flowery gown, he exclaimed, in an aw fully audible whisper to the cook: "Sure yer mistress has the power in her arms, jist!" "Think of my wife, my gentle Fanny, ,having it shouted around the neighborhood that her "brute of a husband made her saw all their winter's wood—yes! and split it and pile it too, and make all the fires, and cetera, and oh! I ant glad my husband isn't such .t monster!" I turned on the Irishman, and when he sew my whiskers, he quailed. The third time I was blacking my boots, Ancor in; to Dr. ijourl's pdvice, '.'.expands the deltoid muscles, is of benefit to the met acsrpis, stretches the larynx, opens the oil suphagers, and facilitates expectoration!" I bttd.qtloAon yrbat "allay calls her consery a tory for my field of operation—the conser vatory has two dried fish—geraniums, and. At dead dog—rose, in it, besides a bad smell ing catnip busb; when who should come rnnning in but the 4,entical Miss X-- who caught me shaving. Your Fanny," said she, before / could turn round; '•do you have to black the boots of that odious brute?" •'Jliss X—," said r, turningtoward her, folding toy army over my dressing-gown, :pito of my hating a damp, unpolished boot on ono arm and a wet blacking-brush in the other hand, for I wished to strike a position and awe at the same time; "Miss X—, I am that odious brute himself 1" If you bad observed her wilt, droop, stut ter, fly. My wifo went to the sea-shore last summer. I kept the house open, and staid in town; cause, business. When she returned, Miss X—who lives opposite, called to see her. In less than five minutes my wife was a sad, moaning, desolate, injured, disconsolate, af flicted, etcet. woman. "llow-ow-ow c•could you d-do it, Al-lal bartr she ejaculated, following every word as it came out with tears. "Do what?" • "Oh-wohl oh-woe-wooh-syn-ah!" Miss I—here thought proper to leave, autism prom her eyes a small hardhvare•shop in the way of daggers at me, as much as to say, You are vicious and I hate cheer! (theatrical for hate ye.) Fanny, left to herself, revealed ali to me. Miss through the venitian blinds, bad see! a—gown in my room, latent night. '•ft is too true," said i, "too, too true!" "A!-lal-al-bert! you will bpak my h-heart, I c•could tear the d-d-destroy-oy-yer of my p-p-peace to pp-pieces!" "Come on," said I, "you shall behold the destroyer of you peace. You shall tear her to pioces, or I'll be d—dashed if I don't—l'm tired of the blasted thing." I greened her band, and led her to the baoltTclutotber. "There, against the wall." "It is —" said she. "It is." said I, "my dressing•gown! I will never again put it on my shoulders, never. Rare goes!" Rip it went from the t.nfl up the back to the nook. "gold, Alberti I will send it to the wound soldiers." "Never! they are men, bricks, warriors.— Such female frippery as this shall never dis grace them.. Into the sag-bag--with it, and sell it to the Jewe for a Chios sheep• or a erookery shepherd. Tames:" The age ofdteuing•gowni has passed *wan Rococo chains are hastening to decay: • jEctiares Table of Conttnentai Janata. The Field after.the Fight. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, in writing fromthe battle field at Pittaburg Landing, Teem., gives the following account of the horrible spectacles after. the fight: A visit to the field immediately after the retreat of the rebels and the pursuit of our forces, exhibited a speotaele seldom to be witnessed and most horrible to contemplate. The first approaches, occupying the further range of the enemy's gone, showed at the first glance the work of devastation made bylhose ball' and shell which had overshot the utahr: 'Large trees were entirelfeut , off trithie 'ten" feet ` from 'the ground; heavy limbo lay strewn in every direction, and Acesa . :4f 'es;pliOed missiles 'were scattered all sirogad. This Caroassvk of . dead horses $1,50 PER WEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN HDVANCE and the wrecks of wagons strewed all over the woods, and other evidences of similar character marked,every step of the way. Half a.mile further on and' the more im portant feature of the struggle was brought to view. Dead bodies in the woods, the dealand dying.in the.field, lying in every ameeivable shape, met the gaze on either band. Some lay on their hacks With their clenched ',mid< raised at arms length, up right in the air. Others had fallen with their guns fast .in their grasp e as if they were in the act of loading them when the fatal shaft struck them dead. Others still bad received the winged messenger of death and with their remaining strength had crawled away from further danger, and, sheltering -themselves behind old logs, had laid down.to die. Here were the bodies of those who had fallen in the fight of yester day, and mingled ,with Ahem those from whose wounds the blood was yet trickling away. The scene beggars nll description, and I do not wish to attempt to depict its horrors. The larger guns had done some strange :work. One case I saw where the entire lower portion of a man's font had been carried away, leaving two toes and the up per portion remaining. Another had been I struck by a bullet on the forehead, and the I missile had followed the curve of the head entirely around to the termination of the hair on the back portion of hie cranium.