-i THE BEDFORD GAZETTE •IB rUBLISIIED EVEUY FRIDAY MORNINQ BY It. F. ITIEYERS, At the following terms, to wit: $1..'0 per annum, CASH, in advance. $2.00 " < if paid within the year. $2.00 " <, if not paid within the year. K?"Na subscription taken lor less than six months. ET"No paper discontinued until all arrenrages are paid, unless at the pption of the publisher. It has been decided by the tTnited States Courts that the stoppige of a newspaper without the payment of arrearages, is prima facie evidence of fraud and as a criminal offence. courts have decided that persons ere ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, if they take them from the post office, whether they subscribe/or them, or not. 0 elect $) oft ky. £ From the Louisville Journal."j The Boy that'fell in the Banks of the Foe. •He fell among my foes—O? God! llow blows like this will tell! And I! I thought that they might spare ■ Whose canso I loved so well. He's slain, my young and gallant boy, In all his flush of pride, And woe is me ! the hand that smote His father may not chide! 'JThe blood they shed, alas, was mine— - On-those-red battle plains! Ah more.than priceless grown to me . Within my boy's young veins. Ah me! .the sounding of his step I never more sluill hear, Nor his eye answer mine, nor yet One tone relieve my tear. What fevil genius, urged thee, boy, - To mingle in this strife'? To offer on my toe man's fane , The incense of thy life ? Ah me! to know in thy death hour , W hat were thy thoughts of ine! .■"/ would, have died a thousand times, My hoy, to ransom thee!" Oh since the fearful tidings came Old memories clamor round, And atigg the woe that else were dumb To vent itself in sound. "Yet in my country's virgin gold *' I Bin no dark alloy, Nor love I thee, my country, less, Bee ausc I mourn my boy. SPRINGFIELD, O. B. K. I'. Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson—His Past and Present Position. From an able communication signed "A Southern Union Man'" we extract the following scathing remarks: — The gentleman whose name heads this article whs a candidate before the Charleston and Bal timore Convention for the nomination for the Presidency. lie had some friends in the South, with whom he corresponded on this subject. The writer of this has had the honor to read some of those letters. The honorable gentleman asked the votes of the Southern delegation on the ground of his firm adhesion to the constitutional rights of the South, and his uncompromising opposi tion to the abolitionists. (Should this letter chance to fall into the hands of Mr. Dickinson, I wish to say to him, as an apology for its pub lication, ''lt is for the goqd of the country.") He wrote letters to the Hon. Andrew Ewing, J. S. Billings, and others of Nashville, Tenn., avowing his earnest support of the Constitution and all its guarantees. Mr. Dickinson calcula ted largely upon the vote of Southern Democrats. His firm friepd, lion. Andrew Ewing, was chair man of the Tennessee delegation. At Baltimore tlje out-cropping of secession was too plain to he misunderstood. Mr. Dickinson saw no chance to defeat the great and patriotic Doug las before that convention. The delegation was hesitating, when Mr. Ewing received a letter from Mr. Dickinson, in which he said:— uSe cede from the Convention ami rwill —— , *3*A lady says the first time she was kissed she felt like a big tub of roses swimming in hon ey, cologne, nutmegs, and cranberries. She al so felt as if something was running through her nerves on feet of diamonds, escorted by several little Cupids in chaises drawn by angels, shaded by honeysuckles, and the whole spread with melted rainbows. BeMotb %mt,ite. VOLUME 38. NEW SERIES. ®l)c Schoolmaster EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ. and friends of education are respect fully requested to send communicjtionsto the above care of "Oeilfaid Gazette." THE SCHOOLS. It is daily becoming more evident that teach ers are scarce in this coffnty at the present time. Many who stood at the head of their profession, quit the school room for the camp, and are now fighting the battles of our country. In this way our ranks have been thinned, we have lost our brightest ornaments, and their places must be taken by others. "Close up the column and move onward." Haw recruits must be taken into our ranks and drilled for effective service. Let all who are willing and at all qualified to teach, be We may be mistaken, but wo are of opinion, nicy will all find employ ment! and that the demand will still be unsup ! plied. This is a good time for young teachers to enter upon the duties and responsibilities of their calling. Many of those just to enter the profession should be females. With a few exceptions, we have the smallest proport ion of female teachers of any county in the State. We have always believed the policy that excludes them to be a mistaken policy. Our schools would be better taught, and the cause of education better pro moted by employing a larger per centago of la dy teachers. The stereotyped objection, that "Women can't keep order," may have some ground, but it is not of sufficient weight to ex clude tlicin almost the profession. They can "keep order," iSßmpetent, and men can do no more. We arc aware these view's are not likely to be adopted at present by most of our directors, but we confidently appeal to facts and experience to establish their justness. Ma ny counties employ a large per rentage of fe male teachers—some, more than half-—and these counties, without au exception, /ire known and admired for the excellence of their schools.