Harper's Weekly 1863-10-17: Vol 7 Iss 355

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Ocrozer 17, 1863.] of the war said that France was going to impose a Government; and Juarez, who was false to his oaths, and whose administration was deplorable, was represented as the choice of the Mexicans. It was said, too, that the Emperor was too adven- turous, and the first ill-success at Puebla awoke the echoes of the Palais Bourbon (Prince Napo- leon’s party), and endless calumnies were cast upon the project. The war is more than justified by the wrongs of France. She aims to help the Mexicans choose a Government which pleases them. After the Puebla failure it was resolved to have force enough to secure success. Others saw only in the plan, but Louis Napoleon had laid down a new policy. In his instructions to Forey he says that France wishes the United States well, but does not wish to see her the sole distributor of the pro- ducts of the New World. She must oppose the ab- sorption of the Southern by the Northern American States, and also the diminution of the Latin races upon the Western continent. The interest which carries France to Mexico has already given her sympathy to secession. The French army in Mexico is but the van-guard of a great commer- cial immigration. Napoleon III. has long planned what he is doing, and he will push it to its comple- tion. : The second part of the pamphlet is devoted to a survey of the soil, climate, and resources of Mexi- co. Why are they not turned to better account by the Mexicans? Because anarchy is fomented by the leaders, and the people are too feeble in num- bers for the territory ; of these people, also, the In- dians and Creoles are too lazy or tyrannical. The Mexican soil demands intelligent immigration and capital. Now the tranquillity and solidity of French institutions pushes away from her soil all kinds of colonists. Give them protection, and they will go to Mexico. It is thus a national interest that takes France to Mexico; and whether Maxi- milian accepts or not, French influence will remain there. The French army carries to Mexico—lIst, cohesion; 2d, order; $d, industry; 4th, an army. At home the empire has utilized Socialism and conquered anarchy. It wishes to do this in Mexi- co; but it can not do it with profit and security until after the recognition of the Confederate

The third part by the remark that the war has shown much she was menaced by the power of the United States. At her own cost she has learned how us isan industry which depends upon & single source of material, with all the vicissitudes to which it is subject. England has no particular interest in ending the war. She sees with satisfaction a great power destroying it- self, and she fears for Canada, which, at the end of the war, the North might seize as compensation for the lost South. While the war lasts her commerce profits and she sells arms to both sides, and is all the time in India the cotton culture. She will not be the first to recognize the South. Her rejection of both the overtures of France to that end shows that. But France can only look to the South for cotton, which, for quality and cheap- ness, is the best of all. This the Federals know, and the war is one of interest. Emancipation is a pretext to win the liberalsof Europe. If victorious, the Federals would not emancipate for fear of hurt- ing the cotton culture. In Europe we understand their coarse cry of freedom. We see what judicial liberty they bave at the North, and the Governor of Minnesota offers twenty-five dollars for an In- dian scalp. If the Federals conquer, the poor ne- groes will suffer. The European power which first izes the Confederacy can exact conditions favorable to the blacks. If France be the first, humanity and progress are sec.-*. Emancipation at some time will come from the alliance between France and the Confederates. Besides, slavery need be no bar to recognition. France has cordial relations with many slavebolding nations. The Northern States saw long ago this result of emanci- pation from the alliance of some foreign power with the South, and the Monroe doctrine was but a policy of insurance against civilization. The men of the North have destroyed every guarantee of liberty itt order to hold the provinces which yield them a Support. The model republic is gone. The tien of the Nort: would never con- fess the superiority of the m«n of the South, but the latter have furnished the great statesmen and most of the Presidents. They are mere peddlers, and lest the South by its intelligence sould de- stroy the rampart against Huropeanism, the North would even annihilate the Confederate States. It is the North which has supported Juarez in Mexico. The war in America can serve France only if it ends in separation : for, be our allies against our hands and the North kept off, will do all she can ; third, our manufacturers will be sure of cot- ton. The fourth part declares that the American ques- tion must be solved at once. There is no peace possible in the reconstruction of the Union. The North is powerless in ideas, arms, and production, and can not absorb the South. Consequently sep- aration ends the war. While Europe believed that the North was fighting insurgents it was its duty to do nothing. But the South has made out its policy, its ——. rights; the peculiar interest of France to it; and the moment ‘secondary tions will consent, and if slavery has frightened them, they will be satisfied that humanity will be cared for when France leads. Spain, which owns

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ment in France. In no other way does it help Louis Napoleon to answer the question upon which depends the peace of the world, whether he will remain in Mexico. To stay is to imperil France. To go is to endanger himself.

A YEAR TOO LATE. Ir is hinted in the /ndez, the rebel organ in Lon- don, and by a newspaper correspondent from Bal- timore, who seems to have intimate communica- tions with the rebel managers, that it is not impos- sible that Davis will in some way try the experi- ment of arming the negroes. In a speech deliv- ered two years ago Mr. Wendell Phillips said that Davis would certainly do it, and he urged it as a reason for our getting the start of him. The reb- els are already too late. By such an act the entire theory of the rebell- ion fails. That theory is, that slavery is the true foundation of liberty; that the doctrine of the United States Government is impossible and false ; and that in the Southern States no relation between whites and blacks is possible except that of slav- ery. Moreover, all the pretense of revolution dis- appears with such an act. The constitutional right of seeession having been proved to be simply the constitutional right of anarchy, the only pretext left to the rebels was the right of revolution against an apprehended oppression, which was to consist in some assault upon the system of slavery. When the rebels arm and free slaves, therefore, they con- fess that they can not build upon the corner-stone they have.so carefully quarried out of fog; and they do the very thing themselves the fear of which from others they allege as a justification of this bloody war. Of course no considerations of logic or common sense would influence them in so momentous an act. They would do it in hopeless spite, as a sav. age throws his tomahawk at a victorious foe. But how many hands can they spare from their corn-fields? How much do the slaves know of the scope of the war? How far can they be trusted with arms in their hands? How much will they believe of a promise of freedom? Which army will they suppose to be their true friend? Whose would they imagine would secure their liberty? In a word, will they believe Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis? These are a few of the questions which the rebel chiefs must ask them- selves, and quake as they ask. They are ques- tions which only the experiment can answer. But the slaves know now that our success is their free- dom. The rebel subterfuge of emancipation would come too late. MASTERS AND LACKEYS. THe peace party, which burns Orphan Asylums and murders innocent and defenseless men, women, and children, and then, by the mouth of its leader, Fernando Wood, talks about the Prince of Peace and brotherly love, has just received a blow from the rebels whose bloody treason it is trying to serve. On the 28th of September a resolution was introduced into the Virginia House of Delegates for inquiring into the tone and temper of the people of the United States upon the subject of peace. The House, by a unanimous vote, put its foot upon the resolution. These rebel gentlemen can not make their North- ern lackeys understand. They told them long ago that they were willing to use them, but in their own way. After separation, and when the corner- stone of slavery has been firmly planted, they have signified that it will still be their pleasure to trade with the North. But, as they expressly told Mr. Vallandigham, only upon condition of holding their noses. They no more wish a renewal of associa- tion with the Copperhead apostles of peace than they wish to live in their own slave-pens. Until they were ready to secede their Northern allies were, in their estimation, good enough cattle, like their other “servants,” for their purposes. But having milked them dry, they have done with them. And now when the vaccine herd, breathing palm branches and fraternity, propose to share their masters’ quarters, the amused and indignant masters can not kick them away. It is not the first job which the rebel gentlemen have undertaken and could not do. But they may be consoled. The loyal people of the country will manage a spurious “ peace” party as they manage an open rebellion. When a lion brays the most stupid shepherd does not fear the skin. A PENNSYLVANIA DOCUMENT. Ix the year 1857 Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, published a book called “The American Citizen,” which we carefully read, wondered how Mr. Hop- kins ever came to be Bishop in any Church of in- telligent and Christian men, and laid aside to the oblivion for which we supposed it to be destined. Of the ability of this instructor of the American citi- zen his pupils may judge by looking at page 85 of his book, upon which he says, ‘7 am compelled to conclude that, under the Constitution, no R. st can have a right to the free enjoyment of his religion.” And do you ask,how the Bishop reaches this aston- ishing conclusion? Because, he says, the Consti- tution has made “‘ the free exercise of religion” one of the supreme laws of the land! Of course it isin- credible. But you will find it upon page 85 of the Bishop's book ; and you will be very likely to say, as ghey what Mr. Squeers said when there was very little breakfast, and that “ Here’s richness !” so In a large part of this notable volume the Bish- op explains, defends, justifies, and commends the system which whips women to force then: to work without wages, and sells their children to pay the debts of the whipper. The substance of this part was eye hed gue State Central Committee” ennsy lv; and was widely cir- culated in that State as a Copperhead campaigning document, in company with a speech of Judge Woodward, the Copperhead candidate for Govern-

or, in which he takes similar ground with the Bish- op. The fact shows that the merits’ of our great

controversy ure most rapidly coming to light. The friend of the rebels, for whose success they prayed, and for whom every Copperhead voted, appeared as the open advocate of slavery, supported by a Bish- op. But let us not fail to mention that the Bishop of Pennsylvania and his leading clergy did not hes- itate to protest, as men gnd Christians and citi- zens, against the infamous views set forth by the Vermont Diocesan. The Bishop and the Judge, working for slavery, and consequently for rebellion, encountered also another tremendous antagonist. While they were talking smoothly about the “‘ di- vine sanction” and “ the brotherly love” of this foul social remnant of barbarism and the dark ages, and while the Copperheads carefuily spread their talk before the people of Pennsylvania, the loyal men of that State issued a pamphlet, in which the truth is told from experience, and the sophisms of the clergyman and the politician were utterly scat- tered and demolished. This was done by printing a few extracts from the Bishop's letter or the Judge's speech, and then illustrating them by copious and thrilling passages from the terrible book of Mrs. Kemble,‘ A Residence on a Georgian Plantation.” It was an argument which no man was so dull that he could not com- prehend. Every farmer in every remote nook of Pennsylvania, who had been taught that Democ- racy consisted in “damning niggers,” and who therefore lent a willing ear to the divine and the lawyer theorizing about slavery, suddenly saw and felt to the bottom of his heart what slavery is. Let every honest man in the land see it and feel it also, and the rebellion, with its Copperhead bulwark, would be swept away like a leaf by the ocean. The Union and Loyal Leagues of this State can do the great cause no bettor service than a uni- versal distribution of this Pennsylvania pamphlet, or of a cheap edition of Mrs. Kemble’s book. Mean- while, if any sincere man is troubled for a moment by the argument of Bishop Hopkins, that God meant that babies should be bred for sale, let him read Goldwin Smith's conclusive reply to the ques- tion, “* Does the Bible sanction American slavery ?” a

ARMY AND NAVY ITEMS. Mason-Generat Joun A. Logan returned to his com- mand at Vicksburg September 14, and had an enthusiastic reception. General Price ie reported to have been raised to the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Confederate army. Generals M‘Coox and Cxrrrenven are relieved of their commands, and ordered to report at Indianapolis. The 20th and 2ist Army Corps, formerly under these Generals, are cc ted, called the 4th Army Corps, and placed under command of Genera! Gonpon Granorr. A Court of Inquiry is to inquire into the conduct of the deposed Generals at the battle of Chicamauga. A movement is on foot in Massachusetts to procure an elegant sword for presentation to General Banks ae a special recognition of the taking of Port Hudson. Lieutenant A. M. Bransnaw, Assistant-Quarter-master, has been promoted to the rank of Captain and ordered to the Department of the Gulf. Major Stewey Cootipes, of Boston, reported to have been killed at Chattanooga, is a prisoner, supposed to be wounded. He was second in command of the regulars under Brigadier-General Jonw H. Kina. Captain Marrit had resigned the cx d of the pri- vateer Florida in consequence of ill-health. Lieutenant Barney was likely to succeed him. Brigadier-General Rosert Anprgson, in reeponse to an inquiry from the War Department, has stated that the flag which he hauled down from Sumter on the occasion of ite surrender to the rebels is still in his possession, and has never left his custody. In 1856 four officers in our regular army, three of whom belonged to one regiment, imported four French sabres, exactly alike in pattern and workmanship, for their own use. Two of these officers—Ronert E. Lez and Frranven Lze—are now in the rebel army, and the other two—Col- onel D. B. Sackerr and Lieutenant-Colonel A. P. Porrer —are in the army of the Union. Major-General Barnes, the new Military Governor of Norfolk, arrived in that city on 50th ult., and entered upon the duties of his office. Colonel Utnic Danieren arrived at Washington last week. His wound is of a very painful and complicated character. Two amputations have been performed, be sides several other operations; but the surgeon is now sanguine of effecting even a more satisfactory cure than has been for some time anticipated. General Patniox will for the present continue hie du- ties as Provost Marshal General of the Army of the Po- tomac, General Meave finding it extremely difficult to dispense with his services. Colonel Pracy Wyxpuam, who only a few days ago re- sumed command of his of cavalry, has been re- lieved from duty in the Army of the Potomac. Major Cuar.es J. Hoyt, Paymaster of Volunteers, who was summarily dismissed the service, has been reappoint- ed, it having been that the dismissal was based upon charges made against another officer of the same name, and that Major Cuar.es J. Hoyt bears the highest reputation for integrity and correctness, and that his ac- counts are considered at the Paymaster-General's office a» satisfactory and correct as those of any paymaster in the army. A Board of Medical officers, to consist of Surgeons J. J. B. Waiont, EF. H. Asanre, and Assistant-Surgeon J. H. Hit, U.S.A., has been ordered to convene at New York City on the 15th inst., or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the examination of candidates for appointment as Assistant- Surgeons in the regular army, and such Aasistant-Sur- geons as may be brought before it for promotion as Sur- geons. Lieutenant-Colonel Decaney, of Conn’s Georgia Legion, from Athens, Georgia, died at Washington on the 3d inst., of a wound received in a recent skirmish on the Rapidan. Major-General Somewok arrived at Da Ohio, on 80th ult. on a ten days’ leave of oo. te left —_ Tytzx temporarily in ¢ ) aryland Depart- ment. There is y Gendeln for eo Suen of re- moval. ior F. N. Cranks, Fifth United States Artillery, is Massachusetts, and take

officer Major W. H. Srvets, Fifteenth United States Infantry, goes to Louisville, Kentucky, on similar duty. General Stee. addressed a Union meeting in Philadel- phia on 30th ult. He rapidly reviewed the events of the war and ite successes, and that it would not be long before all the armies of the Union would be victorious. The great principle of self-defense compelled the Govern- | ment to engage in this war. General BLun? and staff arrived at Fort Scott on W ednes- He will be there until the 12th of the of Kanras will be by General M‘Nex. General Cvetis declined Buowt, who, report says,

Firet-Lieutenant Amruve F. 4ma.., Adjutant Ble Pennsylvania Volunteers, First -Lientenant Usca, Cement, First Company Andrew's Sharp-Shooters sachusetts Volunteers, and Second-Iseutenant Toms |) Reep, Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, have (een cashiered for conduct unbecoming officers and gentlen.« drunkenness, and breach of arrest. The evidence in the case of General MuLroy har reviewed by the Judge-Advocate-Genersl and ebmitt: | to the President for his decision, which has not yet be promulgated. ‘ Colonel James A. Tarr, First District of Columbi unteers, has been distaiseed the servier by order President. He was Provost Marshal General of tt fenses south of Washington last winter, and was et with neglect of duty and disobedience of orders, for he was tried and honorably acquitted ; but General Hy ZELMAN, Commanding the department, disapproved finding of the court, alleging that the evidence addure-' showed that the charges wery conciusively proved > case was to the Prefident, who ordered Cole: Tart to be dismissed. Colonel Ramsay has been appointed Brigadier-Ger and assigned to the charge of the Ordnance Buress which he has filled «ince the retirement of General Rrv: « Colonel Deanory, recently captured by the reb was attached to Governor Prrerowr's staff. He war »¢ the time sojourning at the house of a relative several mile from Alexandria DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE CHATTANOOGA AT last accounts both armies were confronting each mh er, and Genera! Rosecrans had established three line defense in front of the town, while General Bragg wa at the same time fortifying Missiovary Ridge. Genera! Rosecrans’s reinforcements reached him on 2d, and ‘i army is now believed to be larger than ever. Richmond Kraminer admits that General Ro crans’s position is impregnable, snd that the attempt o: the rebel General Imboden to cut off the communication between Rosecrans and his reinforcements on the Ba!ti more and Ohio Railroad had proved a failure BURNSIDE'S POSITION Se putiies of General Burnside’s command is nou in a dispatch from Knoxvils hile right wim in communication with the army of (ieveral Roseecrar He holds the entire country south from Knoxville to C houn, on the Hawaseee River, and east of the former point as far as Greenville, on the Bast Tennessee and \ ingio \u Railroad. He also holds possession of all the passes (ut North Carolina. BRIDGE BURNED AT MURFRERSBORO, Accounts from Nashville of 5th state that the enemy b destroyed the large railroad bridge south of Murfreesho They burned one portion of it, and the other portion th cut down. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMA General Meade, of the Army of the Potomac. The steam. er Rob Campbell, from St. Louis to Vicksbury, wa fired by"incendiaries, near Milliken’s Bend, on the 2Pt)s ult. The flames} e«pread so rapidly that the passengers were foreed to Jump overboard before the boat could got to shore wenty-two lives were lost, including sey eral officers of the Feders! army A RECONNOISSANCE AT MOBILE. There has been a brush between our gun-boats and th rebel fort at Grant's Passe, near the entrance of Mobile Bay, in which the fort is beliewed to have been materielly damaged, as well as a rebel tron-clad that for a brief thm participated in the engagement. RUMORED CONSPIRACY AT THE WEST. Several persons have been arrested and placed in iron in St. Louis, owing to a report thet « conspiracy exicts there to burn all the steamers in Western waters whic! may be of any service to the Government. An tovestiga tion is now on foot which will probably woravel the my tery of this desperate undertaking, if aay such should bx in contemplation. ~ _ ‘ 7 yn , FOREIGN NEWS. ENGLAND. MASON WITHDRAWS FROM ENGLARD, Me. Mason's removal from the position of rebel envoy in London is confirmed. The Hugiish journals deuy that he ever enjoyed a diplomatic character. The writers en) that the door of Barl Russell's official chamber was in variably closed against him in a “ polite” manner, am that the Davis mencuvre of calling him from London -an not alter the neutral course of the Government, or ents the Cabinet into a recognition, even by a “side wind. FRANCE THE PIRATE AND OUR CRUISERS. La France enys « Voderal steam corvette (X ) had arrived at Brest from Madeira, having been sent, ch another Federal corvette, in pursuit of the Florida. The Florida leaves Brest on the 23d, completely repaired, anc proceeds immediately to meet the second Federal corvette, which is at Lisbon, and atteck her before she can be jaine: by the one at Brest, which ie repairing. La France save the Federal corvette Kerrsage will : treated at Brest like the Florida. Both belligerents wi!! enjoy the same rights and advantages RUSSIA A BOLD STAND ON THE POLISH QUPFSTION Russia had replied to the French note on the Potish que tion. The State paper reiterates the determination of the Czar w deal with the subject himself, Prince Gortschakofi adds that the Emperor of Raetia can not “ permit” th affairs of his provinors, to which vo internatLoval relation apply, beimy ever alluded to by the other Powers, even “ incidentally” or in « “ friendly” manner AUSTRIA MOKE ROYAL ALLIANCES, The Archduke Louis of Austria--brother of Maximbiiaw: is to be married to the daughter, the only child of thy Emperor of Brazil. The London Pos? regards the event of very high importance, as ewo thrones on thir ride of the Atlantic—that of Mexico and Brazil—may soon be filled by members of the house of Hapeburg. who wil! mutnelly support each other. The London Post speaks of auc: . | royal accomplishment with favor. OS PL AT i

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UNDER ESCORT OF THE MILITIA AND POLICE.—{Sex Paor 662.)

