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Hufli, I cannot boar to hear tlico Stretch thy tiny hands in vain ; I have pot no bread to give fhoc— Nothing, child, to case thy pain When God scut tbec first to bless mo, Proud ami thankful, too, was I ; Koff, my darling, I thy mother, Almost 1 ong to soo thee die. glepp, my darling—thou art weary; but Hfo is dreary. tP I have soon thy beauty fading, Ami thy strength gink day by day— goon 1 know will wantand fever Waste thy Hi lie life away. Famine makes thy mother reckless, Hope and joy are gone from mo; I cul-l mller’all my baby, Had t but a crust for thco. J am wasted, dear, with hunger. And my brain insure oppressed; I have scarcely strength to press thco, Wan aud Techie to my breast, Patience, b.hy, God will help us, Pentli will come to thco ami me; Ho n-iJI take us to his heaven, Where no want or pain can bo. Sleep, my dulling, thou art weary; •GuJ is good, but life Is dieary. ft&dlaiiEOtiJi WILL SHE UI4URY? When Milford Brightly died, he left his piling ami pretty widow in u predicament. To,he ante, tin* Widow Alice remuiojed in •ijiajge of the Pelican lintel, which he hud rendered popular, and winch was considered a valuable piece of property, still bidding titirtudoa thriving business, but no sooner lid her husband departed, than Mrs. Bright ly fun ml herself the chief topic of the town -ilio object of vigilaht and curious specula .f/iUiHamong the boarders ami frequenters of lie Pelican, at.d the neighbors generally, us ■to the prospect of her marrying again, when, -and to whum. A quo.-iion arf so as to whether she bad rciilly Jove! I her husband, wlm, though .good and uiTivitionute, bad been much uldur than' Tins <{motion was decided by ibo.g'ts ►i|n in llie affirmative. Then a quc.-.tbm bd 1-"''d as to whether she Uu\V loved any body fi-'-; and on this there was much dimht and uiiu-h po.HliivGuns.-j, an 1 a wide difference in ojiiniou. The theme wax. mi interesting and prolific that it sprouted under much care and llio brandies p;ro\v from it. Ono brunch waa, whether in a moral, roll - trails, iiinl sentimental point of view, she 'WKlit to marry. Very quarrelsome chntter fn and twitters perched upon that branch, a, id agitated themselves in the bftjcze. A ■''tiUK'l. from this branch was whether, if the •widow was justilie<l in marrying. within itbuit what time it would be perfectly decent f"t her to do.the mime-; .and a twig on this ■branch was, what her own judgment might T<ei»n that particular point. Then there was M'ltlier grand branch, viz : whether Mrs. 'Wanted to marry again ; and this uns perhaps the most important-branchj>f all; because, it she should happen not to "’•yd to marry, no power on earth could fi-rco •"•T to do so, and she would remain a widow •yiuul there would be.an end of all discus siun. there were yet 7 other ‘branches, which claimed careful attention. One of these. f i'nto melancholy and romantic, was whoth ■p-’Mrs. Brightly could marry again..and not violate her hushr-nd's dying wish; for there .' i7Hj} a report, of uncertain authenticity, luiw that Milford Brightly had been to fund ''fltiH wife, that lie charged her,,as she val ’JW Ids memory, to remain a widow torevor,, jnd como to him in heaven without incum* 1 winces. , kume said, if this was true, it might not j‘ cter the widow ; .jmt then here a powerful branch grew out, in the shape of another re port, which insisted that the lamented hus }iind had left the principal part of his prop erty to her, conditionally >upon her never warryingagain. This socmeda kind of ugly, crunch, but it also seemed as strong as it u Pb’» and commanded respect, because C leaves on onp-sido were golden. , -but the eyes of many refused to contem piaio this branch. They stood entirely on dil* i ,0:f treo discussion, and e bghted to dwell upon yet another and more pfceahlo branch, which took the‘shape of an orrogation, as To whom Mrs. -Brightly ‘,d be most likely to marry, if she chose, ivm lmirr .y at all. This was the most f P'durauj fruitful branch of all; it waved J I a v arioty of eligible heads, and bore accord and discord; but nil a .T n agreed upon one point, which was gave growth to this tree.— vrlit? a^l - e GJ that Mrs. Alice Brightlv, the lo s *css the Pelican, would bo a larn- or °d mos t any man in the vil toatA l a^so a S re °d that they would fiurm-i k aot * ODB » 80 as nofc to be taken by. fin\ 0 anything which was coming. ** P ap t» thc-youthful widow was-fully d, 0 .° UB of'being thus Closely watched, and toouth i ,Gr °^ 08 ears °P on » her j(j Ca closed, in conformity with her own hou«. ff. ,BoPe . t!on - s u P er * in tended the Grace* i l,rs her customary dignity and WlnV m nft t lir,i t animation tempered by all* n ' n ] , )U^l none the less hospitable to wellv. l 01 ’ and resignation wore taromw^ iho youth and strength of ami 0 . SliO'wnrc her woods calm* Mvcj ostentation of grief, and ro !hif i, nM • . c,rcumß paot and taciturn regard** But .l nt . ent ' ,)nf * and affairs. Ww| 81,0 In7 fibt keep people from th inki > not prevent them from Irish it ® talking. Possibly she did not B, Hon»’ii • r^n fa. that she learned that thrin Bl } a P e cted suitors were no less 6e»of ti nn i n ?°, n ’ had been acquaintayi fiiable n w * lUB^an There was the Ilov. Mr. j young clergyman of thirty, at whose church rlio 'now attended more regularly than before; Mr. Oreenmore, a rich gentle man-farmer of sixty, still halo and hearty; young Mr. Torrence the handsome barkeep er of the Pclioian.; Dr. Valerian, a physician in the meridian of life ; Mr. Viccgage, a real estate broker in the city; Mr. Bullock, an extensive dealer in cattle ; Mr. Oarvov. the thriving furniture dealer; and Mr. Flood, the wholesale dealer in wines nnd,-lio^uors. These all were among the frequent visitors at the hotel—from some plausible cause nr other apart from any matrimonial purpose; und-theso all, equally with each other, but more than all others, appeared to enjoy a suspcctablo share of the widow/a .