— Alle'ghcny has 209 males, and 302 females; Bradford, 169 males, and 344 females, Chester, 167 males, and 230 females: Susquehanna, 144 male 3, and 243 females. These are examples. Wo have yet to learn that the employment of females in these counties has had any bad ettect on the schools. On the contrary, there is the best reason to suppose it has worked to the sat isfaction and advantage to all concerned. Bed ford county has 105 males, and only twenty-one female teachers. The schools should, and could with advantage to all parties, be at least equal ly divided between the two sexes. Directors could thus avail themselves of the highest grade of female teachers for the same salary they must now pay for the lowest grade of male teachers. From the Pennsylvania School Journal. Method of Conducting District Institutes. Happening not long ago to meet a school director, the conversation turned upon Dis trict Institutes. It was after the passage of the law requiring teachers to devote eve ry other Saturday to these meetings. "We are now obliged," said he, "to devote two days in each month to Institutes. • Jn our summer schools, which are now in session, we have employed all female teachers, most of them young girls, who have never taught before. They know little or nothing about Institutes. What shall we do to till the re quirements of the law?" I asked him if his teachers could spell well. "No," said he, "they cannot. 1 re ceived a note from one of thein yesterday, in which a number of common words were misspelled." 'Well, then, could not a portion of the time be very profitably spent by those young teachers in practicing in spelling, and trying different methods of teaching this branch?' 'lt certainly could; and at our next meet ing we will have that tried. For a common practical branch, it seems too much neglect ed; and if we can in our meetings attract attention to it, and improve the methods of teaching it, District Institutes will have done some good.' To help that director out of his difficul ties, and others who may perhaps be under a like cloud, I propose to offer a few practi cal suggestions upon Orthography and the methods of teach ing it. —The purpose for which we learn to spqll is indicated by the etymology of the word Orthography— Orthos —right, and Grapho —l write—right-writing. It is not to be able to spell a word orally when stand ing in a class, with a chance to try twice, and a teacher to pronounce it so plainly that the pupil cannot help spelling it right; but to be able to write correctly such words as one needs to use in any piece of writing that he may have occasion to make. This is the nqed, this is the end that we must labor to attain. What are the means that we can make use of that will most sorely contribute to this result? What plan of teaching, what methods of instruction will make a r'ujht ■writer f Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 31, 1862. The method formerly pursued was by o ral-spclling, and the words m tlie spelling ' books were arranged according to ending, number of syllables, words of like sound i similarly spelled—as those in lion, sion, eel, tar, &c.; —the scholars being arranged in a line upon the floor and spelling for places. Much opposition has been manifested of 1 late to oral spelling, and the old fashioned spelling book. It is asserted that a pupil may learn to spell orally, and still not be Br • ble to write words correctly in practical bn i siness writing; that he may spell well when words of like orthography are grouped to gether, but may at the same time be guilty I of gross errors when having to spell words promiscuously arranged, as in ordinary use. A persistent warfare has accordingly been made upon the old system, and a substitute 1 has been proposed, by throwing aside the spelling book entirely, and using for spcll • ing exercises the more difficult-words as they ■ occur in an ordinary reading lesson, without i classification as to ending or number of syl lables, and of writing the words instead of spelling them orally. In the first place we must inquire wheth , er it is true that a person who can spell well , orally is not able to write words