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Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main street, in the Old Bank Building. Jan. 28, 1863.-13, A. !ORMAN. 7 O. RITCHIE. PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORd AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. Err All business in Greene, Washington. and Fay. ette Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prompt attention. Sept.ll,lB6l-Iy. R. W. Down - Ese, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. 137 - Office in edarith's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. IeCONNICIL.L. IMVOO2II7.4MILL . & ITTOENEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Wayliednirgi Pa. Office to the "Wright Mize," East Door. Collections, &c., will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg. April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRAWFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in Sayers' adjoining the Poet Mee. Sept. 11, 1861--ly. C. •. SLACK. JOHN PHHLAN. BLACK & PHELAN, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW Othee Ist the Court House, Wayneaburg. Sept. 11,1851-Iy. PILYSIOLILNS M. BLACHLEY J _M. D. PEIMICZAN SMILOZION, Oleo--Mmehlera Balldtag, Xattsa RESPHCTIFULLY announces to ,the citizens or Waynesburg and vicinity that be has returned from the Hospital Corps of the Army and resumed the prac tice of medicine at this place. Waynesburg, June 11, 136.-13. DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender his services as a PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON, to the people or Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to business, to merit a sham of public patronage. Weynt song. January 8, IBM DR. A. J. EGGY TIZSPECTFIILLY offers his services to the citizens JR, of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and Burgeon. Office opposite the Republican office. lie hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention to.business, to merit a liberal share of public patronage. April 9, 1861. DRUGS M. A. HARVEY, eruggist and Apothecary. and deader in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. l I, 1881-Iy. - • DIIIRMWITS • WM. A. PORTER, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign mot Domes tic Dry Goode. Groceries, Notions, &c., Maid Sept. 111.1861-Iy. R. CLARK, Dealer in Dry Goode, Groceries, Hardware, Queens ware and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court House. Main street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gm cedes, Queensware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House. Main street. Sept. 11, IB6l—ly, •~~ ~ _ _• J. D. COSGRAY, Boot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite' the •Tarmer's and Drover's Rank." Every style of Boots and Shoed ermstatitly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 163431-Iy. N. H. MCCLELLAN Soot and Shoe matter,fillachtey'e Corner; Main street. /loots and Shoes of every variety always on hand or made to order on short noticel Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. GROCERIES & VAILINTLBS. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries. Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, dm., Glass of all sizes. and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. idWr Cash paid for good eating Apples. Dept. 11, 1861-Iy. JOHN MUNNELL 1 tower la Groceries and Confectionaries, and Variety Owed. Generally. Wilson's New Building, !Bain street. /Mgt. U. 1861-Iy. 11007E8, &o. LEWIS DAY, Dealer in School and Illiseellentious Books, Station ary,•lnk, Magazines and Papers. One door east or Porter's Store. Main street. Sept. 11, 1861 ly. asimmus aim Riuurzas SAMUEL WALLISTER, /ate. Mamma and Trunk Maker. old Book Ilept. TOBAMOIMMIC -1100VOIRA HAGER, and wanikank and Wail dotaaanda and anuit'gegar Cow. Ployice.; la Sending, Main innan. OptU, 114 . 