FERSONIAN. X" in. Waoia Uawtcir ta politics, literature, Olgriatlturc, Science, ittoraliti), auir eneral nteUigcnce. 0L. 24. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA JULY 27, 1865. NO. 21.' THE EuMisIicd by Theodore Scliocli. i TERMS-Two dollars a year in advance and if no paid before the end of the yeai, two 'dollars and fitfy ets. will be charged. No paper discontinued until all arrcaiages arc paid, except at the option of the Editor. ICAd vcrtisemcnts of one square of (eight lines) or lot; one or three insertions SI 50. Each additional crticn, 50 cents. Longer ones in'proportion. JOB PRINTING, u. OF ALL KINDS, Bxasited in the highest style of the Art, and onthe most rcuson i'ble terms. THERE COMES A TIME. There comes a time when we grow old, And like a sunset down the sea, Slope gradual, and the night wind cold Comes whispering sad and chillingly; And locks are gray As winters day, And eyes of saddest blue behold The leaves all weary draft away, And lips of laded coral say, There comes a time when we grow old. There comes a time when joyous hearts, Which leaped as leaps the laughing main, Arc dead to all save memory, A prisoner in his dungeon chain; And dawn of day Hath passed away, And by the embers wan and gray 1 here voice in whisper say, There comes a time when wc grow old. There comes a time when manhood's prime I shorouded in the midst of-years; And beauty, fading like a dream, Hith passed away silent tears And then how dark ! But oh, the spark That kindled youth to hues of gold, Still burns with clear and steady ray; And fond affections, lingering, say, There comes a time when wc grow old. There comes a time when laughing Spring And golden Summer cease to be ; And we put on the Autumn robe To tread the last declcvity ; But now the slope, With rosy Hope, Beyond the sunset we behold, Another dawn with fairer light ; While watchers whisper through the night There is a time when we grow old. Living Age. Hint to Boys. Under the heading, ''A Good Boy Wanted' pays the A gricidlurist, a gentleman of New York advertised in one of the daily papers. Upon entering his office the next morning, there ttood a crowd of forty or fifty boys waiting to sec him. All were strangers, and of course it was rather difficult to select the best one of the company ; but there were a few signs by which it could be decided at once that many of these lads were not want ed, frnm whirli nur vnnnrr fripnfls mav tako a hint Several of the bovs had uncombed ' hair and unwashed faces. If they could not be likely to do their work nicely, so those were pasted over without fur:her notice, One boy looked bright and smart, but he kept crowding his wy to the front of all othersand thruing himself into notice. It was readily to be seen that he was too 'smart;' he would probably prove pert and saucy. , Then came a boy with a book peeping out ? nrt,;,un,cf L ni,o,n fLci,, ,.oi : -7 Tin ...,.,. i.; ;, m u foi. lowing the hero of the wonderful story ' sweep the laud of Dixie with thc bosom through impossible adventures while his of destruction. work suffered. One boy fell to quarrelling ' And it shall come to pass that Rich with his neighbor; another had to be repri- uiond and Charleston, the beauty of the inanded for meddling with articles in the of- Southern Confederacy, shall be as Sodom fice, a third chewed lobacco; neither of these : an( Gomorrah. was wanted. From the few remaining, after j rpw gllau uofc be n from gcn. dismissing the above classes the boy was J tiou l0 gencration . neither shall the leeted that could bring the best testimonials f glavchoidcr Uch his' teut thcreiu but nf hnnnstv lritnllin-nnrfv .mil infiiistrvt frond i u r chawiii ! lure Voer o7 late? to . I bring a good reputation and its rewards. On the corner of Fifth avenue and Seventh street, New York, while the llighlaud Regiment was passing an ex traordinary crowd, a little fellow of the tender age of four summers rushed up to one of its members shouting, "Hooray, daddy ! hooray I Give me five cents I" The vcterau, though he had never seen the urchin 'before, picked him up in his arms and kissed him, when his own wife, whom he had not seen nor heard from for over four years, pressed up to him and seized him by the hand. When the greet ings matural to the occasion were