correctly? , I see no reason per se why this should be the case. Whether we write a word with | the pen or spell it with the vocal organs, there is a mental process that must precede in cither case. The establishing of the cor rect mental process is the first result we de sire to attain. Whether this can be mo3t i successfully accomplished by oral or written spelling, is tho question to l)c examined. To decide this we must consider upon what principle the mind acts in learning to spell. The fixing the correct mental pro cess, that is, the correct succession of let ters for spelling a word, does not seem to be an absolute act of the memory, or of the reason, except in tire cases hereinafter spe cified; hut it seems to bo acquired by rote and is fixed in the mind upon a principle of association. A great portion of our knowl edge acquired in early year- is got and re tained upon this principle. It is not an act of conscious reason or a voluntary act of the memory, but a sort of instinctive spon taneous retention of a mental process. j Now this is a legitimate action of the I mind. The Creator has established this 1 law of acquisition, and we must not disre- i gard it. The more use we make of it du- ' ring the period of childhood the more ma terial shall we have accumulated for use when wc come to the period of reflection, i The boy learns to spell a vast number of i words, lie learns the declensions and conju-! gations, the tables of weights and measures 1 —and all without knowing just how he has acquired lliem. The repeating aloud of these lessons seems to favor the acquisition and retention of them. Were he to attempt to learn them in any other way at this early stage of his mental development, it would become intolerable to him. Hence we con clude that oral spelling is founded upon cor rect philosophical - principles, and if we are allowed to adduce direct testimony upon the subject, we must say that so far as our ex perience extends, we have found that the good oral speller was the correct writer of words. The principle of learning by rote, in the case of spelling, is greatly favored by having the words arranged in tables according to number of, syllables and similar! fy of ending, combination and sound. This ad vantage should not be dis regarded ; anil hence we are in favor of the old fashioned spelling books for young cdildren. Another advantage* of oral spelling, consists in the great saving of time for the teacher. In asmuch as each scholtir hears how every word in the class is spelled, as is the ease where prop er attention is secured, it is evident that a half dozen words can be spelled <)rally while one is being written and spelled. Hence we conclude, th at, during the very early stages of a pupil's coi irse, and for learn ing to spell a great mass oi' tho words of the language in common use, th e oral method is not only philosophic hut cconom ic. Wc had designed to finish what wo had to say upon tho subject of spelling, in one article, but we found when we had it completed, that it was too long. We have accordingly divided it and will give the balance in the next number, and will cnihraee several plans for conducting class recitations. S. P. It. j . rlr'l say, stranger,' said a cottage u;rcliin to a Yankee peddler, 'don't yer whistle that ere dog away.' 'Why, he ain't no use r>o how, he's too ugly.' 'Oh, but he saves heaps of work.' 'How ?' 'Why ho always licks the plates and dishes so clean that they never wan t washing —and mammy says she would'nt part with him no how, for our new dog ain't got use to nuistard yet.' Cvr lwo deacons were once disputing about j the proposed site for a new graveyard, when j the first remarked—"l'll never be buried in that j ' ground as long as I livo." "What an obstinate ; . man," said the second. "If my life is spared, j I will." C*T"lf I should be drafted into the service, , what would you do ?" asked a gentleman of his loving spouse, lately. "Got a substitute for 1 you, I suppose," she retorted. Whereupon the 1 topic of conversation was changed immediately. < ENCOUNTER WITH ROBBERS. ; The hunter (though rarely) lias been set , upon by robliers, for the sake of the pack IJ of furs he was carrying on his back to some j , j of the sea-port towns on the coast to dis- | 11 pose of; but, as the furhunters arc general- j | fy on foot, and, from habit of watching a- i 1' iut either for hostile Indians or wild ani- j ! nals, they are always on their guard, and j I j'ss the robbers well know that they are to a j ■ nan, riflemen, who seldom miss their mark, j •[ ■hey avoid them. During my rambles iu i j lie wilds and fastnesses of California, I be-, • j came acquainted with many of them, norm i -IFom the back seatlements of the U. States, II others from Canada. I have hunted for ! months with them, and witnessed some coii i i fliets between them and wild animals in !