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Horrible Cruelty.
Correspondence OF the Chicago Thbune.i


ST. LOUIS, January 1G.
A few days since while company c of the
Iowa Third, under command of Lieut. Lef-
ingwell, was in the occupation of Florence,
guarding the North Missouri railroad at that
point q negro came dashing toward the
camp at about eleven o'clock at night
mounted upon high. spirited horse. He
was about to pass the guard, who sprang
forward and seized the bride rein of his
horse and stopped him. Tue negro imme-
diately threw himself from the horse and in
o cringng, obsequious manner observed;
"Massa soger, please let me go into de camp
and see de lllinoy soger." The guard in
formed him that they were Iowa soldiers,
and desired to know what he wanted. He
hung DOWN. head for q moment, SEEM
ingly musing over some disappointment, and
then continued-"Massa soger, look at dis
collar; Use o good nigger. Please let me
90 in" The guard now discovered that he
was ironed, and Immediately called the
officer of the guard who took him to the
guard house. In the morning he was taken
before Lieutenant Lefingwell, around whose
quarters the entire command had already
assembled and never did men look upon a
scene more degrading and humiliating
the person ofthis slave. Around his neck
was band half an inch thick and nearly
one and a half wide, not locked but Sc
curely riveted. Three iron prOngs of light
ming. rod ze were welded to this band, at
equal distances apart, and arose above his
head about nine inches, with an outward
| inclination. The iron had lacerated his
neck, ana the wound had partially healed
under the protection he had given them by
holding up the band with his hands during
the three preceding days that he was con-
cealed in corn-feld, but while riding the
horse he could not hold it up, and it had
opened the wound, from which there was q
bloody, nattery ooze trickling down upon
his naked shoulders. The men stood
around, in mute astonishmeut, and it was
not until the negro had repeated his petit
ton two Or three times that they could re
alize the fact of the cruelty that the scene
before them was the act of slave master
living but short distance from st. Louis
the enlightened emporium of Missouri. Th'
negro observed, "Please massa soger, take
dis collar off my neck. Use good niger
I'll do any thing you want me. De lllinoy
sogers cut de collar offer Ben" The Lieu
tenant Immediately ordered it to be
stricken off, when an old file was procured
which could not be made work only in q
slanting manner. After labor of over
three hours it was removed, the men tax
ing turn about-two hol ling the banC
while one used the file. The band is nov
in the possession of Lieutenant I,etingwell
who holds it as one of the Third Iowa, anC
the negro is now officiating in his quarter
as servant.
The master of this contraband resides
about ten miles from Florence. 1t appear
that the negro had carried this band upoI
his neck about three months, as punish
meut for assisting his wife to escape int
Illinois. ENFIELD.
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POSTAL RuLES.


Many errors occur by persons not observing the
following regulations in depOsiting letters papers
or miscellaneous publications in the othce for
mailing:
ALL DRoP-LETTERs MUST BIZ PREPAID By POSTAGE
STAMPS, l..
PTepayment by stamps, required on all letters 70
placas within the United States.
Such a. are aot prepaid DH Be set 70 he Dead Lea@
Once and the parry addressed iSA not 30 HOtUesd a.
FTspayment, BY stamps, required on all transient
printed matter, foreign and domestic
BY inserting the county In which the 0moe Is To-
Gated, upon all letters, many errors in Hupersotip-
tion might be detected, and mistakes In maihng be
avoided.
Tie postage on sheet music, maps, ea0rdvi0S IaAO-
Oruphs or photographic pr,Bts, Toters la poDeF
covers; b0oks, bOsd OF unbound; photographic papI
aAd letter sneelopss IN packages not exceeding IN dny
case four pOpnds u at The rdte of cent oancS
on traction Of 10 any place Ia The United btats
undeT fifteen hundred miles, aEd al the rate " heO oe.
fraction Of ounce OU6r UieeN hHieaToo
tailss prepaid ~ postage stamps
Same rates on cards, either blank or printed ana
blanks in packages weighing at least eight ounces.
Rad seeds or cuttings in packages not exceeding
''sA' 0 REGISTRY OFFICE.
Valuable letters for any part Of the United States,
Canada CSTeat BTitSin Fra CO, HOlAnd. the ltalAl
Statee or States Of the German AaAtriaD Postal
| Union, will To registered on application az the
| office between the hours OF ~ A d. aud +: M
Tetsrs 70 b reOisSred Vn not Be VsostPed al lais'
OFFICE HOURS.
| once open from A. NJ. to 6 p. M.
Open on sundAys from to lVS Mn.
! Cincinnati, DeSemoer6, 1851. I.| ....
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By TELEGRAPH.
NIGHT DIsPATCH Ms.
Further from the Burnside
Expedition.
DiIastor Not 50 Bad as First Reported.

