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When to despair we're almost driven, There's precious little fnn in living, When our last copper's rudely riven From hands that held it lovingly. But larger yet the duns shall grow, When interest is added on below, Lengthening the chain a foot or so, While gazing at them hopelessly. 'Tis so, that scarce have we begun To plead for time upon a duD , Before there was another one Demanding pay ferociously. The prospect darkens ; on, ye brave! Who would our very bacon save; Waive, patrons ! all your pretexts waive! And pay the piinter honestly. Oh, it would yield us pleasure sweet, A few delinquents now to meet, Asking of lisa clear receipt, For papers taken reg'larlv. THE TALE HE TOLD THE MARINES Now mind I will not guarantee the truth ol this. 1 can only tell you as he told it to us. It sounds improbable, ceitainly, but no one can say it is impossible. What is there to prevent a la dy, if she is sc inclined, from ? But that would spoil the stoiy. And there is no law of nature, I suppose, to restrain a man, who is so devoid of gentlemanly feeling as he is . But that would tell you what is coming. It is no good saying he was intoxicated, because I defy you to get drunk on sherry and soda-water; and to lay it to the heat of the season is absurd, for it was a remarkably cool evening tor Au gust. iNo! Jenkyns is a man who nas had some s range experiences, and this was not the least strange among them. Still, mind, I will not guarantee the truth ol this ; though, by the way, you don't often find a man tell the "same tale twice exactly in the same way if it is not true, and I have heard him '.e|| ihis twice. The first time was at a dinner at Lord -. Well! it does no*, matter where. It is sometimes ad visable not to mention proper names. I don't think mentioning this would do any harm, though—at a dinner at Lord's cricket ground, and the second .time was on the occasion of which I am speaking, when I found him drink ing sherry and soda-water and smoking cheroots with three officers of marines, one of them with five gloves (lady's six-and-a-hilf,) and a withered rose before him, was telling how "alter leading me on this way, after gaining my affections in this treacherous manner, by Jovt ! she throws me over and marries Blubber." "It's like the" sex," says the second marine. "It's woman that sejuices all mankind," said ! the third marine. "It reminds me of what once happened to nyse.'f." said Jenkyns; "you know the story," j he continued, turning to me. "So just order i yourself sonic' sherry and soda-water; ah ! and while you are about it just order some for me too, and you can pay lor them both when they come; then I shan't be put out. Paying for anything always puts me out. Thank you! I'll try one ol your segars. Well, gentlemen," turning to the marines, "sometime ago, I was staying with Sir George P , P House, P shire. Great numbers of people there— , all kinds of amusements going on. Driving, riding, fishing, shooting, everything, in fact. Sir George's daughter, Fanny, was often my companion in these expeditions, and I was con siderably struck with her. For she was a girl to whom the stunning epithet 'stunning' applies better than any other that I am acquainted with. She could ride like Nimrod, she could drive like Jehu, she could row like Charon, she could dance like Terpsichore, *he could run like Di ana, she walked like Juno, and she looked like , V enus. {'ve even seer her smoke," nHHt <B<x)dte. "One good point in her character, at any j rate," said the third marioe. "Just like the sex!" said the second marine. "Ah! she was a stunner," continued Jenkyns, "you should have heard that girl whistle, and laugh—you should have heard her laugh. She : was trul) a delightful companion. We rode together, drove together, fished together, walk ed together, danced together, sang together ; 1 | called her Fanny, and she called me Tom. All | this could have but one termination, you know. I fell tn love with her, and determined to take the first opportunity of proposing. So one day, when we Were oUt together fishing on the take, I went down on my knees amongst the gudg eons, seized her hand, pressed it to my waist coat, and in burning accents entreated her to be my wife. " Don't be a fool !" she said. Now drop it, do! and put me a fresh worm on." "Oh! Fanny," I exclaimed, "don't talk about worms when marriage is in question. Only say—" "I tell you what it is, now,' she replied, an grily, "if you don't drop it I'll pitch you out of the boat." " Gentlemen," said Jenkyns, with strong emotion, " I did drop it ; and I give you mv word of hon <t, with a shore she sent me flying into the water; then seizing the sculls, with a stroke or two she put several yards between us, and burst into a fit of laughter that fortunately prevented her from going any further. I swam up and climbed info the boat. 'Jenkyns,' said I to myself, ' Revenge! Revenge!' 1 disguised my feelings. 