DIE D3LLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOW yY T\ T 13 : Thursday morning, August 28,1862. Jhlccteb jfjaetrg.- WAVES FROM THE RIVER OR LIFE. A3 IT ROLLED UXDRK ARCHES OF SORROW. Why so sad for lier who, sleeping, Smiles upon thee never now ? Wuuldst thou waken her with weeping ? fcbe U happier than thou ! Canst thou wish her slumber ended, When existence atill must be, As it ever has been, blended With such crushing misery ? Canst thou imagine her reclining In the Palestine of Peace And not check thy fond repining— Hid thy cherisheh anguish cease ? Wo ihlst thou bring her from the bowera, Ol Elysium above.— Where the a igels lead the hours, Aud the air she breathes is love,— To be or.e where all ave weary, Who commingle in the strife, With a mournful miserere, Ot the fearful battle-life ? Rather sigh thai thou yet livest; That the seraph sought not thee ; Kn >w each sacrifice thou givest Lilts thee nearer Deity ? She is happy—thy lost treasure ! Is there one alive tlie same ? Is there one possessing pleasure That is perfect but in name? None,earth over! Fear and sorrow Are our portions while ot clay— A foreboding ol to-morrow, A foigetting ot to-day. Weep ' there's luxury in weeping. When the heart of grief is f all; And the dark clouds under creeping .Make the stars invisible. When but Ron alone can hear us, As v\e breathe the fervent prayer, That his spirit ever near us, May make light the load we bear. There's a sanctity in sorrow More commanding than tiie air. That the proudest Prelates borrow, From the erniind robes they wear. Obe patient ! Life will linger I!.! a lew short seasons more ; Fr.-n now theartgel's finger Turns the tear marked pages o'er. Soon the brightest, darkest, saddest, TI.C oft played for leaf—the last— When ■ ele-tial harps are gladdest Will hive eheeied us—chilled us—past. With a sigh for those who love us As they mourn that we must sever, An I a godlike glance above us, We will throw a-iije forever. With an anthem of thanksgiving, Whose intensity none know, This infirmity of living, This inheritance of woe. And re-robe by Rapture's river-- The Enpliiates ot the sky— Whose sweet waters roll forever R wind the i.-lcs ot Ecstasy. _pl i s 1111 aitto as. [From the New York Herald.J The March of McCiellaii's Army. HEADQUARTERS, A K 51Y OF THE POTOMAC, ) August 17, 1b62. 1 By Wednesday night all requisite arrange meuts were completed and the army ready to march at short notice at any time. Ntailv ail the mi k hud been embaiked, ami the rest could he disposed ot iu an hoi r's time. In the afternoon it became known that Gen. Mc Clellan had gone down the river for some pur pose eonnec'.ed with the anxiously expected movement, and it was reported and generally believed that upon his return marching oider.- would be issued, und the line ot murcli io be taken would be indicated Pud the suspense re lieved. The uncertainty which exiMtd as to our destination was rather annoying to us who hud to make the journey, as it unghl be in the u.irk, not knowing what enemies we were to Ui'-et or what battles had to be fought before we were extricated I'roui our unpleasant situa tion. Ihe weather continued to be quite cool aud comfortable, and much better foi marching liian any winch imd prevailed tor two or three weeks previously. iouisUay morning was pleasant and com fortable, and nothing ot particular iut rest tiauspiicd through the day until in the after noon, when Gen. McUlellau returned, and it was soon rumored about that the long looked Di time had arrived, and that the army would commence moving in a tew hours, and that its destination was to he Williamsburg in the first instance. It was believed that the army would move ly three roads, in order io get through "lore rapidly and t> be better prepared to meet #ov attack which the rebels should see lit to "take upon our columns, liy some iu. un.s the k" octal plans intended to be pursued had be Ct 'iiie know n (as events proved), pro'abiv it ,: "t Having b e en deemed necessary to maintain foci, perfect seeresy in regard to them as had "Ulieito been done. At about six o'clock in the evening orders " ,r '- issued to the regiments und batteriis -"■"piUing General Porter's corps to prepare u tijuve immediately. These orders were re* j- oid with cheers by the soldiers, who were 1 j'iict-d ~! ij, t , teiiuiitat.oii of their suspense 1 * lives, and so ! " nt '' lali ° r and money, the campaign t( j ' 1 abandoned and the peninsula lfinv- Dot UV'^V 0 rebe l rule "k' 111 "- could ; a Us the tact that the proud Army of the Potomac, which three months before had commeictd its tnutch with sneh high and noble hopes tun] aspirations, with full ranks and joy ous