WIsHEGToN, January pa special mes.
senger with dispatches from General Burn
side, reached Washington this morning.
They are dated headquarters Department
North Carolina, Hatterss Inlet, January &C."
The messenger left Hatteras on Sunday.
General Burnside states we left our an
chorage at Annapolis on Thursday, January
0, and after protracted passage, owing to
dense fogs, arrived at Fortress Monroe on
Friday night, at twelve o'clock. Leaving
Fortress Monroe on Saturday, at ten o'clock
in the morning, we proceeded at once to sea,
but owing to fogs on Sunday and Sunday
night, our progress was very slow. On
Monday, the 18th, the weather cleared up,
with heavy wind and rough sea, causing
our vessels to labor very heavily, and some
were obliged to cut loose from the vessels
they were towing. Most of them, however,
passed over the bar and anchored inside the
harbor about twelve noon on the 18th, just
in time to escape the severe gale of Monday
night and Tuesday.
The propeller City of NeW York ran on
to the bar at the entrance to the harbor, and
owing to the severe weather and want of
small boats, we could render her no assist
ance. She was laden with stores, and was
| lost.
The General also says be had been led to
| suppose that he would find experienced pi-
lots at Hatteras, but had great difficulty in
accomplishing his wish for want of proper
| accommodation.
He adds that he would commence that day
TO build wharf for landing supplies. The
men were cheerful and patient, and he would
proceed with confidence.
An accident occurred in an effort to re-
lieve the steamer New York, by which a
boat was swamped, aud the lives of Colonel
Allen, of the Ninth New Jersey, his sur.
geon, and the mate of the boat, were also
| lost.
After the arrival of the expedition at Hat.
teras, the enemy made their appearance in
one or two vessels, on reconnoitering ex
petition. Our boats gave chase and drove
them back.
The transports and vessels grounded will
be got off 5y the aid OF tug boats, Only the
NetD Yorkwas lost, and no lives except those
above referred to.
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Peg wOmnRtau. .

