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A correspondent writing from the Camp OF
Gen. Nelson's division, in Kentucky, relates
this incident:
Our boys are famous for practical jokes and
are consequently on the lookout for subjects. -
One was recently procured in the person Of a
teamsteY who had the charge of six large shay
gy mules. Jehu was also the proprietor OF two
bottles of old Bourbon-a contraband in camp
which wag discovered, and resolved to pos
sess. Being aware that the drivers presence
was an impeachment TO the THEFT, he hits upon
the following TO get lid of him
Approaching the driver, who was busy curry
ing his mules, accosted his with
i say, old fellow, what are you doing there
Can't you see,' replied Jehu gruhly.
Certainly responded the wag, but 1t is not
your business. Ii is after tattoo, and there Is
a fellow hired here by the General who curries
all the mules and horses brought in after tat
too
The mule driver bit at once and wanted to
know where the 'hair. dresser kept himself
WhereupOn he was directed to Gen. Nelson 8
tent, with the assurance that there was where
the fellow hung out
you can mistake the man said the wag -
hes large fellow, and puts on laundering
sight of airs for man in his business. He prob
ably will refuse to do it, and tell you % go to
the de1il, but DONE mind that lie has been
drinking to-day. Make him come cut, sure
.Jeha4 posted off, and entered the tent where
our Napoleon OF the 4th Division sat in deep
reverie, probably considering the most expedi-
tious method Of eXpellng the rebels from his
own native State, slapped him on the back with
a force sufficient to annihiate man OF ordinary
size Springiug to his feet The General aecos-
ted his uninyited guest with,
We'll, sir, who are you, and what the devil
do you want?'
old boss, I've got job for you mow-sx
mules TO be curried. and right off, too said the
captain of The mules, nothing daunted by the
flashing eye OF the General.
DO you know who you are addressing, sir Z!
asked the indignant commander.
Yes said Jehu, elevating his voice TO pitch
which rendered the words audible square off
you are tie fellow hired by Uncle Sam to
clean mules and wen have any foolishness.
Clean them mules and I'll give you drink OF
butshead.
you internal villain = exclaimed the General
now perfectly furious. I am commander OF This
division =
Jehu placed the thumb of his right hand
against his nose, and extended his tine ers sway
ing them slowly,in a manner supposed by some
to indicate great wisdom.
Ihe Generals sword leaped from its scab-
bard, and Jehu from the tent, just in time to
save his head
Our boys drank the big mule drivers health
in bourbon The story soon got out, and is
now the Joke of tie season
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r,e woman who Never Gossips.

Oh, no, | never gossip have enough to
do to take care of my own business, without
talking about the affairs of others, Mrs. Smith.
Why there's Mrs. Croker, she deals in scan
dial by the wholesale. 1t docs seem to ms as
though that wCmaGs tongue must be almost
worn out put. no, there's no danger OF that.
If evsryb body was like me, there wouldn't be
much lroubie in the world Oh, no, never
gossip!
But did you know that Miss Elliot had got
a rev silk dress, Mrs. Smith, You didn't
Well she has LIS IA real brocadei L saw 1t
myself; and / do say it 5 shame for her to be
so sxtravagant. | mean to give her piece OF
nv mind, Ms Smith You believe her uncle
gave It to herr Well, / don't care if he did.
Why, it's only two months since her father fail
ed and now to see her dash out Ia this style,
it's a burning shame. l suppose she thinks
she's going to to catch young lawyer Jones
but think she'll find herself mistaken. Hes
got more sense than to be caught BY her, it she
| has got a brocade silk dress.
! And there's the upstart dressmaker, Kate
| Manly setting her cap for the doctors son. he
inpertinence of some people is perfectly aston"
ishing. / don't think she il any better than
ahe ought to be tor my own part. / never did
! ike her. with her mild soft look when anybody
about. Ny word tor it, she can look cross
enough when there amt.
Then she says she - only heVohbeSil Wv"
ness knows abe is as old as my Arabella Inc D.
Tia and hes-well, l wont say how old, but
she's more'n seventeen, and amt ashamed to
say so. either; but think DR., Mays SOL Will
have mora discretion than to think Of marrying
her Come folks call her handsome. Well, l
don, She amt half so good looking az my
ldoIobter Jane. Then the way she docs up
hair in such fy-&way curls and, If You believe
In. Mrs. Smith, she actually had the impotence
TO tell me that she couldn't make her hair as
straight ; my Maria's. Impertinencs If she
iel cufling-pspsrs and curIing-irons alone Id
risk but what her HAIR would be "a straight Al
j anybody's.
i But what do you think Ofthe minister's wife
i Mrs. Smith =? You like her Well, all car
say Is you've got very peculiar .aste. Why
she's as proud AS Lucifor-bgen married
whole week and hasn't beer to see me yet
You presume she hasn't had time? l don Z SCI
what the Minister wanted to 20 out Of town Z
get him wife for anyway and then' above al
Things, to get that little girlish- looking thlns
Way didn't he take one OF his parIshoners
? There's my Arabella Lucretia "onIo nave msde
b him a better than he's got now. And shei
n just about the right age for him. What do yoI
saw THAT Arabe!la Lucretla Is two wears Old
e or than the Minister? l should think il was
a o;ty # didn't know my own daughters age
= Jrs Smith! It some folks would mind tbei
4 own business. ~ do. I'd thank them.
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Cotton Bmrming al sac south.

