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Mfijc "i . •• »/*•, t future hopes—and.praise them; Ut flowers as sweet bloom at our feet, we’d but stoop to raise them. things afar still sweeter are, ’hen youth's bright spell hath bound usj soon we’re taught that earth hath naught ike homo and friends around us. friend that speed in time of need; 'hen hope’s last rood is shaken, show us still that come what will, r e are not quite forsaken. )ugh all were night, if but the light ’rom friendship’s altar crowned us, rould prove the.bliss of earth was this— lur homo and friends around us. I# J&imllnumis. f:"CTi )fIN INCIDENT OF THE REVOLUTION. f r ' UY MRS. 31. E. ROBINSON. m le duties .of n spy, though both disagree mind dangerous, did not deter Col. llas- Jifrom offerings his services towards as mining tho position and condition of the ama troops, then quartered in Canada. — bravo and handsome young officer, „ jttttSirtied to the American cause, and jjpiPrig td sacrifice h'is life, if need he, for of hie cotinttym cp who wore fight- liberty hud the right., was fully aware of the risk he incur. ... - nnr * i n ' l b" ‘ f fh ° K - .should he be suspected and taken. 1 4SaB&edns-,of various disguises he bad reoon pretty thoroughly, and liud acquir-; r information of au important navuf'o. % | : . f about refiolvcd to returli to the Aniori I camp and report hitfiseif to thceomman i rAer-'m-chief, when the following incident ![? 1 his determination. _ , mawreiiilfi walking along one day, musing up :-.i dfiiho eiciting events which were then traus !' piruig, lie was met by one of the common soi- J ry wh° stopped to speak. The man looked 's : Sr?*miaated, and seemed pledged with bis i['; J , coifirifdo 1’ He efiod; ‘ yoti’re go- . iOj;Jwrong way.’. ~ . not;’ retjlitid Hastings, carelessly, il,■V : .«y|^‘ ; eii, j a’pose you know best;, hut yoa’d £° back lb damp with me. I’ni going . -■ i cld'get a description of the chap thats been - E ; rea name is Tom Jones, and he’s been ; h - round here, listening to what the calilffiQers say, pumping the men, and trying to; what the next move is to be. Bdti smelt a rat. There’s a bounty of- his head, and he’s asgoodasa dead t tfeallpbdd' «noagh fot KmV esdlaimed the' who still .maintained the same indif-. *K(dnfi^mdemeanor.; ‘ His lile isn’t worth much 'h'SjiifS a * act- ® ut * Ba y- comra de.’ be ad- H ilfjffilolappißg. the soldier familiarly oh the Yvvfltplilder, ‘ isn’t Hinging a little too good for man r«pK o d with amon-rse laugh and i?q,4n,pnflh, ahd then passed on his way, leav :il peiifgTHßstings in mo'enviable state of mind.— p fellow been acquainted with him , -detention would have been inevitable. Ho had left the barracks early that |v;tSlbrein'g, : noticing nothing unusual; but D tfc) ®xjjbablj his absence, added to other circum bad awakened ..suspicion. Not a “'V? .moment was to ho lout; his life depended up- W ’w- U .!6n >" it concealment, as flight at that hour ' about four in the afternoon) would Mod with extreme danger. The sol ild hear a description of his person, itory, the alarm would bo given, and of enemies be immediately on bis foung officer hastily entered a thick, of trees near by, and looked about i place of refuge. He could discover which offered the slightest proteo ; a large brush-heap, but as mo better iQpld be found, bo .conoenled himself as possible beneath it. aard the tramp of horses’ feet and the )f men, in a very short time, which very good reason for concluding that not secreted himself a minute too They passed the spot where he lay v . halting, and Hastings breathed more ?ben the echo of their shouts was lost listanoe. dragged on slowly. The ground was ily cold and damp from the effects of t rain, and added to the unpleaaant his situation. He dared not stir, for attracting the attention of some per \o might bo lurking in the vicinity, i stiffened limbs began .to pain him irably. . several days he had not been well, and that he was rapidly becoming worse, hills ran over him, his head was hot shed badly, and a general languor por his whole system. What should be do? bow quite dark, but unfortunately for le moon shone brightly, and he feared men if he attempted leaving his pres lition. So for two more long,hours he lay there, benumbed with cold, and growing bo much worse that he feared, without assia- tance, ho would die. But if it was’ danger ous to go, it was equally dangerous to re« main. To bo hanged for a spy was not a very pleasant idea to contemplate, and he. groaned at the thought of dying there alone. At this moment he remembered having seen a small cabin at a short distance. Ho would seek it, throw himself upori the mercy of the inmates; and beg assistance and pro- tection. k , , , He pushed aside the brush cautiously and after glanciUg from side to side hurriedly, brept a little way upon his feet, and then gradually raised himself to an upright posi tion. This was not accomplished without severe effort; his limbs wore weak and cramped, and ho tottered, as he walked.— His head felt so light and dizzy that it was some minutes before he could recollect in what direction the cabin was situated; but his mind became somewhat clearer at length, and he moved slowly forward. ■Suffering much bodily pain, and wearily dragging one foot after the other, he saw a. light twinkling in the distance, which indi cated the proximity of the lowly dwelling.