if , . , .... ......... .JPLJN BY S. J. ROW. CLEABFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865. VOL. 11.-NO. 33. u to njnonw' wik7njr iumt . t5 ill I 4 w H I FAREWELL.' jfr flrrt child. I hare no ion to gir you; Su Urk oould pip tb iki.t to dull ami grey; Tt, er Prt X oan leave you For erery day. : :- $ good, tweet maid . and let who will be olerer ; li tobl. ttiiiiKcotdram them, a'-l day long, 4ld t Hiaae lite, death, and at vaat iorever, Uue grand, iireet lung. A3 ORPHAN AND AN ANGEL. A STORY WITH A MORAL. A little pauper boy sat down on the curb itoaa aal triad to chink.. His feet were tare, red, and i.oid; but never uiiud that. Ta. chill airponetrated hi ragged garments, l it nover mini that. Hj wanted to think. Vro are these people passing him, looking u warm and coiuiortabie? W hat did it tu-in that they ahoaid te happy and chejr f i!. sa l hi so sad ? Nond or' ilieru had such Lo a vy hearts; that ha was . sure of, lie bjked up into the cold bine bky. What was it, and who lived up there? Somebody ea.d once that God w -u.d take care of nim. Wiiero was God? Why didu't hj take care cf h tn? Oh, if he could only see God for ; cud U.tie miuute, or the angel that the good Eiea told buu of when his mother died! , l.d t'olk ever see God? Did they ever see Angels? ' Ail organ gnuder came near and took his ttanJ. The melody he p'uyeeu lightened the little boy'a heart somewhat ; but it did nt make him luia hungry. He kopt shiv eiiug in spita of th music; and he felt so !l alone, ao despairiu.'! Then the organ- f;rinier pastel away ; ha never heeded the ittle child nittif g on the curb-stone ; he had 0 many thing to think oif. The carriages parsed by, au i the carts, and a company of eoldier; but it wai ail dumb show to him he wn tryiog to think, with such a dull pain : his heart. Presently three or four coarse looking boy gathered behind him, and winked and laughod at each other. In an other moment the youngest gave a thrust ( uver Weill. IUC J'UUl uiuc uumuitM luuh iut 0 tha -atter. One scream, one sob of snzuiih. as he trathered himself up and looked after the boys, now flying away with ahijuts of mirth. On, how cruel it seemed in them how cruel 1 The little hungry boy walked slowly on, gobbing and shivering to himself. He didn't kuow what he was walking for, or why h was living. . He felt out of place a poor liitle forlorn spirit that tad lost ita way a bruised reed that any cn u;:ght break a little heart so tender that a look wae auguuh, how much more a blow J The little boy stood at lat near the corner cf a street. Ad apple Etaud, at which he fuzed with longing eyes, not far off, was tended by a cross-looking old n 3n. There wei cake on the ttand, and the poor little mouth of tha homeless chiid watered as he taw one boy alter another deposit his penny ad take his cake. He had no penny, and though there was hunger in hs eyes, the ci'033-looking old man never offered him a luorie!. Tha tempter came. The old man's back wa i t uned. A vile boy stood at his side s: the side of the homeless child nudged Lis elbow. "You take one," he whispered, 'Til give you half." Tha little child gai2d at him steadily. Hi sa v aomitliing ia the bleared face that iuia him shrink something tet his heart to beating. . "I teifyou, hook one," whispered the toy, "I woo't tell, and we'll go away and tat it." "I don't want to ileal," said thi homeless child. "Oh, you fool!" muttered the brutal tempter, and emote him in the eyes," his heavy hand dealing a blow that sent the 4'or little chiid quivering with anguish, 'tie terrible blow hal almost blinded him for a moment. A great sob had came up in his throat. "Oh, what have I done to be t.eau-d so?" There never, never was a G'id, or be should not let him suffer so, and tbat beeamo ha refused to be wicked. I cou't bvlieve that ever a man in his deadli e t b reavement suffered more than that sad ii t e child. II is heart was hterady swelling ii.ii grief, anl th ju'h ha could not reason a'---: ir. he felt as if there were great and j sn irvustiee somewhere. lit; 'tailed to cross the street A dark, ' finding pain still made his poor temples ! ui,j ! "Hack I back! Good heavens ! the child is under his fce backl back!" ' Oii, luanima, it