1 —/Y. 2 • • 4 . • Wag 3 1 1)"101144 Aft *Wm Ow 01 4 11 1114.4. ri , aids! 1,91141111 . - na ' • WRINOLILS How sweet to the taste is the Irish potato! As memory awakens a thought to the plant, Its dark verdant vine-top and beautiful blossom, In pleasant transition my memory haunt. Aye! thought of the root in profusion once growing, On the brood sunny hill-slope adjoining the mill, At the homestead, how many we raised there's no knowing, For some were but small ones, and few in a hill! The mealy potato, the Irish potato, The thin-skinned potato that grew on the hill. That delectable plant I would praise while I'm able, For often at noon when returned from th• field, I found it superior to all on the table— The best flavored edible that nature could yield. With what an eager appetite, sharpened by labor, I plied my knife and fork with a hearty good will; Alas! there are none of the old-fashioned flavor, None like the "real Simone" that grew on the hill. J. J. HUFFMAN How prime from the full-heapeo dish to As, poised on my fork, it ascends to my mouth ! • No appeal to the palate could tempt me to Though affected by "rot," or a long summer's drouth, And now far removed from that situation, Where I used to partake of the root to my fill, •Fancy fain would revert to my father's plantation, And sigh for the "kidneys" that grew on the bill. A TERRIBLE PENALTY OF TREA SON, The New Albany Lodger says . Many of our citizens wilt remember Professor Nutting. a musician of su perior accomplishments, a ge!itleman of fine social qualities, and formerly leader and tutor of the far-famed "New Albany Silver Band." Un for',unately, Professor Nutting who left New Albany for a residence in the South prior to the breaking out of the rebellion, became poisoned by that fatal error, Secession, and en listed as a musician in the rebel army, leaving his wife and several beautiful and interesting little chil dren to the care of Southern patri ots, who promised him they should not want for anything. The band to which Professor Nutting was at tached was soon dispensed with, and the members reduced to the ranks. Then these promises, like all others made by the rich and leading trait ors, were soon broken, and not long since two of Professor Nutting's chil• dren died )f actual starvation at Jackson, Miss., and his heart bro ken wife, after suffering from illness and hunger, was finally sent through our lines, and by means of funds sup plied by the charitable and sympa thetic, forwarded to the home of her parents in Michigan. We have this repor - , well authent;cated by a let ter received in this city by a well known and responsible citizen. and from an equally reliable source at Louisville. THE LEVEE BY THE PRUNE OF On the 25th of February, was, as regards attendance, the moat numer ous and most remarkable of the century. It was attended by 8,000 of the nobility and gentry, including —apart from the official and diplo matic personages-8 dukes, 10 mar quises, 25 earls, 28 viscounts, 4 bish ops, 65 lords, n right honorables, 72 honorables, the Master of Lovat, 68 baronets, 37 airs, 10 deans, 33 Queen's counsel, 8 archdeacons, 12 reverend doctors,2 reverend pro fessors, 36 revereds, 33 doctors, 438 messieurs, 34 admirals, 42 captains R. N., 14 commanders. 9 lieutenants, R N., 88 generals, 204 colonels, 63 majors, 155 captains,.. 53 lieutenants, 3 cornets, 5 ensigns, Le. The pressure is described as terrific, and in the rash orders and orna ments were remorselessly torn off.— One gentleman, it was rumored, had his ribs fractured; and an eye wit ness states that the courtly crowd "fougl*-1* i • , PessoOssc.ii" and places just as fiercely add rudely as theie 41504" a" ' , pothers and sisters M the of the theatres." The 'limes roma" strtie% on tide **tees, 11 Oidilaritilit in -no other ossutry imialill each a same be permitted. select tatttg. THE IRISH POTATO. The mealy potato, the Irish Potato, The thin-skinned potato that grew on the hill. receive it, leave it, The mealy potato, the Irish potato, The thin skinned potato that grew on the hill. WALES WAYNESBURG., GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1863. DA iottilaurfatis, " NO BORROW LIKE MINE." Many cherish, if they do not ex press in words, this bitter and mur muring feeling. We ask such to read the following story "it seems so bard—so cruel !" said the young mother, and here a sob broke into her voice. She clasped her hands over her eyes, and the tears broke through her fingers— such salt, bitter tears as could only break up frQm IP mother's heart—a mother robbed of her first• born ! Two weeks ago that very day he had been with her in the chamber where the young mother now sat in darkness and desolation, the little joyous head fluttering about the room, the little restless feet patter : ing along the floor, and the little glad voice breaking up in quick shouts of lvghter, or lisping out those pretty broken words and en treaties which are such sweet music to a mother's heart; and now—? There stood in the corner the lit tle crib, with its pretty lace c'ir taius, and over it hung the snowy apron and embroidered merino dress he bad last worn, and at the foot lay the little