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U iHREE DOLLARS A YEAR,) FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INTELLIGENCE, [INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. YOL IV. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1,1868. NO. 1, TSE HERA LD E KvhRY WEDSD.Y XORNNG, t heh0uhy I ad.,w mus ps m aNUeX, IN cURENCY .OI I rIaIONs. semekN~UsEenNI hmblrh advance. ast naim,-bt The Man at the Door. Wq#&u.p~ hbre," shouted I; *# a deri ifac The wimd blew so I could hardly do it, OIhe sleet #as beating on the id ie'bare trees were pasagad n maning as if they eed ateaternK "No tramps maI'r .loaooman, ad I'm the ma I hadn't seen yet dark wet away. from the Abeichap-eMP, cane through ,and1 iAbe gate *at the gate- aays does; champ, champ came the im bak-agam and' he knocked Wte kOOr-kvtk8ed-DOt haf so be had 'before-and I of an& angry. This saw hia fae a pale ghost of~ -b% -e yeow brown hair, and geottan oWfixrieJt_1o the net-house; A f.mre, id O4i4Wst is ao aOtaVer?'2 ".i . "sdiinkse to bo there i' Mis M ttla', and as 3 ifO' as. said tho 444ido waagdod." You III IS frdit ttlet Tne sg isJ'v,e .eagrgnded and sa 4,We to w&k ;ar, and" -my doesae :thin, 1 ad it's bittet er1-been tryi to get to ;;t ih k, wher re l a ri and llamp~amineynasaeram e . W d*ys-agee You neidn't -be ald only give so*i t M -ataving, and ti)e wr t ~~L~)I t ~me witb -behad seen so rs.Th9 Sewas just ov, and'every 'beg. ;Sag was a ~4~rp ehlpg an~~zd .bad benweandedj and iebbed, - One est beeir foot-'enougfr to p1a~dawey otteof sight, as wthlnifor I was-at Ahinre&windowrshoulered -his 4Ebeeand tramped ,it with the ocli4e is fnRl of ~ ~"a.d you- only want a chance to rob-and murder *~Ti%horenke in-the kitchen. Jus enhaeaine 1t- theM der ad motioned with her mnouth te m. ".Po let 'hirm stay, anty," tmi hads't had good sense- I mtbt I knew better tban a s it of sixteen years. - bae ye.here any lenger." ~ .pve-a -kind of griaan, ~4toek hi and from the latch, dirent champ, champ, through the frozon snow agam ; and I -i6eeght him gone, wisen there-he was ond64more bh3Rif with a Amek sta-alaint touch like a 4eihl'ae. And when:I eeed the door-he came quite in, and stdod leaning on his cane, pale as. a ghost, his Seyes bigge thandever He looked at neg and said he, "Madam, I heateotfr* 5tOreen bank. I wast~ te live ta sees her. I shallnotif I try to go further to-night." "They alA-. want - to see their mothers," said J,.and'just then it came in my mindthat 1 hoped my .~~Jbrlss,hehad 'been- a sol dier-an offier he hade got, to be, "~4~i-wanteto see his, and 4iivpbeengunded as you se"said4he. - Shurt's,"sid: "Theuy'emn,so. thytold me-to go begging with mtpr,.. I read the papers, Itell ye,I ~ad I'mnprincipled, so's our clergy mawn; agin gving anything, unless it's throug some well organized society. Tramps are my abomi-] nation. And as for keeping you siWiight, you can't expect that of decent iolks.-go !" "D)rusilla came to the door and! said, "Let him stay, aunty," with -ber lips? rin but I took no no So he went, and this time did not come back, and I sat down by the fire, and listened to the wind and sleet, and felt the warm fire, and smelt the baking cakes and' the apples stewing, and the tea drawing on the kitchen stove; land I ought to have been very comfortable, but I wasn't. Some thing seemed tugging at my heart all the time. 'Igave the Are a poke an4 lit another candle to cheer myself by, and I went to my work basket to get the sock I had been knitting for my Charlie; and as I went to get it I saw something lying on the- floor.- I picked it up. It was an old tobaccopouch, ever so much like the one J gave Charlie, with fringe around it, and written on with ink, "1C. F. to R. H." and in side was a bit of tobacco and an old pipe, and a letter; and when I spread it out I saw at the top, "My dear son." I knew the beggar must have dropped it, and- niy heart gave song big thump as- though it had "be4t tu~rned into a hanmer. Perhaps the story was -true and he had a mother. I shivered all over, and the fire and the -candles an4- the niee comfortable smell might not have been at all, I was so cold and wretched, Anti over and over again I had to say to myself What I had heard oarpastor