is our horses who ran ever a poor little boy ! Oh. mamma, Lijina !' "Is he hurt much, coachman?" The woman's face was pale as a-hes. "Yes, he is hi.t la j'y. Take hiui right in ; don't wait ; t:v in in riiiht in and up stairs. It was J'unr carelessness. The child shall be at-tt-i'itd to " 'J iiPie is no anguish now. Perhaps God ' ' U3 hii b )rno all he could, and so took tie poor little broken heart to heal. How T-'ry white and quiet ! "Oh, a sweet face, a vect lace !" murmured the woman, bend ing over the boy ; and tears fell upon his forehead, but he did not feel them. i( "Oh, the poor little boy!" sobs Nelly; " 'he poor little boy ! I wish he had kept on lie s-idewalk ; I wish he had stayed home "h his'mother." Alas ! in this world there was lio mother 10 keep him, I he doctor came, said he was not dead 't would very likely die. There verv nweiv ate. nere was a , , fill hospital near The noor thin? had better " a nt there. But the good woman would ' Uut allow hat, . He had been injured by c"-- o her horses, and she felt it her duty 1 l attend to him. Besides, it was likely tbat the child had no mother. Such a boy 18 ke, with a face 60 sweet and girlish, so . "e and loveable, would never be sent on j ttrt Lie . that if h bad a mother f Besides and here her tears fell there was j a little mound, not yet green, over such a 'child. No, no; it was not in her heart to put the poor wounded boy away. Let him j stay whether he lived or died, i The weary, weary days passed on. One morning the little boy opened his dim blue eyes, but he did not know himself. His glance fell wearily on his hands. There were white bands around his wrist, with ruffles on them. The bed was snowy white, too, and a crimson light fell over everything. "Dear God! I am in heaven," miruiur ed the child. "Yes, God will take care of you now." What visions of loveliness glanced forth from the shadow behind the bed? The rich ctirls fell around a face of exquisite beauty.. The beaming eyes looked love and gladness upon him. ''Oh, yes, there is an angle!" he said soft ly. '"I am glad. They won't knock me over again ; they wont want me to steal apple-her.', an I perhaps I .-hail never die a gain. Now, I want to see my mother. " "My dear boy, are you better this morn ing?" aked a low, soft voice. lie turned slowly ami wearily. Is it mother? he murmured. Ohves!" and there were nnick sobs and tear-. "3-es, n.y little child, I will be vour mother, and vou shall be 103' son. Will vou ;ove ! c dearly r love you, mother ; and is it "Yes. I Heaven ?" do "Heaven ! no darling, it is earth ; but God sent you here to our hearts, and you shall be loved and cared for. See. here is a ! little sister, and vou will be very happy with her. Kiss im, Nell v." Her rosy lins touched his pae ones, and a heavenly smile lighted up in his face. The past was not forgotten, but it was gone. No more mouldy crusts, oaths, harsh words, and blows. No more bogging at basement doors, and looking half famished, to envya dog gnawing a bone in the streets. No more fear of rude children, v ho never knew where their own hearts lay ; no more sleep- ins on doorsteps, ana nsr-nine in terror 10 the drunken quarrels of the vicious and de- Drnved Yes, the past wa- prone; and in the ro-y future were love, hotne, cv ;i ol and the anceR Certainlv, sweet spirits had guard ed that child, and guided him out of seem ing evil into positive good. Surely, hence forth he would put hi- hand trustfullv in theirs, and turn hisinee Heavenward. Yes, it was so to be. The dear, teachable child a jowel picked from the mire, a brand snatch ed from the bumm? wa- yet to i!inmin the dark pnths of this woM with his ho'y Heave i-like teachine. L'ke the dove In was to go forth over the waters, an 1 find 'hn olive branch with which to garland his pr'ad tidinis. Ulesfintrs. then, on all who bold their arm out toward needv 11 f tie children rti-ikinir their hoiuej arks of refutre. Beau tiful stars shall the have in their crown of rejoictnar. for sure'v ibere is itf jewel bright er in a'l the world, and perhaps in all eter- 1 nity, than the soul or a little child. "What aa Array Corps Requires. In the Army of the Potomac an Army corps of 3U.00O infantry has a lout "00 wag ons, drawn