lie. rlorcll's and Gen. Mc- Call's divisions. It was uearly three o'clock on Friday morn ing belore all were fairly sluitedou tiie- march. The sight v, as romantic aud interesting us the long files ol soid.ers moved out of the intrench* ments at the trout and into the Charie-s City | road, their bayouets glittering iu the uioon i light as they moved silently along, cujipres ! eed congraiulaiioiis were excliauged that we I were at length actually leaving the contracted ' lines willilii which lor more than six weeks the army had lived and suffeied discomforts wheh must ever render the recol ecticn ot the place any thing but pleasant or Satisfactory. We piuceeded slowly along, and soon the signs'ot uppioactlliig day .streaked lire horiZJu, ami i t.ie fight ot euily. dawn we bid a last farewell to the scene ot our recent uncomfortable a very ancient arid vein-ruble looking one story brick building, with two wings. The main budding was used as a court house, and the wings contain '.fie jury rooms, A'e. Adjoining the Court House is another smaller building, j which contained the various county offices,and where wire kept the public records of the coun'y. These buildings have for ,-o e time past been ustd as a ,-ort ot headquarters for ■ lie of our cavalry regiments on duty in that vicinity. '1 be recutds and public documents which were kept in these buildings extended track tor neatly two hundred vents, and must have been ol veiy great importance to tile in habitants and property owners of tire county These had been pulled to pieces and scattered uii about tiie buildings and the adjoining grounds. Great confusion must .nise from this wantou destruction of valuable papers, and litigation in tlre future be largely increas ed thereby. By such conduct friends and foes aretnjnird indiscriminately and without any accotiipriiiving advantage to compensate for the injury n.Uicted. Here also is the county jail, which 1 had not time to examine ; and these, with two or three other buildings, ap pear to constitute the city. It non't take much to make a city in the South. The dwelling houses appeared to imve been gitiera.ly desert ed by their inhabitants. Leaving this place we moved forward still slowly and cautiously, as it was thought that beyond here we might, possibly meet with some trouble from the enemy. Previous cavalry reconnoissauce had shown no rebel lorce between us and the Chickaiictniny river; but yet there was a possibility that they might attempt to annoy nsevni it Lot in feorc to make a serious attack. The moving column ot soldiers, artillery, uruiy wagons and horses filled toe road lor miles it-- it moved along There were nit many residences along the road, atid some ol them had been abandoned by their former occupants. The few inhab Hants who remained appeared to be very much astonished to see us passing in such force. They pretended to have had no com munication with their rebel friends or with R.ctiuioud for a long time, and to be iu complete ignorance of what had latelv trans pired in the outside world. They were very cur otis to know it it was a movement of our whole army or of only a portion of it, tor some particular purpose. Their rebel pro clivities caused what their caution could not entirely disguise—the exhibition of tluir re j< iciiig at the thought that we were go'ng away—although thoy generally made pro Icr-sions ot neutrality, and denied having any pait in the war, Ac. One fact is especially noticeably in this State, and I have found it almost invr r.ably wherever I have beeo, and that is the abseuce of ail young or middle ape J man. A persevering inquiry will usual ty disclose the tact tha r they are with the libel army, although most generally their Im mis ciami thai they have liecti forced away under the cotisciiption or volunteered to save the disgrace ot being dialled. There are to be found ou the plantations only womeu f old men and children. The negroes PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. who are uhle to be of any service are also mostly gone, some have been removed dowu South liy their masters for safety, and the balance having sought refuge within the lints of our army, where, ol course, they cannot be pursued und are thenceforth free. This portion of the State is fertile and produe ; live, and has been styled the garden of , Virginia; but owing to these causes and the : disturbing influence of war, is largely lying waste and overgrown with weeds and bram bles at present The crops gathered this year will be but small, and with the de : stiuctioo caused by the preseuce of con i tending armies the inhabitants must suffer : greatly, and will liud difficulty in obtaining ; a subsistence until