THE GRAND PROCESSION OF OUR RUSSIAN VISITORS THROUGH BROADWAY,

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THE ANGLO-REBEL PIRATES—STEAM-RAM BUILDING FOR THE REBELS i YDE, SCOTLAND } SK ere ax A —-— ~ - _ ~ wed steadi i at i ‘ ud owe L he et ree Clwde. at THE ANGLO-REBEL RAMS. oe phe may by = aly , : . Seay ser rej an en the hull left the I renct ‘ el ' rtaine ' , Tue picture of one of Larry's Ancio-Renes raised at the rtes ri - , auired lod ve alles ‘Seve ape wr Rams, which we give below, is from a drawing eesel neariy ac he Mere eity ' ' obtained by some patriotic citizens who were late- | 75S“ — ng al . the } rhe } rh ; ‘ ota eer : 7 OUR RUSSIAN VISITORS. ly in England. They smuggled an artist into the | g4jends of the build ~ many represent trem 1 tat fn, Caiaies then a planking * yard in which this unscrupulous knave, Laird, is | tives of th called * Confede net id evr nche ian cute . f iron pl : k t building his pirates, and succeeded in getting a | ae me thicken a ane = _— -- stage . ; : samt * pretty thorough picture. Both vessels are alike. | Po) /5.)... be incl rt Ane sail aiinestien tan P= ‘ The « A correspondent of the Providence Journal thus de axtle and poop-deck are ‘ i . sment for the turrets was 1 political scribes them : and arra i for being «t i . ried leck. TI } taken The t ks ave " y at hit mod nd truction that I ex; ] sla ly In company with an intelligent and experienced ship- tended to! wered in © ant i lean, flusb t » that under no subterfuge t 1¢ master we crossed the “ Tranmere Ferry,” and arrived at | deck ' (acilitate ¢ hoarding of au adver uld they be allowed to depart ' ‘ the yard at 10) a.m. The “ram” on the stocks was of th: ri ‘ towers, ahout twenty feet in « lestroction The French ar ish col ere at ' : the Ru ne our sens same dimensions as the one previously built. In lengt! te n 1 height They « i i part a bows va-thead’ on t latter vessel It i that f tit f manner in which R about two hundred and fifty feet, forty feet beam, ond nd below " e pierced for two heavy gar they were for the French Gove ent, 1 { , whil twenty feet depth of hold, as near as could be judged by enirved bei flecks through six man-hol the re built t Fren Coneul denied th r Af - WW " ‘ . -— z the eye. The “stem” is of oiled iron, about six or eight f vers ! r iron on the outeide 1 inei onounesd that the firnde f he onetruct were f — = . . ue to Wor " inches thick and twelve or fifteen wid The bottom is be til 1 « foot's thickn f wood 1 re tished f. Saugier, a French banke who} ru e if we flat, with a eiight keel, and the screw as usual, but pro- | resisting materiel, They revolve on twenty-four 1 yace upen t ves bijection that the tected in the conformation of the ster: The ‘*ram” ic a iil to tt mall wheels of a lecomot ' tin eaworth ¢ f < weieht of the t tm projection of solid steel, of the same thickness as the stem f na centre), on axl of wrought iron, to the cit tnachiner prine | by ‘ t ep and from six to eight feet bevond this perpendicular line, the diameter of the turrets wet { urret ' ertaint t expr by my very inte ! ft ‘ i Nevake resembling more nearly in form an inverted nose. When deck) is protected by thick iron. On f them fe i per t ' ‘ ‘ ‘ Fed the vessel floats this formidable appendage is below the | rear of the foremast, the other of the mainn Be ' oll “ = oer water-line and invisible. As the clock struck eleven th the forward turret and en fmt the pilot ‘ ' . 2 ep . irigate 4 5 guna, cou fast Block wae “knocked from under.” and the vee n octagonal form (if as the mod ' \ ! | t h ‘ frigate ¢ aba, 43 { | 4 : & : Ni I *

THE ANGLO-REBEL PIRATES—ONE OF LATRD’S STEAM-RAMS.—[From 4 Sxeron wy Aw Awnercas ry Exoranp.)

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guns, 2300 tons, Captain Boutskoff; screw sloop Vitiaz, 17 guns, 2100 tons, Captain Lund; and screw sloop Veriag, 17 guns, 2100 tons, Captain Kremer. The following sketch of the squadron will be read with interest: Phe two largest of the equadron, the frigetes Alexander ecaki and Peresnet, are evidently vessels of modern build, .pd mach about them would lead an unpracticed eye to think they were constructed in thix country. The frigate Uettba is uniike the other two: she has more the appear- ance of one of the firat of the heavy screw ships built in the Furopean dock-yards. Her biuff bows and full counter do not give evidence cf great speed; but she is dou btles« ® fair goer and fine sea-boat. The two sseam corvettes, or sloop, as we term them, Vartag and Vitiaz, are apparent- ly very cuperior vessels. They are fully equal in tonnage t tbe rteamecs in our service of the class of the Brooklyn, Avchmond, and others, end carry very serviceable batter- ex. They are evidently constructed for speed, and have engines of fall power. Ail these vessels are ship rigged, and ate heavily sparred, sc much so that if their smoke- stack» were out of sight yon would hardly suppose them tc oe propelled by steam. Their «tanding rigging appears to be very slight in comperison with our ships of the same ‘ {aes The batteries of these ships are of formidable character, sithough all smooth-bored guns. They are of one calibre, tarowiag ® solid shot of sixty pounds’ weight, and of two *iesses, the long and medium, weighing about sixty and eighty hundred weight. They are of a pattern peculiarly Russian, but are fitted in a similar manner to the broad- wide guns of car own vessels, The locks and sight are dif- terent from onrs, but no doubt soswer equally as good a purpose. The batteries appear to be in excellent condi- tion, and ready for service at ® moment's warning. The 40m are poliehed like mirrors, and show that their crews take pride in ke in proper order, ready for service or eR. Phe instant you step feet over the gangways of these Fhipe it becomes evident that they are in the hands of men who anderstand how to yeep a ship in the most thorough rxder The decks areas white as holy-ctones and sand can nake them, the paint work spotless, the brass and other uright work shining as if the- were cleaned every five min- ites rigging nestly eofit wn on deck or on the belay- ng pins—no ends oft «4 hanging sbont—every thing i anled taut and proper! oelayed, in faet, every thing looks hip-shape and Bristol fashion”—-jast as a sailor to eee it. A isdy with the not immacniate skirts and kid gloves can move say where, on deck or below, without ‘anger of soiling either, eo perfectly clean every thing bout the ship is kept. The quarter-deck is entirely clear, with the exception of the battery; but on board the Osliaba he boatse—between the fore and main maste—appear to crowd the decks, being stowed in a manner to leave but tittle space between them and the ehip’s bulwarka. The “ur and bertl. decks are Jow in comparison with the heavy aps of our service. On Thursday, ist October, the city of New York cave the Russian officers a grand reception. The <ommittee of the Common Council went off in the Steamer Andrews to present the resolutions to the Admiral. We condense the following account of the RECEPTION OF FOARD THE “ NEVSKI" i which is illustrated on page 657), from the Herald : he scene was grand when the Andrews cast off her moorings and steamed down the bay, the band of the North Carolina regaling the ear with the performance of popular airs. The boat wae gayly decoratec with the A-neriean colors. She did not head right for the Russian ‘eet, but made « circuit south of Governor's Island, com- ig vound on the weat side of the British and French squad- or. As che passed the English line-of-battle ship the oand «trock up the first bars of “God Save the Queen,” wut did not play the whole air, probably because there was o sign of recognition or acknowledgment from the deck of the Nile. The French squadron was without wen a note of the ‘* Marseillaise,” but when she neared he Russian squadron the band played the national hymn, * God save the Emperor,” and the white flag with the blue cross was ran up. The compliment was acknow!- edged by loud viras from the Ras*ian men-of-war. Soon neir rigging was filled with white-capped sailors, the “ ary and Stripes were given to the breeze, and hundreds curious eyes peered over the bulwarks of the formidable- ~oking vessels. As the Andrews steamed up to the A lezx- niler Neoski —the Russian fiag-ship, lying almost on a line estward from Trinity Chusch--ihe musical compliment n our eide was returned —— performance, on theirs, of * Yankee Doodle,” which is regarded by them ae our na- ional hymn, The crews of all the vessele were by this time saluting us with loud cheers. The Andrews had been provided with a splendid row at, the Waverley, to convey the committee on board the ag-ship; but the Russian wae too polite for that. Hi« vm bonts were floating on the wave, all ready to take us n board, Captain Faance hailed the Rassian, and shout- i, “Ll have the city authorities here, wishing to go on voard.” * Yea, Sir,” was the response. The boats came tlongeide, end we had the pleasure of being conveyed to he Nevakd in a sixteenoared gig, manned by stout arma, that probably acquired sinew and muscle on the Ste of Tartary; for the Russian seilors are not obtained from the ses-board, nor are they expected to have any particular ptitude forse eae | life. They are taken indiecrimin- *tely trom the ranke of the peasanta, just as the soldiers re. but they make very good seamen notwithstanding. ttle barefooted middies or apprentices meet na at the foot « the gangway and at the several landings, and sailors Tesent arms to Us as We pase Up. Well. here we are, om beard the Alerander Neveki, “hich looks, on deck, lange enongh to accommodate a fair- ized army, and with ordnance wy enough to blow up ort Sumter. The guna, we are told by an officer, are American make, being cast at Pittsburg. They are mod- ied somewhat after the Dahigren paterrn. In the midst the group formed by the Committee of Arrangements ad sceompanying gentlemen, the Admiral, a small, active, Luc + xtremely polite gentleman, wearing the full uniform t bic rank, and many decorstions and ip ignia of nobility, .s talking with as much volubility es hw knowledge of the English tongue permite, and moving ab ut from one point © snother, giving directions to his owr officers, or saying “omp!imentary things to our civilians, The principal offi- cere of the feet are near him, all in ful! dress aniform, and slong the opposite bulwark the sailors are ranged as if on rvarad Some who have muskets to their shoulders are rforming the duties which in other navies are assigned the marine corps, an organization which is not known mn the Russian service. Up to this time there had been no salute fired, and no Micial presentation made. Much caution was to be ob- ved in having the emeall boats out of the range of the

i At lart ail wee ready. Ata signal the sailors who uid been «tanding ia rark» ou deck sprang up the “ot manning the yards, however, as our sailors do. n he order is given to fire, and as gun after gun reverber- tee under our feet—-the salute is fired from the lower deck the sailors brenk out inte loud cheers, the band striv vard to play * Yankee Doodle.” And thus the ealute venty-one guns is fired, to the agtiefaction of every body, nd to the proper observance of Afficial etiqnette, , The resvlations of the Common Council duly presented and responded to, the Admiral, his offi- rs, and the Committee proceeded to the foot of wenty-third Street, where they landed. There hey were received by the city dignitaries and a division of militia, and escorted to the city. Our irtist sketched the procession from Brady's win- dows, opposite Grace Church, and we reproduce his picture on page 660. The following from the Times eport will give an additional idea of the scene: After the procession had passed Union Squere, and wheeling fairly into the vast current of Broadway, the cene became eplendidty snimated. The moving pageant rolled in a glittering etrearn down the broad thoroughfare hetween banks of “pturned human faces, the trappings of the equipages, the gold and silver epaulets of the Museo- '

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MARGARET'S CROSS. L Tur Nortonville Sewing Circle was convened at the house of Mrs. Deacon Parker. The ladies pres- ent were grouped as chance or choice dictated, and the sound of many voices, blending somewhat in- harmoniously, floated out into the supper-room, where the mistress of the house was busily en- gaged in providing for appetites sharpened by la- bor. Apart from the other ladies sat one whose thoughts seemed self-centred and little cognizant of what was passing. The hum of conversation rippled about her, but she took no part init. She was no longer young. Apparently she had by some years the half-way house of life. Her ex- pression was thoughtful and grave, and afforded little encouragement to those who would have ap- proached her with the light personal gossip which furnishes the main staple of conversation with com- monplace minds. Little was known in Norton- ville of her past history, though for ten years she had gone in and out among the people, and lived constantly among them. Just ten years since she had purchased the Holmes cottage with half an acre of land attached, end commenced the solitary occupation of it. Advances were made toward neighborly intercourse in the early part of her resi- dence, but these were so indifferently responded to that the people, partly chilled, partly offended, drew off, and by common consent left Margaret Thorpe to the solitude which she so evidently pre- ferred. During her ten years’ residence it is doubtful whether Margaret hag ever been beyond the town limits. Indifferent as she was to every thing in the village, there seemed to be nothing in the great world beyond which specially interested her. Cu- rious neighbors had never detected a visitor at her door save the butcher, the baker, and peripatetic merchants of their class. She seldom crossed an- other's threshold; yet when the widow Carver's son, @ boy of ten, fell from a scaffolding and broke his: leg, thus adding materially té the labors of a hard-working mother with a numerous family, Margaret Thorpe walked over to the small horae an offered her services as nurse. These were gratefully accepted, not without surprise. Mar- garet proved faithful to her self-imposed task. Day after day she watched by the sick boy’s bedside, evincing a rare tact in anticipating his wants, and furnishing at her own cost fruit and other delica- cies such as the mother’s scanty means would scarcely have supplied. The mother was deeply grateful, but the awe with which the silent nurse inspired her embarrassed her in the expression of her gratitude. A softer expression came over Margaret's face as she listened to the mother’s attempt to convey her sense of indebtedness. ‘Don’t thank me, Mrs. Carver,” she said. “If I have been of any service I ought to be thankful that the opportunity has been afforded me. I feel that the experience has done me good in drawing me for a time out of my- self.”’ Mrs. Carver looked at her with a puzzled face. She was a worthy woman, brought up in a hard- working school, and had few ideas beyond the hum- ble reund of her everyday duties. “She's a strange woman, and I don’t understand her,” she remarked to a neighbor; “ but she’s been very good to my George, and I sha’n't sson forget it. I don’t know how I conld have got along with- out her. If I knew of any way to thank her I would.” ‘You might invite her to drop in to tea some afternoon,” suggested the neighbor. “*T don’t think she would accept the invitation,” said Mrs. Carver, doubtfully. “ At any rate you can try the experiment, and if you want some one to help you entertain her I shall be glad to come too.” The invitation, suggested by one whese curios-

itv songht an opportunity to learn something more of the mysterious resident, was gently but firmly declined, and as a matter of course was never re- peated. But Margaret made the little lad whom she had attended im his sickness an exception to the general indifference with which she regarded her neighbors. Not unfrequently she called him as he was passing her door, and gave him some present either designed specially for himse!f or for his family at home, thus furnishing an illustration of the remark that benefits conferred lead to an in- terest in those benefited. ' This was not a solitary instance of Margaret's kindness. A poor man who had struggled with poverty all his life lost a cow by disease. To him it was a sévere loss, which he knew not how to re- pair. Great was his joy on receiving through the post-office an envelope containing a sum of money sufficient to purchase another animal in place of the one lost. There was nothing tc indicate from whom the gift proceeded, but inquiries settled be- yond a doubt that Margaret Thorpe was his bene- factress. He called upon her and expressed his thanks in earnest words. She said little, but that little was kind. “Do not thank me,” she said, “bat rather thank Him who has given me the ability to make you happy with what is valueless to myself. If the amount which I sent you proves insufficient to replace your loss let me know.” It may excite surprise that Margaret Thorpe, with her distaste to society, should form one of the busy company convened at Mrs. Deacon Par- ker’s on the present occasion. It was not an ordi- nary meeting, however, but assembled to sew for a company of soldiers about to leave the village to join our forces in Virginia. This was in the early days of the rebellion, when the lack of public sys- tem made such individual! efforts more important and necessary than now. Early in the afternoon Margaret Thorpe had presented herself at the door of Mrs. Parker, and in a few words offered her services, if an extra needle could be made avail- able. There being a press of work, which it was desirable to complete as soon as possible, Marga- ret’s offer was not one to be slighted. Even had there been little need to accept it, the ladies would gladly have embraced this opportunity to become better acquainted with the mystery that enveloped their silent neighbor. But Margaret took a quiet seat in a corner, and made it evident by her man- ner that she had come to work, and not to talk. She appeared wrapt and unobservant, and it is doubtful if she heard a word that passed among her neighbors, no less busy with the tongue than the needle. Kitty Parker and Jenny Reed watched her from the sofa opposite—watched her with the curiosity of impulsive seventeen. So watching her, Kitty formed the daring resolution to assail the fortress of her reserve and carry it by storm. Jenny, more timid, dared her to the attempt. With a half- laughing glance and a little inward trepidation, Kitty advanced and seated herself in a chair ad- joining Miss Thorpe’s. “Tt is a pleasant afternoon, Miss Thorpe,” she commenced, assuming more nonchalance than she felt. Margaret Thorpe looked up in a little surprise. “Yes,” she said, “it is pleasant;” then looked down again at her work. “Don’t you think this is a horrid war?” re- marked Kitty, in her most sociable manner. “All wars are terrible,” retuned Margaret, slowly ; ‘and perhaps those which take place in the soul, and without outward show, are not less terrible than those of the field.” “I wonder what she means,” thought Kitty, pretty but shallow. ‘“ Have you got any relations in the war, Miss Thorpe ?” she asked, aloud. * Relations!” repeated Margaret, with a sudden glance at her companion; “I have no near rela- tions.” “Oh!” said Kitty, a little disconcerted by the glance. Then, after a pause, “‘I sometimes wish that I were a man, that I might go., Don’t you, Miss Thorpe ?” The question slipped out before she was aware. After it had fairly passed her lips she looked a lit- tle frightened, Jest it should seem too familiar. Miss Thorpe took it in good part. ‘I don’t know,” said she. “If I were a man I should feel that it was the path of duty. But women have their duties also. I think | shall go.” ‘*To the war?” inquired Kitty, in amazement. “Yes,” said Margaret, answering the question without a thought of the questioner. Kitty was thoroughly mystified. Miss Thorpe going to the war! The thought of the grave spin- ster in regimentals crossed her bewildered mind, and the absurdity struck her so forcibly that she had much ado to stifle a convulsive burst of mer- riment. Fearful of another attack, she hastily re- treated to her former position. “What did she say ?” questioned Jenny, eagerly. ““Phat she is going out as a soldier,”’ returned Rigg scring to preserve a sover face. “ absurd! You are only4anghing at me.” “Tt is true,” said Kitty, earnestly. “ Did she say those very words?” “Well,” returned Kitty, thinking a little, “she said she was going to the war.” “ As a nurse, of course.” “Well, perhaps it may be that. But the fact is, Jenny, when J was talking with her I felt so nervous that it’s no wonder [ understood her in such an absurd manner.” Margaret's intention was quickly whispered about among the company, and a few curious glances were directed toward her in consequence. But no one accosted her, and this was all the in- formation which the members of the sewing circle gleaned that day concerning her plans. I. A rorts1ent later a lady introduced herself to the physician in charge of a large hospital in Washington. “Miss Thorpe!” he repeated, glancing at the card which she placed in his hand.