ly 3-50 mules. Including the horses of oilieers and of the artill"ry, about 7,000 animals have to be provided for. On a march it is calculated that each wagon will occupy eighty feet : in bad roads much more, so that a tiain of 700 vagoiia wiil cover 56, 000 feet or over ten miles; the amlm lancjs will ojj'ipy a mile; ail batteries three miles: thirty thousand troops need bix miles to march in if they foi m one col umn; the totHl length of a uiarcitingcolumn of a corps is, therefore, twenty miles, with out including the cattle herds, and trains of bridge materials. Impatient critics of ar my movements would often be more lenient were they to familiarize themselves with the details of the . immense difficulty of orga nizing and moving large trains and artil lery. A Sailors Love of Faiii I'lav. Tn a ship yard in Pembroke, the other day, a tar from a man-of-wsr was observed wash ing two men dragging a seven foot cross-cut saw through a huge oak log. The saw was dull, the lor wa; verv tnuuh, and there they went see-.-aw, see-saw, push,"' gu.l, pull, pu-h. Jack studied the maitera while, un til he cau:e to the conclusion that they were pulling to see who would get the saw. and as one was an immense bisr chap while the ; other was a little follow, he Ieci'Iel to see I fair pl iv; so giving the bitr chap a blow iin ; der the ear that capsized h'mi. be jerked the sow out ot the I.g. an I giving it to me smali one, h sung out "now ruu, you beg gar." Four years ago Jeff Davis. nd bis co- : workers 111 crime. a-u ed the aristocracies of the world that the .American Union had i cea-ed to exist, and that the i iej of u an's capability of self-givcrnment was exploded. To-day Jeff Davis is little letter than a fu gitive and an outcast, the American people : having established on & bads stronger and i broader than it ever existed before, not only ' their ability of self-government, but their j power to resist the enmity of tha arisrocra ' cies of the world. We hope the world will profit by the lesson. Eels have been" skinned ever since Noah am out of the ark : and orincers have been I cheated out of their just due- ever since the , Orientals pnntcd with blocks rf wood ; yet j , , 1 ..I rt l.Aln l'...tl..f jieitner uc eeis uet uim 'eoi;; ' nor the orinters to bein? fleeced. This a - , gues great obstinacy on the part of eels aui j printers. . - I ' " 1 " : ' " i A schoolmarm in Enfant l-.a-" nd 'Pd a ' new and novel mode of punishment. H the boys disobey the rules she stands them upon their heads and pours cold water into their j browser kg. SHEEMAN ON HIS GBEAT MAEOH. From the War Correspondent of Cincinnati Com j The Bummers of the Army. In order to systematize and more thor oughly regulate the work of foraging for the troops, a decail ot sixtj nun to a divisiou was made. These men under proper officers, were mounted, and were called by the boys "bummers." They became an institution in the army, and the history of their work is not the least important part of the labors of that army. Covering the Hanks and front, and rear of the army, they served, to a great extent, the purpose of cjvalry. They had many skirmishes with Hampton, and Gen. Sherman asserts that he has n..ver known them to have been driven in t3' the rebel hor.se. In some instances they have been in the aivance, a:i I it ii a iu uur of record that tbe.se bummers actually cpured Mid way, on the Charleston and Savannan Bail road. The story is this: General Howard, with 7.0U0 men of bis army, was carefully advancing towards the road expecting atev ery moment to meet the enemy. As he was giving directions to the officers in com mand, hj noticed one of these bummers moun ed on a dumpy mule, with a rope bridkt, and without a saddle, coming down the road at full speed, beating his mule at every jump with his cudgel. "Stop stop!" said the General; "where are 3'ou going?" "Haven'tgot time!" said the man, stUl beating and spurring the mule. "Haven't got time; i.i a d j'tl or a hurry ! The bum mers of the 3d Brigade have 3Iidway, and I'm after reinforcements !" Tlie bummers were the first to enter Fayettevillc. Their work has been well done, and done in this manner : Knowing about where the command would encamp for the night, they