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Year: 1865

him to try to sleep, with the door lit
tie way open. Very soon missed Poll.
and feaI ing some mischief went and
peeped Would any one believe it
There sat the parrot on the pillow close
to the soldiers face, feeding him; pick
ing the bread out of the toast-water near
by, and dropping it into his mouth!
And the young fellow seemed greatly
pleased with the proceeding, and talked
to and fondled the bird as If it were an
old friend. s


well, Frank. see you have new
nurse, said /. stepping in.


His face, so thin and white, flushed
brightly as he answered


.Yes; Poll and I are old acquain-
tances. lost her at the battle of Chick
amauga."


..Is it possible 1 cried s.that Poll is
your propertys Why she is the variest
rebel in the land


Il could never stop her impudent tongue,
though once she came near getting me
arrested for treason. Poll is Southern
born, and must have had thorough Sc
cession training"


Then he related how, when with his
regiment in Mississippi, he had gone on



and found planters house deserted by
its inmates, and the bird nearly starved
in it's cage. How he had carried it back
to camp, and adopted it as his pet, and
it had shown much gratitude, and had
gone with him through long marches and
engagements all the while shouting in
sanely for JEFF Davis, to the great amuse-
ment of the soldiers, who quite discour-
aged her masters efforts to reform her.


When I was sick with the measles"
continued Frank Scott, ''and lay in the
hospital three months, taught Poll to
take care of me; and many are the bits
of cake and fruit she has brought me
when it stood out of my reach. orr he
added, laughingly, ''had been forbidden
by the physician.


On the terrible field of Chickamauga
they were separated, and now the joy of
their meeting was very pleasant to wit
ness.


e'Mamma," said brown eyes, 81 think
better Of Poll than l did. since I've
found she loved somebody, though she
icont lore me-"


Our soldier stayed with us a long
while, and so perseveringly did he train
his pet, that before he returned to the
army, she had been partially converted
from her errors. The young man offer
ed her as a gift to the girls, but none OF
us would think of parting such tried
friends. Poll manifested no regret at
parting, but went off screeching a vale
dictory of s.Old Abe's an honest man
honest man! He makes green backs
Poll greenback I" And a letter lately
received from Frank Scott contains the
pleasing intelligence that Poll has taken
the oath of allegiance, and vows to shed
her last feather in the Union cause.
Year: 1865

1t was grand day, in the old chivalric time, tn
wine circling around the board in noble hall, an
the sculptured walls rang with sentiment and song
The lady of each knightly heart was pledged B
name, and many syllable significant of lovelines
had been uttered, until it came to St. Leon,s turr
when, lifting the sparkling cup on high
drink to ONE" he said,


"Whose image never may depart,
Deep craven on grateful heart,


Till memory is dead.


To one whose love for me shall last,
When lighter passions long have passed,


So holy It's, and true;


To one whose love hath longer dwet,
More deeply fixed, more keenly felt,


Than any pledged to you"


Each guest upstarted on the word
And laid a hand upon his sword


With fury flashing eye;


And Stanley said: ''We crave the name,
Proud knight of this most peerless dame,


Whose love you count so high"
st. Leon paused, as if he would
Not breathe her name in careless mood,


Thus lightly to another;


Then bent his noble head as though
To give that word the reverence due,


And gently said My MOTHER"
Year: 1865

THE authorities at Washington have de-
cided that the wages of minor son, if the
parent has power to control the same, must
be included as part of the income of the
parent, and taxed as such.
Year: 1865

NEW YORK, September 6.


The Posts special says: The receipts
from the Internal Revenue yesterday fell
back to the old average of million and q
quarter.


General Meade having completed the
inspection of his Military Division, is now
on his way North. q


a correspondent informs us of q narrow
escape from another slaughter on the Long
Island Railroad. On Monday evening the
coupling on q train broke, leaving car
filed with passengers behind After ..
while the train returned for the car, but
before it started another train came thun-
dering down the road in the rear. The
correspondent asked the Conductor if he
had not taken any measures to prevent q
collision, and he said that he would and
forthwith sent q brakesman with q lantern
toward the approaching train, which was
stopped few rods from the rear car. In
the meantime all the passengers had
Jumped out of the car and in terror fed
ACROSS the fields. The train wss as usual
much behind. %
Year: 1865




Darling Escape of a Little Girl from


the TOmbs-A Fearful Leap Of Ihir-


~ Feet.