sat so- Often, "Never give anything to chance beggarsi my. dear friends, always bestow you afms on worthy persons, through Welf ~ganized societies," Wfi-A4ula get a'bi f comfort. And Wh.at .,n o.jd fool I was to cry, Tthdookt, whenI found my cheeks wet. But"I did nt cry log, for as;I sat there, hash and -crash, and jin le came a sleigh, over the x oaifl and it stopped- at our gate, and I heard my Charlie's voice -crying, 'Hallo iother'~~And-out I went to t",'a_4-rand had him in my arms,. my great, tall, handsome, brown son. -n e - IR ..uniform; with his - pretty .1houid r stf-aps; and hearty: as, if ihad .never been through.any ardship. Hehad to leatve 'me to pit hishorse up; and then I hnd by-the fire sgamn my own boy. And Dirusi)la, who had been up staira and beee .crying- -why, I wonder-eme down in a flntter for- Aef were like 'btothe- and sister-and he-kissed her, and she kissed ,hi.n, and then away she went ,to set; the .table, and the nice hot things smoked on -a cloth as whiteras-enew ; and how -Char lie einjoyed them! But once in the midst of all, I feJlt a frightened feeling come over me, and I 'knowed I turnewdpale, for Drusi ila said, "What is the matter, Aunt Fairfixt?' I said nothing, but it was this. E~ind of-like the ghost ofthe step, going- 'champ, ebaknp, over the froten snow, kind o' like the ghost of a voice saying, "Let me iie de the floor before your fire, and give me any kind of a crust; kind o' like seeing some onie who bad a moth er, d'rooping down on the winti-y road, and freezing and starving to death there. That was what it was, but I put it away and only thought- of Charlie. We drew up together by the fire when tea was done, -and he told us things abdaut -the war I'd. never h~eakd4before. How the soldiers suffered, and what weary marches a.nd short rations they sometimes had. And he told me how his life had been set upon and he was bad ly wounded ; and how at the risk of his own life, a.- fellow soldier had saved him, and carried him away fighting his way baek to, camp~ "I'd never have seen you but1 for him," says my Charlie. "And' if'there's a man on eart. I love, it's Rob Hadway-the dearest, best fellow. We've shared each other's rations, drunk from the same canteen many a time ; and < if ever I had a brother, I -co-uldn't< think more of him." "Why don't you bring him home to see youri mother, Char ley ?" said I.~ "Why I'd love him too, and anything I could do for 1 him, for the man who saved my boy's life, couldn't be enough Send for him Charlie." 3ut Char lie shook his head, and covered his face with his hands. "Mother," said he, "I don't know whether Rob Hadway is alive or dead to-day. While I #Vas still in the ranks he was ta ken prisoner. And the prison's; ire poor places to Jive in, mother. ['d give my right hand to be able bo do him any g.ood ; but I can ind no trace ofhim. And he has I i mother too ; she lives at Green- 1 bank-poor old lady. My - dear, g cond noble Bob, t:he pnervr of E my life !" And I saw Charlie cry ing. Not to let us see .the tears, he got up and went to the mantle piece. I did not look around un til I heard a cry. "Great heavens! what is this ?" and I turned, and. Charlie had the tobaceo pouch the man had dropped in his hand. "Where did. this come from ?" said he, "I feel as though I had seen a ghost. I gave this to Bob Hadway the day he saved me. We soldiers had not much to give, you know, and- he vowed never to part with it while he lived. How did it come, mother ?" I fell back in my chair, white and cold, anlsaid I,"A wander ing tramp left it here, never your Rob, my deai ; never your Rob. He must have been an - imposter. I would not turn away a person really in want ; oh no, no, no.; it's another pouch, child ; not that, or he stole it. A tall fellow wi'h blue eyes and yellow brown hair, wounded, he said,. and going to his mother at Greenbank. -Not your Rob." And Charlie stood staring at me with clinched hands ; and said he, "It was my Rob, it was my dear old Rob who saved my life, and you have driven him out in such a night as this, mother. My mother to use him so !" - "Curse me - Charlio," said I, "curse me if you like ; I'm afraid God will. Three -times he asked only for a piece of crust and-- a