would be ready near that point, vith their rations all divided out, each man having ten piles for his regiment, one for each company. The road at such points would be lined for miles with these foragers and their piles or' meat, potatoes, rice, meal, corn, &c. They looked more like market men than poid.ers. The regiment, as they Came to thiir place, wouid hault, and each company divide out the r rations. It was the work of but a few moments, when the match was resumed. These bummers and their vehicles for transportation, following their division in their march through the town, were the mo.st amusing sight we ever saw. Mouted on mules, horses, and oxen, with old sad dles an i bridles, followed by carriages of ev ery de.-cript ion from a gig to a carryall, drawn by mules, horses, or oxen; carts and wag ons of every description; then the pack tuules and oxen, all loaded with chickens, turkeys, gee.sc, ducks, bacon, hams, meal, rice, and everything the country, afforded, led by negroes, oi l and young, male and fe maL All this o'rk-ered and guarded by these bummers, was the occasion of many jokes and hearty laughs. So efficient has this organization been, and of such great service and assistance to the cavalry, that though general Hampton's cav alry t'inte outnumber- General Kilpatrick's nearly three toone.the relwls have never e':ii eld- t' stti!;p. our wi'jnn tr-n'iis. and from Atlanta to GoM.sboro, they have never capture 1 even one wagon. General Sherman O-anizcs "Bmmncra" for the Peopie of isouth Carolina. The burning of Coluu.bia has been heard of by our readers. By this unfortunate accident some S.OOO people were left without homes a,.d food. A Genera! Sherman was about to leave he wa visited by the Mayor, who wanted to know what was to become of him and those 8,000 people, dependent on him. "Go to your friend, General Hamp ton," said Sherman. "He," said the May or, "i our worst enemy." "H'ell, then," the General told him, ."'he must live off the country, as he bad done." "But," said his Houoi "there Is nothing left in the coun try, and I can't see h.w the-s people are to live." "Vdl," said the General, "if you really want my advice, I will give it to you. First, I will teil you a great secret. I'm not going to Augusta. There is a tract of coun try that my foragers haven't touched yet. I forbid them going there, that the people might think 1 was saving that to live off of in my march to that city. Nowv you can f iraire out of that country." "Well," said his llonor. '"that might do, but these peo ple wiil resist us, ami we have 110 arms." "I will give you arms," said Genera! Sher man, and forthwith issue! forty stand of arms to the Mayor, and thus organized for these t bivalric South Carolinians a compa ny of " 1. u miners." "This Brute Sh rman, whom they affect to despise, teaches thein their lessous of war fare, lie supplies them with arms with which to "bum." The strong oppress the weak. The war bet we n the classes has be gun. The people throughout South Caro lina have acted more syconphautic than those of any other State. They have man ifested a willingness to kiss the hand that was about to smite them. There was not a secessionist to be found in all the State. They always had bee j Union men. An Engli-h or French officer, who never sees so diers in any but the neatest of order, would laugh to see Sherman's army, and lmgh stiil heartier to hear it called an army. They are the motliest troops evjr marched through the country. Scarcely a soldier has an entire suit of blue. They are ragged and manv bars-footed. Some have appropriated the finery of the Southern lords ; some you ee with'fine high-hats, swallow-tailed coats, tight.-les.