— The case of the celebrated Kansas scoot, Carson, (not Kit,) was horrifying. Ilia face and entire lower portion of his head were entirely gone, his brain dabbling into the little pool of blood which had gathered in the cavity 'below. I could fill pages with such cases, but it is useless to particularize. Suffice it to say the slaughter is immense. TIIE SCENE AT lIIDNIONT As I sit to-night, writing this epistle, the dead and wounded are still around me.— The knife of the surgeon is busy at work, and amputated legs and arms lie scattered in every direetion. The cries of the suffer ing victim, and the groans of those who pa tiently await for medical attendance, are most distressing to any one who has any sympathy with his fellow man.--All day long they have been coming in, and they are placed upon the decks and within the cabins of the steamers, and wherever else they can find a resting place. I hope my eyes may never again look upon such sights. lden with their entrails protruding, others with broken arms and legs, others with bul lets in their shoulders, and ono poor wretch i found whose eyes - bad been shot entirely away. All kinds of conceivable wounds to he seen, in all parts of the body, and from all varieties of weapons. It is midnight, and besides the cries of distress, all is still savetbe hourly discharge of a broadside from the gunboats, sending heavy shell into the vicinity of the enemy's camps. I should judge that they are having a rather sleepless night, under the circum stances. The rain is beginning to fall heavily and mercilessly on the poor wounded who are exposed to its pelting.. Every particle of sheltered space is occupied by them, and yet there are hundreds who have no protection from the storm. Dreaming on Wedding Cake. A bachelor editor out West, who had re ceived from the fair hand of a bride a piece of elegant wedding cake to dream on, thus gives the result of his experience: We put it under the head of our pillow, shut our eyes sweetly as an 'infant blessed with an easy conscience, and soon snored prodigiously. The god of dreams gently touched um, and lo! in fancy we wore mar ried: Never was a little editor so happy.— It was "my love," "dearest," •sweetest." ringing in our ears every moment. Oh, that the dream had broken off here! But no; some evil genius put it into the bead of our ducky to have a pudding for dinner just to please her lord. In a hungry dream we sat down to din ner. Well the pudding moment .arrived, and a huge slice almost obscured from eight the plate before us. "My dear," said we, fondly, "did you make this?" "Yes, love, ain't it nice?" "Glorious; the best liend pudding I ever tested in my life." " I Pluirt pudding, ducky," suggested my wife. "0, no, dearest, bread pudding; I always was fond of 'em." "Call that bread padding?" exclaimed my Wife, while her lips curled slightly with contempt. "Certainly, my dear; reckon I've had enough at the Sherwood house to know bread pudding, my love, by all moans. "Husband, this is really too bad; plum padding is twice as hard to make as bread pudding, and is more expensive, and a great deal better. I say this is plum pudding. sir," and our pretty wife's brow. flashed with excitement. "My love, my sweet, my dear lore," ex claimed we. soothingly, ."do not get angry. I'm sure it's very good, if it is breed pod ding." "You mean, low wretch," fiercely re ; iced our wife, in a higher tone, "you alw it's a plum pudding." 