1 laughed—hideous mockery ol mirth—l laughed. Pulled to Hie bank, went to the house, and changed my clothes. When I appeared at the dinner table, I perceived that every o-ie had been informed of my ducking universal laughter greeted me. During dinner Fanny repeatedly whispered to her neighbor, and glanced at me. Smothered laughter inva riably followed. 'Jenkyns!' said 1, 'Revenge!' The opportunity soon offered. There was to be a balloon ascent from the lawn, and Fanny had tormented her father into letting her ascend with the aronaut. I instantly took my plans; bribed the aeronaut to plead illness at the mo ment when the machine should have risen ; learned from him the management of the bal loon, though I understood that pretty well be fore, and calmly waited the result. The day came. The weather was fine. The balloon was inflated. Fanny was in the car. Every thing was ready, when the asronaut suddenly fiioted. He was carried into the house, and Sir George accompanied him td see that he was properly attended to. Fanny was in despair. "Am 1 to lose my air expedition?" she ex claimed, looking over the side ol the car, 'some one understands the management of this thing, surely ? Nobody ! Tom !' she called out to me, 'you understand it, don't you V " Perfectly !" I answered. "Come along, then !" she cried, "be quick ; before papa comes back." "The company in genera! endeavored to dis suade her from her project, but of course in vain. After a decent show of hesitation, I el'inbed into the car. The balloon was cast o(T, and rapidly sailed heavenward. There was scarcely a breath of wind, and we rose almost straight up. We rose above the house, and she laughed, and said: "How jolly!" "We were higher than the highest trees when she smiled, and said it was very kind of me to come with her. We were so high that the people below looked like mere specks, and she hoped that I thoroughly undeistood the man ' agement of the balloon. Now was my time, j "I undersland the going up part," i answer ed ; "to come down is not so easy," and I whistled. "What do you mean?" she cried. "Whj, when you want to go up faster, you throw some sand overboard," I replied, suiting the action to the word. "Don't be foolish, Tom," she said, trying to appear quite calm and indifTerent, but trembling uncommonly. "Foolish!" I said. "Oh, dpar, no! but wheth er 1 go along the grouud or up in the air, I like to go this pace, and so do you, Fanny, I know. Go it, you cripples!" and over went another sand-bag. "Why, you're mad, surely," she whispered in utter terror, and tried to reach the bags, but I kept her back. <4 Only with love, my dear," I answered, smiling pleasantly "only with love for you, Oh, Fanny, I adore you ! Say you will be my wife." "I gave you my answer the other day," she replied; "one I should have thought you would have remembered," she added, laughing a litlle, notwithstanding her terror. "1 re-jiember it perfectly," I answered, "but I intend to have a different reply to that. You see those five sand-bags, I shall ask you five times to become m) wife. Every time you re fuse I shall throw over a sand-bag—so, lady fair, as the cabmen would say, reconsider your decision, and consent to become Mrs. Jenkyns." "I won't," she said; "I never will ! and, let me tell you, that you are acting in a very un gentlemanly way to press me thus." "You acted in a very lady-like way 'he other day, did you not," i rejoined, "when you knock ed me out of the boat 7 " She laughed for sh? was a plucky girl, and no mistake—a very plucky girl. "However," I went on, "it's no good arguing about it—will you prom ise to give me your hand'" "Never!" she answered; " I'll go to Ursa Major first, though I've got a big enough bear here, in all conscience. Stay! you'd prefer A quarius, wouldn't you?" "She looked so pretty that I was almost in clined to let her off (I was only trying to Iright en her, of course—l knew how high we could go safely, well enough, and how valuable the life of Jenkyns was to his country;) but resolu tion is one of the strong points of my charac BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER, 6, 186 L ter, and when I've begun a thing I like to car ry it through, so I threw over another sand-bag. and whistled the Dead March in Saul." "Come, Mr. Jenkyns," she said suddenly, "come, Tom, let us descend now, and I'll prom ise to say nothing whatever about all this." "I continued the execution oi the Dead March. "But if you do not begin the descent at once I will tell papa the moment I set foot on the ground. "I laughed, seized another bag, and looking steadily at her, said: "Will you promise to give me your hand?" "I've answered you alread*was the reply. "Over went the sand, and the solemn notes of the Dead March resounded through the car. "I thought you were a gentleman,' said Fan ny, rising up in a terrible rage from the bottom of the car, where she had been sitting, and looking perfectly beautiful in her wrath; "1 thought you were a gentleman, but 1 find I was mistaken; why, a chimney sweeper would not treat a lady in such away. Do you know that you are risking your own life *3 well as mine by your madness?" "I explained that I adored her so much that to die in her company