OIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA : Thursday Morning. September 18,1862. jWtrfei Hodrj. FILL THE RANKS. BY KICHAKD COE. Forward, brothers, in your might, Forward, forward to the fight, GOD is ever with the light, Fill tDe ranks! Let your watchword ever be " Union and Liberty !" Soon will treason cease to be, Fill the ranks Men of brawny arm and frame, Men of mind and men of name, All who have a sense of shame, FiU the ranks ! For the future years to be, None so proud or great as ye, Battling still for liberty, Fill the ranks ! Give good bye to ladies.' eyes, Bid farewell to Northern skies. Have no thought of compromise, Fill the ranks! Forward to the field of blood, Be the path of honor trod, Forward, iu the name of GOD ! Fill the ranks! By your kindred who have bled, By the brave, heroic dead. Lying in their country's stead! Fill the ranks! By your altars and your fires ! By your patriotic sires ! By your hate of traitor liars ! Fill the ranks! Show contempt to foreign kings, With their gew-gawa and their rings, llave a laith iu nobler things! Fill the ranks! Should a proud, mistaken world, "Gainst our nation's right be hurled. Let our llag be still uuturled ! Fill the ranks! GOD is with us ! wiio can doubt ? Let the sous of Freedom shout •• Tyranny be put to rout!" Kill the ranks! |tl is c c 11 aiu os. (Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribpne.) The Battie-Field of Bull Run. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Sept. 3, ISG2. I send itie following narrative ol adventures in both Union and Re be i armies, during a visit to the battlefield as a volunteer conveying supplies and rendering assistance to the wound ed of Saturday lust. Pope's flaring dispatch had caused the au thorities to lake the clerks of the departments (who had beeu going through the manual of light infantry, with a view to assisting in the defense of the city, ail day), and organize them as a corps to go upon ltie battle field and as sist the wounded. Many other gentlemen of fered their cooperation and were at once ac ecpted. At tins time it was universally be lieved that we not only held the battle field, hut were pursuing the enemy—uovv battled and overthrown into the mountains. Under this impression, about two hundred four-wheeled ambulances of a new pattern started for the scene of action. In these rode the volunteers, with tlie exception of one or two, who after ward started with a train of hacks pressed in to the Government service by the Provost Guard. Foruiany reasons this expedition was a totul failure. Some of the hacks had been in service aI i day. The horses of these were too tired to perform u journey of fifty miles without oats or forage ; others were such fee ble olu vehicles that it was evident they must break down on the miserable roads of this sec tiou, cut uji as they are by the armies which have each in turn occupied the ground. In due of the best some good Samaritans had placed a quantity of liquor for the use of the sick. A volunteer civilian was appointed to look after it, and the procession staited about half past niue for the battle-ground, under tlie command of a lieutenant of the Provost Guard, nod escorted by some cavalry. They rattled along, amid shouts and imprecations and the drunken cries of the drivers, some of whom had found means to seeure private bottles of whisky. The avenue and the streets of G orge town were lined with the inhabitants, who looked with some curiosity at this queer mid night cavalcade. The direction taken was over the Aqueduct Rridge aud along the dirt road to Fall's Church. This part of the journey was not accomplished without numerous halts and accidents. It was impossible to keep the hacks iu line with so slim an escort. They soon got broken up into detachments, axle trees began togiveout, wlilfl-trees were snap ped, horses became baulky, drivers more aud more mutinous—back alter back was left on the roadside disabled. A few found their wav to Alexandria, and others got off ihe road in different directions, lieyoud Falls Church a battery and its supports was posted iu the road. At this point the escort with one or two ex ceptions had disappeared, aud when the pro ccbMOQ was halted for the countersign no one kew it ■ however, as one detachment had al ready passed and giveu the word, the officer in cluuge ol the pickets concluded to pass them a ' s o. About daybreak Fairfax Court House achieved iu a heavy rain, through which e ". Sumner's corps was inoviug towurd the "ee&e of conflict. From there to Centreville 'he road was liued with regiments—some Marching, and others bivouacking iu the fields tt l°ugside. Paroled prisoners disarmed, and Wt , re K lowly crawling to the rear, tt 'tli litre uud there a crippled warrior in search a liospitul, and shelter. Half way to Cen '•eville five or six hundred prisoners were met, jjjso proceeding to the rear under a guard.