} which the utmost daring and recklessness i; was exhibited by the hunter. These are not • the men that robbers like to encounter, but ' I have said they sometimes take a fancy to . the valuable pack of furs which, if they \ind ■ any facility of obtaining, they make t'uc at tempt. It is the very climax of env jlty to plunder those poor fellows of packs, which • were procured only by outlaying for months I in the depths of the forest and wild sof the ' country, and not unfrequently in t'ae huut • ing-grounds of a tribe of hostile /.ndians. i I once hunted for three mont) is in com pany with a hunter well known in California, i In idea he was wild and iniaginf ,tivc in the ■ extreme; but, in his acts of daring, etc., ■ the most cool and philosophic fellow I ever knew. A commercianto, or merchant, at Francisco, on whose vf racity I know from experience I can deperv 1, told me the following story of this man., which will at once illustrate hie character. This hunter was, some months before I had fallen in with him, making the best of his way down the valley of the Tule lalu.'s from the inte rior, with a heavy pack of furs on his back, his never-erring rifle in nis hand, and his two dogs by his side. II e was joined at the ' northernmost end of the; valley by the mer chant I have spoken of, who was armed on .ly with his sword anf i pistols. They had scarcely cleared the v alley when a party of ' robbers galloped out before them. Three j were whites fully arm cd, and two Indians j I with the lassos coiled r tp in their right hands, j ready for a "throw." The hunter told fhe merchant, who was on horseback, to d ismount instantly "and ito cove." Forturr atcly for them there was a good deal of thicket, and trunks of large trees that had fall' jn were strewed about in | a very desirable ir,aimer. Behind these logs , 1 the merchant a'ad Ihe hunter quickly took I |up their position, and as they were in the 1 act of doing so, two or three shots were fired after tb em without effect. The hun ter coolly un tied the pack of furs from his .back and lai d them beside him. "It's my opinion, me reliant," said he, "that them var mints thovo wants either your saddlebags j or my JIUO'K, but I reckon they'll get neither." ' So he took up his rifle, and tiie foremost Indian, lasso in hand, rolled off his horse. Another discharge front the rifle and the second Indian fell, whilst in the act of throw ing the lasso at the head and shoulders of the | hunter as he raised from behind the log to j . fire. "Now," said the hunter, as he reload- j cd, lying on his back, to avoid the shots of : the robbers, "that's what I call the best of the scrimmage, to get them brown thieves . '.villi t heir lassos out of the way first. See ' them rascally whites now jumping over the logs to charge us in our cover. I They were fast advancing when the rifle again spoke out, and the foremost fell; they < still came on to about 30 yards, another fell, ■ and the remaining two made a desperate I I charge up close to the log. The hunter, front long practice, was dexterous in reload ' ing his gun. "Now, merchant," said he, ' j "is the time for your pop-guns," meaning I the pistols, "and don't bo at all nervous. I Keep a steady hand, and drop cither man j jor horse. A man of them shan't escape." i j The two remaining robbers were now up i with the log, and fired each a pistol shot at ! the hunter, which he escaped by dodging ! behind a tree close to, front which he fired with effect. As only one robber was left, he wheeled round his horse with the inten tion of galloping off", when the pistol bullets of the merchant shot the horse from under him. "Well done, merchant," said the hun ter, "you'vo stopped that fellow's gallop." As soon as the robber could disentangle him self from the fallen horse, he took to his heels and ran down a sloping ground as fast , as he could. The hunter drew his tomahawk from his belt and gave chase after him. As he was more of an equestrian than a pedes- j I rian, the nimblenoss of the hunter short el icd the distance between them, and the . lat t of the robbers fell. '.Thus perished this dangerous gang of six, by i he single hand of this brave hunter, < and, as the "commercianto" informed me, he an ted as coolly and deliberately as if he 1 were t hooting tame bullocks for the market. 