DA - TLY POST. TITURNDA "" Rebel Women B. F. 'F., army correepondem 01 the Chicago j uurna t, ia oLe of lire le!!er from Tenned9eo. says: I shall never be done admiring ;he pa trio& faith and undying devr,tiuu of the loyal women of the 4,111, but I must tell you that the rebel women or the South are worthy in everything hut a sacred cause, of their Northern sisters. Ttere is noth ing they will not surrender with a smile ; the gamed ring, the diamond bracelet, the rich wardrobe. They cut up the rich carpets for soldiers' blankets, without a sigh ; take linen frgin their piersons for the bandages. When 400 of Long street's men came no to Nashville, prix onars of wa4., about the roughest, dirtiest, wildest fellaws the sun ever shone on, and a fight of stairs in the building they or caplet' fell, killing and wounding a large number of them, you should have seen the fair young traitresses come forth from the old aristocratic mansions, bearing res• toratives sod delicacies in their hands. mingling in the dingy crowd, wiping away the blood with their white handkerchiefs, and uttering words of cheer; should have seen them doing this, with hundreds of Union soldiers all round, and smiling back upon the rough blackguards of rebels as they left. But in all there was a defiant air, a mice in their humanity strange to see. Of a truth they c.irre-.3 it orf graudly. I And almost all those girls were in mourn ing for dead rebels, brothers, lovers, friends, whom these same girls had sneer ed into treason and driven into rebellion, and billowed all the South with their graves, and the least they to wear black for them and dau from the window blinds. Clothed rsoale in sackcloth! I said they w urthy of their sisters at the North, . , all but a righteous cause, but I said wrong. There is a bitterness, there are glimpses of the Pythoness, that makes you shrink from them. But they are teartully in earnest they are alm'est grand in self-sacrifice Oh! that they were true and loving daugh ters of the old flag A Martyr to Music One day the fits and drum Majors went out into the woods to practice a new tune. Attracted no doubt by the melody, a fine shout of musical proclivities, came near —alas! for the safety of his bacon, too near—for our Lass drummer, by 'a change cf base,' ina.li- a base attack on his front : while tho fifer, by a bold and rapid dank movement, charged him in the rear. '1 . 1 , 91i.9 soon over : a few well directed volleys of clubs and 2,ther persuasives were applied, and piggy 'went dead—a martyr to his love far music. But how to get the de ceased pork into;llamp '' That's what's die matter taw. , After considerable discussion, au idea strikes thrnmmer, "We will put him in the dru " "Just tile thing, by 4.ho key," said he fifer. Une head was taken out, and tilt hog stowed in, and our heroes started foi their quarters. carrying the drum betviten them. In the meantime the regiment went oat for dress parade, and the Colonel, somewhat vexed at the absence of his principal musicians, no sooner saw the gents, than. in a voice of reprimand, he ordered them to take their places with the music. The drum-bearers halted, looked a: each other; then at the Colonel, but said never a word. The Colonel repeated his order, in a style ro-ernphatic that it could not be mis understood. The dealers in pork felt that 1 a crisis had arrived and explanetion had become a military neces- , ity. So the drum mer, going up close to the Colonel, made him acquainted with ihe state (..1 affairs, winding up with, "We 'low, Colonel, to bring the lisst quarter over to your mess." Sick, eh'." thundered the Colonel, "why didn't you Bay so at first? Go to your quarters, of rout se. Bat:alion, right face t"The Colonel had fresh pork for supper. Romantic Story Upwards of thirty years ago a marriage took place in this neighborhood (Liver pool,) the man and wife being in humble circumstances. •After living together till after the birth of a child, the husband went to Australia to seek his fortune. His wife never heard iron him atter he left her, and, tupposing he was dead, on the lapse of seven years she married a widower with three children. To this number in her second married life she added five, making her whsle family, in eluding the child b. her first husband, . ninkoln all. Some time sines the second husband died, and she was left to struggle ~with her large family, To her great ear •prise, at the beginning of the preset year her first husband made his appearance at Liverpool. During hie thirty years' ab sence he had prospered in Australia, and was a large landed propiietor there. 135 had heard of his wif o 's second marriage, but as this... Lull vi.a.s..his he never tldoughy of returning to England until he heard of the death 'of the second husband. To utake amends for hie former neglect of wife—for notwithstanding her second she was still hie wife—he behaved in the moat handannae manner to all ber chi ..wren. gave thou - , c atly outfits, and has to *loess them and the wife of his .early af ,feotions out with him to the land of his adoption. The wife, who has thus, after an absence of more than thirty years ' been restored to her position, is now about -seventy years of age.--Liverpool Mercury. A Woman on a Rainy Day. ' Gail Hamilton thus describes a woman on - a rainy day . "S..- Low ,be is forced tq with ,rate all the energies of her mind on herself and her casings. One hand dingsdesperately to the unwieldly um brella. the other is ceaselessly struggling to keep grin hold of the multitudinous thiperies ; and if book, basket or bundle • shim a shah of he: i.tterition, her case is justifiable ins. rd, lic,wn goes one fold ~hpou the wet leg stone, detected only by au Otlik'LlQta gapping against the ankles whs,i the garment has become esturated— a looseudd hold of the umbrella, of which 3 takes advantage., and immediately aways itarnirip*lt over the gutter—a con ruXsive and rand, ru catch at the petticoats. The umbrella righial a sudden gust of wind threatens to bear it away, and, one hand not being sufficient to detain it, the otherinvoinntarily comes to the rescue-- sweep go the draperies down on the pave ment ; then another (-mid, another adjmr.- ment—forward! march' and so on to the dreary. dr,,g,lt-,3 , nd. Stalk —,, tr.:li--sialk—entne.i. tip the mi.-, behind her. Stalk—stalk—he has pass ed. Stalk—.talk—stalk—h e is out of sight belo-e she has passed a single blo4k. A Canine; Congress. A pleasant from B-rhu says. "An ealobwk,. d .,Kr ass cpeneci here recently, the se.. L.!. t'i, kind ever held. in Germany. 'int: P•SE‘I- w-ith may tted Ascribed, in the language of the ps an International Canine Congress, was very numerously attended. Almost every c,ontitry in the world was represented by one or more delegates. English bulldogs, French poodles and Italian greyhounds here met-their friends from Newfoundliaid, from Kamtechatka and the North rope. The d-bates, as might be expected, were ''veryanima*.; , t and ws , •te stiff - going On very lively when I left ; but as to the ander discussion I am sorry to say 'that I could not gather an idea. It must have been somethin g very exciting, for there .wer° never lees than a score :of speakers on their legs at once." THE EITTSB Business Cards, &c. JOSEPH SBOWDE ri, 0 rl'A. FLY P Et I, lc NO. 89 DIAMOND STREET,