JEFFERSONIAN In Dcuotcir to politics, literature, OVgriatlturc, Sckna, itlaralitj), curt enera! Intelligence; Vol. 24. STHOU:pSBJRG, MONROE COUNTY, PA AUGUST 31, 1865. NO. 26; THE Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS-TWO dollars a year in advancc-and if no paid before the end of the ye.-u, two dollars and Htfy cts. will bo charged. .... No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, xcepi at the option of the Editor. . BAaertiscmentsofone square of (eight lines) or 'st, one or three insertions $1 50. Each additional jMertitn, 50 cfirils. Longer ones in proportion. JroB PRINTING, OF ALL KINDS, ieeled la Ihfe highest style or the Arl.and ontlie most reasonnule terms. A certain Mr. Grimes, who resides in Philadelphia, went down to Cape May, jait week to spend the " heated term." He was boarding at a hotel, but was missing one morning at breakfast. On going to his room the chambermaid found the following poetical effusion, suggestive of his worri rnent: ODE TO A BEDBUG, nV c '(After a vain attempt to fall into the arms bf Morpheus I arose from my downy couch and discoursed thus l O ! wherefore, bug, dost thou molest Me in my drcatns! Oh, let me rest, Or, by the gods, 1 will invest A dime in poison, lo destroy Thee and thy kind, who do infest My bed. Thou art indeed a pest; And if thou knowest what is best Forthcc, depart, and cause me joy; Thou red-backed, sycophantic bug To thus dcfiicc my human "mug,1' liy sundry bites fur blood all mine tty every Jaw that's sacred and divine, But which by theft thou would make thine, , Depart, I say; (slap ! ban !) good bye; Mischievous bug ! how soon yo die! j speaks The above needs no comment; it for itself. Marvelous it Truei In a little seaport on Long Island Sound, not man' hours trom the metropolis, resides an old coasting skipper, whose marvellous tales of adventures by sea aud land, it collected and published, would render the copyright of Munchausen.s travels worthies, Here isa story of his for a sample: " It's close on to thirty years ago tiiatl was coming down the Sound in the sloop Sally ; 'twas summer time, and the wind to shouth'ard. All of a sudden thc wind died away, atld it commenced thick'ning up to north'ard and west'ard. I had an idea that we was goin to hev a thunder squabble, and took in sail nnd waited for it. Byrne !y here it come, feather white, as fur ae you could see; and 5uch thunder and lightning and rain as I guess was never seen before in these latitudes, The mate was at the lulm, and I was stand ing at the companion way, the lightning, ftriking all around the sloop, when, suddenly after a big flash, I felt a curious feeling a cold chill, like I had swallowed quicksilver, come over me. I got down below as soon as I could, and sot down on the locker, feeling mighty streaked, I can tell you. The ! MiuaU eson nassed orer. and I frit all fizllt t " Picent an unaccountable feelin"- about mv . feet I suno- out for the cook, who pulled off my boots, and strange to say, although it is the truth. I turned out of each one nigh a pint of thc electric fluid." Some women have an idea of what consti tutes happiness. A lady made a Call upon t friend who had lately been married. When her husband came home to dinner she said, 'I have been to see Mrs. ." "Well," replied the husband, " I suppoae she is very happy." " Happy! I should think she ought to be : he has a camel's hair shawl, two-thirds border." ' - Printers will play the deuce with type sometimes. A young lady composed some verses for the Herkimer Gazette, headed ''Drew Drops from Freshly Blown Roses." The printer's devil printed it " Freshly Blown Noses." The fair authoress, on reading it, had immediate use for her fan end a bottle of hartshorn. & A man with a rag-bag in his hand was that they are very unhealthy, entirely de picking up a large number of pieces of , stroying what he called the digestive ap whalebone which lay in the street The ' paratus." deposit was of such a singular nature, that t " Yes, I know," returned Mrs. Lane, we asKea tne quaint loosing gamerer now . . T . , . . fiiendlv olliccs. , , b b tea one day, and I couldn t perceive that "JJ'i'J he supposed thev came there. "Don't , -i' t-..i.. u;'r,n . , This assertion couldn . .. . 1 1 . 