1 The at Fair was rather advantageous to the 1 hunter, for, on searching the saddle-hags and pockets of the robbers, lie pidled forth . some do übloons, and a few dollars, with otli- ( er valuaj 'Acs, they had, no doubt, a short 1 j WUOI.E iKOIBER, 8038 time previously taken from travelers. The saddle-bags, arms and accoutrements of the four white men were packed up and made fast on the saddles of two horses ; the hun ter mounted a third, the merchant mounted another, his horse being shot, and tiius they left the scene of action—the bodies of the robbers to the wolves who were howling a bout them, and entered San Francisco in triumph. ABOLITIONISM, AS VIEWED BY THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE IN 1814. —We copy the following ar gument from a campaign electioneering tract, issued by Grecly & M'Elrath, from the Tribune office, New York, 1844. Current events, in a great measure, produced by tliat very paper, since it changed its ground, are establishing the truth and force of this reasoning in a striking manner. The same paper now would pronounce such arguments " treason ," or at least an ev idence of "sympathy with the rebels," 'f they were put forth by a Democratic paper. From the Tiibune Tract. We are not fond of alarming topics, nor dis posed to excite unnecessary anxiety. But the evils of political Abolition, rising up in the Forth, must be faced, and the consequences it tends to must be considered. However averse the people of the free States may be to slavery, (and we believe they are almost universally so,) yet they cannot but feel that this remedy of Po litical Abolition is worse than the disease, first, be cause tli? rudeness and violence of the treatment only aggravate it; and next, because they fear that the medicine, if administered as proposal will kill both patient and the doctor. A dissolu tion of the Un ion would be as certain as any ef fect of moral cause that can be reasoned on. Nor is it likely that this would be the end. The political asperities and exasperationsthat would grow out of such a conflict would themselves naturally be breeders of other convulsions ; and it would not be strange if some chieftain or chief tains should rise up in the struggle, to make slaves of all the freemen, and bind in stronger chains those whom, by such means, it is pro posed to set free. We are a family of States, bound together by a covenant solemnly ratified, which prescribes the rights of each. In this family, concord is beautiful; but family quarrels are the worst of all. Look at Spain. Will any one say, that such a movement-as the POLITICAL ABOLITION OK TIIE NOUTII, does not put in jeopardy the peace of\ this Union, AND THE UNION ITSELF? And can any human foresight tell what scenes of strife it is iikely to produce, if it should be encouraged to pass on its way towards the supreme power of the nation, which is its avowed aim ?—Tri bune's Junius Tract, 1844. THE NEW BELIEF. Without comment, wo publish the following devout production, coming to our Table from devotee in the 0 ity Churches. That there i; ! considerable human nature in it nobody car deny : TE ABRAHAM LAUDAMUS. We praise thee, Oh Abe! We acknowledgt thee to be sound on the goose. All Yankee-land doth worship thee, everlas ting old joker. To thee all office-seekers cry aloud, "Flunk cydom and all the. powers therein. To thee, Stanton and Wells continually do cry. "Bully, bully, bully boy with a glass eye." Washington and Illinois arc full of the raa j csty of thy glory. The glorious company of Political Generals praise thee. The godly fellowship of Postmasters pruisi thee. 'l'lie noble army of contractors praise thee. The mighty republican institutions through out all Columbia do acknowledge thee. The father of infinite proclamations, thine admirable, true, and only policy. Also Brevet Lientenant-Genoral Winfleld Scott, the comforter. Thou art the Ring of Rail splitters, O Abe! Thou art the everlasting son of the late Mr Lincoln. When thou lookodst upon thee to run for the Presidency and deliver the Union, thou didst humble thyself to stand upon the "Chicago Platform." When thou didst overcome the sharpness ol election, thou didst open the White House kitch i on to all believers. Thou sittest at the right hand of "Uncle Sam" i in the glory of the Capitol. We believe that thou shalt not come to be re elected. Nevertheless we pray thee, help thy servants whom thou hast kept from "Jetf Davis" and "Foreign Intervention." Make us to be remem bered with thy favorites in office everlasting. O Abe! Save thy people and bless thy para sites ! Govern them and increase their salaries forever! Day by day we puff thee. And we exalt thy name ever in the daily pa pers. Vouchsafe, O Abe! to keep us this day with out a change of generals! O Abe! have mercy on the Army of the Po tomac ! ' O Abe! let thy mercy be upon us, as our trust is not in Stanton. OAbo! For thee have I voted, let me never be Drafted! ifyA paper announced the illness of its edit or, piously adding: "All good pitying subscribers are requested to mention him in their prayers. The others need not, "as the prayois of the wicked avail nothing," according to good authority. <3*"l hope, my littlo daughter," said a moth er, one morning, "that yon will be able to con trol your little temper to-day." ''Yea, mother, and I hope you will control your big temper! Ratfg of 2tf>ntrtiflin§ One Square, three weens or lea*. ..... . .