place to lie, andI drove him away;. I, I-and he's lying on the yoad now. Oh, if I had known o.ifi had known !" And Charlie caught up his hat. "I'll nd him if' -he's alive," said he- ",4Rob my delr .ffend' Andfthen-I -never:-saw' the girl in such a hurry-down- went Drussilla on her knees, as 'if -she were saying her prayers, an(I says shet,"Thank God I dared tod6ft and says she to me, "0, aunt, I've heem tremblinr with_ fright,__not knowing what you'd say to me. I took.him in.the kitchen way. I could not see him so faint and hungry and I put him in the spare hamber over the,. parlor, and- I've been so frighteiied aH. the- while." "Lord bless you," said Charlie; "Amen," says I. And she -gaetting bolder went on : "And -I took him up hot short-fake - and -apple sauce and tea; and I todk him a candle 'id a hot brick for his feet, and told him to eat and go to .bed in the hest chamber. ' Aunt Fair ax, with the white 'counterpine." After this, Charlie, not ungrate ful nor poor either; helped Rob in to business. And he got over his wounds at last, and grew as hand some as a picture, and to-day w,ek-is going to mary' Drussilla. "IPd give you anything I have,'! said I, "sand I won't., refuse you even Drussilla,". when he misked me, telling-me he had loved, her ever since she was so kind to him on the. night I've told you of." And Charlie is to stand up with Sew, and I am to give Drussilla away, and Rob's sister from Green bank is to be bridesmaid, and I bave a guess that some day Char ie will bring her home to me in Drusilla's place. I don't drive -'beggars away now, as I used to, and no doubt ['in imposed upon ; but- this -is wh'lat I e .ty, "Better to be imposed ipon always:than to be cruel to ne who really needs help. And ['ye read my Bible more of late, and know who says "Inasmuch as re have done it unto the least of ~hese, ye have done it unto me." Taken as a class, women can ~ontrive more outlandish and-ugly ashions than one would think pos sible without the gift of inspiration. [ake, for iDstance the waterfall. Eirst, it represented a bladder of cotch snuff ; next it hung down a woman's back like canvas covered am ; afterward it contracted, and younterfeited a turnip on the back f the head; now it sticks straight ut behind, and looks like a wire nuzzle on a greyhound. Nestling n the midst of this long stretch of iair repose a little batter cake of a >onnet like a jockey saddle on a ong backed race horse. Dancing is becoming unfashion ble. "in -New York," so says he Gazette, "more elegant an din ellectual diversions have been iven." We further learn, from 1 he same authority, that the in ellectual diversions comprise "fine eadings and recitations, ending n some cases with delicious sup ers!" Timely. A newspaper firm in Mississippi ias recently filed a petion in ankruptcy. Among the assets ;iven in schedule B is a list of sub r-rihne who nre in n.rrenrs. From the Carolina-(I11.) Spectator. An Elopement. Pursuit of the Guilty Pair-The Wronged Man Shot and Wound ed by the Seducer. One day during the early part of August, a gay and brilliant par ty might have been seen emana ting from one of the most fashion able and aristocratic churches in St. Louis. The nuptial rites had been concluded by which the gal lant Maj. A. W. Edwards and the lovely and accomplished Julia Howard were made one. All promised joy and happiness ; the future appeared to wear tints of the most cerulean hue. The bridegroom was one of the most popular and successful editors in the State, while the bride was beautiful and wealthy-the only daughter of a gentleman who did good service for the Union' as commander of a brigade during the rebellion. What more- could be desired ? Many were the con gratulations showered upon the happy pair, and all sorts of good fortune were prophesied for them by the wedding.guests. After a short but very pleasant tour, the Major conducted his fair bride to his spacious and well ar ranged mansion in Carlinville, where they dwelt together in all apparent happiness. ' Yielding to the pressing solici tations of his brother editors throughout the State, the Xajor bade, as he thought, a brief f&re well'to his young wife, and e conpained us upon the 1oeky Mountain cxcursion. During