TKKMS OF PUBLIC ATION. The REPORTER in published every Thursday Morn- bv K. O. GOODRICH, at $2 per annum, in ad vance- ADVERTISEMENTS are inserted at TEN CENTS r line for first insertion, uneople have yet to speak, which they will too next Fall iu thunder tones. Every loyal Jersey - liiau holds himself duty bound to wipe out this foul stain upon the record of his native State. He knows all true freemen throughout the world are Hatching the issue of this question with breathless aiivi.-ty and cheered by the glorious prospects ol the day he is now straining every nerve to make the victory sure and complete. There exists every reason for sanguine hope in the triumph of the cause. Already have skirmishers gone out to "feel" the enemy and with armor buckled on in the de !• us.- of truth, justice and good government, the patriots of New Jersey confidently and calmly await the conflict, assured that the whirlwind of popular opinion aroused by this disgraceful action of her Legislature must sweep the State next Fall for Freedom and Union, triumphantly. There hardly remains the shadow of a doubt but that New Jersey having washed her hands from the foul pollutions of thepust will in due time take her | seat among her sister States around the banquet ta- Ible of universal liberty, s( s\l. AMICUS RKPUBLICAE. HEADQUARTERS CO. "I" 109 th N. Y. S. Vol., j Ist Brig., Ist I>iv., 9tb Army Corps, Near Petersburg, Va., March 20, 1865. i MB. E. O. GOODRICH. —As I used to be a reader 138 "F the BRADFORD REPORTER, before I went to the |n army. I thought I would write a few lines to you which I wish you to insert in its columns. lam a I in- mbt-r of the 100 th ltegt. N. V. Vol., and was I formerly of Athens, Bradford County, and I wish ■ to give a little history of what we (our regiment) m h-tve passed through during the last summer's eam- I p 'igu. Last winter (one year ago) we lay in Alex- I .mdriii, \a., and on the 27th day of April we re *l eeivvd marching orders, and was assigned to the | Ist Brigade, Ist Division, of Burnside's Corps, (the | 'ttli A. ('.) We packed up and marched up the t Orange A Alexandria railroad, we reached Warren- J ton Junction on the first day of May. We lay tln-re the 4th when we started toward the Rap idaii which we reached on the stli. The most of i, the Army of the Potomac had crossed and were en (?§ gaged in fighting. That night we were sent on the P flauk to prevent the army from being flanked by I tip Rebs. In the morning we were changed to the 1 centre, the fighting had ceased for a few minutes, I ami we were moving along left in front through the 1 thick woods, when, all at once,the enemy attacked ur right, left and centre. We came to the front 1 ainl poured a volley into them, and charged their ■ works, but were repulsed. We immediately re- I torun . our lines and made the second charge, and 1 si iiaething had to give way, for we went through | '.vith bayonets fixed, yelling like so many wild lu ;jjß We took their works and quite a number of II V'-soners. but we lost heavliy in the two charges. V We staid there and fought till the night of the 7th, I cLcii u. -t.uted for Spottsylvania, which we reach -1 >a the morning of the "Jth, where we had an- I ther buttle on the 9th. Pith, and 12th. I r.mnot give the particulars of all the battles 1 u '' - I'- engaged in, if I did it would require a I rem of foolscap to pen it down. We participated 1 "i tin battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, I l'. North Anna, Huiiovertuwn.Game's Farm.Beth el i hureh. I old Harbor, Battles before Peters burg, Weldon Road, Ream's Station, Hatcher's " Rita, and Preeble's House. When we left Alexandria our regiment numbered i 1050. all told : and on the morning of the 19th day g of June we could stack but 31 muskets; this plala | ly shows that we have been in some pretty rough J . phe e-w. Of course the men were not all killed, Imt | li " most f>f them had been killed, wounded, taken pnsoners and sick. Our regiment is now recrnit i ip to the number of 2-9) men, and we will make mite a show in the coming campaign. We are ••u:id to put this rebellion down or die in the at •• nipt. Surely, who could die in a better cause ? ■' would rather die ten thousand deaths than to hang around the Northern Lie-rooms harpingabont e on any conditions, as some do, yes, a good ■•-my, and it it had not been lor the Northern trait e should have seen the glorious Stars and || S bips floating over the United States now as they ■ years ago. 1 believe those men call themselves *' men or Copperheads,l have forgotten which, ■ I think the latter name is the most appropriate, ' iu-y are as near like the Copperhead snake as '"> king I tan think of now. There was quite a | -'Culier of them visited our army last fall, before I d'i* ntial election, using all their influence to p soldiers to vote for men who they knew " tr ?' iu ß to overthrow the Government. Suppose | •' y had got their Copperhead President, the first a He would been an armistice of six months, which • 1 have given the rebels u chance to fortify,and ']' tkey would make some foolish compromise them, and probably given them tbeir inde '"li-iice, but we soldiers cannot see any su<-h "" as that done, there has been too much blood I ■ 1!, "1 to give the South their independence now. ' are bound to bring them back into the Union | ( * ''"' a t of the bayonet, if nothing else will do 'hint the time is not far distant when you ' o the news of the occupation of Richmond ' tewburg by the Union troops. di t ., ' rs re P° r t that they are in a starving