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Outside the palace gate there stands A beggar, with a'face of woe, Who. clad iu rags, with outstretched hands, Asks alms of those that come and go— A brother of the king is he, A common Father both may claim, That God our weak lips may not name, Who pities poor humanity. See in the careless crowds that pass Along the city's busy street, The rich and poor ; there, too, ulas! Bold shame and modest virtue meet; Brothers and sisters all are we, Whatever is our worldly lot, It matters not by whom begot— A part of poor humanity! The rich man sipping costly wine, Wliute'er the foolish worldling thinks, Is linked with him who from the vine Crushes the juioe the other drinks— Though nursed in easy luxury, he May scorn the laborer in his heart, Forgetful that each forms a part Of that poor thing humanity! I'p yonder crazy stairs dwells one Who toils through all the livelong day, Toils till her weary work is done T drive the famished wolf away— A sister, wan and pale, is she, To her, that other, young and fair, Who rides behind yon stylish pair, A part of poor humanity! Great Ib aven, look kindly from above On us the children of Thy care, And nil our selfish hearts with love, in ev.-r this our earnest prayer— Oh give us grace that we may see The faults that every virtue mar, And strength to bear the ills that are The lot of poor humanity! THE GUERILLA MOSEBY. fiie New York World lias published a ;• > of interesting articles giving the nacter and achievements of various •i'l leaders. They are written by one of \s late staff officers, and must be accept is coming from one of the strongest I'd proclivities. One of his last contri tions is on the übiquitous Moseby, the • it guerilla chief of the Virginia border die man who perilled the safety of every n-roost, horse-stabje, money-till, grocery id <lry goods store, corn-crib and larder itliin his range, and who delighted in nping railroad trains and robbing every i>seiiger indiscriminately, regardless of . . sex or circumstances, of all monies, itches, jewelry and other valuables. Of -accomplished free-booter the World's rrcspuiideuts thus graphically and kindly Cites, and we give it as a matter of gen i interest to our readers, who knowing ! seby well will appreciate his history : ibis man, figuring in the popular eye as i r iffian and low adventurer, was born 1 . iTed, and is, in a manner, a gentleman, i s family is one of high standing and iu • -dgence in Virginia, and he jvas educated hie I niversity of Virginia, where he studied the law. He commenced the prac -1 married, and would probably have 'vvj through life as a "county court Wit had not the war taken place.— f Virginia seceded he imitated other ■ - men, and embarked in the struggle •; a private in a regiment of cavalry.— -i' re he exhibited courage and activity, eventually became Ist lieutenant and 4 ' jutant. When the miserable "reorgan -1 ■" system of the Confederate States ' uriimi iit went into operation in the •- 1 1*62, and the men were allowed M ■' < t their officers, Moseby—never an i" indulgent officer—was thrown out, • '-Tain became a private. He returned )' ifc r; "'ks ; but bis energy and activity •■•■ en frequently exhibited, and Gen. -'•!. who possessed a remarkable talent "-covering conspicuous military merit s ,rt in obscure persons, speedily ; lor 'din, and from that time employed j"" 18 . 4 scout or partisan. It is proper to V 1 rt 'ader here that a scout is not a Moseby's duty was to penetrate the . of country occupied by the Federal -ieither alone or in command of a small of cavalry ; and by hovering w /°ds around the Union camps, in •'gating citizens, or capturing pickets 1 Meiers, acquire information of the N 1 R numbers, position, or designs. If i i inution could be obtained without ... ( s ■'!. nil the better—but if necessa ; ; w as the duty and the habit of the S r ,. 1 ' :ittac k, or when attacked, hold • v~ r '! u "d lls long as possible. In other - 'm il' was inaugurated in the coun c . "k'" d by the Federal forces a regu- Uf r'" "' P :irl ' sa " warfare, the object , " •' w as to harass the invading force, It"i' V '~ r ~ wa y ''"pair its efficiency. a - s at this time I first saw Moseby, , a P' ,ear ance was wholly undistin o. a i . waH thin, wiry, and, I should five feet nine or ten inches in • u . r -flight stoop in the neck was r ^ ra o 11 ie c,lin was carried well •• 8 Wfcre f' l '" and wore a '■'•' ri Ur r l 8,11 "'e ; the eyes, under 1 eft hat, were keen, sparkling, 1L O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVI. and roved curiously from side to side. He wore a grey uniform, with no arms but two revolvers in his belt ; the sabre was no favorite with him. His voice was low, and a smile was often on Irs lips. He rarely sat still ten minutes. Such was his ap pearance at that time. No one would have been struck with anything noticeable in in him except the eyes. These Hashed at times, in away which might induced the opiiiou that there was something in the man, if it only had an opportunity to "come out." I am not aware that he gained any repu tation in the campaign of 1862. He was considered, however, by General Stuart, an excellent scout and partisan ; and the General once related to the present writer, with great glee, the manner iu which Mose by had taken nine men, deployed them over several hundred yards, and advanced, fir ing steadily upon a whole brigade of Fed eral cavalry, which hastily retired, under the impression that the attacking force was heavy. Such things were common with Moseby, who seemed