On Sunday afternoon, Bridget Mack,
aged twelve years, made her escape from
the Tombs under circumstances which
show spirit of cunning and daring far in
advance of her years. 1t appears that
about week ago Bridget was arrested on
g charge of petit larceny and committed to
the Tomus for trial She was confined in
that portion of the prison known as the
Magdalen, where all young girls are i'm
prlsoned. At about four O'clock on Sun
day afternoon, Bridget forced off the damp,
er OF the CRATE used for heating the room in
which she was confined, and thus gained
sccess to the chimney, gp which she climb
ed and got out on the roof. She then
jumped down on the roof Of the niair, roof
and thence distanca of ten feet to the
roof of the old station house fronting on
FruulrliE, -stsas., and which Is now used for
the accommodation of "ten days" prison
ers. Bridget then crswled along the west
end of the roof, and soon gained the top
of the outer wall surrounding the prison.
Here to gain the street it was necessary
for her TO leap down distance of over
thirty feet INTERESTINGLY the daring
girl jumped over the wall, and landed on
the grass plot inside the iron railings with
out sustaining any injuries. She then
scaled the fence, ran of, and thus made her
escape nnobserved by any of the officers OF
the prison. Her escape was soon after dis
covered, and the daring little girl was
subsequently found where she had taken
refuge. She WAS discovered and arrested
by Mr.. james Finley, the prison clerk, who
took her back to the Tombs and locked her
up in secure cell II it stated that
short time age, Bridget while confined in
g house against her will, made her way to
the roof of the premises, and jumped off TO
the sidewalk below, distance of four
stories, and escaped with some slight in
iuries.
Year: 1865

4 NEW York, September 6.


General Lee has accepted the Presidency
of Washington College, Va He expresses
the following That it is the duty of every
citizen in the present condition of the
country to do sll in their power to aid in
the restoration of peace, and in no way
oppose the policy of the State or General
Government, and directed TO that object
particularly those who are in charge
of the instruction OF the young, and to
set an example of submission to authority
Year: 1865

The following Hbone soio' is from the
Ohio Statesman. The convincing logic
and powerful arguments of ths article are
% manifest that we caunot refrain from
expressing q regret that the editor of the
Statesman did not devote his life 10 the
study of anatomy and osteology:


Some of the advocates Of Cox and the
equality of the black men with the white
men, say that the bones of the black man
are Gs white as the bones of the white men,
and that, therefore, he should be allowed
to vote. The bones of q morse, mule or s
COW, are likewise as white. Should they,
too be allowed to vote because their bones
are White7
Year: 1865

By an official statement, We learn that
out of 359 persons receiving Government
rslions al Knoxville, 357 were white and
two black. The question does not now
seem to be what shall be done with the
black man, but what shall be done with
the white man. An things considered, the
freedmen of the South exhibit more tact in
providing for themselves than the poor
whites. This may in part be accounted
for from the fact that the blacks, as slaves,
were accustomed to industry, and do not
disdain sny work that brings them an hon
est living, while the poor whites have, with
few exceptions, spent their lives in shift
less manner, and have neither the skill nor
the disposition TO labor.
Year: 1865

An officer of General Grants staff, who
recently had an interview with the rebel
ex.president, says that JEFF. is furious in
his denuncistions of Hunter and Stephens,
whom he accuses of deliberately betrsying
the southern cause into the hands of the
Yankees. HHsd those two men, said JEFF,
representing as they did the weak. kneed
conservative sentiment in the south, stood
firm. the southern cause would have tri-
umphed." JEFF appears to be perfectly in
different to his fate, but still does not think
the punishment for his crime will be Wis
tied upon him. Hetold the officer that he
had less care upon his mind now, and felt
easier than he did when he was President
of the coufedsracy.
Year: 1865

Hartup attempted a speech also, but ha
trembleu SO violently that little of what
he said could be understood. He succeed
ed in saying that God had blessed his soul
in his conversion,
Year: 1865

They tell me that the wreath of fame
Corredes while 1t ad0rns,
That they who stray in glory's path,
Tread ever upon thorns 49,.
So let it bel would brave the worst,
Nor care how hard my lot,
Rather than leave no name behind,
To die and be forgot.
They tell me that the voice of praise
Comes oft, alas ? to late,
That ere the poet hears its strain,