cou- must evacuate the places before long, thi y evacuate the places they have got to E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXV. tight their way out for we have got them nearly surrounded. I think their race is nearly n.u, and that seems to be the opinion of most of the army. Fearing that I have trespassed already on your pa tience, I will close. NATHAN V. WELLER. NEW OIL TOWN, March 10, 1865. MR. EDITOR : —We had hoped that with the re turn of spring, action would dispel dreams, and labor take the plaee of loafing, Spring is with us, and the victims are still found at the resort. The farmer is there, and you would scarcely recognize him, were it not for his dress. Lounging and airy flights of imagination have given his countenance a peculiar dreamy tinge. The old sober, business like expression has vanished ; you notice the pale ness of a student, the haggard look of a bankrupt, the far off gazing of a dreamer. Big thoughts, (and many of them), wild ravings and hopes de fered, torture a mind previously engaged in noth ing more than the tending of sheep and the raising of grain. He tries to work, but the old incentive is gone and he seeks the store to banish conflicting thoughts. His hi tter self tells him to throw off the weight which is crushing his mind, hut dreams rule liiin. At almost any hour of the day, you find him at the resort, not thinking of the fields of intended corn, not thinking of the prospect of wheat, but dreaming of something greater than com or wheat, of that which will buy the grain on a thousand fields. What passes around him is distant, unless it relates to oil. His dreams till his mind. Bright flushes of joy and peace now and then, fit over his countenance as he chases the sportive phantoms of his diseased brain, or a deeper gloom brings hiin to the earth when these airy beings vanish. But fancy is ever creative and ever soaring, and new journeys are made through more charming scenes. Now, while the ground is ready for the furrow, he is delighted with his wild thoughts. Now, while the cool winds blow, his horses stand and dream in the stables, or idle the time away at the hitcliing post. Hot days are not coming for them, nor the drudgery of farming for their master. Oil will dis pel labor ; horses and people cmi take their ease. The victim of the passive stage is there. But there is a change. Formerly u mere observer, now he has a voice. The fever has passed to the ACTIVE STAGE. But a few days of listening, of loafing, of dream ing, and the victim begins to talk. At first his words are few. But the power of speech raj "idly increases and he soon talks with the eloquence which oil alone can call forth. Soon learning the fact, and having a fancy ready to supply needed suppositions, he is well prepared to address willing ears and understanding minds. And if his speech be far from eloquent, he has little trouble in holding an audience. Men cheerfully sit for a whole day listening to a wild, useless oily harangue, while an able lecture, or important ser mon, is an inflicted burden. To please, is but to excite their earnest sympathy. Talking does not satisfy the sufferer. Action is required, and to labor for oil is his highest aim. Money is to be raised, for he must become a stock holder. He had intended to use his money in other ways, but that is of little account. The repairing of fences and buildings, and the buying of new implements, must all give way to the grea ter demand of the present. And, when oil flows, there will be no need of fences, barns and plows. And the money is squandered. He lias forgotten that cents make dollars, and dollars hundreds : he has paseed all such small calculations. In his ar rithmetic thousands make millions, millions bil lions, and the calculations are performed by bnjv rithms. The old principle he followed formerly, is as a dream. Then it was '• little by little," now, " thousaials by thousands. " He leaves the old, long tried boat, economy, for the frail slab float, specu lation. Another step is taken. He is in the saddle and off' over the country, through rain and mud, leas ing farms. A small fortune is not sufficient, he longs for all he can imagine. How he can make the most in the shortest time, is his only thought, not whether he would he more contented. Once happy with the little he saved by economy and earned by hard labor, now he madly grasps after all within his imagined reach. Thus you find the victim ac tive, eloquent, a stock-holder, a grasper. How changed from the sober, businessman! Old things, old thoughts, are lost to him ; all is oil and oil is all. Once sober, happy and matter-of-fact; now longing, grasping, dreaming! We will chat about the initable stage iu our next. J. G. H. " WE'LL ALL MEET AGAIN IN THE MORNING." — Such was the exclamation of a dying child as the beautiful rays of the golden sunset streamed on him through the window "Good bye, Papa, good bye : Mamma has come for me to-night. Weep not for me ; we'll all meet again in the morning." What consoling words to that bereaved heart! words in the hours of loneliness, and be comforted by them. It was as if an angel had spoken unto him ; and how well did he know that his beloved child had gone to join its angel mother in the world above, and that he had nestled on the bosom of llim who hath saiil, " Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them uot, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." To many who have been bereft of loved ones, how consoling and blessed is thought that, when all the trials and cares of this world are over " We'll all meet again in the morning !" Many persons, at the present time, when war is raging so fearfully in our land, are called upon to part with loved ones. The father, husband and brother leave the cheer ful fireside and the happy family circle, to go forth to fight their country's battles. How great is the anguish of that parting; for small are the chances that they will ever again be permitted to meet their loved ones on this earth, hut they can have the consoling thought in all their trials and ad versities that if they live aright they will meet all their loved ones in the morning." 