-confidence. They were known to have many little sepa rate chats with her in private; hut who was to toll what was the purport of these inter views? Openly she 'scorned to regard them with a charming impartial partiality—charm ing for its adroitness, hut perplexing from its uniformity. Mr.* Torrcncn might bo thought to have the advantage of the other seven, as ho \Vas the barkeeper, and was al most always in*tho house ;J)ut_thcn,J.t_wa < L optional with the others to have the favor of her society while he was engaged down stairs. For several months, notwithstanding her strict .caution, and close observation, Mrs. Brightly remained in doubt as to die inten tions of these several male acquaintances.— She had, it is true, her occasional and grow ing suspicions, but her uncertainty arose from their studied evasiveness. And she solilo quized finis; ‘All of these men visit me with nkind of .timidity I* win not full understand. They look almost as if they approached mo by stealth, and were ashamed of it. It may be that they aH mean marriage, but are in doubt as -to the •existence of rivals. Perhaps they think it too soon for them to begin to makooverturcs. But though they have made none vet, I can perceive a, in them to sound my. sentiments as to a second marriage, and toin quiro about each other, an if they hoped thus to learn more of each other’s relations, tow ards me, and my opinions of them. I may he wrong, but whether they persist or not in keeping rno in doubt, I shall certainly keep them in that condition, till such time as I think it politic to throw off all disguise. * A discretion like , this might well have boon approved by the lamented himself, and perhaps so even If ho know .the motive for it. But her uneasiness kept those eight men ig norant of this resolution ; and this resolution was the cause of much perplexity ro these eight men. And well might they bo perplexed. Hero they w?****—they came and went—irregular ly hut frequently—all, to bo sure, with plau sible claims for some worthy woman’s hand, and all, to lie sure, equally solicitous for hers; hut circumstances Ifud conspired to place them in a great state of doubt. In the first place, they wore in doubt as to the decency of thus running after a widow before her weeds were rusty. Tins of itself caused them to feel rather sh’cepish and look so on approaching her. They felt that fchoir object was suspected, and might be held in reproach hy otlr*rs besides her; they might ho thought unfeeling, or mercenary, or both. Then, what if the widow should still adhere to an exclusive iovo for the departed land lord of the- Pelican ! What—and that was quite as bail for them what if Mrs, Alice brightly had already set her affections upon another, and had promised him both her hands, with her heart and soul In one, and all the perplexity in the other.* This would be a greivuus piece of information •to'fa.pd.cut just ut the moment of refusal tin*. It was.bojt to bo careful in this matter.— Time might show. But time was* long in wailing. It was a precarious state of mor tifying suspense. What if they should wait -too long, and. the willow should get tired, and some m.ore impulsive being should step in and set their doubts at rest forever in the black ditch of despair, fringed by the golden fruition of Ins nuptial hopes? Here wa*’ not exactly a ‘ widow-bewitch ed,’ but a widow so besieged, that if her predicament had not been peculiar, and her temperament extraordinary, there is no doubt she would have held out a mgn of truce, and surrendered at discretion to somebody. Cut though so much was said and thought about her, much remained to bo told, and she did not choose to tell it. Was there some fearful mystery connected with her remarkable reticence? Was she heart broken ami had a strange power of concealing it? Was she pleased in thus be ing an object‘of constant remark and curios ity ? Could it have inflated her vanity, or amused her sense of the ludicrous, to know, as she did, that the ordinary frequenters of the bouse, and ihe neighbors round about were evermore busying themselves with con jectures ns to the precise meaning of her out goings and wero-goings, and in-comings and what-doing.s; of her casual remarks and chance glances’; her purchases of whom.and what; the state of her health, wlmt she wore, with whom she corresponded, and for what particular person she did have a positive preference, and if any, huw.ipuch, and with in what bounds restricted. It might or it might notpbut she conduct ed herself as if ignorant of these circumstan ces ; and she,moved among them all n seem ingly careless paragon of wonder, still bear ing enough of the insignia of widowhood to show shediad not forgotten it; and jet diver sifying the black, from time to time, with such gayer colors as made perplexity do ex tra penance for the wearisome inquisitive ness of its fertile researches. Matters regarding Mrs. Brightly and her eight evasive and undecided suitors remain ed in much the same state for about ton months after the Pelican had lost its land lord, when the said suitors concluded to make a change in the programme of Pelican affairs as far as they were concerned. They all thought it was nigh time some thing should be done. The slowest people, when fairly aroused, are sometimes the very quickest ; and whereas, before, they had striven to keen out of each others’ eight and knowledge, they now met frequently about the’ hotel, and did what they oould'to giro each other to understand t at-there was a certain attraction at the house which each considered it his privilege to try to possess against All corners; and that it would bo in delicate, not to say dangerous, for all other comers any longer to interlero. Shrugs, coughs, looks, and tones of antipathy be tween them served to convoy this intimation but failed to produce the desired -result.