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OLMSTED, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW; Coudersport; Pa., will attend to all busines entrusted to his care, with promptnes and fidt'ity. Office on Sotli-.west corner of Main and Fourth streets.. ISAAC BENSON ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., win attend to-tal business entrusted to him, with care and promptness. °thee on Second st:, near the Allegheny Bridge. • F. W. KNOX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coud?rEport, Pa., will regularly :Wend the Courtin Potter and thektijoining Counties. 0. T. ELLISON; PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa., respectfullyii . nforms the citizens of the Inge and vicinity that he will, promply re spond to all calls for professional services; Office on Main st., in building formerly oc,. copied by C. W. Ellis, Esq., C. S. & E.. A. JONES, - - 'DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Good: - , Groceries, Sc., Main st., Coudersport, Pa. D. E. OL3ISTED, 'DEALER IN DRY GOODS, !READY-MADE Clbthilig, Crockery, Groceries, &c., Main sty , Coudersport, Pa. ; - COLLINS SMITH, DEALER in Dry Goods,Groceries, Provisions, Hardware, Queensware, Cutlery, and all Goods usually found in a country Store.-4 Coudersport;'Nov. 27, 1861. MANN, M. W DEALER IN BOOKS STATIONERY, MAG', AZINES and Music, N. W. corner of Mair. and Third sts., Coudersport; Pa. COUDEItSPOItT HOTEL, D. F. GLASSMIRE, Proprietor, Corner -,t,L Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot'. ter Co. Pa. 1 ' 4 ,A 2 Livery Stable is also kept in connect tion with this Hotel. I . MARK' GILLON, TAlLOR—nparly opposite the Court House-: 7 will make all clothes intrusted to him in the latest and best styles —Prices to suit the times.—Give him a call. 13.41, ANDREW SA.NBERG S. BRO'S. TANNERS AND CURRIERS.—IIides tanned on the shares, in the best manner. Tan' 7 very on the east side of Allegany rive Coudersport, Potter county, Pa.—Jy 17;G1 13 • OLMSTED d KELLY, DEALER IN 'STOVES, TIN & SHEET IRON • WARE, Main si., nearly opposite the Court House, Coudetsport, Pa. Tin and Sheet . Iron Ware made to order, in good style, on short notice. Ulysses Academy Still retains as Principal, 31r.E.R.CAMPBELt, Prpceptress, Mrs. Ncrrin JONES GRIDLEY ; As. sistant, Miss A. E. CAMPBELL. The expense's per Term are : Tuition, from $5 to $6 ; Board, from $1.50 t0_.51.75, per week; Rooms for self boarding from $2 to $4. Each term commences upon 'Wednesday and continues Fourteen weeks. Fall term,Aug.27th,lB62;Winter term, riee.lotlf,ll363 ; and Spring term, March . 25th, 1863. 0. R. BASSETT, President. W. W. GRIDLEY ! Sect'y Lewisville, July 9, 1862. UNION HOTEL, COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PENNi, A. S. ARMSTRONG J'IAVING refitted and newly furnished the house on Main street, recently occupied by R. Rice, is prepared to accommodate the traveling public in as good style as can be had in town. Nothing that can in -any way grease the comforts of the guests will be ne gbuied. :-Dee.,141861 . - , • . -• . , . • ' . I . : . , .. . .. 1 - 1.- .! : -' !. • -, ..• i :.4- ' T -'-' ' - " .. " 7 - \___ -,,, ,- • .',...• , • , . .... . r . " - -- - ---- - •. - -.- .t, c .-0. -- 4 , . -.:: .. ; _..• . - 1 , ... .. ..i .• r. .1 S . . 0 ~.: ' t • • ...- ~ • - . . ~ , ....- • .. - - Vo r . , -,.• - ._,.. • Nf irii . • 1 . . ~ 4o . • . - 0 It "-' ' • - • .. 4 . , I .„ ,-'„_ ''',. _', ', - :. • ~..:' -- ---: • -- .. g..... .....p .. . e. , t ....... ~. . •:,, . , • . ... . .. . , .:,.. 6 . . ~..,.,_,• ...;•...,_..:.:.