He passes through deaths gate
So let it be--if but know


when in the ground sleep, a
The world shall chant my tuneful lays
In praises loud and deep.
Oh. would that possessed the power.
To climb some mountain hight.
Whose lofty peak communion had


With the fair stars OF night;
I'd carve my name with all the strength
Which Tod to me has given,
That mortal eyes might see and read,


While angels gaze from heaven.
Year: 1865

PASSING CoUNTERFEIT MoNEY-Lastn night
very neat looking girl of about fifteen years
of age was arrested by officer Brewer for pass
ing counterfeit IS note on NJ Prince The
note IS very skillfully executed, and but for
the paleness OF the red and black inks used
upon II would be readily taken for genuine
even by experts. The little girl gave her name
as mary kammorrer and that she got the note
from gentleman in payment for cigars in her
mothers store, corner of 1st and Il streets JUS
uee thompson heard the evidence, and held
the young girl to bail for court
Year: 1865

MAKING TREASON ODIoUs.-On this
subject the Louisville Democrat we'll says


Much is said of "making treason odious"
by the execution of Davis and Others
History shows that the execution of rebel
who has made manly Stand up fight, does
not make his cause odious, but rather,
through the natural grace and piety Of man.
kind, lends it a sympathy, and admiration
not its own. The world will censure, and
look upon the act as founded in timidity.
1t will be said our institutions were SO weak
there was one man We dared not let live
We can, therefore, see no good that can
possibly spring from his execution, and
much evil.
Year: 1865

How THE WESTERN INDIANS FIaHT.-
A correspondent of a Cincinnati paper; des
cribing recent attack on Government
train on the Western plains, has the follow
ing as to the Indian method of fighting.


They rarely, if ever, attack except on
orse.back; and each man keeps his horse
on the run, riding generally In circle, so
as to avoid shots, discharging in the mean
time showers of bullets and arrows, and
shouting to stampede the animals. When
a weapon is pointed at one of them, he shell
ter himself almost entirely by hanging over
one side of his horse, and from this position
continues firing. Dashing suddenly upon
train in this manner, they can often dis
charge great number of shots before the
teamsters, taken By surprise, and cucumber
Year: 1865

A BAD SIaN.-It would appear thas the
negroes in town are greatly in want Of work.
A load of wood was thrown in front Of our
Office the other day, and in the course Of a
few hours we had ten applications from able
bodied freedmen to cut it up. These ne
groes have left good homes in the country
where they had plenty to eat, and are lying
about town in idleness, only occasionally
getting a little job of work. The farmers
need laborers-many have had to discon-
tinue farming for the want of labor-while
hundreds and thousands of able.bodied ne.
gro men are lounging aboat the towns and
cities. The legislature must take some ae-
ton which will compel negroes who do not
properly belong to town and have no homes
in it, to leavO and go to tho country for
work. Charlotte Democrat
Year: 1865

GENERAL LEES HISTORY OF THE WAR.
That ably edited and conservative paper,
the Cincinnati Enquirer, says of the forth
coming work:


1t is safe to say that the book will be
truthful and interesting one, written by the
man who, more than any other, is familiar.
with the subject upon which be descants.
1t will, also, undoubtedly, possess great lit
erary skill and merit, for the General is as
fine a scholar as he is able as soldier.
Year: 1865

A BUCKEYE SroRY.-The Columbus
(Ohio) Journal tells queer story about
a married couple in that place. The hus-
band is tyrant. One evening during
recent severe storm bis wife was out visit
ing neighbor; her husband pretended
not to know her. She threatened to jump
into the we'll if he did not open the door.
Having no idea that she would do so, he
obstinately refused to recognize her; so
she took log, plunged it into the well,
and simultaneously with the splash it made
she placed herself by the side of the door
as soon as her husband darted out in his
night clothes she darted in, locked the door
and declared that she did not k,aoac him !
She froze him till he was penitent, and
then let him in. If the reader doubts the
story, we cant help it.
Year: 1865