to enjoy them greatly; but iu the spring of 1862 the tables were turned upon the partisan. General Stuart sent him from the Chick hominy to carry a confidential message to Gen. Jackson, then in the valley. He was resting at one of the wayside stations ou the Central Railroad, while his horse was feeding, when a detachment of Federal cavalry surprised and captured him—making prize also of a private note from Stuart to Jackson, and a copy of Na poleon's "Maxims," accompanying it. Muse by was carried to the Old Capitol, but was soon exchanged ; and chancing to discover on his route down the bay that General Burnside was going soon to reinforce Gen eral Pope in Culpepper, he hastened, on his arrival, with that important information to General Lee, who telegraphed it doubtless, to General Jackson at Gordonsville. It is probable that the battle of Cedar Run, where General Pope was defeated, was fought by Jackson in consequence of this information. My 6bject, however, is not to write a biography of Colonel Moseby. It is for tunate that such is not my design ; for a career of wonderful activity extending over about three years could not be condensed into a brief paper. I shall speak of but one or two other incidents in his career— and one shall be his surprise of Brigadier General Stoughton at Fairfax Court House in the winter of 1862 This affair excited unbounded indignation on the part of many excellent people. Let us see it it was not a legitimate partisan operation. It was in November, I believe, that Moseby received the information leading to his movement. The federal forces at that time occupied the region between Fredericksburg and Alexandria, and as General Stuart's activity and energy were just causes of solicitude, a strong body of infantry, cavalry, and artillery was posted in the neighborhood of Fairfax Court House and Centreville.— Colonel Wyndham was in command of the cavalry, and acting Brigadier-Gen. Stough ton, a young officer from West Point, com manded the whole district, with his head quarters at the small village of Fairfax.— Moseby formed the design of capturing Gen. Stoughton, Col. Wyndham, Col. John son, and other officers ; and sent scouts to the neighborhood to ascertain the force there. They brought word that a strong body of infantry and artillery was at Cen treville ; Col. Wyndham's brigade of cav alry was at Germantown, a mile from Fair fax ; and towards the railroad station an other brigade of infantry. Fairfax thus appeared to be inclosed within a cordon of all arms, rendering it wholly impossible even to approach it. Those who' know the ground, as many of my readers doubtless do, will easily understand how desperate the undertaking appeared of penetrating to the town, and safely carrying off the Federal commandant. It was one of those schemes, however, whose very boldness is apt to cause them to succeed. Men rarely guard against dangers which they do not dream it possible can threaten them.— Moseby doubtless based his calculations upon this fact ; at any rate he decided up on the movement, and with twenty-nine men set out one dark and drizzling Novem ber night for the scene of operations. The party had to steal off with their cap tives, if any were made, or cut their way through, and on that black night no uni form was discernable. Moseby approach ed Germantown by the Little River turn pike, but fearing Wyndham's cavalry, ob liqued to the right, and took to the woods skirting the Warrenton road. Centreville was thus, with its garrison, on the right and rear, Germantown on the left,and Fair fax, winged with infantry camps, in his front. It was now rainiug heavily, and the night was like pitch. The party advanced by bridle paths through the woods, thus avoiding the pickets on the main avenues of approach, and the incessant patter of the rain drowned the hoof-strokes of the horses. A mile from Fairfax the gleam of tents greeted them in front, and liuding the ap proaches barred in that direction, they si lently obliqued to the right again, crossed the Warrenton road, and gradually drew near the town on the southern side. Again the wet and rain served them. Their ad vance was undiscovered, and at last they were close upon the place. An infantry picket was the only obstacle, and this was soon removed. The sleepy vidette found a pistol at his breast,and the picket was com pelled to surrender without firing a shot.— The way was then clear, and Moseby enter ed the town at a gallop. His object was to capture the Federal officers known to be in the place, burn the public stores and carry off as many horses as possible. His party was accordingly divided for these purposes, and Moseby himself pro ceeded to Gen. Stoughton's residence. It was afterwards said that a young lady of the place, Miss Ford, supplied him with in formation, and led him, personally, to the house. This, Col. Moseby stated to the present writer, was entirely a mistake ; he received information neitherfrom Miss Ford nor any one else except his own scouts— nor did any one accompany him in his visit to Gen. Stoughton. He found an orderly at the door, who was taken charge of by one of his own men, and then mounted to the General's bedchamber, the occupant of which was fast asleep. At Moseby's uncer emonious "Get up, General, and come with me !" the Sleeper started erect,and demand ed, "Do you know who I am, sir ?" appar- TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER '26, 1865. ently indignant at such want of ceremony. " Do you kuow Moseby, General ?" was the reply. " Yes," was the eager response, "have you got the rascal?" "No, but he has got you." And to the startled "What does this ineau, sir ?" Gen. Stuart's cav alry are in possession of the court house, sir, and that you are my prisoner." This disagreeable state of affairs slowly dawn ed upon the aroused sleeper, and he soon found himself dressed, mounted, and ready to set out—a prisoner. Several stall - offi cers had also been captured, and a consid erable uumber of horses. Cols. Wyndham and Johuson eluded the search for them.