1 1 111 till XJL UCIilllU 1IJ IKVU tilUi uwuiv . l show," he replied in a squeaking voice,"spect ) . d Indeed, I remember ! any present, ( come unfortunate female was wrecked here tbouts." A boy in Jamaica was driving a mule; the ; limal was sullen; stopped, and turned his ' rr . -i animal arched neck upon the boy as in derision and contempt 'Von,t go, will you 1 Feel grand, do you 1 I guess you forget your fath er was a jackass." The' general agent for the Philiadelphia and Erie Railroad at Willamsport has been arrested and held to bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars for an alleged deficiency of several thousand dollars in his accounts with the company. The amount paid by the borough- ofHones dale for the support of the war, under direct organization was $67,725 00. This does not include the expenses of the emergency troops, the payment of the relief board, or tie contributions of the soldiers society. CHARITY AT HOME A&D ABROAD. BY MARY GRACE IIALFINE. "Aunt Malinda, please give me a pin," said a bright looking but shabbily dress ed little fellow, opening the door of Mrs. Lane's kitchen. "Just see here' he added, pointing to a large rent on the knee of his trousers, "hie and Will Brown were playing tap; ana I tell down and tore this." "Why don't you run home and get your mouier to inend it, Johnny j" said ATo T nnn l. j:j i i i i i i-.no. jjuub, ,ia tiiu uiu ner Desi to pring togetner tne severed parts. "Oil I VnilSA mntlini nln'f nf linmn : u.ww.w. uau v tu UUUiti. She's gone to the Society for Clothing destitute Children." "Dcstitute children !" ejaculated Mrs. Lane, as she surveyed her nephew from head to foot. "If you don't come under that class, then never child did ! Why, you are all rags and tatters !" "I know it, aunt," moodily responded the boy ; "but it aiut my fault. Mother says she ain't no time to mend my cloties, and if she did, they'd be just as bad the next day ; so what's the use. Father said last night, that I looked like a little hea then, and he almost wished I was, for mother would then think I was worth looking after a little." "Have you had any supper Johnny ?" "No," said the boy, casting a longing look at the generous piece of pumpkin j pic that his aunt was cutting; "mother i left some cold victuals on the table for I O . 1 1 l . J iainTc' a"? mc 0Ul t M til, 1 UJIIUU utc guuu WU Willi, j putting the pie upon a plate, and adding to it a couple oi tne dougnnuts she was frying, and a slice of cheese, "vou iust take this, aud mind you don't leave a bit." Johnny lost no time iu obeying his aunt's peremptory but by no means uii- pleasant injunction, and thc contents of the plate rapidly disappeared before his energetic assault. "1 wish mother stayed at home, just as you do, aunt," he said, as he opened 1 the door, casting a linjierinir look back ' upon the cheerful, cozy-looking kitchen. "I declare, exclaimed Mrs. Laue, as taking up the rolling pin, she resumed her labors, "if it isn't a shame for Nancy to neglect that boy so! lie's so ragged and dirty that I am actually ashamed of him aud his mother an active member of half a dozen charitable societies! As for brother John, he's clean discouraged, and I don't much wonder at it. I don't be ' lieve he comes home to a warm supper once a week. It's my belief that's a wo man's business first to look aftcr the.com ' fort of her own family ; then, if she has any time to do for others, well and good Charity ought to begin at home, if it dou't stay there I" "There's aun't Nancy, now, just com ing into the gate," said her daughter Bet sey, as looking up from the apples she was paring, she chauced to glaucc out of the window. Indignant as she was, it was not in good-natured Mrs Lane's heart to refuse . il a . Kina,y greeting to her sister-in-law, who was evidently too full of her own n j-v v n n t f a s n jJ net Innl' rf-v f d5aHtyj had there been aQ "How dy e do, sister Lane. IIow dy e do, Betsey," she said, seating herself iu the first chair she came to, as if quite ex hausted, though her keen black eyes look ed as bright as ever. "Always cooking. I do declare ! Ah ! how it makes my heart ache to sec you spendiug so much precious time in caring for this poor per ishing body." "Folks can't live without eating," re sponded Mrs. Lane, a Jittle tartly, as this remark called to mind what she consid ered to be her sister-in-law's remissness in the care of her