1 here is an aged man prostrated on abed of sickness. As we look upon his pale and emaciated countenance we know that he will soou be clasped in the cold embrace of death ; but every now and then his counte nance is lighted up with a smile of peace and joy, which shows that he is resigned to the will of God. He calls his family (with whom he has spent so many happy days,) around his bedside and pours out upon tliem his parting blessings. " Mourn not for me," lie says, " for God willing, we'll all meet again in the morning." Clouds may darken our pathway here on earth, disappointments may gather around us, but still they cannot extinguish the hope which lies within us, if we have this motto 1 within our hearts and upon our lips, "We'll all meet again in the morning." TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., APRIL 6, 1865. SHE AVAS ALL. THE WORLD TO ME. In the sud and mournful Autumn, With the falling of the leaf, Deat'a, the reaper, claimed our loved one. As the husbandman the sheaf: Cold and dark the day we laid her 'Neath the sighing cypress tree. For, though nothing to another, She was all the world to me. iu the month of song and blossom. In the month when tender flowers Spring from earth's maternal bosom- Waked to life by gentle showers ; As I wandered close beside her 'Neath the spreading greenwood tree, Fair, I said, and radiant maiden, You are all the world to me. Then the rare and bright-eyed maiden. In the month of song and flowers Rosy-lipped*and cherry-laden Curtained by the twilight hours- Gave her hand into my keeping 'Neath the spreading greenwood tree ; And she said, with eye-lids drooping, You are all the world to me. Bright the visions round us floated On the quiet evening air, For to those whose life is loving, There is beauty everywhere. Long we stood, yet scarcely spoke we, 'Neatli the spreading greenwood tree, Sometimes hinting, always looking You are all the world to nie. But there hovered near a spirit Darker than the bird of night, And it touched her drooping eye-lids, Covered up her eyes of light: Then with careful hands we laid her "Neath the sighing cypress tree, And my heart with her is buried— She was all the world to me. Incidents of Sherman's Grand March. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE EVENING POST. REFIT.EES ASK LOYALISTS. One of the most significant features of our journey through the South has been the fre quent prayer and entreaty of the people that they might be permitted to join our column and march with us to the sea, or wherever we might go, so that they could leave this region of despotism, anywhere out of the South and towards the pure air of freedom again. Uue is a mechanic, who was born and reared in the old Granite state. He came here four years ago as master me chanic in a railroad machine-shop. He has been able to avoid service in the rebel army, because his services were necessary in the shop. He is taken along, for his services can be made of good use. Here is a mother and daughter, whose son is in the federal army. Their little means have long since been exhausted, and they wish to go to Conncticut, where rela tives will gladly care for them, and where they can get news of their son and brother. Another is a poor Irish woman, whose hus band has been conscripted into the rebel army, and is now a prisoner, sick in a northern hospital. At Columbia there were several families of wealth and position, who had always been suspected of loyal proclivities. Upon our occupation of that city it became known to the rebel inhabitants that these people had always assisted our prisoners, and previous to our approach, had secreted a great many at imminent peril. It would be impossible to reject these generous, self-sacrificing friends. The fire had not spared their houses, and they were homeless, hut we well knew that to remain after our visit would be certain death. Up to this time the want of transportation had necessitated a refusal of these requests. But some of the wagons were now empty ; then there were a number of vehicles captured from the enemy ; horses and mules we bring in every day, and again, not a few of the fam ilies asking our protection are able to fur nish their own transportation. General Howard was in command of the troops at Columbia, and these unfortunates did not appeal in vian to his generous sym pathetic heart, which never refuses to sym pathize with those in distress. With the approbation of General Sher man, General Howard at once organized an emigrant train, which was placed under guard of the escaped prisoners belonging to other commands. This train lias been sep arated, and apportioned to each division of the Fifteenth and Seventeenth corps. They are getting along famously. Ladies who have been always accustomed to the refine ments of life, seem to enjoy the journey as much as if it were a picnic. In truth, it is better than that; for, while they are not exposed to the dangers of war, they par ticipate in its excitements. The column has a singularly outrf appearance. First, there will he a large family coach contain ing ladies, with their personal baggage crowded about them ; then an army wagon loaded with men, women and children,com fortably seated upon such articles of house hold truck as they are allowed to carry.