— Deciding not to burn the public stores which were iu the houses, Moseby then mounted all his prisoners—some thirty-five,l believe, in number, including about half-a-dozen officers —cautiously retracing his steps,pass ing over the very same ground, and steal ing along, about dawn, under the muzzles of the guns iu the works at Centreville, so close that the sentinel hailed the party, swam Cub run, struck southward, and at sunrise was safe beyond pursuit. The skill and boldness exhibited in the conception and execution of this raid con ferred upon Moseby just fame as a partisan officer : and the regular organization of his command commenced. He was made cap tain, then major, then lieutenant-colonel, and colonel, as his force and his operations increased. From the solitary scout, or humble partisan operating with a small squad, he had grown to be an officer of rank and distinction, intrusted with impor tant duties, and eventually with the guard ianship of the whole extentof country north of the Rappahannock, and east of the Blue Ridge. The people of the region speak of it with a laugh, as "Moseby's Confederacy," and the name will probably adhere to it, in the popular mind, for many years to come. Let us pass to these latter days when "Col onel" Moseby gave the Federal forces so much trouble and aroused so much indig nation in General Custer, General Sheridan, and others, whose men he captured, and whose convoys he so frequently cut off and destroyed, Moseby was born to be a partisan leader, and as such was probably greater than any other who took part in the war. He had by nature all the qualities which made the ac complished ranger; nothing could daunt him ; his activity of mind and body—call it, if you choose, restless eternal love of movement—was something wonderful ; and that untiring energy which is the secret of half the great successes of history, drove him incessantly to plan, to scheme, to con ceive, and to execute. He could not rest when there was any thing to do, and scout ed for his amusement, charging pickets so lus byway of Bport. On dark and rainy nights, when other men aim at being com fortably housed, Moseby liked to be moving with a detachment of his men to surprise and attack some Federal camp, or to "run in" some picket, and occasion consternation, ; if not inflict injury. The peculiar feature of his command was '• that the men occupied no stated camp, "and, j in fact, were never kept together, except j on an expedition. They were scattered J throughout the country, especially among j the small farm houses in the spurs of the B'ue Ridge ; and here they lived the mer riest lives imaginable. They were subject ed to none of the hardships and privations j of regular soldiers. Their horses were iu j comfortable stables or ranged freely over | excellent pastures ; the men lived with j their families, slept in beds, and had not li- ; ing to do with "rations" of hard bread and ' bacon. Milk, butter, and all the house- J hold luxuries of peace were at their com mand ; and not until their chief summoned them did they buckle on their arms and get to horse. While thoy were thus living on the fat of the land, Moseby was perhaps scouting off on his private account somewhere down towards Manassas, Alexandria, or Lees burg. If bis excursions revealed an open- j ing for successful operations, be sent off j a well mounted courier, who travelled rap idly to the first nest of ranges ; thence a I fresh courier carried the summons else where ; a few hours twenty, thirty, or fifty men excellently mounted made their ap pearance at the prescribed rendezvous.— The man who disregarded or evaded the second summons to a raid was summarily dealt with ; he received a note for delivery to Gen Stuart, and on reaching the cavalry headquarters was directed to return to the company in the regular service from which he had been transferred. This seldom happened, however. The men were all anxious to go upon raids, to share the rich spoils ; and were prompt at the rendezvous. Once assembled, the ran gers tell into column, Moseby said " Come on," and the party set forward upon their appointed task—to surprise some camp, capture an army train, or ambush some de tached party of Federal cavalry on a for aging expedition. Such a life is attractive to the imagin ation, and the men came to have a passion for it. But it is a dangerous service. It may with propriety be regarded as a trial of wits between the opposing commanders, i The great praise of Moseby was that his j superior skill, activity and good judgment j gave him most uninterrupted success, and invariably saved him from capture. An at- I tack upon Col. Cole, of the Maryland cavH airy, near Loudon Heights, in the winter of j 1863—4, was his only serious failure, and j that appears to have resulted from a diso- j bedieuce of his orders. He bad here some | valuable officers and men killed. He was several times wounded, but nev er taken. On the last occasion, in 1864, he was shot through the window of a house in Fauquier, but managed to stagger into a darkened room, tear off his stars, the badges