— He did not know whether the occupants were whigs or- tories, but ,ho trusted in Providence and went forward more hopefully.. Ho approached the cabin, but paused at hearing the sound of voices. Taking a few more noiseless steps he was enabled to glance through a rude, window, and perceived two men and two women sitting within. The young officer was about to knock at the door, when the word ‘ spy' reached his ears, caus ing him to forego his intention, and listen to hear more. 4 1 am quite confident we shall succeed/ said one. 4 The reward is worth trying for, at any rate/ returned the other. * JVhat will be done \yith him if he should bo captured?’ asked the youngest of the two female,s.. ‘No matter 1’ said the elder of the two men. abrubtly. 4 They won’t be likely to let him go again/ added hiq .companion, with a significant shrug of the shoulders. . 4 He'll be treated as spies usually are, probably,’ remarked.the middle-aged woman who had not yet spoken. The younger shuddered and looked thought ful. 4 1 wish this unnatural war was ended, it so brutalizes the human character,' she said, earnestly, after a pause. 4 The sooner the rebels are conquered the quicker it will be ended,’ said one of the men, * so you sqe it is our duty to catch this spy, who to be very cunning and use ful in his way. Ho can’t be a great distance off, and ns soon as we get rested wo must take to the woods and hunt him down.’ The other gave his hearty consent to this proposal, and talking over their plans to ,;gfjther both men left the cabin and passed so near to our hero, that by raising their hands they might have touched him ; but the darkness which had succeeded moons de parture favored him, and he remained undis covered. ——Waiting-until—ho-could-no~longer~hear-the footsteps nor voices of the retreating figures, he stepped softly to. the door and tapped. The latch was raised, and a voice demand ed, 4 Who’s there?’ 1 4 A friend ; one, at least, who has not the power to injure you,’ was the reply. The door opened, wider, and the pale, hag gard face of the applicant was exposed to the woman, who .scrutinized him steadily and closely. ‘‘■Como in,’ she said, briefly.^ * I am in distress,’ said Hastings, *1 apply to you because you are a woman and I can not forget that a woman was first at the sep ulchre of Jesus, lam sick, weary, hungry and sorely pressed by my enemies. lam the American spy lor whom a reward is offered. Yod Can save me or deliver me into the hands of yoilr husband, or those tfh'o have gone in . pursuit of ihe. The mother and daughter -exchanged glan ces, but neither spoke, and Hastings anxious ly awaited the decision of his fate. The woman who had opened the door now signified >by emotion of -the hand that he should 'Ontrr. He -did fio, and a seat was placed for him beside the daughter, whoso sympathies were ’Obviously •enlisted. She glanced sympatlmingly at bis dejected codri tenanoe, and" noted his faltering stops -Uhd limbs trembling with weakness: 4 We can give you food, but our protection will avail but little, after my husband’s re turn,’ said the woman. 4 Can you not conceal me?’ asked Hast ings, earnestly. 4 Heaven will reward you for the deed.!’ The mother looked at her daughter, and the two conversed together in a low voice. I We will do .what we can,’ said the, for mer, briefly, as she placed refreshments be fore him and signified to him to eat. 4 Do not stop to talk, she added, quickly, as the young officer endeavored to express his gratitude. * There is no time to lose, and food will do you more good than -anything else.’ : ■ Hastings di(f not wait for a,second bidding, and the nutricious beverage soon had the ef fect to renew his strength and inspire fresh •courage.- His head felt leas giddy, the cheer ful fire warmed his stiffened limbs, and he would certainly have fallen asleep in bis chair had not a feeling of dread lest the men should suddenly return, caused him to look often .aLxiously toward the window. * They will be gone two hours/ said the youngest female, as if to reassure him on that point Hastings signified his thanks, and looked at the fair speaker so attentively that a crim son glow stole over her expressive counte nance, making her look more interesting than before. He forgot, for the moment, himself, hds illness, the danger he bad incur red, the risk he now ran, everything in con templating her symmetrical figure, regular ity of features, and the benevolent kindness that beamed from her eyes. He was startled from his revery by the barking of a dog. * You are lost 1* she exclaimed. * Father, is near by 1* Hastings started to his feet and looked hurriedly about for some mode of egress be sides the door by whioh ho had entered. The young girl shook her head, and her cheek paled with terror. Hastings kpew that discovery was inevitable if he remained where he was, and that the result would bo equally fatal if he ventured to leave the cab- in. • ■ The young girl stood an instdnt as if spell bound, when the voices came nearer and nearer. Suddenly she sprang towards a door which opened into a dark closet. ‘ Go in 1’ she whispered, 1 and secrete your self behind those clothes. The officer mechanically obeyed, and the door was quickly closed, and fastened upon him, while his deliverer, with uncommon self possession, placed