[OcroneR 17, 1863. inclined her head. “I have come,” she explained, “to offer my services wherever you can make them available. 1 have littie experience in tending the sick, but I can follow directions.” The doctor let his eyes rest for a moment upon her grave, earnest face. Here was no youthful enthusiast, but a woman mature, self-poised, relia- ble—one who knew what she had undertaken, and would not shrink however painful the duties im- upon her. ‘* Miss Thorpe,” he said, “I am obliged daily to decline from persons whom I judge to be unsuitable. Unless my discernment is much at fault you will be of great assistance to me, and I gratefully accept your services.” Margaret did not acknowledge the compliment in words. She merely bowed, removed her bonnet and shawl, and said, briefly, ‘‘I am ready.” The grave face soon became well known in the hospital wards. More than one wounded sufferer followed with grateful glances her whose hand had cooled his fevered brow, and from whose lips grave words of encouragement had fallen. She devoted herself with special assiduity to those whose suf- fering was greatest. There was one poor fellow from Vermont, both whose legs had been ampu- tated, who was waiting in the hospital the slow process of healing. Sometimes his failed him when he looked forward, and thought from how much his state would cut him off. ek 3 might have been your life,” suggested Mar- Geir Well, there ieu't much use in s poor feller like me living, do you think so, Miss?” he said, looking up into her eyes. ‘*You have made the sacrifice for your country. Do you regret it?” The face of the wounded soldier lighted up. “Never, Miss. I'd do it again.” “Then for your country’s sake you will bear it bravely. When the war is over, and the Union is restored, in part through your exertions, you will feel repaid fully, will you not ?” “That I shall, Miss Thorpe,” said the young man, proudly. “ And you will feel, as long as you live, that you are bearing a life-cross for your country’s sake. It will not be easy, but when that thought comes you will not complain.” “Your words have done me good. You must come and talk to me again. I can bear my cross better.” “* We all have crosses—some heavier, some light- er. Happy are they who have a compensation like yours.” The soldier looked after her as she glided rapid- ly from bed to bed in the crowded ward. “‘ She has her cross, too,”’ he thought. “ I won- der what it is.” . This was one case—one of many. There are some who diffuse cheerfulness about them without an effort. Margaret Thorpe was not one of these. Her grave face never relaxed into a smile. Yet wherever she went she carried with her an atmos- phere of trust and submission which stilled the murmurs of the querulous, raising them to a high- er level of patience and a hopeful serenity which permitted Nature to work under more favora- ble conditions. Much of the effect which her words wrought might be traced to the impression which prevailed that she was one who had known sorrow and been acquainted with grief. One day there was a large accession of patients. For a time all was bustle and confusion. At length order was restored. ‘‘ Miss Thorpe,” said the doc- tor, pausing as he met Margaret on the stairs, “there is one young man whom I have had re- moved to a room by himself. He is sick of a con- tagious fever. I find a difficulty in obtaining a nurse willing to undertake the charge of him. Yet the poor fellow ought not to be neglected.” ‘*] will take charge of him if you think best,” said Margaret, without hesitation. “1 ought to warn you that you will incur dan- ger.” “In the discharge of my duty I shrink from no danger.” “T admire your courage and noble spirit,”’ said the doctor, warmly. With a few necessary direc- tions he left her. She found her patient delirious. He was a young man, apparently not over twenty years of age. His abundant chestnut hair had been roughly clipped by the doctor's orders, and his face was much flushed. Intent upon her duties as nurse, Margaret did not at first examine his features closely. When she did so she started suddenly and turned quite white. She drew nearer and gazed earnestly in the youth's face. Though seen at disadvantage, it was evident that in health he must have been very handsome. The full blue eye, the fair skin, the open, frank expression of the face, recalled to Margaret another face known long before, and still too well remem- bered. “ Tt is very like,” she murmured. “ Ifit should be! How mysterious are the workings of Provi- dence !” Thenceforward she devoted herself with even more than her psual assiduity to the young man’s recovery. Had the care been less it is doubtful if the disease would have yielded. With an anxiety which she could not conceal, and a new something in her eyes—was it hope ?—Margaret watched for the first sign of a change. At length it came. One afternoon, as the sun was near its setting, her patient opened his eyes. “Where am I ?” he asked, in bewilderment. “ You are in a hospital in Washington.” “ Have I been sick ?” “ Very sick.” But vou think I shall get well?” he asked, an xiously, “* Yesterday I should not have known what to say. To-day I have great hopes of your recovery.” “ How long have I been here ?” “Tt is now ten days.” ‘* And you have taken care of me all that time?” * Yes; but I fear you are talking too much.”

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& Ocroper 17, 1863.] “How kind you have been!” said the young soldier, gratefully. There was something in his voice and glance which affected Margaret strangely, but with an ef- fort she suppressed all outward signs of emotion. “ Do you think I could write a letter?” he ask- ed, the next day. **You have not the strength to write yourself; but if you will dictate | will write for you.” Writing materials were brought, and Margaret seated herself at a small table by the bedside. “It is to my father,” the young man said. The letter was commenced. After an account of his falling sick and being brought to the hos- pital, the young soldier turned to Margaret, and said, suddenly, “ You have never told me your name. I shall wish to remember in after-years to whom I am indebted for my recovery.” “My name is Margaret Thorpe,” was the an- swer somewhat hesitatingly given. “T shall mention to my father how much I am indebted to you.” “No, no!” said Margaret, hastily. The young man looked at her in some surprise. “Promise me,” she said, eagerly, “never to mention my name to your father.” “ Why should you be unwilling ?” “ Regard it as a whim, if you please; I can not explain it.” The letter was finished, and no further allusion was made to the subject. Only on the margin of the letter Herbert Wentworth—for it is time to give his name— contrived, unobserved by Mar- garet, to write, ‘‘ Come.” Some days passed. The fever had turned, and Herbert was rapidly regaining his health. Mar- garet was seated by his bedside reading to him when steps were heard approaching. Supposing it to be the physician, she looked up, composedly. The next minute she had arisen from her seat, and with uncertain steps strove to leave the room. * Margaret,” said the new-comer in a low, clear, penetrating voice. ; She turned, irresolutely. “Now that we have met after so many years, would you leave me so soon?” “Why should vou wish me to remain, Henry ? You have had good cause to forget me.” “But I have not forgotten you, Margaret. I have never wished to forget you.” “ Even when I wronged you most ?” “* Not even then.” He came forward and took her hand. bled in his own. “Ought I to take your hand? said Margaret, humbly. “You have repented the wrong you did me— you have nursed my son back to life. If you sinned you have atoned also. I think you have suffered, Margaret.” He said this gently, noting regretfully the changes which time and grief had wrought. “If you have forgiven me, Henry, I shall live happier henceforth. Yet 1 wronged myself not less than you. No sooner had I uttered the bitter words that parted us than I would have given worlds to recall them. But my unhappy pride prevented that. From that day we have not met. In solitude I have mourned over hopes which I my- self had blighted. My punishment has been not less great than my sin.” **Let both be forgotten. When I go back to Wisconsin, Margaret, will you go with me?” “ Henry!” “ As my wife, Margaret.” “No, no, it can not be.” “ When I tell you that it will promote my hap- piness—that I have a family of young children to whom you can be a second mother—will not that alter your resolution ?” ‘“*Give me time to think—it is all so sudden. It is not right that so much happiness should fall to my lot.” Margaret's scruples were at length silenced. At the altar she plighted her faith to him who had so long possessed her heart. The cross which she had so long borne fell from her shoulders. A sweet and grateful peace softened the gravity of her face. Wien she returned to Nortonville to arrange her affairs previous to her transfer of residence, the villagers hardly recognized in her the cold, statue- like woman who had repelled all by her coldness. They knew not that the lost harmony had been re- stored to her soul, and that with her the way of duty had led into the path of peace. It trem- Am I worthy ?” SOMETHING LIKE CAMPAIGN- ING. “| REMEMBER one evening near Westminster, Maryland, which stands out in my memory like an oasis in the desert. We were marching hard, driv- ing Stuart before us. Day and night, with hardly the example, while in the very act of marching. T heard a sudden shriek behind me, and, looking back, saw Thompson very wide awake sticking his heels violently into his horse’s side as the animal with nodding head, was gently subsiding to the earth. Of course, there were several halts as the column straggled, or got too close. On one occa- ever, felt very wide awake, in a mood for supper and society. Just where we halted was one of those nice snug little villages of Northern Mary- land, which are such a contrast to the collections of houses called towns in Virginia. The house nearest to me was cheerful with lights, and had al- together a cozy, home look that was irresistible to HARPER'S WEEKLY. a man who had been on rough service at the front for a couple of years. I did not attempt to resist the attraction but moved boldly forward, knocked at the door, and entered. “ Bright lights, soft carpets, pretty furniture, were all pleasant sights to one used to decay and devastation ; and a table spread with a white table- cloth, covered with country fare neatly arranged, was by no means disagreeable to a hungry man ; but there was something in the room which was more attractive than any of these. There were pretty faces smiling out of nice curled or braided hair, dainty forms rustling in fresh muslin, sweet voices uttering hearty welcome from such charm- ing lips, that my heart gave a bound and throb which made me for a moment lose my appetite. I can not say exactly how many girls there were in that room ; I only know that I was encircled in a halo of muslin, my hands grasped by yielding palms, and myself escorted in triumph to the tea- table. There were three or four other officers there already, but I did not find time to speak to them. An angel in curls was asking me if I took sugar and milk, while an ethereal being with black eyes was heaping my plate with cold beef, ham, and pickles. Then a darling little creature, whose beau- ty did not suggest any thing but pure flesh and blood, was sitting by my side helping me to butter, and asking me with such a sympathizing expres- sion, whether I was not very tired and hungry, that my appetite came back with a vengeance, only disturbed by my desire to talk to her and bring her eyes back to mine. Such eyes! my dear fellow. They dic not sparkle or flash or any of that non- sense ; but there was such a steady, gentle light in their blue depths that I would have fallen fatally in love then and there, if a pair of black orbs had not done my business a year or two previous. “Well, Sir, I made an uncommonly good sup- per; and after that was over, of course, I flirted, or was flirted with, whichever you choose to call it; the first is the proper form of words, the other is most accordant with the facts. And it was all right too. I am sure we had fought enough to win some little attention ; and it would have been very unkind in them not to treat us in a different style from the home-keeping youths with very homely wits who were the usual recipients of their little delicate affections. There was a pretty, artless, mischievous-lcoking damsel of seventeen who soon took possession of me. She sat down on a dear little sofa by my side, and very close indeed, ask- ing me all sorts of questions about marching and fighting, fingering my sabre, and trying to draw it with her little hands. How she thrilled when I told about Brandy Station ; what a glow lit up her face as I described our charge ; and how sadly she dropped a tear or two as I mentioned our last sight of our dead Major lying across a rebel corpse, his sabre still in his hand! Her head drooped so that it almost rested on my shoulder, and I really could find no place for my left arm except around her waist. ‘“‘ There was a tall young gentleman inthe room, who looked as civilians are apt to look on such oc- casions, as if he did not know what to do with him- self. The young ladies neglected him; we did not want to talk with him; he had no sabre to play with, and no spurs to finish off his boots; and con- sequently he did not know what to do with his hands and feet or tongue, while be was not civil- ized enough to keep quiet with a good grace. This tall young gentleman, therefore, chose to occupy himself with me and my companion, and our pro- ceedings did not appear to yield him particular gratification. So, as I rose to take leave, he tried to interpose between us, with some whispered re- monstrances to the young lady. Whew! didn’t he catch a look! And then the girl flashed ont, ‘You stay at home, and make money, and have all your comforts about you, and then choose to be jealous of our feelings for those who are giving their lives for us, whom we shall never see again, and may hear of to-morrow as lying dead upon the battle-field! Iam not ashamed of what I feel for them, and I am not afraid to show it. Major, good-by! I kiss the sword which I know that you will use well for us, and I kiss you for doing so.’ As she said this she put her little hands on my shoulders to lift her face to mine. It was not very hard to bring the two together. And then all the other girls came up and kissed us, and I went away decidedly , with something to think about for the rest of the night. That girl gave me a new idea of the duty of young ladies to cav- alry officers; and though I did not require others to kiss my sabre, I always insisted on their salut- ing myself during the remainder of the campaign. ““T had about forgotten the tall young man by the next afternoon, when a rather dashing-look- ing fellow, in a sort of extemporaneons uniform, mounted on a very good horse, and well armed and equipped, came riding after our column. As soon as he came to where I was he drew rein and addressed me. I then saw that it was the same person who had involuntarily done me such a fa- vor the night before. “* Major,” he said, ‘I ain’t much of a soldier or a fine-spoken man, but I am mighty fond of that same little piece that was so smart last night. She got so set up about you fighting fellows that I don’t expect to have much of'a show, unless I make an offer at the secesh on my own hook. I suppose it won't hurt you much to let me go along awl see what's going on, will it? It's only another man dead or alive, you know.’ “Tt was a queer sort of a proposition, and I took a good look at the fellow to see whether he was a fool or in sensible earnest ; for a man of the former kind would have been a perfect nuisance, of course. The man stood my scrutiny well. By daylight, and on horseback, he looked active, vigorous, and intelligent ; and there was a gleam of cool daring and perfect self-reliance in his eye which assured me that, though no soldier, he would not be be- hindhand in a fight. So I told him that, if he chose to act as an orderly to me, he might do so, j though, of course, I could not put him in the ranks. I could see, as he assented, that he had a sort of 4 notion that he might enter into a sort of rivalry with me in the next fight, and that he intended to do something heroic at the first opportunity. Nat- urally amused by the fancy, I turned round to take a fresh look at him as he rode in his citizen fash- ion beside my other orderly, and I could hardly keep from laughing at the expression with which he and the soldier were contemplating one another. Each had such a perfect conviction of his own su- periority, and each was so afraid that the other would not admit it; and at the same time they were each conscious of certain weaknesses in their respective panoplies. “If I wanted to, I could employ half an hour in detailing the amusing circumstances ettending Dan Simpson's campaign with the Jersey cavalry ; but they would be merely episodes, and in no way connected with the main incident of my story. So I shall hurry on to the fight at Gettysburg. “We got on to the field for the second day's fight, and lay behind the right of the line. The rebels at one time drove our infantry from the crest of the hill above us, and we were deployed as skirmishers, dismounted to assist in checking them. I never feel at home or self-reliant on foot, and so I kept the saddle; and though Thompson wise- ly di ted, Simpson felt too heroic to Gescend from his saddle while I remained in mine. The lines were only about two hundred yards apart, and the firing was heavy; but our men, snugly ensconced bebind a fence, and lying down, were perfectly safe, and managed to inflict considerable damage upon the enemy. It was the first time that Dan had ever heard the peculiar noise of a Minié ball, and you know the sensation produced by that sound when the shot is approaching you. I heard a laugh from my men, in which the grim chuckle of Thompson was particularly distinguisb- able; and, looking round, I saw Simpson’s heels in the air, while his head was descending toward his horse’s crupper. How he had managed to twist himself into such an extraordinary attitude I do not know, but no circus rider could have struck it more promptly. It seems that just as he mount- ed the hill « particularly vicious discharge was sent from the opposing skirmishers, The balls came humming on. Simpson gave a start, then a dodge forward on his horse’s neck; then, suddenly think- ing that that brought him in closer range, he rapid- ly reversed his position. This, accompanied by a plunge of the horse, brought him helpless over the animal's tail, which he clutched frantically, and 663 under charge of a captain; and I had been made very indignant by the reluctance of the relieving regiments to advance; so when the change took place I joined in. My little sorrel mare took me right over a six-barred fence, upon the flank of the rebels, close to where their guidon was. A few bounds more and I could have had it; but I had only my two orderlies with me, and the rebels clustered thick around it; so I had to draw in with the head of the Michigan. Then all tried who could be first. And now Simpson had another chance to distinguish himself. His horse was very fast, and the first thing that I knew he was dash- ing past me with a hurrah. Some of the rebels were just beginning to rally as our men tailed off in the pursuit; and at a party of three of these he rode, waving his sabre high in air. Making for the foremost of them, he drew rein and dealt him a tremendous blow. Unfortunately he had not been drilled in the manual, and consequently in- stead of cutting, he merely whacked his opponent. The next thing I saw was the rebel’s horse com- ing down upon Dan's, and rolling him in the dust. I was making as much haste as I could; but the rebel's sabre would have put an end to poor Simp- son before I got there, had not Thompeon fortu- nately put a bullet through him. The other two fellows had hesitated whether to run or fight. Be fore they had quite made up their minds I cam: thundering up, giving point at one of them as | passed. My weapon slipped fate his throat with a sound that I shall never forget, and he fell, bleed- ing like a slaughtered bullock. At the same mo- ment Simpson regained his feet, and sprang at th other one. The fellow threw up his arms and sur rendered, and Dan, mounting his horse, proudly conducted him to the reer. “ By this time the Second Brigade of the rebele was coming down at the charge, and General Cus- ter was gathering his nen to meet them, They outnumbered us heavily, but still we went boldly atthem. It was curious to see the two bodies ap- proach. First came the steady trot; then each took the gallop, gradually quickening as they ap- proached. Then, as we got nearer and nearer, I could feel how our men closed together, and how, almost involuntarily, there was a slight holding ‘n of the horses. Then there wee an evident check and wavering among the relcls. Instantly our fellows let out their horses with a yell, and th ranks in front of us broke and turned. At the same moment Hart with bis few men dashed at with one foot still held by the stirrup, the other around the horse’s neck, he writhed in shame and dismay. Thompson released him from his predica- ment, led him into a corner of the fence, and pro- ceeded to give him good counsel as to the evil of indiscriminate dodging, and the way to accomplish the same with prudence and good judgment. In the mean time both parties kept popping away vigor- ously, and presently poor Simpson got a little used to the sound of the bullets, and was able to hear one fifty yards off without thinking that his hour was come. Then his indignation against the en- emy, who had made him appear ridiculous, was ex- cited, and he began to pop away at them as fast as he could. He shot well too, and once or twice won the applause of the men by a quick shot and fatal aim. So ultimately he came out of the engage- ment a little subdued as to his heroical impulses, but still without the crushing humiliation attend- ing his first appearance. “That, however, was mere play for the cavalry. It was the next day that our serious work began. At the extreme right of our position, beyond the Gettysburg turnpike, between a large stone barn and a small line of wood, eccurred one of the sharp- est cavalry fights ever witnessed, and yet so fierce was the main engagement that this combat of some fifteen or twenty thousand mounted men has been scarcely noticed. Our regiment had the hon- or of opening the ball, most of us dismounted as skirmishers, while a squadron, under Hart, was held mounted in the little woods before-mentioned. I was with the skirmish line, and this ‘ime Simpson and Thompson both attended me, The men went up boldly, through ground intersected by stone-walls ; but on rising the crest of a little hill they were saluted by such a storm of balls that they could not go forward. The enemy had filled the stone barn with sharp-shooters, who were, of course, completely from our fire. A battery was immediately brought into position on the hills behind us, and opened on the barn. As we count- ed afterward, the barn was hit twenty-five times, and though there were plenty of wooden buildings around it, not one of them was touched. I call that pretty accurate gunnery. The enemy had to evacuate those rapidly, and then our bovs went forward with a rush. It is curious, but the moment our men get off their horses they seem al- most insensible to danger in this sort of skirmish- ing. Right cn we pushed, driving the enemy be- fore us from every point until we had actually made a gap in their lines. The Third Pennsylva- nia worked with us as skirmishers, and kept pace with us well. After a while word was sent to the General that our ammunition was giving out, and some other regiments were sent to relieve us. It was a curious fact that they could not be got up to the point where our men were standing. Their of- ficers formed them behind a fence several hundred yards in our rear, and then we were ordered to fall back behind them. This gave the enemy a chance which he was quick to take advantage Across the space thus left free he charged a brigade. The Michigan troops were ordered to meet it. They rode up gallantly to a stone-wall; but, instead of pushing across it, they stopped and commenced firing with their repeating rifles. The enemy came on in spite of their fire. The Michigan men (it was either the Fifth or the Seventh) held their ground until the rebels got through the wall, and then turned, the enemy pressing them sharply. Just then the First Michigan (old troops) charged. They broke the rebels completely, and drove them ' back pell-mell, suffering severely from the rifles of | Goctes . had remained in that part of the field, allowing the skirmishers to go back their flank, as if he had a regiment bebied him; and then the whole field was covered with their flying squadrons, There was no more fighting. All that we could overtake yielded themselves prisoners, and we drew off just in time to avoid a savage fire from their artillery “As I went back to hunt for the regiment I eame upon Dan quietly sitting on the fence, with his prisoner in front of him. “* Hallo, Sir!” said I, “ why have you not tak- en that man to the rear and given him up? “** Well, Maior,’ answered my amateur, ‘T was thinkin’ of taking this chap back home to show to Amandy. Yow see, she'll think then that J really did something ; but if I don’t have any thing to show for it, why I might as weil bave staid bach.’ “I could not help laughing at the cool way in which he had converted a rebel horseman into his own private property; but, much to bis indigna- tion, obliged him to resign his prize to the prov- ost marshal. “Immediately ou the retreat of the rebels we were pushed in pursuit, and Simpson prepared to return to his home covered with the glory which he had acquired. ‘The last that I saw of him was when he was bidding adieu to Thompson, who made him a short farewell address in the following terms: “* You see, my friend, you're a very nice young man at home; but rou made a little mistake, | don't speak of your natural objection to bard tack, and your slight disinclination to attend to your horse, Neither do I lay much weight on your finding the ground less comfortable than a feather- bed. But you thought you could come and be a soldier right off without any trouble; that it was easy to stand fire without being used to it; and that fighting came natural tea man. I know you thought I wae a coward when I got off my horse and got behind a fence the other day; but you yourself found it wasn’t pleasant to be on horse- back. 1 don’t say any thing about the Major, for he’s an officer, and as such has to take a few more risks than we for the good of the regiment ; but what was the ase of your putting yourself up as a mark first, and making a fool of yourself aft- erward? ‘** Now you go home to that nice young woman that you talks about, and get married, and talk as big as you like; but you just take my advice, and don’t you come out soldiering again until in the nature of things you gets tired of her, and takes to it in the way of business.’ “With these words they parted, and we saw Simpson's face no more. “A few days ago, however, I got a letter very prettily written, but with rather questionsble spelling. It was signed ‘Amanda Simpson,’ sad gave me to understand that she had rewarded Dan- iel’s valor with her hand. She was still uncom- monly affectionate in her language to me, and end- ed by promising me another kiss when I came back — in spite of Dan.’ Immediately after those words came the following postscript: ‘He says that he can spare you one kine, for that after be came back from the battle I gave him twenty, all of my own accord. The wretch! And if 1 did it's « shame for him to make me tell vou about it. And he says that he’s going to make the same bargain about the other one; and I say that he sha'n't.’ Here there was a big blot, and after it the expla- nation; ‘That came there becanse he has been tak- ing them beforehand; but didn’t I slap his ears!” I think Mr. Dan is going to have some trouble in bridling that rather skittish young woman. Don't you? I hope, at any rate, that we will have an- other invasion of the North, for chen there is real- \ ly eomething like campaigning.” eee oe Ba ee ee ae — eee | IEE | ne ee ee A