PEG wellington.
From sketches Of Irish Actors, in the
Philadelphia Press, we clip the following
anecdote of this celebrated "fair but frail'
theatrical performer;
Out of the numerous anecdotes which
show this womans native goodness ofheart
we conclude with the following: The Bishop
of Carlisle related that, on one occasion, he
saw well. dressed gentlewoman turn in
underneath an arch, in the street, followed
by one of her own sex, in a state of utter
poverty He was curious enough to pause,
and saw the lady, stripping warm petit
coat from her own person, place it in the
poor womans hands, with a sum of money
the tears rolling down her cheeks at the
time. The Bishop conceived it also to be
his duty to relieve the distressed object be-
fore them, and he inquired where she re-
sided, inviting the lady to accompany them,
The place was poor, and the poor woman
had two children lying down, in sickness.
The lady speedily made things more COM
Portable and prepared food, which they
needed more than medicine, for the wretched
family. The good Bishop presented them
with liberal donation. "NIadam," he said
81 desire to know, that may remember in
my prayers the name of the good Samaritan
whom have thus met" Knowing his rank
by his address, she answered, "My Lord,
belong to q profession, which gentlemen Of
your cloth habitually condemn, in their ig-
norance. am an actress. I am Margaret
Woffington-a name which you have heard
before" The Bishop colored-perhaps in
apprehension Of what the world might say
il he was seen in open converse with one
whose moral character was so much blamed
but, unable TO resist her graceful frankness
and subdued by her true charity, he rever-
emily placed his hand upon her head and
said, "Neither do 1 condemn thee; 60 anC
sin no more"
Theatrical biography shows numerous ex
amples of truest charity-performed in Sc
cret and not published to the world, aftel
the manner of the self-boasting Pharisee
We have met with another version of thi
anecdote, in which Rev. John Wesley anC
Mrs. Jordan figured as the parties; but th
above is probably the original story.
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The following incident which is related
by one who was witness of it, is worthy
ofpreservation
During one Of the days Of the muster
held at Concord, N. H., year or two since,
after a long and tedious march, the troops
were halted for rest a portion Of them be-
ing in front of an ancient but comfortable
looking mansion, every thing about which
bespoke thrift and happiness. In front Of
the house was pump and the old fashioned
watering trough. Several Of the soldiers
stepped TO the pump to slake their thirst.
There they were Joined by the owner ofthe
place, an old gentleman who had seen more
than the 'three score year and ten allotted
to man, and who had witnessed the muster
of the "Minute Men" on Concord green on
the memorable 18th of April. The sight of
the troops seemed to stir his inmost soul,
and he rubbed his hands in glee congrat-
ulating the troops meanwhile upon their
soldierly appearance, and relating incidents
of the times which "tried mems souls"
One of the young men presently drew from
his pocket flask, and after taking q
draught presented it to the old man, with
an invitation to imbibe.. He respectfully
but firmly declined.
~, take some IL WILL 10 you gOoui
said the young man.
''No, guess not" responded the old man.
at is now twenty years since have tasted
drop of intoxicating liquor, and guess
won't begin again"
'lf you havn't taken any for so long, it's
! time you took little. 1t will warm your
| blood" urged the young man.
mo guess not" repeated the old man,
in voice which plainly showed that he was
/ half inclined to drink.
After little more urging he took the
flask, and raising it to his lips was about
to swallow the poison, when daughter,
who had been q witness Of the scene from
the door of the house, and heard the con
versatiOn, uttered the single word "Father,"
in q voice which thrilled every hearer, and
caused every limb in the old man to trem-
BILE. The flask dropped, and in its contact
with the ground was broken, and the liquid
it contained was drunk by the thirsty
earth.
"Thank God, am saved" exclaimed the
old man.
The tears which started to the eyes Of
those who witnessed the incident testified
TO the impression which it made upon theil
hearts, and which will probably never be
! effaced
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NUMBER 1913
uThe citizens of Knoxville have held

1.-THE citizens of Knoxville have held
meeting 10 furnish our distressed and routed
soldiers with clotbiny, beds and blankets
NASHVILLE, January 24.-The most relia-
BILE information of the engagement at or near
Somerset is that only two regiments, Colo.
mel Battles Tennessee and Colonel Stro-
thams Mississippi, were engaged in the fight
near Mill Spring. The estimated number Of
killed, wounded and prisoners taken from
us, varies from three to five hundred. Gem
eral Crittenden, with nearly all his force, is
low at Monticello. Stores and equipments
are being sent to him. The force Of the Fed
erals is variously estimated at Paris at from
five to twenty thousand; some declaring that
it reached twenty. five thousand.
Paris was in perfect state of excitement
yesterday, many citizens anticipating an i'm
mediate descent from the enemy, which they
deemed themselves utterly powerless to re.
sst, and were preparing to leave with their
negroes and other property for various points
southward. One gentleman alone endeav-
ored TO obtain transportation on the train for
seventy negroes, fearing that they would
fall into the hands of the Federals.
General Buel it is reported has left Num-
fordville and gone no one knows where.
Fort Henry is still safe, the enemy, for
some reason, having withdrawn from the
immediate vicinity. The shots from the
gun boats were not replied to by the Fort,
which will.be held at all hazards.
No doubt the design of the enemy, in bonn
harding the Fort on Friday afternoon, was
to discover the position and caliber OF the
guns. Whatever their designs, they were
frustrated.
These demonstrations, together with those
threatened at Bowling Green and Columbus
indicate hot work and plenty of it, at nc
distant period.
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oGranny slocum" and ''COusin Reuben, "