family. Leastways, I haven't found out any other way of liv- ins: "You always did make nice doughnuts, Malinda," said Mrs. Shaw, very compos edly helping herself to one. "These are as light as a honey-comb," she added, as she broke it open aud pro ceeded to dispose of it with evident satis faction. "I don't know when I have made any kind of pastry. Professor Spare, who lectured here last winter, says urviv. "jJLUSDaiiu invimu mm uuuiu iu thinkiug, that if it was his ordinary way of eatiuir, I shouldn't like to be the one to cook for him. And let folks say what they may, I never will think that plain light pastry, ever hurt anybody. I .al- j ......... U:i,l..n hiva it otifi Minv lrtf -mtt nUilrlrnn huvn if-, find tllPV are as hearty and rosy a set of boys and , - ' . t- can find anywhere ; as I am ; girls as you sure they wouldn't be if they were fed on in any way, and just when it happened." "It fisn't always the rosiest," said Mrs. , 1 .1 nnnbnH i1a(ih( If V1tmn fft til fl HI Shaw, helping herself to another dough nut. "Now. I think of it, I am certain that I can see a pimple on Betsey's nose- a sure Droof of over-eating; and John '. proof Thomas isn't nigh so strong as mv John- ; nv. who isn't more than a year or so the oldest. But I guess I'll do my errand, ss x ji uu my uiiuuu. and be going I ca lied to tell vou that r a fair for the bene- i we are iroiuir to have a fair for the bene fit of the oppressed Poles. I'm on the committee of arrangements, and reany hope sister Lane that you'll take right Every considerable town in South Carolina injuries of accident and the assassin's President would sit at his bedside and ex hold and do everything in your power to t is tobe occupied dy U. S. troops. j knife, is a common wonder ; and Surgeon press himself on the exciting questions of forward this noble and praiseworthy ob ject." "No, thank you," returned her sister-in-law. "I think I can find objects of charity nearer hotno than Poland." "But there is a society, of which you are a member, that I think I should like to join," said Mrs. Lane, after a moment's thought: "the one for clothing and pro- . ed. "The initiation fee is onlv two dol lars, together with a weekly payment of ten cents." f nT l tr -r 1 ...... i x ueueve x paiu ine initiation tee a bout a year ago, when it was first organ lzed. I did that cheerfullv. rh 1 - -- - W.UV lMl.lst JU 1 1 then considered to. b j j x u,en considered to..De duties nearer aftcr the battle of Chaneellorsville, I call I bomf Panted my doing more. I will; cd on thc public for fruit acids asa an. duties Ci " over.aSain- vor, oniy x must, tidotc to thirst and h Ual gangrene. have the privilege of bringing a destitute , The first contribution I received was from rill m;,i 1 ften see ? htt W.Mrs. Frederick Seward. It was accom roaming about the streets, whose forlorn I paD;ed b not aski me to send to her and neglected appearance fills my heart whea anythin' al was wanted WllU pity. Snmr tUnt-T Jl i-U "Certainly: that is what we expect' and U Ml. vry mcuiuer io ao assne nas rtumty. We have a number of lit- J Z u 1 . m oppor tie jackets and pants made, and there'll be some among them that will fit him. Remember, our next meeting is just a week from to day, at Squire Mayo's." There was a merry twinkle in Mrs. Lane's eyes, that night, as she superin tended preparations for supper, which ev er and anon deepened into a smile ; but though the children were anxious to know what their mother was smiling a bout, she kept her own counsel. The next Wednesday afternoon, a score or more of ladies were seated in Squire Mayo's parlcr, with busy fingers and still more busy tongues. "There is Mrs. Lane coming up the walk," exclaimed Mrs. Mayo, who was seated by the window. "Just see what wretched-looking boy she is leading by the hand ! It can't be one of her chil dren, for they are all models of neatness." Mrs. Shaw was too busy distributing work to even glance out of the window.. "I forgot to tell you, ladies," she said, "that my sister-in-law joins our society this afternoon. The boy with her is no doubt the one she spoke to me about the other day, as a fit subject-for our charity. I take considerable credit to myself," she added, quite complacently, "for persua ding her to tliie step. Sister Lane is such a home body -so wrapped up in herself and