next years harvest is gathered. They are truly reaping the bitter | truits of secession, and tee worst is yet to ; come. In almost every household there is ' mourning for near and dear ones whose | lives have been sacrificed to the wicked and pestilent delusion to., which, for the time ; being the Southerners seem to be given ! over. All along the lines of our march the houses were visited by stagglers from our army, of whom there will always be many, in spite of | i Very exeriion possible to prevent it. The oc cupants ot these houses, in some instancies,ap ! pemd highly indignant because guards were I not stationed, as formerly,to guard their prop erty und prevent iuliusion. They thought it ! extremely hard that they should be compelled to contribute towards the support of the army •in any way. Poultry and fruit rapidly disap peared, und many u soldier's mess that night | could boast of a fowl addition In some in | stances what was taken was paid for, but in 1 more they were hi 100 great a hurry to rejoin their regiment to settle. The sufferers ac | knowletiged, however, that their friends of the | rebel army treated them with no more regard | lor their vested rights, but w hat seemed to : a fillet them most severely was the thoughts j that the haled Yankees should I ave the bene- I tit of sece.-h property. Of course this pilliag ! tug by soldiers as they pass through even an j enemy's country must be condemned, and, ; w hen detected and proved, mu>t be punished I for the good of the army itself, which such j practices tend to demoralize; but stili it is un j doubtt-uly a severe ternpaliou to one who has for weeks iived on salt pork and hard bread io sie a young and lat fowl wilfiiu prox imity to him. 'The march was conducted, in an orderly maimer, and the absence of any attack or ut teiupted opposition to our passage must of couise deti act bum the interest of the story. It, however, gratified both officers and men, who, as nothing could have been gained by lighting more tt.au was better attained with out it—a passage through the country —de- .-ired that we might get through peaceably.— They were all ready to light, if required, hut preterred, if possible, to be spared the neces sity. Without any incident worthy of note, the ! rivi r was leached t y the advance early in the j afternoon, and by night the division of Gen. j Morel! and General Sikcs were crossed over !to the opposite bank. Gen. McGali's division | having lukeu unot er road, and having lett | the old caiup subsequently to the others, did ; not reach there i mil the next forenoon. A i -plemled pontoon bridge of nearly a third ol I a mile in length, and about thirty feet wide, j had d-en built across the Cbickahominy by tlis Engineer brigade, and upon this marched our weary soldiers, followed by the artillery and wagons trains, and encamped upon the j opposite shore lor the n'glit. A ear this bridge | ibere were lying the gunboats Delaware and Yankee to piolect it against any attempt which the enemy might mako to destroy it. j The day's marchhad been long und tiresome, | but the men stood it very well. Trie weatit jer throughout the day was cool, and until I about one I'. A1 , was overcast, so that, ex j cept lor the dust, the march had been persued |in comparative comfort. In fact, up to this I time the weather has been most favorable.— | Had it been ordered expressly it could ifot have been better, except, ptrhaps.a little rain to lay the dust would have been an acceptable ; improvement. The intense heat under which ; we had bten sweltering for weeks past lias ; been succeeded by a cool and comfortable tern j perature, which lias enabled us to march thro' j the day and encamp at bight, to tiie manifest j a .vantage of ttie army as regards its health ! and str • gh. .Night marches have not been I resorted to except upon the first night, but the I men have been allowed to rest and refresh | themselves after their day's march and pre pare lor the labors and fatigues of the succeed ! tug day. .Saturday morning the march was resumed, and the coiumit movid on towards Williams burg, ut which place tiie advance arrived | about eight A. M. General More lis division arrived there about oue I'. M , and passed on to the vicinity of the old battle field, where j j they remained encamped until Sunday morn ; ing. The day's march was without incident worthy of note. Everything passed along peaceably It was DOW evident that the reb ! eis were either unaware of the time when and the direction in which we were going or that they had other business for their army than , following ns. Their experience at White | Oak Swamp end Malvern llill may have : taught llieiu a lesson which they