Granny Slocum" and cousin Reuben" I"
performers in the "Old Folks' concert
troupe, were publicly married upon the stage
at Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia, on
Thursday night. The bridegroom was
dressed in very long brown coat reddish
waistcoat, Hessian boots, bell.crowned hat
and long hair of the period of lS9o, and the
bride as an old woman of the same time, in a
short. wasted fawn. colored silk, with very
high, broad cap. AS she appeared with
Father Gulick, the chief of the troupe, Mr.
Wadsworth, the officiating clergy man, en
tered by an opposite door, and when the
company were ranged in row, the marriage
took place with great solemnity. At the
conclusion, the audience were invited down
stairs, where, in homely style, they were re-
called with mugs of cider and doughnutsr
upon bare pinewOod tables, as Ia the old
fashioned farm. houses of former days. Both
parties were young, the groom about five
and twenty, and the bride some years
younger.
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Intest from New Mexico.

KANSAS City, Mo, January % The Santa
Fe mail, with dates to the 10Th, has arrived.
There is nothing of interest stirring in the
military department ofNew Mexico.
Colonel Candy has advanced up the river
from Fort Craig, and at last accounts was at
Bernal, with twenty companies of troops.
He still fears an attack upon some other
point than Fort Craig, and thinks the enemy
reported at Anomosa were there to divert
the attention of the Federals.
There are fifteen companies of Federals at
Fort Craig, fifteen at Albuquerque, six at
Santa Fe, and six hundred men at Fort
Union.
There is considerable complaint made
owing to the failure ofthe Washington mails
to reach Santa Fe.
The Territory is flooded with small drafts,
which occasioned scarcity of specie.
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A Remedy for HydrophobIa.

The inclosed slip was taken from the Com
msrcial Times, o newspaper published in
Buenos Ayres, South America, and, as it
bears upon its face intrinsic evidence Of
plausibility, you may be doing valuable
service to society by inserting it, On Sat-
urday the evening papers contained an &c
count of several persons having been bitten
by dog said to have been mad, among
them child, belonging to poor woman
residing on Monroe-street. The writer, as
soon as he heard of it, went in quest of the
sufferer, but too late to apply the remedy
named in the following slip. If this remedy
or antidote really possesses the virtue at
tributed, every body should be in posses
sion of the cure, as its efficacy entirely de-
pends upon its immediate application. But
doctors and druggists in particular should
take notice of the mode Of treatment and
the acid employed, that they may be able
to apply it instantly whenever case is
brought to them for treatment. By these
means human life may be saved and the
worst of sufferings averted:
Remedy for the Bite Of Mad Dogs-A
Saxon forester named Castelli, now of the
venerable age of eighty-two, unwilling tc
take to the grave with him secret of SC
much importance, has made public, in the
| Leipsic Journal, the means which he had
used for fifty years; and wherewith he af.
| firms he has rescued many human beings
| and cattle from the fearful death of hydro.
phobia. Take Immediately warm vinegar
or tepid water; wash the wound clear
Herewith, and then dry it; then pour upoI
the wound q few drops of hydrochloric acid
because mineral acids destroy the poison
of the saliva, by which means the latter is
neutralized
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WIT AND WISDOM.

