Year: 1866

d CUEIoopouooue1 u3itioS Oil Iuo Way
from Texas, tells of the devotion Of young
Southern wife, who accompanied her hus-
band on foot from South Carolina to the
Lone Star State, and thought nothing of it.
There are not in this section many danes
or damsels who would undertake such
journey, even though they were sure of find
ing the goal of hymenial happiness at the
end of it:


"Some months after the close of the war,
a gentleman overlook we'll dressed Con.
federate soldier, with . knapsack on his
back, accompanied by pretty, neat looking
girl, of apparently about eighteen years of
age, with a bundle in her hand. The sol.
der stopped to ask some directions about
the road. The gentleman found that he
was Confederate soldier returning home
with his wife, and invited them home with
him to dinner, as he lived near. The sol.
dier, fine looking Texan, told his story.
His home was on the Nueces. He had en-.
tered the army at the first of the war, leav.
ing widowed mother and little sister at
home. He belonged to Jobnson's army,
and had gone through all the varied fortunes
of soldier, been once wounded and twice
prisoner at Camp Chase. In one of his
various wanderings, be had met. and fallen
in love with the daughter of widow in
the Northern part of South Carolina, whose
husband had fallen at the battle of Manas.
sas. The widow, from competence, found
herself almost reduced to want. When the
war closed, our soldier went to the house of
his intended ther'in-law, and for month
worked with all his might, mending fences
and putting the farm in the best order he
could. Then thinking it time to see about
his old mother in Southern Texas of whom
he had not heard one word for over two
years, he prepared to return home, but it
was hard to leave his sweetheart, not know.
ing when he could make money enough to
come for her. But she settled the matter
by saying she was going with him. So one
morning they we're married, and started for
Texas on foot, With their knapsacks on their
backs and without single cent of money
"But," said the bride, GIVE found the people
very kind, We made friends all along the
road; We were never turned off at night
We always got plenty to eat, and people
would often make uslittle presents of money.
We would frequently overtake wagner,
who would give US ride as far as be was
going our way. When get to my hus-
bands home 1 shall have travelled two
thousand FIVE hundred miles, and most of it
on foot l would not take anything in the
world for my trip, have found everybody
so kind and good"


The young husband looked into her
bright young face and smiled as though he
thought he saw there the reason every one
was so kind.


"But we're you not afraid to come so far
with a wild Texan ?" some one asked.


"Oh, no p was the smiling reply; 81
always liked the Texans, they are such
brave, good soldiers"


"You have, indeed, proved that You liked
one of them.


After dinner the gentleman had his car
riage brought round and carried them a
days journey homeward. As shook hands
with the bride, [ wished her pleasant
journey.


"Oh, never fear for that" she answered,
81 am almost home-a hundred miles or
two isn't much; I am as happy as king"
and they drove of, the happiest couple l
ever saw. May Heaven bless them


Now isn't she heroine, and do you think
there are many more like her? Twill close
my letter by saying three cheers for the
Texan soldier and his South Carolina bride.


pa- A wonderful process has been discov-
cred in Paris for preserving bodies, of
which correspondent gives the following
account: "The people of Paris-the Ia
dies in particular-haVe always been cele.
brated for the perfection to which they have
carried the art of swathing painting, adorn-
ing, and embalming their living bodies;
and great, therefore, is the gratitude in.
spired by Dr. Audiguier for bis new inVen.
tion, which leaves to these dearly cherished
living bodies all their attractions when dead.
The very announcement, as made BY M.
Audiguier in the papers, is sufficient to
make those who feel themselves on the wane
experience a yearniug for the projections
with which they are to be endowed in the
grave. NO more mutilation,' says the
Doctor, no more cutting, no more indiscre-
tioD, no more manipulation, no more uncer-
tainty of result; but the most entire sue.
cess insured by the system The body may
remain entirely dressed the man may be
inferred in his habit as he lived. The EN-.
balning liquid is taken into the stomach,
and when the deceased nas been made, as
it were, to drink glass of this precious
mixture, the coffin is filled with vegetable
powder, of which the doctor keeps the sc,
cret and the work is done. He calls his
method that of ingestion, by way of oppo.
sition to the old system of injection, which
has been weighed now for nearly thirty
years and found wanting.


The operation lasts not more than twenty
minutes, and the corpse will last forever
In two or three months time it acquires the
hardness of stone. The experiment has