over, judge of his astonishment to learn that he was indeed the father of the little boy whom he had held in his arms, who had been born in his absence, and who now, by a strange and uuacountable instinct; knew his parent, though beholding him for the first time. Prince Salni Salni, a German officer, who is in command in Northern Georgia, is rather rough on secesh. The other day a flippant fellow blustered into his presence demanding certain accommoda tions in consideration of his character as a confederate officer. "Confederate of fiEair I" replied the Prince, "I not know such peoples. You must mean a tarn re bel!" . ' the government has sept an officer to Andersonville, Ga., to make a special in vestigation into the brutal and inhuman treatment of Union prisoners during the war, with the view of bringing to trial be fore a military commission the rebels who Bad charge of our soldiers When the bar barous treatment was practise"?!. Some 6F the guilty parties are already in thc Custody of the government. CHRONICALES. BY THOMAS P. COWAN. And it came to pass in the days of A braham, of the house of Lincoln, the ru ler of the Puritans, the people of God. That one Jefferson, whose surname is Davis, thc high priest of Beelzebub, the ruler of Tartarus, made war on thc peo ple of God in the land of Dixie wherein are raised turpentine, treason and cotton. And Jeff, raised seven thousand of his bravo men, and hailed iron, lead and fire on Port Sumter, in the command of Rob ert, whose surname is Anderson, and sev enty veteraus Puritans. And Jefferson ceased not, day and; night to oppress thc army of the Lord in- i somuch that Anderson surrendered the fort and lowered the flag of his country. Aim Jcuersou made a great banouet. and his wives, and his concubines drank wine in the vessels made of gold stolen from the treasure of Floyd, under Old Ruck, the bachelor. Moreover his seven thousand soldiers rejoiced with great ioy. and cried with a loud voice for three days, Groat is King Cotton, who has delivered our enemies, the Rlack Abolitionists, into our hands, Sambo aud Dinah, who reared our King. And it came to pass, when Abraham heard the rejoicing, he called Seward, and said, what mcaneth the rejoicing ? Aud Seward said unto him, Live forev er, Father Abraham : the Philistines be upou us. And Abraham wept, and covered him self with sackcloth and ashes, and prayed mightily to God. And the Lord answered and said unto him, Fear not, Abraham, for I raised thee up to deliver my. people. "n Issue thy proclamation, and call out five and seventy thousand men ; perad vcuture Jefferson will repent. And Abraham hearkened unto the Lord. Selah. And Jefferson hardened his heart, and stiffened his neck, aud boasted and said, What do these Yankees ? One of us can whip ten Abolitionists, and ten of thc chivalry can put a thousand Yankees to -flight. And it repented thc Lord that he had made Jefferson of thc house of Davis. Aud the Lord saith unto Abraham, Is sue thy proclamation, and call out three hundred thousand men, and I will punish Jefferson for his sins, wherein he hath sinned against Heaven. And Abraham obeyed God. Selah. And the Philistines pitched battle a gainst the Puritans at Bujl Run ; and Jefferson slew of the army of Abraham two aud twenty thousaud. And discomfited the army of thc Lord, j and took forty and four thousand prison I era, and wagons not a few ; aud routed the army of Abraham. And Abraham wept bitterly, and pray ed mightly to God, and said, Surely, 0 Lord God, thou hast forsaken thy servant, Abraham, and destroyed the people. And the Lord answered Abraham and said, Fear not, my servant, for I have raised thee up to deliver my people. And 1 will mulish thr; nrmn"inrp of jcfferson and thc haughty shall be laid , ' J ' , . . - Issue thy proclamation again, and call out six hundred thousaud men, and 1 wilH the wild beast of Florida shall lie there ; 1 I II 1. ...1,1 II.aim rirtf n ll SI 1 M1M owls shall build their nests in their pala ces, and satyrs shall dance there, and their time is near at hand, and their days shall not be prolonged. For the Lord thy God shall have mer cy on Abraham, and will yet choose Is rael, and they cleave to the house of A- braham. And my servants shall tako them cap tive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors, the F. F. Vs of Dixie. And thou Abraham shalt use this pow er against Jefferson, the arch-traitor of Dixie and say, - How hath the oppressor ceased ! the "olden cities ! The Lord hath broken the staff of Jeff, and the sceptres of his rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with continued stroke ; he that ruleth in an ger is persecuted and none hindreth ; the whole earth is at rest ; my people break forth into singing. Yea, the palmetto trees and cedar sre joicc saying, Since thou Jeff, art laid low no fellow is come up against us. Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee. All these shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou Jeff, become weak as we ? thy pomp is brought down. How art thou fallen from Heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of mourning ? How art thou cut down to the ground which did wcak eu this nation ! For thou hast said in thy heart, I wi 1 call the roll of my slaves ou Bunker Hill; and exalt my throne above the stars and stripes. I will be like thc Most High; yet you Jeff, shall bo brought d'own to hell, to the bottomless pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, saying, Is this thc man that that did shake this government? That made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof? that o pencd not the house of his prisoners, but starved them to death ? that worshipped King Cotton ? Moreover the Lord said unto Abraham, Issue thy proclamation of confiscation, and I will take mv servants from hard bondage wherein they have been made to serve, and they shall guard their masters with bayonets. And 1 will make the garden of Eden and the Eden of earth a wilderness, waste desert ; I will sweep thc land of Dixie with the bosom of destruction. Moreover, I will cutoff the son and-neph- ow off Jeff, so that they will not rise up tQ nil tuc world again with, tones. And A braham rejoiced. Moreover, one Richard, of the house" of Yates, Governor of Illinois, telegraph ed to Abraham, saying : Issue your proc- lamation of confiscation ; moreover call out a million of men. And Abraham answered Richard, and said : Dick, hold still aud see the salva tion of God. And Dick said, The will of . 1 -w- -m " tnc .Lord be done. And the army of God smote the Phil istines with a continual stroke, and took the forts that old Buchannan had stolen and given to Jeff, And the army of the Lord took Fort Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Fort Colum- Dus, and put to flight the Philistines at Shilob, and slew ten thousand and made a new river through the timber aud took Island No. 10, and twenty thousand stand or arms, and prisoners not a few. And one Ulysses of the house of Grant, besieged Yicksburg, and oppressed the army of Jeff, in command of one Pern berton thc High Priest, Insomuch that the soldiers and citizens prayed to thc High Priest, and said, Give us meat that wc perish not; and Pem bcrtou said unto them, Bring hither your beasts of burden, moreover, you catch rats. And the soldiers did bring their poor mules aud slew them in the presence of Pemberton, and the people did eat rats, mule meat and hard tack. Aud the Lord granted unto Grant suc cess, and the brave Illinois blew up the forts, and on the 4th of July, 1863, the city was surrendered to Grant with thirty-three thousand prisoners and forty-four thousand stand of arms, and cotton bales not a few. And Butler took New Orleans and Farragut took the coast, and the aboli tionists took Europe and the rest of the world." Selah. - And Jefferson was sorely troubled, aud his wives and his concubines wept, And Jeffersffn called his astrologers and sooth sayers, and said unto them. Call your father Beelzebub, that he may deliver us out of thc hands of Abra ham that we perish not; aud they called upou their father, aud he answered and said, here I am. And they said unto Beelzebub, Jeffer son thy High Priest calleih for thee, be ing sorely oppressed by Abraham. Then Beqlzebub, King of Tartarus, called for his bat wings, and screwed on his long tail, and Judas, and Arnold and Burr, put on his long horns, and the De vil took his flight from hell to the land I of Dixie. And answered and said unto Jefferson, : his wives and his concubines, Servauts of My kingdom, you