From the Nashville Cor. OF The Cincinnati Gazette.
AS the rebel army retreats through the south
ern counties of Middle Tennessee, the people
are told that wherever the United States Army
finds cotton it is seized as prize OF war, and
appropriated without making the planter OF mer-
chant any remuneration. Persons who recently
arrived BY way OF Columbia and Pulaski, say
that great quantities of cotton have been burn
ed. II is quite likely some Of it was burned by
the soldiers themselves; but there are planters
silly enough TO believe the promulgated he ana
to destroy their cotton rather than suffer 1t TO
tall into the hands OF the United States Govern
ment Some planters had still another reason
for burning their crops or suffer them to be burn
ed-a reason which, in the present low state OF
public morals. smight have its weight. some
OF the best crops have been bought by parties
in this city and paid for. To destroy It, there
fore, would iniuTe nobody @ho produces Alng
Cotton One inherent principle OF the SeceS'
sion mania is to regard all behind it as Yankee,
dom,though il is ever threatening to return ana
reconuuer ground from which it is driven. The
merchants of Nashville who purchased the COT
ton of planters in MauIy and Giles counties, be-
ing behind the flying lcgions OF devils cast cut
| by the Federal Army, are Yankees'and are ma
! bic 10 penalties inflicted on Yankees
| The cotton destroyed in the southern counties
| of tbis State is by order of rebel Generals. In
| Maurv and Giles counties, SCOTS and Billie
| cavalry were sent to the planters with peremp'
| tory orders, that their cotton should be placed
| in the open air, if they wished to save then
| buildings | heard of one who had not usec
proper expedition, and ;ne eiore lad the mort
| fcation to see his gln and other buildings 0urn
ed with his cotton.
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KENOsHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1862.