morocco slippers that the mother couldn't have removed from her sight, though the feet that had worn them now lay folded close together, and down so deep under the grass that no warmth of the sun shine could ever reach them. "Don't, Mary, don't ! It might have been worse Remember there are sorrows greater than yours," said the soft, pi tying voice of Mrs. Howard, the lady's most intimate friend, who was passing the morning with her. The stricken woman looked up in incredulous astonishment, that chec ed for a moment the flow •of her tears. "How can you tell me this, Helen ?'" she exclaimed in a voice broken with grief and wounded feel ing; "hp was my only boy, my little Harry, with but' two years and five months over his golden head; and I loved him so; an then I don't be lieve there ever was another quite so pretty and bright a child. You know, too, how my very heart was bound up in him ' • how if I ever ran out for an hour,l was never easy till I got back to him again; and how 1 used to stand and watch him after he had got to sleep in the crib there, with one little chubby hand wrapped up like a Hily under his cheek, and the smiles crimping up his red lip; and then just to think of his pretty, frolicsome, teasing way, that made me stop every other minute and hug him up to my heart, and cover his face with kisses. Oh, Harry, my baby, my precious baby ! shall I never see nu again ? Sure ly, Helen, there never was sorrow like unto my sorrow," and the sobs broke out again. "Yes, Mary, there was," and Mrs. Howard's solemn tones checked the tears 3f her friend. "I know of a sorrow with whose bitterness yours bears no comparison, and it has come into our family, unto my own and only sister, for her pride, her idol, her Herbert is in prison!" "Oh. Helen t" cried Mrs. Sprague, springing up from her chair with a shudder, while she looked at the pale, working features of her friend. "I cannot talk of it, Mary, or it will drive me, as it has his mother, frantic. You saw . him in his child hood, and can remember what a beautiful promising boy he was; but he was impetuous, and fond of society and all sorts of fun, and his mother was doting And indulgent; and 60 he grew up to his seventeenth birthday, reckless and self-willed, though he was too kind-hearted to be over malicious, "I must make the story short : he fell into bad company and bad hab its, and one night when quite in toxicated, be was persuaded to join some incendiaries. The ringleaders were detected, and the boy was gen_ tenced to a year in the peniten tiary, which might have been ten, only his youth pleaded hard with the kind-hearted judge; and now he lies down at night in a felon's cell, while his poor broken-hearted moth er paces her room with the tears streaming down her wasted cheeks as she moans over and over these words : "lf he had but died when he was but a baby !—if he had but died then !" And Mrs. Sprague listened to this story with mingled horror and sym pathy, which made her forget her own own grief, and at its close she said solemnly : " Yes, Helen her I sorrow is greater than mina, had ten thousand times rather Harry had died than lived for this." And tbr you,, oh, stricken moth ers, who have laid down, with such heartaches: ail God beat knoweth, the child of your love do 1 write this story. mirOne half of the unhappiness we hove is this life exists because of too math sensitiveness,. /sod $ morbid disposition which allows trifles to weigh heavily ow oer aged& A trilling loss or ineotivesienoe often ammo' more anacrirasopthao ft much fano* • POLAND. The latest news from Europe gives some reason to hope that the revolu tion in Poland will result in a great improvement in the condition of that unhappy country; that the blood thot has been shed so devotedly in ddense of her outraged rights will not have been shed in vain. France and England seemed to have fully resolved upon united action to com pel the Emperor of Russia to fulfill the treaty of Vienna by granting the Poles a constitutional Govern .ll ent. Unhappily, they are .not yet prepared to demand of Russia, Aus tria, and Prussia the restoration of the old kingdom of Poland. The time for thin, in the opinion of the in tervening powers, has not yet ar rived. That it will surely come mast be the trust of all who believe in the coming of the day when might and right and truth shall be united, never to part again. It does honor to the people of Eng land and France that all parties in both countries agree in denouncing the conduct of Russia toward the Poles. This is less remarkable in England than in France, where it is, indeed, extraordinary that there is such entire unanimity on this sub ject among clericals and anti-cleri cals, Bonapsrtists, Orleanists, Legit imists, and Republicans of every grade. It will be impossible for Rus sia to resist such a demonstration. It is hard for Americans to realize the miseries to which these poor, op pressed people of Poland have been subjected. It is wonderful that it can enter into the hearts even of the worst of men to inflict such cause less sorrows on their fellow-men.