do not care ! I to have repeated at present. If any attack i 3 i yet intended by them, it must be upon or rear I i guard, but it is not thought now that they \ will disturb us at all. During the march 1 I was much bruised by the carelessness of a cav alry soldier who ran agaiust me, but 1 shall j be able to keep to the saddle This day's | march witnessed a repetition of the previous | onslaught upon the poultry and orchards of the secesh inhabitants by the stragglers. As a general thing they were civil, however, and willing to pay for what was taken when re , quested to do so. Large quantities of unripe iruil and melons were devoured, which will most probably cause a material increase of ca ses ot diarrhoea and disentary, and refill the i regimental hospitals, which had been cleared of their cccopauts preparatory to this nvove- " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." meut. There was also a very general disap pearance of fowls ot all kinds, and poulty has become a very common article of diet in the camps. Many of the soldiers were seen to carry in addition to their arms and accutre ments, extra rations in the shape of tarkics, chickens, geese and ducks, which, by the noise ■ made, had evidently been but recently served out to them, and were yet in many instances alive and kicking. Just before entering Wil liamsburg, I noticed au enterprising private by the side of the road under the shade of a ' large tree, with some half a dozen half ripe water melons spread out before him, which ho ! was disposing of to his less fortunate comrades . at the moderate rate of fifty cents each. Uow j he became the owner of this valuable mer chandise is unkuown to your correspondent,but ; that his profits equalled the total of his re i eeipt I have no doubt. He was not a native ' Yankee, but a Hibernian, arid ono who, evi dently with the reckless generosity and pro i fusion characteristic of his countrymen, cora ■ bined the thrift and shrewdness which is sup j posed to belong to the natives of the land of his adoption. Toe secessionists of Williamsburg, as else where along the rout, were much rejoiced to see our army making a retrogade movement anticipating that soon this part of the peninsu la also would be surrendered to the rebel rule again The colored population had taken the alarm, and were very anxious to learn what the future had in store for them. Some of the more indiscreet of the rebel sympathiz ers, upon learning that we were evacuating cur position upon the James river, indulged in threats of what -hould be done to them when the Yankees were gone. This increased their alarm and agitmi >n, and the exodus of this class of the population, most of whom had been the slaves of fugitive rebel mas'ers, has already commenced, and probably a few days will see the town relieved of nearly all of them, and but a wry few will remain to experience the tender mercies of their secesh friends Hftwecn the action of the rebels in carrying their slaves down South and the operation ot military rule, the peninsula has been pretty well*cleared of the more valuable portion of the slave property—those who are left gener ally being either of an ancient or very tender and juvenile age, neither of which are of m ich profit. Practical emancipation has taken place, and those who have not availed them selves of its benefits are of the class who are either too old, too young, or too shiftless to do so. Tiiis morning one of *he rebel sympathizers of this place, naßed Robert Coles, was ar rested by the order of the Provost Marshal, and at his residence was found a quantity ot aranuition and some arms. It. is said that he was busily engaged yesterday in running bul lets while our troops were passir.c through the town. The avowed purpose of h se prepara tions was to stop the departure oi Uie contra bands after the expected withdrawal of our forces. At an early hour this morning the march was resumed, and continued in an orderly manner until Yorktown was reached. There was no danger of an attuck, and there did not exist the necessity for any special care in mak ing the advance. Nothing worthy of note oc curred, and Yoiktown was reached soon after noon, and the weary soldiers encamped in the old camp made familliar to most of them by a lour weeks' residence during the famous siege of the rebel fortifications. Here they remain ed and rested. The marching was beginning to tell upon the men, and there was a good many stragglers who had fallen out of the ranks. The Provost guard was cosntantly employed riding to aud fro upon the road,hur rying ihem up ; but in spite of Ihe'r exertions they came slowly in by twos and threes, and sometimes iu squads. Most of them