— hese were the most abject, dilapidated, rag t'-fi rascals that the Smlberu army hail vet THE BRADFORD REPORTER. produced, and were regarded with curiosity in proportion. As the hacks toiled up the heights of Cen i treville, passing through the shattered columns of Pope's army, it became evident that the victoiy was not a great one. There was no jubilation in the appearance of these men ; and in after conversation with them, men and offi oers all expressed the opinion that no victories could be wou under McDowell and Pope. As for our hacks, out of about two hundred which started from Washington, only sixteen were present. Rumors were afloat that a number j had been engaged by the clerks of the depart l meats aud volunteer assistants to carry them | back to the city. The horses had giveu out iiu some places, and the hacks in others. The battle field was in possession of the enemy; and in fact there was nothing for the volun teers to do but walk back—a pleasant pros pect, which a number of them at once proceed ed to realize. A few went forward at all risks toward the field, to carry out the pur pose which led them there. These got cap tured by the Rebels. Meanwhile, the sixteen hacks, as many ambulances, and two or three wagons, proceeded to the hospital, established in aud about tiie same house which served Beauregard for headquarters at tlie battle of Blackburn's Ford. Here it was discovered that no one was in charge ot the hacks, but, after some delay, it. was decided uot to attempt to go upon the battle-ground, but to load up with wounded at this place, which was considered at the time to be in danger. This occasioned much delay, and was well nigh prevented by a panic, con sequent on the appearance of a few mounted men at a distance. No sooner were these seen than one of the doctors injudiciously com menced shouting to the drivers to fall back, which liiey did pell uiell. This passed, how ever, and the civilians, of whom a few still re mained, doing what was iu their power, assist ed the wounded into the vehicles. Distant firing was heard at this time, which hurried oil the remaining vehicles, as it was supposed that lighting might commence at any moment. Ranks was reported engaged with the enemy at II istow Station, and a few per sons pushed over the Hull Run Bridge at Blackburn's Ford, with stores, determined to assist the wounded of Bank's army. Strag glers hurrying toward Centreville, spread the' news of the destruction of that General's trains ' by his own foices, and ol his retreat toward Centreville This soon became evident. Truths of ambulances conveying the wounded made tlicir appearance, and weie followed by tlie brigades of Banks's army corps, moving rap idly to Bull Ran, which tliry crossed on the bridge at Blackburn's Ford, and marching to the top ot the hiil halted on the >ame giound 1 upon which Ricliardsou's Brigade and Sher man's Battery form tl for tiie battle of Black burn's Ford last year. Gen. Banks, worn but indomitable, rode along his lines, and proceeded to headquarters j at Centreville, wlvther it was necessary for all ; concerned to go in search of shelter. Dr. Grig bv's house—already sacred to newspaper cor respondents—offered its accustomed shelter, entirely without furniture, smelling badly, and j very dirty. ILre some of us slept on the boards, lying down with the prospect of the 1 army's falling back before morning. Most of the citizens that had arrived were sent back by order of Rope, so that very few remained ; with the army. These had stayed till the inud i should dry up, before undertaking the jour- 1 ney. Meanwhile a long train was wending its way to Fairfax, consisting of wagons, am bulances, carriages of ail kinds, infantry, cav- ■ airy, and artillery, some of the guns of the hit- ! ter being carried slung under the limbers, 1 owing to their carriages having beeu destroy ed in the fight. Before retiring, and while looking out from ' the octagou fort, the center of the enemy's old j works at Centreville —at this time occupied by j the new brass Napoleons of the Ist Massachu- ' setts Battery—another line of the Union army could be traced winding down the Warrenton Turnpike. This was Sumner's corps. At ; Cut) Run, Walton's battery was shelling the Rebel outposts, and away from out on the hills ! and plains of Manassas rose the smoke of Reb el bivouac fires, traceable as far as Thorough-' fare Gap iu the Bull Iluu Mountains, whence j McDowell precipitately retreated last Thnrs- ! day a week ago before two or three squadrons of the enemy's cavalry, deserting ar, almost im- j pregnable position and leaving the passage ! free for the Rebel hosts. The incompetency of Gen McDowell (the soldiers are very bit ter, and call it treason) has certainly made it self evident, and when Hooker succeeded him ! in command the joy of the soldiers was great. Early next morning an orderly awoke us. 1 The flag ol truce which Pope had asked ot Gen Lee by letter the day before was grant ed, and doctors, soldiers, citizens, volunteers, etc., departed with the train of ambulances to the field of Saturday's fight, very insufficiently supplied with stores, and with transportation for about one quarter of the sufferers w ho were now passing their third day on the ground where they had fallen. The road taken was the Warrenton pike, over the ford at Cub Run, the same road which, on July 21, IBGI, fas the scene of the terrible panic which suc ceeded the battle of that day, fought ou the j same ground as the battle of last Saturday.