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& Lucky Minor—He Strides His For.
tune at Last.
(From the Dubuque Tlmee of Nov. 6.3
Quite a number of years ago, a poor, but
honest man, with a large family dependent upon
his labor for support, emigrated from Vermont
to the West, and very naturally came to Dubuque.
Here, like hundreds of others, he pursued the,
business of lead mining. Patiently he toiled and
delved within the recesses of mother earth,
always in search of the glittering ore, but alas,
never finding it. Other men, who had com
menced mining with him, acquired fortunes
and retired from business, but the Green
Mountain , boy was not one of them. That
fortune,. which smiled so sweetly upon the
efforts of other men, and resolved every
crevice into a secret passage leading on to wealth
as wondrous-as that-whleh enraptured the gaze
of Aladdin, seemingly had no favors to bestow
upon him, but continued wayward and capri
cious. Time and time again our hero struck a
vein of minerals little silvery thread,_ which
promised to lead to richer things, but after fri
d uatrionoly following it for weeks and months it
wouliffinddenly peter out or spring into another
man's grounds and bid him defiance. But the
miner was not to be discouraged. Within nis
breast was a large amount of the stuff that heroes
are made of, and although his wife and friends
attempted to persuade him ' into
another and as they considered a
more lucrative business, he resolved to perse
vere, declaring that ho would make the mines pay
him back his principal and a goadj share of in
terest yet. The sequel will prove that ho was
correct in his conclusions.
One fine day last September our miner, fresh
and vigorous in purpose as ever, went oat pros
pecting in the vicinity of Catfish creek. While
passing along a side bill his attention was at
tracted by a pile of fresh, yellow dirt,displaced by
that bore of farmer's, and much persecuted ani
mal,a ground-mole. Curiosity led him to kick the
earth carelessly with his foot, when somewhat to
his surprise he found a small piece of ore. On
further examination a number of other small
pieces were found, and the xirospectlwas so en
ticing as to bo deserving of a trial. He went
home t procured his tools and went to work, and
to waak.on.long.sWrs_shorl,inAwo, weeksseached
-an opening-.-.filled-- from-- —top— to----bottora
with pure galena. Old miners say that it is the
richest thing yet discovered and contains
half a dozed fortunes. Perseverance will
tell. 'Me Vermonter is lucky at last, and has
experienced the fruition of his fondest
hopes. We would suggest that if In
.elined to turn aristocratic, as many others
have done before him when afflicted •with a
shower of this world's , goods, that he in
scribe his family coat of arms- with the figure
of a nsole. It won't cost much, while it will tend,
to relieve the debt of gratitude the miner, mnst
ever feel toward the• peak-nosed, dirt:digging
animni that pointed him out.the WIY:tO fOrtahe-'
—A suite of rooms was advertised at a fashion
able watering place as having among its (tape-,
tions"a splendid view over a fine garden adorned
with numerous sculptures." •• It was found, on,
applying' akthe address, that the garden adorned
with sculptures was the cemetery. • ' - •
—The Memphis Appeal Indulges in big head
lines over the election, among . other ' hings elec..
vlating, - "Bound the Loud Timbrel o'er - all Ten
nessee, Leftwich's elected, the Eighth District is
free I" a
.IP.E Ntirir UVA. NI A..
Elections of 1868.
Full Official Returns.
°amaze. NOVIC SI BEM
Auditor General. President.
'Counties. Bartraaft. Botae. Grant. &amour.
M ame 2832 3174 2917 3170
Allegheny ' 23880 14923 25487 14671
Armstrong....... 3987 3459 4082. 3112
Beaver 3540 2675 3648 • 2624
Bedford 2625 3019 2687 2398
Berke 7413 18921 7917 13973
Blur.— 3841 8133 3986 3066
Bradford 7612 8863 7768 8536
Bucks . 6981 7838 7085 7613
Butler .. 3723 3292 3803 8256
Cambria'. ... -..... 2849 3587 2935' 3558
Cameron . 537 441 508 394
Carbon 2129 2772 2188 2745
Centre. 3388 6765 3429 8616
(Mesta/ 8850 '6658 9178 6190
Clarion 1908 2956 1998 2923
Clearfield .... ':„.. 1895 ' 3037 .., 1974 3096
(Upton ' ' "' 1992 ' 2765 - ' 2056 2582
Columbia 2077 4058 2143 4022
CraWfor4 7026_ 5390 7322 , 5155
Cumberland ' 18801 4433 4171 ' ,- 4591
Dauphin ' 6190' 4535 6507 4397
Delaware 4016 2764 4166 2616
Elk. 508 1054 568 ilip
Erie ~ 7702 4531 ' 8007 4555
Fayette ~3745 4770 1 - 3792 ' 4608
F0re5t............ 852 318 . 355 - 291
Franklin ' 4321 4278 . 4451 '4171
Fulton - . 782 1118 ' - '''Bo2" 1107
Greene . 1722 3374 1809 3301
Huntingdon...:.. J 3476 2498 3417" -2179
Indiana ' — 4842 2301 '4809 - '2228
Jeff son 2076 2094 2147 2068