$1 0q One Square, each additional insertion Ims than three months 23 3 KONTH9..O MONTHS. 1 TIS.il One square • $2 00 $3 00 S 00 Two squares 3 00 3 00 9 00 Three squares . 4 00 7 00 12 PO { Column . 300 900 13 00 5 Column 800 13 00 20 OQ 4 Column ....... 12 00 18 00 30 00 One Column 18 00 30 00 30 00 The space occupied by ten lines of this size of type counts one square. All fractions of a square under live lines will be measured as a half square : and all over five lines as a full square. All legal dvertisements wili be charged to the person hand ing them in. . Transient advertisements should be paid for in advance. VOL. 6. NO. 13 The ''Nine Hundred Thousand" Coming. It is with feelings of snpremest satisfaction that we are enabled to announce that the Nine Hundred Thousand Men whom the Tribune promised would be forthcoming to swell the grand armies of the Union, ns soon as the Pres ident's Abolition Proclamation was issued, wilt arrive in this city (over the left) from Central Xew York, New England, etc., sonte time in the course of next week, in the following: orm:r~oe trocessiok. Provost Marshal, with aids in Lincoln Green* Senator Sumner, of Mass., escorted by Chas seurs d'Afrique. Provost Marshal. Governor Andrew, of Mass., with the Knights of Altoona. Band. Contra Hands. Managers of the Underground Railroad two a* breast. Provost Marshal Joshua R. Giddings, Frederick Douglas (black man) and Abby Kelly Foster, representing The Graces. Strong minded Women. Rev. Henry Ward Screecher. Sergt. Fitzgerald, of the Corcoran Legion. ' Band—"List, oh List." ' - ■■ More Contrabands. Superintendent erf the Negro Schools at Port Royal. Provost Marshal. • ; Shoddy Contractors. The Libellers of Gen. MeClellau, biting a' file. ! Aunty Slavery, led by Uncle Tom. Fremont. More Shoddy Contractors, The Ghost of Magna Charta. Goddess of Liberty with a Broken Con stitution. Knights of the Order of Fort Lafayette. Provost Marshal. The mortal remains of the late Habeas, Corpus , Esq. Pall Bearers. ' . Mourners, etc. Provost Marshal. Army Speculators. Field Marshal J lorace Greeley and staff witfi" assistants bearing Pandora's Box. Tableau—Representing Servile Insurrection— \oung St. Domingo,—Apotheosis of Toua saint L'Ouverturc, etc. Povost Marshal. The Genius of Disunion. Banner with the inscription, "Let the Union slide." Band. Air—"John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave," etc. Provost Marshal. Rev. Dr. Chccvcr, with a Man and a Brother. . Delegates Exeter Ilall. Postage Stamps. ' Wide Awakes. Contrabands Provost Marshal. More Wide Awakes, Nine hundred and ninety nine thousand Sub stitutes. The route of the procession will be MoTig'fhe Underground Railroad, through tho R. aims of Imagination,until it reaches the Limbo of Ent ity and Paradise of Fools, —when tho croiytl will lie dismissed uptil next election day.— Ex-' press. THE CROPS IN IOWA. —The yield of wheat i is estimated at 20,000,000 bushels this year, being 1,750,000 bushels more than the crop of e 1801. There liavo been 1,325,000 acres culti vated this seaon in corn, which will yield 70,£50 000 bushels ; an excess over the crop of last . year 16,000,000 bushels. Oats will reach 10, 000,000 bushels, hay 1,000,000 tons, sorghum j 3,000,000 gallons, and potatoes double last year's quantity. The state w.U be able to export this year 173,000 cattle and 900,000 hogs. The increase of sheep has been about one-third du | ring the past year, making the number in the . Slate 350,000. . CSrA curious case of suicide occuired at Ni-' . ngara Falls a few days since. A little boy , named Armstrong, aged nine years, was averse to attending school.—llis parents ordered him r to go to school with an elder brother, but he . steadly refused, and while his brother was try ing to compel him to go, he stated that if he was compelled to go to school ho would jump" into the cannl and drown himself. Suiting the action to the word, ho started on a run to the canal, and before, ho could be caught, jumped in and was drowned. a great heart, wrung by grief, gives utterance to its sorrow, it stirs us too deeply to express our feelings in words; and all the con solation we ran offer them is but mocking. We can only weep with with such, when afflicted, letting the billowy wave pf emotion, heaving to and fro in their bosoms, dash and break ita"> elf against ours. : 63* An advertisement of cheap shoes and fancy articles, in a country paper, has the fol lowing nota bene: "N. B.>—Ladies wishing thosA cheap shoes will do well to call soon, aa thep - will not last long." rfST'Trood morning, Mr. Ilcnpcck; have you " any daughters that would make good typo -fes ters?" "Not exactly, but I have, got a wife ~ that woufd make ft first rate demi." Ml The several hospitals at Washington, ft - C., now contain over 10,000 patients. A-' bout 4,000 wounded, altogether have ujpi jveel there since the kte buttles in and are noconpug