herself in the obair be bad jjist vacated,,and drew up to the small table "OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” on which food had been placed, and very de liberately commenced eatidg. She had hardly done so when her father and his companion entered the cabin, both looking somewhat ill-humored and disap pointed. . ¥ ‘ What are you up and bating For, Ilottio? asked the former, abruptly, regarding the young girl with a iook of astonishment and displeasure. • Because I'm hungry,' was the unhesita- ting reply. * Well, and so,are we hungry, girl; so get something qunk, for wo'vo got to ride a doz en miles yet; that is if the fellow don't dis appoint us again. Confound him 1 we might have been on the right track by this time if the horses had been forthcoming,' he mut tered, as Hottie (as he called her) busied herself in placing eatables before them, as she had been bidden. While this had been transpiring the moth er had silently left the cabin, entered an out building, and was preparing a comfortable place in which to conceal Hastings before her husband's return; and this will aooouny, for her absence when his proximity had been so opportunely discovered by the young girl. While the men were satisfying the de mands- of appetite she entered, but started, back in alarm at.perceiving what a change, in affairs the last fifteen minutes had wrought. Hettie caught her eye, and a warning glance checked the exclammation that was .on her lips, anti recalled her* usual presence of mind. 4 Well ?’ she said, interrogatively, approach ■ ing the table. 4 We ? ve had to wait for horses, and the cal will give us the slip if we don’t ride for dear life,’ returned her husband moodily.— * I say, Ben,’ he added with an impatient ges ture, 4 hav’nt you almost done eating?’ * Just finished,’ replied Bon, pushing back hia chair and buttoning his coat. ‘l’m all ready.’ 4 We’ll go then, as soon as I got another hat,’ and he apnroachod the closet whioh eon-, tained the object of their solicitude and pur suit. The speaker stepped in, and commenc ed searching for the article he had named. The reader can imagine the sensations of our hero, as ho crouched behind a pile of bedding, trembling lest a sudden movement of the man should expose his person. Ho was certain that his heart beat loud enough to be heard—:qnd whqn clothes move before him hie gave up all for lost. The einotions of the young girl were none the less intense,, Her face assumed an ashy hue, her feet seemed glued to the floor, and her breath almost stopped as hiereye marked each emotion of her father. As he advanced, near the corner where she know Hastings stood she placed her hands before her eyes and sank into a chair. But discovery did not ensue. The hat wat found at length, and when Hettie raised her eyes she breathed more freely. Her father stood without the closet, while hia compan ion was assuring him that if much more time was wasted they might as well give up the undertaking. 4 Where is he?’ inquired the woman, when the men had gone. —-l-Tn-therfi t , -replied_tliQ. daughter, point! ng to the closet. * It is a providence indeed!' was the fer vent ejaculation of the mother, as she com- prehended his narrow escape. No time, was lost in conducting Hastings to the out-building we have named. It was, entered but seldom, little used, and being so near the rendezvous of the king's troops would not be likely to be subjected to a very thorough search by his enemies, who prob ably believed him much farther off. In this place ho remained several days, receiving the best of care from both mother and daughter, who visited him as often as they could without attracting observation.— When his strength - had. partly returned, and ho was able to travel, his generous protec tors furnished him with a suitable disguise, and by means of the husband's absence were enabled to assist him a considerable distance upon his journey. He encountered many difficulties and dangers, and felt himself far froth secure until be had passed the British lines and knew he had nothing more to fear. But he did not forget the maiden whoso prompt action saved his life. After the close of the war he met her again under more an spicious circumstances, and pleasant ac quaintance terdiinated in happy marriage. Cast a Line tor Yourself.— Ayoungman, poor and dejected, stood watching some glers on the bank of -a stream. At length, , approaching a basket well filled with fine fish, he sighed, "if aofr I had these I would be happy, t could sell them at a fair price Rod buy my food and lodging.” - , > " I will give you as good fish/'said the owner, who, chanced to overbear,his words, " if you will do me a trifling favor.” "And what is that?” asked the other ea gerly. • . ’ • ■" Only tend this line till I come back; I wish to go on a short errand.” The proposal was accepted. The old fish: erman was so long absent that the young man began to be impatient; Meanwhile, however, the hungry fish snapped at - the hook and pie yodng man lost his depression in the excite ment of pulling them in, qnd when the own er of the lino returned, he had caught a large number. Counting out from them ns many as were in the basket and presenting them to the young man, the old fisherman said : " I fulfill my promise for the fish ycu have caught, to teach you that whenever you see others -earning what you need, to waste no time in fruitless wishes, but cast s. lino for yourself.” Prsperitv.