— Each man found seven stubborn stumbling blocks in bis way: and this induced another change of tactics. # ■ They came by degrees morn eonrteons.-in tcrchanged mutual self-introductions, and be ginning with -the weather, ended with the widow. It was nf no iiso, they now frankly acknowledged, to difgniso their object any longer, They were All after thofwidow. and they had not yet ascertained her mind, •though it must be that she understood theirs, “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS EE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY." by implication, after such long evidence of anxiety on their part. Now, therefore, it was resolved, that, as they had not singly been able to remove her evasiveness, one of their number should go to her, and in th<* name of .all,-entreat her to declare her pref erence between them. Lots were drawn, and the chosen delegate to the lady was Mr. Bullock, tho cattle deal er. And it may bo regarded as a proof that that gentleman hod a high reputation lor his transactions in cattle, that all seemed per fectly satisfied that tho lot had fallen upon him, when ho was thus intrusted with ft mis sion pregnant with such vital importance to their happiness and his at tho sumo time.— Mr. Bullock pledged his honor that ho would take ‘lq advantage of his opportunity as a delegate to edge in a word, or tip even a wink for himself, and repaired at once to tho widow, leaving them ixi intense anxiety, in a sitting-room below, for the space of fifteen minutes. At tho end of tlmt time, ho canto down with a blank visage, mid they asked tho re sult. ‘She simply says sho has no■ preference between us. She appears very frank about it.’ ' ‘ Between us* they cogitated, f Then wo are on oven grounds. But she may have n preference for siinfcbody else—though who lie can he, who knows? Go up now, Bul lock, and usk her, poi nt-blank, as she is ro communicative to-day, and to set our minds at rest, if she intends to marry any one else/ * i’ll do that, hut of course she dees/ Up won't Bullock, and down ho came again. * And now whnt?* ‘ She says. No. She don't intend to niar -ry anybody else. 1 Again they discussed the reply, and Bul lock was once more sent up, to solve a long mooted doubt, whether her husband’s wish and will left her free to marry again, if sho should choose, , Down came Bullock, and brought this an swer-; . ‘ She was left free to marry, without any restriction ; ami savs that she will not mar ry anybody else. Now. for God’s shake, gen tlemen, don’t send me up again. All our ■hopes are blasted, and I should think that would satisfy you/ But the others refused to consider them selves blasted. As the widow was freo, and had ho choice between them,.each secretly determined to do what -ho could to change her intention in his favor. They separated in that hope ; and it was increased, a few days afterward, when each received an invi tation to a family party to he given hy her, when, ns she stated in the note, * she intend ed to astonish him.’ * Perhaps to accept mo,’ each thought and all attended, looking their prettiest The widow, they thought, never looked magnificent before; but she did now. and they had a gay time. But when supper was served, a demure and unobtrusive gentleman of midtile ago, was noticed seated next to her, at the head of the table. He had been in troduced to them, in tho course of the eve ning. as Mr. Amos Early, ‘Ladies and gentlemen before I pour out Ihe tea,’ remarked tho bewitching hostess with sparkling eyes, that ontrivnllcd the glit ter of the gilt sprig on her china, * I am go ing to make a short speech, and astonish, you as I promised. Permit me to introduce to you again Mr. Amos Early. lie is my hus band.” Iloro all the old bachelors and widowers knocked their knees against the table. ‘T was married lo him just one month after Mr Brightly died. Married in private. I should not have been so hasty, but he wished to bo sure ; nor so secret, onlv that I wished to es cape reproach till idle curiosity had boon di verted from me, and the exact period or ’the marriage should not be too closely inquired into. Neither should I now have had it known, had I .not at last become worn out with attentions,-scrutiny, and gossipping re marks on every side. My husband's recent return .from abroad* where he has been absent during the interim, affords me a good oppor tunity to make this,agreeable disclosure, and ought to bo also a good proof that I do not intend to marry again. I would also.state, ° she added, scarcely able to suppress her laughter at the various looks of wonder which greeted her, ••that my husband, Mr. Early, will enter unun the discharge of his duties as landlord of ‘the Pelican to to-morrow , and any renewed pledge of your patronage which von m .y bo pleased to extend, will bo grate fully received by ns both. And here, Sally, pass round the lea. M Whatever feeling of hope deferred and now a inhibited might have -i agitated the bosoms of the. _ baffled eight, they were concealed, and in the course ot the glee which ensued, as they had not hcen outdone •by each other, they all wished No. 9 joy of his being No. I; and the Pelican -Hotel is going on swimmingly. A Paiirot called as a-Witness. —A man lost a favorite parrot, which was discovered in the poscssion of another person,-who refus ed to give it up. He was accordingly sum moned to produce tho-bird in.n courtof Jaw. The real owner, on being asked how he could prove that it belonged to lym, ho replied that the parrot should bo Ids.only witness.