AN CLD FAN'S SILVER. He Recovers It From the United States Treasury ViuliwesThe Ploture of His FatserseOther family Reltos. When General Sherman and his men | ware marching through South Qarclina, the people in bis path, snatobivg up what valuables they could fied in ther baste, fled in every direction. When- ever a body of soldiers are raiding a eonntry more or less pillaging and pinndering take place, no matter how strict the orders or how well disoiplined the troops. In such circumstances a soldier seems to think he bas a right to | what he can get-and keep, General Sherman's boys proved no exception to this rule. While on the watch one d'y the attention of an officer was attracted by a group of soldiers disputing. Stopping to Yisten a mo- | ment, he discovered that they were | quarreling over the division of a large | box of captured property. A glance! told him that the coatents were valu- able and ourht at once to be placed in | ‘the care of the government, “Here, | men, this won't do! This box must be | sent to Washington at once.” Orders] were given to that effect, and it was | sent to Washington and stored away in | the division of captured and abandoned property in the war department. Itre- | mained there until 1868, when, with | other valuables, it was placed as a special | deposit in the vaults of the treasury de- partment. Some of the things deposited | there had no mark about them by! which they conld be dentified, while | others were plainly marked. Congress | authorized that the former be sold, | but those that might by any possibili- | ty be claimed by the owners were oire. | fully precerved. Itisa loug time since that box of bousehold valuables was | ruthlessly snatched by rough soldiers | from the fleeing South Carolinian, and he is now an old man. He had for- | gotten all that the box contained, | but remembered that his family | plate was there, and that it was all | warkad, and that it must have been | placed in the government's care, If he | could only get the necessary authority | to have his goods returned to him, he | knew he could identify them. Afters] good deal of hard work and worry on | his part, private bill authoriziog the | return of such pieces of silver as could | be clearly identified as his proporty | should be returned to him, was at last | passed by Congress. It was a happy | morning for him, only a few days ago, | when he made his way to the treasury | department armed with the necessary authority, and carrying a large, old- | fashioned carpet-bag in which he in-| tended to bring away the long-lost fam- | ily relies. He was escorted to the vaults by the officers of the department, and the | articles placed before him for identifica. | tion. Yes! there they were, all plainly | marked with the family vame, large old- | fasbicned silver goblets, heavy ladles, spoouvs, forks and varions other articles | of silver. His eye brightened and his | hand trembied as he picked them up snd carefnlly examined them. Tarn: ing to those who s cod near: “Ah! 1 tell you, these were bonght when | money was more plantifal than it is| now,” he said. One by one he dropped them iuto the old bag of goodly pro- | portions ; but large as it was the sides | soon began to bulge. Several hun-! dred dollars’ worth by weight was clearly identified as his property. But what is this? It bears the same family | mark, but hed been entirely forgotten He tonched the spring and opened! the case. “Why, that is the por trsit of my father, dressed in the uni- | form of a major in the British army; how many years since I looked upon his face!” * Stop, old man, that must | not go with the rest; it bears your] name, I know, but Congress authorized | the return of articles of silver only.” | His eyes filled with tears as he reluct- | antly laid the portrait down. A further | search bronght to light numeroas pieces | of family jewelry, some very handsome, | and all bearing the same mark, but thev Lad to be laid aside as they did not eome within the provisions of the ast The vaults were again locked, and the | old carpet-bag closed. “I wouldn't | mind the jewelry so mueh if I could | ouly take away that portrait,” were the | last words of the old man as he took | his departare.— Washingion Star. Fond of His Pets, But Bishop Thorlwall's partienlar affections were reserved for cats. Many an awkward Welsh curate, introduced into bis lordship’s library to be licensed, | or not impossibly lectured, found the terrors of that awful presence inten- tified by the rushing upon him of two or three pet dogs, harmless prob. | ably as the bishop himself, but | whose wild yelps and barkings, if meant | for welcome, sounded very much like | the reverse. And it was well if, as he | escaped from these, he did not in his nervousness stumble over a basket in whieh a favorite eat snd her young, family wero reposing in the neighbor- hood of the episcopal chair. One priv- | ileged tabby in partienlar was allowed | to sit upon his shoulder while he was | at bis studies or his meals—a position | which, as the bishop remarks, “enables | him to check any rash motion cf your | pen, and. if you are at dinner fo intercept any morsel which] seems to him likely to go in a8 wrong direction.” He is almost as | glad to receiva a promising new kitten 2s a promising new book. Bat he has | 8 great respect for the vested interests of old occupants, He wonld have ac- | -.eapted the “kind offer” from his corre- spondent on one occasion of “a good | tortoise shell, which are very rare, with | pleasure and gratitude, had he been cat- | less,” but, he goes on to say, “I do not venture to introduce a second cat into | the family withont the express con- | sent of the ove now reigning, which I | do not expect him to give.” At another | time he sends her three numbers of the | Spetato, recommending to her special attention some articles relating to cats, ! **in which, perbaps for the first time, | some degree of ja