Jmt4ata ...... .... 1467 . 1863. 1473 1753
Lancaster ; .15313 8570 15792 8513
Lawrence 8691 1716 3789 1647
Lebanon 4z67 2858 4315 2858
Lthlgh 4733 6305 5004 6321
Lnakrne... 9992: 13420 10723 14303
LATtMDIEg.... ... 4680 5031 4713 ‘4839
McKean-- .. ;. -. . 983 809 ' 1028 780
Mercer 4793 4177 -4979 ' 4078
Maim 1858 1828 1846 1807
Monroe - 745 2789 802 215
Montgomery 7943 8905 8083 8803
Montour 1194 1683 1269 1697
Northampton.— 4452 7701 4791 7762
Northumberland 3694 4146 3825 4240
Perry ' 2570 2526 2664 2416
Philadelphia .60633 60808 60985 55173
Pike 838 1269 370 1313
Potter. 1604 811 1703 693
Schuylkill 8192 9538 8707 9428
Snyder ' 1865 1843 1925 1318
Somerset 3195 1829 3261 .1778
Sullivan 462 84G 473 851
Sukquebatum-.... 4682 8377 4882 , 3392
Tioga ~ 5410 2051 6549 1951
Union 2054 , 1340 2081 1277
Venango 4431 3761 , 47.59 3774
Warren 2990 . 1882 3020 1757
Washington 4946 4918 -60951 4867
Mayne.— .... 2698 3397 2909 3539
Westmorchuld... 5335 6569 5285 6360
Wyoming 1549 1765 162.3 1766
York 6053 9006 6149 9094
3'31,416 321,739 842,280 3E3,382
321,739 313,382
Majority
CRIME.
r. 7
Nine Thousand Dollars Stolen.
A robbery was committed on Tuesday last at
the Mechanics' Bank, corner of Montague and
Court streets, which indicates the utmost adroit
ness on the part of the thieves. It appears that
the cashier of the bank had gone to New York
on the day in question and subsequently but two
clerks were left to attend to the business of the
bank. About one o'clock in the afternoon a man
of genteel appearance stepped in and inouired
at the teller's desk whether the bank had
any United estates bonds or sa e.
was told that it had not, and he was directed to a
broker's office. He took his departure thereupon,
but ehortly after returned and inquired about
negotiating a bill of exchange, and was again
referred to the broker's office. While leaning on
the counter of the bank two other men entered,
one of whom desired to purchase some revenue
stamps, which were kept at the lower end of the
counter. and which took one of the attachis of
the institution to that part of the office. While
this man was engaging the clerk in conversa
tion in regard to the various kinds of stamps
the second man was occupied in talking
to the clerk at the teller's desk. The person
who first entered the place retained his position
in the meantime,leaning over a doer which opens
to.admit persons behind the desk. A short time
before these parties had entered the bank the teller
had beau engaged in counting over a larg e
amount of bills, which had been left in the desk
about twelve feet from the place where the man
was leaning over the door at the counter. In a
few minutes the trio, having concluded their
business, took their departure without having
excited the least suspicion as to their design in
the minds of the officials of 'N'the bank,
and It was not. until some time after
that the real object of their visit was dis
covered. Then it was found that a pile of bills,
_ which the °Meer& of the bank state contained
only about: $9,000, was missing, and suspicion at
once centred upon the three persons who had re
cently been there. It is needless to state that
while the two fellows engaged the attention of
-the-elerks-the-third-seenred-the-money-by-a-quiet,
and dexterous movement towards the desk on
which it was carelessly. left.
The robbery was reported to the' police, who
are working diligently to obtain a clue to the
adroit rogues. The prospects of their success
are very slight indeed, though the greates&secreey
has been maintained on their part in withholding
information on the subject.—Herald, to-day,
AN INTERESTING FORGERY VASE.
Bold !stroke for a Fortune—Attempt to
Pass a Forged lateen for Over
695,000—Pursuit and Capture of the
Presenter.
The bond robbers, confidence men and gentle
men who live by their wits seem to be carrying
the war into Africa just now, judging from the
number of safes that have been robbed, tin boxes
of bonds and money stolen and forgeries perpe
trated within the past week.
The public who do business near the corner of
Pine and Nassau streets were greatly excited yes
terday over the chase and capture of one of the
above class. The circumstances, as reported by
the police, are briefly these : About three o'clock,
as business men were making their closing trans
- actions _for -the day— a respectably _appearing_
- Young man elbowed his way through the crowd
outside the office of the Fourth National Bank,
and proceeding to the paying teller's desk, pre
sented a draft purporting to be drawn by Henry
Clews 55 Co., for .$95,109 50. The bank officerex
amined it minutely and hesitated a moment, when
the man asked if it was not drawn in due form.