fumily." "Mrs. Lane is a kind-hearted woman' replied an old lady, who was knitting in one corner of the room, "and does a great deal of good in a quiet way." "Sister Lane means well there is no doubt of that," respouded Mrs. Shaw, with a magnanimous air. "But, accord ing to my way of thinking, charity with out system aud organization is worse than thrown away." By this time Mrs. Lane was in the room. "Good afternoon, ladies' she said, look ing around with a pleasant smile. "You see, sister 3haw, that I kept my worcl, and did not come alone," she ad ded, as that individual fixed her, eyes in undisguised astonishment upon the boy, whose reluctant hand she held. "I found this poor lad," she continued, "in an alley way, playing marbles with a number of profane and vicious boys, and who were uttering words in his hearing that I shudder to think of. The black eye he has got in a fight with one of them, in which it seems he had the worst of it. lie is very dirty and ragged, as you see ; but I offer no apology for bring ing him to you in this condition, as I know your society was formed for the benefit of such, and trust that under your kindly care he will soon present quite an other appearance." Twice did Mrs Shaw essay to interrupt the speaker, butanger aud shame choked her utterance. When she had concluded she sprang to her feet. "Malinda Lane," she ejaculated, "do you mean to pretend that you don't know that that is my boy V ' "Your boy !" exclaimed Mrs. Lane, starting with well-dissembled amazemct. "Is it possible ? Now, that I look at him closer, it does look like Johnny. But who would have thought it V "I leave it to you," she added, address ing the other ladies, "if the mistake was not a very natural one, or if ever child, apparently, stood more in need of your ot be denied by jertainly not by Mrs. Shaw 0f jewel3 her hostess wore at theso recep-jder pletely silenced though suctions, but calculate they were not bought who was com looked unutterable things Not long after she could have been seen with poor luckless Johnny in tow, e a W king a round-about course in the direc tion for home, for, unlike her sister-in- law when she escorted him thither, she ,i.nnf hir Mm ilnrL'ncf. nni loner trfmifnmil went by the darkest and least frequented j streets This sharp but much needed lesson i ad a mostt haPPy re,8U!t as wf evident by not only Johnny s improved appear-; auce, but by the increased comfort of the whole family. Mrs Shaw learned what it is to be teared that too many iorgevdepentfellce.COIltoIlded so fiercely for the that no object, however praise worthy, i eden cc she woold havo been worthy vau "" UUV4 "eo1" Ul "UUJU uuwua. '.v. lies her truest hannincss, so are there -- .,..! i iound the dearest objects oi ner care, wuu liavc thc brst c,aim uPon ner ume antt affections. THE SEWARD FAMILY. 1 Barnes has said that when he left Fred- Interesting facts and Reihifiiscences of erick Seward on the night of the assas Mrs. Sewftra, by Mrs. Swisshelm. sination, he little thought to find hiui Washington, July 20th, 1865. 'alive in the morning ; that for weeks, the The pall of silence which has fallen queuing of his pulse at any moment upon the grave of Mrs. Seward is still musfc have been fataI- Wliat secured more remarkable than the unobtrusivo thafc Perfect rePse of body and mind ne quiet of her life, and I trust it is not idle cessai7 to the recovery of both ? The curiosity which makes me more anxious Porfc of her .death says ifc was caused by the women of this lumnfcrv nnnnnf. nffnr to lose, and in hone it. mnv inrW Bnm it . . . one wno Knew ner to give us some mcid ents in her honorable life, let me tell you the little, tho lif tla T L-nm When I went into Campbell Hospital. tw tilia Mra. VrnAni- Sown ha I vwvV VWIIUIU II 11 kj bllU wife of a nephewof the Secretary of State, wbo bein a Mlfiinr haA ih 1:u1v f who beinjr a bachelor had this ladv to preside over his home. She afterward call ed at my rooms, and I at Mr. Seward's house, on hospital business,I supposing she was Mr. Seward's niece by marriage un til the following winter, when there was much trouble in the contraband camps. Among the teachers was a Quakeress from Central New York, one of those who left homes of wealth and refinement to live in camp, cabin and barrack, to distribute clothing, books, encouragement and in