• . . . . . . , , . .. _ . . . . : As Autumn leaves lay sere and dead 'Where fresh and fair the Juna:"flowers bloomed, Amid Life's joys and sweetnesses, He stood, to woe foredoonied. Your hands are free .to toil, but bis With unseen,gyves were bound; in vain, With bitter tiara and passion-throes, He strove against the chain. Your feet, perchance, keep even time' Along the pathways in the light; • His, bruised and bleeding, oftimes strayed Through dreary wilds of light. • His was a human heart, likelyonrs, How hath he loved and prayed and wept! While you were sleeping, what sad watch . His wakeful. spirit "kept I He loved all forms' of truth and right; • He worshipped goodness reverently; He Would have followed were they led ; Alas l he was not free. He lived alone, m4understobd He wept to bear phrist's voice afar; But,—cUide him not, for ho was blind,— He could not find the Star 1 , If something holy in his life Was blighted just before it bloomed, Forbear your scorn, 0, world I and know, To (Ms was he foredoomed. Eve "MALL LrEs."—H. W. Beefier, in a recent sermon upon faithfulness in small things, said: • ' "I do not know any buyer that pays sach prices as the devil pays when he buys men. Here, is a man who sails him self for about one-eighth of a pound of chicory in a poUnd of coffee. He pre pares his commodity with a lie and retails it with another lie. Every time a man commits a kuoivn dishonesty, he sells his soul, and thousands are selling them selves by, little driblets. And I think that a man who sells himself thus, cheats himself. No, lie cheats the devil. The devil pays too much for him. I am in formed that before the commutation sys tem was abandoned by the ferry company men of property and standing in society, would_boldly declare that they had a com mutation ticket in their psekei when they had none, for the sake of going through 'without paying ! They - lied for ' one cent! I pity the devil. I do not kLow what he doe-4 'with such men. It is awful to be chief magistrate of a parcel of men like these. I cannot understand how theSe exiguous, thrice-squeezed men can be managed :" SIGNIFICANT MOTTOES !—The follow ing were atoonr , the mottoes on the trans-] parencies, at the celebktion, in San Fran-1 cisco, of the passage of' the Pacifiellail-] way Bill :—"FrouiNew York to . San Francisco--By the. Horn, sixteen thou,: sand miles ! By the Isthmus, six thou-; sand miles !--From New York to San Francisco—By the• Horn, one hundred, days ! By the railroad, four days!"— "The Pacific Railroad—Uncle Sam's ll waistband. He has grown. Be corpulent., that he would burst without it." "Al l long twilight when eoming west; 'a quick ] daybreak when going east. Score ufb your longitude, Mr. Conductor !" "Mar ried—ln June, 1862, by the High Priests .of North America, Mr, Atlantic] to Miss Pacific—all of the same nation.", "Fresh No. 4 Mackerel, six days from. Belfast—Chesapeake Bay oysters, six] days from the water !" "Now time 4ncil space are.iu the race I San Francisco. 1862, one hundred thousand-inhabitants. San Francisco in 1872, one million inhab itants. San Francisco. in 1862, fifty-five million dollars assessable property. San Francisco in 1872; five • hundred million dollars." "Westward the march of Em- 1 pire streams its way." "The LoComotive l —His prow is wet with the surge foam •of either Ocean. His breast is grim with the sands'of the Desert." WATCHING ONE'S SELF.—"When I was a boy," said an old man, "we had a! schoolmaster. who had an_ odd ofj catching ,idle boys. One - day be called out to us-- S. D. /LELLY. " Bovs, I must have closer attention to your books. The first one ofiyou that sees another boy idle, I want you to in -1 form me, l and I will attend to the case? "Ab, thought I to myself, there is Joe Simmons, that I don't like. I'll watch, him and if I see hiin look off his book, I'll tell. It vas not long before I saw Joe look off his book, and immediately I in formed the.master.; "'lndeed,' said he, 'bow did you know he was idle r "'I saw him,' said I. " 'You idid ; and'were your eyes on your book when you saw him ?' "I was: caught and never watched for idle boys!again." If we are sufficiently watchful over our own conduct, we shall have no' time to find fault with the