— No signs of that old panic remain, but occa sional cast away muskets, bayonets, equip- i luents, burned wagons and portions of gun-1 carriages, and the scattered wounded limping ou sticks and roughly constructed crutches, es tablished the line of the present retreat. After reaching the well remembered White House, Geu. Tyler's hospital at the former ! battle, aud passing the woods where Seheuck's and Sherman's brigades were posted on that day, the train left the road, and, diverging to the left, crojsed Bull Run at a lord some dis tance below the Stone Bridge. Very pictur esque was the appearance of this spot. The ambulances, preceded by the white flag, aud accompanied by an unarmed cavalry escort, wouud deviously down tbe broken slope into the Run, overlooked by a platoon of the Southern vavalry—the pickets of their army. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. liat a short distance from the river large bo dies of their horsemen came in sight. The Ist A irgitiia was halting alongside the road—a fine body of men, evidently all of the better order of Southern society, well mounted, well armed, handsome, resolute looking fellows, their gray dress in better condition than that of the infantry, but very much varied. Some were in citizen's clothes. Beside these, the road was filled with their stragglers, among whom the North and South Carolinians were decidedly th 3 worst looking The signs of ' battle were here painfully evident, dead sol | diers lay stark in the road and alongside the : bank ; dead horses filling the air with carrion ' smell added to the horror of the place. At the stone house used at the first as well as ! this battle as a hospital, was a large pile of ! muskets. In the neighboring fields, strewed with dead horses, were also stray caissons, . limbers and cannon, here a Parrot "gun, there a howitzer, while away to the right a battery 1 of five Napoleon twelves was pointed out as : having been taken iu the last fight. Soon the battle field could be seen thickly | dotted with carcases of horses and bodies of ! men. Not less than 2,500 killed and wound |ed were lost here. In the rear of these fields in a little orchard where the enemy took the | Napoleon battery, the fl.ig of truce halted. After a little delay the citizens, to the num ber of thirty, formed a line by themselves, and the soldiers who had been detailed to accom pany the expedition to bury the dead, made l up another. The latter went off in details to perform their duty, and thecivilians, in squads ot eight, accompanied the ambulances, carry ing stretchers, upon which they placed the wounded, as fast as they found them, and car ried them to the ambulances. Attracted by j the red bags of Duryee's Zouaves, we pro ceeded to the field where thev lay nearly a hundred of them—shattered, torn, and bloody, iu every conceivable stage of misery. Ex haustion hud beeii the cause of death with 'some whose wounds were not otherwise mor tal. One man still clutched the earth, as in the iu>t struggle for breath. Another, a tail, square-browed, Roman-faced hero, prone on i his back—had his face turned to the sky in marble repose. By his side a mere biy iaid, as if in death he hud sought the protection of the stalwart arm which had befriended his 1 weaker nature in life. All this was very sad ; but some of the hor rors of that place arc almost nameless. The blackened, shattered corpses it is horrible even to think of. As for the wounded, their case 1 was infinitely worse. Away from help, on the 1 bloody ground where they fell dying by ioch-j ts, to many recovery \va> impossible. Altho' j the s'ragglers of the Rebel army had tukeu j shoes and clothing from the dead, and even from the living, none had been illtreated, on the contrary, all spoke with gratitude of the ( manner in which they had been supplied with water, and even with a little corn bread,when their victors, half starved, themselves, could spare it. Tuey hud even had a number eol- • lected at different spots to facilitate their at tendance and removal, and when called np:n 1 to help, never refused, but voluutaiily came forward and expressed a desire to do all they j could for us. The ambulances were soon li'led 1 and started for the orchard rendezvous, not ! however, before a violation of the flag of truce by some Southern men who took four or five j colored drivers off their seats. An English gentleman, present as a volun teer, made a strong remonstrance in the case of a free colored man of Washington, whom a scoundrel iu citizen's clothing, with a major's , star on the collar oi his greasy coat, had claim ed. This man, dismounting from his horse, after remarking that he did not care whether the negro was a slave or no, took him by the collar, and with the words, "I'll make aslave of you, and a slave you are from this moment,' j dealt him a flat handed blow on the cheek, | which drew a rush of tears from the eyes of the trembling wretch. The rest of the Rebels looked on approving- ! ly, and the fellow turned to the Englishman and asked him what he had to say to that ? The reply that the flag of truce recognized as sacred all beueath its folds, and that he had grossly violated it, made not the least impres sion. Other officers of the Confederate army, to whom remonstrauce was made, utterly dis- j claimed such proceedings, and said that Gen. Lee, to whom they would report the outrage, j would doubtless return the negroes, if he amid j find litem. Several of the civilliuus were rob- j bed and others made prisoners, hut this last! was their own fault, as they straggled away i on their individual responsibility iu search of trophies. On our return to the headquarters, in the i orchard, we found the doctors hard at work, ! operating on the wounded. It was noticed that some of the surgeons, uot being appoint- j ed on the amputating detail looked with cou- ; tempt ou miuor wounds, and walked about doing nothing. One of them sported a black eye, gained iu a quarrel over the wouuded,and one, at least, was tipsy. The best manage- : tccut did not prevail ; but it is considered a standing rule in the army for correspondents j to wiuk at all shortcomings, as otherwise it might tend to throw odium ou those who de- j serve it and are responsible for failure. The afternoon passed, and no arrangements were made for carrying tbe wounded within the lines, but blankets were uot wanting to cover j them. Large fires were made, around which the party, now tired out, was soon grouped, wondering how they should pass the night without blankets or shelter. IC soon began to rain heavily ; the wounded were crowded inside some barns and a farmhouse near by till no more could be got in, and the rest had to pass the night ou the ground, rolled in blank ets. Til! a late hour the doctors continued their work. The body of a dead man, shot in Friday's fight which laid on the porch, aud smelt offensive, was buried by three citizeusby tbe light of candles under some trees along side the house. A miserable night—rain, and then a strong, cold North wind, was fiually succeeded by dawn, when work began again; fetching water tor the wounded, dressiug and amputatiog, filling iulo the carriages, aud dis "REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." j tributing the few spoonfuls of beef soup iu camp. Not staying for the main body a small party of us started for CentreviMe oy way of | the Stone Rridge, seeing very little of the Secession army, now wgll on its way by tbe j Guilford and Gum Spring roads to the Upper ; Potomac. Oa reaching Centreville, we found ' ouly oue compauy of the 50th Georgia Volun j teers present, acting as Provost Guard iu the ! village. They were making themselves hap py with the liquors and other medical stores left in the place ; aud were a lank, lean, heard looking set of half starved fellows, in light flannel colored dress. Their Captain gave us passes to the Union lines. Ho looked a cuu niug fellow enough, and had more whisky in j him tbuu appeared at first sight ; still he was decidedly in good temper with himself, his po sition, his dirty gang.and ail the world. While waiting, we had au opportunity to see the op i eratiou of relieving guard. It wold have made a Northern soldier open his eyes. The Ser | geaut brought the relief up one at a time, and I would say, " Brown, Joues relieves you now, and is to stay bere till the Captain sends some i one else." llrown, apparently uncertain, re mains on post. Sergeant takes his arms and leads him ofl'a little distance, but seeing a man relieving another on his own book, leaves j B. to go aud look into it. We also left, and esteemed ourselves in luek, ! to find some crackers thrown down and wast ' ed by the retreating Union army. From these we selected tlie cleanest, and again went on, the Georgiaupiekets demanding our passes a short dislauceef rornCentreville. When about Eur miles from Fait fax,we met C'olonelClaik,of 1 the 21st Massachusetts, and four privates, all 1 unarmed,seekiug to get within the Union lines. It would have been easy to have added his name to the list with the flag; but honor for bade the use. The best that could be done was to direct him as nearly as could be judged iu what position the Rebel force was last like ly to be found llis regiment bed been sur prised L-v the Georgians, who approached the ; Guards declariug taeir iuteutiou to surrender, till they were close enough for their purpose, vvheu they suddenly attacked and dispersed the Massachusetts men, making a number prisoners uud cutting up the rest badlv.