rejoined their commands iu the course of the dav and evening. The scenes of the previous two days were repeated along the rout, although not to so great au extent. It was, however, highly dangerous for poultry to show itself iu any close proximity to the soldiers. Upon our arrival at Yorktown I called up on General Van Allen, the military governor of the place, who received me very kindly and courteously, and to him I am indebted for fa vors uud attentions received. Since the occu pation ot the place by the Unitu troops it has been much improved,and its geucral apperar.ee and clean orderly conditions is highly credita ble to liirn and to Captaiu ltevere of the For ty-fourth regiment New York Volunteers, the Provost Marshal. When we first took posses sion of the place, it was iu a very filthy condi tion. Under the direction of Captain Revere it lias been thoroughly cleaned and a very large quantity ot fifth, offal and decaying car casses of animals have been removed and bur ied. The main street lias bt-tu filled in and raised two feet, aud everything possible has been done to make the villag a healthy and respectable place of residence. The ear;h works and entrenchments built by both our ; own and the rebel troops remain intact, and by their extent aud tuassiveuess show with I what preservance and energy both parties con- i tended lor lire possession ot the locality. The I fiist building erected in Yorktown for twenty seven years is a row of live one story wooden building, built uuder Captaiu Revei e's direc tion lor the use of officers,&c., connected with headquarters. The place is fully prepared for defence against any attack which might be j made upon it by the rebels, who cannot safely j or successfully venture upon any operation of ; that nature. A single gunboat would com- j maud Gloucaster Point opposite, aud prevent ' the erection of batteries there; and any hostile ; demonstrations from the land side must result ; in a speedy repulse of any force which might be brought down for that purpose. Upou tlie plaiu, outside of the rebel works, j quite au extensive burying ground has been laid out, which already contains about three hundred graves, mostly of our soldiers who have beeu buried there. When the army ad vanced from this point a large number of sick were left here, of whom many died. Some bodies were also brought here from Williams burg and other points tip the peninsula, and here, after " life's fitful fever, they sleep well." A headboard at each grave records the name, regiment and company of it occupant, so that their friends can at any time upon inquiry find their place of sepulture. A Deal rail fence encloses the whole and protects the graves from intrusion. The Two Great Monitors. i Captain Ericsson has made a coutract with I the Government to construct two large iron plalcd ship?, which he believes will be the fastest and best sea boats, the most completc ; ly invulnerable, and the most formidable for attack, either fit long range, or in close quar : ters, as rams, of any ships in the world. I They will bear a general resemblance to - the Monitor, with such modifications as have | been suggested by experience. Oue of them is to be 320 teet in Dngth, and the orther 341 with 50 feet beam. The vertical sides are six feet in depth, and are to be protected with iron armor plating 10 1-2 inches iu thickness, backed with four feet solid oak. The turrets are to be absolutely invulner able. * * * The vessels are to be furn ished with more powerful engines than anv now afloat. * * * q'| ie armament will consist of 15 inch guns, and will probably equal in destructive power that of any French or English ship. It is, however, as rams that these vessels will be the most formida ble. Where the plates of the side meet at the bow they form an iron wedge, 21 inches thick at the base, and terminating in a sharp edge. This wedge is sustained by the plates behind it, 10 12 inches in thickness, six feet in depth, and extending the whole length of the vessel, forming the most powerful but tiug instrument that it is possible to conceive of. Captain Ericsson says, "It will split ou iceberg."— Scientific. Anerican. A DIFFICULT QUESTION ANSWERED.—Can anybody tell why, when live was manufactur ed from oue of Adam's ribs, a hired girl was not made at the same time to wait ou her ? We can. easy ! Because Adam never came whining to Eve with a ragged stocking to be darned, a collar string to be sewed, or a gleve to be mended, " right away, quick, uow !''