condtict of others. A schoolmaster requesting a little boy who had been whispering, to step into the next room is wittily spoken of aa."start ing on a Whaling expedition.". ebofied to Ifie i'hiqeipies of Ito Qatwallop, 40 140 V i ssehliqqtiort of. g.lsolq . iiig, i ehafuhe REI6 trolDsi FOREDOOMED. COUDErRSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, WEDN SPAY, 001 1 0 1 :Nft 1, 1862 THE DESERTER. "Coma here a moment please." We bad Only a glimmer of light in the hospital, for the cots were nearly all empty. Most of our wounded bad been sent home; but the moon was full, and poured its white stream of radiance right down on the lace of the man *rho. had spoken to me. "What is it you want ?"..I asked. "I doti r 't like to be alone. I feel rather 'strangely!" ' "Yon are excited; what is the matter?" The thin, keen features of the man wore an eager, restless expression; his black eyes shone fiefeely. "I'm a deserter, you know. This wound troubles me a little. You -don't think I deserted from cupidity, do you ?" "Really, E know nothing about it. Yon are not well to night; I shall give you something quieting so thatyou may sleep?" "No, no, just stay here a moment.— Don't eave me." He looked so . eager that I sat do wn , on his cot, felt his pulse again, re-arranged his bandages, and placed his pillow more comfortably. "Your touch is gentle as a woman's," he said, gratefully, sighing as he spoke. I sat still a little while, then rose to order hie medicine,'but he grasped me by the hand and drew me down again by him. "This moonlight reminds me of the night I came near losing my sword arm. I was Lieutenant in a Louisana reginent. Wo had a pretty hard brush with your fellows, and I found myself face to face with the toughest subject you ever saw. Twice I thought myself gone: our cart ridges were ou:; with a great shout of "Liberty and Union !" the Yankee came at me with a sabre, cutting a gash in my arm that laid me low. Fortunately they had to fly just then, or I should have been in the other world. When I came to my senses, I was all alone with just such a glare . of moonlight in my eyes as shines to-night. I was very weak and consuming with thirst, and not especially thankful to my brave comrades for leav ing mo thus. You must knotv that I joined the army without g spark of love for secession • not a jot of principle in the matter—purely from the love of adven ture,'and with my French blood tingling at the thought ot 'la-glorie.' I have had different teachings since ; so yoni need not be hasty in thinking me very contemp tible. Glory has been the dream of my life." Pale and wasted as he was, the young Lieutenant's face had a strange •faseina flea on it. Now his eyes gleamed again, his proud month was tremulous with feeling, that of course, wag yet incom prehensible to me. I tried to make him I be silent; but so intense was his desire to speak that I cfound it best to listen calmly—best for more reasoni_than one, life was low in the chalice, perhaps my listening might sweeten its last few drops. "Yes, Glory has been a bright dream ever since I could listen to old stories of my ancestors in other lands, where our name was a proud one, a name I have tried to keep with honor. Well, I woke in the moonlight with a dim sense of con cern for my generous friends who had left me to my fate, and a very nr,gent desire, to get water ; so I managed to crawl l through the woods, sometimes ris ing td my feet only to fall again, though I had tied my handkerchief round my arm to stop the bleeding. I recollected passing a farm-house before the fray, and as well as I could, made my way for HI I was fortunate; though alarmed, the occupants were accustomed to danger, arid kindly took me in. For some time I was very ill ; during my illness our reg iment was ordered off; indeed the Fed ends had gained possession of that part of the country. No one molested me, for the family was a