He was answered in the affirmative, but requested
to wait a moment. The stranger's suspicions
were aroused, andAumlng, he made a bold clash
for the door and liffifty, The porter of the bank
checked his retreat, 'when he' dealt him a severe
blow, gained the door and rushed up Nassau
street, pursued by the porter and some of the
clerks, who, with the assistance of the police,
brought him to bay and "secured him. The pre
. senior of the check gave his name as James Hen
derson, aged twenty-nine years, and a native of
England.
BY this ilicas an excited and enikins 'crowd had
collected about the bank. Henderson' was then
taken to the president's room,whore the accused
deelaredihis innocence and stated the draft was
genuine. A messenger was despatched_to Clews
eg Co.'s banking house to inquire into the case
and soon returned with the information that the
signature was genuine, but that the amount on
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1868.
the face bad been changed from $915t0 $95,000.
The prisoner was then taken to the station
house by Officer Fitzsimmons, of the . First Pre
cinct, who made the arrest, and there locked up
for the night, to await arraignment befgre one of
the police courts this morning.
Be is said to have been seen operating around
Wall, New and Pine streets for several days, and
as he was accompanied by a friend, no doubt he
was a confederate to this affalr.—N. Y. Herald.
Suicide of tbe Rebel pelletal Henry E.
Reed.
At about 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon. the
`Rebel General Henry E. Reed committed suicide
in his office, In Louisville, Ky., shoot
ing himself' through the head. When fonnd,soon
after ho had shot himself, he was lying dead on
asofa,with a Derringer pistol tightly clutched
In his right hand. On the office table lay the
iullowing hastily written note:
My life has been one of varied successes, from
the creation of my existence to the present mo
ment. I have been .the farmer's son, the me
chanic, the soldier, the ministerial officer, the
professional gentleman, and the statesman; in
all of which I am confident that I am entitled to
respectful consideration. The pecuniary want
of my life has at all times been embarrassing,
which, perhaps, Is the cause of my discomfiture,
at least so much so as to render my life unhappy.
So, with the fresh memory of the honor of my
native State, and the love and kindness toward
my - fatally. I bid farewell to life. H. E. Reza.
Gen. Henry E. Reed/tad borniti Larne County,
Ky., In 1824. Wh en si gnexican war broke out
he enlisted, and asf a regiment of Ken
tucky voltigeures distinguished himself at Beuna
Vista, Chapultepec, and in other hard fought bat
tles. He it was who first planted the flag upon
the heights of Chapultepec; but, in the moment
of victory he was struck. down severely wounded
in several places.. For this act the General As
sembly of Kentucky presented a sword
and passed complimentary resolutions. He
began life as a blacksmith,- but studied '
law, and in 1861 was the Southern Rights candi
date for Congress in what was then the VIII Dis
trict, but was beaten by Governor Charles Wick
liffe. He lived at different times at Hodgenville,
Shelbyville and Elizabethtown, where he prac
ticed law. On his return from the Mexican war,
her was commissioned by Governor Powell a
Brlgadier-General of militia. When the rebel
lien broke out be went South, taking with him
from Hardin county a considerable body of men
for the Confederate army. H was erected a metn
ber of the Confederate Congreas,.represent
ing the Provisional 'Government of Kentucky,
and when Stoneman. raided upon Richmond he
was a sergeant in the Congressional company
which was organized for active service in the
Confederate army. In the battle of the Chicks
hominy be carried a private's mnsket,andligured
in other sanguinary contests In Virginia. After
the war be returned to Louisville, and entered
upon the practice of his profession. He leaves a
wife and several children.
Attempt to Rob ja Bank Messenger of
stoo;000.
At half-past two yesterday as a bank messenger
was passing through Cedar street, having in his
possession a package dos , $lOO,OOO in
bonds and money, he was , ted by a man
who attempted to steal the • • re. The mes
senger was an old man, who clung tenaciously to
his package and called for assistance. A police
man standing near Nassau street, on Cedar, hur
ried to his assistance and arrested the would-be
thief, who was locked up to answer the eharge.—
N. Y. Herald.
GENERAL HINDItAN.
A Page oT War History—Take Ino
Prisoners.
[From the Richmond State Journal. Nov. 9.)
A friend who happened, by the forttmea of the
recent war, to be placed for a few days under the
command of the late Confederate Gen. Hindman,
of Arkansas, so recently assassinated in that
State, supplies us the following page of unre
corded history:
"Dld I ever meet with Hindman in my watex
perience ?" you ask. Yes, I met him once; and
had no wish to meet him again. "Tyrant" was
marked in every lineament of his handsome face,
in each haughty curl of his proud lip, and waved
in every ringlet of his fair, flowing, Absalom
like locks. It was late In the evening s on the
-21st of mgy, IR 9 _Gen. Halleck had, been was
ing more than a month and a half In making
his advance against Beauregard, at Corinth, by
slow approaches, plank-roads, entrenchments
and parallels, while the Confederate army was
melting away by sickness, and almost periAhing
for want of water.