— For many years, ever since the treaty of Vienna in 1815, it has been the cherished object of the Poles to ob tain from their hard masters the con stitutional Government promised them, to have a Polish administra tion, and to encourage the study or their native language, which has been studiously discouraged by Rus sia, Austria, and Prussia for purposes of oppression. It is said by some that the present Emperor of Russia has favored these objets. Any oth er policy, indeed, would be so for eign to that which he has pursued with his own people of Russia, that this statement might well be credit ed but for the oppressive acts which he has permitted, and which he has sustained by armed force. Notwith standing all the efforts made by all classes in Poland to obtain by peace ful representations the constitutional Government to which they know themselves to be entitled by common right and by solemn treaty, they ut terly failed in securing from Russia any concessions whatever. Driven to despair, they formed secret socie ties. These might have been law fully suppressed by the Russian Gov ernment, which, however, chose the course of violence and illegal oppres ion. It ordered that persons named on certain lists furnished by the po lice, persons known or suspected to belong to these societies, should be teroibly taken in the night from their families, and consigned for life. simply on account of their political opinions and supposed revolutionary intentions, to.service in the Russian army. This conscription, conducted with no reference to this fitness of the corocripts fqr the service, and with no regard to the usual rules of con scription, was certainly a measure of tie harshest severity. The mem bers of the secret societies, who per. haps meditated some future revolt, though they might never, but for this act of tyrranny, have carried their design into execution, were driven to despair, and considered that, if they were to be compelled to serve as soldiers, they ought to give the last drop of their blood for the liberties of their country. And thus naturally began the revolution. It in sadly true that, single-banded the Poles would be unable long to cope with their formidable adversa ries, whose overwhelming numbers could not fail finally to crush them. True, the Russian soldiers have thus far been gallantly met and often re pulsed. But this resistance could not continue long without foreign intervention. That intervention seems about not to be niade by armed force, but by strong protes tations, which Russia knows well must be yielded to, unless she is ready and wilting to provoke the use of armed force, The result of the whole matter is therefore evident. France and Eng land will protest, Russia will respect their protest, and wilt make valua ble concessions to her Polish sub jects. And there the subject will rest, till new oppressions by the ru ler and new aspirations for freedom by the oppressed shall arouse anoth er flame, which shalt either be ex tinguished in blood and tears, or shall consume forever every vestige of tyranny. tor Virtue consists in doing our duty, in the seven! relations ;limit instain, Pinto* to Oflllol,_ to OW AUMIIMOrnii and is thod, si known hoist sosiwin, conseienno fund revelation. • NWwry 11*Se UM, livery would SAW The Polish Revolution.—How the Poles Flght.--Atroeities of the Russians. We glean from the foreign files by the city of Baltimore, the following incidents of the outbreak in Poland, showing the determined spirit which animates the insurgents, and the atrocities committed by the Russian troops: A LETTER FROM THE POLISH POET MICKIEWICZ The Opinion Nationale publishes a letter from the Polish poet Mickie wicz, whose patriotic national songs are now sung by the insurgents.