- It was thou brought into court in a case cov ered with a cloth, and began to whistle the tune of ‘Take your time, Miss Lucy/ while .some subject was being discussed in court. — Its owner then put his face to the cage, and desired the parrot to kiss him, which the bird did most affectionately. ‘He will do the same to any one, said the defendant; and, putting his mouth to the cage, the parrrot seized his lip and bit it severely, to tho.greut amuse ment of the court. Its owner then took it out of the cage and pub it on his hand, when .the bird answered^sevoral.questions put to it a ready and extraordinary manner, and also •showed so.rauch affection for its master that the judge immediately ordered the parrot to to him, and the defendant had to pay all expenses. ‘.Hem’s Laid an Ego.’ —‘ Is is reported that when the first. Greek fire shell exploded In Charleston, a contraband who witnessed it, clapped his Imndsand shouted: ‘ Seo dar! Hell’s laid an oggl’ Fxchange. It was ft hopjua co;£, though, -the only roal genuine egg. that Hell ever laid, was the ab olition -party, and that hatched a civil war such as never the- civilized world. Wo hope if Hell has laid, any more eggs, the Devil will have to ‘ sot on them a thousand years before 'they will hatch. — Courier. gy Clamnrona people should remember the tail of the rattle-snake makes the noise, but the bead does the execution. l£7*Lwo generally makes a wise man act like a fool, and -interest some times makes a {Col act like a wise man. CARLISLE, PA, THURSDAY,! MARCH 24,1864, A- THRILLING ADVENTdAe. The following account,of an adventure in tho reoent’groat snow storm on the\Plains io given in a private letter from Captaiu James 11. Dodge, of Milwaukee : \ Fout Earned. Kansas, 4. On Saturday morning. Nov. 28th star ted from Fort Lyon for Fort Lamed, expect ing to make the trip (the distance being 240 miles) in the usual time of four and i half days. Our party numbered six. The first'day wo came about 45 miles ; at night made our bed on the bare ground, and in the morningfound six or eight .inches of snow cov.oring 'us, and the wind blowing feat fully, as it can only blow across the plains. On Tuesday came nfiothpp fall of snow, and Wednesday wo traveled only seven miles.— During that whole |veek wo wore only able to thaw out our provisions, not even making an effort-to cook anything, fur on the whole , route there are no habitations. TJutilSatur day morning we were obliged, every little way, to shovel the stage out” of the snow banks, and. finally, when wo were'..about lif ty-two miles from Lnrncd, wo gave up the .idea of proceeding farther that way. Hearing that there; was a small Indian camp not far from whefo we were embanked, I concluded to leave the stago and go on to find It and get some dried buffalo moat, fi»r our supplies were exhausted, as we had only laid in a store for a five day The In dian camp, however, proved to b<r farther off than we thought, for I walked fifteen mile*, with the snow up to my knees nearly all the way. before the huts came in sight. When within a mile (or thereabouts) of them, one of the drivers overtook mo and reported that the mules had given out entirely and ho had started to go to the fort for help. . The camp being close by, I toM him to go on and get something to cat and I would ho along. I found him there with his hands and feet had- i ly frozen, so I told h’m to slay there and I would go to the tort mvsolf —thirty-five miles. I started at three o’clock p. m. The mule carried me until’ sundown, and would not go any farther. I had with us, fortu nately. a buffalo robe, so -taking the saddle tor my pillow, and tucking the robe close about me. laid down to try and keep awake, till morning. I was then twenty-seven miles from the fi»pt and the cold so intense that one of the nudes had frozen to death -the night before. When morning broke I was thank ful to the kind Providence which kept'mo from all harm. I had nothing to eat, but saddled the mule, which had not strayed more than six rods away, and started’again. The poor animal, however, would not carry me more than three miles and laid down.— ■Without hesitating one instant I stripped him. piled Hie saddle and robe together, and rin lews,than five minutes was wading through the snow up to my knees. I knew, probably I would have to be out another night, but there was no such thing as turning back, fur there were left behind six human beings | whose lives depended upon my excitions.— When within ten nffles of the fort f had to cross a stream and leave the Arkansas river, striking across arolling prairie. The snow was hero from one to throe feet deep, and the trank entirely filled. I had been over the road hut oneo except in a covered stage, and had no particular idea of the direction. I only knew that (he fort was on a crock .with trees growing along it, and the best I hoped for was to roach the trees that night. I kept two objects in view so as to make a straight lino. I walked all day, and just as the sun was two hour high or so, I saw the trees. Two miles, or about that, beyond mo I saw a lone tree, and that was the last object I bad made up my mind •to reach, but when within half a mile nr thereabouts of the tree, I saw what I thought was the fort, and took courage. I walked on at the rate of a mile an hour. Before I reached the tree I knew* for a certainty that it was the fort-I had seen, and saw that a sleigh had started for mo., They were dom ing on a gallop; I could see them ; one or two was standing up looking toward mo. They were whipping their horses, and the snow flying in all directions; I kne v that I* was saved, and my strengtlrgave out; 1 could go no farther and sank down in the snow.