end of the room they stopped to admire bril-
liant flower, when Richard said,
4 have-a gift. Grace, which / want you to ac
cept from me, and he held up diamond ring
but 6rst will you give me the hand upon which
l would place 1t 2
Richard Mr. WOlcott /" she exclaimed. =
You are not in earnest!
! Il never was more so,' he said. will you
take the ring?'
But your parents . she asked, half bewilder-
ed, hardly knowing what she said.
4 have their sanction, dear Grace,and await
yours, and he held up the ring with question
| ing gesture.
Grace extended her hand; he pressed it to his
! lips, placed the ring upon her finger, then drew
her hand to his bosom.
| My poor little lamb he murmured drawing
aside the veil of curs that hung over her throb-
bisg brow; NOW l have right to take care OF
you. 1t has made my heart ache to see you
looking so pale, and 10 think of your toiing so
patiently
Grace could only listen passively the change
was so sudden that it overp0wered her; she
could hardly realize that she was betrothed to
Richard W0Icott.
AT length she said, They will miss you 5 had
you not better return to the parlors? l will stay
here awhile
He smiled, and replied, 4 want to present
you to my parents first
'Oh | cannot see any one tonight !! sue eX-
claimed. Indeed / cannotp
You needn't fear he said you will receive
daughters welcome And he led her back 70
the psrlor. The judge and Mrs. Wolcott were
standing together, and though everything around
Grace seemed to float and blend in inextricable
confusion, yet she was conscious that they wei
coined her to their hearts and homes and she
heard Miss Landsdowne say,
so you will be cousin Grace. Well, will
love you dearly .
And then came Madge and Fanny, with their
warm hearts and graceful welcome. But every
thing seemed to Grace like a dream till she
found herself again in her little room, Richard
having driven her home himself.
And that was the way for Grace, that The
NEW YEAR WAS LET IN.
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whether he did not receive indirectly, as much
benefit from the illegal collection Of the one
per cent from the railroads, As he suffered in
Jury from the omission in the tax lists. This
would involve legal assessment 81 the entire
tax, which of course could not be done by any
plaintiff 30 that it would amount to a denial of
any remedy. For these reasons l am COMPEL.
ed to say that the taxes of which the plaintiff
complains were illegal, and that he was enti.
tied 10 the relief asked. I think the Judgment
should be reversed and the cause remanded
with directions to enter judgment for the plain
tiff.
TThe above opinion was delivered by MIR.
Justice Paine, and was concurred in by the
Chief Justice. Mr.. Justice Cole appended the
following note:
think it logically and inevitably follows,
from the decisions of this court in Knowlton VS..
Supervisors of Rock County; the Attorney
General VS.. The Winnebago Lake and Fox
River Plank Railroad Company: and OF Weeks
VS. The City of Milwaukee, that the appellant
is entitled to the relief demanded in his COM
plant, on the ground that the taxes therein
mentioned are unconstitutional and void. IL
is true did not concur in the decisions in
the two former cases, and my views
upon the questions there decided remain
unchanged; but still; assumieg the construction
of the constitution there given 20 be correct,
see no possible escape from the conclusion
above stated.
COLE, Justice.
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From The Chicago Evening Journal.
Footsteps ON the other Side.

Sitting in my quiet chamber,
Meath softly shaded light,
List ming to the wintry wild-Wind,
With a kind Of sad delight,
Wait l for he loved, who comes not,
For step / long to hear;
May it never linger from me,
Never sound than now less dear
Cease, my heart, thy useless throbbing
Canst thou not with patience bide:
That is but a stranger footstep,
Passing by the other side
OH how many now are waiting
For the steps that do not come
Watching, hoping, praying, fearing.
Till the senses all grow dumb
Many, too, are lonely signing
That in ali this world, so wide,
No one careth if their footsteps
Go by on the other side.
Some in pain are wildly longing
For those steps that cannot come
To them, save in fitful dreamings
OF :heir far of, peaceful home;
God. send to such Il music sweeter
Than e'er human footsteps gave;
Rid them Taste of purest lite drops
From an ever living wave.
WindI stop wailing let me listen
Heart no false alarm now beat
Ears ] scarcely dare to trust you
Yet methiuks that up the street
Family sounds n step know,
Yes this time aright you guide,
For indeed that welcome footstep
Passes not the other side.
Happy vile May eve, ending
To Thy watch be sweet as thi5i
For surely angels love to linger
O'er such scenes of human bliss,
May all weary with the tossings
o gTief's restless, swelling tide,
Hear those footsteps on the waters
Which ne er 90 by the other side.
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The Whereabouts. of Eowa Regiments