— Continual prosperity hardens the heart, as continual sunshine does the earth ; but when one is softened by the tears of sorrow, and the other by genial showers, they yield those fruits which the necessities of man require. Goodness is twice blessed in what it gives and what it receives. _ The peace and’,comfort we impart to others is re stored to our own bosom by the satisfaction of an approving conscience, as the vapors which ascend through the, day fall back at night in refreshing dews upon the earth. Tight Squeeze. —A young man recently having succeeded, after much persuasion, in getting a kiss from a girl, went and told of it. One of her acquaintances met her and said. ... ‘ So, Mary, John says that you let him kiss you.’ ’ I did let him, after he had teasedsme an hour; but it was a tight squeeze even then.’ ‘ So, ho 1’ exclaimed the other, ‘he did not mention that. He only spoke of the kiss, but did not say anyting about the squeeze.’ tSS~ Xu the face of the sun you may see God’s beauty, in the fire you may feel his heart warming; in the water his gentle ness to refresh you ; it is the dew of heaven that makes your fields give you bread.—Tay lor, ; CARLISLE, PA.-. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1865. Toll mo, maidon, maidon dear! / Tell mo what is lovo ? In tby brown oyos shining clear, On thy lips, 0 maidon do&r, ' Can I aeo it move ? It is two hearts, two hearts truo, Two hearts with ono beat; Two souls shining through Lips and eyes of morning dow, With ono wish between tbo two, And that wish to moot. MICK ANDKiLISTA. BY “BRICK” POUEROT, Those other girl of ours, as we are inform ed by letter, has gone and got well looked unto a tinkeriat of the gospel, who attends prayer meetings, swops horses, stands chap lain in the army, and gets drunk on the sly I Oh dear ! This is much misery. I Whore -.foro ishnU, we, flee go unto, now? How we ■used to do the courting for those girl. Can dy/ peanuts, worm lozenges, peppermint drops, Ji.ttle balls of .honey soap, nightbloom ing.for seriousness, .and such evidences did w.e pour into them lap o.t.bors whereon at .vesper chime this head'of ,ours did erst so sweetly rest. Oh dear I 'XwasO! R-lis tal - . ! Wo used to blacken our boots, starch our hair, grease our shirt and curl our eydbcqws for thorn girl. And we rode horse for her paternal derivative to cultivate corn ; and we milked the brindlo.heifer as what no other boy, could milk; and wo split oven wogd, and who would not for her in a? And at when bate came forth, and tumble bugs crawled over the lea.and young pullets sal in maiden'meditation fancy free, folding their heads under one wing so ns to 'learn love by hearing their hearts heat, we would lidstou under Kalista’s window, and ehowoUld with her lily white baud snail us up by the hair till we arrived at the bower of loyOj.ns she called her garret. 'Twas- thus our hair became less and our confectionary for Kalista increased. ! When the week had busted on the rocli of Saturday night we used to wander by the brooklet and let the brook wander too. And Kalista went forth with us. Hand ia hand like the Siamese twinsters we roamed, and sat on the dewy bank to catch onU in our heads andluxurialed on the “ bank wot with dew!” And we used to recline against a fatherly or motherly elm tree, and squeeze our each other’s bands as we rolled our eyes and'peoked upward into the vault our spir its longed to vault into but didn’t. Oh, this sparking is,Heaven in two earthly volumes, with the price mark omitted 1 Did you ever spark f ‘lf not, advance your works upon a female crinoline-dear and commence active hostilities to onot 1 Once we sparked Kallsta when her moth er "was looking. The old lady slopped us, ’ cause it reminded her of other times, she said. But she didn’t keep us stopped. When we wanted to repose our head, Kalista held her Inp‘arid into it wo went like an apple. When we wanted /anted a kiss we told Kallatu such was our desire, when elio'would loan h3r amber hoad oyer upon our forces and say, “ Now, 4 Brick/.tea is ready.” You just can gam ble we took tea from that little table lota of times/aud 1 never asked any one to help put bask the'plates ! ICalista was a zephyr on a kisa. It waa pretty near her best holt. Ma king mush was KalUta's charm. When the water did boil, how she did sprinkle meal in to’the iron—iron—receptsakottlo, and shake her looks in glee to aee the infant mush bub ble and splutter like a fellow kissing a baby with his mouth full of beecbnuta* We courted, sparked and courted Kaliata seventeen long years. Slie grew from sighs to greater size, and all went merrily as a fu noial bell. Kalista’s maternal author said wo might, and we intended to. Wo sat on rail fences, end boards to wagon boxes, piles of pumpkins, heaps of potatoes, door steps, saw logs, plow beams, pine stumps, where we pined for each other and told our love, and in anticipation, combed our hair, peeled our potatoes, chopped our hash, rooked our —well, never mind ; wore our old clothes ex cept when we had company and waked fat on love, and sioh. Kali'sta’a father said we might, and there again we had things begged. We counted our calves (and Kalista had nice calves) and weighed our pork and sold our veal, and took our wool to market, and put up our little preserved and revelled in that future which is so much like an oyster, more shell than meat. ■ 1 One day a, baulky steer slung one of his back hoofs in among the' old gent’s waist ;hand; and after a series of severe discomforts, the old rooster went hence in February, when we ell followed with a march 1 Kalista was a sensitive plant, measuring fifty-nine inches nrohnd her afflictions, and so we murdered the steer and made him into smoked hoof.