Beauregard saw his army dwindling day by
day, and knew that his only alternative was to
force a battle or to retreat. On the evening
mentioned he determined to bring on a general
engagement, and made his dispositions accord
ingly. The entire army was put in motion and
marched out aof the entrenched camp of
Corinth. We halted on the brow of the hill half
way between the two camps—the Federal army
then occupying Farmington, three miles
from Corinth. The country was thickly
wooded and undulating, and a small
stream meandered through the ravine which
separated the hostile hosts. Onr forces were
disposed in three lines of battle in the same man
ner as we began the fight at Shiloh. Price and
Van Dorn, with their Missouri and Arkansas
troops, had been sent to attempt a secret move
ment, by which it was contemplated the left
Hank of the enemy might be turned, and the
thunder of their guns on our right and the Fede
ral left, the next morning, was to announce the
success of our plan, and be the signal for a gene
ral assault all along the line. I was in the first
line of battle-actingas file-closer, the left being
in front. The sun was setting serenely,
In the west, as is usually the case,
and betokened a goodly day on the morrow,when
a "solitary horseman" approached the head of
our column - Irehted — trin - nuperb -wra--nteed
within two paces of where I stood leaning on en
musket. He at onecTommenced talking. "Men,"
said he. "in to-morrow's battle fire low. It is as
important to wound the enemy in his legs, and
even more important than to kill him, for it will
require two sound men, at least, to take care of
the wounded. Be calm; and be sure of your aim.
Don't waste your ammunition. Keep your for
mation; remain always with your colors,
be careful not to straggle or get
separated, and always push to the front.
Never mind your wounded . comradse, for
ample provisions have been made 'to remove
them from the field. You need not take any pri
soners. Ido not want them. They will only
serve to embarrass the army and weaken -oar
strength. Obey my instructions—stand by your
colors—and to-morrow's sun will set upon one of
the most glorious victories ever achieved on the
American continent;" and, bowing gracefully, he
passed on, leaving 11/3 to wonder. As he wore no
uniform, carried no sword, showed no military
Insignia, save a revolver in his belt, and was un
known to the command, his address somewhat
surprised ns, and the inquiry, "Who is he ?" was
pretty general. "`4 by that's General Hindman,
your new-Division Commander," said- the- Bri
gade Adjutant, "and you'd better believe that
he'll show us h-1 to-morrow." The reply
was anything but reassuring, for we had heard
that he was prone to the fault of unnecessarily
exposing his men. "What did he mean by not
wanting to take prisoners?" inquired a Sergeant
to my left. "Does he expect us to murder them?"
"That's the only construction I can give his re
mark, and the peculiar manner in which it was
made," was the reply. And his division so un
derstood it—but I doubt whether a single man in
that line would have obeyed instructions BO in
human. He was ,a eplendid tyrant—young and
handsome, but sonllessand, no doubt, met his
fate at the hands of some relative of one of the
many victims td his stern Cruelty; as it was his
practice to shoot his soldiers. for • very,- alight
offences, and otherwise severely punish them.
"'That night was an anxious one--as "the night
before the battle" ever is to the soldier., 'Around
the bivouac fires comrades gathered 'gloomily, as
the scattering shots of the pickets, In front, and
the whistling of the balls over ,our heads, sub
dried the certainini; ,mtatlics,,_ and. reminded ns ,
that 'ere the sun rose again the combat would
deepen and many of us lie low.' Each confided
to his friend some Menage for; home' and dear
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
ones—to sweetheart, wife, or mother—prefacing
it, "If I fall and you escape, tell her that —."
Morning came—the sun rose; but the fog which
hung like a shroud over the two armies was im
penetrable to its rays. Every ear Was awake to
hear, the signal from the right; but the day ad
vanced, the sun stalked his stately course up the
heavens; noon came, and still nothing from
Price and Van Dorn. The day waned, night ap
proached, and with it brought a tired and duet
begrimed courier, with the intelligence that the
flank movement had failed through premature
discovery, and that. Price and Van Dorn were
falling back.
So ended the intended great fight of the 22d of
May, 1862, which would have been known as the
battle of Farmington, and which would have re
sulted as did that at Shiloh. Beauregard now
commenced his preparations for the evacuation
of Corinth, and eight days after, simultaneously
with the opening of Halleck's big guns on that
town, his army. withdrew by the cause
way he had previously constructed for
the purpose, through the Tuecumbla swamp,
and escaped to. Tupelo, without
the loss of a single prisoner, notwithstanding
Gen. Pope telegraphed to Washington that be
had taken 10,000. He might have taken 20,000
If, he hsd pursued the army or attempted to cut
it off, for I never before or since beheld such de
,moralization among troops. They were without
organization, almost in a state of mutiny, and
readyto yield at any moment to the first demand.
Pope lost a golden opportunity there.
I never saw Hindman again.
Trouble in Williams College—The
Marking System.
The following letter from the' Secretary of the
Faculty of Williams College is published.
WiLLissts COLLEGE, ,WiLLissurrown, Mass.,
Nov. 11,1868.—As very unusual action has been ta
ken by the students of this college, we have deemed
it desirable that a statement Of the occasions of
that action be made to the public.