are beloved above all thy feUows. Because you have kept thc people of the South in ignorance, and taught thy children to sell their daughters to concu binage, and their sons for field hands. Moreover, because you have discarded the American Eagle, emblem of liberty, and did adopt the rattlesnake as the en sign of nationality, the companion of the copperhead. The beloved form of the serpent that I assumed when I entered the garden of Eden, and brought siu and death into the world, and peopled my kingdom ; therefore ye are beloved ; therefore ye are beloved above all my servants. And I will call upon my vicegerent Vallandigham, thc leader of the Copper heads, the companions of the rattlesnakes; And put it into his heart to croak peace, peace, when there is no peace. Moreover, I will call thc copperheads in convention in Springfield, Illinois, and make them resolve that a further offen sive prosecution of thc war is unconstitu tional, subversive of the government, and 11 tends to disunion and anarchy. And I will cause the Copperheads, the companions of rattlesnakes, to hiss and shout with a loud noise, Hurrah for Val landigham. Moreover, mv servant Jelierson, in whom my heart delighteth, 1 will call on the Connerheads in a national convention at Chicago, aud make them resolve that the experiment of four years war against thee and thy people is a failure; and that fiipw u-ft for immediate cessation or uos- Mlities and for mv servaut Pendleton. And I will seduce Geo. B. McClellan flip, nomination of thy frieuds I.W M.-WW1- nt Chicago. furthermore I will send the witch of Endor to my kingdom arfd- call my chief rulers Judas Iscanot, Aaron urr, ana Benedict Arnold and flesh of thy flesn, And raise an exceeding great army in the Nortli, and we will fight Abe in "the rpnr. an d I Beelzebub, king of Tartarus, will command thc army of the North, aud thou my servant shall command the army South. made thc earth tremble ? will give thee thc land of Dixie for thy possession forever, for a land of bondage, moreover, I will make the ruler ! J TT.1I i-J Ml of half my kingdom. Hell, and we will deceive the people. And Jefferson took courage and joiced. And Vallandigham ceased not night and day crying with a loud voice. Peace, Peace brothers of the North, compro mise with your Southern brothers : and he deceived the people. And when these vlticlean spirits come out of the mouth of thc dragon, and out of thc beast, and out of the false prophet. They assumed unto themselves forms like men ; and assume the form of the State Register the Day Boole, and the Chicago Times. And Burr took the fofm of Pendleton, and Benedict Arnold that of Fernando Wood. And those unclean spirits kissed Abra ham and said, Father Abraham we aro loyal and for tuc Union ; and they deceiv ed the Puritans and raised an exceeding great army of Copperheads at the North. And the Copperheads did fight the army of the Lord in the rear, and Jeffer son did hgut the armv ot the .Lord m front. And sorely oppressed the army of A- braham untill there was slain of the Union army- two hundred and forty and six thousand. And Abraham was troubled and cov ered himself with ashes -and nraved to God. And thc Lord answered Abraham and said, JUear not Abraham, for thou art Honest Old Abe. I will call my servcrnts the Johns wheel horses of Dcmecracy, John Dough erty, John A. .Logan, John A. McClern aud, and one Bob Ingersol, and Isham N. Ilaynie and Stephen G. Hicks, to un deceive my people. The Johns, ministers of God, raised thc cloak from the Day Boole, and the Chicago Times and State Register, which was Judas Iscariot. Behold there was concealed a mass of political corruption and treason, and Cop perheads with forked tongues, and a stink of carron rose from the presses, and the people held their noses, and the Johns cried with a loud voice. Come and see. Bob Ingersol raised the curtain from off Pendleton, which is Burr, and behold on his brain was two negro babies, his breast was iron, his thigh and legs clay his feet were cloven, and his toes were copperheads. And Robert cried with a loud voice, Conic and see. And the people cried with one voice, Away with such men from thc earth, crucify them, crucify them. And the Johns raised the covering from Fernando Wood, which is Benedict Arnold, and