From The Burlington Hawkeye.
We have ne means OF knowing ceftainl y where
all our Iowa troops are, but we feel safe IN say
ing that wherever they are they viii DO their
duty The 4th and 9th Infantry, the LIST and
Sd cavalry and the 1st I'd and Sd batteries are
with Gen Curtis IN Arkansas, we believe. The
5th aud lOlh are with Gen Pope at New Mad
rid, below Island No. ~. The ID, 18th, 18th aud
l4rh, composing General Lauman's Brigade,
are al or near Savannah, Tenn, as are the 81,
9th 9Th 1lth and 18th. composing General Nc
Kean's Brigade. The Curtis Horse and the LIST
Nebraska Infantry, both composed largely OF
Iowa troopsare also at Savannah Major Corse
is on the staff of Gen Pope at New Madrid
There is also an Engineer Company, containing
number of boys from Denmark at the same
place. Captains BERGMAN and Darnelle, regular
army, appointed from Mt Pleasant are at Nash
vile, the former wounded. Our impression Is
that the I'd Cavalry. Colonel Elliott, is either in
Kentucky or Tennessee. The 4th Cavalry IS at
Rolla, or on their way hence to Springfield and
Arkansas The 18th aud 18th Regiments have
very recently gone into service aed are probably
at ST. Louis.
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beautiful COMPLEXION.
= - r,EomAs Fl cEAPIAN

VIII send TO all who wish 1t Gree of CHARGE, the Rec
iua fun directions for making and using oeaaillu'
,-,fqblp Balm that will edeCtUGliy remove PliPLEs'
IN rrrE. TAN, ERECKLEs, &C. &C., leaving the sklL
a9 Clean and beaugluI also ialS directions loF US
irr lrREAUs CELsBRATED SIIdCLAST, warranted 70
art a mn growth OF Whskers or Mu5tache, IN less
than thirty days Either of the above can os oosateI'
lura mail By addressing win stamps ioE
p5stageJ Dr.. THOMAS T. CHAFSiAN' - - ~
- S5t Broadway, New York. -''''
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nSY Gov. johnson has commenced work al
Nashville. Mayor Cheatham has been arrested
and the CounciImen mad about made up their
minds to walk up to the Office of Provost Mar
shall, Stanley Matthews, and take the oath. -
The preachers gre also 70 be attended %.
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..... .....-Hs IS AYgut f1r rUr9VUs C0Dlp0nSe8 ~
. #g.ai credit. aud Is prepared to issue Pohcisson
f...#tP srty, ou favorable terms. See aoYeF.
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cRe1TsaN8URGlI HOUSE.

1871. usat 70 sa5is tg his s.ro ea5toa. Eess9eHcs-
.. tsr-s recently occupied By A. Campbell, GU the
.-tasase roruer %. the EarG. OG#e-on tEe sane
N. *. on Main Street. FtIrz9iy
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E.ar.segpu Wvod and eUsry KIM Of 3fSfaJ Station
81. Fancy Articles &c. Main street.
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J1.t-s o. u-5 Psace.-O- Bjee-5jFst d- yg n9r&@ q
sio-s0H b. COS. Grocery store.
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JASON LOTHROP,
251atag-Gtt5e sign Qftbe Books near 4tb Wcrd
school house
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4enosbu Business I7irectorg,

JON b. JELSJE.
q artsy aad Counsellor at Lam, Kenosha, wis.
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55ftq 3guQatga Gala9gaplr
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Muncy. may have been hown to different
tribes by different names for Loyal Sock is
undoubtedly Indian, and signifies "Middle
Fork"-thc explanation Icing that it enters
the Susquehanna about midway between
Muncy creek and Lycomiig. There is reason
in this and the autlrofty for it, though
mislaid, satisfied my mind.
Chillisquaquc, "The frozen Duck" is
named from the legend of beautiful squaw
having met an untimely death upon the
banks of that quiet stream.
Nanticoke and Lackawmna are most Ger
tainly Indian, and l am informed by q
Welshman that the roots of both words are
certainly Welsh. He explains them to have
reference to streams of water, in his own
language, and their peculiarities answer
exactly to those of the streams which they
designate. 1t is impossible to say if the
meaning of the words in both languages is
the same but it is little remarkable, if
the Welshman was not quiZzing me- that in
both, the words should have reference to
water, rather than woods, fields or noun
tains.
Such is skeleton of history of the forks
of the Susquehanna, a history that has been
attempted in detached pieces by several
writers, but without in a single instance
making such book as the facts and mate
rials would warrant. That history yet
remains to be written. When done, may it
be done wisely and well
LENNI LENARE.
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FIRE AT GREEN CASTLE.