of his rank, and counterfeit a per son mortally wounded. His assailants left him dying, as they supposed, without dis covering his identity, and when they did discover it and hurried back, he had been removed beyond reach of peril After his wounds, he always reappeared paler and thinner, but more active and untiring than than ever. They oidy seemed to exasper ate him, and make him more dangerous to trains, scouting parties, and detached camps than before. The great secret of his success was un doubtedly his unbounded energy and enter prise General Stuart came finally to re pose unlimited confidence m his resources, and relied implicitly upon him. The wri ter recalls an instance of this in June, 1863. General Stuart was then near Middleburg, REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. watching General Hooker, who was about to move towards Pennsylvania, but could get no accurate information from his scouts. Silent, puzzled and doubtful, the General walked up and down, knitting his brows and reflecting, when the little figure of Moseby appeared, and Stuart uttered an exclamation of relief and satisfaction They were speedily in private consultation, and Moseby only came out again to mount bis quick grey marc and set out in a heavy storm, for the Federal camps. On the next day lie returned with information which put the entire cavalry in motion. He had penetrated General Hooker's camps, ascer tained everything, and safely returned. This had been done in bis grey uniform, with his pistols in his belt ; and 1 believe it was on this occasion that he gave a characteristic evidence of his coolness.— He had captured a Federal cavalryman, and they were riding on together, when suddenly they struck a column of the Un ion cavalry passing. Moseby drew his oil cloth around him, cocked his pistol, and sai<l to his companion, " If you make any sign or utter a word to have ine captured, I will blow your brains out and trust to the speed of my horse to escape. Keep quiet, and we will ride ou without troub ling anybody." His prisoner took the hint, believing doubtless that it was better to be a prisoner than a dead man ; and after ri ding along carelessly for some distance as though he was one of the column, Moseby gradually edged off, and got away safely with his prisoner. FUN, FACTS AND FACETISL REFINED TASTE. —"Always buy your chest nuts biled," said Mrs. Snow to Abemlech, who was about investing a penny in that little brown com modity, '-cause the raw ones want looking after, and the wormy ones you have to throw away ; but with the biled ones it don't make no difference— worins can't hurt nobody when they're biled." DEFINITIONS FOR THE NEXT DICTIONARY.— Honor. —Shooting a friend through the head whom you love, in order to gain the praise of a few others whom you despise and hate. Virtue. —An awkward habit of acting differently from other people. A vulgar word. It creates great mirth iu fashionable circles. Wealth. —The most respectable quality of man. WHY is tlie toothache like an unanswer able argument V —Because it makes people hold their jaw. A DETERMINED advocate of the water-baths, especially the Turkish, expatiating on their bene ficial uses to Bruton, said that in old Borne, when the hath wis a general resort, there were no doct ors in that land, and not an ill to be found. " I beg your pardon," said Bruton, " Borne has always been celebrated ibr her seven hills A r.irri.E girl, after returning from church, where she saw a collection taken up for the first time, related what took place, and among other things she said, with all her childish innocence, "that a man passed around a plate that had some money 011 it, but I didn't take any." " JOE, MY dear," said a fond wife to her husband, who followed the piscatory profession on 1 the banks of Newfoundl mil, "do fix up a little,you j look so slovenly. Oli. what an awful memory it | would be for me if you should get drowned look j ing so!" A WE 1.1. -KNOWN- lawyer had a horse that ! always stopped and refused to cross the mill-dam | bridge leading out of the city. No whipping, 110 ! urgiug, would carry him over without stopping. So 1 hi' advertised liim, "To be sold for no other reason 1 than that the ower wants to go out of town." Two gentlemen walking together were I talking of the senses—seeing, feeling, and the like. One n marked that his sense of hearing was re | markable for its acuteness, while the other was not wonderfully endowed in this respect, but ob served that his vision was wonderful. " Now, to illustrate," said he, "I can see a fly on the spire of yonder church." The other looked sharply at the place indicated. " Ah!" said he, " I can't see him, but I can hear him step." MAX leads woman to the altar—in that act his leadership begins anil ends. " NEVER saw such stirring times," as the spoon said to the sruce-pan. THERE was a deacon in a town in this State by the name of Day —by trade a cooper.