— When they were almost to me, I saw Lieut. Crocker driving and heard him say; “Good Lord ! it is Dodge f ■Dr. Clark jumped out with a* bottle of whisky in,one hand and a pie in the other, T Was in no mood to refuse cither. They had been looking for the stago with a glass and saw me ns I. came over.the last .roll of.the prairie, and orderedupa'team-togo out and help some one, they did not know .whom. In half an hour they had 'two* six mule teams and one two mule team going after the stage, with refreshments fur-man and beast.. They came back in twenty-four hours and Vay that! saved their lives. Only two were ■frozen, one very badly, and ill probablv have to lose his foot. One man was with us who had been in this country for thirty two years, and in all that.time Payc.ho.lmdsnQv er seen a worse storm, and that lie had made up Fis mind I could not possibly live through it. Those who went out after the stage say they never saw a more rejoiced lot than they when they know of my safety. t£7* A Chicago girl, tired of waiting for tlie young man who (JonT ‘ propose’—proln.bly on account of the expense, or the preponderance of girls since the butchery hy war—takes ad vantage of the season, and speaks out boldly in her own name in the * Wants’ colunn of the Chicago Tribune, as follows: ‘This is leap year. I’ll wait no longer. -So here I am, twenty-one years, healthy, preposessing, medium size, full chest, educated, prudent, largo sparkling eyes, long black flowing hair and as full of fun as a chesnut is full of meat, born to make some man happy, a'nd.want a home, Does any body want me ? Big Attn Little. —Ono day a farmer, dri ving along in his wagon, stopped and took in a poor little boy. The boy seemed much pleased. -But soon he seemed filled with wonder. He would look for awhile at the little front wheel and then at the big hind wheel. The farmer couldn’t think why ho kept looking and laughing, till, at dength driving his horse quite fast, the boy forget ting himself, burst out in p. fit of laughter, n nd spoke to the little front whqql, ‘Go it, .little.wheel, big wheel’capit,catch you;’ . A 'Motheus’s Love. —At.the Sunnysido disaster on the Mississippi, a man swam up to a woman who, together with a child, was struggling witli the waves, and said, ‘ I can save ono of you ; which?’ ‘Save mv daugh ter,’ said the mother, and the daughter was saved and lives ns a witness to the unselfish ness of a mother’s invo. Egy Say what is rigid, nnd let others say whiit they please. You are responsible fur only one tongue —even if . j;ou are a married man; Interesting Details of-Sherman’s Expedition. From Adjutant A. G. Phillips, of the 32d 0. V. 1., who arrived yesterday from Vicks burg, and who was with the Sherman Expe dition, we have obtained sumo interesting de tails of that famous raid : I The expedition consisted of the IGth and i 17th Army Corps, under Generals Ilurlbert and McPherson. It contained 21,000 infan try, 1,200 cavalry, and about 40 pieces of ar tillery, with a train of 800 wagons. The ex pedition loft Vicksburg on the 3d of Febru ary with twenty days’ rations. The men knew nothing of the object of the expedition. They skirmished with the »nomy on the 4th on Champion I.lill. On the sth, tho 21 brig ade of the 3d division,^!th Army Corps, un der Colonel Potts, came up with Wirt Adam’s cavalry at Bear Creek, six miles west of Glin ,tun. and a fight began at sunrise. The Rebels bad 1,200 cavalry and four pieces of artillery. The enemy was driven twenty three miles. The brigade lost thirty killed and wounded. The Rebels reported that the enemy lost 150 killed and wounded. After driving the enemy 23 miles, our forces marched 10 miles in line of buttle, and occu pied Jackson, Mias., on the night of the sth, The enemy, .was driven , Pearl River, and their pontoons secured. After that fight there was nothing but cavalry skirmishing during the rest of the mute. On the march from Jackson lo Meridian the railroad was destroyed to such an extent that nr nibs will bo required to reduild ii,— Ties and rails wore, piled up together, and as the ties burned, the rails being heated, would bend so as bo rendered worthless. The entire country through which the ex pediiion passed was desolated, scarcely a ves ti:io of a house, ,harn or fence being left behind. Brigade commanders were instructed to burn all unoccupied houses, but tlis soldiers were n t very particular whether the houses were occupied' or not. At Morion, about thirty-si^miles from Jackson, Loring’s and French's divisions of Polk's Corps w.cre in line of battle for two days, but on the approach of our advance they retreated. They claimed that they wore ordered to Mobile to defend that oity from an anticipated attack. One hundred and fifty rebel soldiers were captured at Morton. At Decaptur the supply train of the IGth Army Corps was attacked by some of Ad ams’* cavalry, and 20 mules shot. Two reb els were killed. The report that the expedition was oppos ed at Chunky River is untrue. Our forces reached Meridan (which is 150 miles from •Vicksburg and 135 miles from Mobile) on the 10th of February. Polk evacuated the place half an hour before our advance arri ved. Meridian is Ihe junction of the Mobile and Ohio and the Jackson and Charleston Rail roads. It is a place of only 300 or 400 in habitants. Sherman remained there five days. All the supplies necessary for the army weiti obtained except bread. Mills were put in running ’order and corn ground fm the 1 mops. .In tliis manner, three days meal ra tions were obtained. For four days the troops lived on parched corn, us a bread ration.