CHAMBBRsBURG, Franklin county, Pa,
August 3lst 1861.
Messrs. EVANS & WATSON, lphia-Gentle-
mon: On the morning of the 22d of August 1861,
Storehouso at Greencastle destroyed by fire.
The Salamander Safe purchased from you some
few years since was in the above menthned store
house, and contained all books papers cash, &c
which were preserved in perfect condition, after
being exposed most intense heat for several hours
Please inform us upon what terms you will sell US
another larger Safe.
Yours truly, OAKS & AUSTIN.
Salamandsr Safes, for Banks Stores, Private
Families, &c, &c. Also, Evans WatsOn's Patent
Alphabetical Bank Locks and Bank Vault Doors,
equal to any made in the country, and sold on as
good terms. Z W. would respectfully refer to
tho following Banks and other parties, having their
Safes and Locks in use, to their entire satisfac
ton, and many others given at their Store.
UNITED STATES MINT, Branch Bank, Shelbyyile,
Philadelphia. Tennessee.
UNITED STATES ARSENAL, City Bank of Philadelphia.
California. Consolidation b k of Phila.
Pottstown Bank, Pa. Com tn Bank of Phila.
Coatesville Bank, Pa. Chattanooga Bank Tenn.
Stroudsbnrg Bank, Pa. Prem Loan Asson, 4th st.
Jersey Shore Bank, Pa. Bank Of Northumberland
Lock Haven Bank, Pa. Bank Of Nsrth'n Liberties
Union Bank, Baltimore. Philadelphia.
Southwestern Bank of Va. Paul and Swift, Bankers
Fulton Bank, Atlanta, Ga. Alabama.
Newark Bank, Del. W. q. Sterling Wilkesb'e
Bank of n. c., Raleigh, Lewisbur2 Bank, Pa.
Other references given upon calling at our Store
No. 16 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia.
March % lS62-ly
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MORNING, JUNE'7, 1862.

mcnt was saved from overthrow. ! am not
aware that a dollar of the public funds thus
confied without authority flaw, to unofficial
persons, was either lost or wasted, although
apprehensions of such misdirection occurred
to me as objections to those extraordinary
proceedings, and were necessarily over
ruled.
recall these transactions now because my
attention has been directed to resolution
that was passed by the House of Representa-
tives on the 30th of last month, which is in
these words:
"ReSolred, That Simon Cameron, late Sec
retary of War, 10y investing Alex. Cummings
with the control of the public money, and
authority to purchase military supplies,
without restriction, without requiring from
him any guaranty for the faithful perfor-
nance of his duties, when the services Of
competent public officers were invaluable,
and by involving the Government in vast
number of contracts with persons not legiti-
matcly engaged in the business pertaining
to the subject matter of such contracts,
especially in the purchase of arms for future
delivery, has adopted policy highly iniuri-
Gus to the public service, and deserves the
censure of this House"
Congress will see that should be wanting
equally in candor and in Justice if l should
leave the censurc expressed in this resolution
to rest exclusively or chiefly upon Mr.. Cam
eron. The same sentiment is unanimously
entertained by the Heads of Departments,
who participated in the proceedings which
the House of Representatives has ccnsured.
1t is due to Mr.. Cameron to say that,
although he fully approved the proceedings,
they were not moved nor suggested by him
self; and that not only the President, but all
the other Heads of Departments, were at
least equally responsible with him for what
ever errors, wrong or fault was committed in
the premises.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Philadelphia Com.
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Two officers the CommisSary Sergeant,
c. ]. Rees, and Dcetz OF the band -arc among
the missing.
The most distressing sight that have witnessed
hereabouts is the care, anxious appearance of
the hundreds of refugees black and white, male and
female-who have been compelled to fee with
army from Strssburg Winchester, Martinsburg and
other sections Of Virginia, The hotels here and at
Ilagerstown are filled with them, also many
private houses, while along the turnpike for milo
or two, they may be reclining in the iolds--
Wealth and position were naught whom weighed In
the scales against personal safety, number has
returned to Virginia with our army, and had, With
the little they had saved from the Rebels, reeom.
menced businsar restored then private donciled
tc at least partial comfort