-ged breeches, and round-toed boots. Some have the broad-brimmed plantation hat- and sheep-gray clothes, others have the retel uniform entire. Some wear their iv hire shirts, other have their woolen. Some have yad-1 of fine carpets for bedding, others have" counterpanes or qnilts. Some carry their knapsacks others have nothing but "their blankets. Some carry.their change of clothing, others depend on the country for that, and change at the fire fin houM 1 they come to. Some carry china dishes, ! others tin-ware. The rebels would have us ! believe that tJiese men all luxm silver ware to eat from, but the boya say the "chivalry of the bouth . all have bogus-icare, and darned little of that." The rebels claim that this army has de stroyed all their tine furniture,' Brussels car pets, French mirrors, &c. The boys say they have but a very tew of these articles to destroy, and that it they thought the people in South Carolina were so poor off", they would have brought them something from t he North. The army has suffered for cloth ing, &c, and iu this respect are badly off. It makes them appear in a worse condition than they really are. While the army was marching by General Sherman, many laughable incidents occur red. The General's attention was called to a soldier marching by with a chair on his back. "Yes," said the General, "I see, but they can carry what they please, just so they carry enough ammunition to fight with." An officer in the line, marching by in front 6f bis company, carrying a basket on bis shoulder, was noticed by the General. "Tnere," said he, "that's the way my offi cers live. It don't look vcell on review, but then that's the way they have to get along." SOLDIERS' TUN. There has been some mention made in the papers of a scarcity of commissary stores which came upon General Thomas' forces at Eastport. It is not material who wa to blame for the failure. It may have been the Ohio, river, which unexpectedly congeal ed its forces by a superfluity of cold. It may have been Colonel Parson, who had charge of river transportation. It may have been the contractors, who did not get the supplies ready in season. In fact, it might have been any body's and every bo dy's fault as some say was the fact but of one thing there is no doubt for a few days the commissary was compelled to issue to his men rations of shelled corn, in lieu of the hard tack and bacon to which the soldiers had accustomed. Now, corn makes excel lent whiskey : it is good to cat when it is ground and manufactured into dodgers ; it is savory as mush; it is fair when "hulled;" it is fine when parched, ground up and eat en with fresh miifc ; but in its unhulled, raw state, one would thiuk it rather unpalitable and indigestib'e alimant, anl so is is. But the men at East port had to put that in their haversacks, one quart each day, and transfer it thence to their stumachs, or go hungry. Some of the men had been taught to live on nothing befoie, but they had now to learn how to masticate corn. They had seen horses and mules grind it up and grow fat and sleek upon it, but their teeth had not tound out the modus operandi of the miniature grist mill. But they soon acquir ed the habit, and in one day one hundred and sixty bags of raw corn were issued to Western soldiers, and by them instmeman ner consumed. And the boys lived through it. r While this corning process was going on, the soldiers, more for mischief sake than anything else, perhaps, took every occasion to brings before Gen. Thomas the scanty fare they were kept upon. One day an of ficer saw a file of men passing headquarters, each couple fastened together by a halter round the neck and led b3' a thong. Taking them for depredators of some sort, under going condign punishment, the officer ask ed, "What prisoners are these?" "Them aint no prisoners." was the response. "They's soldiers. They've had their corn, now we are leading them to water." m This explanation was substantiated by a confirmatory bray from the entire squad. and a kicking up of heels in imitation of mules, which brought all head quarters to the scene. It is hardly necessary to state that those mules soon scattered to their cor-ra'- On another occasion a soldier came def erentially into General Thomas' quarters, cap in hand, and, with the usual salute, re quested pel mission 10' address the General in person. He was allowed to do so, when the following dialogue took place: General "Well, my man, what may you desire!" Corn-fed "If it is in 'conformity' with practice a id the army regulations, I will ask for a permit to buy a small quantity . of com." General "What corn, sir? That will be issued to you by the proper officer. You need not bring such a request here !" Corn-fed "But, sir, I want permission