struction amongst those scattered and bereaved people. We were one day in troubled council on one of the many wrongs which had stubbornly refused to be righted. It was hard to ask Secretary Stanton to give the time necessary to un- ajderstand tlip case'while his ante-room was constantly thronged with persons wait ing on important business. What to do was the question. Folding her hands in her lap and looking down thoughtfully, this lady soliloquised : "If Mrs. Seward was only here." What Mrs. Seward ? Mrs. Secretary Seward ! she answered abstractedly, and kept on thinking. My exclamation of supnse aroused her and her suprise at my ignorance was e qual to mine at her information. A ques tion as to the presentability of that lady, since such a person did actually exist, started her to talk as I had never before heard her. She described Mrs. Seward as one of the excellent of the earth. A woman of wonderful power and great breadth of attainment. the companion confidant, counselor of her husband. one who read his written speeches before the printer saw them, and gave an opinion which he valued more than any other. one who read and digested long, tiresome documents and gave him the substance in a few moments' fireside chat, thus con tributing largply to the fund of informa tion which distinguished Mr. Seward. She was his "higher law" adviser, and whenever his policy fell below that stand ard he had differed with her in opinion. She ever regarded the right as the ex pedient j or, in other words, aimed always to walk in the narrow path straight to ward "the mark for the prize of high calling which is in Christ J csus our Lord"" In dress and manner this friend des cribed her as simple and unostentatious to singularity. A smart mechanic's wife would not have exchanged wardrobes with her, and milliner's apprentices looked at her in pitying wonder for her lost op portunties. A few days after this conversation Mrs. Seward returned from Auburn, but her ar rival was not publicly announced. The contraband trouble was explained to her, and a short note of modest request from her to one in authority removed thc dif ficulty before which we had been stand ing in dismay. After that, when I heard people remark that the Sewards gave no receptions, I have thought of a little teacher of contrabands, in thc magnifi cent costume of mixed straw bonnet and brown ribbons, dark woolen dress and shawl, aud heavy shoes having marks of "sacred," with a little traveling basket on arm, going to Mr. Seward's house in the gloaming, weary, hungry, dishear tened and footsore, and finding a recep tion, a bath, a dinner, a bed, a breakfast, a long, comforting chat, a note to remove her overhanging mountain, and saw her lightened step as she returned to her du ties rejoicing. I never heard what kind at Tiffany's. A woman in Mrs. Seward's position, -"" co-worth of grandmother to stand upon. ' Rer B al Hihues3 Official position with a wirepulling husband to hear a- gainst- the Duchess of Shoddy, with a cdestaI of greenbacks for support the Countess of Petroleum, with a sea of ,. hfc t iU h d;amondg. and My Bi00mcr radiant in health and in- 0f study as a natural curiosity ; out to who simply remained outsidethat gilded difficult to get mm to comply, pagoda, society, in which Her Majesty, It was not more loquacity that render First Family with twenty-pound-of tobac- ed silence so irksome to the statesmen, but tho fractured- c'xistedA so as to know that she lived out tho world ot lash- luu) iu uiu Huim -vj jj.jj i(lea 0f christian obligation is to know that her example is one tb that the world canuot well afford to lose. Mr, Seward's recovery from the double a nF apmilnnr. nnA tlift assassin's occasioned py tne distress into family Was plunged by the at assassination. In other words. the devoted wile and mother died that the husband and son might live. These i ltrne in inliil eliA lm) ni .7 (lives in which she had merged her in- I dvittual being could only be reached I through hers. The dagger of the con- dividi il beiu spiracy made a passage for her spirit out Ii 1 . CP i 1 ui us uiay prison as enectuaiiy as n it nao passed aside from its purposed vic tim. Nothing in thc history of remark able women interests me so much as the little I know of this strong, heroic, unsel fish, sileut wife and mother of men whose names