'Then, ma'am, it'sso meanly put together, and so badly burned, that the devil himself would not know • it. I WU you, madam, most distioetlyand emphatically, and I 'will not be contradicted. that ;slowed paddiio . sad the meanest kind at, that.!' . [WHOLE IV - UMBER 1,.654. -"It is plum pudding!" shrieked our wife and she hurled a glass of claret in our face, the glass itself tapping the claret from our nose. "Bread pudding!" gasped .ire, , pluckrto the last, and grasping roasted chicken by the left leg. •Plum pudding!" rose above tire din e and we bad a distinct perception of feeling two plates smash across our bead. ”Bread pudding!' " we groanedin a rage, as the chicken left our hand, and, dying with a swift wing across the table, landed in madam's bosom. "Plum pudding!" ?mended the Wer'ory from the enemy, u the gravy dish '.tooktta where we bad been depositiog the IlrstTiart of our dinner, and a plate of beets 116714 upon our white vest. •'Bread pudding forever!" shoat we is defiance, dodging the soup tureen, and fall ing under•ice.oontents. "Plum pudding!" yelled our :amiable spouse, as, noticing our misfortune; she de termined to keep ns down by piling 'Sipco -us .dishes with no gentle • hand. Then' in rapid succession followed .the war' aides. "Plum pudding!" she shrieked with 'every dish. "Bread pudding!" in smothand .tortes came up in reply. Then it was "'plum pud ding" in rapid succession, the Jut cry growing feebler, till just; as we can distinctly recollect, it had grown'to a whisper, - "Pliant pudding" resounded like thundeijalloWed by a tremendous - crash; as oar irifrileaPed upon the pile with her Zelicate feet, ttnd commenced jumping up :and "doWn, whin; thank Heaven, we awoke,. and tints saved our lire. We shall nettardream onwedding cake again; that's the moral. - Swearing a Contraband.•, The following description of iweltriag,n contraband is from a letter to the Cincilinati Enquirer from a membor of,ComiattE, First lovia Cavalry: • Innumerable questions were propounded to him, when the oorporal advanced, alWitii ing: !'• 6 "See hero, Dixie, before you, enter the service of the United States, , you must be sworn." "Yes, masen., I do dot." be capliedoFh, the corpora' continue 1: • _ ip"Well, then, take hold of this holding out a letter envelope upon.yrkich was delineated the Godlese of Liberty stand ing upon a Suffolk pig, wearing the emblem of our country. The negro grasped.the et. velope cautiously with his - thumb and_fover finger, When the corporal proceedod„to„ad: minister the oath by saying:_: . ,: "You do solemnly swear , .that,yott will support the ConititUtion of theUrlited Stat e !, and see that there are no grounds,floutym upon the coffee at all times, "Yes, masse, I do dat," be repliod„, "L oilers settle him in the coffee:po.: Here be let go of the envelope to ,gettiott late by downward thrust of hie, (gratin:lw the direction that would 'be given to,tba to the coffee-gronade in future. • f "Never mind how you do,it,?,Shouteltittik corporal, "but hold on to.the "Lordy, maws, I forgot," seilethe,negett. as he darted forward and grasped theenrol with firmer clutch, when -the corpora/ tinned: "And you do solomidy swear tlia4 support the Constitution of all .t.hajoyel States, and will wit spit upon the plateswben cleaning them, Or Wipe them with your skirt sleeve." Here a frown lowered upon tbe brew . ,-ef the negro, his eyes expanded to their largest dimensions, while his lip protruded with ,tt rounded form. as he exelaitnetl "Lordy, mama, I neber do dat; I , .allers washes dem : mice. Ole misses 'tioular 'bout dat." "Never mind, old Missus,"ebonla,gia corporal, as he resumed: "and tin solemnly swear th . at . you will. put , ts4lkits the coffee every morning, actaeo4ttatAa ham and eggs are not cookatoo utucligit Poo little." "Yes, I do dat ;' I'm) a good cookj!, "And lastly," continued the to;iporo), "you do , solemnly swear tiat w hen this war is over you'll make tracki for 4f:ice almighty fast." "Yes, mates, Ido dat. I antra visited to go to Chee-cargo." - • Here the regimental dramsbeat..tig for dress parade, when Tom 8ent0e 4 77 4r4 being his name—was declared dely..aworst in and oommitaioned a cheif cook Com pany K. of the First lowsCmelrit Corm:restos or slur Prrisinitin —A Pittsbarger on one of the' inortir,b*i on the Mississippi; gives tbe:follaikttg:4. count of the effect' of the firing' "TO`giiii you an idea of the concussion <maind by the discharge of the mortars, rui . lllt you the effect it bad on some things f my yr . ea" had all my clothes ins strong bcrs, placid in the bold of the mortarboat. Altai ti "o' arm discharges of the mortar. the!tioi shattered to phloem and my clothes scatter' e . over the hold. It even broke' the simple( my knapsack, and scattered the contests s .— My cap was blown overboirdied The windows. Of a tugboat 400Welitist* distant were broken. Al' foe 'lli a ill s on myself ; it made' sielidatent us t ilestufli post, and I feel eendadal tinging lietti* sass."' Tereidayslsitsr be addle, `"Thillihidig of the mortars has osaesdloinsveltsrApft ma -me. and I baste entirely lssa - NlMbii the deafness first ooessiona' - t. 4rof =I lEEE ING
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