— The Colonel, hungry, tired and in want of sleep, was, as well as his men, determined uot to give up, if possible, and lelt us, making his v.ay southwards,previously accepting the offer of two crackers from one of the partv, which was all we hud. It is not vet known whether Col. Clark finally escaped His chances were certainly very doubtful. It was a sad specta cle in its way to .see the proud comtnauder of a thousand men reduced to the society of four poor followers, without any distinction but w hat habit gave, aud all equally hunted aud . forced back at every turu by the cuuuing enemy. After this, to our great relief, we soon fell in with the last of the Rebel soldiers—a pick et of cavalry. They seemed somewhat astou ished at first, and two of them rode out to waid us. As usual with their mounted men, they were superior fellows, physically, much more so than the infantry. The passes were exauiiued, the men grouped about quietly,with Sharp's carbines,in rest—probably tukeu from our cavalry wiio, en passant, are too prone to throw their arms away. The officer ol the picket declared us correct, and remarked that we should find our lines about a thousand yards] from us, adding that they had beeu exchanging shots ail dav. With lightened hearts we pushed ahead,and iu five minutes more descried the U. S., cav alry strongly posted in the road aud fields alongside. The flag was displayed, and we were halted at a distance of a hundred yards, till the officer could confer with the bearer of the flag, who disappeared over the crest of the hill, leaving us waiting iu the road. This lasted about ten minutes, and then a couple of bullets whizzing over us, accom panied by the quick reports of the rifles, ad monishing us that the enemy was tired of de lay. We now received the order to advance and were soon within the lines of Gen. Bay ard's brigade ot cavalry, which immediately began to fall back upon Fairfax Court House. Quickly through the streets ot the town, now so memorable iu this struggle,passed the troops the enemy's guus occussioually saluting the flank of the retreating column. iu the houses which yet boasted of residents there was a curious air of expectation, uot to suy preparation. iSorne of the males of the place were already hauling down a sign of the "Uuiou Hotel," to reinstate the old name of the tavern, " Virginia House." The army was retreating upou the fortified lines of Washington. Brigades of the rear guard filled the road, defended by a battery of light artil ery iu the rear of all. The cavalry, deployed as skirmishers, swept the neighboring fields.— On bis horse, by the side of a gun planted in the road, sat Gen. Hooker, shading bis eyes with his hand, aud trying to penetrate the spreading effulgeuce of the setting sun, which now rendered objects iu the west very iudis t iuct. On to Washington quickly but in good or der swept the divisions. No music, uot even a trumpet-note, to cheer the night march ! Why is it that our Government denies the so lace of music to the armies of the Republic ? Every oue has experienced the cheering influ euce of a military baud, aud yet oue is hardly ever heard on the march, aud, with oue excep tiou, never in battle. The cavalry galloping wildly among the footmen—and,as usual,wick edly abusing their tired horses—the ambulance trains, wagons, batteries, long strings of hors es fastened at each side of a long rope, itsslf attached to the pole of a wagon, stragglers and all found themselves at daybreak bivou acked in the viciuity of the forts, the guns peeping savagely in the misty light over the desolated country. The little baud, drawn together on an er rand of mercy, dispersed, each his owu way, perhaps never to meet again. If this errand was a failure, they could hardly in fairness suffer blame. Without provision of any kind, they could do no more than was done. Still it is a fearful thing to think that five hundred poor fellows, whose chances of recovery, with decent care, were quite good, lay dying of neg lect in those lonely fields and woods, moaning in their agony as they moved their stiffened limbs, and thinking of those friends at home who might yearn for them long but never see them—friends who would gladly do so much, if they could only reach them. Dr. Maury, Major in the Confederate army, at the request of one of the gentlemen who weut with the flag of trace, got permission from Geo. Lee to have the privilege extended till the wouuded were all got off. The doctor expressed his belief that they (the Rebels) would gain Washington within two weeks.— Indeed,lhe confidence of these people is aston ishing. Defiant, patriotic, sacrificing every thing to the cause, undiciplined, but dashing, ready for any desperate enterprise, and de voutedly believing in the capacity of their Generals to lead them to victory, they march for days ou roasted ears of corn, without complaint,lie uncovered iD the fields, and drink the water they can find. Our artillery they fear, therefore all their efforts are to take it. One of them said : " There is no instance iu the war of your men having charged a battery and taken it [of course this is not true,] but outs always manage to do it." 