would be perfect bliss, so that I begged she would not consider my feelings at all. She dashed her beautiful hair from her /ice, and standing perfectly erect, looking like the goddess of Anger of Bradicea— if you can fancy that personage in a balloon— she said : "I command you to oegin the uescesit this instant!" "The Dead March, whistled in a manner senlially gay and I:velj', was the only response. After a few minutes silence, I took up another bag, and said : "We are getting rather high, if you do not decide soon we will have Mercury corning to tell us that we are trespassing—will you prom ise nr.e ycur heid?" "Slip sat in sulky silence ai the bottom of the car. I threw over the sand. Then she tried another plan. Throwing herself upon her knees, and bursting into tears, she said : "Oh, forgive me for what I did the other day! It was very wrong, and I a.n very sorry. Take me home, and I will be a sister to you." "Not a wife?" said I. "I can't 1 I can't 1" she answered. "Over went the fourth brg, and I Legin to thiuk she would be*' me, ~-*?•; '**■ J uid ni< like the idea cf going much higher. I would not give ia just yet, however. I whistled for a few moments, to give her time lor reflection, and then said : "Fanny, they say that marriages are made in heavea —if you do cot take care, ours will be solemnized there." "I took up the fifth bag. "Come," I said, "my wife in life, or my com panion ia death 1 Which is it to be?" and I patted the sand-bag in a cheerful manner. She held her face in her hands, but did not answer. I nursed the bag in my arms, as if it had been a baby. "Come, Fanny, give me your promise!" "I could hear her sobs. I'm the most soft hearted creature breathing, and would not pain any living thing, and, I confess, she had beaten me. I forgave her the ducking; I forgave her for rejecting me. 1 was on the point of fling ing the bag into the car, and saying : "Dearest Fanny; forgive me for frightening you. Marry whomsoever you will. Give your hand to the lowest groom in jour stables; endow with your priceless beauty the chief of the Pauki-wan-ki Indians. Whatever happens, Jenkyns is your slave—your dog—your footstool. His duty, henceforth, is to go whithersoever you shall or der—to do whatever you shall command." I was just on the point of saying this, I repeat when Fanny suddenly looked up, and said, with a queerish expression upon her face : "You need not throw the last bag over. I promise to give you my hand." "With ail your heart?" I asked, quickly. "With all my heart," she answered, with the same strange look. "I tossed the bag into the bottom of HIP car, and opened the valve. The balloon descended. "Gentlemen," said Jenkyns, rising from his seat in the most solemn manner, and stretching out his hand, as if he were going to take the oath; "Gentlemen, will you believe it? When we had reached the ground, and the balloon had been given over to its recovered master— when I had helped Fanny tenderly to the earth, and turned to receive anew the promise of her affection and her hand—will you believe it ? she gave me a box on the ear that upset me a gainst the car, and running to her father, who at that moment came up, she related to him and the assembled company what she called my dis graceful conduct in the balloon, and ended by informing me that all of her hand that I was like!)' to get had been already bestowed upon my ear, which, she assured me, had been given with all her heart. '•You villain !" said Sir George, advancing towards me with a horse-whip in his hand.— "You villain! I've a good mind to break this over your back." "Sir Georgp," said I, "villain and Jenkyns must never be coupled in the same sentence; and as for the breaking ol this whip, I'll relieve you of the trouble," and snatching it from his hand, I broke it in two, and threw the pieces on the ground. "And now I shall have the honor of wishing you a good moroiog. Miss P , I lorgive you." And I retired "Now I ask you whether any specimen of female treachery equal to that has ever come within your experience, and whether any ex cuse can be made for such conduct?" "As I said before, it's like the sex," said the second marine. "Yet, ail mankind is sejuiced by woman," said the third marine. "It's just n.y case over again," said the first marine. "After drawing me on in that way— alter gaining my affections in that treacherous Freedom of Thought and Opinion. 1 manner, by Jove ! sir, she goes and marries Blubber!" Well, it does sound improbable, certainly very improbable. But, I said, before I began, that I would not guarantee the truth of it.— Indeed, if you ask my candid opinion, I don't think it is true, but yet the marines believed it. Chambers' Journal. "KIDIN'ON A RAILROAD KEER!"