— One sabbath morning he heard a number of hoys playing in front of his house, and he went out to stop their sabbath-breaking. Assuming a grave countenance, lie said to them: "Boys, do you know what day this is V" " Yes, Sir," immediately replied one of the boys, "Deacon Day, the cooper." \\ HY is the letter e a gloomy and discon tented vowel V—Because, though never out of health and pocket, it never appears iu spirits. " You can't do that again," said the pig to the boy who cut off his tail, " I'M attached to you, and yet I wish my self away," as the overloaded donkey said to the cart. WHY is a stale egg like a wicked com pan ion ? Because lie's a bml ejtj-saniple* AT one time at Gibraltar there was a great scarcity of water. An Irish officer said "he was very easy about the matter, for he hail nothing to do with water ; if he only got his tea iu the morning, and punch at night, it was all that he wanted." JAMES the First once went out of his way to hear a noted preacher. The clergyman, seeing the king enter, left his text to declaim against swearing, for which the king was notorious. When he had finished James thanked him for his sermon, but asked him what connection swearing had with it. "Since your majesty came out of your way to hear me," said the clergyman, "I could' not do less than go out of mine to meet you." THE celebrated divine, Doctor South, on one occasion preached before the Corporation of Tailors. He took for his text the appropriate words —"A remnant shall be saved." Ax Irishman being asked by a friend what was meant by an author's posthumous works, replied that " they were the works an author wrote after he was dead." REST NEEDED. —"Doctor, I want you to prescribe for me." The doctor feels her pulse.— "There is nothing the matter, madam ; you want rest, " "Now, doctor, just look at my tongue ! just look at it ; look at it! now, say, what does that need?" "I think that it needs rest, too." Exit madam in a state of great excitement. THE following is a characteristic short sermon which, it is stated, President Lincoln was in the habit of preaching to his children ; " Don't drink, don't smoke, don't chew, don't swear, don't gamble, don't lie,don't cheat,love your fellow-men, as well as God, love truth, love virtue, and be hap py" THERE is a tempest in the tea-pot of China. The native dealers are "bulling" the market fero ciously. "COME till America, Pat !" writes ason of the Emerald Isle, to his friends in Ireland ; " 'tis a fine country to get a livin in. All ye have to do, is to get a three-cornered box, and fill it with bricks and carry it till the top of a four story building, and the man at the top does all the work!" How TO RECEIVE A PROPOSAL. —You onght er toik it kind, lookin down hill, with an expres shun about half tickled and half skart. Aftur thee pop ez ovur, ef yoor lower wants to kis u, I don't think I wood sey yes nor know, but let the tiling kind uv taike its own coarse. KINGS never hear the voice of truth until they are dethroned nor beauties until they have abchCted their charms. THE ASSISTANT TBEASUFIY. The leading financial institution in the J United States is the United States Assis- I tant Treasury at New York. Though it is j only an assistant treasury, and the Treas- J ury proper is at Washington, yet the trans actions of the former are so vastly greater in volume than those of the latter that the chief work of the Washington office is keep ing record of the business done by its New York branch. Nineteen-twentieths of the the public creditors are paid here ; nearly all the public loans are disposed of here ; by far the greater part of the revenue from customs and taxes is received here ; and and here is paid, on the days fixed by law, the interest on $2,000,000,000 of United States securities. A business of from $3,- 000,000 to $10,000,000 daily done here— done quickly, quietly, and without errors or disputes. No institution in the city is better worth inspection than the Sub-Treas ury ; and be it said, in simple justice, no man is more willing to have it inspected than M. VAN DVCK, the Sub-Treasurer. The vaults are a sight which can not be witnessed elswhere in this country. There are two of them ; but one is comparatively empty, as it only holds some $10,000,000. The other contains over sixty millions of dollars, one half in coin, the other half in paper. How many readers have ever seen a million dollars in paper or iii gold ? We remember one of the oldest of our Judges a man of large experience and profound wisdom, interrupting a party of talkers, who were chatting about millions of gold, with the naiave questions : " How big is a million of gold ? Would it rest on this table ? Would it go under this chair ? How many men would it take to carry it? What does it look like ?" His Honor might have gratified his curi osity by a visit to the Sub-Treasury There thirty millions of gold lie dormant, await ing the resurrection of specie payments.— They are put up in bags containing SSOOO each, and weighing say 45 pounds. These bags are piled one upon another in closets, which line the inner wall of the vault ; a hundred bags fill a closet. When fibed the door is closed, locked, and sealed with the cashier's seal ; a ticket attached specifies that in tiiat dark and narrow hole $500,- 000 in gold lie hidden. Fifty or more such closets may be seen, duly closed, locked, and sealed. Hut in that vault,whose wealth far outshines the wildest fables of Oriental story, bags of gold lie around in every cor ner. You kick one as you enter. Others rest on trucks waiting sepulture in the clos ets. They are so plentiful, and so seeming-j I}' despised by the officials who handle them that insensibly the spectator loses his re spect for them, and forgets that the posse sion of a few such bags would realize his life-long dream of material prosperity. These bags are the products ot customs' duties. Every day, between 3 and 4 o'clock, a little hand-cart, ark-shaped, painted red, covered over, and locked, may be seen traveling up Wall Street, propelled by two stout men, and wendimr its way from the ! Custom-house to the Sub-Treasury. There are but two men ostensibly engaged in pushing the little red cart. Hut a careful observer