he had ten heads, which i t were copperneads, nis conscience was scared as with a hot iron, and he was giv en up to reprobacy of mind and hardness of heart that he might believe a lie, that he might be damned, because he held thc truth in unrighteousness. His face was also brass, and his hidra heads had forked tongues like unto ser pents. On each head he had a horn that was called dilemma, and around each horn was wound a huge rattlesnake, and on the top a flag with stars and bars. And the Johns and Bobs spake unto thc people in a loud voice, saying, Come, come and sec ! And the people answered and said, It is revealed in thc Scriptures that the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpents head ; and they stamped the Copperheads with their heels. And the army of the Lord in the South thrust through and through thc rattle snake of Dixie, and the sneak peace ser pent died sudddenly without remedy. And thc remnant or the army ot the Lord rejoiced, saying, It is finished ; it is finished. Since Judas, Arnold, and Burr, and Vallandigham and Pendleton are laid low, no fellow is come up in the rear against us.. And the soldiers did spit upon the dead carcasses of thc Copperheads in the North, and bruised the heads ot the rat tlesnakes in thc South, and rested from their hard fighting. Aud they took unto themselves wives of the daughters of Abraham, and made and preserved the Union. And the Lord blessed Abraham and cursed Vallandigham, and put a mark on him that he should deceive the nation no more for a thousand years. After that he will be loosod a littler season. Moreover, the Lord said unto Abraham I have driven the rebels into their last ditch at Richmond and Charleston. And I will givo unto Grant power to fight the battles of thc Lord, and Rich mond and Charleston shall surely fall and great will be the fall thereof. And Abra ham, God's chosen one, shall again rule over the people. Then shall this nation beat their" swords' iuto plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks, and know infernal war no more tor ever and ever. Colonel Stodare, a necromancer, is giv ing exhibitions in London, and excites attention because he performs several of those mysterious feats of Indian jugglery wrunh linvn an, nftcn been described. hna "o inmv nmrtfrh. irr the presence r.P l, rP i ian wbirtri ia nrt-' And I scntly coyered with foliage and fruit. In York street car, oh' lrhr way to the iri nnnfiinr h ilr n nliild is nlaced in a basket, buno office from the' opera. The next n avS'nrA ?a fli'niffr. sfivp.ml tiriifis. the child shrieking, but the basket is at-! - - tcrwards found to be empty. The Crops. Intelligence gathered from our exchan- jges indicates an unusual degree of excel i 1 n. . . . . fence in the croos. The wheat harvest has already commenced in New York. There is neither rust nor midge. Oats and barley promise well, while the apple crop in the western part of the State will be unprecedented. Thc harvest is rapidly progressing in Pennsylvania ; prospects good. Corn and oats look well in Mary land, but wheat will be light. Reports from the southern part of Virginia show a promising year, urass as uncommonly fine. In Illinois, the Chicago Times says : "Wheat and oats have been sown con- jeiderably in excess of last year, aud yield, especially ot thc latter, promises to be very abundant. (Jhmtz bugs and grubs have made their appearance in some lo calities, but few sections have suffered seriously from them. Corn planting wa3 delayed in many parts of the State from one to three weeks, by heavy, cold, last spring rains, and its growth was after wards delayed from the same cause, and later by drought; but at later advices it was generally looking well and promising average crop. Barley and rye are not so extensively cultivated, but the crops gen erally compare favorably with last year's. The fruit crops will be light on account of late and heavy spring frosts." The same authority, of Iowa, says : "In most of the counties from which advices have been received a bountiful harvest is promised. Thc soring was generally backward on account of cpjd, late rains, but the seed came up readily and the crops did well, notwithstanding a severe drought prevailed in many sec tions between the middle of May and 10th of