—A most veracious chronicler relates, in the following fashion, the experience of a young lady from the rural districts who lately visited :he city, accompanied by her peculier swain, and appre ciative view of the elephant: Gettingjnloone of the city- cars for a ride, the maiden took a seat, while the lover planted himself on the platform. The graceful vehicle had sped but a few short blocks, when the be nificeut voung conductor insinuated himself in to the popular chariot for the purpose of collect ing expenses. Approaching the rustic maiden, he said affably : " Your fare, mirs." The rosebud allowed a delicate pink to mani fest itself on her cheeks, and looked down in soft confusion. The justly popular conductor was rather astonished at this, and ventured to remark once more : " Your fare, miss." This time the pink deepened to carnation, and the maiden fingered ber parasol with pretty coquettish aess. The conductor really didr.'t know w hat to make of this sort of thing, and began to iook a little foolish ; but as a small boy ~'X the other end ol the car began to show signs a disposition to leave without paying for bi3 ride, the official managed to say once more : " Hem ! miss, your fare." Iu a moment those lovely violet eyes were iookißg up into his face through an au-ora of blushes, and the rosy lips exclaimed : H Well, they dew say I'm gooJ looking at hum; but I don't *ee why you want to say it out so loud !" tt wm not x peal of thunder that shook the Jar just then. Oh, no. It was something that commenced in a general titter, and culminated in such a shattering guffaw as stentorian lungs Jone are capable of. In the midst of the cach natory tempest, the " lovyer" came to the res cue o* his Doxiana, and, when the •' pint of the hull thing" was explained to him, ins mouth e.-.panden to the that might have ! i-t"ide Barnum's hippopotamus uie of jealousy on the spot. The pair descended from the car tmid a salvo of Mirth, and when lost seen were purchasing artificial sweetmeats at a candy shop. A CON TEN TKI) FARMER. Once upon a time, Fredrick, King ol Prussia, surnamed 'Old Fritz/ took a ride and es pied an old farmer plouging his acre by the way side, cheerfully singing his melody. 'Yojj must be well off, old man,' said the King; 'does this acre belong to you, which you so industriously labor?' 'No, sir,' replied the farmer,who did not know that it was the King. ,1 am not so rich as that; I plow for wages.' 'How much do you get a day?' asked the King. 'Eight groschen" said the larmer. 'This is not much,' replied the King; 'can you get along with this?' 'Get a long,and have something left.' 'How is this?' The farmer smiled, and said: 'Well,if I must tell you, two groscben are for my self and wife; with two I pay my old debts; two I lend; and two I give for the Lord's sake.' .This is a mystery which I cannot slove, 're replied the King. 'Then I will slove it for you''said the farmer. I have two old parents at home, who kept me when I was weak and needed help; I keep them; this is my debt toward which 1 pay two gros chen a day. The third pair of groschen, which 1 lend aw&y, I spend for the children, that they may receive a Christian instruction: this will come handy to me and my wife when we get old. With the last two groschen I maintain two sick sisters whom I would not be compelled to keep; this I give for the Lord's sake. The King, well pleased with this answer, said:—'Bravely spoken, old map! Now I will give you something to guess. Have you ever seen me before ?' 'Never,' said the farmer. 'ln less than five minutes you shall see me fifty" times, and carry in your pocket fifty of my likenesses.' 'This is n riddle which I cannot unravel,' said the farmer. 'Then I will do it for you,' replied the King. Thrusting his hand into his pocket, and coun ting him fifty new gold pieces into his hand, stamped with his loyal likeness, l,e said to the astonished farmer, who knew not what was coming:—The coin is also genuine, for it also comes from Lord God, and I am his paymaster.' PERSONAL SECURITY. —" Will you do me a favor ?" said youug George Brooks to his weal thy triend Simon Hanson. " What is it George ?"' I wish you to lend tiie a hundred dollars, Sir." •' Call at my counting house," rejoined Han son. George was not long in paying his respects. " W hat security can you give me, young man ? " My own personal security, sir." " Very well, get ID here," said Hanson lilt ing up the IHJ of a large iron chest. " Get in here," exclaimed George in aston ishment. " What for ?" Why, this ia the place I keep my securi ties." A very religious old lady, when asked her opinion of the organ of a church, the first time she had seen or heard one replied: "It is a very pretty box of whistles, but, oh! it is an awful way ol spending the Sabbath'" <£l)e Scijoolmaster 2lbtoai>. EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ. K7~Friends of education who wish to enlighten the public on the subject of teaching the "young idea how to shoot," are respectfully reque-ted to send communications to the above, care of "Bed ford Gazette." IRREGULAR ATTENDANCE. " No. 1. Irregular attendance is, probably, one ol the most formidable evils with which our common schools have to contend. Many schools, of fif ty pupils, show an average of only thirty or thereabouts ; and the aggregate result for the State is but little better. The baneful influence of this thing is not confined to absentees alone. It extends to the whole