— Following this will he a country cart filled with negro women, for the negroes come along also, and hosts of the little curly, bul let-headed youugsters gaze Curiously upon the strange sights which meet their eyes. General Hazen, whose name can never he mentioned hut with inspiring recollec tion of the assault of Fort McAllister, tells me that the large number who accompany his division are hut little trouble to him,and that they have so quickly learned to forage for themselves that they are no expense to the government. Two of the escaped offi cers, with a detachment of ten men, have charge ol the train, which takes its assigned place in the column ; a few tents, which are in excess or have been captured, are pitched when the column go into camp, and our little colony with grateful hearts go to their night's rest with the glad conscious ness that they are step by step approaching a land of civilization and freedom. In this life, so new and strange to the refugees, numhe i s of families become sep arated from each other. Portions of the army, who for days march upon separate roads, will at one time or another come to gether again, as at this place for example, when three corps, which have been march ing upon different roads, unite at Cheraw for the purpose of crossing the river. The REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. troops and trains, although really distinct to the initiated eye, may be mistaken for one another. 1 have seen the negroes, es pecially, wandering about as completely lost as if they were in an uninhabited for est. A WAIF. Yesterday, as one of General Howard's head-quarters' wagons came into camp for the night, a little bright-eyed mulatto girl slipped off from the end of the tongue un derneath the wagon, where she had been clinging for many a long hour, while the vehicle had made its devious journey over rocks, into deep ruts,through mud holes and deep creeks. " How long have you been there ?" she was asked. Turning her dusty, piteous face towards her kind interlocutor, she replied : " I)uuno ; since morning, I spec." " Where did you come from ?" " Dunno ; couldn't fine mammy nor sissy dis morning, so T joined the waggin." The poor little waif was provided for by General Hazen, and perhaps it will be in finitely better for her future welfare that she lost her "mammy and sissy" in the inarch through South Carolina. NEW EVOLUTIONS. MARHI 6. —Although the left wing have pontoons on the river at Snedsboro', only the Fourteenth corps and Kilpatrick's cav alry will cross at that point ; the right wing which, in the last movement, xvas the ad vanced column, were by reason of that fact enabled to lay their pontoons and move over the two corps before noon this morn ing. To save time the Twentieth corps have marched down, and are expected to be in camp on the left bank by midnight. Witb the safe transfer of the army upon the east bank of the I'edee, there will prob ably be a change in the formation of our heads of column. The army was not prop erly together until the different corps ar rived at the Salkahatchie. From that mo ment the form of our front was always con cave. This tactical formation was no doubt deemed necessary because the enemy could or did not operate upon either flank.— Obliged to cross several large rivers,which, according to all military rule and prece dent, in the presence of an active enemy, were considered almost impassible, and which were adopted, and with great wis dom, by the enemy as their strongest lines of defence, the passage was irresistibly forced by the two points of the concave, which were constantly thrust forward, first upon one side and then upon the other, or both at the same time, as General Sherman deemed best when threatening Augusta and Charleston These evolutions, planned with such com prehensive wisdom, answered their purpose with the most perfect success, for in no in stance did the central column meet with serious opposition ; and while the right wing was day by day fighting the enemy, and suffered more in killed and wounded than either the left centre and extreme left, yet it was reasonable to suppose that we should have met with resistance upon our left flank, for we were sure that a portion of Hood's army were in that direction.— These remarks apply only to the infantry of the army, and it should be clearly under stood that General Kilpatrick's operations upon our extreme left and front unques tionably covered that wing of the army, ami in addition deceived the enemy in their fears that we were moving upon Augusta. In looking back upon the general fea tures of this campaign, it can be seen with what geometrical precision this masterly conception of a concave front has been per fected, and its best puff is our presence here, without loss of men or material, with the fruits of victories in our hands realizing the most sanguine hopes. Tliis resume of the facts is made at the present moment because we are entering upon a new field, where the theatre of war changes for the present its position, moving from front to Hank. All information goes to show that the rebels have been falling back and concentrating at Charlotte, in the belief that we were advancing upon that place. Our movements within tiie