known over the civilized world. Cor. of thc Pittsburg Commerical. Mr. Seward during his illness as describ ed by his nurse. Mr, George Yocke, the soldier whom the Medical Director detailed to attend Mr. Seward as nurse, after the latter's accident by a fall, has favored us with interesting verbal information, in addi tion to the written communications for merly published by us concerning the at tempted assassination of Mr. Seward. He speaks with the warmest enthusiasm of the sublimity of character which the venerable statesman evinced during that terrible period, in which George Vocke spent many days and nights at his bed side. At the time Paine, alias Powell, burst into the sick room, Mr. Seward was as leep. While the assassin was inflicting his murderous blows, he lost neither his sensibility nor his presence of mind. Af ter his lacerated cheek had been sewed up, his first inquiry was about the condi tion of his son Frederick. He was in formed that under the circumstances, he was doing well, and sleepiug. Not until two months later did the surgeon deem it advisable to take the father to the bedside of his son, who, in consequence of the terrible injuries received, had so long lingered on the brink of death. Half an hour after receiving his own Mr. Se ward heard of the attack on the Presi dent, which his sharp ear gathered from the by-standers, and of the President's death he was at once informed on Satur day morning. As during thc catastrophe, so immediately thereafter, Seward dis played the composure of the philosopher. When he learned the death of the Presi dent, he remarked to the physicians a round his bedside that he had warned the President and also had taken precautions as his own safety, but had neglected these after his accident, beeause he never dreamed that they would assail a severely wounded man in his bed. On the morning of thc assassination he said to his nurses, his sensations im mediately after the assault had by no means been of an unpleasant nature! He had experienced no extraordinary pains ; but while the blood was gushing lrom bis arteries he had supposed that his end was nigh ; and thought at the same time what a pleasant thing it was to die thus, without a bit of pain. Toward his nurses and toward all who came near him during his sicKness, Mr Seward was uniformly friendly, even af fectionate. And never, when awake, did his philosophical firmness desert him. Only when asleep he would at times, dur ing the first two weeks aftcr his attack, suddenly start up and beat around with his hands when dreams brought the as sassin to his imagination, but in two or three minutes he was always quieted. During the first three weeks Mrs. Se ward was constantly, day and night, at the bedside cither of her husband or that of Frederick, and these exertions have since hastened the death of a lady equally distinguished for the excellent qualities of her head and heart. No less noble was the conduct of Mr. Seward's daughter, Miss Fanny. Indeed it is per haps to her courage that her father and the nation owe the salvation of his life. Like her mother, Miss Fanny was an un tiring attendant upon her suffering rela tives. The greatest trouble to the physicians was Seward's mental activity which did not abate even during his greatest physi cal weakness and severest pains. In or- to prevent all excitement during this critical period, and on account of tho shattered iaw-bone, the physicians en joined on him not to speak, but it was " . ... . i chiefly his patriotic anxiety about the re pU011C X1U UUHirUU IU UlJIirao mo uiiuu about the condition of the country, to ful- fill his official duties as becretary ot btate. The attending phy speaking even be; sicians iiau prouioiicu fore the attempted as- 'Bassiuation ; but to express his thoughts by writing-was also impracticable, as his right arm was broken. But as soon as the conditions of the fractured bone would anow, m-e muuiuiu guuuuuieu mm tu uuuu- ago ana iasicn tue upper tuiruui uiu arm, v - is enable him to use the lower part aud hand for writiner. In this manner he convers- ed with the Presideut during the last days of that lamented functionary's life. Ihe President would ait at his bedside and CX- the day, when Seward would write his views on a slate. In the same manner he' conducted his interviews, before and