— Because he never read the newspaper until the sun got down behind the palm trees and stretched himself yawning out, " Aiu't sup per most ready, my dear ?" Not be. He made the fire and hung over the tea kettle himself, we'll venture, and pulled the radish es and peeled the bananas, and did everything else that be ought to ! He milked the cows and fed the chickeus, r.nd looked after the p : gs himself. He never brought home half a dozen friends to dinner whou Eve hac'u't any pomgranites, and the mango season was over, lie never staied until eleven o'clock to a ward meeting liurruhug for the out and out candi date, -liid then scolded why poor Eve was cryicg inside the gates. To be sute ho acted rather cowardly about apple gathering time, but then that don't depreciate his helpfulness about the garden ! He never payed billiards or drove fist horses nor choked Eve with cigar smoke. He never loafed around the groceries wbilo solitary Eve was rocking little Cain's cradle at home. In shot tbo didn't think she was especially created for the purpose of waitiug on him, and wasn't tinder the impression that it disgraced a man to lighten his wife's cares a little. That's the reason that Eve did not need a hired girl, and wo wiHi it was the reason that none ol her fair dectndarits did ?— Exchange. INDIA RUBER CLOTH. —Another achievement has been made iu operative chemistry, which deserves notic, because of the many useful r p plications of which it is capable, as was fully explained in a paper read befrre the Loudon Society of Arts by the inveutor.Mr. Frederick Walton. The achievement consists in a pro cess by which India-rubber can bo produced and manufactured from linseed oil. This oil is plentiful and cheap. We import as much linseed every year as will yield about 00,000 tons of oil, aud this, when converted into ar-1 tificial India-rubber, would be sale-able at j about half the price of the real article. A 1 notion of the process may be formed by per- I sons who have noticed that linceed oil when ; spilt dries in a thin, tough film, aud that a similar film forms ou the surface of a quantity j of the oil when left undisturbed. Mr. Walton takes a mass of these films, mixes a small por tion of sheii-lace therewith, crushes them, sub- \ jects them to a course of cooling at a high temperature, and so produces a subject which J closely resembles India-rubber, and is applica- ; ble to as great a variety of purposes as eaout- | chotic itself, and to many of these for which j gutta percha is now used. To notice bat a lew of its applications ; we find clothing, wa- ' ter-proof sheets, tarpauiings, carriage-fitting 3, j saddlery, imitation leather, shoes and boots, j printer's blankets, tubing, tnnkliuing, ship- : sheating,knife and tool handles, picture frames and all the articles which are now fashioned of ; vulcanite aud ebonite. The usual way oF preparing the so called American leather cloth | involves a period of seven days ; with this new substauce, a much greater quantity of the cloth may be prepared in one day. A FUNNY SCENE.—Not long since, in a car running out of a pleasant town in tiie State of Ohio, a lady was assiduously distributing tracts, which were always graciously and courteously received by the passengers. The tract, however, which this female colporteur was circulating on the present occasion, hap pened to be entitled, 'Give my thy heart,' an excellent and popularly written treatise upon the divine injunction of the good book. This tract she presented to a very quiet looking gentleman, who read itstitle.and with pleasant smile upon his face, said, "I am sorry, but I really eau't do it, madam ; this woman sitting by me is my wife." The passengers burst out into roars of laughter, in which the tract dis tributer herself could not help joining. gtsF* Men look at the faults of others with a telescope—at their own with the sane in strument reversed, or not at all. VOL. XXIII. —NO. 13. Caught in my Own Trap. Dora and 1 had been silent fully fifteen initiates—an unusuul occurrence for us—when sbe suddenly broke out with one of her gayest, sweetest peals of laughter. The cars were going at the rate of forty miles an hour, bnt Doras laugh rung out above all the noise and confusion. " What is it, Dora, you wilch yu ? v I said, half piqued that she had not told what had pleased her and laughed afterward. " Nothing, Nelly, only I was just thinking of something so fnuny. Do you see that gentle man just in front of us, with the. beautiful black whiskers aud dreamy brown eyes? Wejj, he's been watching you from behind that book for the last half hour, looking as if lie should love to take a bite of the red roses on your cheek. Don't blush ; but he's in love with you—l'll bet my gold thimble on it. I wa3 just thinking of some stories I have read about I young ladies mistaking handsome fellows for ! their brothers, etc., and what fuu