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THE PRINTER'S HO HENLINDEN,
A country paper smarting under the delinquency
of its subscribers, gets off the following for New
Year's lament:
In seasons when our funds are low,
Subscribers are provoking slow,
And few supplies keep up the flow,
Of dimes departing rapidly.
But we shall see a sadder sight,
When duns come in fiom morn till nig ht,
Commanding every sixpence bright
To be forked over rapidly.
Our bonds and due bills aie arrayed :
F.acb sea! and signature displayed,
The holders say they must be paid,
With threats of law and cbaacery.
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
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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'