to buy some." General "But why buy it?" Corn-fed "Well, to tell you the truth, I lorrowed some from a mule last night, and I wish to repay the animal." The soldier was not punished for his ap parent disrespect to a superior officer, but he left headquarters rather precipitately, and a distant bray attested lis mulish pro pensities were not entirely wiped out, as he retreated in good order to his company. An instance is also related of a soldier who heard a bray from an adjacent mule. The soldier said with semi-comic face that would have done honor to a first-class low commedianof a firsf-class theatre: "Bray on, bray on, Misther 'mule 1' You can afford it, shure ! Ain't yez had two quarts of corn a day, while I have but one, entirely." The remark was followed by a roar from the entire regiment or from as many as cold hear what Paddy had said. A Boston storekeeper the other day stuck upon his door the laconic advertisement, "A boy wanted." The next morning, on open ing the stQre, he found a little urchin in a basket, labeled, "Here he is." Uncomfortable to be seated at the table opposite a pretty girl, with a plate of hot soup- on a hot day, a troublesome moustache, and bo handkerchief. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. A True Story of a Great Change Arlington and its Proprietors. The Washington Intelligencer has the fol lowing description and narrative ; A visit to the Arlington Mansion and sur rounding estate, a few days since, tilled us with oppressive and melancholy reflections. Four years agoltobert E. Lee, tl en a Lieu tenant Colonel of cavalry in the Union army, and now Commander-in-Chief of the rebel army, was with his family in the happy pos session ' of that magnificent inhenteuce. More than one half of the estate, consisting of a thousand acres, was covered with a splen did forest.ot oak and other timber,aodthe rich and productive fields adorned with tbe hand of culture To-day what a change ! The venerable ancestral mansion, erected by the son, by adoption, of the Father of his Coun try, and tor half a century hiscultivated and delighted home, is now in the centre of a cemetery of those who have fallen in the sevice ol their country. Two hundred and fifty acres of this estate surrounding the mansion have been perma nently appropriated for burial purposes by the Government, and inclosed by a substan tial and handsome fence. Nearly five thou sand soldiers have already beeu there buried, and the number is daily growiug larger. In 1853, Mrs. Custis, the mother if Mrs. Gen. Lee, died in the Ariiugton Mansion, and was buried in a sequestered and delightful grove near the mansion; and in 1857 Mr. Custus died, and his remains were de posited by her side, a vast concourse of per sons of every rank testifying their reverence for the departed by their presence at the ob sequies. That sequestered grove, thus selected by its owner as the last resting place for L im t elf and his, has been in the tempest of the times invaded, the forest has been transform ed into afield of the dead, and the two mar ble colums markine the remains of George Washington, and Parke Custis and Mary Lee Fitzhugh, his wife, now rise in the midst of more than tour thousand patriot soldiers' graves. Nearly the whole of the timber and wood has been swept from the entire estate and used for war purposes. The Freedman's Village is established upon one Eortion of the land thus cleared, ana it is all eing put under cultivation by contraband negro labor. The mansion is now occupied by the offi cer in command of the post and his subordi nates. The dining hall is used as an office. In this room are three old fashioned book cases, containing some four hundred volumes, prin cipally old books broken sets of very small value. The parlor adjoining tbe hall is not occupied, the only article in it being a ma hogony side board, which came from Mount Vernon. In the parlor, beyond, are two sofas and six stuffed mahogony chairs, cov ered with scarlet velvet : two marble top ta bles, a side board and a piano stool, matching the chairs. On the walls are several coarse large portraits, and one or two oil paintings. There are, also two old engravings, of a clas sical mytbological character, hangiug