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Br CHARLES READE, Esq. AUTHOR OF “IT 18 NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND,” ETC. CHAPTER XXXIX. Covip any one have known what was passing in different places, he would have counted Al- fred’s deliverance a certainty ; for Sampson’s pla- card was on Barkiagton walls, and inside the asylum Alfred was softening hearts and buying conaciences, as related; so, in fact, he had two strings to his bow. But mark how strangely things turn; these two strings got entangled, and spoilt all. His father, alarmed by the placard, called at the pawnbroker’s shop, and told him he must move Alfred directly to a London asylum. Baker raised objections ; Mr. Hardie crushed them with his purse, i. e., with his son’s and victim’s sweet- heart's father’s money: so then, as Baker after al} could not resist the project, but only postpone it for a day or two, he preferred to take a hand- some present, and co-operate; he even connived at Mr. Hardie’s signing.the requisite name to the new order. This the giddy worid calls forg- ery; but, in these calm retreats, far from the public's inquisitive eye, it goes for nothing. Why. Mrs. Archbold had signed Baker’s name and Dr. Bailey’s more than a hundred several times to orders, statements, end certificates; depriving Englishmen of their liberty and their property with a gesture of her taper fingers; and venting the conventional terms, ‘* Aberra- tion,” “* Exaltation,” ‘* Depression,” “ Debility,” “Paralysis,” “ Excitable,” ‘‘ Abnormal,” as bold- ly and blindly 2s any male starling in the flock. " On the very night then of Alfred’s project- ed escape, two keepers came down from Dr. Wrycherley’s asylum to Silverton station: Baker met them, and drove them to Silverton House in his dog-cart. They were to take Alfred ap by the night train; and, when he came into the kitchen with Brown, they suspected nothing, nor did Baker or Cooper, who presently emerged from the beck kitchen. Brown saw, and recov- ered his wits partially. ‘* Shall I go for his port- manteau, Sir?” stammered he, making a shrewd and fortunate guess at what was up. Baker as- sented; and soon after went out to get the horse harnessed: on this Mrs Archbold, pale, sorrow- ful, and silent hitherto, beckoned Alfred into the back kitchen, and there gave him his watch and his loose money. ‘‘] took care of them for you,” said she; “for the like have often been Pat the money in your stolen in this place. shoes: it may be useful to you.” He thanked her somewhat snilenly; for his disappointment was so deep and bitter that small kindnesses almost irritated him, She sighed. ‘It is cruel to be angry with me,” she said: “I am not the cause of this; it is a heavier blow to me than to you. Sooner or later you will be free—and then vou will not waste a thought on me, I fear—buat I must remain in this odious prison without your eyes and your smile to lighten me, yet unable to forget you. Oh, Alfred, for mercy’s sake whisper me one kind word at parting; give me one kind look to remember and dote upon.” She put out both hands as eloquently as she spoke, and overpowered his prudence so far that he took her offered hands—they were as cold now as they were burning hot the last time— and pressed them, and said, ‘*! shall be grateful to you while I live.” The passionate woman snatched her hands away. ‘Gratitude is too cold for me,” she cried; ‘‘{ scorn even yours, Love me, or hate me.” He made no reply. And so they parted. ‘© Will you pledge your honor to make no at- tempt at escape on the road?” esked the pawn- broker, on his return. “Tl see yon d—d first,” replied the prisoner. On this he was handcuffed, and helped into the dog-cart. They went up to town by the midnight train ; but, to Alfred’s astonishment and delight, did not take a carriage to themselves. However, station after station was passed, aad nobody came into their carriage. At last they stopped at a larger station, and a gocd many people were on the platform: Alfred took this opportunity and appealed in gentle but moving terms to the first good and intelligent face he saw. Sir,” said he, *‘I implore your assist- ance. The gentleman turned courteously to him. The keepers, to Alfred’s surprise, did not inter- rapt. ‘I am the victim of a conspiracy, Sir; they pretend J am mad: and are taking me by force to 2 mad-house, a living tomb.” ** You certainly don’t appear to be mad,” said the gentleman. The head keeper instantly showed him the order and a copy of the certificates. “ Don't look at them, Six,” cried Alfred, “they are signed by mon who are bribed to sign them. For God's sake, Sir, judge for yourself. Test my memory, my judgment, by any question you please. Use your own good sense; don’t let those venal rogues judge for you.” The gentleman turned cold directly. *‘T could not take on me to interfere,” said he. The unsworn affidavits had overpowered his senses. He retired with a frigid inclination. Alfred wrung his handenffed hands, and the con- necting chain rattled. The train moved on. The men never complained: his conduct was natural; and they knew their strength. At the next station he tested a snob’s humanity instead of a gentleman’s. He had heard they were more tender-hearted. The enswer was a broad grin: repeated at intervals. Being called mad was pretty much the same thing as being mad to a mind of this class: and Alfred had admitted he was called mad. At the next station he implored a silvery hair- ed old gentleman. Old age, he had heard, has known griefs, and learned pity. The keeper showed the certificates. ** Ah!” said Senex ; youngman. Now don’t agitate yourself. It is all for your good. Pray go quietly. Very painful, very painful» And he hobbled away as fast as he could. It is by shirking the painful some live to be silvery old. Next he tried 8 | policeman. Bobby listened to him erect as a dat. The certificates were shown him. He eyed them and said, sharply, ‘‘ All right.” Nor could Alfred’s entreaties and appeals to con aon sense attract a word or even a look from him. Alfred cried, ‘Help! murder! Ifyou are Eng hmen, if you are Christians, help me.” T. soon drew a crowd round him, listening to hi iery tale of wrong, and crying “Shame, sham Let him go.” The keepers touched their heads, winked, and got ont and showed the certificates; the crowd melted away like wax before those two suus of evidence (unsworn). The train moved on. It was appalling. How could he ever get free? Between his mind and that of his fellows there lay a spiritual barrier more impassable than the walls of fortified cities. Yet, at the very next station, with character- istic tenacity of purpose, he tried again; for he saw a woman standing near, a buxom country woman of forty. Then he remembered that the Naked Eye was not yet an extinct institution among her sex. He told her his tale, and im- plored her to use her own eyes. She seemed struck, and did eye him far more closely than the men had; end told the keepers they ought to be ashamed of themselves; he was no mad- man, for she had seen madmen. They showed her the certificates. ““Oh, I am no scholar!” said she, contemp- tuously, ‘‘ ye can’t write my two eyes out of my head.” The keeper whipped off Alfred’s cap and show- ed his shaven crown. ‘‘La! so he is,” said she, lowering her tone; ‘‘dear heart, what a pity! And such a pretty young gentleman.” And after that all he could say only drew the dew of patient pity to her eyes. he train went on, and left her standing there, a statue of negative clemency. Alfred lost heart. He felt how impotent he was. ‘I shall die ina mad-house,” he said. He shivered in a corner, hating man, and doubting God. They reached Dr. Wycherley’s early in the morning. Alfred was shown into a nice clean bedroom, and asked whether he would like to bathe or sleep. “Oha bath,” he said; and was allowed to bathe himself. He had not been long in the water when Dr. Wycherley’s medical as- sistant tapped at the door, and then entered with- out farther ceremony; a young gentleman with a longish down on his chin, which, initiated early in the secrets of physiology, he was too knowing to shave off and so go to meet his trouble. He came in looking like a machine, with a note- book in his hand, and stood by the bath side dictating notes to himself and jotting them down. ‘Six contusions: two on the thorax, one on the abdomen, two on the thighs, one near the patella; turn, please.” Alfred turned in the water. ‘4 slight dorsal abrasion; also of the wrists; a severe excoriation of the ankle. Leg- lock, eh?” “ Yes.” ‘Tron leg-lock. Head shaved. Large blister. Good! Any other injuries external or internal under oid system ?” ‘* Yes, Sir, confined as a madman though sane, as you I am sure have the sense to see.” “Oh, never mind that; we are all sane here —except the governor and I.” He whipped out and entered the condition of the new patient's body with jealous minuteness in the case book. As for his mind, he made no inquiry into that ; indeed he was little qualified for researches of the kind. At breakfast Alfred sat with a number of mad ladies and gentlemen, who by firmness, kind- and routine, had been led into excellent habits; the linen was clean and the food good. straint system. He found that this system was as bad for him as it was good for the insane. was iron, painted like ete. It was next to impossible pe apm Ay tng and then it looked quite impossible to get any farther, for the house was encompassed by high walls. He resigned iS Sas thout con- nivance. He sounded a at the first word. ‘‘Come, none of that, Sir; you should know better than tempt a man.”* Alfred colored to the eyes ; sighed deeply. To have honor thrown in his face, and made the reason for not aiding him to baffle a dishonora- ble conspiracy! But he took the reproof so sweetly, the man was touched, and, by-and-by, seeing him deeply dejected, said, good-naturedly, ‘Don’t be down on your luck, Sir. If vou are really better, which you don’t look to hay» much the matter now, why flot write to the Commis- sioners and ask to be let out?” “* Because my letters will be intercepted.” “Ay, to your friends; but not to the Com- missioners of Lunacy. Not in this house, any way.” ‘*God bless you!” cried Alfred, impetuously. “You are my benefactor; you are an honest fellow; give me your hand.” RPER'S WEEKLY. keeper; the man fired | [Ocroser 17, 1863. “Well, why not? Only you mustn’t excite Take it easy.” (Formula. ) “Oh, no cant among friends!” said Alfred : ‘wouldn't you be excited at the hope of getting out of prison ?” : «* Well, I don’t know but I might. Bound I am as sick of it as you are.” Alfred got paper and sketched the letter on which so much depended. It took him six hours. He tore up two; he cooled down the third, and condensed it severely: by this means, after much thought, he produced a close and telling composition: he also weeded it of every trait and every term he had observed in mad people's talk, or the letters they had shown him. So there was no incoherency, no heat, no pro- lixity, no “spies,” no ‘“‘ conspiracy,” no italics. A simple, honest, earnest story, with bitter truth stamped on every line; a sober, strong appeal from a sore heart but hard head to the arbiters of his fate. To the best of my belicf no madman, however slightly touched, or however cunning, ever wrote a letter so gentle yet strong, so earnest yet calm, so short yet full, and withal so lucid and cleanly jointed as this was: and I am no contemptible judge; for I have accumulated during the last few years a large collection of letters from per- sons deranged in various degrees, and studied them minutely, more minutely than most Psy- chologicals study any thing but Pounds, Shil- lings, and Verbiage. The letter went, and he hoped but scarcely expected an answer by return of post. It did notcome. He said to his heart, “ Be still;” and waited. Another day went by, and another; he gnawed his heart, and waited: he pined, and waited on. The Secret Tribunal, which was all a shallow legislature had left him, “‘took it easy.” Secret Tribunals always do. But, while the victim suitor longed and pined and languished for one sound from the voice of Justice and Humanity, and while the Secret Tribunal, not being in prison itself all this time, **took it easy,” events occurred at Barkington that bade fair to throw open the prison doors, and bring father and son, bride and bridegroom, together again under one roof. But at what a price! CHAPTER XL. Mr. Harpre found his danghter lying ashy pale on a little bed in the drawing-room of Al- bion Villa, She was now scarce conscious. The old doctor sat at her head looking very grave ; and Julia kneeled over her beloved friend, pale as herself, with hands clasped convulsively, and great eyes of terror and grief. That vivid young face, full of foreboding and woe, struck Mr. Hardie the moment he entered ; and froze his very heart: the strong man quiv- ered and sank slowly like a felled tree by the bedside ; and his face and the poor girl’s, whose earthly happiness he had coldly destroyed, nearly met over his crushed daughter. ** Jane, my child,” he gasped ; ‘‘ my poor little Jane !” **Oh let me sleep,” she moaned, feebly. “Darling, it’s your own papa,” said Julia, softly. “Poor papa,” said she, turning rather to Julia than to him: “let me sleep.” She was in a half lethargic state. Mr. Hardie asked the doctor in an agitated whisper if he might move her home. The doc- tor shook his head; ‘‘ Not by my advice: her ulse is scarce perceptible. We must not move er, nor excite her, nor yet let her sink into lethargy. She is in great danger ; very great.” At these terrible words Mr. Hardie groaned : and they all began to speak below the breath. ‘* Edward,” murmured Mrs. Dodd, hurriedly, ‘‘run and put off the auction: put it off alto- gether: then go to the railway; nothing must come here to make a noise: and get straw put down directly. Do that first, dear.” “You are kinder to me than I deserve,” mut- tered Mr. Hardie, humbly, quite cowed by the blow that had fallen on him. The words agitated Mrs. Dodd with many thoughts: but she whispered as calmly as she Yeould, “Let us think of nothing now but this precious life.” Mr. Hardie begged to see the extent of the i jury Mrs. Dodd dissuaded him ; but he per- si Then the doctor showed her poor head. At that the father uttered a scream and sat quivering. Julia buried her face in the bed- clothes directly, and sobbed vehemently. It passed faintly across the benumbed and shud- dering father, ‘‘ How she loves my child; they all love her:” but the thought made little im- pression at the time; the mind was too full of terror and woe. The doctor now ask.d for brandy, in a whisper. Mrs. Dodd left the room with stealthy foot and brought it. He asked for a quill. Julia went with swift, stealthy foot, and brought it. With adroit and tender hands they aided the doctor, and trickled stimulants down her throat. Then sat like statues of grief about the bed; only every now and then eye sought eye, and endeavored to read what the other thought. Was there hope? Was there none? And by-and-by, so roving is the mind, especially when the body is still, these statues began to thrill with thoughts of the past as well as the absorbing present. Ay, here were met a strange party; a stranger, for its size, methinks never yet met on earth, to their hearts together in one grief. Just think! Of him who sat there with his face hidden in his hands, and his frame shud- dering, all the others were the victims. Yet the lady, whose husband he had robbed and driven mad, pitied and sympathized with him, and he saw it; the lady, whom he had in- sulted at the altar and blighted her young heart and life, pitied and sympathized with him; the poor old doctor pitied and sympathized, and was more like an anxious father than a physi- cian. Even Jane was one of his victims ; for she fell by the hand of a man he had dishonestly ruined and driven out of his senses. Thinking of all he had done, and this the end of it, he was at once crushed and melted. He saw with awe that a mightier hand than man’s was upor: him; it had tossed him and his daughter into the house and the arms of the in- jured Dodds, in defiance of all human calcula. tion; and he felt himself a straw in that hand : so he was, and the great globe itself. Oh if Jane should die! the one creature he | the one creature, bereaved of whom he could get no joy even from riches. What would he not give to recall the past, since all his schemes had but ended in this. Thus stricken by terror of the divine wrath, and touched by the goodness and kindness of those he had cruelly wronged, all the man was broken with remorse. Then he vowed to undo his own work as far as possible: he would do any thing, every thing, if Heaven would spare him his child. Now it did so happen that these resolves, earnest and sincere but somewhat vague, were soon put to the test; and, as often occurs, what he was called on to do first was that which he would rather have done last. Thus it was: about five o’clock in the afternoon Jane Hardie opened her eyes and looked about her. It was a moment of intense anxiety. They all made signals, but held their breath. She smiled at sight of Mr. Hardie, and said, ‘ Papa! dear papa!" There was great joy: silent on the part of Mrs. Dodd and Julia; but Mr. Hardie, who saw in this a good omen, Heaven recognizing his penitence, burst out: ‘‘She knows me; she speaks; she will live. How good Godis! Yes, my darling child, it is your own father. You will be brave and get well for my sake.” Jane did not seem to pay much heed to these words; she looked straight before her like one oceupied with her own thonght, and said, dis- tinctly and solemnly, ‘‘ Papa—send for Alfred.” It fell on all three like a clap of thunder, those gentle but decided tones, those simple natural words. Julia's eyes flashed into her mother’s, and then sought the ground directly. There was.a dead silence. Mr. Hardie was the one to speak. ‘‘ Why for ee dear? Those who love you best are all here.” ‘* For Heaven’s sake don’t thwart her, Sir,” said the doctor, in alarm. ‘‘ This is no time to refuse her any thing in your power. Sometimes the very expectation of a beloved person coming keeps them alive; stimulates the powers.” Mr. Hardie was sore perplexed. He recoiled from the sudden exposure that might take place, if Alfred without any preparation or previous conciliatory measures were allowed to burst in upon them. And while his mind was whirling within him in doubt and perplexity, Jane spoke again; but no longer calmly and connectedly : she was beginning to wander. Presently in her, wandering she spoke of Edward; called him dear Edward. Mrs. Dodd rose hastily, and her first impulse was to ask both gentlemen to re- tire ; so instinctively does a good woman protect her own sex against the other. But, reflecting that this was the father, she made an excuse and retired herself instead, followed by Julia. The doctor divined, and went to the window. The father sat by the bed, and soon gathered his daughter loved Edward Dodd. The time was gone by when this would have greatly pained him. He sighed like one overmatched by fate; but said, “You shall have him, my darling; he is a good young man, he shall be your husband ; you shall be happy. Only live for my sake, for all our sakes. She paid no attention and wandered on a little; but her mind gradually cleared, and by-and-by she asked quietly for a glass of water. Mr. Hardie gave it her. She sipped, and he took it from her. She looked at him close and said distinctly, ‘‘ Have you sent for Alfred ?” ** No, love, not yet ?” “Not yet?! ere is no time to lose,” she said, gravely. Mr. Hardie trembled. Then, being alone with her, the miserable man unable to say no, un- willing to say yes, tried to her not to ask for Alfred. ‘‘ My dear,” he whispered, ‘I will not refuse you: but I have a secret to con- fide to you. Will you keep it?” “Yes, papa, faithfully.” “Poor Alfred is not himself. He has delu- sions; he is ly insane. My brother Thomas has thought it best for us all to pnt him under gentle restraint for atime. It would retard his cure to have him down here and subject him to excitement.” Papa,” said Jane, “are you deceiving me, or are you imposed upon? Alfred insane? It isa falsehood. He came to me the night before the wedding that was to be. O my brother, my darling brother, how dare they say you are in- sane! That letter you showed me then was a falsehood? O papa!” **T feared to frighten you,” said Mr. Hardie, and hung his head. **] see it all,” she cried, “‘those wicked men with their dark words have imposed on you. Bring him to me that I may reconcile you all, and end all this misery ere I go hence and be no more ns **Oh, my child, don’t talk so,” cried Mr. Har- die, trembling. ‘‘ Think of your poor father.” “T do,” she eried, ‘‘I do. papa, I lie here between two worlds, and see them both so clear. Trust to me: and, if you love me—”