poor Union one, who bad been robbed 'of nearly all their valuables, but who, notwithstanding their' ill-treat ment, did not make known my refuge. I need not tell you how kind they were, hew patient and careful; there was only an elderly woman, a boy of fourteen, and a young woman in the family. From the time that I first opened my eyes after the delirium of fever, until—no matter for time—but kindness and, tenderest care from both, bat principally the younger woman, greeted me. I can see her great, dark, sad eyes, looking now at me. Dieu! how beautiful, how tender, bow full of love. Love, did I say ? adoration I What a life was hers ! Poor Nina, poor Nina! She was the daughter of one of the most influeqtial, proudest, merchants in NeW Orlea&---her mother a quadroon slave. The father died one day of apoplexy Without adjusting his 'property,' leaving - Nina a slave. Too proud, too good, too beautiful. She fled, for her master had already named the price—three' thousand dollars. I gnashed my teeth at the ac cursed institution—she taught me, what I was fighting to perpetuate. She, poor Nina, not even then\ safe from pursuers. I cannot express to you how gentle and tender was her care of me. I can only tell you that it inspired the deepest love. The invalid raised himself on one arm, flashing; darker, deeper tan ever were his !black eYes—al treble' brow, nbeeks whife and thin to epiritiiality,' the ! pinud lips Oiveaing with pain , and passion:— Again I tried, tinaVailingly, to rhathii himi—he must have - felt the s6o g tide of life ebbing; butit teemed only to nerve him lon to speaking), i•J ; • 1 I I had left in New Oileaes.rarl beau ties,; my own cousins, proud, elegant woMen; I have frittered itime awy beer soulless creatures; jI 'have believ d my self in love with these moths, gilt ering, gaudy, vain beingt i never had I truly loved till I saw Nina Y l ou denoli know what it cost rim to. 'confess this even to myself. I, who , had the Preud St-, of el blood in my veins---I to lov a Milan 'tainted with .African lineage ! feel wild—the room swims—bush , must listen ! ' Nina's voice was rich ;wit mei ody,!but it-became Itortnie. Her g title, healing tpueli distracted! me, ihec light, footfall, 'her winning womanliness and modesty all jarred. I Was nearly mad, and because I luvedlier—loveoer 7hose price was three that i tsandklollas , "I can see the rooiri avherelq,z f u day , after' ' day hattlieg dire 1 thoughts—wan and weak, weaker than now,-fOr to-night I ant strong.' My Wound would not heal, P , the re onmy brain wasThii.fire. 1 So lying there on the nice white pillows!, fanned o read to by that beautiful l sed passionite xv man, 1 whol even in her area sense of beauand order; in her loving, desire to; ple e; in, her longing to amuse or change th cur-'' rent ) of my unhappy thelightsi be rayed (:, Ilin ,iy the !same emotion ( that was g me. the; wreathed flowers dexter ,usly ;' she cooked the most , delie+ birds f r my fastidious appetite .. the ,sang softly low toned ballads, rich and Eiweet-Bld reach words. And 1,.60 d, mute, p'assi e, lis tened With ears inient to heart ey s ach ing to drink in her loveliness , ; for s e Was lovely—yes', thOugh . ohly wdrth three 'thozesang dollars. unit; I : I 1 "I will stop soo n ; you are be dreaming One night; of p astpseenes-L-of inytheautiful, fashionable, cousins ; brit their faces becaui suddenly dark and vicious at iiMps ; their Ivoibes taunting, p meekinij me with My 1 ve of glory, 'iny• hopes -f , fami , e; foij it seemed as ifi Nina had told them of my love for her, and mitheir inipishness it became a matter of rare sport : to jeer andmock me withl my sudden fall from greai.nessi, from ancestral pride. Psuppbse I spoke 'aloud in my dreams, for las I woke al pale fete, flooded in Iteare, vanished like a vision before me.' So'. , l;knewi that Nina had 1 hea'rd all. ' Thy' next dny I was le'f't all Malone. Oh; how , long it was.; how. Wea rily !impatient I became for my !kind nurse, My tender friend!! The day; wore away, and tiveningi came. In I the ;long, tranquil twilight .0 watched the , stairs as ii sick man 'will,. longing for Nina. i She came 'at last, slowly, ceebly, as if very tired, and weary,.; and depressed. For the first; time I drevi her close Ito in, her unresisting. head 'down on my !MD , and told leer, that I laved her better the life, better than , fame, l!etter, than any h Man being in the wide, wide, world.r She was very 'still ; Only: her soft breath op my cheek, only, the beating of her heart] clPse to mine told me:that she heard. Ag ain I spoke, more intensely, more impatiently, told her all my struggles ; my.Wholol heart poured! itself out, and still she I: elt at my side in silence .`, 1 ,l' . "Speak,Ninal" Najd; "only ene , I "Ii would die fdr yoU—I Would liut T Cannot live and be yours,'" wa only reply.; '' I I, - ' "But, Nina, you ; mutt. Have given ' up all ? lAM I riot willing sign. 'a' claim which' the world ac edget-Lgtood..liitti?" II was; gob wheii she passionately exclaimed : "I! cannot bear it--sp ! I' can beneith even you I. I I,ave no to man's heart; I halm the fire of the r i burning, leapingii,i My veins !" iose qpickly, standig b eside s me beautiful indignailOn, pride in struggling kogether, as' they had with me. Her ,words name •wildl, and incoherent. She s'p'oke of her father bitterly, witheringly; of he mother with unmixed contempt; world in disdain, almost cursing he ator. ' She ;was in a passion of Wild. of utter, nrisubdut, anguish. ! I tr allay her sdrroiv, , a. luring her of my Gradually she Skied down; tears to her relief. She. caressed me had been al little child she 'bad i I i tingly injur l ed- 7 ---alltarsliness; rdl rep had ceased to issee from her HO was like the huriiiini, of a sterm, th tle rain after flashing elctricity and of furious- wind. , i , 1 "I. recallimy childish lessens, lon gotten—of I , humanity, 1 of a: Hea Father's love and mercy spite Pt' se t disfOor. ,'= , , "Poor Nina, hotit ;quietly sh e list "It was late when she bade me nighty but I thought her hapipier we. parted.l ' , 1 1 . "I '{d4 not know, beW long I ,hat 1i , ' .1 MiII=MEMI when I ,waS awakened by strange out cries,; Kat:tiling -inoises, - remonstrances, rough replis, and; hal staggered Weakly to the deer, a sharp :report: Two men rushed quickly past- out 'of the house, leaving nil silent within, excepting a,low sound s whielr I k ew to be Ntna's Val& I celled; 'and presently the elder woman came; very' much excited 'and alarmed; saying that;the tnenwere, slave•eatchers in seareh,cif Nina, who , b y their going se hastily away, .she feared was . injured., Tbe boy ,Capee also ;quaking' intomy, room, where th,eyat last , brought my poor Nina. She was indeed wounded mortally whether lkilher own hand I could scarcely determine,ithough I think it must have been in sek&defedce. "She •oPened her beautiful eyes only once upon ',me, then closed them with the same tired,i weary expression I had noticed in the evening . Ve watched her thro' the night buthuman:aid could ndt avail., She was,gnue before morning—to where she could hot be sold, for -three thousand dolH i l , a p rs ie l u I l ido. you -i won der I deserted ? Do !you wonder) I want to live to meet those wretches?; 1 GlorY has been my dream— now vengeance has its place T." 1 "Vengeance is mine, I Will repay, saitb the Lord," was my answer as thedesert er's grasp tigheened. His Pale faceglowed suddenly, Ibis pro l od lips quivered; ,a con vulsive smile played over his fine features —the broad band of momilight still shim mered Over! the little cot. The 1 soldier had joined the ranks above. 1 .. i DEAD TOI TILE ILAW.—Some years ago a man wit'hout a family or relatives lived, in a cout4 i of Arkansas, and was pos sessed of !an estate worth five thousand dollars. Ilh • ivent to New Orleans and I was absen foul years, without being heard from. The Probate Judge granted administration on, his estate—wound it up and discharged the administrator.