last few days may open their eyes to the truth, and while the repeated lessons they have re ceived may make them hesitate in attack ing an exposed flank, yet the possibility that reinforcements from the veteran troops in Virginia may be sent to impede our march to the sea, and the caution which is one of the marked characteristics of Gen. Sherman, one of them, or some other rea son, has induced to change his front, and the army has commenced to assume a con vex shape in place of the opposite figure. Moving forward thus, his column in echelon upon the centre, he can at any moment put more than one-half his force in line of bat tle if attacked in Hank, and if threatened upon his left could swing the whole army by the right flank towards his communica tion, and move upon his new base with his front impregnably protected. DESTRUCTION OK CAPTURED POWDER. It has bothered our ordnance officers sometimes to b<- able to destroy the powder and fixed ammunition which we captured. The rebels are criminally careless in the way they leave it about, stored in all sorts of places and in all kinds of buildings. Either in their extreme haste they packed it into any place that was hand}', or they were determined to blow up the town. — Thirty-six hundred barrels of this powder were just outside of the town, stored in a sort of an arsenal; but another large lot was packed into a building near the depot, which the rebels set on tire before we ar rived. Trains of powder were laid from the depot to this store, and it seems wonderful that it was not ignited and hundreds of lives of non-combatants lost. As at Columbia, our efforts to destroy this dangerous material without damage to the people resulted in a mournful accident, which cost us the lives of two men at least. A part of the powder was placed in a deep wet ravine rear the river, where all ot it was to be deposited, and then covered over with sand. Although it was carefully guarded, some wicked reckless fellow man aged to get a train in communication with the bulk of the powder. The instant the fire reached this sleeping monster it rose up with a most terrible roar, shaking and crushing to the ground several houses, and thousands of men, in its efforts to find air —space. For fifty rods around the ground was blackened, the trees begrimed and bro ken, and the hillside torn up, while boxes of ammunition flew into fragments, and shells ascended far in the air, bursting at great distances from the scene of explosion. I The danger was fearful, for more than twenty thousand men were standing within a quarter of a mile waiting their turn to pass over the river. CONVERSATION WITH CHARLESTON REFUGEES. Last evening I had occasion to visit sev eral families who had formerly resided at Charleston, and fled to this place to escape the danger of the bombardment. In the years gone by they were the leaders of the aristocracy of the state. First in the crime of treason, their sons and brothers had either been killed or were now in the rebel armies ; the young ladies were lull of what they called patriotism and enthusiasm for the cause of liberty which their lovers and friends were fighting for, although when pressed to explain how their liberties had ever been endangered, they were unable to give any satisfactory answer. The old men and women in every instance deprecated the war ; they asked for peace upon any terms of reconstruction. They did not ask lor terms of peace—peace was all they demanded. They acknowledged the attempt at revolution to be without cause or reason, and that they were sub dued and beaten, without hope of recovery. This hopeful state of subjection was not a new experience to me, for we have met with little of bombast and rebellious puffiuess from the more influential and v iser portion of the people we have seen in this state ; but what strikes me most plainly, in my in tercourse with these old lamilies, it the evi dence of intellectual decay. They are not only pas en rapporle with the age, but are so wanting in vitality and energy as to approach senility. In the contrast with the soul-stirring spirit of our northern soldiers and civilization they appear to belong to a past day and a defunct nationality, with only a pretence of gentility remaining to J show that they once had made claims to be j the leaders of society and fashion. The un- i ceremonious usages of war shake rudely ! even the vestige of what once passed for refined hospitality. To a young lady who, with glowing eyes, informed me that her brothers and cousins were fighting in defence of the liberty of their country, I said : " Please tell me what country? What do you mean by ' our country ?' " She replied, " The South, of course; South | Carolina." 1 continued. " Rid I not see in the old church yard yonder several monuments of brick without inscription, which seem to be falling to pieces ; they are said to cover the dust of heroes who died in the old revolution war. Is that true?" " Yes ; they fought under Green against Cornwallis and Tarleton " " What country did they die for ? In de fence of what cause did they suffer ?" " America, I suppose." " You are right; and let me tell you that you South Carolinians have no claim to the the honored remains to those martyred he roes. It is well that the stranger may not know who lies there, for their fame is your shame. To establish this grand American nationality, these men gave their life-blood. We are fighting* to maintain that national ity in all its integrity." While I do not for an instant suppose that this black eyed rebel was convinced of