June. Since the latter date heavy thunder storms have been of com paratively frequent occurrence, and brid ges have washed away, and fences blown down an extensive scale, but no serious damage is reported to have been sustained by the crops from this cause until thc 27thand 28th of-June, when the serverest storms within the memory of citizens swept over the northwestern and perhaps other sections of the State, very severely damaging the crops in many localities, though the extent of the loss is not re ported. Before the storm wheat, oats, corn, and nearly every species of small grain were doing finely. The potato crop, however, has suffered very severely and in many localities it is feared it will prove a failure." In Wisconsin there arc a few excep tions to the promise of the best crop raised for years. In a few instances only oats and wheat are failures. Michigan, so far as heard from, presents the same pros perous appearance. The first new wheat of Ohio was exhibited on 'change at Cleveland on thc 29th ult. The berry was plump and large, and the yield in thc valley plentiful. Harvest is about a week earlier than usual. The Cincinnati Commercial says : "The wheat harvest in Southern In diana has commenced. Our exchanges from that section speak of the yield as enormous, and thc quality as unsurpassed by the crop of any previous year. To add to the satisfaction of the farmers, the weather has been as favorable as they could desire, and the new crop has been harvested in thc very best condition." In Kentucky the wheat is quite a poor crop. Oats, grass and corn are quite abundant. The appearance of thc grape crop is said to be quite unfavorable, es pecially of the Catawba. Of Tennessee the correspondent of the paper last quoted says : "As to the wheat crop, thc prospect is not so fair as for corn. As it was neces sary to sow last fall, when the country as still swept by the whirlwind of war, the breadth of country sown was nearly so great as what it was formerly in time of peace. The winter among the mountains, too, was soverc ; a good many fields were frozen out, and of those which escaped the ordeal of the frost, some have suffered severely for want of rain. Notwithstand ing all these drawbacks, there arc far mers who will harvest good crops but the yield, generally speaking, will bo small. "Of thc tfo.T'ff crop, almost the oxac op posite may be said. From Chattanooga to Bull's Gap, twenty-five miles west of Greenville, the appearance of the grow ing crop was invariably good." Corn only appears to promise well in Georgia, an eStensivc drought destroying the prospects of all other crops. Cotton is said to be coming iuto market in small quantities. In Louisiana, the Pjcayune says, accounts from the country report thnt crop prospects are very encourag ing. The rains have been pleutcous and fructifying. Sugar, cotton, corn and rice are looking well. Thus far, too, that dreadful enemy, which" cast such a- blight last season over the cotton fields, the army worm or cattcrpillar, has not heralded his appearance. The sugar crop will proba bly exceed that of last year thirty thou sand hogsheads against Cloven thousand is the estimated product. With" the exception of apples, all Eas tern crops at this time promise Well, and the hay crop will be ono third larger than' that of last year. Horace Grcelev had his watch stolon unmn fimr sinnr" while ridincr in a INOW ' mrtrnin"' the thief returned the watch to' I w the editor with an apology, to tne euect that he would scorn to rob so good a man. What a Woman Would do if ehe could. Mrs. Caroline D. Hall writes to the Boston Advertiser : "If I were wealthy I would immedately establish a school td teach poor rough women to wash common clothes well, and to clean house without' doing mischief, at fifty cents a day anct their board. At their price, far better wages than these women now earn, hund reds of mechanics' families in every large town would hire at least two days' work: a week. Then I would train a class of girls tos mend furniture, to ronair vAnrTrr" ing, to but on bolts, locks, etc;, to han windows and set glass. The farmers wives in the Country do these thinirs' themselves. They would gladly nav to have them done. Of the more akillfaf workers, would not vou or I be elad to find a