— And at supper table, and as we lunched be tween the heavy courting, we chawed the ’beef, and thus Kalista and us got satisfaction from, the juvenile ox \vho - steered his foot wickedly. . . Then Kallsta’a mother, who would pot par take of the beef, took cold in the'head, and went hence, It was autumn—oho of the fall months. The mother of our heart’s poison as we family-arly called Kalista vhas of an enquiring disposition. She always asked numerous things. She asked the egg man if chickens abided in the shells of the hen fruit she bought. She wanted to know why rounds were put in ladders crosswise instead of up and downl She wanted to. know why pants were made so that a mah could not take them off over his head J She said in her.innocenoe that an eclipse was caused by a nigger con vection between her and the, moon 1 But why the moon fulled, rather basted the ven erable mother of our Kalista, and she sought to study it out. She read Daboll’s arithme tic, Sand’s spelling book; Eohinson Crusoe and the La Crosse Democrat,' but she could not get her fork into the reason. The old la dy read in an almanac that on a certain night' the moon, would full. We went to see Kalis ta that night to see,if 61%Jove would full.— The old lady determined ta watch it and see how a man fulled, and when it fulled and what for did it full.. Night came, and she wrapped one leg of apairof red flannel draw ers about her head, and when all in the house was still she emerged into the sitting room, and in her antique costume, the old lady says “ Brick, your supper is ready I” So wo went into the parlor and kissed the hours away. Very fine supper! The oldjady took an almanac, a New York directory and a tallow candle out bn theback stoop. She anchored in a big chair and waited-to see the moon change its clothes.^ — She looked and looked and at last fell asleep for a moment, when, as she said, the danhed thing up and fulled, and she didn't sec' it I She was not an observing female, but she never lost any. children. Yet lor all that, LOVE. the moon worried her—her candle went out, Kalieta waa left to be her own mother or do without. Kalieta took grief very healthy.— She wore mourning and looked well, ne ahe wept because the jeweler did not got her mourning pin done in time. She ironed a now cotton fiandkevohiof on the coffin lid, so ne to Imre Rome use of the furniture cro it Was knocked down, and was ready to wed lock then. Kalieta was lonesome when her authors were gone, and wo should have wed dbd then hut for the looks of the thing.' Then there came from the war a journey man converter, and ho offered Kalieta all he hid at once, and Kalista being a lonesome girl, said she would and she did. And her atad the good man went to the carpenter’s and ordered a graveyard fence for the loved relatives, and the worker of wood threw in a eandle. and the pair wedded at once, and how Kalista is telling some other delegate I that “ sapper is ready 1” And thus another of our hopes is spilled over life’s precipice, and wo are left to mourn for the candy we gave unto Kalista, who has loft us ail alone for to die 1 Letter from Alonzo Ward to his Brother. Shechaoo, March 11, 1865. To the Edt/lur of the Sunda Times; , 4 years ago, while imindianoplos, injyana, I wrote to Mr. Prentiss, of the Losevill Jur nal, regarding the whereabouts of iny broth er, Artymus Ward, off hoom i have not heerd sinat ho was a hoi, “And wo roamod tbo fields together,” happo ns a Makeral in Kashmeer Sox. There were four off us borothers, all bois. Thee follor'mg is a pedagng olour faniile. Our pa rents, of which there was 2, konsisted of our lather and mother, namely : Manner and Er ysipelas Ward. The latter (my father) was given hevily to plug tobacker, of which he chawed incessantly, though boiled Bakon, done rair, waz his best holt. lie was a man that could not go long between drinks; the Kamil did not predominate in him and G. Hover took him at the age of sioksty, and after 3 dais cickness. The followln iz appli kable tu hiz ease: u Oakum ! Oakum!”—S. Spear. After the old man’s doth, our mother was left with the 4 bois aforesaid, whizz, namely, i. e.: Erysipelas, named after father. Artymis, the Long Lost. Bedney and my self. Olonzo, named after Olonzo of pizzaroncan celebrity. My eldest berother Ery, wont into the wool business, while Rodney went out to Orrygon ne terrytory and Mbarked in the fur traid. Ery did poorly at the wool, and thus busted, but Rodney is still in the Fur, coining mon ey. Artymis, at the tender ago of eleven, waz suddenly missed from hoam. In this kon noxshun I would remark an old stocking be longin to my mother, containing fore dollars in Oliver and fifty-two cents in koppor, dis appeared about the same time. There was a party of Akrawbats, of double proklivitys, in our naburhud a few days preevis, and by ma ny it waz supposed that Arty had been in -viggled- “ To love bis gaand happo boam Sands eyes, sand teeth brushes, Sands pale alo, The world is all a stage, The real is lemon and vanilla.” At all evints i have never heern of him but once, i. e., when I rote to Mr. Printiss, who did not answer my letter, ho bein engaged in translatin a French letter sent to him by Mis Soosan Monday, a noted gorillar of the fe male gender. Off her more hereafter; but “ Ila -venous on our mutton” as the French have it. I hcerd that mi berother, A. Ward bad hokum rich, ho having been to Salt Lick City, among the Mormen and women (ho was alius given to the latter, even from a child,) and that moreover and above; he had got a sho of was Aggers, and nevertheless was per fectly decayed with munoy in which event, I would remind him " I still life."