'Jh; old story was oft repeated by them about beating the South but never subjugating it, and they spoke of tuture plans with confidence. Their columns were pushing for the Upper Potomac, to cross over and raise Maryland, to push on j and tale Harriihurg in Pennsylvania, perhaps Philadelphia. We were told that a large par j ty of cavalry had left Manassas, without bag gage or other incumbrance, for an unguarded point of the river,perhaps to swim it, to strike , at the railroads—Grstthe Baltimore and Ohio, then Baltimore and Washington. If they ! cannot hold them, they propose to destroy ali ; in their power,iucluding the blowing up of the I Patapsco bridge, at tbe Relay House. They i boast of having depots of supplies in Maryland aud large bodies of recruits,who will join them when they arrive. All this can be taken for what it is worth ; certainly they are in great , force, and in their desperation may do much mischief before they are finally driven to that . last ditch, so feeling spoken of by their lead j ers. j The story of Sigel's having lost 17 guus is j entirely false. His actual loss iu the receot engagements is one gun of Johnson's battery, a rifled cannon of Wiard's pattern,and a srnnll mountain hawitzer belonging to what is known as a jackass battery. The desperate fighting done by this ccrps is evidenced ; by tbe loss of j one of its divisions alone in the last three j weeks. Carl Sehurz, out of about 9,000, lost j in actual killed and wouuded 782 men. r _ The Knickerbocker Magazine recom- 1 mends the following additions be made to the j schedule of articles to be taxed by the Gov- ' eminent : For carrying a cane, sl. For lorgnous or quizzing glasses, SL. For kissing anybody except relatives, 25 i cents each time. [N. B. Engaged couples J may " commute" for $lO a month.] For ringing door bells or using knockers, ! one cent. For using scraper or mat before a door, one i cent. For not using a scraper or door mat, sl. For looking at a lady anywhere, $lO. For shakiug hands with ladies 10 cents. For squeezing said bands, sl. For not squeezing said hands when " cir cumstances favor," $lO. For quoting French, 25 cents. For writing one's name as Marie, Pollie, Sallie, Maggie or Judie, sl. For joining the Curbstoue Christian Asso ciation and waiting at the church door to " see the ladies come out,"sl. For keeping the register of " whose engag ed," $1 per name. For noticing with whom any or everybody walks, where they go, etc., for each indulgence SSO. For recordidg anything not strictly you own business, SSO. For reading your owu literary composition to uny one, sl. For doing the same to au editor, or offering to do it SIOOO. For borrowing anything, sl. For staying later than 11 P. M., when call ing, $5 per hour. For using any hackney quotation, or slang phraze 25 cents. For always mentioning in connection with a name that he or she is " very rich" or " poor as Job," sl. For pointing out a millionare, 25 cents For talking of your appetite, or diseases, or describing what you like to eat or driuk, or when you change your flannels, sl. JOKE ON GENERAL KELLEY. —The Wbeel iug Intelligencer is responsible for the follow ing : —A pretty good joke is told on General Kelley, or rather, ou the officers of his staff. When the General was after the guerrillas some time ago, down in Wirt and Calhoun couuties, he captured a very rebellious young vvomao, by the name of Sallie Dusky, daugh ter of Daniel Dusky, who was sent to the peni tentiary from this city for robbing tbe mail at Ripley, and a sister of Captain Andy and George Dusky. The General, feeling confi dent that the girl knew the hiding places of the guerrillas, had a private conversation with her, and during the iuterview, having failed to get much satisfaction, he told her if she would make a cleau breast of it he would give her the chance for a husband of all the young officers in his staff This failed to bring the information, aud Sallie was taken away in charge of Captain Baggs. As she moved away from the General's presence, she asked the Captain if the General was really iu earnest in makiDg the last proposition. Baggs as sured her that the General was sincere, and that he would have lived up to bis promise.