— The best kind of bam and shoulder was ob tained there in large quantities. At Meridian the Ifiih Army Corps was or dered lo destroy the railroad north and east, and the ITtn Army Corps west and south' which tjioy did most effectually. Gen, Sherman issued a congratulatory or der to -before leaving Meridian, in which lie said the object of the expedition (the destruction of the railroads, was most ef fectually accomplished. In returning, the- troops came back as far as Hillsborough, fifty six miles on the mute they went down op, and then struck off to the right in the direction of Canton. They crossed the Pearl Rivei at Radcliff’s Ferry, twelve miles east of Canton. At Canton the troops waited four days to hear from Smith’s cavalry expedition, which expected to join Sherman at Meridian, but failed lo do so.— It was ronorted at Canton that Smith had lost 2,000 men and all his ‘artillery. There was much anxiety felt with regard to him. Gen. Sherman loft the the forces at Canton on the 27th for Vicksburg, where be arrived on the 28th, and sailed the same evening,for New Orleans. The expedition was then in command of Gen. Ilurltmrt. After remaining at Canton four day's the troops left for Vicksburg. The rear guard was attacked at Canto by the rebels, who were driven oil’ by cavalry. The rear \vas harrass ed until it crossed Boebcta Crock, 23miles from Black River. The expedition reached Vicksburg on the 4th ol March, without the loss of a wagon or other Government proper ty, except the 20 mules shot by the rebels. — They brought in £OO prisoners, 250 of whom will tjiko the oath and come N°rth, C,OOO blacks, of whom 000 will be added to the force at Vicksburg; 500 captured horses and indies ; two pieces of artillery,,and 500 white refugees. The people whom the troops saw on the route all.expressed themselves tired of the war,.and expressed the wish that it was over. They made no cxnoressipn of preference for the Union or the Confederacy. The soldiers have every confidence in Sher man, and like his plan of making war, which is to “ hurt the enemy.” The expedition irmn Vicksburg, up the Rod River to Alexandria, has been abandon ed for the present. ■Childhood. — 1 Wo talk of Adam and Eve as having been before the fall, in a very hap py condition,’ says the Albany ■ Register ; ‘but ono tiling they missedT-they.were nev er children 1 Adam never played marble’s. Ho never played'‘hookey.’ He never drove p tandem of boys with a string. Ho never skated on a pond, or played ball,' or rodo down a hill on-a hand sled. And Eve—she never made.a play house, she never took ton with the tea things. She never rolled n hoop or jumped the rope, or pieced a baby quilt, or dressed a doll. They never played ‘blind man’s bluff,’ or ‘pussy wants a corner,’or ‘hurybtlrly,’ or any of the games with which childhohd diseases itself. 1 flow blank their ages most have been, wherein no • memories of early youth came welling up in their hearts", no visions of child hood floating back from the long past; no mothor’svoice chanting a lullaby to the ear of .Fancy, in the, .still hours of the night ; no father's wohlof kindness,''speaking, from the church yard where bo sleeps. Adam and Eve: and they alone, of all the countless millions of men hml women .that have ever lived ; had no childhood.’ K 7" The Cincinnati!. Enquirer says that the price for this handsomest ‘ Baby’ at the Glass BJbwors’ exhibition lost Saturday was awarded to a nigger child. * Things io,wor king-’ , • _____ BSyllewho disappoints another is r.ot worthy to be trusted. A ROMANTIC AFFAIR, In the Northern part of Hancock county, .Ohio, resided u handsome looking, intelligent young widow, whoso husband died in.ISGO. Now, this husband, who was very considera bly the senior of his wife, on his death-bed httd exacted a promise from her that she would never marry after his death; his rel atives managed to gobble up his entire estate leaving her not only a widow, but very poor. The aloio<aid promise to her husband she re gretted in less than rf year, for, Id I a young .officer in tho gallant 2lst, from tho neigh boring county of Wood, who had loved her before her uanMago, renewed hio suit. She would have married him, hut for tho fatal promise, and for a ropiarkably tender conscience, which rebuked her whenever she thought of the matter. St) tho matter stood until the battle of .Chickamauga. The young officer was badly wounded, and was brought homo to die. 110 made all his preperatiuns, setting his house in order completely, for the last scene of all in bis eventful history. 110 sent for the wid ow and told her he desired but one tiling, and' that was to provide for her, lie knew time she was poor and he had no property to leave her —one thing only could he do. Ilis wid ow would receive a pension of thirty dollars per month from the government—ho would make her his widow. She thought of the matter for several hours and finally concluded to do it. True alio would violate the letter of promise, but not its spirit; and when she thought of tho good the pension would do her, scruples vanished, and they were named. Singular ns it may seem, this marriage had a begcQcial effect upon our wounded hero.