— The man ieturned—had been to Mexico —wheri.ia the court the following dialogue took place :I . I 1 t , Dead. Man—lf. your Honor Please, I want triyi effects I returned to me, as you see I am not dead, I ' Court 7 Ll knoW—that is, as alman— that you are olive and in court, bit as a court, I : knew you are dead, for the roc ords of the court Isay so, and against their verity their' can be no averment—', so says Lord Coke,land a r , OO(L many other books I never ,;read. 1 ° • I Dead' Mala—But I-want my property, and it's difference to me whether your records h i e or not! lam alive, and have not transferred my property, and to de prive me;of it without my consent is a gainst, tha law. - I 1 . 1 Colin-L:4 yoU intimate that the rec ords of tl3iscourt lie, this court will send you to jnil.; , I Ded Man--Send a dead man to jail ? Coiirt—Sheriff, take this apparition out. I , i _ . EXCELLENT DEFINITION OF GOOD INIANNEISE-A Writer in the Atlantic thus deseribes wliat we [are always theor izing—about :H"Tite world has always been charmed' with fine manners, and why should it" not? For what are fine mad ners but ithis : to carry your soul on your lip, in your eye, in the palm of your hand, and to stand not naked, but clothed , your individual quality—visi ble, vet mscrfrtable—given to the hearts of otlers' of; others yet contained in your own boscim•-•-nobly and humanely open, yet duly reticent and secured from invas ion. Polished manners often disappoint us; good manners Decd.. They former may be t4ken on by indignant souls ; the latter imply la noble and opulent nature.". • ord." die ; • her I not to re nowl- . g on A DEitocirtAT PZAKS.—General of'!MiChigah, who returned from imprisonMeCt with General. Corcoran, made a:stirring response at Detroit, to the weleomie of his fellow-citizens.-- Ilaving•Atigtnatized with deserved sever ity the almsland characters of the mana gers of tbe rebellihn, he said "I knew lof what I speak. I have talked ;with these 'tmen and learned their views. lam a Democrat, and I say upon this issue vile Democrats can grasp and join hapds with the Abolitionists. This war is crUsbing slavery, and will continue to crush irit Until us vitality is gone; and I cry Amen Igo for the Pressdent and a killing policy. He is right and I will stand by him so !long as he carries the flag. I,Spoke these sentiments in Wash ington, ,d Wcnators and Representatives told me! tht was just what the people wanted.l - Now, n:iy friends, let us close the books for the past year, forget all, and. open new books for the new year, and go 'id them with .a •gtin powdei And shot—and this wretched, unholy rebellion 'mill 'be crushed; and its authons4onsigned to death and, infamy." uwit- MEI nu e gusts • for -Ivenly . ;mina 1 c• ' An actor, who was extremely , ng,ly,was playing part in which a lady had to say to hint-1-"Alh I sire, - you change counte nance:: j AI wag in the pit ericd.ont,"Let him do so, pray don't step him.'.' 1 • • ned good when alept I= TERDIS.--$l.OO PER ANNUM ROMANCE IN REAL .:NSW YORK ELAILOR RIILIKG ,enoxsii -4:wrYo: From the N. Y. Evening Pest. . The grgat lands o,f • the, Orient . , the homes and, the .cradles of fainy Emcee, have renounced their old , character.. - Oicasionally, smoke o(battle, we have wafted to us .a bit of fairy life and romance worthy , of--the eglra4rooolnd days the Caliphs c h d The latest advices from China - inform us . through the medium of private letters, of the unprecedented careerin that Coun try of a young American, 'of" this State, who, though but twenty-nine years of age has reached . a position of reminds one of the dim legends of Prester John. Here is a brief recountal of the story o; adventure . About twelve years ago Edward Fpr rester, -a country lad,' born