the error of her cause, she was somewhat astonished, never having looked at the question in that way. AGAIN ON THE MARCH. .MARCH ". —The army are all upon the east bank of the Pedec, and marching upon roads leading due east. Kilpatrick covers the extreme left, and to-night is at Rock inham, where yesterday evening lie came in contact with Butler's division of Hampton's ' legion, who retreated with some loss be- 1 fore our spirited attack. The four grand i columns of infantry are all south of Kilpat- ! rick, covering a strip of country forty miles in width. All the corps commanders report abundance of forage and supplies, and nu merous streams which empty into the Pe dee have excellent water power, with flour mills situated at points admirably conven ient for the army, a providential circum stance for several divisions that have ex hausted their stores of hard bread. Every one of these mills has been in operation all : day, and will not rest until this morning.— They will grind corn enough to last a week, when we shall have reached tide-water i again, perhaps. To-day has been sunny and bright ; the j roads have been dry (in truth we have seen I the dust rising over the moving column for j the first time since we left Savannah); the i gentle wind from the east ; has come to us laden with fragrant perfume of pine and cedar, and every one has journeyed on as happy and contented as mortals can be,and as glad only men have a right to be who have plodded on so many dreary days through the heavy mud and pitiless rain. The refugees, and especially the negroes, expand in this sunlight like flowers, if 1 may use such a simile when speaking of such dusky subjects. Their exuberant laughter may be heard for a long distance as they journey on, sometimes in their queer go-carts, with curious nondescript rigging, or when pulling and sweating under a load of blankets, pots, etc., or when, as in one instance under my observation to-day,three little girls were at the same time astraddle | a patient, good-natured old mule. NEGRO CHILDREN. At one point on the road to-day, where [ the column had halted for a moment, I saw j half a dozen three-year old "picaninnies,'' I as their mothers called them, perched upon i the top rail of a fence, and singing with all j their might— "l'm glad I'm in this army," A c., an old Sabbath school hymn, which they repeated, all unconscious of its singular appropriateness at the time and place. The soldiers were delighted, and greeted J them with shouts of approbation. "Go it, | little one," "Bully for you, curly-head."— "You're right there, little nig ; we'll stick by you." &c. CAMPING AMONG THE PINES. To-night we went into camp in the midst |of a magnificent grove of pines. The feet are buried in the bed of spindles and burrs | which have fallen undisturbed for centu i l ies. The wind sings, or rather murmurs —for that is the sound—through the lofty | tree-tops, while the air is filled with the delicious fragrance of the woods. This evening the sun went down behind great liars of silver and purple, although now and then its bright rays would stream out, throwing long* shadows across this great #£2 per Annum, in Advance. cathedral floor, transforming'each tree and bough into columns and arches of glimmer ing gold. As I write the camp fires dance and flare upward ; away off in the dark forest strange, uncouth forms peer out from the shadows, while a far off band of music, mellowed by the distance, sounds in sooth ing cadences the restfull tattoo. Ah ! this is not the blood, the carnage, the suffering of war, it is its deligntful romance. CROSSI>*C THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER. LACKED HILL, N. C., March 8. The central columns have advanced four teen miles to-day. and, as was anticipated, without any opposition whatever. Wheth er or not the flanking column have seen any rebels I do not as yet know, but it is not probable that there is anything more than a light cavalry force upon our extreme left. A body of infantry are said to lie in the neighborhood of Florence on our right, hut they will take good care not to ap proach within feeling distance of our col umns. The rear I have never thought it worth while to speak of, for we have so frequently to cross rivers, taking along with us the means of passage, that only a large, well appointed army could annoy us in that direction. The Charlotte and Raleigh papers afford much amusement by their lugubrious gues ses as to where Sherman will next strike a blow. They are all in the position of a group of men who hear a shell hurtling through the air, coming in their direction. Every one thinks he is the mark fired at.— General Hoke, commanding at Charlotte, has issued an address to the people of the place, assuring them that when Sherman occupies the town he will protect citizens and private property ; he begs them to re main quietly at home, and trust to the gen erosity of the conqueror. I think the peo ple of Charlotte will do well to accept the assurance of General Hoke until we get there. NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. The line which divides South from North Carolina was passed over this morning. It was not in our imagination alone that we could at once see the difference between the two states. The soil is not superior to that near Clieraw, but the tillers, the far mers, are a vastly different class of men. I had always supposed that South Carolina was agriculturally superior to its sister state. The loud pretentions of the chival ry had led me to believe that the scorn of these gentlemen