— lie allowed signs of improvement immedi ately ; in fact, so rapid was his recovery, that the cs-w id""’ began to think, in.thccourso 'of two or three days, that tho hope of tho pen sion was growing faint; and well she might, fur in a week he was walking about, qud soon alter started fur his regiment, leaving a wife behind who wept bitterly at the parting. Some say the gallant officer was not woun ded at all—that the whole affair was a decep tion, and advised tho deceived woman to sue for a divorce ; but she thought not. She did not believe there was any deception. She had done justice to the memory .of her deceas ed husband: he nnly proposed marriage to benefit her; jn Ids recovery she recognized the hand of Providence, and was disposed to submit thereto. Tun SenifON' or a Squirrel. —Nearly the best sermon that I ever heard was preached to moon a Sabbath morning by a squirrel-one of the chippers, as wo used to call them— from tho text, ‘lf thine enemy hunger, feed him.’ It was in the spring of 1848. and the snows, which had been very deep that win ter, were lyiiigontho ground. It must have -been a hard time fur all the squirrel families. I had gone into a gr ive of beeches that stand a little distance from my father’s house, and saw one of the little fellows in a hole bet ween the roots of a tree. Ido not believe I bad any wish to kill him at all, hut I thought per haps I might stand behind the tree and put my hand on him as he came out. So I went carefully up to the tree, luul leaning anuinj it began to .chip myself as wall as '1 could, to call him. In a minute or two ho came bring ing a beach nut, which he pushed .with his tiny paw over the edge of the roots to me, and then .went back for another and a third. And soon, seeing that -they were not taken, ho crept timidly over tho root himself, and laid the nuts one by one beyond another root still nearer to pie. No squirrel was cap tured by me that day. Ido not know\what he thought. Perhaps tho noise I had made had happened to- strike upon tho sorrowful or beseeching tones of a squirrel speech ; and lie may have taken it for tho voice of a poor er neighbor, whose last year’s store had fail ed sooner than his own. It is certain that he had seen mo plainly as he ran to his shel ter. I cannot tell what was the meaning of the net with him. But I remember Hie mois tening of the boy that saw it, and how ho turned thoughtfully to his home.— Charles JR. Rice. Drawing Teeth. —Among the many meth ods adopted to avoid the draft, that of draw ing teeth seems to bo the least expensive and dangerous. To some people it may appear almost incredible that any one blessed with il good setof pearly teeth, should endure both the pain and mortification of having them ex tracted. Vet, through the great .anxiety to avoid the draft, the practice has recently pre vailed do a considerable .extent. Two cases ‘have.been rqceptly.brought to our notice, and are .vouched for by respectable authority.— One in Manor and the other in Kiskiminetas township. In the latter instance, the patient went all th* way to Pittsburg to have the* draft inviting molars extracted. But the most singular feature' that tf»e whole trans action is. that both these young gentlemen are overflowing wiilyintense patriotism, of the Abolition typ<\ bent on giving the *• hist man" andTlTo “ last dollar,” in (he vigorous prosccution of the \xi\T.~—Kiilanning j/cnior.' A Baffled Miser —A miser having srst a bag containing a hundred pounds, promis ed ten pounds reward to any one who would "bring it to him. An honest poor man, who found it, brought it to the old gentleman, de manding the ten pounds ; hut the miser, to bnfllo him.-alleged there were a hundred and ten pounds in the bag when lost. The poor man, however, was advised to sue for the mon ey ; and, when the cause came on to be tried it appearining that tde Beal Ipvd not been bro ker, nor the bag ripped, the judge said to the defendant’s counsel: ‘The bag you lost had a hundred and ton pounds in it,* you say ?’ ‘Yes, my lord,’replied the counsel. ‘Then,’ said the judge. ‘ according to the evidence given iu court, this cannot bo your money, for hero are only a hundred pounds ; therefore the plaintiff must kccp.it- till /he owner appears/ A-dninkon fellow, Bitting on the ntop of ft ohmoh in Boston, the cold wind blow ing chillingly rnnnd'tho corner. If lino veil fine) temper’s the.wind to Iho (hie) shorn lamb,,l wish.flic lamb (hie) was on this cor ner. A Xdt .to Crack. — How can Old 1 Abo and •Secretary Chase get along in the Cabinet to gether?’ Both are candidates for the Presi dcncy—Cl aee on ft platform of.greenbacks and Old Abo on one of jokes. TUora must be an explosion-ooon. L’nc editor of a Jacobin paper pays “ the copperheads will find .the way of the trans gressor hard.” ;It onghttn bo hardly this time, for you and your party have traveled it enough to make it ho for the last three yearn. A new dance has sprung up iu Paris called the Radonowitcb. Sunshine vs. Matrimony. It ia fully f«* girls to expect to bo happy without marriage ; every woman was made for a mother; consequently children are aa necessary for their peace of mind as health is. ' If you wish to behold.melancholy and indigestion, look at an old maid ; if you would lake a peep at sunshine, look at the young mother. * Now I won't stand that/ replied my maiden uunt; ‘ I’m a maid myself and I'm neither melancholy nor indigestible.— My piece of mind I’m going to give you .in a minute; 1 never would touch a baby during my existence, except with a pair of tongs.