in Jefferson -Co., in this State, decided, like a great many other boys, to go to sea. His friends opposed the idea, but of course the love of ocean life was too strong to be resisted, and young Forrester joined those ..who "go down to the sea in ships." He was successful, and soon became the mate of a Whaling ship, though then scarcely beyond his minority. In Honolulu, Forrester made the' ac— quaintance of a merchant of Hakodadi, and went witir him to Japan. Here he remained two or three years engaged la commercial pursuit's. Thence he went to China where he was taken into .the Imperial service. He became popular both, with the foreigneri and native au thorities at Shanghai, and was finally made'• second' in command to General Ward, in place of Colonel Murgiven, who was .severely wounded in some- -recent- engagement In this; capacity the quondam sailor continued to be much liked, aed now enjoys the confidence of f all the Manda rins in the province, and is admitted to their confidence; as well as tolthe highest and most exclusive Chinese society, At n time. Forester led a band of.two hun dred men against the rebels, only : nine of then. feturning, 'the rest of them having been all killed. He has now twenty thousand troops under his command. For his servives, he has been made a Mandarin of the Blue Button, and his name stands high in Pekin. - His rank obliges him to keep at least , twelve ser vants. The latest letters received front him (to . May Ist) state that he is in command of the city. of Soungkaing; sleeps with the 'city keys under his low ; while - not one of the 200,000 inhab itants of the place—not even the highest Mandarin—can enter or leave without his permission, and at a word' from him any, individual out of that 200,000 may lose his head. . Mr. Forester enjoys also the friend ship 'of Admiral' Hope, General Michel, and the oilier English and French officers in China. Admiral Hope he reports as severely wounded in a recent fight. On the B,th of May the English, French and Imperialist troops were preparingao attack Chingfoo, of which Forester was to be madel Military Governor. He pre dicts the removal or deposing of the so called HeaVenly Emperor within a year. Such is the brief and brilliant career in the. East of a. genuine specimen of Young America. The American Man darin has friends and relatives living in . this city, as well as in the northern part of the State, who will learn with sston ishment and pleasurtiof his influence and power in far-off , A TRUE WomAN.--Gen. Sicalea, in his Speech at. Brooklyn on Tuesday night, narrated the following touching inci. dent : While in the cars the other day; dur ing my tour , through Westiirn New York, a lady approached me ayd made inquiry 'about her son, -whom she said was in my brigade. • I could not help expressing my surprise to her that one so yonthlul iu appearance had a son old enough to be in the army., She said her- boy was only sixteen 'when he , enlisted ; but being large of stature, no questions about Lis age were asked. After such enquiriesas, would sanest themselves to an affectieu ate mother, she gave me a me sage to him. , She bid me say to him, that his father had just enlisted in the Y.n.th Cavalry and that she Was now quite alone. "Tell him also," said she ,"that we are; as poor as ever, but that all the pay he sent.me I. have put in the': bank inThita name. Not a penny of,it has been touched. I _want him to know that-if be comes home not as able to work as when, he w!...nt, something is laid by for hini." Turning \ to a bright youth some ten years clir,:Who stood near her aashei VMS leaving,me she,. said : "General, I Wish_ this one old enough, and you shojild'have him top, for I think G,ed: will bless every mother who gives ber children to the cause." • , • "God bless ,Abraham Lincoln.? . El El El MI II :=v ... ME OE 4 lIM
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