_We are by no means unqualified in our sup
port of the marking system, but have used it
hitherto as a disciplinary means of reaching
young men, many of whom are not voluntarily
disposed to improve their opportunities. One
form of- neglect has long embarrassed, us, and
limited the value of our instruction. Many stu
dents, on slight and insufficient grounds, have
been repeatedly, and protractedly absent from
collige duties, and thus from recitations, much
of the value of which,depends upon consecutive
attendance. The following law was passed by us
to abate this evil:
"Each absence from any recitation, whether at
the beginning of or during the term, whether:et
cused or unexcuted, will count as zero in the
record of standing. In cases, however, in which
attendance shall be shown by the student to have
been impossible, each officer shall have the op
tion of allowing the recitation to be made up at .
such time as he shall appoint; and no mark shall'
be given to such recitation unless it shall amount
to a substantial performance of the work
omitted.'!
It was our intention, in all cases in which the,
claim was just, to accept cheerfully the labor of
extra 'recitations, and to allow the standing of
the studentuecessarily absent to be regained. We
deemed it, however, eminently fair that absence
in other cases should carry with it the pre
sumption of ignorance of the ground passed
over, rather than the opposite presump
tion of knowledge, and that it should, therefore,
affect the standing of the absentee. On the pro
mulgation of the above law the following paper
was presented to one of the members of the
Faculty:
Whereas, The Faculty of Williams College have
imposed upon us students of said College a rule
to the effect that each absence from recitation,
excused or unexcusedi shall receive a zero mark
In the record of standing; and it le left with each
officer of , the College to act his option as..to
whether he will hear 'necessary absentees in their
lost lessons, and said officer shall act hioroption
as to giving any credit for such recitation; and
Whereas, We, students of Williams College, re
gar& the imposition of thgrrilleas a blow aimed
at our personal honor and manhood; therefore,
Resolved, That we, students of said College, pro-
test against said rule, and call upon the Faculty
of said Williams College to annul it.
Deeming this paper objectionable in form and
spirit, and also embarrassed in our action by the
e • rgstifsot finpkine- who-was not pre
sent at the passage and prom ulgation of the law,
we declined to give their request final considera
tion before his return.
Thereupon this additional paper was presented
by the students:
"To the Authorities of Williams College :
"At a meeting of the students of Williams Col
lege, November 10, 1868, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
'Whereas, The Faculty of Williams College
have imposed upon us students of said College a
rule that (quoting the rule), and
`• IVhereas, We, students of said College, regard
the imposition of this rule as a blow aimed at our
personal honor and manhood; and
"Whereas, Our petition presented to the Fa
culty ofsaid College, November 6, 1868, for the
repeal of the above mentioned rule has been dis
regarded; therefore
•'Resolved, that we, students of said Williams
College,deciare our connection with said College
to cease from this date, until the authorities of
said College shall repeal the above-mentioned
rule."
This paper bore the signatures of nearly all the
students in the College.
The action of the Faculty in this matter has
been unanimous, and believing that more impor
tant issues in the government of the College are
involved than those relating simply to the main
tenance and wisdom of a single law, we submit
this statement to the public.
FICA/WWI CsAritn, Secretary of the Faculty.
The Students Still in Revolt.
= autarreua,..3lass-,-Now-it. --- =;TheTattation
of the difficnity between the faculty and students
of Williams: College rem:lfniUnchanged. All but
three or four Of the students have withdrawn
from the College, and neither party shows any
signs of concession.
Narrow Escape or General Sherman.
The following remarkable anecdote comes to
us from an esteemed contributor. He says : "I
did not myself meet with the adventure re
corded, but it was narrated to me by a friend,
whose word I could implicitly trust, but whose
death has occurred since the surrender."—En. J
One morning, how it matters not, four of my
compaD, myself among the number, found our
selvts in the wilds of South Carolina, without
any knowledge of the country, separated from
our command and having an idea that Sherman's
advance guard was close to ns, but in what di
rection we could not tell, as we were utterly at a
loss. This, it will be allowed, was a situation far
from pleasant, but when, in addition, it is taken
into consideration that we were endur
ing the pangs of hunger and thirst; that
we were weary, heart and body—com
pletely ---broken- - --down—and -- that we
possessed a sorrOwful consciousness that the Con
federacy was near its end, it will be readily
imagined that very few jokes and hilarious re
marks enlivened our conversation as -we jogged
along. Hunger is aguest that uses very little
ceremony in his visits, and the little follow was
knocking at our breasts very rudely, and clamor
ously asserting his presence. He was not to be
put to silence, and so, for peace sake, we deter
mined to ggrant his request. As if to try us, no
sooner bad we agreed to search for food, than
we came to a by-path which branched off to
the right of the ,road we were • traveling. It
looked promisingyand looking down a leafy
vista, we discerned about three hundred yards
off unmistakable signs of a farm-house, and as
a thing of course a land flowing with milk and
honey. :So determined to "stand the hazard of
the we Died off dOwn the road to break
fast. :We ,found .st small farm-house, inhabited
by en old Widow - lady, whose two sons had
been killed An ,Nirginia, - and who, with four
or five • faithini - 'slaves, still • managed
to keep . her little farm in good order. Wel
coming us,for ` 4 the:sake of the gray," as she said
we were soon seated on the grass plat, enjoying
goodithougla homely, meal, and, under the in
COLLEGE DISCIPLINE.
