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THE LOVE KNOT Tying h?r bonnet under the chin. (She tied tlio raven ringlets in: isut not alone in the silken snare irid ?hc catch her lovely floating hsir, } or tying her bonnet under her chin. She tied a young man's heart within. They were strolling together up the hill, >\ here the wind comes blowing merry and chill; And it blew the curls a frolicsome race. All o\er the happy peach-colored fare, "Till, scolding, ?ud laughing *hc tied them in. Under her boontiftu dimplrd chin. And it blow n color blight as th?- bloom til the pinkiest fuschia's tossing plume. All over the cheeks of the prettiest girl That over imprisoned a roaming curl. Or, in tying her bonnet under her chin, _ Tied a young man's heart within. Steeper and steeper grew' the hill? Madder, merrier, ohorrier still '1 lie western wind blow down and idatvd 't he wildest tricks with the little maid. * * As, tying h< r lionnet under her chin, She tied a young man's heart within. ub, western wind, do you think it was fair. To j)la> such tricks with her floating hair V To glad! ully. gloomily do your best To blow her against the young man's breast, V here he has gladly tolded her in, And kissed her mouth and dimpled chin? Oh. Ellerv Vuno. vou little thought. Aii hour ago, wbt-n you In-sought This country lass to w alk with you, .Alter the mm had dried the dew, What perilous danger you'd bo in, An she tit d her bonnet under henhiu. < ?Army stories lias been coming in slowly of j bite. Here Is the last. After the battle of fred- i ericksburg a little Yankee otlicer nut talking with ; one of our Alabama Majors, who stood in that part j f the Held where we suffered most severely?dead , luen and horses, broken caution and blown up caissons, being all around him. (<You hurt us j jiowerl'ul bad yesterday,*' said the Yankee.? | 'Yes," replied tie Major, drily, "(.Juess we! hurt you some too,' rejoined the Yankee, looking ; ut the wrecks of humanity strewn about. "Didn't! kill a man or a horse," said tiie Major. The little Yankee looked tip at the tall Confederate for a moment, then at the dead men and horses on every side, and then wheeled suddenly around and walked rapidly away, utterly astounded at the cool manner in which the Alabamian had out-Yankees! the Yankees in deliberate lving.?Richmond ! Whig. ?Duving a financial debate in Congress, a few Uays ago, 5lr. Sheffield, of R. 1., while denouncing the undue expansion of currency, stated that he j held in his hand a promissory note of the State of; Massachusetts Bay, issued in 17S0, which had nev- i er been redeemed. I'pou Mr. Elliot, of Mass., making an inquiry about this, Mr, Sheffield said; ? This note is signed by the gentleman's own grandfather, and by another of his kinsmen, probably alluding to Richard Cranch or Thomas l)awes. ? I will redeem it sir, ' exclaimed Mr. Elliott, in the honesty of his heart. " Ah," responded Mr. <-heifiehL it would take more moner to redeem it than the gentleman has got; lor it earries inter- | ?xi, payable semi-annually in coin; aud I am j afraid when he cams to count it up he would find | i be amount Wo large tor hiin." It was payable! to Spanish milled dollars. ?Nathaniel Fillmore, father of ex-president j Fillmore, died at East Aurora, X. Y., Saturday morning, at the age of 92. He was hoi u at Ben-; iiington, Vermont, and has always been a farmer, but a man of good Intellect and many striking traits of character. He visited his son while pres- j ident, this being the only case whei e a president i ha* received his father at the White House. ?Th* editor of the Nashville Union alludes mildly to his misfortunes as follows: We have! jiever read Victor Hugo's sensation novel ? Lea j .Uiserables." We suppose however, that the tin-j ' lortuuatc personages who figure in that book are editors of daily newspapers with mails once a week, or once a mftnth, as it may happen. They arc the most miserable creatures we can tLink of. ?French sorrow and -sentiment are "illustrated at Moutmarrre cemetery, where a tombstone has I, heen erected with a colossal tear carved on it. and i thji words underneath?"Judge how we loved] him! ' . ^ ?Modesty in a woman is like color on her chce^, decidedly looming if not put on. i ^ iiow a rebel congressman's fam ly live.? A rebel mail in charge of a Mrs. Fulg m, wxs recently captured w ithin our lines in Tennessee,! ' which contained among others a letter from Mrs. j Henry S. Foote to a friend in Nashville. Her husband is known as " Hangman Foote." He was ' formerly Senator from Mississippi, but now repre Mq v..c.in-iilo Hiufriff in the rebel Concress. , luuia uiv