— The girl assumed a kind of thoughtful manner, and after a short time replied : " Well, 1 be lieve I'd about as leave have tbe old man (meauiog himself) as any of 'em." VOL. XXIII. —NO. 16* A capital story is told u.s of an old farmer in the northern part of ibis county, who had been " saving up" to take up a mort gage of $2,000 held against him by a man nearer the sea shore. The farmer bad saved up all the money in gold, fearing to trust the : banks in these war times. Week before last, I be lugged down his gold and paid it over, when * the following coloquy ensued : " Why, you, don't mean to give this $2,00(1 in gold, do you ?" said the lender. " Yes, certainly," said the farmer. " I was afraid of the pesky banks, so I've been saving up the money, in yellow boy's, for this loDg time." " All right," responded the lender, " only I | thought you didn't take the papers." " Take the papers ! No sir, not I. Tbey have gone on so since the war's been a going, that I won't have one of the d—lish things around. But the money is all right, isn't it?" i " Yes, all right, $2,000 in gold. All right here's your note and mortgage." And well he might call it all right, as the premium on gold that day was 22 per cent., ! and his gold was not only worth the face of his bond, but $440 besides, enough to have paid for his village newspapers for himself and posterity for at least three centuries. It pays to take the papers.— Nor walk {Conn.) Ga- I zelte. RICH W ITHOI'T MONF.V.—Many a man is rich without money. Thousands of meu with out a dollar in the pocket are rich. A man ; born with a good sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart and good limbs, aud a pretty good head piece, is rich. Good bones are better than gold—tongh muscles, than sil ver ; and nerves that Hash and carry energy to every function, are better than bouses aud ' lands. It is better than a lauded estate to have the ; right kind of fathers and mothers. Good breeds exist among men as really as among herds and horses. Education may do much to check evil tendencies, or to develop good ones; but it is a greater thing to inherit the righ pro portion of faculties to start with. lhe man is rich who has a good disposition | —who is naturally kind, cheerful, patient, hopeful, aud who has a flavor of wit and fun in his disposition. The hardest thing to get along with is a man's own self. A cross, sel fish, desponding and complaiuing fellow is a timid, care burdened man—is deformed on the inside. His feet may not limp, but his tho'ts do. Major Brodtback, of the twelfth Ken tucky regiment, is a great favorite with his men. He is a German, and although a strict disciplinarian aud a regular soldiers, he is not always severe. An instance of his humor is thus related : Several of his men were reported drank.— 1 pon visiting them, the Major exclaimed : " Here I here ! here !" said he, " What's all this ?" " Major, dear," one of them replied, " you know we've been (hie) cooped up a long time and when a feller gets a chance (hie) he's apt to go it." " Wat's the matter with you ?" " Tight ; that's all." "What you been drinking ?" " Lager." " Well, dat is better as the measles." So he lets them off. SENSIBILITY OK A CONQUEROR. —The morning after the battle of Waterloo, Dr. Hume wait ed upon the Duke of Wellington to report the list of the killed and wounded, and to take big directions. He found him worn out with fa tigue and buried in a deep slumber. When awakened he was ready for the duty, and com manded the doctor to read the list which took him more than an hour. The doctor looked up at once, aud saw the Iron Duke wringing his hands in sorrow, while the big tears rolled down his cheeks. Though knowing that his country woald be intoxicated with joy at what he had achieved, and would be ready to load him with its highest honors, he displayed no thought of personal glory, aud no unbecoming exultation over a fallen enemy, but felt as a mau who had discharged a solemn duty at a painful sacrifice of human life and happiness. Bet?* A Texan and Illinois farmer were speakiug of raising corn, eic., and the Illinois man was boasting of the superior yield of prai rie land, and telling large stories as all west ern men can do, to which the Texan replied s " I'll tell you what, stranger, they truly make large corn in your clearing, but it aiu't a cir cumstance to what we raise on the Colrado bottoms. Why, the corn there averages thir ty feet iu height, with twelve ears to a stalk, aud a goure full of shelled corn at the top." fta?* " Jeems, my lad, keep away from the gals. A'en you see one coming, dodge, Just such a young critter as that youug 'un clear ing the door step on 'tother side of the street, fooled yer dad, Jimmy. If it hadn't been for her, you and yer dad might have been in Cali fornia hunting dimes, my son." At a debating society the subject wa " Which is the sweetest production, a girl or a strawberry ?" After continuing the argc ment for two Dights the meeting finally ad journed without coming to a conclusion —the older ones going for the strawberries aud the young ones for the girls BSAD old maid, who was over-Dice in re gard to cleanliness about ber bouse, once scrubbed her sitting-room floor until abe fell through iuto the cellar. s®* I have known a good old man— says Bernard—who, when he has heard of any one that had committed any notorious offenoe, was wont to say within himself, " He fell to-day so I may to-morrow." Wfir He who can't conceal bis vexation is & laughing stock for his cueoaUi
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