the trip, as we all know,, ho was the life and soul of the party-his jokes were side-splitting, his latgh the. loudest, and his songs the gayest and jolliest. Little did. he know of the woo and misery in store for him-that the rosy skies of peep wem..oon . tbe.q=r shadowed by the dark louds^ f dlespair.. TheJourney being ended, the Major.ha'stened home on wings .Pf love. Bright visions of a happy home and lovely wife cheered him on the way. Saturday evening last, as .the sombre shadows of twilight werr. gathering o'er for est and prarics, the Major landed at Carlihville ; he hastened to ward his suburban mansion. Darkness and despair reign'ed supreme tbroughort the deserted homestead. Whcre late all was bright_and. screne, now brooded the ominous raven of sorrow and loom. he found a letter ad ressed to him, telling him to for et'and forgive her, and briefly tated that she eloped with one bhe loved in former days. Almost razed the Major at length learned that the companion of her flight ,as a Captain Stan-ton, of the 95th:regul-ars. lHe soon made his reparations and. followed upon heir track. Being apprised that hey fled towards the East, he ook the cars for Pittsburg. Upon rriving in that city he learned y~ the aid of a detective, that the uilty pair were ,in Cleveland. Re then rapidly hurried thither, and traced them to the Eastern Iotel,,where they were stopping s man and wife. Upon consul ing the register, he ascertained heir ,ro.om. He rushed up tairs, burst open the door, and onfronted the seducer of his wife ! ulia screamed and fell fainting to he floor. A few angry words, and the wronged man and the be rayer drew their revolvers. Both ired simultaneously, and -the allant Major fell, severely woun ed, with a bullet in his shoulder. n the confusion th.at ensued, aptain Stanton and the false ulia were enabled to escape, and bey arc now supposed to be in he neighborhood of Toronto, anada. In thie meantime Major Edwards eeived all the attention that indness, care, and skill could be ~tow upon hinm. By a private let er from him we are happy to earn that he has so far recovered ~hat he proposes to be in Decatur ~ome day during the latter part of ~he present week. I GENUINE WIT.-A distinguished 1 outhern lady, who is the wife of prominent and extreme Radical, esiding in. one of the Northern ~tates, while engaged in plucking he gray hairs from her husband's 'i oustache, was asked by him, r What are you doing, my dear ?" Only carrying out your own pol y, sir ; exterminating the whites 3 r the benefit of the blacks," was, he witty reply. The London Times has a sub riber 100 years old, who has reada hat nnper since it was first started, I The Oneida Community. A correspondent of a New York paper gives the following sketch of the "Christian Perfectionists," near Oneida, Madison county. They were organized nearly twenty years ago, yet the public generally is quite ignorant as to the particular tenets and domestic system of -these strange people. Says the writer: "The community number about two hundred and fifty; twenty five are tnder fourteen years of age. Property. and persons are held iii common. No one of him self owns anything. The locatiou is one of the most beautiful of the land. It embraces six hundred acres in the choice Oneida Valley. The grounds are finely laid out. The principal residence is of brick, three stories high. Besides the central -mansion, there are five large buildings. One is used for a general dining hall, and others for canning fruit and various industrios. They have invented much valuable machinery. All eat in one large hall, at many tables. They provide neither tea nor coffee, andseldon meat. Veg etables, fruit, milk,. butter, cheese, cakes, puddings and pies areabun dant. They have a fine library and take the newspapers. Their religious faith is pectliar. They claim to be successors of.the Apos. tIes, to whom was promiscd the speedy second advent of Christ. They say that Christ did appear after the destrustion of Jerusalen, when there was a judgmnt in the spiritual world, and the final king dom in the Heavens began. They believe that they are in direct pmmunication with Christ and the Resurrectioq Chirch in the angelic world. These things