(From the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutional/6W
finance of her excellent buttermilk. corn-bread
and fried chicken; wore rapidly becoming rein
vigorated. Suddenly a confusion of voices
sounded near ns,and I caught the gleam of sabres
and bright uniform, as about a dozen cavalry
in dark blue thundered down toward
us. Evidently they had not emus. .A word and
a .touch, and all four were in the adjoining
thicket, awaiting their approach. They galloped
up, and, ordering breakfast, sat down on a bench
to await for it. I felt a touch on my shoulder,
and, looking up, saw a pale face near my own,
with eyes turned in a constrained manner to an
officer on the beach.
"B—," the lips whispered, almost inaudibly,
"now is the time to end the war. Yonder sits
Sherman."
I was so utterly taken by surprise that I did
not at first comprehend him, but gradually as I.
gazed mechanically on the officer pointed out to
me. I began to understand that the South's
greatest and most powerful enemy, the one who
was rapidly wiping her out of existence as a na
tion, who held her fate, as it were, in the hollow
of his hand, who had done her more evil in four
months than all his predecessors had accom
plished in as many years, was sitting here se
rene and unconscious, within reach of my car
bine. lat once commenced cautiously to un
sling it. - The fate of the Confederacy, perhaps,
hung on that moment.' When at this length of
time, I think upon the awful interests that were
at stake, my brain reels and I grow faint. The
General arose, unconscious of his peril, and,
walked with a rapid military tread into the
house, followed by his staff, and very soon we
could see them through the open window en
gaged in eating breakfast. I was completely
baffled, and had no opportunity, nor had any of
us, to renew dur attempts, na a body of cavalry
soon arrived, before whom we thought it pru
dent to retire, and accordingly made a'sudden l
retreat. •
F 11.811.41.0 VW.
Official Reception at the Brooklyn
navy-Yard—Bonors to the Hero of
(be Mississippi and Mobile Bay. ,
Admiral Farragut yesterday afternoon paid a
visit to the 'Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy-
Yard, and as the visit was merelyasort of return
compliment for Admiral. Godon's visit to the
Franklin the other day, and which naval etiquette
exacted from even the "hero of New Orleans,"
no very extensive preparations were made for
his reception. There was no manning of yards
or flaunting of flags frdtn the war-ships in the
river, as was expected wopad be the case, for the
fact is that but very few persons outside the ro
guts? attaches of the Yard were aware that
Farragut was about to honor the post by his
presence.
About noon the Admiral, accompanied by sev
eral members of his staff in full dress,drove down
town from his residence in private carriages, and
embarked in a small tug that had been sent over
the river from the Navy Yard for his accommoda
tion. As the little vessel steamed its way across
the stream the brilliant uniform of the officers at-:
traded the attention of the crowds en many of
the passing ferry-boats,who on descrying the fa
miliar figure of Farragut in their midst, cheeied
him quiie lustily.
On the arrival of the tug at the Navy Yard
wharf the Admiral was met in the gangway by
Rear Admiral Godon and his staff and a large
number of naval officers from the various war
ships now lying in the river. The two Admirals
greeted each other quite warmly, and arm in arm,
followed by their staffs, marched up the roadway
towards the Lyceum, the band playing "Rail to
the Chief," and the battalion of marines, in full
uniform, under Colonel Brown, which was drawn
np in line along the route, presenting arms as
they passed.
It is customary when a rear admiral goes on
board his flag-ship to assume command, or to be
received at any naval station, for the drum to
give two ruffles and a salute of thirteen guns to
be fired; but on account of Farragnt's occupying
a higher rank in the navy than any one men
tioned in the latest edition of the "Reg
ulations," according to Bt. Gideon, four
ruffles of the drum were given and a salute of
seventeen guns was fired from the shore bat
tery as he entered the commandant's head
quarters.
The Admiral had no sooner got himself safely
into the lyceum than he was at once eurrounded
by all the officers, naval and mari, e eac.
Whom seem - a - to - We witliThe other in expressions
of welcome. Admiral Godon introduced the
officers singly, and for over a half hour Farragut
was forced to undergo a hand-shaking ordeal that
no other man besides General Grant could outlive
for an hour. After having chatted on some one
topic or another with nearly all the blue
coats and been reminded a great many
more times than was actually neces
sary that he was in close proximity to a quantity
of cannon be had captured at Mobile and else
where during the war, he was escorted to the
Commandant's house, where an interesting im
promptu levee was held in the parlors, the ladies
doing all the honors with becoming grace. Se
veral ladies of prominent families in Brooklyn
called on the Admiral during the levee and paid
their respects.
Within an hour after his arrival at the Yard he
took his departure, escorted to the wharf by the
marines. A great many flags were displayed
from housetops in Brooklyn during the Admi
ral's visit.—A. Y. Herald.