THRILLING INCIDENI.-ln Prussia,
recently, points-man was at the junction
of two lines of railway, his lever in hand,
for train was signalled. The engine was
within few seconds of reaching the en-
bankment, when the man, on turning his
head, perceived his little boy playing on
the rails Of the line the train was to pass
over. Lie down p he shouted out TO the
child, but as to himself he remained at his
post. The train passed along on its way,
and the lives of hundred passengers were
perhaps saved. But the poor child The
father rushed forward expecting to take up
only corpse, but what was his joy on
finding that the boy had at once obeyed
bis order--he lad lain down, and the whole
train had passed over him without injury.
The next day the king sent for the man,
and attached to his breast the medal for
civil courage.
Year: 1865

A New Use FOR MACHINERY.-Hair
brushing by machinery, which originated
in Bristol, England, has now become so
common in London that any hair-dresser
who wishes to retain bis business must put
up machinery, which costs about go. 1t
is not usual TO work the machinery by
steam. This is found too fierce and some
what dangerous TO the scalp of the subject
operated upon, and hand-power is prefer
red. The latest novelty is the application
of practice well known to grooms, namely,
singeing. "Practical hair-dressers," as
they style themselves, have discovered that
when the hair becomes thin it does so on
account of the nutritive juices which
nourish the hair, and that this can be pre-
vented by burning the ends, just as gar
dener would burn a bleeding" vine.-
Lightheadedness is therefore greatly on the
increase, and any person may become
illuminated for the small sum of two shil
lings and sixpence.
Year: 1865

INGENIOUS COMBINATION OF WORDS.
Can you square the circle is the prob
lem that is now passing round among the
mathematicians. While they are at work
upon it the following will answer for a
curious as well as practical solution. OBJ
serve that it reads the same whether we
commence at the top or the sides:


CIR Gle


IN RES
r. d ES


CREA
LIE ssEE
EsT TEEM
Year: 1865

TABLE TALK,-When people come to
see US we foolishly pratte, and think it
necessary in order to be hospitable but
such conversations are chalk eggs. The
honest man must keep faith himself; his
sheet anchor is sincerity. Losing this he
loses the talent of his talent. What we
want is not your activity, not your inter-
terance, but your habitual truth. Stay at
home. The way TO have large occasional
views is to have large habitual views.
Let nature bear the expense. Let our
| eyes meet. Look not abroad for materials
for conversation, but rest; first feel your
subject fully; then discourse, if speaking
be really more grateful than silence. Make
yourself the vehicle of truth.


Another hindranee is the disposition to
fun and untimely jokes. Beware of them.
They are condiments; inestimable for
sauce, but corrupting food. You go away
! from such banquets hollow and ashamed.
There are people who cannot be cultivated
you must keep them down and quiet them
as you can people on whom speech makes
no impression. Shun the negative side.
Never worry people with your contradie-
/ tions. Never name sickness; and, above
all, beware of unmuzzing the valetudina-
rian. ...


Some western court has decided town
to be a. place where whisky is sold" He
would define a city as place where a man
could go into cafe, and while drinking
his cup of coffee, meet and converse with
men of letters and of science, and enjoy
the refreshment of society. Our institu-
tions of daily necessity can be arranged to
secure such benefits, and this should be
the aim of every philanthropist at home.
We should welcome every means to pro-
mote the intercourse of men. We should
overcome our national Emerson.
Year: 1865

The result Of the Fall Of Richmond.


Richmond is ours. What that tremen-
dous fact contains and involves, let US bor-
row the words of Richmond oracle to ex-
press to ourselves. Said the Richmond
Examiner, on the 9th of February last q
little more than one month ago.


"The evacuation Of Richmond would be
the loss Of all respect and authority towards
the Confederate Government, the dis
integration of the army, and the aban-
donment of the scheme of an Independent
Southern Confederation. The war would,
after that speedily degenerate into an
irregular contest, in which passion would
have more to do thsn purpose; which
would have no other object than the
mere defense or pre- sent safety Of those I'm
mediately persisting in it. The hope of
establishing Contederscy and securing
its recognition among nations, would be
gone forever. The common sense of the
country, the instinct of every man and
that any possibility Of Sn Independent
South would remain after its capital was
abandoned, the Government set 8drift and
its army withdrawn into the solitudes Of
the interior. Richmond has be-
come the symbol OF the Confederscy. Its
loss would be msterial ruin TO the cause,
and, in a moral point of view, absolutely
destructive, crushing the heart and e1-
tinguishing the last hope of the country.
Our armies would lose the incentive in
spired by 8 great and worthy object of de-
fense. Our military policy would be to-
tally at sea we should be without hope
or an object; without civil or military or
gsnization; without treasury or COM
missarist; without the means of keeping
alive a wholesome and active public senti-
ment; without any Of the appliances for
cause depending upon the
popular faith and enthusiasm; without
the emblems or the semblsnce Of nation
Year: 1865

the government paying them certain anndhss IN money
provisions and goods The Indians also agree that the
Pacific Railroad shall not be molestsd; that military
posts &c. may be constructed the gold and silver mines
worked and mining and agricultural settlements formed
and rancheros established wherever they may be
required.
Year: 1865