may discover two other men, like wise stout and very watchful who lounge up the side walk on a parallel line. They look as if they carried revolvers. In these days, when the customs' duties are heavy, ttie little red ark sometimes contains $740,- 000—a prize worth the attention of robbers Hut it is never attacked. When it reaches the Sub-Treasury it is unlocked, and the bags handed in. Each bag is then count ed by the Sub-Treasurer's clerks. They count with both hands, and with a rapidity and accuracy truly wonderful. They seem to possess a sort of instinct, the product of long experience, which enables them to discover a false coin at a glance. Pieces which have been split open, the insides fil ed out, the cavity filled with iridium, the two halves soldered together, and remitted on the edges, are so like genuine coins that the best judges are often deceived by them. They weigh precisely the same as genuine coins. They are precisely the right size. They have the ring of pure gold. Their external surface throughout is gold Yet these counterfeits are detected at a glance by the experienced clerks of the Treasury. It used to be said of Mr. E. 11. BITDSAI-L, the present Cashier, that when he was a clerk he could, in emptying a SSOOO bag, at the first dip of his hands into the glittering mass, pick out all the spurious coins. There is a quantity of silver in the Sub- Treasury, in bags|and kegs, but after one has been handling millions of gold it seems a poor sort of metal. A silver closet holds $40,000 ; there are a few dozen of them full to repletion. Within a short time con siderable amounts of silver have arrived here from New Orleans—the product of duties or of the Confiscation Act. Many of the coins are rusted, and dingy, and it is shrewdly suspected that, during the dark days of rebel supremacy, these pieces slept the sleep of the just in damp underground holes. Oue of the New Orleans banks is known to have buried its coin when Con federate shinplasters made their appeara ance, and the plan was doubtless adopted by many private individuals. Of paper-money the Sub-Treasury in Mew York holds some forty millions. Of this over eighteen millions are in fives, tens, and twenties, and are piled on a shelf in the vault. As nrarly as we could calcu late by the eye, there is about a cord and a half of this money. It might fill a two horse hay-cart. When a pay master calls with a draft, the clerks give him a trunk full or a bushel basket. The notes are mix ed indiscriminately—some old and worn, showing evidence of long service, others new and crisp. By-and-by, when Govern ment begins to call in legal tenders, woe betide the national banks whose issues ac cumulate in this vault ! The larger notes, $ 100's ssoo's and slooo's have the honor of closet room. There is a closet there which contains half-a-dozen millions. Lying on the top of a mountain of these notes was a package which we ex amined. It could easily have been put in the coat pocket and carried away without inconvenience. It contained one thousand SSOO legal tenders, and was therefore worth just half a million. But for the con tempt for money which the inspection of these enormus sums is apt for the moment to inspire, one might have coveted this lit tle package. How many able and success ful men toil for a lifetime in the hope of ac quiring just such a parcel ? per* Annum, in Advance. But, if you are going to steal, gentle reader, let us recommend coupons as the most convenient article to "convey." Sev en-Thirty coupons are so small that you can easily put $50,000 worth in your waist coat pocket, and as to Ten-Forty coupons, a pinch of them, between finger and thumb and linger, is small fortune. These little paper, no bigger than apothecary's labels, or half the size of a live cent in fractional currency, represent stune varying from $25 in gold to $365 in currency. As interest day comes round they pour in from all quarters—from the far West and the late ly rebellious South : from Germany and Holland ; from crowned heads in Europe and from industrious washer-woman in this country. To examine and sort these little bits of paper is no slight task. One of the richest men in New York is said to keep his daughters, married and single, busy cutting off coupons for a whole afternoon and evening before interest-day ; when the cutting is done the eldest daughter herself sweeps out the room to intercept waifs and estrays. Over $125,000,000 are disbursed annually at the New York Sub-Treasury in payment of such coupons. The vaults of the Sub-Treasury may re ally be said to defy burglars. In the first place they are built of thirty-five feet of solid masonry, so that digging under them and working by a tunnel to the floor would be impracticable. Then, they stand in the main ball of the Treasury building, in which a watch is always kept, and into which it would require no small labor to intrude af ter nightfall. The vaults themselves are iron chambers, with iron floors, roofs, and walls. The latter are two feet thick, and hollow ; the hollow being filled with mus ket- balls, which defy the burglar's drill.