was induced by the inferi ority of the people of the old North State, and that they were little better than "dirt eaters," while the strong Union sentiment which has always found utterance here should have taught me better. The real difference between the two lies in the fact that the plantation owners wm k with their own hands, and do not think they degrade themselves thereby. This degrcda tion to the ehivalric mind was quite enough to inspire contempt. For the first time since we bade au rei'oir to salt water I have to-day seen an attempt to manure laud. The army has passed through thir teen miles or more of splendidly managed farms. The corn and cotton fields are nicely ploughed and furrowed. The fences are in capital order, the barns are well built, the dwelling-houses are cleanly, and there is that air of thrift which evinces itself where the owner takes personal in terest in the conduct of affairs. SHERMAN'S TROOPS AMONG UNIONISTS. The conduct of the soldiers is changed. I have seen no evidence of plundering ; the men keep their ranks closely, and more remarkable yet, not a single column of fire or smoke, which a few days ago marked the positions of heads of column, could be seen upon the horizon. Our men seemed to understand that they are entering a state which has suffered for its Union sentiment, and whose inhabitants would gladly cm brace the old flag again could they have the opportunity, which, by the way, we mean to give them, or 1 ain mistaken as to our future campaigns. OVERWORK. —Unwise above many is the • man who considers every hour lost which j is not spent in reading, writing, or in study; and not more rational is she who thinks | every moment of her time more lost which i does no; find her sewing. We once heard j a great man advise that a book of some j kind be carried in the pocket, to be used in , case of an unoccupied moment—such was | his practice. lie died early and fatuitous. j There are women who, after a hard day's j work, will sit and sew by candle or gas-; light until their ej'es are almost blinded, or j until certain pains about the shoulders comes on, which are almost insupportable, and are only driven to bed by a physical incapacity to work any longer. The ssep of the overworked, like that of those who i do not work at all, is unsatisfying and un refreshing, and both alike wake up in wear iness, sadness and languor, with an inevi- ' table result, both dying prematurely. Let no one work in pain or weariness. When a man is tired, he ought to lie down until j he is fully rested, when, with renovated strength, the work will be better done,done the sooner, and done with self-sustained | alacrity. The tune taken from seven or ; eight hour's sleep out of each twenty-four,is \ time not gained, but time much more than I lost ; we can cheat ourselves, but we can not cheat nature. A certain amount of' food is necessary to a healthy body, and if less than that amount be furnished, decay ! commences that very hour. It is the same : with sleep, and any one who persists in al-I lowing himself less than Nature requires, will only hasten his arrival ot the mad house or the grave. THE CROW WITNESSES. —Luther tells a story of a certain German who,in his trav els, fell among thieves; and they being about to cut his throat, the poor man es pied a llight of crows, ond cried out, "Oh, crows ! 1 take you for witnesses and aven gers of my death." About two or three days after, these thieves, drinking together at an inn, a company of crows came and alighted upou the top of the house. At this the thieves began to laugh ; and, said one of them, "Look ! yonder are they who must avenge his death whom we lately slew." The tapster, overhearing this, de clared it to the magistrate, who caused them to be apprehended ; and in conse them of their contradictory statements and evasive answers, urged them so far that they confessed the truth, and received their deserved punishment. REHAVIOB AT TABLE. —Tt used t-> he high caste to eat with a"?poon every tiling that could be so eaten, except fish, which was not made spoon-meat. Pease, pudding, curry, custard, were all conveyed to the mouth with a spoon The same of serving. A lady, whose social position was dubious, caused opinion to pronounce that she teas u lady by helping lemon-pudding with a spoon. Nowadays, whether fork or spoon, or fork and spoon, you may do as you like, provided you do it without affectation. No where may you eat any thing with a knife. Tt is not polite to express surprise, re pugnance, or ridicule at the introduction and consumption of any eatable which may he new or unusual to your own experience. The world is wide, and you have not yet seen the whole of it. II invited to experi mental repasts, such as the Prince Napol eon's Chinese dinners, or the recent French and German horse-flesh banquets, you know what you have to expect beforehand, 1 and can accept or decline accordingly. Bui if fortune unexpectedly bring you into con tact with strange messes which others en joy, good manners require you to tool as if you could enjoy them if you pleased. It is not polite, iu a private house, to breathe in your glass and polish it with your napkin, or to wipe your plate, knife, fork or spoon, or, in short, to do any thing which can imply a suspicion of the n wit ness and cleanliness of the service. Tn ho tels and restaurants only you have the right, by paying for it, to take those pre cautions. General Grosdos, who retained many of his army habits, was dining at a minister's house in Paris. When a livery servant came to fill