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Ocroser 17, 1863.] “If I love you, Jane? better than ail the world twice told.” “Then don’t refuse me this one favor: the perhaps, I shall ever ask you. I want my Seettor here before it is too late. Tell him he must come to his little sister, who loves him dearly, and—is dying.” “Oh no! no! no!” cried the agonized father, casting every thing tothe winds. ‘‘I will. He shall be here in twelve hours. Only promise me to bear up. Have a strong will; have courage. You shall have Alfred, ‘ou shall have any thing you like on earth, any thing that money can get you? Whatam I saying? I have no money ; it is all gone. But I have a father’s heart. Madam, Mrs. Dodd !” —— ——?, “Can you give me r o, I won’t trust to a letter. I'll oad ot a special messenger this moment. It is for my son, madam. He will be here to-morrow morning. God knows how it will all end. But how can I refuse m dying child? Ob, madam, you are good, kind, forgiving ; keep my poor girl alive for me: keep telling her Alfred is coming ; she cares more for him than for her poor heart-broken father.” And the miserable man rushed out, leaving Mrs. Dodd in tears for him. He was no sooner gone than Julir came in; In half an hour a trusty agent he had often employed was at the station waiting for the up- him on the stairs with her finger to her lips: ‘*She is sleeping ; the doctor has hopes. Oh, Sir, let us all pray for her day and night.” Mr. Hardie blessed her ; it seemed the face of an angel, so earnest, so lovely, so pious. He went home: and at the door of his own house Peggy met him with anxious looks. He told her what he had done. **Good Heavens !” said she: ‘‘ have you for- gotten? He says he will kill you the first day he gets out. You told me so yourself.” “Yes, Baker saidso. Ican’thelpit. I don't care what becomes of me; I care only for my child. Leave me, Peggy; there, go; go.” He was no sooner alone than he fell upon his knees, and offered the Great Author of life and death—a bargain. ‘*O God,” a “T own my sins, and I mt them. re but my child, who never aaied against Thee, and I will undo all I haye done amiss in Thy sight. I will refund that money on which Thy curse lies. I will throw myself on their mercy. 1 will set my son free. I will live on a pittance. I will part with P: I will serve Mammon no more. I will attend Thine ordinances. I will live sober- ly, honestly, and godly all the remainder of my days; only do Thou my child. She is Thy servant, and does work on earth, and there is nothing on earth I love but her.” And now the whistle sounded, the train moved, and his messenger was flying fast to London, ** Dear Sir,— fy poor daughter lies danger- ously wounded, perhaps at the point of this. Send one of your people with him if you like. But it is not necessary. I inclose a blank check, signed, which please fill at your discre- tion. “T am, with thanks, “ Yours in deep distress, *“Rrowarp Harpre.” RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. ““Is Miss Bessie in?” recei Certainly it must have contained good news, to judge by the expression of his face. He was inter- “Mr. Mordaunt, I protest against your convert- ing my drawing-room into an office. Is your let- ter, then, of absorbing interest ?” “I beg your pardon, Bessie,” said the young man, coloring slightly ; ‘‘ you entered so softly that I did not hear you.” “Is that all you have to say to me?” inquired the young lady, playfully. . “I begin to think it was scarcely worth while to come down.” “No, Bessie,” said the young man, teking her hand, “it is not all I have to say tovon. Lhace rome ask P mached reconsider your decision post- poning our for six months. What reason is there for it?” o “It is my guardian's wish, Frederic,” said Bes- sie, more gravely. ‘“‘He thinks I am so young that we can well afford to wait. After all it is but a short time. Six months will pass away very quickly.” “To you, perhaps,” returned the lover, half re- proachfally. “ And why not?” she retorted, playfully. ‘‘ For think, Frederic, they are the last six months of my independence. From that time I am to be subject to the whims and caprices of a husband. I am afraid they are all sad tyrants. On second thoughts, it would perhaps be better to name a year.” “ Would you have me commit suicide ?” “As if you were capable of it,” she retorted, laughing merrily. “You don’t know what I am capable of,” said young Mordaunt, shaking his head. “ Perhaps if I did know I should be unwilling to marry you at all,” said Bessie, with a saucy smile. Frederic Mordaunt’s face flushed slightly, as if a sudden thought had crossed his mind, but a mo- ment afterward he responded in the same vein. Half an hour «fterward the young man rose to go. Bessie Graham followed him to the door, and then with slow and meditative steps re-entered the drawing-room. As she passed the mirror a hasty glance was perhaps natural. Rarely has mirror reflected back a more face or more grace- ful figure. Neither was faultless, but the face had a wonderful power of expression. A smile fairly lighted it up, leaving it absolutely radiant. Yet there was about the mouth that smiled so sweetly which would have assured a care- ful observer that Miss Bessie had a will of her own when she chose to exert it. The eyes were clear and truthful. Purity and sincerity were reflected in these mirrors of the soul. Frederic Mordaunt was not the only one who had been won by the charms of the young heiress. For Bessie was qn heiress, and a wealthy one. Not that she thought of it. The two hundred thousand dollars which constituted her fortune were a poor substitute in her eyes for the tender love of her father, who had been snatched from her three years since by a sudden distemper. Bessie was about to leave the room when her at- tention was spddenly drawn to a loose sheet of pa- per which lay on the carpet at the foot of the sofa on which her late visitor had been sitting, Pick- ing it up, a glance informed her that it was a tele- gram, and dated at Halifax. Hereyes rested upon it a moment, and almost unconsciously she took in its contents, The blood rushed to her cheeks, and she exclaimed, impetuously, “Good Heavens ! can Frederic have acted so base a part ?” The expression of her face was completely changed. There was a deep earnestness in her eyes, but lately sparkling with a merry light. ‘This must be inquired into without delay,” she resolved, ‘‘ Ifit be as I suspect, all is over between us. Yes,” she repeated, in a slow and resolute tone, ‘‘ henceforth and forever all is over between us,” She wrote two lines upon a sheet of note-paper, and ringing the bell hastily, said to the servant who answered her summons, “ Do you know Mr. Mordaunt’s office ?” ** Yes, Miss Bessie.” “You will convey this note thither immetiate- ly, and place it in his own hand. If be is absent wait for him.” ** Yes, Miss Bessie.” Mr. Mordaunt had walked quickly back to his office, having important business awaiting his at- tention. He was a young merchant who had the reputation of great shrewdness ia business matters. Some said that he had never done a better stroke of business than in securing the affections of the young heiress. Perbaps he thought so himself. He had not been returned five minutes when Bes- sie’s messenger arrived. ** A note from Miss Bessie.” “* Indeed,” said the young merchant, graciously. “* Give it to me.” His face assumed a perplexed expression after he had read this brief missive : “ Will Mr. Mordaunt favor me with « call at his earliest convenienct op a matter of great ‘noment ? on er ‘What can this mean?” thought Mordaunt. “T left her but a moment ago as cordial as usual. Yet nothing can be colder than this strange note. Your mistress is well ?” he inquired of the servant. “ Yes, Sir, quite well.” Not a little disturbed at this summons, which thoroughly mystified him, Frederic Mordaunt, leaving business to take care of itself, hastily re- turned to the house which he had just quitted. He was shown without delay into the presence of Bes- sie. “Why, Bessie,” he commenced, “ you have fair- ly frightened me with the suddenness of your sum- mons. What—” A glance at the grave face of the young lady ar- rested the words upon his lips. “I hope you are not ill,” he said, in a changed voice. ** You left something behind you,” said Bessie, quietly, “‘ which I thought might be of import- ance. I have therefore judged it best to send for you that I might return it in person.” She extended the telegram. Frederic Mordaunt turned suddenly pale. He mechanically reached out his hand and took the paper. “Thave an apology to make,” Bessie continned, in the same cold tone. “ Not aware that it was of importance, I accidentally iet my eye rest upon it.” The young man’s paleness was succeeded by a crimson flush, but he still remained silent. “Frederic!” Bessie burst forth, in a changed tone, “is this dreadful thing true? Have you really been false to your country, and deliberately engaged in furnishing aid and comfort to the en- emv? I gather from this telegrom that, through av agent in Halifax, you have fitted out cargoes to run the blockade. Is this so ?” The young man’s eye quailed before her search- ing glance. ‘Forgive me, Bessie,” he entreated, HARPER'S WEEKLY. — 667 ‘*and I will faithfully engage never again so to for- get myself.” - “ Forgite you! It is sot me you have offended, but your country.” “I will give half the proceeds to the Sanitary Commission—nay, the whole,”’ said Frederic, dep- recatingly. “ That can not repair the evil.” “‘ You are hard upon me, Bessie,” said the young man, a little resentfully. ‘1 am not the only one who has engaged in this business. It is wrong, I admit, but it is not the worst thing a man can do.” “Very nearly,” returned Bessie,gravely. “ List- en, Frederic Mordaunt,” she continued, rising, and looking down upon him like an accusing angel. ‘Three months ago word came to me that a cousin, who was my early play-fellow and always dear to me, fell upon the battle-field fighting bravely. Do you think, in my sorrow for him, that I have not remembered with indignation those who caused and who perpetuate this war? Yet I could almost envy him his fate. He never proved recre- ant to honor and false to his country. His mem- ory will ever be held sacred in my heart. Think, Frederic Mordaunt, how many thousands have fall- en like him—how many a heart has been made desolate—how many a fireside is wrapped in sad- ness.” ** That is true; butam I responsible for all this ?” “ Their blood is upon your hands, Frederic Mor- daunt,” said Bessie, sternly. “You, and such as you, who betray your country for a little paltry gain—who furnish the rebels with the means of prolonging their unrighteous contest—are guilty of all the extra bloodshed and suffering which must necessarily result. Shame on you, Frederic Mor- daunt! And youcall yourself loyal! I have more respect for an open enemy than for a secret trai- tor.” ‘* Bessie,” said the young man, thoroughly hu- miliated, “I will not seek to defend myself. I will make any reparation that you may require. Only do not be too hard upon me.” “ T hope you will make such reparation as your conscience exacts. For me I will not venture to dictate. You are not responsible to me any far- ther than you are to all who have the welfare of their country at heart.” ‘*Surely yes,” said the young man, his heart sinking with a new apprehension. ‘‘ The relation between us will justify you in any demand. You have only to express your wishes.” “The relation to which you refer has ceased,” said Bessie, coldly. “I give you back your prom- ise.” “You can not mean it,” said young Mordaunt, in accents of earnest entreaty. ‘‘ Say that you do not mean it.” ‘*Tt is best so,” said Bessie. “I was mistaken in you. I thought you a man of the strictest hon- or. I did not think— But what need to proceed ? Providence has willed that my eyes should be opened. Let the past be forgotten.” “ Do not cast me off without a moment's reflec- tion,” urged Frederic, more and more desperately. “* Give me time, and I will satisfy you of my sin- cere repentance.” “T heartily hope you will, Frederic. The inter- est that I have felt in you will not permit me to say less. But if vou have a thought that any change which time will bring will shake my reso- lution, put it away at once. Where I have once lost my respect I can no longer love. Within the last hour the whole plan of my life seems to have changed. My love for you has gone, never to re- turn. It is best that you should know it. I sin- cerely hope that you may awake to a full sense of the disgrace in which you have involved yourself, and may seek as far as possible to repair it. Should such be the case, my good opinion of you may in time be restored. Do not seek for more.” Frederic Mordaunt took his hat slowly, and left the room. He felt that it would be useless to urge his suit further. There was that in the expression and tone of Bessie Graham which warned him that it would be in vain. Even in that hour, perhaps, the loss o the fortune which the heiress would have brought h’m was not the least bitter ingredient in his cup of )umiliation. Yes, even in a pecuniary view his speculation had failed miserably. He had gained five thousand dollars and lost two hundred thousand. As for Bessie, she did not grieve much for the lover she had dismissed. It was as she had said. All her love for him had passed away when she awoke to a sense of his unworthiness. She has firmly resolved that whenever ber hand is given, it shall be to one who has devoted himself heart and hand to the service of his country. THE PRISONS AT RICHMOND. WE reproduce on pages 668 end 669 several drawings by Captain Wrigley, of the Topograph- ical Engineers, illustrating the Linsey Prison at Ricumunp, axp THE PLace or Coxrixement ror Usion Troops at Be.tx Istx. Captain Wrigley was several months in the Libey Prison, and had ample leisure to make drawings and ob- servations. He also sends us (and we publish on the same pages) portraits of Captains Sawyer and Flynn, the two officers who were selected by Jeff Davis to be murdered in retaliation for the execu- tion by General Burnside of two rebel spies. The despot of the Slave Confederacy has not yet carried his threat into execution ; but the sentence of death still hangs over the two officers, and must be hard to bear. Captain Wrigley has written us the fol- account of his observations : “The military prison at Richmond, Virginia, is situated on the corner of Twentieth and Cary streets, directly on the canal and James River. A fine view of the river, its beautiful islands, and the distant hills is obtained from the south and west windows. The tents on Belle Isle, where our soldiers are kept, just peer above the long railroad bridge leading to Petersburg. This bridge is near- ly half a mile in length, and built of timber on stone piers. Two and four hundred yards this side are two other bridges, one for the Danville Road, the other for foot travel. Below them the river eddies furiously between bnge rocks and hundreds of beautiful little islands, covered in every availa ble inch with trees, bushes, smal] flowers, and ver- dure of all kinds. Just at the bend of the river, about a mile below the prison, is that part of Rich- mond known as the ‘ Rocketts'—‘ormerly a village of that name, but now connected with the city by straggling tobacco factories, warehouses of al! kinds, and tenements usually found in the suburbs. “ Richmond lies, as it were, in an amphitheatre of hills, facing the river, on whose bank is the pris- on, and from which a fine view of the town is ob tained from the north and west windows. Far up on the hill stands the Confederate capitol—a plain, unpretending building, very similar to the ordina- ry American church, as seen in its full glory in some of our country villages. Comparatively few are seen in the streets, an able-bodied man without a uniform being a rare avis of the first class; and the few ladies who walk out appear to be living, as it were, backwards on the finery and fashion of other days. “The name Libey, generally spelled ‘Libby,’ which is applied to the military prison, is derived from the proprietors, Mesers. Libey & Son, ship- chandlers and grocers, who formerly carried on there an extensive busivess. It is really a row of three buildings, three stories high, and having each one room on a floor, each room being 105 feet in length and 45 feet wide, making nine rooms in all —three in each story. On the first floor, the west room contains the quarters of the Confederate offi- cers and the offices connected with the place. It is in this room that the prisoner first enters; and from it he is ushered to his future dreary abode. The east rooms of the first and second floors form the hospital of the building ; the three upper reome, together with the west room of the second story, communicate and form the officers’ quarters; the ‘wo remaining ones are used to receive temporari- ly, for the night, small squads of captured prison- ers, previous to sending them over to Belle Isle All these apartments hay» bare, unplastered, white- washed beams and walle. “THE OFFICERS’ QUARTERS. “Two of the four rooms alicited to them are partly used as kitchens—a portion of the room be- ing partitioned off, and large cooking stoves, of a huge, square pattern, set up in them. The cook- ing is all done by the officers themselves; they form messes of whoever may be agreeable to each other, and take their proper turna in preparing the meals. The tin plates and cups taken from our captured soldiers are given to them in sufficient quantity to allow two messes to eat at one time. Many, however, purchase their own dishes, and are more independent. Two bath-tubs are placed in these rooms, and five faucets supply all the water for bathing, cooking, and washing. The ration allowed is eighteen ounces of bread and a quarter of a pound of meat per day, together with a little rice; vinegar and salt at intervals. “ Although a hearty man would not perish with this amount of food, it is not sufficient—in point of quantity, quality, or variety—-to prevent a gradual disorganization of the system, and consequent total unfitness for duty. ** Most all of the officers have money with them, and, if they desire, purchase in the markets, through the Confederate steward, vegetabies, fruit, eggs, meat, and butter—all these commodities, nev- ertheless, being enormously high: this is compen- sated for, however, by the value of gold and United States notes, they being worth, respectively, 14 and 11 to 1 in Confederate money. * A few bunks in the upper west room are occu pied by the first-comers of the prison, the remain- der of the officers sleeping on the floor in their blankets, only two of which are allowed to each man. There are 18,900 superficial feet of floor in all these rooms; deduct 2900 for kitchens, sinks, mess-tables, etc.. and it leaves but twenty-six «uv perficial feet per man. No outdoor exercise is a} lowed. The place is infested with vermin of al) kinds, beyond all power to drive them off “ Our officers, even in the face of these discour- aging facts, keop up good heart; earnestly hoping, however, for a speedy release. Classes in Spanish and French, the study of the law, a debating-club, and a weekly paper— The Libby Chronscle—take op all spare moments, and the ability displayed by many in these matters is truly gratifying ; and if the officers there are a fair sample of our army gen- erally, we may well be proud of the effect of our republican institutions. “ The hospital is the best conducted part of the prison. It contains 120 beds—-each a straw pal- liasse—and pillow, sheets, and comfortable, on a wooden cot. The fare is a shade better. The sur- geons (three in number) are really skillful men, and do all in their power to alleviate the condition of the sick in their charge. Stimulants of all kinds are difficult to obtain, but are furnished by the Confederates to the fullest extent of their caps bili- ty. They will not, however, allow our Sanitary Commission to send any thing of the kind. “Gold or Confederate money will alone be re- ceived by the Commissioners and handed to the prisoners; all boxes of clothing, or delicacies of any kind, will elso reach them in safety. “ The writer had the pleasure of a trip through the Confederacy, from Jackson, Missiesippi— where he was captured some five months since—to Rich- mond. If the people of the Northern States could but know and appreciate the tetel exhaustion of the South in this straggle, they could not fail to bend every effort at this time to trample out the few remaining embers of the rebellion. “Their railroads and rolJing-stock are in the most dilapidated condition, and they are without the men to repair them. Fight miles an hour was the average of the mail-trains on which we t.ar- eled. Locomotives of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road we saw near Atlanta, Georgia; and relling- stock also of other roads. The stations, however, were filled wich engines, but slightly out of repair, =o eRe ns