— Four doors, of massive iron, close the en trance to the vault ; each door is locked with two locks, so that eight different keys of peculiar mechanism are required to open sesame. Uncle Samnel, poor fellow ! is not likely to be robbed at tiiis office, how ever he may fare elsewhere. We remember the Sub-Treasury when Mr. Cisco was first appointed its chief, in two rooms of the Assay Building—a quiet, retired establishment, in which nobody spoke above a whisper, and a few clerks leisurely counted their gold, and demurely paid the salary of the President and other public functionaries. People went there to chat with the Sub-Treasurer, and twice a year called to collect their interest. It was so slow and so old-fogy an institu tion that even the small Wall Street bank ers used to laugh at it. In these days the Sub-Treasurer at New York lias his grip on the throat of nearly all the bankers in the country, and we no tice that none of them are disposed even to smile when the name of Mr. VAN DYOK is mentioned. UNOLE BILL'S FIRST LOVE. My Uncle Bill and my Aunt Airy reside ; on Long Island, and not far from the far : famed resort, Pickaway. One eveninsr last i week as Aunt Airy was boiling chestnuts for us "Yorkers" to eat, and Uncle Bill sat smoking a good llavunna we bad brought down with us, we persuaded him to tell us a story. Uncle Bill tells a good one when he chooses, and being a man that loves to please, he dipped deeply, very quickly, into the merits of the one he proposed telling, somewhat : " When I was a slip of a chap, I had oc casion to travel some distance in a stage coach, as steamboats and rail cars were n .t so plenty in those days. Now 1 had heard tell often of fellers fall in' in love at first sight, but I never much believed it till that stage made me kinder think so. I had the luck of setting along side of one the pret tiest woman I had ever seen." (Uncle Bill looked slyly at Aunt Airy.) " f soon fell in love up to the brim,chuck, with the gal. As it was growin' dark, the stage was passin' through a thick wood,then 1 thought my time was come surely. As I felt my strength goiu' quickly,l kinder gen tly lifted up my arm and drew it round the fair one's waist; she moved not, but only made a slight noise,which 1 supposed was a , love sigh ; says I, ' Dear one, sweet one, I love yer, will yer love me V The girl said ! nothin', but made what I supposed was a love-sigh again. I then pressed her to me , her head fell on my shoulder, and I began to tremble all over ; but still I kept my tongue again, and says I, ' Dear little one, won't yer love me, can't yer love me, will yer love me, will yer marry me ?' The stage j then drove out of the woods, and the moon ' shone on her face,and I looked on it—and— and—" " And what?" we all exclaimed. " And," says Uncle Bill, " she was xleepin' and snorin' in my arms !" When our roars of laughter had somewhat subsided, Uncle Bill said : " There she sits, bilin' chestnuts." MOUNT SINAI.—I have stood upon the Alps in the middle of .June, and looked abroad upon their snowy empire ; 1 have stood up on the Alpines, and looked abroad upon the plains of beautiful, eventful Italy ; I have stood upon the Albanian inouot, and beheld the scenes ot the Auuiad from the Cireeau promontory, over the Campagno to the Eternal city, and the mountains of Tivoli ; I have sat upon the pyramids of Egypt,and cast my eyes over the sacred city of llello polis, the land of the Goshen, the fields of Jewish bondage, and the ancient Memphis, where Moses and Aaron, on the part of (rod and his people, contended with Pharaoh and his servants, the death of whose "first-born of man and beast in one night" filled the land with wailing. But I have never sat my foot on any spot,from whence was seen so much stern, gloomy grandeur heighten ed by the silence and solitude that reigns around, but infinitely more heighted by the awful and sacred associations of the first great revelation in form from God to man. 1 feel oppressed with the spirit that breathes around and seems to inhabit this holv place. I shall never sit down on the summit of Sinai again and look upou the silent and empty plains at his feet ; but 1 shall go down a better man, and aim so to live as to escape the thunders which once reverber ated through these mountains, but have long since given way to the gospel of Peace. AT twilight every hen becomes a rooster. DON'T try to awaken sympathy when it is very fast asleep. A SPANISH BULLFIGHT. The following description of a bullfight is communicated by Mr. T. Sopwitb, M. A., F. H. S., to the Hexham Courant. The writ er states : " Before taking my seat I walked round to see the stables, and there saw the inen who were to perform, as also their horses. Judge of my astonishment on seeing a small chapel lighted up with candles,where the whole of the men are confessed before they begin their perilous avocation, and where, in the event of their being mortally wounded in the course of the combat, the sacrament of extreme unction is adminis tered. There was no laughing nor joking either among the performers or lookers-on ; the former had quite the air of men who knew the risk they were about to run. The arena is about 100 paces in diameter, and surrounded by a double barrier. " After a flourish of trumpets the arena was cleared of spectators, several soldiers on horseback assisting to expedite their de parture A procession then entered, con sisting of two masters of ceremonies, five picadors on horseback, fourteen banderiller os, including three matadors, all dressed in red or blue silk, richly embroidered with , gold, silver or black silk, and two teams of ! mules, three in each, with nine or ten as sistants, to draw the dead carcasses from ! the ring. " The whole procession crossed the arena and advanced to the front of the royal box, i which on this occasion was empty,but from an adjoining box a bunch of keys was ; thrown to liberate the bulls from their dun j geons. The procession retired with the i keys, and none but the banderilleros re mained. A door in the barrier was then | thrown open and No. 1 bull trotted into the | ring. He stopped when he had gone about ! twenty paces, and gazed right and left in 1 evident bewilderment. They evaded him, and engaged his atention by waving flying ! cloaks of different bright colors about his head. The bull soon stopped and stood 1 steadily looking at the banderilleros, who advanced close to him, and cleverly evaded the several charges made by the animal.