The Maryland Legislature today unanimously passcd
resolutions expressive OF regret at the death OF Hon Ed
ward Everett and highly cuogistic OF his distinguished
character and public srccs, and also making arrange
mcnts for the appointment Of to pronounce
eulosy on the illustrious deceased at an early day
Year: 1865

Desert not your friend in danger and dis
tress Too many there are in the world
whose attachment to those they call friends
is confined to the day Of prosperity. As long
as that continues, they are, or appear to be,
atfectionate and cordial But as soon as.
their friend is under cloud, they begin to
withdraw and separate their interests from
his. In friendship of this sort, the heart
has assuredly never had much concern. For
the great test to true friendship is constancy
in the hour of danger-adherenc in the
season of distress, When your friend is
eliminated, then is the time openly and
boldly to defend his cause. When his stu
alton is changed, or plisfortunes are fast
gathering around him, then is the time of
affording prompt jealous aid. When sick
ness or intirmity occasions him to be neg
lected by others, that is the opportunity
which every real friend will seize of redoub-
ling all the atfectionate attention which love
suggests. These are the important duties,
the sacred claims of friendship, religion and
virtue enforce on every worthy mind To
show yourself warm in this manner in the
cause of your friend, commands esteem even


in those who have personal interests in op-
posing him. This honorable zeal of friend
ship has in every age, attracted the vener-
alton of mankind. 1t has consecrated to the


latest posterity the names of those who have
given up their fortunes, and have exposed
their lives in behalf of their friends whom
they loved while ignominy and disgrace
have ever been the portion of those who
would desert their friends in the hour of
distress.
Year: 1865

Death comes to good man to relieve
him. 1t comes to a bad man to relieve So
ciety.


Many devote half of their lives to laying
up a store of shame for the other half


Cattle are not ambitious Of fame, but the
very wind blows their horns for them.


If women are flowers, we fear that they
are as often silk and paper and gum flowers
as botanical ones.


JENNA, why does rich lady act pru-
denty by marrying a penniless man? II
couldn't tell for my life. Because she
husbands her resources.


1t is often a pretty good matrimonial
firm that consists of three-quarters wife
and one quarter husband.


He was much disgusted and very des-
perate man who desired to swap himself
for dog and then kill the animal."


Even a pig upon the spit may console
himself-that things may take turn.


This life is not holiness, but becoming
holy; not health, but becoming healthy;
not being, but becoming TO be not a
rest, but labor; we are not yet what we
shall be; all is not yet done and finished, but
in progress; this is not the end but the way;
it glows not nor sparkles yet, but every
thing is purifying, Luther.
Year: 1865

Nothing is more common than to hear old
people utter querulous complaints with re-
gard to their increasing deafness; but those
who do so are not perhaps aware that this
infrmity is the result of an express and
wise arrangement of Providence in con-
structing the human body. The gradual
loss of hearing is effected for the best pur-
pose, it being intended to give ease and qui-
etude to the decline of life, when any noise
or sounds from without would not discom-
pose the enfeebled mind, and prevent peace
ful meditation Indeed ,>the gradual with
drawal of all the senses and the decay of
the frame, in old age, have been wisely or
dained in order to wean the human mind
from the concerns and pleasures of the
world, and to induce longing fo.' perfect
state of existence.
Year: 1865

1t has been ascertained that if you mix
with your food Il sufficient quantity of egg
shells or chalk, which they eat greedIy, they
will lay twice as many eggs as before. A
weel-fed fowl is disposed to lay large NUM-
Der of eggs, but cannot do so without the
materials of SHE'LL however nourishlng in
another respect her food may be indeed
fowl fed on food and water, free from carbon
ate Of lime, aud not finding any in the soil,
or in the shape of morter which they often
eat on the walls, would lay no eggs at all
with the best possible will.