—Webb. And na his absents caused me mariuy teers (i carried aul the water and chopt aul the wood for 2 years after his loving us) and na i am hiz only surviving berothor in poor suok erastanco, (Ery being rich, and Rodney when last heerd from, was in big contract fernishin fine tooth kombs for the oonfederut army, with hedquarters at Richmond) therefore I do think Arty mite kum and see me. lie is ever wolkomo to mi poor but, happo hoam. — Owe, owe. borother ! if this shood meet your i, think kindly off one. who loves not wisely hut tu well; but owe, owe, dear Artymis, do not try to shake me OLONZO WARD. Deer berothor, don't I co back cnto me I 0. W. “'"Why do i wepe 4 thee.” 0. W. Charity. —Lot my lips be sealed with charity, that may open only for the good of my neighbors. Lot my eyes be yelled with charity, tliat they may rest on good, and*tifat wickedness may bo shut from my sight. ' Lot charity close my ears to all unkind and malicious slander. Let charity keep my hands busy with prof itable work, and my feet turning in the path toward those whom God hath given me the power to benefit. May charity keep my heart from sin, from •evil imaginations, from the tempting whispers of the evil one. So that shutting every door against uncharitableness, my soul may be made strong in lovo to the Father of all men. !t7" A lawyer, who was sometimes forget ful, having been engaged to plead the case of an offender, began by saying : 1 1 know the prisoner at the bar, and he bears' the charac ter of being an impudent scoundrel.* Hero somebody whispered to him that the prison er was his client, when ho immediately con tinued: 4 But what great and good man ever lived who was not calumniated by many of his contempoorios ?’ fl@y-A French gentleman, having been rescued from a ducking in a river, and taken to a neighboring tavern, was advised to drink a glass of very warm brandy and wa ter. , ‘ Sir, I shall thank you not to make it a fortnight.’ • Had’t you better take it direct ly ?’ 4 Oh, yes,’ said Monsieur ; 4 directly, to be sure not a fortnight, not too week.’ ,(C7* Three gentlemen being in a coffee house, one called for a dram because he was hot. 44 Bring me another,” says his companion, 44 because I am cold.” The third who sa{ by and heard them, very quietly called out: 44 Hero, boy, bring me a glass, because I like it,” A SOUTHERNER FREES HIS MIND. A Willy and Pungent Letter—Bill Arp Ad- dresses Arlemus Ward! Hour, Gn., Sept. 1, 1805, ilfr. Arte/m/s Ward, Showman, Sir —The resun I write to you in partick ler are bekauso you are about tbo only man I know in all “ Gcd’s country," so-called.— For some several weecks wo rebs, so-called', but now late of said country deceased, have been tryin mighty hard to do eumthin. Wo didn't qiiite do it, and now its very painful, I assure you, to dry up all of a sudden and make out like wo wasn’t there. My friend, I want to flay sumthin. I sup* pose there is Ho law, agin thinkiu, but thinky in don't help me. It don't let down my ther moraeter. I must explode myself generally so us to feel better. You see I'm trying to harmonize. I'm trying to soften down my feelins. I'm endeavonn to subjugate myself to the level of surrounding circumstances, so-called But I can't do it until I’m allowed to say sumthin. I want to quarrel with Bomeb)dy, then make friends. I aint no gi ant-killer. 1 aint no norwogian bar.. I aint no boarconstrickter, but I'll be hornswnggled if the talkin and the writin and.lhe slanderin has all got to be done on one side any longer. Sum of you folks have got to dry up or Jurn our folks loose. It's a blamed outrage,’so called. Aint your editors got nothin else to do but to peck at “us, and squib at us, and crow at us ? Is every man what kan write a paragraf to consider us bars in a cage, and be always a jbbbin at us to hear us growl ? Now you see, my ( friend, that's what’s dis harmonious, and do you just tell era, one and all e pluribus unura, so-called, that if they don’t stop it at once or turn us loose to say what we please, why we rebs, so-called, have unanimously and jointly and severely resolv ed to—to—to —think very hard of it—if not harder. That’s the way to talk it. I aint agwine to commit myself. I know when to put on the brakes. I amt agwine to say all I think, like Mr. Etheridge. Nary time. No sir.