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668 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [Ocroser 17, 1868. ——t EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE LIBEY PRISON, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.—[From a Sketcn sy Caprars Harry E. Weiciey, TorpocrarnicaL Enorxeers.] which they were unable to mend. Every bridge ‘The absence of not only luxuries, but even the | ests would allow it who did not wish to be back in | and they were exultant. Now they are down- throuxhout the South was well guarded, especially | conveniences of life, seems to have given the whole the old Union. Many would come and tell us, as | hearted beyond conception. Let not our Copper- so in North Carolina and Virginia; the principal | people a semi-barbarous air, and tbe almost total we waited for the trains, how the wave that swept | head friends pour too much of their fuith into the manufaetories of war materiel out of Richmond ion of the genus citizen .rade this all the | over the South jn ’61 carried them along with it, | Confederate tub, for the bottom will be out of it re in Ge i uma, now within easy | 1 apparent. We saw no slave who was not | and how earnestly they would rejoice at peace. | ere they are aware.” ron sta yu ¢ I lv waiting to be free ; no man whose inter- | All this, too, at a time when their arms flourished, Captain Wrigley is now at home. = rs 4 —_— - i Mig ee etirses ay: aes a Fs z 3% a. Sl ~S = — : 2 = — + PS » a —_ » ma — ; = ENCAMPMENT OF UNION PRISONERS AT BELLE ISLE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.—[Fnox 4 Sxercu By Carrant Hasrr E, Warerey, TOPOGRAPHICAL EXGurnes.]

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EKLY. ' 4 R’'S WE - 4 HARPE QUARTERS OF THE UNION OFFICERS CONFINED THERE,.—Sxstonep py CAPTAIN Hanry E. Wrrerey, OctoseR 17, 1863. ] VIEW OF LIBEY PRISON, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SHOWING THE wun ‘TOPOGRAPHICAL Enorenns.—( SEE Paos 667.)

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670 HARPER'S WEEKLY. (Ocrorer 17, 1863, HUMORS OF THE DAY. Two country:nen secing & naturalist in a field collect- ine insects, thus spoxe of him, “ Vot's that ere gemman . Vy. he's a naturalist.” “ Vot's that?” “ Vy, vun who catches guate, to be eure.” ee A geutleman in the West Indies, who had frequently promised bis friends to leave off drinking without their discovering sny improvement, was oue morning called on early by an intimate friend, who met his negro boy at lis door. © Well, Sambo,” said he, “ where is your master?” Massa gone out, sure,” was the reply. * And has he left oft drinking yet?" rejoteed the first. “Oh yes, sure,” said Sambo, “masa leave off driuking—he leave off two, tree time dis morning." Se Autipathy to reading sermous in the pulpit is a well- known characteristic of the Seotch people. At Kirkeud- bright, at an inaugaratioa, ax old woman on the pulpit stairs asked one of her companions if the new minister was a reader. “ An’ howean he read, woman?” wasthe repiy, “the puir man's bliin” “I'm giad to beard,” said the first speaker, “I wish they were a’ blin’” pS iy Latour Mavbourg lost his leg a¢ the battle of Leipsic. After he had suffere4 amputation with the eour- age, he caw his servant crying, or preten: to cry, in one corner of the rowm. ‘'Jack,"' anid he; “none of your hypocritical tears, vou idle dog; you know you are very giad; for you will only have one boot to clean.” a at ‘The late Dr. Thynne, so well known for bis love of good eating, one day paid « visit to the eccentric Lord R—— He was shown into the dining-room, where he found his lordship alone and engaged iu eating a choice little dinner, After talking for some time, the Doctor, who was getting hungry at the sight, said, ‘* My lord, I think it would be no great stretch of hospitality were your lordship to say, * Doctor, pray do as I am doing." ‘ Well, Doctor,” said Lord R-, “ pray do os I am doing—go home and eat your own dicner.” eee A merchant examining a hogshead of hardware, on com- paring it with the invvice found it all right except a ham- mer less than the invoice. “Och, don’t be troubled,” said the Irish porter; “sure the magur took it out to open the hogshead with.” =__—— At the recent examination of a farmer, on his sister en- tering the box to be examined, tue following conversation took place between her and the opposing agent: ** How old are you?” said the lawyer. “Oh, weel, Sir, Iam an un- married woman, and I diuna think it richt to answer that question.” ‘*Oh ves, inform the gentleman how old you are,” said the judge. “Weel a weel, I am fifty.” “Are you not more?" *“ Weel, 1 am sixty.” The inquisitive law yer still farther asked if sbe had hopes of getting mar- ried; to which Miss Jane replied, ‘‘ Weel, Sir, I winna surely tell a lie; I hinna lost hope yet." Aad she scorn- fully added, “ But | widna marry you, for I am sick tired o’ your palaver already." — — Lord Norbury riding in the coach of his friend Pureell, nd chancing to pasa a gallows. asked, * Where would you be, Purcell, if every man had bis due? “ Alone in ay carriage," was thejreply. —_— ‘“S'm bound to disturb your repose," as the storm said to the sea. > — The last excuse for crinline is, that the “* weaker ves- sels” need muck hooping - ~~ A profligate young nobleman, being in company with some sober people, desired leave to toast the devil. “Oh, certainly,” said a gentleman, “ we can have no objection to toast any of your lordship’s friends!" -_ at Ve lately met a grammarisa, says a California paper, who has just mads a tour through the mines conjugating, or rather cogitating thus—** Positive, mine; comparative, miner; superlative, minus! -_ A DEAR YOUNG LADY. A young lady has said That she no man will wed Who's worth leas than eix hundred a year, One would fancy, to keep, A white elephant cheap, If compared to a dameel so dear. Full one hundred; no less, She must spend upon dress, Every year of her conjugal life; Only somebody who Is ae rich as « Jew Could afford to maintain such a wife. Oh, how lovely must she, To expect ¢o much, be! But who prizes mere beanty's a goose. Like the plum's bloomy rime, ‘Tis brushed off in no time, And how then if your wife's of no use? What can this girl, then, do? Can she bake? Can she brew? Can she wash? Can she cook? Can she mend? Or is she nothing worth Than the fruits of the earth To consume, and a fortune expend? —_— A good story is told of one George Shaffer, who many years age lived et Portamouth. He had once been out shooting, and was coming home with his game-bag empty, and weary, when he stopped at the tol!-house for a mo- ment's rest. “ There's a tine lot of ducks back here in the pond,” eaid he to the toll-keeper; ** what will you let me fire into them for?” ‘Cun't do it,” responded the toll- man. “I don’t want to have my ducks killed.” George put his gus im the toll-house and walked back to take an- other look at the ducks, When he was gone, the toll-man, who was a wag, drew the shot from the barrel, and then replaced the gun. George returned, and then renewed the question. ‘ Well,” said the toll-man, “though you are a good shot, I don't believe you could hurt them much. Give me your money, and you may fire.” The money was paid, and quite « party, who had gathered round, went back to witness George's discomfiture. He raised his gun, fired, and killed nine of them. “The deuce!” cried the toli-man. “I took the charge out of your gum” “ Yea,” we On orge, “i supposed you,rould. I always go double charged.’ . —- ae A spars rib: a thin wife, _- Devinrrion DO YOU GIVE IT UP? My first softens every care ; My second implies diminution : Bat I would not be my whole for the world. Freend-lese. M4 letter in the alphabet is of most use to a deaf wo- man A, because it makes ner, hear What is thet which gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor's bill? A draughi @rafO There ie a thing that wae three weeks old when Adam wee BO more, thn ee it wee but four weeks old when Adem was oureecore. The moon, Why are conundrums like monkeys ? They are far-fetched and troublesome. My first is what all mortals onght to do; My second is what all mortals have done; ‘od my whole is the result of my first. . Love-err (lover). Which is the heaviest horse in the world? i led horee (leac). State Fairs of 1863. The award of the first premium over all competition to the Grover & Baker sewing machines at the Kentucky State Fair, held last week at Louisville, adds another to the many victories which these machines have achieved this year. Following the lead of the New York State Faiz, the Iowa State Fair, the Vermont State Fair, and the fairs held at Vergennes and Burlington in the latter state, the Kentucky State Fair awarded the Grover & Baker machines the highest premium for the best machine for family use, the best for manufacturing, and the best sewing machine work.—Daily World. ~ en ADVERTISEMENTS. » Ne NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS. The subscribers manufacture TYPE REVOLVING Double and Single Cylinder Printing Machines, Bed and Platen their new RAILWAY NEWSPAPER PRESS TINDER PRIN LARGE HAND CYL aes TING MACHINE, Rewspapers a Printing Machine, capable of aleo the ordinary job- work of an out of town office, are designed to run hand, at « speed of 700 copies an , sud at this rate will run without jar or noise. Circular of prices, with description, will be forwarded on application. R. HOE & CO., Printers’ and Binders’ Warehouse, Nos 29 and 31 Gold Street, Corner Broome, and Columbia Sts., New York, And Street, Boston. Mass. Publishers of a will insert this advertise- ment thirteen times weekly papers, with this note, 3 Brandreth’s Pills. This medicine often cures when all others have failed. They prevent apoplexy, they cure diseases of the heart or animal body, and @ consequeat reduction of the death principle. Those who use them soon recover and enjoy a remarkabie share of health. DYSENTERY CURED. Mr. J. C. Rappelyea, of Monmouth County, New Jer- sey, writes, March 19, 1860: “I was troubled, in January last, with costiveness for several days, and took ten grains of calomel to obtain relief. I caught cold, I suppose; at any rate, a severe diarrhoea set in, which my medical at- tendant found it impossible to arrest. This wae followed by dysentery. My strength was all gone. Everything passed through me as I took it. A friend from New York, Mr. Geo. Lewis, fortunately called on me, and advised Brandreth's Pills. I thought, in my weak condition, one pill would be enough; but he administered four, and the next morning four more. Much impurity came from me, and, to my surprise, the soreness and pain diminished. One box cured me fully. I am now hearty, with « fine appetite. You are at liberty to publish this.” CASE OF ROSCOE K. WATSON. Sine Sine, June 23, 1863. Dr. B. Baanpretu, New York: Sin—lI was a private in Company F, Seventeenth New York Volunteers. While at Harrison's Landing and on the Rappah k, near Fal h, I and many of the company were sick with bilious diarrhwa. The army sur- geon did not cure us, and I was reduced to skin and bone. Among the company were quite a number of members who had worked in your laboratory at Sing Sing. They were not sick, because they used Brandreth's Pills, These men prevailed upon me and others to use the pills, and we were all cured im from two to five days. After this our boys used Brandreth’s Pills for the typhus fever, colds, and rheumatism, and in no case did they fail to restore health. Out of gratitude to you for my good health, I send you this letter, which, if necessary, the entire company would sign. I am, respectfully yours, ROSCOE K. WATSON. These celebrated Pille are sold at 25 cents per box. Purchase only BRANDRETH'S PILLS, STAMPED with my ** Private Stamp.” See B. Brandreth in white letters. Principal office, Brandreth House, New York. Sold by all dealers, N. B.—Old stock cheerfully exchanged. and all places occupied should be sent by HARNDEN’S EXPRESS No. 74 Broadway. Sutlers charged low rates. Elliot’s New Repeaters Are now ready. The most gafe, compact, duvehle, effect- ive, sure, and reliable Revolvers made. Carry large balls (No, 32 ), are rapidly loaded and fired—conve- niently carried in the vest whole length five inches— four h rifled gain twist. The Trade su ELLIOT ARMS CO., 494 Broadway, N. Y. Cloaks and Mantillas. BRODIE, The Leader of Fashions! Opened his A on Thursday, And as usual stands unrivaled for Style, Quality, AND VARIETY 300 Canal Street, New York. Solid 18 k. Gold, $3 50 each. Solid Silver, with Letters in GOLD Relief, $1 50. ’ s Sent free by Mail or Express on of Price. Solid Silver, $1 50. Solid Silver, $1 50. Enameled. Enameled. Solid Gold, $4. 0% $A. Badges for the lst, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, 11th, and 12th Army Corps. lst Division Enameled Red, 2d Division White, 3d Division Blue. Terms Cash in advance. Send for a Catalogue. Adires J.G,PACKARD & CO., 208 Broadway, New York. tract of roots. barks, and gino BRO : EWYORK. An imitation so faultless that it can hardly be detected from the solid material by a in | the best resemblance of Sella Stecing Silver's “ens The sale of wa arenas ~4 normous profit, very a oat epuebd. Seay benoet =ry-> y tifully engraved, white enamel and cut hands, in good running order, by the half dozen, } postage, $1 80; registering, 20 cts. Sold only by the vase. Can be sent by mail. Our ee supe poctane’ Sy ne sitar more elaborately and artistically finished, offered at prices competition from all other hands. The press in al! parts of the country voluntarily attest ‘* Particularly valuable for officers in the army, and travelers.""—Frank Leslie's, Feb. 21. gees (es gente nel —WN. Y. Illustrated News, Jan. 10. manufactures “An improvement on and inval- em ae railroad men."—N, Y. Am. J S Elaborately and artistically finished." NV. Y. Scot- tish American, July 30. pe. than . v= timekeepers."'"— Pittsburg, “Very P : and durable watches for the army." —N. Y. Army and Journ, (Government organ), Aug. 29. “One and most reliable “— Louviaville, Ky., Journal, July 31. 62 Teams Casu; Invanianiy tx Apvance. Noagente employed ; buyers must deal directly with us. If money express or mail in a registered letter, it is at Orders will meet the most prompt and faithful Importers, 169 Broadway, cor. Courtlandt St., New York. CERTIFICATE. This is to certify that, about eighteen months ago, I commenced using Stzeuiove’s Amprosia. My hair was thin, and rapidly falling out. I had tried many Hair Tonics, In tors, &c., without receiving any ben- efit. Soon after using the Ambrovia, my hair ceased fall- have applied nothing else to my hair. Mrs. L. A. BROWN, No, 498 Broadway, New York. thes. 0 H. For sale by all druggis «. description, in Solid Silver, Solid Gold, and Plated. Also a large as- sortment of Jewelry. E, N. FOOTE & CO., Manufacturers of Jewelry, 208 Broadway, New York. transparent power en and improve without the distressing result of frequent logues sent by enclosing stamp. 669) Broadway, New York. They are ted in the UNITED STATES, ENGLAND, and SCOTLAND, and universally acknow' most Instruments made. Persons uiring will do ry and examine (or send for suntied tehes purchasing. Office, 714 BROADWAY, N. Y. a= CHAMBER FURNITURE.—The best as- Enameled sortment of Furniture, in all colors and styles, Welnat and Chestnut, Plain Ornamental, Suites, Wholesale and ~ ~ | Retail. Mattresses Paillasses. WARREN WARD, No. 277 Canahitede ix Printing-Press for Sale. One Se we Rollers, Table Dis- Apply to HARPER & BROTHERS, 829 Pearl St., N.Y, C.E. PACE Co.1 29 N.JNol. 50,000 Agents Wanted. Om Agent peens Sa ergy Raita, Basghet, ent board «very Naval Vessel. For $1, will send you as sam- ple, with a Cireular giving full instructions to Agents, either a Fine Gold Pen and Pencil, or a beautiful New Style Vest Chain, or Chatelaine Chain Broadway, N. ¥ yj ANTED.—DISABLED AND DISCHARGED SOL- diers, and others, maimed and crippled, can hear of a pleasant and profitable business by addressing P. O. Box No. 45, Philadelphia. (Sample free for 25 cents.) Printing Office for $12. Every Man his own Printer. te LOWE IMPROVED PRINTING PRESSES are the best and cheapest portable Card and Job Press- es ever invented, and have been awarded and Diplomas. Merchants, Droggis' saving or MAKING MONEY by Bill-Heads, Circulars, Labels, &c., can trifling expense. Price of Presses: $7, 12, 18, Price of an Office, with Press, $12, 22, 32, and $43. for a Circular to the LOWE PRESS CO., 13 Water Street, Boston. Cristatioro’s Hair Dye. Tue Beer m Tax Wort.