There is no such thing as an easy chair for
discontented man.
What burden is leisure to mind unpre-
pared for its enjoy ment.
Those who heed not Gods writ are ofteu
forced to heed the sherifTs.
Live down calumny; the best reply to
slanderous reports is good life.
Follow the fashion; you had better dis
play other peoples follies than your own.
CH1IDREN.-The smallest are nearest God,
as the smallest stars are nearest the sun.
He who knows his ignorance is the pos
sessor of the rarest kind of valuable knowl-
edge.
Some people, are SO obtuse, that one would
hardly think that they could have an acute
disease.
A promise is Just debt which should
always be paid, for honor and honesty are its
security.
Children always turn toward the light.
oh that grown-up people in this world
would become like little children.
All Of us who are worth any thing, spend
our manhood in learning the foliies or expi-
aling the mistakes of our youth.
Forgiveness, the noblest of all self denial,
| is a virtue, which he alone who can prac-
tice within himself can willingly believe in
| another.
There are men in Ohio protesting TO be
! Union men, who, at heart wish the United
| States armies to be defeated.
Ifyou wait for others to advance your in
terests in this world, you will have to wait
so long that your interests will not be worth
| advancing at all.
The world goes ever on. 1t is strange
| how soon, when great man dies, his place
is filleO, and SO completely that he seems no
longer wanted.
We don'tw want men who will change like
| the vanes Of our steeples, with the course OF
| every breze: but men who, like mountains
will change the course of the wind.
1t is curious to note the old sea-margins
of human thought Each subsidng CEN
tury yields some new mystery; we build
where monsters used to hide themselves.
Follow the laws of Nature, and you will
never be poor-your wants will be but few
Follow the laws of the world and you will
never be rich--your wants will never be sat
| isfied,
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ALI TALK.-We suppose it is all right
that Congress, neglecting the interests of
twenty seven millions of white men, should
expend the valuable time and superf1uOus
money of the nation in endless alteration
about the negro. A material point in Mrs.
Glass receipt for making chicken pie, was
"irst catch your chicken" A good rule for
Congress 10 adopt in reference to the dis
position Of the negroes Of the South would
be to first get possession of the country
where they are located. The son Of Erin
who sold all his clothes to buy trunk TO
put them in, is an apt comprison for these
palterers Of the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives, who OCCUPY SO much of the col
umns of the Congressional GLOBE with the
vast preparations for commencing to do
something yet never beginning. The peo-
pie are, and have long benn, tired and
worn out with negro agitation, and they
want to know what their servants at Wash-
ington are going to do for the preservation
| of the Union and the raising Of means tC
carry on the war. Why can't there be less
talk and more action ? = ST. Louis Repub
Hcdil.
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A cotemporary, in discussing the subject,
states that the salaries of the clergy of the
United States do not average five hundred
dollars year, and yet, that as a class, they
are the best educated, the most active, re-
fined and elevated of the nation. In support
of this, he says that the biographies of a hun
dred clergy ymen, who have tamilies-taken as
dred and ten became ministers, aud that OF
the remainder by far the larger number rose
to emlneuce as professional men, merchants
and scholars.
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Landing OF Troops.

FORTRESS MONROE, January 27.- General
Burnside has been indetatigable. He is con.
fdent of the ultimate success of the expedi-
tion, and has the respect Of every man under
his command.
The only troops that have been landed are
The Twenty. fourth Massachusetts Regiment
and the Rhode Island Battery.
Colonel Hawkins regiment goes with the
Burnside expedition.
There has been no loss of life, except what
is already mentioned.
Different reports are received at Hatteras
from the surrounding population in relation
TO the disposition and intentions Of the en-
emy. Some who come in say that the rebels
are completely frightened, and will not
make stand.
Another report is that large masses of
troops will be concen trated in the vicinity;
and still another story, confirmed by many,
that their eXertions will be directed chiefly
to placing obstacles in the way of our pro-
gTess to Norfolk.
The rebels keep good lookout on our
movements with their gunbosts. Two of
them made their appearance after the storm,
but disappeared when chased.
The mails by the Eastern State will be
forwarded to morrow.
The Pensacola left this afternoon for Key
West, Pensacola and Ship Island. She will
report TO the Commodore of the feet in the
Gulf OF Mexico.
The Baltimore boat brought down this
morning the Second and Fourth Batteries
from Wisconsin. They will remain at Fort
ress Monroe for the present.
A flag of truce was sent out this afternoon
to meet the rebel steamer Selden, and brought
back, among the released prisoners, Lieuten-
ant Parks, Fourth Michigan; DR.. VIM. B
Fletcher, Sixth Indiana; Lieutenant VIM
Booth, Second Wisconsin, and Lieutenant G
NJ. Hooper, First California.