— But I’ll just toll you, Artenius, and you may tell it to 3’our show: If wo.aint allowed to express our sentiments, we can take it put in hating ; and hating runs heavy in my family, shure. I hated a man so bad once that all the hair come off my head, and the man drowned himself in a hog waller that night. I kould do it again, but you see I’m tryin to harmonize, to acquiesce, to heeum kalm and serene. Now, I suppose that, poetikally speakin, “ In Dixie’s fall, We sinned all.’’ But talkin the way I see it, a big feller and a little feller, so-called, got into a file, and they fout and fout and fout a long time, and everybody all round kep hollorin hands off, but kep helpin the big feller, until finally the little feller caved in and hollered enuf.— He made a bully fite I tell you, Selah I AVcll what did the big feller du 2 Take him by the band and help him up and brush the dust off his clothes ? Nary time 1 No, sur ! But he kicked him arter ha was down, and throwed mud on him, and drug him about and rnobod- sand in his-ryes, aminnw- he’s gwine aboutihunting up his poor little prop erty. Wants to confiskato it, so called.— Blame my jacket if it aint enuf to make your head swim, But I’m a good Union man, so-eallcd. I aint agwine to fire no more. I shan’t vote for the next war. I ainfno gorilla. I’ve done took the outli, nnd I’m gwine tu keep it, but as for ray boin subjugated and humilya ted, and -algamated, and enervated, as Mr. Chase says, it aint so, nary time. I aint ashamed of nothin timber, aint ropentin, aint axin fur no one-horse, short-winded pardon. Nobody needn’t bo playiu priest around mo. I aint got no 520.000. Wish 1 had ; I’d giv it to the .poor widdera and ortins. I’d fatten my own numerous and interesting offspring a half. They shouldn’t oat roots and drink branch water no longer. Poor unfortunate things 1 to come into this subloonary world at such a time. There is 4 or 5 of em that never saw a eirkus nor a monkey show—never had a pocket knife nor a piece of cheese, nor a resin. There is Bull Run Arp, Harper’s Ferry Arp and Chicka hominy Arp, that never seed the piekters in a spellin book. I toll you, my friend, we air the poorest people on the-face of the earth— but we are poor and proud., We made a bully file, Solah ! and the Amerikin nashun ought to feol proud of it. It shows what Ameri kins kin do when they think thSy are imposed on—so-called. Didn't our four lathers file, bleed and die about a little tax on tea, when not one in a thousand drunk it? Bekaus they sukceeded wasn’t it glory f But if they [indent I suppose it would have been treason, and they would have been bowiu audscrapin ropnd King George fur pardon. So it goes, Artemus, and to ray mind, if the whole thing was stowed down, it would make about, a half pint of humbug. Wo had good men, great men, Christian men, who thought wo was right, and many of’em have gone to the undiakuvored country, and have got a pardon as is a pardon. When I die, I’m inity willin to risk myself under the shadow of their wings, whether the climate be hot or cold. So mile it be. Selah. Well, may be I’v aed enuf. But I don’t feel easy yit. I’m a good Union man sertin and sure. I’ve bad my pantaloons died blue, and I’ve got a blue bucket, nnd I very often leel blue, and about twice in a while I go to the doggers and git blue, and then I look-up at the blue serulean heavens and sing the melankoly ohorys of the Blue tailed Fly. I’m doing my durndest to harmonize, nnd I think I could succeed if it wasn’t for sum thing.— AVhen I see a black guard-goin’ around the streets with a gun on his shoulder, why rite then, for a few minutes, I hate the whole Yanky nation., Jerusalem, how my blood biles. The institution what was banded down to us by the heavenly kingdom of Mao saohusetts now put over us with powder nnd ball 1 Harmonize the devil 1 Aint we hu man beings ? Ain’t wo got eyes and ears and feolin’ and thinkin’ ? Why the whole of Afrlky has come to town, women nnd chil dren and babies nnd baboons nnd all. A man can tell how fur it is to the city by the smell bettor thaa the mile post. They wont work for us and they wont work for themselves, and they will perish to death this winter as sure as the devil is a hog, so-called. They are now baakin in tho summer’s sun, livin on roaatin ears and freedom, with nary idee that winter will cum agin, or that castor oil and salts cost money. Sum of'em, 100 years old, are whinin around about gein to kawl idgo. The truth is, my, friend, sumbody’s badly fooled about this bizneas. Sumbody has drawed tho elefnnt in tho lottery, and don’t know what to do with him. lie’s jest throwin his snout about loose, and by-and-by he’ll hurt somebody. These niggers will have to go back in the plantations and work. I aint agoin to support nary one of ’em, and when you bear anybody any so, you tell ’em “it’s a lie,” so-called. I golly, I aint got nothin to support.myself on. .Wo Tout our* selves out of every thing osceptin children and land, and I . suppose the lands are to bo turned over to the. niggers for grave-yards. Well, my friend, I don’t , want much. I aint ambitious as,l used to was.."tod all have got your shows, and .monkys, and sirkusses, and brassbands, and orgins, and can play on. the petrolyum and the harp of a thousand* strings and so on; but I've only got one fa* vpr to ask of you. I want enuf powder to kill a big yallor slump taildog that prowls around my premises at night. Pon honor, I won't shout at.anything blue, black or niulattcr.