Oyster War In Maryland.
The Princess Anne Herald has the following
concerning the "oyster war" in Somerset county,
Maryland :
Some short time ago commissioners were ap
pointed on the part of the State of Maryland and
Virginia to locate the boundary line between the
respective States, but our commissioners — failed
to submit to the unjust line traced by the com
missioners delegated by Virginia, and as yet the
difficulty rests in data quo. On Thursday litst
—tha-Virginin-tingboats,-soate-threein-number r de
scried two boats, manned by Captains Bradshaw
and Tyler, dredging, as they presumed to say, in
"forbidden waters,' and made an attempt to as
them by coming down on them in a warlike
manner. The Marylanders, however, made a
strategic retreat up Tyler's creek on the Island,
and sinking their boats, took to their heels as ex
peditiously as possible for the purpose of
moning the yeomanry and girding on Wei:armor.
The ruse was successful, a few moments only
elapsing before a volley from some forty muskets
in the marsh warned the Virginians that they
were invading the rights of these people too far,
and though returning fire for some time, the bul
lets seemed to be too thick for safety, and they
left amid a continued fire from the Islanders.
The fight lasted some fifteen or twenty minutes,
and it was supposed a man was killed aboard one
of the tugboats, as he was carried below. No one
was hurt on the Island.
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.
—The Lancashire Lass will be given to-night at
both the Chestnut and the Arch Street Theatres.
—Mr. E. L. DaVenport will have a benefit at
the Walnut Street Theatre, this even►ng, in Sti//
Wuters Burr - Doep;--and'in the The Carpenter- of
Rouen. On MOIUY, Edwin Forrest in Richelieu.
—A miscellaneous performance is announced
at the American.
—Blind Tom will begin a series of concerts at
Concert Hall, on Monday evening.
—Messrs. Bentz and Hauler will give their
neual orchestra matin6e, at Musical Fund Hall,
to-morrow afternoon, when Haydn's -- Surprise
Symphony" will be performed.
—Tho Theatre Comique, on Seventh street, be
low Arch, will be opened to-morrow evening,
with a brilliant performance.
WemyssJobson, who announces tam
self as having formerly been consulting summit
and dentist to the Royal Family of England, will
.dedver a lecture at Assembly:Building on 'Mon
day evening next "The Physiology and Hao
inony of Female press."
groat demonstration took place at the
Theatre of Bologna. After the first solo the au
dience rose, called the actors on to the stage, and
.demanded the Hymn of Garibaldi." This being'
prevented by the police, the -house broke into a
demonstration against the Government and the
:House of Buoy.
•
F. L. 1T N.' Pab
PRICE THREE CENTS.
FACIE AND FANCIES.
Tae Bassdka of Vas., •
"0 Mary, go and call the cattle home,
• And call the cattle home,
And call tbecattle home,
Across the sande of Dee !"
The western wind was-wild and dank - with foam s
And all alone went she.
The creeping tide came up along the sand,
And o'er and o'er the sand,
And round and round the sand,
As far as eye could see
The blinding mist came down andlild the lAndl—.
And never home came she
"0 is it weed, or fish, or floating hair—
A tress of golden hair,
Of drowned maiden's hair—
Above the nets at sea?
Was never salmon yet that shone so fair,Among the stakes of Dee !'
They rowed her in across the rolling foam, . •
The cruel, crawling foam, • • .
The cruel, hungry foam—
To her grave beide the sea.
But still the -boatmen hear her call the cattle
*home. •
Across the sands of Dee.
—Baltimore has a hodiceopatnie• horse docior.
—A Mr. Benjamin Pranklin, in• England; hay
invented a new steam engine.. . - • .
—A New Havener sat all day to the
~top of a
tree by way of paying an election bat.
—'Parepa's last appearance In : San Franch;co
was in the "Boheintan Ord." • ,
—A Staten Island. firm refines patudine said sella
a ton a day for chewing-gum.
—Pound and a half bananas aro sent to Florida•
editors.
—John Owens is playing "A.Patty by theNtitne
of Johnson" in Cincinnati. •
—Five million mulberry trees will supply food
for silk worms in California next year..
—Mollie Moore of Texas is aging to write an
other volume of poems.
—Stonewall Jackson's child, promises- great
beauty and intelligence.
—During the last two months knore—than_
twenty miles of sidewalk were lald In Chicago.
—A Canadian woman has been. fined $5O for
smuggling a dozen pairs of woollen stockings
into Detroit.
—The Lowell Courier says it is easy enough to
see through election dodges when they are trans
parencles.
—Rossini is sis. at Passy, with three,doctdra
in attendance. Patti visits him every day. Rbs
sinl's worst malady is 7G years.
—Twentv-one days hard labor was the - sen
tence of an English laborer who pulled a -carrot
from a field to eat when he was hungry. .
—Mr. Lancaster, <of Texas, was - Unpleasantly
surprised on a recent evening by a party of his
neighbors, , who took him out and hanged him.,
—More than one-seventh of the State. of. Mis
sissippl, It is said, Is advertised for sale under ex
ecution for debt..