after, the aesassination, with Mr. Hunter the Assistant, Secretary of State, and thus ac tually conducted the affairs of the Departr went of State the papers, dispatches,' documents, etc., of which had to be car ried to his bedside, even during the criti cal periods of his illnp It was this same patriotic restlessness and activity of Mr. Seward when pre vailed on the physicians to send for a skillful physician of New York, who ar ranged an artificial wire apparatus in his' mouth, which enabled him'to speak with out risk, even before his jaw-bone trai healed. The apparatus caused r,h illnc- frious patriot at first excruciating pain and at one time became displaced, so that the New York physician had to be tele graphed in order to replace it. But all! these great and little annoyances did not for a moment disturb Seward's philosop hic intellect nor slacken his patriotic ac tivity. Few men in history have evinced as' much sublimity of character and strength of mind as William Henry Seward on his bed of sickness, surrounded by the terrors of assassination and conspiracy. He maintained these qualities even when, af- ter his partial recovery, he received the additional blow of the intelligence of the' death of his faithful spouse State ZeU twig. What tliey were DoingY , "What were the mob saying?" asked the district attorney of the Yankee wit ness "down East," in a riot trial. "Well, they were sorter singiug." . "What were they singing about ?" "Well, they were singing about a song "What was the song what were they saying ?" "As nigh as I kin keep the track, they was a telling Missus Long (her first name" was Lucy) to take her time." 'You can go." JBS'Willy," said an interesting young mother to her youngest hopeful, "do you; know what the difference is between body and soul? The soul, my child, is what you love with; the body carries you about. This is your body," touching the little fell ow's shoulder : "but there is some-' thing deeper in. You can feel it nowV What is ifc ?" . "Oh, I know," said Willy, with a flash1 of intelligence in his eyes, that's my flan nel shirt !" The number of battles fought during', the late war is 252. Of these the soil of Virginia drank the blood of 89 , Tennes see witnessed 37 ; Missouri, 25; Georgia, 12; South Carolina, 10; North Carolina; 11 ; Alabama, 7 ; Florida, 5 ; Kentucky. -14 ; the Indian Territory and New Mex ico, one each. Once the wave of war rolled into a Northern State, and broke', in the great billow of Gettysburg. Of the battles enumerated, sixteen were na yal achievements. K census taker up in" Otsego co., N.' Y., in his returns has the following item which is given literally: '-Remarks on the influence of the war upon prices; the credit system is abolished ; self-interest controls the Man Religion has become a collateral issue I The god Backus becomes a fire in every heart ! ! and card" playing becomes a pastime of Christian Jeremiah Townsend, Assistant-Cashier of theTownsend Savings Bank in New-Haven,-Conn., who absconded with $100,000 in May last, was recently arrested in Liver pool, England, by two American detectives." Nearly alt the -stolen money haB Been recov ered. A negro woman who was baptized, a few Sundays ago at Huntsvillc, Alabama, ,caraQ! forth from the water shouting, "Freed' frortf slavery, freed" from sin, bless God, and Gen. Grant." A Mr. Ilenn has started a new paper in Iowa. He says he hopes by hard scratching to' maS'e a livin for himself and his little' chickens, The population efBinghampton, N.Y.Kas been ascertained, by census, to be 10,060 an increase of 181 Since 1800. An Indiana " democrat" at Verona, in that State, recently cowhided his daughter till her back "tVas all raw, because she sur reptitiously read a memorial volume on Mr.' Lincoln; The brutal father was arrested.- Tvo-mcn undertook to sec which could run the' fas'test. One was a constable and the other was a thief. The toothache may be cured by hold-;; iug the hand a certain root the root-of the aching tootlr. - - "i BgjuAn anaconda, in a museum in Cin cincinnafi, recently gave birth to thirty three young reptiles. A mad in' Illiuois has invented a horse1 shoe which needs no nails nor screws, and' which after being fittted, can be taken offf and bo put on by any one in :r shor time. ' '
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