— Young mothers and sunshine indeed \ , Why, they are. worn to fiddle-strings before they nro fiyo-bnd-tvTemty. When an olu lover steps in, he thinks ho scea-hia grandmother, instead of the dear little Mary who used to make him feel as if ho should crawl out of liia boots. Yes,'ray mind is quite made up about matrimony. But, aa to babies—some* times I think, and then again I dont know —on the whole, X believe I consider 'em a decided humbug. -It’s one-sided partner ship, this marriage ; the wife casta up all the accounts. The husband gets up in tho morning and pays his devoirs to the looking-*' glass, curls his fine head of hair, puts.on an immaculate shirt bosom, ties an cxcrutiating cravat, sprinkles his handkerchief with col ogne, stows away a French roll, an egg and a cup of coffee, gets into an omnibus, looks slantendicular at the pretty girls, and makes love between the pauses of business in tho afternoon. The wife must hermetically seal the windows, and shut out the fresh air, be cause tho baby had tho snuffles in the night, and sits down gasping, more dead than alive to finish her breakfast. Tommy spills a cup of coffee down his bosom ; Julianna tore off the strings of her school bonnet; James wants his geography covered; Eliza can’t find hep satchel; the butcher wants to know if she’d like a joint of mutton ; tho milkman wan*s his money ; tho baby nwallowa a pin ; tho husband sends a boy from iho store to say hie partner will dine with him ; the cook loaves all, flying to go to her sister’s dead baby’s wake ; anti the husband’s thin, coat must bo ironed before noon. Sunshine and young mothers ? Where’s my smelling bot tle V •Patino 'fur the Sight.— They’ve got down in Cuurtland county, an old farmer, no ted for his greediness and his keen lookout for a spot wherein to turn a penny, honestly or (he »sn’t very particular) tho reverse. A while ago lie succeeded by accident in rais ing n very large hog. It was soon noised abroad, and the ptioplo in thru vicinity began to call on the old man to see ‘monstrosity/ A gentleman from our ‘taowu’ was stopping awhile in tho village, and hearing of tho hog and so much said about it, ho desired.to see the sight, and having obtained directions aa to the * locale,’ started to the spot. Arrived there, he mot the old gentleman, and inquir ed about the ‘ aminale.’ ‘ Wall, yes,’ the old follow said,* he’d got sich a critter, ‘ mi’ty big'un; hub guessed he’d have to charge a shillin’ for lookin at him/ The stranger looked at the old man for a minute or so; pulled out the desired coin, handed it to Jiitu, and started to go off. ‘Hold on/ says tho other; ‘don’t you want to see the hog V ‘No/ said tho stranger, ‘I have seen as big a hog as I want to see!' and off ho went. llorri.D.ix Death. — A mason named Dan iels, employed nt the iron works iu New Cas tle, met with a horrible death recently. The stacks to two of the puddling furnaces are made of sheet iron and with brick. These stacks were secured by guy chains to keep them from falling over, and also chained to gether. One ot the stacks being cold, Mr. Daniels was employed in taking out the lining. One of the guy chains had been removed for some cause, and the stack already loaned a little, but was not thought to bo in danger of falling. It is supposed that the removal of the lining below made the stack top heavy and it pave way. Seeing his danger Mr, Daniels ran to the end of the furnace and jumped into the ashpit for safety ; but the stack he was working at, in falling, drew.tho other {which was hot at the lime.) aft6r it, and*it fell immediately over Mr. Daniels, crushing him deadly, and laterally roasting him to death. Death From Chloroform. — Mrs. Beach heldefcr.of North WlutenaU township" Le high .County, wont .to the office of'Drs Gui ding‘and Griorsemcr, dentists of Allentown, to have a number of teeth extraclod, and al though dissuaded by the dentist she urgently requested to have the operation performed under the influence of chloroform, Dr. Mar tin was called in, wlio -made an examination and pronounced her a suitable subject to have chloroform administered, and-proceedod to at£ minister it. While under a partial influence Dr. C. proceeded to extract her teeth. Af ter the extraction of the eighth tooth she fell forward, became unconscious, and her pulse ami heart ceased to beat. All proper meas ures were taken to restore her, and artificial respiration was kept up fur an hour and a half, when she expired. The Spotted Fever. —This unusual anil generally fatal disease, of which thousands have Middcnly died in Philadelphia during the winter mouths, is beginning to make its appearance in the country. Several cases have recently occ.ilred in Douglass dud Here ford townships. Berks county, three of which have proved fatal. The Pottstown Ledger states that Ephraim Wise and one of his children, and a child of .Hiram Dicrelf, have died of it. The first symptons of thediscaso are said to be an eruption of the disease are said to bo an eruption of the skin, and sud den weakness of the nerves, and s-iffuess of tbo-Umhsi If immediate medical aid is not obtained, death generally ensues iu a foifr hours. • 02?* 4 Negro wont into a menagerie in which was a largo baboon in a cage.- • approached the cage closely while the baboon went through several gyrations, such as nod ding and.shqking his head, holdihg out his hands to shako, etc, to the evident delight qf both negro and baboon. jFiimlly,the-baboon seemed so intelligent-ami .knowing it the ne gro addressed him some remarks .which tho .baboon only answered by a nod of -the head; At length uj° r»egro was still pmre delighted aid broke fjrib'iivthe remark, “ you’ie right don*topch yoVm.mouth, kaso if you spoke* a word the \yhito man’l hnve.o shovel in your hand in lesb dan o minit. TT" An Irish drummer, who now and then indulged himself jn right good potheen, was acc- sled hv tlie in.-pccting General AVhat •makes yunr lace look so. red?* * Pluso your honor,* replied Pat. * I always blush wbon-I sneak to a General officer.* (C7* Generally the greatest humbug. ia hji who talks of humbug the most glibly* yo. 4i
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