they say in a literal, not. in a figurative smnse. The marriage relation iii this community is wholy unknown. Insted1here is a complex mar riage. Each man is the husband of every woman Iwho likes him. Itusband aid wife have no mean, ing. Therd are no wedding cere, monies, for there are no weddings. Nor are young persons mates. A young man must-mate with a wo man older and Trore experienced than. he; a young Woman with a mun older" and more experienced than she. Love attachments foi individuals are contrary to their principles. Only twenty-four chil dren have been born in ten years. The women wear bloomers and short hair, and enjoy equal privi loges with- men. All work te hours a day.' The leader Mrs. EHamilton, said they should re-es tablish iarriage, if thought expe ient, though their views would be unchanged." HORACE GREELEY'S APPRENTICE ShIP TO THE PRINTING BUsiNESS. [n the last number of Mr. Gree ecy's autobiography in the Ledger, he gives the floigaccount of bis four years' apprenticeship in a rinting office at Poultney, Vt., ;he agreement being that he should serve six months foi- his board, and 'after that have $ 40 a year and his board : "The organization and manage nient of our establishment were ricious ; for an appreiitice should 1ave one master, and I had a sue ~ession of them, and often two or bree at once. First, *our editor eft us ; next the company broke ior broke down, as any one night have known it would ; and ~mercantile firm in the village >ecame owners and managers of he concern ; and so we had a ;uccession of editors and printers. rhese changes enabled me to de nand and receive a more liberal lowance for the latter years of ny apprenticeship ; but the office gas too laxly ruled for the most >art, and, as to instruction, every ne had perfect liberty to learn rhat he could. In fact, as but ~wo, or at most three persons, vere employed in the printing de artment, it would have puzzled n apprentice to avoid a practiectl :nowledge of whatever was done here. I had not been there a -ear before my hands were blis er'ed aind my back lamed by vorking off the very considerable ~dition of the papcr on and old asioned, two-pull Ramage (wood ~n) press-a task beyond .my boy sh strength-and I can scarcely ecall a day wherein we were not ~urried by our work. I would1 ot imply that I worked too hard-1 et I think few apprentices worki ore steadily and faithfully than did throughout the four yearsI nd d$wer of my stay.in Poultney. I EhitVI lived at home, I had gl; rays been allowed a day's fishing, t least once a month, in spring I] ndi summer, and I once went tinting -bhot T uner fuhed. nor I hunted, nor attended a danee, nor any sort of party or fandango, in Poultney. I (loul)t if I even play ed a game of ball. A Six Hundred Dollar Dress. There was opened on Monday at Alexander T. Stewart's, and displayed tbfi the first time, an ele gant french walking dress, proba bly the richest and handsomest ever~seen in America. It is valued at six hundred dollars and is for sale. The petticoat is made of Bismarck satin, with a -fluting of the same at least eight inches deep around the bottom. Over the pet ticoat there is worn an over-skirt of black silk velvet. This over skirt comes nearly to the bottom of the petticoat in the back, and then gracefully curves up towards. the belt upon the right side of the petticoat, where it opens, display ing the petticoat. The velvet over-skirt is cut in deep points, each one of which is heavily wrought by hand in a beautiful and elaborate'pattern composed of silk and jet beads mingled. The points of the bver-skirt are heavily trimmed with a bead fringe, and the skirt is .lined with black silk. Where-the over-skirt opens upon -the right side there - hangs from the belt a handsome Swiss - pocket made of velvet, and lined with Bismarck satin, cut and trimed'to mateh theskirt. , A Zouave jacket made of Bismarck satin, wvith sleeves, is made to be worn with the petticoat, This is elaborately trimmed with satin and the sleeve is tightlike a coat sleeve. 