his glass with wine, he antici pated the movement by wiping it with all his might and main. The hostess, fearing that some little accideul had occurred, signed to the valet behind her to change the glass. The wiping process was recom menced,and the glass immediately changed, up to a third, and a fourth, the General, losing temper, whispered to his neighbor,a Senator's wife, "Does M. le Ministre mean to make game of me, by asking me to din ner to wipe his glasses:" The lady, with some difficulty, got him to understand that what might be neces sary in a camp canteen was quite unneces sary in a Parisian dining-room. CIRCULATION OF Alß. —Winds are put in horizontal motion. Their influence is most beneficial. Were there no winds, the va pors that rise from the sea would be re turned back from the clouds, in showers, to the very same places in the sea whence they came. On an earth where no winds blow we should neither have green pas tures, still waters. nor running brooks. Air is more liable to pollution and corruption than water ; stagnation is ruinous to it. Ceaseless motion lias been given to it ; per petual circulation and intermingling of its ingredients are required of it. The necess ity of ventilation in our build ngs, the wholesome influence of fresh air, are uni versally acknowledged. The cry in cities for fresh air from the mountains or the sea. reminds us continually of the life-giving virtues of circulation. It has been well said that the girdling encircling air makes the whole world akin. It is the laboratory for the whole animal and vegetable king doms. The carbonic acid with which our breathing fills the air to-day, to-morrow seeks its way round the world. The date plants that grew round the falls ol' the Nile will drink it in by their leaves ; the cedars of Lebanon will take of it to add to their stature. The oxygen we are breathing now was distilled for us, some short time ago, by the magnolias of the Susquehanna, and the great trees that skirt the Amazon. By the winds, superfluous water is carried off and removed to other lauds, where its agen , cy is required ; or it is treasured up, as the material of clouds, in the crystal vault of the firmament, the source, when the fitting season arrives, of the showers which pro vide for the wants of the year. STRENGTH VERSUS SWEETNESS. —Very plain but clever women, who are restlessly con scious of their plainness, but decline to adopt the attitude of humiliation, will dis charge their impressions with a bang, like the bolts of a cross-bow, in away that shows they almost triumph in disregarding the etiquettes of social suavity ; but, after all, they are better worth talking to, and will generally succeed more entirely in get ting out of themselves and changing for a | time the moral atmosphere they carry about I with them, than those who lose half the I singleness of their aims in the study of ! pretty attitudes, or in watching the effect j of each drop in the healing stream of their i conversation. Conscious beauty and a coii j quering ease of carriage in man or woman ' ooze out in a mannerism that generally i awakens, a sort of reactionary thirst fa j hard, healthy hitting—just as you are apt j to come away from the unctions moral elo quence of the Bishop of Oxford with a , strong resolve never again to indulge in a sweet and persuasive manner, and a wish I to rub oil' the impression by striking some ! one intellectually on the spot. The con- I sciousness of a winning and persuasive I grace, physical or moral, may be very ; pleasant ; but we suspect it is a pleasure : that palls upon the possessor, as it certain , ly does on the recipient of such suavities. NUMBER 44. BROOM CORN. —This well-known plant, which for nearly half a century has been one of the staples of Hampshire county, is a native of Virginia, and had a feeble be ginning. A stalk, imported to Philadelphia as a curiosity some eighty years a o, was examined by Dr. Franklin, who discovered a single seed, and picked and planted it.— Once propagated, the lovers of rare plants eagerly sought it, and thus it became dis seminated. Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. P., pastor of a church in Hadley, first cultiva ted a few stalks in his garden about 1790. His parishoners followed his example, and at length the discovery was made in that town, that corn brush was better to sweep with than the birch brooms of the Indians, Levi Dickinson made the first brooms to sell in that town, and at first people were incredulous that any onecouljJ succeed in a business which was clearly the province of the Indian. Now Hadley is the centre of the broom business for the whole North eastern States, and furnishes employment for more than one hundred and fifty men.— Nine hundred and twenty tons of broom brush are annually worked up there, a part of which comes from the West. And more than twelve hundred thousand brooms are manufactured there, valued at about #190,- 000. The valleys of the Hudson and the Mohawk first began to compete with this Connecticut River business, and finally, i 1 is cultivated to some extent in Ohio and Il linois. A submarine torpedo was exploded 463 feet down in an oil well near Titusvillc, Pa , on Saturday, making the oil and water shoot 30 feet into the air, and the earth groan like a monster in death agonies. The well had ceased to yield, but as soon as the disturbance subsided oil appeared on the surface as fast as it could be dipped oft with a sand-pump. The theory is that the oil veins got stopped up with paralfine, and the torpedo blew them open again.