it would be, ! if you could only manage to mistake that fellow j for your brother Fred." I was ready for some fun in a moment, j "Tell you what I'll do, Dora," I broke out j eagerly. " You know I haven't seen Fred i since I went to school three years ago, and of i course he's changed a great deal since then. Well, if that literary gentleman with the I brown eyes (he is handsome isn't he, Dora ?) ! should get oft the cars at our depot, I'll ; wait till he gets mixed up with the crowd, see | him in a flutter of delight, call him brother Fred, and give him such another kissing as | he hasn't had since he saw his sweet heart J last." " Yes, I would if I were you," said Dora sarcastically, "you daren't you know." " Dou't I dare to, though ? Wait and see." And so I dropped back into the cushion in silence, till the train stopped at our station. Dora gave me a wicked look, and whis pered that she knew my courage would fail me ; for the gentleman was really getting off. I was not to be triumphed over, though ; and so, as we stepped out on the platform, 1 saw the literary getleman standing amid the crowd, and with a little bound, threw myself into his arms and kissed him full iu the mouth hysterically saying— " Fred, my dear, dear brother ! how are you ?" I caught a glimpse at Dora ; sbe wna In danger ol going ito eouvulsious. I expected to hear the stranger say there was some mis take ; but to my surprise, he gave me a hearty embrace—kissed me two or three times—scid hewa3 well, that Iliad grown a great deal ; and then inquired for my little friend Dora— who, all the time, was exciting the sympathies of the crowd, as they supposed she was insane, judging from her frantic laughter. " Father and mother ate expecting you, Xclly.aud are so impatient that they can hard ly wait to see you. I was afraid you would not know me. I am really glad that my image has been treasured up so carefully in my little sister's heart." I was bewildered beyond measure. It real ly was Fred then, and I had uot known him. I felt slightly ridiculous, and while introduc ing Dora to my brother, 1 whispered to her to keep quiet iu reference to rny intended trick. I was too much coufused to think of inquiring how he came to be in the cars with out noticing me,so we all went to the carriage that was waiting for us, and drove home. I bad never knew Fred to be so affection ate. He held my hand in his own all the time, and kissed me at unnecessarily short intervals; but to teil the truth, I had never loved him half so well before—never thought him so handsome. We reached ihe gate.— Mother kissed me and cried over me at once; father repeated it ; and fiually a frank, hearty voice broke out with : " Hallo, sis I aru't von going to notice your scapegrace of a brother at ull V And to my astonishment, a handsome fal low I had not seen before gave me a genuine and a kiss that you could have heard across the yard. " There is some mistake," I mnrmured.— " Are you my broth<>r Fred ? I thought that gentleman was." pointing to the handsom fellow I had embraced at the depot. " Why, sis, are you going crazy? of course I'm your brother, aud that feliow is my col lege chum, Archie Winters, who weut half way up the line to meet you. What are you blushing at, Nelly ? I hadu't time to go, and I let him take your picture with him, so that be would be sure to know you. He's been playing off some of his uiad pranks, aud pass ing himself off for me, I'll warrant." I looked at Archie Winters beseechingly, and as they were all going into the house, I whi.-pered to him ; " For pity's sake don't speak of that mis take. llow could it have happeded ?" " I overheard you in the ears ; and will promise to keep your secret only on one con dition." He whispered something to me that made me flush scarlet ; but I was at his mercy, and said I would think of it. I did think of it reader, and to the delight of the whole family —Dora and Fred particularly—Archie and I were married iu less than two months.— And Dcra said to me, as I bid her good-bye, that it would give unspeakable delight te Fred and herself if I would attend her wed ding in a month from them ; and I did. A despatch from Louisville, Ken tucky, Aug. 10th, says, Six thousand cav arly have already enrolled and enlistments are rejected, the number already being one thousand over the quota asked for. The in fantry are also enrolling rapidly. There will be no necessity for drafting in Kentucky, on first requisition of the United States Govern ment. W Those who lack a good natural charatv ter may be sure they eanuot long sustain with out detection, an artificial one. J©* When men try to get more good then comes from will doing, they always get less,