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Ocroser 17, 1863.} HARPER'S WEEKLY. 671 ‘J. H. Winslow & Co., 100,000 WATCHES, CHAINS, &c., &o. Worth $500,000. To be sold for One Dollar each, without _ regard to value, and not to be paid for till you know what you are to get. SPLENDID LIST!! OF ARTICLES TO BE SOLD FOR ONE DOLLAR EACH. 100 Gold Hunting Cased Watches....... $100 00 each. 100 Gold Watehes . . .....-. 66-6 ee nee 60 00 each. 200 Ladies’ Gold Watches ..........--+- 35 00 each. 500 Ladies’ and Gent's Silver Watches.. 15 00 each 3000 Vest and Neck Chains......... 5 00 to 10 00 each. 3000 Gold Band Bracelets peecdeasts 5 00 to 10 00 each. 3000 ** — gentettuah 800 to 5 00 each. —-- Fra CES aekaganrees 400 to 6 00 each. 3000 Mosaic and Jet Brooches ....... 400 to 6 00 each. 2000 Lava and Florentine Brooches.. 400 to 6 00 each. 3000 Coral, Opal, and Em. Brooches . 4 00 to 6 00 each. 8000 Cameo Har Drops ............- 400 to 6 00 each. 8000 Mosaic and Jet Ear Drops ..... 400 to 6 00 each. 3000 Lava and Florentine Ear Drops. 400 to 6 00 each. 3000 Coral, Em., and Opal Ear Drops 400 to 800 each. 5100 Gent's Breast Pins ....,......- 2M to 8 00 each. 8000 Watch Keys. ..........0.-00+ 200 to 6 00 each. 5000 Fob and Ribbon Slides ........ 200 to 6 00 each. 5000 Sete of Bosom Studs ..........- 2M to 6 00 each, 5000 Sleeve Buttoms...........+.-+- 250 to 6 00 each. 6000 Plain Rings. ..........-..+++++ 250 to 500 each. 6000 Stone Set Rings............... 250 to 6 00 each. 2 50 to 10 00 each. . 5 00 to 10 00 each. 10000 Gold Pens, Silver M'ted Holders 400 to 5 00 each. 10000 Gold Pens, with Silver Extension Cases and Pencils.......... 400 to 600 each. All of the above list of Goods will be sold for one dollar each. Certificates of all the various articles, stating what each one can have, are first put into envelopes, sealed up, and mixed; and when ordered, are taken out without re- gard to choice, and sent by mail, thus giving all a fair chance. On receipt of the Certificate, you will see what you can have, and then it is at your option to send one dollar and take the article or not. : In all transactions by wail, we shall charge for forward- ng the Certificates, paying postage, and doing the busi- ress, 25 cents each, which must be inclosed when the Cer- ifieate is sent for. Five Certificates will be sent for $1; deven for $2; thirty for $5; sixty-five for $10; and a wndred for $15. AGEnTs.—Those acting as Agents will be allowed ten ents on every Certificate ordered by them, provided their emittance amounts to one dollar. Agents will collect 25 ents for every Certificate, and remit 15 cents to us, either 2 cash or postage stamps. Great caution should be used xy our correspondents in regard to giving their correct ad- wees, Town, County, and State. Address J.H. WINSLOW & CO. 208 Broadway, New York. French Note Seals and Presses, Silver ee. at ; SS ne cor. Duane St. or Specimens by mail, send 2 centa a J. W. EVERETT & CO., METROPOLITAN PURCHASING AGENCY. We will Segeet. & sey ction, receipt of order accompanied by cash), ANY ARTICLE REQUIRED, at the OWEST PRICES; ications » Music, Jewelry, Playing graphs of Gunemats Meapr, M‘Ciriian, Grant, Fre- towt, Rosrorana, Siexn, Banks, Suemwan, HALLECK, sLocum, SiokLes; Apurmats Portes, Foorr, Dvrowt, or ny of the leading Orricens iv THE ARMY AND Navy. Dominoes for the Million. Amentoan §6Pa- Prer Dominors,— This excellent ar- ticle, being neat, durable, and a per- fect substitute for ‘ the more expens- 000000 |: 5: lieve the tedium of the Camp and he Hospital. Single sets, 15 cents, per mail; $1 lozen; per hundred, $10. Union Badge. —o—. PER HUNDRED, $10,00. SINGLE BADGES. 15 cents. Sent free by Express or Mail. Address J. W. EVERETT & OO, 111 Pulton Street, or P. 0. Box 1,614, NEW YORK CITY. . Sent free by mai) for 60 cents, psia Tablets, - For INDIGESTION, HEARTBURN, éc. — Manufac- a oF ELLING, No. 207 Centre St., New York. Puss 0b canto gar bes. Sold by Druggists generally. AT YOUR OWN HOMES.—THOUSANDS CAN RE- ALIZE A HUNDRED DOLLARS WEEKLY.—No uten- to 100 por soak, Waamaad maple as ace. Inte the, prof- PORTABLE COPYING PRESS. mony A SD pe ge AD spects, unequaled. Sent free by mail. Liberal discount to agents and the trade. HANNAH & OO., No. 104 John St, N. ¥. Room No. 1. Send 8 ct. stamp for circular. S] VAN ANDEN’S ONE DOLLAR $1 Meeks’ Cabinet and ‘Warehouse, No. 699 BROADWAY, and 333 and 335 Fourth Street. The largest assortment of rich and plain sin farnioure in the city, » taalld ef the very best wall-consensd and selected material, by the best workmen in the country, under the immediate supervision of the firm, whose excellence of manufacture has been established for seventy years. ALSO, an assortment of superior FUR. NITURE. &3 Goods L soenaes and cigget to all parts of of the world. Office ice 429° Broadway. The “Ridgewood” Patent Smoking Case. ee ee of the Metallic Case, puetaoe Cen Sm Nothing can excel its comfort cies one. @ It is of various styles, at $1 50, $1 88, $2 $2 50, and $2 75, to $3 75 and $5 00, the two latter richly plated and engraved. It ie substantial! made and secures what it for Smokers, at home or abroad, in the ARMY or NAVY, atyle, comfort, and economy. As a present to friends, nothing could be more acce: . For the Soldier, in Camp or on the March, it is invaluable. Also is offered The Ridgewood Smoking T Of superior flavor, and equal in style and q~ality to any granulated Tobacco in the market. Put up in —_ to fill the Pouch (about a week's smoking), or Single Cases sent by mail or Express, paid, on receipt of rmiog and 2% cente. The Athaptins ¢ of Sutlers is ited to these All orders bw receive prompt attention. RIDGEWOOD MANUFACTURING CO., Office 429 sak ait 28 cor. Howard Street, New York. Bertahle For sale by the ADAMS PRESS ©O., 81 Park Row, New York. Circulars sent free. Sheets of Type, Cuts, &c., 6 cents, and also for sale by CHASE & LEAVITT, 35 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mass. ‘NATIONAL BATTLE PIN. M‘Clellan,Grant, Rose- crans, Banks, Meade, Gi!- more, Burnside, Hook- are the same as the cut, only differing in battle-grounds and date. Perfect photograph like- nese ia wach pin. Tinted back and front in fine gold. By enclosing $1, a sample will be sent by mail. Agents wanted in and out the army. The undersigned has the ex- clusive right of manufac- ture, and the inventor of this beautiful keepsake and record of gallant acts. LOUIS PHILIP, 609 Broadway, N. Y. N ME. DEMOREST’S MIRROR OF FASH- 1ONS.—Brilliant and Valuable Novelties in the Fall number of Mur. Demorest’s Mrenor or Fasniows. The Empress peg and Her Maids of Iionor. A large sheet of New Braid and Embroidery Patterns, extra-large Colored Fashion Plate, and — Full-size Patterns, with other valuable Now Ready. Single, 2 cents ; yearly, $1, with valuable ai, Address MME. DEMOREST, 473 Broadway, N. Y. Exterminates Catarrh, Root and Branch, forever. Price * Send stamp for —" Depot, 612 Broad- way, N.Y. NORTON «& oo: Sole Agents. Union Playing Cards. Colonel for King, Goddess of Liberty Sor Queen, end Majer for Jack. 52 enameled cards to the » Eagles, Shield Stars, and Flag» are the cults, end you can play all the uoue Fhe usual discount to the trade," Bond fr usual discount to the AMERICAN CARD COMPANY, 4 Broadway, N. ¥., or 165 William Street, N. Y. $15 Per Day Easy Easy $15 And a Waich Free. , male and female. 100,000 men, women, and wanted to act as our Agents in every Town and Village the U, & to sell our im and ertra large size STATIONERY, and No- TION PacKAGgEs, contal Aine Writing such as , Pens, Pencils, utifal Emblems, Ladies’ Fashion Plates, for lework, tage Companions, —* Com- (for rs), Parlor ita, Letter Writer's Guile, Medical Ways to Get Rich, of Military Heroes, Union rents’ ee Calendars for 1963, Yawxex Notions of all kinds, rich and costly Presents of Fashionable Jewelry, Rare Reci Games, Army Advice, &c., &c., &c., the whole w if bought separately, many dollars. Price each Package ONLY cents retail, Whdlesale rates to Agents very low, from TO 200 rex OENT PROFIT ALLOWED. Our Pac competitors, and have long been acknow leading and only real valuable and standard Articles of the kind now manufactured. of put up by the 1000 for Sutlers, Pedd Wholesale Dealers, &e. Goods sent by Express safe to aut Parts of the army South or Southwest. A SpLenprp Sour Sic_ver Waron, Enxo.isn Movements, and correct timepiece presented FREE to each person who acts as our agent. Send for our wew Circulars, containing Extra Premium Inducements, sent free. 8. C. RICKARDS & ©O., 1Q@2 Nasean &t., N. ¥. The Great € |, Largest, and Oldest Prize Package House in the World. The Standard American Billiard Table. ® Approved and adopted by the Billiard Congress of 1863. The best and only reliable billiard tables maaufactured. Balls, Cues, and every article relating to billiasds, for sale by PHELAN & OOLLENDER, corner of Crosby and Spring Giseets, BF New York. — Kisco ‘Military and Collegiate Institute. The Pall Oct. Sth, 1968. For circulars address A. B. WIGGIN , A.M., Mount Kisco, Westchester Co., N. Y. The “Star” No Chimney Burner for Kerosene Oil Lamps, Patented Aug. 11, 1863. Gives a brilliant and steady light with- out emoke or smell, and requires no chim- ney. An excellent portable or hall light. It can be carried and handled freely with- out — extinguished. Superior to any other of the kind. Warranted as repre- sented. Sample sent, —— for 35 cts. Circulars free. Agents wanted. PETER ESSIG & ©0., Manufacturers, No. 2 Platt Street, N. ¥. $200! $150! 100! PREMIUMS. To Editors and Others! I will pay the above-named amounts for the best four articles on either my Soap, Saleratus, or Concentrated Potash. The article must state the writer's experience in using the goods, and must be not less than ten lines, and be published in the editorial columns of any good family newspaper. Any party wishing to compete for the above, and desir- ing further information, may address the underiagned. Each person writing and publishing a notice as above, will mail a marked copy of the paper containing the notice to me, and also write me by mail, giving full address. The Premiums will be awarded on the fourth day of July, 1864. B. T. BABBITT, 64 to 74 Washington Street, New York. 960! Fowler & Wells, PUBLISHERS, Purstoenomy, Purewotoer, Purstotoey, Peronowo- GY, Erm~o.oey, including the various “signs of charac- ter,” and how to read them, given in the Purmwotogicat Journal. A new volume, 38, commenced in July. $150 a year. Sample Nos. sent by first post for 15 cents. POWLER & WELLS, No, 908 Broadway, N. Y. ) 4 MONTH! We want Agents at $60 a month, and 18 other articles. 15 circulars CLARK, Biddeford, Ma A to take orders for VICTOR'S HISTORY OF THE REBELLION, the acknowledged standard, indorsed by the Prosimtent, Cabi- net, Members of Congress. (}overnore, Bancroft the Histo- rian, and by the press generally. Two volumes are now ready, superbly illustrated with steel engravings. Sold by subscription only, and excinsive territory given. Canvas ers make $50 to $100 per week. Send for circular of texmr, &e. Address E Dw ARD F. HOVEY, 18 Spruce Street, N. Y. Watches and J ewelry. CHEAPEST AND BEST yet offered to the public For list of Articles and Prices, address PARKER OOX & 00.,N Y. D. Oeil aad examine. or a2 GENTS vent wy: matt 20 cents, that retail for $2, urgently needed by every person, by R. L,. WOLOOTT, 170 Chatham Square, N. Y. French These fashionable goods are made of the finest ivory, and ta high poll polidh of all colors, Black, White, &c., and engraved with Initial Letiars, Old B &¢. Complete sot $1 0, (ree by mall. Trade JOHN F. PHELPS, 405 Browlway, Nee York. FE we pr et eon, fying Tubes. ” Cas be con- ‘sons to hear at public assem - bites. Send for SS mphiet to 22 ered St., New Teck, ~ HARPER @ é BROTHE RS, “NEW YORK, Have just published : THE RING OF AMASIS. From the Papers of « Ger- man Physician. By Rowrer Bucwee Lyrrron (Owen Meredith). 1%mo, Uloth, $1 00 MARTIN POLE. By Jonw Sauxpers, Author of “Abel Drake's Wife,” &« vo, Paper, 50 cents ENAPP'S FRENCH READING.BOOCK ; CHRESTOMA- THIE FRANCAISE: Containing J. Selections from the best French Writers, with Copious References to the Author's French Grammar. IL The Master-Pieoes of Molidre, Racine, Hoileau, and Voitaire; with Pxplans- tory Notes, a Glossary of Idiomatic Phrases, and « Vo- eabulary. By Wiit1am L. Kxarr, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature in Madison University, N. Y. 12mo, Cloth, $1 %. . ELEANOR’S VICTORY. A Novel. By M. BE. Baanpon, Author of ** Aurora Floyd," “John Marehmont's Laga ey,” &c. With Illustrations. Sro, paper, 50 cents HEAD’S DAILY WALK WITH WISE MEN. Daily Walk with Wise Men; or, Religious Exercises for By ery Day in the Year. Selected, Arranged, aud ape cially Adapted, by Rev. Nexzow Hav. Large 12m, Cloth, $1 50. ALOOCK’S JAPAN. The Capital of the Tycoon: « Nar- rative of a Three Years’ Hesidence in Japan. By Sir Rutuesronp Atocoon, K.C.B., Her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan With Maps and Engravings. @ vols. 12mo, Cloth, $8 00. THE BIVOUAC AND THE BATTLE-FIELD; or, Cam- paign Sketches in Virginie and Maryland. By Captain Groner F. Novas. 12mo,. Cloth, $1 % KAY'S CONDITION OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE The Social Condition and Education of the People ia England. By Joszrn Kary, Keq., M.A., of Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge; Barrister at Law; and late Travel. ling Bachelor of the University of Cambridge. 19mo, Cloth, $1 00. LIVE IT DOWN. A Story of the Light Lands. B Jearrvazeson, Author of “(Olive Blake's Good ak » ** Isabel; the Young Wife and the Old Love,” Sc, New edition just ready. Svo, Paper, 00 cents ROMOLA. A Novel. By the Author of “Adam Bede,” “ The Mill on the Floss," ** Silas Marner.” and “* Beenes of Clerical Life"* W'th numerous Illustrations, Svo. Paper, $1 25; Cloth, $1 5° AFRICAN HUNTING FR M NATAL TO THE ZAM. BESI, including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c., from 1832 to 1860. By Wtsteaw Cnsaetes Batowie, F.R.G.S. With Map, Fifty lMustrations by Woif and Zwecker, and « Portrait of the Great Sportsmen Small 8vo, Cloth, $1 50. BARRINGTON. A Novel. By Cuantias Leven, Author of “Charles O'Malley,” ** Gerald Fitazgeraid,” ‘* One of Them.” “ The Martins of Oro’ Martia,”’ “ Maurice Tier- nay,” “The Dodd Family Abroad,” &c., &c., dc. Svo, Paper, 50 cents. AURORA FLOYD. A Novel By M. E. Brawpom, Au- thor of ** Lady Audley’s Secret.” Svo, Paper, % cents ABEL DRAKE'S WIFE. A Novel. By Jom Savy- pens. 8vo, Paper, ) cents. FANNY KEMBLE’S GEORGIA PLANTATION. Jour pal of a Residenee on a Georgian Plantation in 1438 1889. By Frances Anxe Kemare. 12mo, Cloth, $1 % DRAPER’S INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EU. ROPE. A History of the Intellectual Development of Purope. » Jous Wnhatam Dearen, M.D., 11.D., Professor of Chemistry and Physiology in the Univer- sity of New York; Author of « “Treatiee oo Humaz Physiology,” &c., ee. Bvo, Cloth, $8 30, 6@™ Any of the above Works sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. ~ HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. T e R M 8. One Copy for cne Year : ~ « « .- 9800 Two Copies for One Year. . 60 An Eatra Copy, gratis, for every Club of Tax 8u»- scrrnErs, at $2 59 each, or 11 Copies for $25 00 Haxrer’s Macavtxe and Hanren’s W exec, together, one year, $5 00. HARPER & BROTHERS, Posters. Circulation over 100,000. az HARPER'S WEEELY. Single Copies Six Cents. TERMS. One Copy for One Year eo + «i SS One Copy for Two Yeare 506 And an Extra Copy will be allowed for every Cid of Tex Sunscereens, 01 $2 56 each, or 11 Copies for 825 Teams TO Avventisens. —Seventy-five Cente per line for inside, and One per line for outside Adver- HARPER & BROTHERS, Prsiseuem. we ee ee EE ee ov eet