— It is dated Warsaw, February 16th, and contains these ringing passages: Many Russians and foreign officers do not understand by what an amount of living despair we are an mated they .become indignant and disgusted at seeing children hardly eight years old discharge revolvers at Russian soldiers, and they never think of the towns and villages which our tyrant* have reduced to cinders. All here, whether rich or poor, before they know how to speak or think, have in them the germ of an inextinguishable hatred of foreign domination. Our fathers and our grandfathers suffered all that we suf fer, although we were born in the midst of hanging and transporta tions to Siberia, and have all our lives been persecuted and hunted down by the most infamous men that could be found in Russia. * * * The insurgents are for their country, disarmed, preferring death to the lives they lead, and resolved in any case not to fall in the bands of the Russians. The rumor circu lates that Langiewicz, having made the mistake. of giving battle to the enemy at Swito Kisy, has been de stroyed. However, it is but a ru mor. The wounds of the Russians are mortal when the terrible scythes of the peasants reach them; the hospitals are full, the soldiers exas perated, and the Cossacks avenge themselves by killing all they coins across. A Jew of Lida has just returned here. lie says that everywhere along his route the landholders and peasants thought of nothing but rising. The insurgents have also taken his son and whatever provis ions be carried with him, but he makes no complaint about either.— The Russians set fire to all the coun try, and put all whom they met to the sword. Up to the present we have been absurdly generous, for our people released both officers and sol diers who fell into their hands. RUSSIAN ATROCITIES A Berlin correspondent of the London Daily News, writing under date of February 19th, say,s : In Warsaw the terror of the gov ernment is very great, as any one in whose house arms or insurgents may be found will be tried by a drum head court martial and executed at once, and the house is to bo destroy ed by cannon. Heart-rending as were a few details respecting the massacres by the Russians at Tainas co on thNth instant, I cannot help recording some fresh ones, furnished from a credible source. The brother of Col. Dombros!ci was barbarously murdered a lad, 15 years old, having run out of. the house at the roar of the cannon, ex claimed that it was the intervention of Providence that kept the Russian bullets from the Poles. An infuriated Cossack, hearing this, seized the boy, and saying, "Let Providence now keep the bullets from you," killed him on the spot. One of the mur dered Poles had a spoon in his pock et, with which the Russians took some blood out of the Pole's wounds, and, placing it to the lips of the corpse, shouted out, "Drink some of this punch." Nothing can describe the degree of atrocity which marks this Russian campaign. The whole of the offices of the immense property of Count Zamoyski, at Swierryniec, contain ing papers, deeds, accounts. &c., have been destroyed, and the beautiful country palace Klemersov, and an other estate, Badaezov, have been made a heap of ruins. The town of Krzeszov was on the 14th of Februrry occupied by the Russians and. leveled to the ground, the greater part of the inhabitants imprisoned, among thein the curate Lukas wicz; who, moreover, was beaten with sticks unmercifully. The insura ° ents, having been met near that town, offered a gallant resist ance, and had several wounded, among whom was a priest. They then retreated into the forests of Ksiezopol. • How long this sanguinary war will last, and whore it will end, is known to Heaven alone. The Poles, on hearing that the Prussian troops will cane to the assistance of the Russian* are more determined to shed the last drop of theta blood, and already sign* Of the peasents, being favorable to the movements are nu merous. They do. lot oitly as in Lltbashrtia. join she ranks °Abe la sargents, but everywhere give thou bell', shelter end infornastaos about the movements of ,the away. The nobles, likewise, Ilea, and spare no mows to onpport the insurgents. A TESTIMONY. At about forty-three years of age, I suffered an almost entire prostra tion of health, in consequences of ex cessive labors and affliction, from the sicknes and death of my children.-- During several years in which I was sinking, I tried in vain, under medi cal direction, the most approved forms of stimulus, joined with the most nutritious and varied diet.