— The latter was very undecided, and seemed afraid of his opponents. The spectators now began to express disapproval of his J cowardice, and there was a general hissing when the bull, on being boldly confronted by Cuchares, turned away. Trie trumpets now sounded as the signal for another act of the performance to commence. Darts were given to the banderilleros, who stuck them into the shoulders of the bull ; they were stuck in, not thrown. The art of so doing requires a very active movement, | which, by its dexterity is graceful. It is | done when the Lull is charging, and the 1 darts—about thirty inches long— are thrust in two at a time. This must be done delib erately,and the place of insertion is a fleshy part of the lore shoulders. No wound dur ing the whole of the performance is inflict ed on any other part than the shoulders. " The bull being a coward the spectators 1 called ' fuego;' and the darts, instead of be ing plain, were provided with squibs and ! crackers, which ignited as they entered the I flesh, and were seen blazing about the be , wildered and now infuriated animal. .Six darts were thrust in, and although the I wretched animal was wild with paiu and ; rage, he was not thought sufficiently brave; | a flourish of the trumpet announced the 1 last act, the picadors not having be u put ; in requisition at all. "Cuchares, the principal performer, now appeared upon the scene with a red cloth ; and long thin sword. The bull was com pletely frightened at him, and it was only after being followed for some time that he showed any disposition to turn upon and attack his persecutor. Cuchares allowed him to charge two or three times, just step ping a foot or two aside, and then, gazing steadily at him, plunged the sword nearly to the hilt in the shoulders of the bull,which immediately fell on his knees and received the final wound with a poinard. " A second bull now galloped into the i ring, and at once began to chase the ban deiilleros, who ran before him with great coolness, and at times waved the*r long mantles about his horns. As the buil ran faster than the men, the latter must either turn aside or try to baffle him with their bright mantles, and this they generally suc seed in doing. This requires very great adroitness as well as activity and presence of mind, for it the mantle was not properly thrown, the performer would probably step upon it and lie thrown down, at the risk of almost certain death. Picadors were now introduced, and the bull in pursuing the banderilleros suddenly caught sight of a horse close to him ; he seemed thunder struck, pawed the ground,lowered his head, and rushed upon the horse. The picador thrust at him with his lance, but the bull broke right through this defence, and, with a tremendous gore, killed the horse. He then rushed at another horse, was twice repulsed by the lance, but succeeded the third time and unhorsed the picador. A third horse suffered a similar fate, and his rider received a heavy fall, which disabled him lor the rest of the da\ - —indeed, the only chance for his life was in the immedi ate rescue by the banderilleros. Tliifc bull was very clumsily treated by the second matador, who failed no less than five times in the attempt to inflict a death blow, and for which he was hissed by the people. "The third bull made what was called the 'best' light of the day. During his ca reer fie charged three horses in the middle of the arena one after the other,lifting them completely off the ground. The picador was thrown from one of theiu six paces forward, and lay extended on the ground. The bull was going up to him, mad with rage, when Cuchares actually seized him by the horns, and thus saved the life of the fallen man. This act of daring was greet ed with tremendous applause. I may say that the merit of a bull is judged by the Spanish aficionado (connoisseur) by the num ber of times he enters to the lauciug charges of the picador, without turning back or appearing to dread the prick of the lance. If a bull does not enter at all, the people have a right to demand fuego, as was the ease with the first bull this day, and the President in such a case gives con sent for darts to be used with crackers on them. NUMBER 22. " 01 the remaining three bulls a similar recital might be made. The banderiileros, who began with caution, and with the air of men who knew what they were combat ing with, grew bolder ar.d bolder, and it would be useless to describe the several varieties of skill and courage they dis played." A WORD TO BOYS.— Begin in early life to collect libraries of your own. Begin with a single book ; and when you find or hear of any first-rate book, obtain it if you can. After awhile get another, as you are able, and be sure to read it. Take the best care of your books ; and in this way when you are men you will have good libraries in your head as well as on jour shelves. THE dog-days should be called the auti dog-days, judging from the way a dog gets mad in them. STAMP a letter, and it will go. Stamp a man, and he may not be able to go at all.
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