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672 HARPER'S THE PERPLEXED PIRATHES.« Louis Naroteoy (a ? ? “Vell, Meestare Jonnibull! vat you see zat time you pee; round ze cornare tro your beeg glass?’ Jous Butw (Anoti ‘I s a werry suspicions looking cove a sittin’ in the New York ‘arbor, with arf-a-dozen big Roushian blood-hounds about him.” Louis Napoirow. * Hein?” Joux Boir. * Humph!” Mics Kate Denin, The celebrated actress, sav Henna’ Kak awtne for my hair, and fi t elegant ox cle for keeping it in ite full beaut u I have everused. T can freely re t to every | It contains neo oil, ale hel jurious i dient nd is the most perfec ing in th rid Price 50 cent Depot 7 N. i ur Bad All get are lé inche liameter. Soltd Sliver shield, vame, Kank, and Regimer $1 00 each aT. d. and Clover Leaf Cor Badég on, with Name Rs and Re ent; enameled k Whire f Blue, $1 U0 ench Cross, and Malt Crocs, enameled Red, i ame, Ren tog WO ver. 31 25 excl Com- peny Pins from A to L., le of rolid Silver, with Name. Rank, and Regiment, 99 ( t non Sils piated Corps Badges, with I ' § ‘ 1, 36 00 per dozen. end for a cireulor Add DROV MOORE, Manufacturi wele B iway, N.Y IVORY SLE Gi v > I edit > on STUDS—Red, W 1] initials, The. per pol ! t fre r price by wail For by \¥ M. WELLING feeturer of | v ro ~%.. N.Y tl Golden Klephant A libe he tra rd Onc “ PHYSIOGA NOK, OR SIGNS OF CHARACTER, and * How to. Read Them ;" Physiology, the funce f the bedy; Phrenol- ogy, the organs of the brain; Ethnology, the rac of man; and Peychologyv. the nee of the soul, are given in the PHRKENOLOGK Af " Al Vol m- menced Ju) y- $1 50 a yea Bi number, 15 centa, by first yout. FOWLER & WELLS, 308 Broadway, N. Y Amalgam | Bells. 1 beet f ( rches, I Factories, } i tone and durability to any other metal it hi lees in price, or 15 cte. pe tb. Send for a circular to the menufactarer, Jonw~ B. Ron- rson, late Pratt, Roainson & Uo., 190 William St. N, ¥. “GOLD PENS AND CASES. Retailed at wholesale priser. 14 kt. Gold Pen, Solid Bilver Case, $1 59, warranted far one year, cuarantee ac- eompanying each Pen. _ for a circular. Pens Te poloted « ony of 5 B @ SOMO, 15 Maiden Lane, WN. Y. ond a A Beautiful Complexion, free from Tan, Pim} les and Freckles, may easily be procured by using the * BALM OF THOUSAND FLOWERS.” For shuy- Ing it is unsurpassed. It is composed iim oil, t 5 and other valuable articles, highly periu | by its own ir ts, and when used for washing, nders the skin soft and white, night and morni and free from blemish. /) Cente. lhe Trade supplied by HOWARD, SANGER & CO., i and 107 Chambers Street, N, Y., and for sale by all D ‘ The Diaphragm Filter, Manufactured and sold by Alexander McKenzie, Plum! er and Hydraulic Engineer, No. 305 4th Street, New York, the kind gf Porous Filter to which I alluded in my re ent report to the Croton Board, I consider the artificial andste + which constitutes the filtering medium to be an excellent article for the purpose. The instrument is quite curable, and requires to be reversed occasionally to in- sure ite aetion New York, April 26, 1562 TAMES R. CHILTON, M.D., Chemiet From the N, Y¥, Illustrated News, he pt he 6, 1863, One of t pr ps tnd for general and reliable most con t time-piece ettiest, venient, Magic Time OBSERVERS! The, Perfection of ‘Wicchanism + Litne A HUNTING, O8 OrEN bace, on Lapy’s on Gen- TLEMAN’s WatToH com- BINED, WITH PATENT Se.y-Winpine IwrRove- MENT \ most pleasing novelty, ich we are the only ignees in this country! | 18 within it and connect 1 ith ite machinery its n winding _ attach went, wering a key entirely ut re rt rhe cn of t teh are composed t metals, tl iter one being fine 16 car id It has t improved ruby action 1 tit, and ie war- d au acenrate time-pice Its is convenk nt. ing but two inches ac it. perbly en- ived, per case of half dozen, $04. Sample Watches, int Morocco boxes, $85. If sent by mail, the postage i onts; registering, 20 cente FEM’, UASH, INVARIABLY IN ADVAN Ei UESaES BROS. -Inporters, mar, cor. ( tz. FZ. seniteary eeeds, Frencu anp Ewouis Faxoy Goons. Also, a full assortment of Jet. Coral, and Stcel Goods. Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, 19 Maiden Lane & 22 John Street, N. Y., 15 Rue @'Enghein, Paris, 47 Hampton St. irmingham, Eng. Shults’ Onguent, werranted to produce a full eet eet of Whiskers in six week=, or money refunded, Sent P vat- paid, for 80 cents. Address C. F. SHULTS, Troy, N. ¥. | | | | S WEEKLY. American Enamelled Metallic Collar Co., No. 94 Pine Street, New York, Are now manufacturing their splendid Collars, which for shape, appearance, and durability are FAR IN ADVANCE of anything heretofore produced. They are the inventors and manufacturers of real “ TURN-OVER” COLLAL ever offered. These Collars are infinitely SUPERIOR TO STEEL, being more pliable, and the material of whieh they are manufactured BEING A NON-CONDUCTOR, renders them free from the objectionable feature of the steel col- lar, viz.: the courting of that dangerous element, elec- tricity, in the shape of lightning. Inclose $1 for a “ Chok- er,” or $1 50 for a genuine “ half turn-over” collar, to the AMERIGAN ENAMELED METALLIC COLLAR COM- PANY, Box No. 5173 New York City Post Office, and re- ceive it by return mail $22 WATCHES. $22 ; Gennipe American Lever Watches, i» Coin Silver, heavy Hunting Case, warrunted, for $22. Rctail price Sev. the only Genuine — Jewel ed American Lever | Watches, io unce Coin Silver Hunting Case, gold joint , for $35 a every variety of good Sarath ut jually low rate All orders from the army must be p paid, as the express companies will not t ike Bille for Col lection on soldiers J. L. FERGUSON, Importer of Watches. 208 Broadway New York. “WATCHES FREE. S15 Per Day Easy $15 Agente in"T may -charged, re making easily #15 p seiling r GREAT NEW ui WOND:RFUL UNION PRIZI AND STATIONERY Os SS aves AND ‘LOU ALLD, and unlike all 1 styles: containing New Articles, and of fine tality. Writing Materi Gumes, Useful and Faney At clet, Likeness f Heroes, Camp Companions (for the Army rich i t Jewelry, & ic... altogether worth #1, for ONLY 256, They are just the thing for a t tk i n ™ No family should «© without on I im nae, eal + quick Soldiers rep can act as Agents, a make money fast. A SPLEN DID WATCH, if 1 a perfect time-keeper, pre- ented freer t re ‘ nts, Packag ndless variety and t all prices, Auents wanted all through the conntry Send for NEW Circulars for 1563, containing EXTRA ir ducement 1) per day m inside page. S. C. RIOKARD= & Cu., 102 Nasean Street, New York, largest an dk Prize Package Mouse in the Worid FISK & HATCH. Bankers and Dealers in Government Securities, ND AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES FIVE-TWENTY LOAN, No. 38 Wall Street. Orders rece e-T'wenty Bonds at Par, interest to commence W ' i payment 8. 7.30 Treasury Note One Year Certificat “ Six per Vent. Bonds of 195 Aud all other Government Securities bougit, sold, and constantly on hand Accounts of Banks, Banke: nd oth received on fa vorable terms. Special attention given to the Collection of G rm Vouchers, Quarterinasters’ Checks, and maturing Certifi- cates of Indebtednes FISK & HATCH, 38 Wall Street. t#” | Doz. free by Mail for $1 25. Beautiful chased metal frames for Card Photographs, to hang up or etand up. We call them the “ Improved American Carte Porte." For eale by all Booksellers, Frame Dealers, or Fancy Goods Men bk. & i. T. ANTHONY, 501 Broadway, New Y Manufacturers of Photographic Materials, Photographic Albums, and dt rk reoscopic Views. ma ~ “Most Laughable Thing o: on Barth.” A game that can be played by any number, and pro- ductive of Roans or Lavenrer. Just the thing for Sot- pires, Parties, and Fotxs at Home. A sure cure for Homfr-Sioxyess, | ywvi, and the bives. Sent, post-paid, for 25 cents. Address Box 456, Beaton. "Purify your Complexion - My prescription is & positive cure for freck! tan, and pimples, in 4 weeks. rhe receipt was old in Liver pool in 185) for $96. Sent to any address on receipt of 50 cts. WM. PUTTER, Box 1943. Philadelphia. SPECIAL NOTICE. Acrnts, male or female, Sotprmrs, and all having some time to spare, are particularly requested, as a FAVOR, to send us their address, and we will send in return, rrex, in- formation for which they will be TuanxruLt. We offer ex- TRA InDUCEMENTS. From $6 to $15 per day anove rx- renses. We want addresses from EVERY County in the U. 5.. and from every Reotwent in the Army * Address in full, RICHARDs & UU., ST and 39 Nassau Street, Box S131, N. Y. Do-you want to know how to make Onguent for Luxu- riant Whiskers or Moustaches? We will send you Gra- Jaggers’s, Brown's, aud our Receipt and our Un- 8 rent for $2 00, postuge free. Address ©. HUNTER & CU., Drawer 111, Broker’ ama, Milwaukee, Wis. 's Stock of unredeemed goods for sale at $1 for each article, consisting of a variety of rich and valna- ble goods, worth from 7§ each. Agents wanted, Send 3 cents foracireular. Address ANDREWS & CO., 108 Sudbury St., Boston, Maas. A UTIFUL MI For 30 cts. (coin preferred), magnifying small objects timex. Five of different powers for $1 00. Mailed Address F. C. BOWEN, Box 220, Boston. Mase. Photograph Albums! SUPERB STYLES, in ARABESQUE and GOLD, at any Paice from $1 00 to $25 00 each. Very Flegant Albums, French Style, for 5° pictures, sent for $5 00. Catalogue and Price Mist sent on receipt of Five Cents. lL. W. LUCAS & CO., 173 Broadway, N. Y. “Get the Best.” AGENTS WANTED TO SELL THISTLE & CO.'S ENTIRELY NEW 10 and %Se. PRIZE STATIONERY PACKAGES. They are the largest, best, and cheapest manufactured. Uircular sent free. Greatest induce- ments ty Ageuts, THISTLE & UO, 130 Naeeau Strect Fogg’s Double-Action Patent Lever Skate Buckie. Manufactured and fr eale on Straps, at wholesale, by F. STEVENS, Manufacturer of Skates, Straps, and Leath- F Bm Soot, 915 Pearl Street, New York, 68 Kilby Street, _[Octoser 17, i, 1863. ‘MUNN & CO., Solicitors of American and Foreign Patents, And Publishers of the ILivsTRaTep SormyTiric Amrn. caN. 87 Park Row, N.Y. Pamphiets of information con- cerning Patents, rrxz. Specimens of the Paper, rmes. $7. WATCHES. $7. 4 Beautiful Engraved Gold-Plaied Watch, Lever Cap, — _y size, Enolish Movementa, p-riect | time-keeper. Sent » by mail, in nest case, for only #7. A Solid Silver, eame as above, $7. Specially adapted to the ARMY. CHAS. P. NORTON & CO., 38 & 40 Ann Street, N. Y. Frank Leslie's Ilustrated Newspaper, of Aug. 22, says: “ Messrs. NORTON & CO. have combined two very de- | sirable things in a watch — cheapness and reliability. When it is known that for $7 a person can have an excel- lent timekeeper, there will be greater punctuality in all the affairs of life.” DR. B. C. PERRY, DERMATOLOGIST, 49 Boni Street, New York, Formerly of 29 Winter Street, Boston, treats snecess- fully all Dixeases of the Scalp, Lose of Hair, and Prema- ture Blancliing. A1so,t es Moth Freekles, and oth- er Discolorations from the face, without injury to the texture o lor of the skin } particulars encle tamp for Cireular, Bury per In your Housekeeping titute, New York A Household Word. Artic at BA=SruoRD' ss, Cx How to Paint Photographs. the Tribune :—It is one of the most « in an almost level position and suite pleasant farming that we know of ern prairies. * Patent Fountain Brush, for & Man'ft'd by E. P xtensive fertile tracts, ble condition for side of the West- | 4 NUW WORK, Just published. Pr 10 cent Sold by all principal | Booksellers, Artists’ eupply-men, and Stock Dealers, and rent, post-paid, by the publisher j 1. E. TILTON & CO., Boston. | . VINELAND. LANDS.—TO ALL WANTING FARMS.--Large and thriving settlement, mild aud healthful c'imate, 30 miles uth of Philadelphia | road. ich soil, produces large crops, which can now be seen growing. Tweuty and fifty acre tracts, at from $15 to $29 per aere, payable ithin four years. Good business opening for Manvrao- rUkeRs and others, chure choole, and good society. It is now the moet improving place Enact or West. Hundreds ¢ sre settling and building. The beauty with which the | place is laid out is unsurpassed. letters answered. Pa- | pers containing reports and giv full information will be sent free. Address CIIAS, K. LANDIS, Vin land Post | Office, Cumberland County, New Jerery From Report of Solon Robinson, Agricultural Fditor of ; | tis , Bundles, No Sethe mp ton, Maes. FINE DRESS SHIRTS TO ORDER. UNRIVALED | In Manufacture, Fitting, and Material. At UNION ADAMS, | No. 637 Broadway. STEEL - LE PES AND CUFFS, ENAMELED LILY WHITE. Having the a! pearance and comfort of linen, have been worn in Ingland for the last two years in preference to any other collar. as they ar ly cleaned in one min- ute : with a spor » Military Me Q and Travelers they are invaluable, Price $1 each, sent by Post to any part of the Union on receipt of $1 15. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AGENTS WANTED in every Town im the Union. 8. W. HH. WARD, Sole Agent for I way, N.¥ Marking Box CLARK & Uo. reau 8, 3°88 WARDS PERFECT FITTING SHIRTS. Made to Measure at $24, $30, $36, & $42 PER DOZEN. Self-Measurement for Shirts. Printed directions for self-measurement, list of prices, and drawings of different styles of chirte and collars sent free everyw here. FRENCH FLANNEL OVERSHIRTS, the largest assortment in New York, $2 75, $3, $3 75 cach; all cut one yard long. A single Shirt sent by mail on receipt of the cost. The oul of postage must be “enclosed—63 cents for each Shirt. Send the size of your neck. ENGLISH MERINO UNDE —S AND DRAWERS, $2, $2 25, and $2 50. SCOTCH LAMB'S woo, UN DERSUIRTS AND DRAWERS. 8. W. H. WARD, 887 Broadway, N. Y. A Splendid New Book for Boys! “The Drummer Boy Ta « story of Burnside’s Expeditionin North Caroli- na—a boy's book—full of stirring adventure ond ropid incident. Tha life and enthusiaem of the wound hevo is painted in vivid colora.’—New York Evening Post. Flegantly Mlustrated. Price $1 00. yet = week Re TILTOY & OO., Boston, and coh at all book: stvrer.