— When at length my powers were al most Woken down, I was persuaded by a friend, to abandon the use of wine and every other alcoholic stimulus, and to depend on a small quaatity of bread, crackers, rice, and a little animal muscle, or other sim ple kinds of food, with water, milk, or other mild dilutent drinks, omit ting everything that contains alco hol. Within a few weeks my health began to mend, and at the end of one year, I was able to return to ard uous duties, demanding constant ex ertion of both body and mind. My frame naturally vigorous and elastic, gradually recovered its tone, and now, thirteen years after the period of my greatest depression, I am able, upon simple but common diet, consisting of the most usual articles of food, ta ken without any use of alcoholic stimulus, to perform constant labor in my profession, with much public speaking, and I sustain no inconven ience, except the fatigue which sleep removes, as in the case of other healthy persons. I was from child hood, constitutionally prone to bleed ing at the nose, and sometimes to au alarming degree. After the recovery of my health, I allowed myself to use with moderation, the best bot tled cider at dinner only. After ab staining from it a few weeks, on a long journey (because cider of a good quality could not be obtained at the tavern), my nose-bleeding ceased, and with it the vertigoes, and con fused and uncomfortable feelings of the head and nerves, by which I fre quently had been troubled. Think ing that cider might have been con cerned in causing these effects, I have never returned to its use, and for nearly three years since I omit ted cider, I have had no serious re currence of these affections —From Benjamin Silliman, D., LL. D. IF YOU MEAN NO, SAY NO! When a man has made up his mind to do or not do a thing, he should have the pluck to say so, plainly and decisively. It is a mistaken kindness —if meant kindness—to meet a re quest which you have determined not to grant, see about it," or "I'll think the matter over," or, "I canna give you a positive answer now; call in a few days and I'll let you know." it may be said, perhaps, that the ob ject of these ambiguous expressions is to "let the applicant down easy;" but their tendency is to give him use less trouble acd anxiety, and possibly to prevent his seeking what he re quires in a more propitious quarter until after the golden opportunity has passed. Moreover it is question able whether the motives for such equivocation are as philanthropic as some people suppose. Generally speaking, the individual who thus avoids a direct refusal, does so to save himself pain. Mon without de cision of character have an inde scribable 'aversion to say " No. " They can think "No "---sometimes when it would be more creditable to their courtesy and benevolence to say "Yes"—but they dislike to utter the bold word that represents their thoug'its. They prefer to mislead and deceive. It is true that these bland and considerate people are oft en spoken of as "very gentlemanly." But is it gentlemanly to keep a - man in suspense for days, and perhaps weeks, merely because you do not choose to put him out of it by a straightforword declaration Y He only is a gentleman who treats his fellow-men in a manly, straightfor ward way. Never seem by ambigu ous words to sanction hopes you do not intend to gratify. If you mean "No," out with it ! DEMBINSKI IN THE FIELD, Paris, Friday Evening.—Gen. Dombinski's numerous acquaint ances here learn from Le Siecle the truth of his departure and sadden ap pearance at the head of the revolt in 1k and, thus adding a truly form idable feature to the movetnent,— The veteran is now seventy-four, and it is more than halt a eontury, since he helped to rout the Russians at Srnolenski, (1812,) under Bonaparte; in his march on Moscow. He fought under Poniatowski at Leipsic, and fi l tared in the front of the rising in 1830. The vigor be displayed in Hungary is of too recent memory to require indication. the whole can duct of the struggle cannot fail to devolve thenceforward on his su preme guidance. We gather from the Wanderer that instances are by no means pubes:rent of - genie* offi eeixzusferring t4pir services to the the insurgents, and afeeting "a similar transfer of stores and war sappties, a *malt whist Alexander Remo. in hit l- 444.4 hod long pm Lam' as for, and to witlah MBA R/ it. stirring appeal, !MAT Ealkiniy contrib.at. NEW SERJES.