uoiiTinv uioki iv% ??' ? ? o ~ ~ | We give a i extract from Mrs. Foote's letter, as ; showing liow ttie most favored live in the rebel i Capital: "Richmond, Va., Friday, Feb. 8,18C8. | " Mr Dkar Anna?I have an opportunity offer, j ed this morning for conveying a letter to you, and embrace it gladly, , " We are boarding at Mrs. .Johnson's, on Gov-I ernor street, just oppositetlov. Letcher's mansion. j ' It is a large boarding house, high prices and star-' ration within. Such living was never known before , on earth. Tell grandma the pooret hut in the j Western Distrit of Tennessee is a palace compared } with this, so far as fare goes. We have to cook : almost everything we eat in our own room. In I ! our < larder " the stock on hand is a boiled bacon ; ham, which we gave only $ll,UOfor; three pounds of pure Rio coffee, which we gave $4 GO per pound : for; and one pound of green tea, at $ 17 00 per j pound; two pounds of brown sugar, at $2,75 per pound; one bushel of fine apples, about the aire . of a good common mrfrble, which were presented to me by a member of Congress from Mississippi; one pound of butter, about six mouths old at $2,0.1 1 * ?* ?- - ? notltw I pt!r pouna, UlIU SIX UUl Jiinniwcn III. mi) We have to give a dollar for a very small slice of pound-cake, at the ccnfectionaries. I forgot to | say 1 had a present of a fine jar of pickles and a j piece ofcheese from a member, alao. Well, so much for the way we live. You see the hoard is throe dollars, each, per day tor Mr. F., and I, and i half price tor the servant, ami then we get nothing on earth to eat. Yesterday, for dinner, we had nothing on the table but two eggs and a slice of cold baker's bread and a glass of water, * * Don't let any one see this, hut you may read it to them, except???; I don't want the Yunkt to' hear what 1 say."' Heroic Sisters.?There dwelt in the village of ] Mont igue, Franco, at the period of the .French j Devolution, two girls named Felicite ami Theopile j Fenilg. lioth possessed beauty of a sweet and at-1 tractive kind; both were modest, reajryed, and j apparently, timid. The youngest was about thir- j teen years of age, when the nightly attacks of the 1 Austrians demanded an immediate and strong re- j sistancc. Soldiers being wanted, the sisters put! on their brother's clothes, armed themselves, and j chased the plundering parties in the front ranks of the National Guards, Notwithstanding even* ef- j foit to disguise themselves effectually, General ; Bucmonville discovered them, una marking their j intrepid conduct, presented them to (ieticral Du- ; raouriez, who attached them, together with their! father and brother to his Rtuff. Not only pure, j but free from suspicion, they were tire admiration and pride of the whole army. They distinguished themselves in every action pievious to April o, 1793. In one engagement n?-ar Brussels, they rushed headlong into the midst of tlie enemy, when a general ollicer calle 1 on them to surrender. 'Hie reply was a hullct' from the pistol of the youngest, which laid him dead at her feet; ami in the moment ?.ry confusion they drew bark in safety. The same sister, at the battle Jemapes, charged a Hungarian battalion with a small party of horse, herself disarme 1 one of the most formidable grenadiers. Ilis height on foot was nearly the same as i her own when mounted, and he was in despair! when the musical tonesof her voice saying, "(Ten- j end, this is a prisoner 1 hove brought yon.*' revau.Ie.1 t? him the sex of the brilliant officer. 1 FeTicite attended the Duke of Chartn*, and never j failed to ehavge the enemy at his side. IS >th the | sisters aided it: the escape of Dumouriex aeeompa- | nving hira to the Austrian lines, the soldi r< tbi g! on them as they passed. Once beyond pursuit j they resumed the attire of their sex, made no unnecessary display of courage, and labored induslr'-' on sly in support of their aged father. Iheophile ! died at PtuSscIs unmarried. Kellr-i e we bled a! Belgian Geneml.?History of the French Revolu.