— Will you send it ? Are you-and your foaks so skeored of me and my foaks that you won't let us have any amyniahin? Are the flquic- and crows and bhiok rakoons to eat up our poor litttle corn patches?’ Are ihe wild turkeys to gobble all around us with impuni ty? If a mad dog takes the byderfoby is all. the community to run itself to death to got out of the way ? I gnliy 1 It looks like your pepul had all tuk the rebelfoby for good, and was never gvrinoJto git over it. See here,, my friend, you must send me a little powder and a ticket to your show, and you aud mo will.harmouize, .Bdrtip, With these few. remarks I think I feel bet ter, and hope I Imiat made nobody fitin mad, for I’m not on that line at this time. lam trooly yoiir friend—-all present and account? cd for. BILL ARP, so-called. P. S.~-01d man Harris wanted to buy ray fiddle the other day with Copfedrik money, lie sed it would be good gafin. .lie said that Jim Funderbuk told him that Warren's Jack sed a man who had jist cuni from /Virginny, and he sed a man who told his cousin Moody that Lee had whipped ’em agin. Old Harris says a feller by the name of Mack C,. Million is coming over with g, million of men. But nevertheless, notwithstanding somehow or somehow else, I'm dubus about the money., If you was me Artemus, would you make the fiddle trade ? , .. B. A. BASE BALL The Brooklyn Eagle philosopher, in his ef fort to keep up with the, amusements of the. ago, has, slipped into .base ball ,sport. Ho thus explains the science of the game : _ . The game is a great invention. It is easily understood. All you have to do is to—keep vour eye on, the ball. It’s all about the ball. They also use a bat. The bat is a oluh built on the model of the club Barnum killed Captain Cook with. .... This is why the organization is called d club. , One fellow takes a club and stands on a lino, and another stands in front of him and fires the ball back at him. . . The chap with the club hits back. The ball flies in the other direction. The first fellow drops the club as though, he was scared, and runs like a pickpocket with an M. P. after him. , Several fellows run after the ball; some body catches it and fires it at somebody else, when the chap who had the club stops run ning. , . —Another-fellow-then-takes-the-club, and the same man, who is called “ pitcher,” pitch es on him, fires the bail at him, and he hits hack, knocks the ball, drops his club and cuts his stick for the first base. Half a dozen fellows out on picket duty scramble for the ball. One j reliable B. B. is posted behind the. club man, in case the club man misses the, hall, to see that it don’t go by and hit tho Umpire. _ When one side.is put the other side goes in, and when both sides are out it is called an innings. ■ It is quite an intelligent game, depending entirely on the use of your logs. Tho first principle of the game is running. When you are “ in” you run away from the ball; when you are “pat” you run aftor.it. . It is splendid exercise ; keeps you so warm;. consequently is always played in the summer time. (£7* ‘ Ma,’ 6aid an intelligent, thoughtful, boy of mine, ‘ I don’t thick Solomon was so rich as they nay ho whs.’ • Why, my dear, what could have put that into your head ?” asked the astonished moth er. “ Because the Bible says be slept.iv(tn big fathers, and 1 think if bo had been so rich he would have had a bed of his own.” OCT' 4 Why do you look at me instead of on your book V said a teacher of a primary for tiio second or third-time to one of the young est pupils. ‘You can’t read loiters in imr, face, can you?’ ‘Yes/, ‘What letters aro they?’ Ts/ promptly replied the small one. , . ‘I am sorry, Mr. Wilson, to see this splendid field of potatoes so seriously diseas ed, ’ wiid a sympathizing spectator. . ‘ Ah, well, it is a great pity/ replied the farmer, *bpt there’s some comfort—Jack Thomson’s is not a bit better/ ‘I say, Sambo, \vherc, you get the shirt studs V ‘ln de shop, to bb sure/ ‘Yah, yon just told me you hadn’t no money.’— ‘ Oat’s right.’ .-‘How., you. get depi deni’ ‘Well, I saw on a card in de window *.Ool* lar Studs/ so I went in and collard dem/ [C7*A piece of petrified wood, full of nails, has been found in California., The query is. who drove the nailo in tip wood ? The Indi ans who inhabit the country have no idea of working in iron. Perhaps it is a piece of one of. Solomon’s ships that ho sent to the laud of Ophir after gold. . C7*A good story is told of a recent ' smash up’ on a western railroad. A soldier, who, in comin from Baltimore to Rock Island, had met with four accidents, was on this occasion r in the oar that turned completely over. Mak-. ing his way through a window, and gaining an upright position, ho looked around him and cooley inquired : * What station is this V An old Dutch taverp keeper had his third wife, and being asked his views of mat rimony, replied, |Vel den, you..see, de first time I .marries love—dat wash goot; den I marries for beauty—dat wash goot too \ but die time I marries for monish—ami dis is pel ter as both.' O*A clover literary friend of Jerrold, and one who could take a joke, told him ho had just had ‘some calf's tail soup'/ ‘Extremes meet sometimes,’ said Jerrold. A weekly^paper called ihe Leader, ad vacating negro suffrage, has been started in Charleston, S. 0. . All vagrant negroes.aro.arreakod in. New Orleans. ,Tho control of the freedmen has been given to the State Courier NO. 21.