--VOL. 4, NO. 43. THE BATTLE-FIELD OF STONE RIVER, Parson Brownlow writes from Nashville :—t have just returned from Murfreesboro, where I spent two days in riding through the vast encampments of our troops, and over the late battle ground. I traversed about five miles in extent of the bat tle-ground, first in the fields, and then In the woods among the cedars and timbers where much hard fight ing was done. No man at a dis tance, only receiving the newspaper accounts, can form any idea of the number of dead horses and mules upon the ground. Their names are legion. They are often piled up, one upon another —some shot through the body, some through the neck, others with beads and logs shot off. but all are in wonderful state of preservation, though lying on the field more than two months. The trees are peppered with bul lets for miles, the twigs are cut off, and many trees are cat off at points ranging from five to thirty feet from the ground. Large trees of size sufficient to make saw-logs, where the cannon ball struck them fairly, they passed clear through, and daylight can be seen through as one rides along. Cannon balls are to be seen all along the line, and shells that failed to explode. In oth er instances pieces of shell are upon the ground, and among the cedars I handled them. The graves of the dead aro to be seen everywhere, in untold numbers. The headboards of single graves in dicate who many of them are, giving names, regiments, and residences.— Among the rebel graves I found the name of a relative of my wife, a cap tain of Artillery, from Alabama, killed in the fight on the 30th of De cember. In many instances ditches were dug, and from seventy-five to one hundred men packed into it, ditch. The dirt upon many of these is only a few inches deep, and in some instances hands and feet are sticking out. The greatest sight to be seen is that in front of where Gen. Rosecrans massed his artillery, say one hundred and twenty guns. Dead horses and mules, and an innu merable quantity of graves, tell the . effect of those guns. . FRINGE OF WALES' GIFTS TO HIS lo magnificent bridal presents of the Prince of Wales to the Princess ALEXANDRIA are thus described by the London Times:—"For the last day or two the establishment of Messrs. GARRARD, the Crown jeliyel ler, has been eagerly sought by fash ionable visitors anxious to see the costly presents manufactured for the Prince of Wales as gifts to his bride. Some of them aro already exhibited.; others will be shown,in the course of the present week. Conspicuous canonic the beautiful objects now on view is a completeparureof diamonds and pearls, comprising a necklace, a broach and ear-rings. The neck lace is composed of eight clusters, with large pendants, the centre clus ter consisting of three fine pear shaped pearl drops. and the whole being connected with festoons of splendid pearls, surrounded by dia monds, with other pearls as drops.— These jewels are all of the first quail : . ty, and were manufactured after the design and under the superintend ence of the Prince. "Glittering on each side of the parure are two broaches, entirely of diamonds, formed so as to represent the Prince of Wales' feathers. These are of different sizes, but both very large. The wedding' ring, which, of course, is of plainagold, is remark ably massive, and its accompanying keeper is set with six precious stones, selected and arranged so that the initial letters of their names shall form the word 'Bettie,' an af fectionate variation of 'AmoraT.'— The stones of which this happy com bination is effected are a beryl, an emerald, a ruby, a turquois, a ja cynth, *and another emerald. A plain gold ring has likewise been made to ho worn by the Prince himself. As presents for the bridesmaids, eight lockets have been made. These are of coral and diainotd, to signify the red and white which are the colors of Denmark. In the centre of each is a cypher in crystal, forming the letters A. E A., after a drawing by the Princess Arden. •The eight bridemaids themselves present to her royal highness a splen did diamond and enamel bracelet.— This is made in eight compartments, in each of which is the miniature portrait of one of the young ladies, with her initials beneath in diamonds. Messra. GARRARD are also lashing two other presents for the soya bride—one from her Majesty, con sisting of a most costly suit or opal. and diamonds, as Valuable and as rare as those which the Prince of Wales presented to the Princess flays', and similar in form to the e. suit designed for the Primo. by the Prince Consort. The is anoti)er present from, the of Wales, and consists of a brilliiett tiara, but this will not be eeeeplated before the end of next week.' BRIDE.
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