school, destroying the interest ol pupils and frustrating the plans of feachers. The connection of the subject, which is indispensable to real progress is broken up ; classification is made next to impossible ; and in too many instances all interest is destroyed. The evil is ruinous. Where is the remedy ? We are of opinion that lha fault may be lound in the teacher, in the pupil, or in the pa rent, and that in most instances it will be found in the teacher. " Attendance" is made an evi dence of professional skill by the late instruc tions of the State Superintendent, and we think justly so. If a proper interest is awakened in the mind of the pupil, and the school is made pleasant and attractive, there will be few va cant seats in most schools. But it the teacher can neither make the school attractice nor profi table, pupils will seize upon every pretext to be absent ; and the importunities of the child sec onded by the selfishness or indifference of the parent will generally succeed. On the con trary il the teacher is able—as every teacher should be—to imbue the mind of his pupils with interest in their studies, and make them eger to be present at school, few parents will pre vent them. A few pupils may have an uncon querable repugnance to schools and books, and a few parents may be selfish or indifferent, but the great majority of both will heartily secoud the efforts ol the teacher who knows bis duty and does it. There is a pecuniary view of this subject, which we will present in a futuie number. N. HINTS CONCERNING SMALL CHILDREN. Some of the greatest difficulties that many teachers have lo meet, says the Clinton Demj crat, arise Irom the youngest childreu. It is often pleasant to see their eagerness to go to school with their hrothers and sisters ; and their smiles sometimes add cheerfulness to the place, without interrupting business; but more fre quently they cause disturbance, and baffle the teacher in all his efforts to keep the others at tentive and orderly. Many teachers suffer small children to attend their schools, out of respect to their parents, or lor some other reason, while they feel that they get little good and do much harm. Intelligent persons know, too, that the trouble they give is not generally intentional, but arises out of some natural cause, such as inconvenient seats, want of change, of exercise or of appropriate occupa tion. Now most district schools are so illy provi j ded for the comfort of young children, and most of them are conducted on a system so illy calculated to keep them interested, that proba bly many teachers of such schools may think the difficulties above spoken of can never be obviated. When it i 3 possible, the small chil dren may be placed in a separate room, with great advantage, under the care of a female ; but in many districts this is not easily done. It happens, however, that some schools in different places have been so improved, both in arrangements and methods of teaching, that these evils have been almost entirely removed. To which we would add, that one of the greatest obstacles to success in the teacher's calling is, that some parents send their children to school too earlx,. We believe that a child can be dismissed from the parental roof and placed under the care of the teacher at so early an age that it not only causes a great deal of trouble to the teacher and annoyance to the school, but is more or less ruinous to the child itself. A great many parents tend their small children to school, because they are the source of a great deal of annoyance at home, and they are shipped to the school room, so as to " get rid of them." This is altogether wrong, and should not be tolerated by the teacher. We do not believe that the school room should be converted into & nursery; not at present, at least, when no arrangement is made in our system for a proper person to take care of the "little ones." Neither shouid a child be allowed to come to school before it has learned the letters of the alphabet; which can easily be done by the pa rent, to the great relief ol the teacher, and ben efit of the school. A vast deal of time is taken up in teaching small ones their letters, which could be devoted to the more advanced pupils, and would be devoted to them, if parents would consult the interest of their larger children, and not imagine that the school room is a nur sery lor the reception ol their children before they have any idea how '.lie first letter of the alphabet looks, or belore they have attained the age required by the school law. WHOLE MIJIVBER, S9BL VOL. 5. NO. 17. OUR CHIP BASKET. A coquette is equal to a dozen high winds [ft throwing dust in one's eyes. New Orleans has been perfectly blockaded for two weeks past. The captain of a ship is not governed by his mate, but a married man generally is. If flesh is grass, when should we prepare for mowing 1 In the hey d'.y of our youth. The cause of many a bender—too much "whiskey straight." What eyes has Rosecrans fixed on Floyd ? His Buckeyes, to be sure. Women should set a good example, tor the men arp always following after