neat, tidy woman, who could hang paper, paint mock boards, patch broken graining, clean brasses or silver to its' very best 1 Could not some woman, liko" some men in France, make a profession of thc packing of trunks, and so on ? ' Oh, there are plenty of ways to help,' them, if you but belive the help possible.'"' A Broad Hint. Some years before the war, business in terest frequently called me to Virginia. In the county of Westmoreland, situate in what is popularly known as the "North ern Neck," I have a recollection of an ambitious old lady who nursed a darling; project of marrying her only naughter to a wealthy farmer in the adjacent county One day the coveted son-in-law happen ing to "drop in," was prevailed upon to' stay to dinner, which was got up in the" old lady's best style. Desert coming orr,' the hostess begged leave to pledge her' guest in a glass of cider, then the never' failing concomitant of every meal- ' Whether under the influence of certain1 preceding glasses, or whether she was in spired by a sudden desperate resolve to hazard everything, certain it is that the; old lady, to the general surprise, gavo' the" following : "Here's to you, Mr. Davis ! a long life and a merry one ; a good wife and a" pretty one and that's my Nancy !" Nancy blushed, and so did Mr. Davis y but he took thc hint, and consummated' matters that evening. Official estimates at the War Depart ment compute the number of deaths in the Union armies since the commence ment of the war, including the starved1' prisoners, at three hundred and twenty lfve thousand. There has doubtless been fully two hundred thousand Southern' soldiers removed by disease and the casualties of battle, so that less than five hundred and twenty-five thousand lives have been sacrificed in this unholy con test,begun and prolonged by the South in their vain effort to build up a new re public and strengthen the slave power. Our greatest losses during any one' campaign occurred at Gettsyburg, when" 23,267 Union soldiers were killed, wound ed and taken prisoners. Hookers's cam paign of 1S63, in the Wilderness, ranks' next to Gettsyburg as far as regards U-' nion losses, they having amounted to twenty thousand, though generally re ported at only ten. Burnside lost 2,000' in the battle of Fredericksburg, McClel lan 11,426 at Antictam, Porter 9,000" at Gaines' Mills. Rosecrans IOSS at Murfroesboro and 16,852 at Chicka maugo, and Sherman about 9,000 in the two days' battles around Atlanta. The official reports of General Grant's4 losses from the time he crossed thc Ran- idan until receiving the surrender of Lee,- compute them at ninety thousand Irf thc various engagements fought by Gen eral Grant in the west he lost 13,573 men at Pittsburg Landing, 9,875 in the severe contest arouud Vicksburg aud -in' the attack on Missionary Ridge about 7,1-" 000. Tho following dialogue on "sharp shoot- ing" took place between a Virginia and tr Yankee picket : "I say, can you fellows shoot 7" "Well, I reckon wc can some. Down in Mississippi we can knock a bumblo; be'eoffa' thistle law at flircC hundred' yards." "Oh, that ain't nothing tb thc way wo' shewt up in Varmont. I belonged to a1 military company thdr with a hundred men' rh each company, and we went out' for practice every week. Thc cap'n draws us up iu siiiglo file, and sets a si dcr barrel rolling down tho hill, and each' man takes his shot at the bung-hole as if turn-sup. It is afterwards examined, and' if there is a shot that didt; go in tho bung' hole the member who missed it is expelled I belonged to thc company ten years, and there ain't been nobody expelled yet. Suicide. '"Susan," said a faithless swain tohia be f(ot'fied," I have changed my mind; I shan't marry you'." Villainous, wasn,t itl And what do you think was thc result ? Siicy-sighed. An Irishman being asked for a certificate of his marriage,-bared his head and exhibited a huge scar, which looked ns though itwas made with a fire shovel. The evidence was satisfactory. Dogs in Texas are' traih'ed by putting, ' them with tho sheep when they are blind' puppies and rearing them with the lambs.' Thc dogs" are regularly fed at a certain;1 hour in tho evening, and so never fail to' bring thc flock in at the right tiwo-,
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