- j lion. ?The toljowing incident is told of the late Gen., Sumner: llis favorite daughter, the wife of Col. J Long, of the rebel army, not long since wrote from within the rebel lines to her mother in Washington for some small children's shoes, a few needles, &.C., which she could not obtain where she was. The request being laid before her father, hq promptly lorDia me request, preiumujr iu wave t her who was once the darling of his heart to the ! eonsequences of the treason with which she had: unfortunately become indentified, rathor than en- [ -courage tbo least contraband trade. j ?The X, Y. Times in commenting npon the recent .Message of Governor Bonhani of South Carolina, in relation to the question of food says ; ?If there it a State in the Confederacy which, we ought to assume, would make greater sacriliee than any other for the'* Confederacy, it is South Carolina. It was that State which originated the secession idea, a generation ago ; which afterward labored untiringly year after year to proselyte the South to it; which was the iirst to apply it practically in an overt ordinance of secession; and which by its astounding audacity in opening tire upon the old tiag, gave it a momentum it could never otherwise have acquired. Mo other Southern > State went into this revolutionary business wjth anything like the unanimity or the intensity of feeling South ( arolina did. it has nad, too, extraordinary influence toward keeping that feeling tirmlv up to that pitch?particularly the long occiqation by the National lbrces of its most valuable portion. < and the standin: menace of the capture of its chief city. We shouid expect public sp fit here in its very purest and strongest form. Hut Imw is it, according to Gov. ilcnham ? lie complains that the law limiting the production of cotton to three acres to a l ull hand is practically evaded by the practice of putting all the feitilizers of the plantation on this cotton reserve, at the expense of the portion devoted to esculents, lie complains that " the spirit of speculation lnu recently made - larming strides in the State," so as to keep articles of prime necessity from the market. He Complains that the law against the distillation of spirits from the cereal grains, " though stringent in its penalties, does not accomplish its object." " No one seems willing to become an intoriuer," awl ne lias " yet to near of the first prosecution." Even that portion of the law which ullows permits to be issued for distillation ' for medical purposes " has opened the door for abuses in the way of " underletting and violatious of contract." He complains, also that the act to supply negro labor for coast defences, "cannot be made effectual." In the most important district, less than one-fifth of the number called for by the Confederate General has been supplied. These complaints are so varied in their subject matter, and yet have, in common, such a vital l>earing upon the Confederacy, that it is impossible not to regard them as so many proofs of the thorough demoralization of the public sentiment of the State in its relations to the Confederate Government. It is palpable that the ruling maxim now among the chivalry is the most damaging as well as the most vulgar one: " Take care of number one, whoever else goes to the dogs." Even the Governor himself, in spite of all Ida efforts, cannot rise above this feeling; for he calls for additional legislation to enable him to prevent the ex]ortation of all provisions from the State. Whatever becomes of the Confederacy, South Carolina is first of all to keep herself comfortable. Considering that South Carolina has nearly twice as much improved land within its area as any other State, aside from Virginia - and considering. too. that her slave' population, which is her producing power, bears a lareer proportion to her entire population than is the case in any other State, this refusal to let any of its articles of food pass hevond its limits to the relief of other portions oftho Confederacy, is certainly about as sordid a policy as was ever heard of. it is* a pretty style of backing up iiiends. Governor nnd people are all of a piece. ? In the interchange of leaden and iron compliments between soldiers, it is thought more blessed, to give than receive. ?" What is it that sticfcscloaer than a brother /" said a teacher to oq<> of his class. " A post otficut stamp?by gum!' saul the young incorrigible. A nVKRtTI?.r\HTVTS LOST.?Between the wharf and the Camp of tho 8th Maine Regiment, a TRUNK, marked Lieut. Samuel Gould jr., 2d Lieut. Co. ?L\" 8th Maine. The finder will be'reurarded on leaving the aa i.e at said Regimani. S.A ML. GOULD jr., 2d Lieut. Co. "E," Bth.Maine Vols. OFFICERS CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS, with a large assortment of Boots and Shoes, at J. C. JONES & (XL'S, under the Post Office. " TUST RECEIVED at the ston under tlie Port Office. a free*. J lot of fine letter and note paper*, envelope*, pens, ink' aud other stationary ; Military book*, Novel* In great rarit ety, knivca, pipes, wushes, and a hue lot of English and, French Gloves and other Famishing Goods for the Army and Navy, The latest dally and pictorial paper* for sale on each in rival from the North. Also. Tax New 9o\nap?tzj 8rttydw, feoruuig.