—W. Gilmore Simms is at work..on a romance
whose character may be inferred.., from the title,
"The Cub of the Panther, *Mountain Legend."
—The Bombay potentate, Chimmalatee I Ma
bary, has married a girl of ten years. He paid
$lO,OOO for his bride.
—Not a Democrat was elected to any office
within a hundred miles of the pablicatlon office
of the La Crosse Democrat.
—One of the New York papers reports that the
city judge just elected there contemplates reviving
the practice of wearingajudfcla
. -
—An Indiana paper proposes to publish a Its t
of Democrats whd badgered Republicans into
snaking bets on the election and now refuse to
pay.
—A lady at New London bravely. plunged Itito
the water to rescue a boy who had fallen from a.
wharf, which compelled a gentleman, to also
plunge and rescue the lady.
—Brigham Young means to educate the young
Mormons to read only in , the"DeseretAlphabet,''
so that their minds may not be contaminated by
wicked - books of Gentile-worship.
• , e g t_ atu i orAntim is tits alanghtnr of sea
birds on the northern coast of ficotland that it is
greatly feared the birds will be exterminated un
less the destruction.is limited in - some way. •
—An Alabama editor, in puffing a grocery kept
by a woman, sass : "Ller tomatoes are as red'as:
her own cheeks; her indigo as blue as her oWn
eyes; and her pepper as hot as her.own temper."
—Mr. Hart is aschool teacher , in Detroit, who
subjected himself" to a tremendous trouncing
at the hands of two boys whose sisters he had
flogged.
—The Ronia relates a story of a monk by day
and a brigand at night. He is saidto be a very
holy friar and a very bold robber, so that it is
difficult to say in which rule ho most excels.
—James Buchanan's monument is to-be a tiolid
block of Italian marble, five feet high, seven feet
one inch long, and three feet seven inches wide,
with heavy mouldings at the top and bottorrond
a rich, carved wreath of oak-leaves.
—A gentleman learned in ihe origin of , sckcial
customs, on being asked what was the meaning
of casting an old shoe after a newly-married
couple as they started on their trip, replied: "Ta
indicate that the cbances in matri
mony are slippery." . •
, ,
—On the 7th of August next a total eclipse of
the sun will be visible in a part of .'the .United.
States. The eclipse will be partial thioughout the
Ordon.but -total-in-lowa, Central-Illinots,Soutberst
Indiana, Kentucky, and . Northl Caroline—
following a line from northwestto southeast,be
sinning in lowa between land 5 I'. XL, and
" :As a fewmipates.
—One of Jekyll's best displays of brilliant,-im
pudence was purpetrated on a Welsh Judge, who
was aliketotorions for his greed of office and Ws
want of Rersenal cleanliness. "My dear sir,"
Jekyll observed in his most amiable manner to
this most unamiable personage, "you have askixt
the minister "for almost everything else; why
don't you ask him for a piece of soap and a nail
brush?"
—The researches of Helmholtz„the distinguished: -
German physiologist, show that the nervous fluid
or wave, whatever it may be, travels at the rate of
97.1 Met per second. lf, then, a man mix feet
high were to stollen a nail, it would take a. little
less than an eighth of a second for the inforrna—
don to be carried by the censor nerves to the
brain, and for the order that the foot b a lifted Lo
be returned by the motor nerve to tb.e suffering
member.
—Mlle. Albin! di Rhona, a perform er of legerde
main, was recently giving atlirasse is a wanes of
performances, comprising the we'd-known trick
of receiving uninjured the suppo sed contents or
an apparently loaded pistol. Ot.e evening,when
the weapon, after bavlnx been 'handed round for
the inspection of the public,wata returned into her
a inda,Vielneertedliect ciWe
rel,and felt it come in conUtt with an unexpected
obstacle. She retired, and r,,fterwards , appeared'
in a state of violent agitati It, imbseg o entlyf
transpired that some scortnilrel among the gst*
tators had slipped into t i ne .barrel a screw of,
about an inch in lengthy*Jalch, if it had not been
discovered, would haV a killed or gateway
wounded the fair enehn7Afrega. •
—Buckle, in his History of Ci v ili za ti on, says .
that marriage does. no', t depend urien. love, but
,upon the price of. Mat. It is evident that' 'chit
dren have long know n this, and have Oven mea
sured love fie trienri,easure cornas'appeara from
their common • swpression • "I; love you, two:
bushels and a rese i r." The statistiml, lover does
not now atiy, as ho used to Amtindk-,1 .love
thee—but, ida,'provisions are cheap. Them
is no telling If
ba t line novels* 'and plays a man
thoroughly ini.bued with this Idea might produce,
and particularly would he give us good -songs.'
How imsgb.ative would be one like this
The heart hoWed down with price of beef,
To Tatikest, hopes Will cllnu. -
Witlkqie melancholy refrain •
•- For • beefsteak is the only friend, ".
That grief can call 118 . • -
0. Mwast,irr.