with the rest. The room in the Southerly wing, and used by Gen. Lee for his office, is now used as a bedroom; and all the upper part of the mansion is used for a like pur pose. The building is not injured. The flower garden has been enclosed by a new fence, and is laid out and tastefully adorned this spring. The grave of each soldier is neatly mark ed by a wooden slab at the head and foot, painted white, inscribed with the namo of the soldier, and his company and regiment, at a little distance these slabs have .the ap pearance of marble. The mounds are to be neatly covered with sod. Gen. llobert E. Lee was born in lS08,and is, consequently, fifty-seven years of age. He graduated second in bis class, in 182, (Judge Charles Mason, of Washington City, and formerly Commissioner of Patents,stand ing first in that class,) and was assigned to the Engineer corps, as Second Lieutenant ; in 1835 an Assistant Astronomer, fixing the boundary between Ohio and Michigan ; in 1836 promoted to First Lieutenant ; Captain in 1838 ; Chief Engineer under Gen. Scott, in Mexico, and greatly distinguished, being promoted successively, by merit, Major, Lt. Colonel and Colonel, for his gallantry; in 1852, Superintendent of Military Academy ; in 1856, transferred as Lieutenant Colonel of the new regiment of cavalry : 3J arch 16th, 1861, promoted Colonel of the First Cavalry; resigned April 25th. following, and embark ed in the rebellion. The following are the children of General Lee: George Washington Custis Iee, about thirty-three years of age; Mary Custis Lee, about thirty ; W illiatn Henry Fitzhugh Lee, about twenty-seven ; Annie Lee died at Berkley Springs in 1863, and would have been now about twenty-five; Agnes Lee, a bout twenty-three : Robert E. Lee, alout twenty; Mildred Lee. about eighteen. None of them have married except William Hen ry Fitzhugh, whose wife. Miss Charlotte Wickham, died in Richmond in 1863. The eldest son, George, graduated at the head of his class, at West Point, in 1854, and was first lieutenant in the corps of engineers when he followed his father into the South ern service. William Henry wa3 farming upon the White House estate, which be longed to the Custis inheritance when the war opened. He was commissioned second lieutenant in tbe Sixth Infantry in 1858,but resigned in 1850. Robert was at a military school in Virginia. The sons, it is well known, are all officers in the rebellion. The three surviving daughters are with their mother, who, it is believed, has latterly been at Lynchburg. Mr. Custis, at the time of his death,own ed some two hundred slaves, who, by his will, were to be free at the termination of five years from his death, which period ex pired October 10, 1862. : TKemofc of these slaves were kept on the White House es tate and all tb yalaable portico we ear ned South ; some twenty cr more bid mn and women and young children were lerVal Arlington. Mr. Custis' mother owned the White House estate, and resided there whaa she became the wife of Gen. Washington. A Scene in Eiohmond Since the Capture. A correspondent relates tbe following; Here, in the House ot Delegates, only yes terday, as an eye witness tells us, occurred a scene that would be criminal not to describe, A well dressed, well educated, every way re spectable looking man, named J. Morris Chester, strolled into the House,- and with tbe natural desire every habitue of the Cap itol at Washington has observed a hundred times, straightway seated himself in the Speaker's chair. His business in Rich mond was to write in fact he was a corres pondent of Forney's Philadelphia lrtti and so he began writing. Presently a rebel officer, Just captured and out on parole, Lieut. Butler by name, son of the rebel cavalry General Butler, passed the door, and saw the correspondent writing. The outrage to the Speaker's chair (I have neglected to mention that Mr. Chester is at black as a coal, and accompanies the negre troops) was too much for Lieut. Butler'a blood. Assuming the plantation air, he shouted : "Get out of there, you d-d nig ger!" The neirro sat perfectly unmoved, and continued liis letter (which I sincerely hope was a good one) for the Philadelphia ' Press. The wrathful rebel shouted again, and