the women. What throat is the best for a singer to reach high notes with I A sore throat. If a fat hog comes to five dollars, what will; a lean one come to ? To a bucket of slop. A man who likes to bear a woman scold has. just hired a saw-filer to play bira to sleep. Home Guards are great safeguards. Guards that are safe enough from fighting, at any rate. A young lady at Niagara was'heard toex claim, "What an elegant trimming that rainbow would make for a white lace ovprdress." "Don't you mean to rrarry, my dear sir?"' "No, my dear widow, I'd rather lose all the ribs I've got than take another." Young ladies are like arrows—they are all in a quiver till the beaux come, and can't go off without them. BALL'S BLUFF PRISONERS AT RICH MOND- Their Reception by the Crowd. From an interesting article in the Richmond Dispatch of the 25th, we quote as follows : The announcement in the newspapers yesterday morning that a large numbpr of Federal prison ers, captured in the battle at Leesburg, would arrive some time during the day, excited the curiosity ol our inhabitants, and by nine o'clock a considerable crowd assembled at the Central depot with a determination to wail for the cars no matter what time they come in. Shortly before hall past ten o'clock the dismal whistle announced the arrival of the tram, which soon made its appearance, and it was with the great est difficulty that the sentinels were enabled to keep the impatient throng irom trespassing up on the resprved territory. Files of soldiers ex tended down Broad street for some distance, leaving an avenue between lor the prisoners to pass through. The train consisted of several burdeG cars, at the dooH of which several arm ed Confederate soldiers were stationed as cus todians of the "foreign element" within. Some time elapsed before the public general' ly was permitted to see tbe prisoners, and the latter meanwhile were treated to a few buck ets of water, which seemed to be quite accep table. The arrangements being at length com pleted, tbe first detachment of prisoners, com posed of twenfy-two commissioned officers, passed through tbe lines. These officers are generally men of fine appearance, and as they passed along in the presence of tbe crowd, they seemed to regard their situation as anything but agreeable. The remaining prisoners, non-com' missioned officers and privates,were then march ed out in detachments, and formed on Hroad street between files of soldiers. The whole number of captured Yankees was 525, viz: 22 commissioned officers, 149 from the Fifteenth Massachusetts regiment; 93 from the Forty second New York; 184 from the First California; 72 and one negro from the Twenti eth Massachusetts; one from the Fortieth New York; one from the Pennsylvania cavalry, and one from the Third Rhode Island battalion.— They were very well dressed, and many ot them wore comfortable overcoats. Some few bad lost their hats, and some were barefooted, having pulled off '.heir shoes to swim the Poto mac during the panic, and were rescued from watery graves by our advanced forces. The juveniles among the crowd indulged in some derisive remarks, and a portion of the prisoners displayed consideraole impudence. One teilovv said that their turn would come by and by, and that Lincoln and Scott would both be in Richmond before a great while. Anoth er remarked to a bystander that they had to. hunt for tbe Southern soldiers to make them fight, aod the bystander reckoned that they fought pretty well when they were found. The negro prisoner was an object of no little, curiosity, and he seemed quite uneasy. He says his name is Lewis A. Bell, and that he wax free in the District of Columbia; but some ot our citizens thought they had seen him before, and it is very probable that he is what the Yan kees term a "contraband." The guard, commanded by Capt. O'Neil, of Georgia, foimed a square, and, with the cap tives in tbe centre, marched down Broad to 19th, thence to Mam, and down Main to 25th street, followed by an immense multitude ot persons. After some little delay, the prisoners were marched into Mayo's factory, corner ot y 25th and Cary streets, where they will have ample opportunity lor reflecting upon tue un- j. certainties of war. The occupauts of another prison in the neighborhood crowded the vvin dows to get a view of this large reinforcement',. -T. hut the spectacle dick ant seem to afford their much gratification. The special train in the morning brought in'' !^ p formation that another lot ol the Leesbur' l la^ n S prisoners Were behind, and preparations wer . Fast, accordingly made to receive them. The nri: CHVP ' , * le train arrived at a quarter past four o'clock, w 1 '' ,e P three cars foil of Yankees, numbering Ander of whom were commissioned officers—Cap? n f red- G. W. Rock wood, of the 15th and Lieut. Charles M'Pherson, of the Tarn ny Regiment, of New York. The crowi bout the depot conversed freely with the oners, but no rudeness was exhibited to them. They were very soon marched i the factory to join their coratadts cap'
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