showered down abusive epithets. Tha negro wrote on. At last, Lieut. Butler thought it wise, after the established plan tation fashion, to proceed further; and with renewed orders to the "d-d nigger" to get out, he undertook to seize him by the collar. In an instant the negro, Chester, straight ed up out of the chair of the Speaker of the House of Delegates of the ancient com monwealth of Virginia, and, duly mindful of the motto of the State, dealt a splendid right hander full between Butler's eyes, which sent the rebel sprawling down the. aisle. Then, with an eye to business, which (I specially call CoL Forney's attention te the point,) deserves an increase of salary, the negro resumed the seat of the Speaker of the IIoue of Delegates, and continued hisl etter to the Philadelphia Press! Meanwhile the rebel recovered from hit sudden confusion, and in a wonderful rush of wrath, went foaming to the nearest officer.. "Lend me your sword till I cut the d-d nig ger's heart out!" "I'll do nothing of the sort," responded the officer besure he wa a Yankee, if not from Boston itself "but if you want to try a fair fight, I'll have a ring made for you here, and see that there'i no interference." "You'll get more damn- ably thrashed," he pleasantly added, "than ever you were in your life before." LieuL Butler considered it wise to retire with hia swollen eyes ; and the negro wrote on, in tha chair of the Speaker of the House of Dele gates of the State of Virginia. A Eioh Story. A Parkersburg paper says that several members of the Legislature took oars at Grafton late on the evening of the 16th ult., for Wheeling, and among the number wa Mr. G., of somewhat large proportions phys ical ly, and a Mr. D., of proportional under size. These two, the stalwart Mr. G. and the smooth-faced little M r. D. , took a berth to gether, it. seems.in a sleeping car. The littlav man laid behind, and the good-natured, waggish Mr. G. before. Mr. D. soon waa snoring furiously. Mr. G., more restleaa under his legislative burdens, soon arose, and was sitting bv the stove, "when an el derly lady came aboard and desired a sleep-' ing berth. "All right, madam," said Mr. G., "I took a berth with my son, and you can occupy my place in that berth where my' little boy is sleeping." Taking G. at hie word, the lady disrobed, and laid down with the "boy." After .a quiet repose of some time, the boy, Mr D., became restless from some cause, and began to kick around, to the great annoyance of the old lady. So in a maternal manner she patted the boy on the back and said, "Lie still, sonny; pa said I might sleep with you." "Who are ycu?". said the Lejijslator. "I am no boy! lam a member ot the West Virginia Legisla? ture 1" It is said the old lady swooned. The School Master follows the Yankee soldier in all his victories in the South. Im mediate'y upon tbe occupation of a rebel stronghold by the Federal forces, schools are opened and free newspapers circulated. These are the influences which will soon re generate the South ; while the contemptible aristocracies which have so long devoted the fairest portions of the Union to slavery. will find it as hard to resist free schools and a free press, as to battle against the majesty of a free Government. "Call that a kind man," said one gentle man to another, speaking of an absent ac quaintance, "a man who. Ls always absent from his family, and never sends them a farthing call that kindness!" "O, cer tainly unremitting kindness,'" chuckeled . his waggish friend. A paragraph is going the rounds, to the effect that "since the 1st of February all re ceipts of what ever amount must have on a a two-cent stamp," &c. This is incorrect. No change has been made in the law, and only receipts for $20 or over need the stamp. An old Irishman who had witnessed the effect of whiskey for many years past, said: a barrel labelled 'whiskey' contained a thou sand songs and fifty fights, besides an un known number of drunks. The vinegar of life sour bread, a sou' wife, poor tobacco, and no money. . What is the best tar for making the wheel of life run smoothly? The al-tar. . Patron Saint ef jeuu)a 8a. 'Wrfoai . I .1. m 1.1 ,.. i. I 5, ir 11
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