'A black velvet vest, cut. and. trimmed in and wrought in the same manier, is made to wear over the jacket. Over the whole is thrown a velvet, sacque, - with flowing sleeves, trimmed and *rought like the over skirt. The sacque is lined with Bismarck satin, beautiffilly quilted; the sleeves are lined with the same, ind a narrow row .of flating trims the ~ inside of the sleeve. The whole suit is. thus ccmposed of five' separate gar, ments, and when the black velvet is taken off a complete suit of Bis marek brown is left. The velvet over-skirt, vest, and sacque ean be worn with any other walking dress just as well. 6406 . TxE EFFECTS OF RECONSTRUC TION.-The New York World pub lishes nearly eight columns of let ters from its Southern correspon dence, giving the details bf the rnin, despair, poverty and law lessness whic the radical conspi racy to curse that section with negro domination has already -vis ited upon a 'one fertile and pros; perous country. These shocking accounts of the effects of negro demoralization, brutality and sav agery show that Russia has not visited upon Poland, nor Turkey upon Crete, such merciles punish ment as radicalism has inflicted upon the Cotton-8tates. The re fined and diabolical cruelty of ma king the brutal slaves ofyesterday the masters of to-day, has been followed by conseiluences as fatal and speedy as those which ensue from administering deadly poisons. In some sections of the South, the neg'roes ha#e taken to the woods as outlaws and banded together for the destruction of property. In others they have .collected armies of. eight hundred armed despera does, and are threatening towns with sack and rapine. Every where they are .fully armed, and under the control of incendiaries' who drive them as they would sheep or oxen.; AN INTERNATIONAL. MARITIE EXHIBITIoN.-A maritime exhib~ bition will open at Havrs, in France, on the first of June, 1868, 1 and coritinue until the thirtyfii-st of October. Grounds on the sea- 4 shore have been granted by the 1 governme nt, which favorg .the project, and convenient biuildings will be erected. The exhibition is open to persons of all nations. I As at the recent exhibition in Paris, a light tax varying with< the space occupied, is exacted of exhibitors to detray the necessary expenses. On the other band, exhibitors will be allowed under- j yertain restrictions, to sell on the a spot the articles which they show. t The exhibition will include five , Iepartments, navigation, marine ~oods, fishing, agricultural and 5 niscellaneous articles. In the t irst department will be exhibited e nodels, plans, &c., of sailing yes-t els, steamboats, propellers, row >Oats, iron built vessels, masting, g -gging, sales, ship materials, fur- e itare -and stores, sailors' kits, naritime hygiene, rpparatus for oading, stowing, &c., life-saving I , apparatus and life-boats, boilers h mel muc1hinner. navigators' in- a, struments and plans of harbors. In the second department come all textiles, produce, corn, flour, ke.; dyes, oils, woods, metals, and all goods which "are used or may be used in navigation ; tests of the quality of goods and produce used for manufacturing objects neess ry to pick up goods." The^thii department is devoted to i ' whale,. cod, coast, river and pod, and to tuckle, bait, sail, the curing of fish and fiqhermen's outits; Tho fourth department is described ~in the programme as including "fit. tings and produce, various systems of elevating, and models of estab lishments for the spawning offsh and erustaccans." In the last db partment come specimens of mAH time art, books relating to the sea, experiments and contests. At some time during the exhibition an International M:.ritime Cou gross is to be held. FEMININE FONDNESS FOR SMKAS ING GLASS HoUsEs.-In St. Pal's; the new magazine, edited by Kh. thony Trollope, we find the fl. lowing accounts of how woman, smash their neighbor's gla houses. We have not words o condemn such horrible, impta. tions: "Glass hou'ses are not i-e00 as very. formidable defen6ek -9y women. especially those reari' their own sex. The'other dy. wer admiring a lady'3 disai1n - the presence of another Iady, and we marvelled much it its beat ful color,- 'You siljy goose,' lid onr fair friend, eali't you seo tiit -the silk bas been dyed and tw4rne? It -would 'serve raen alm*s -'f t if women ceased the attemt io dress well.' We were silenod, but could fnot help 'thinking t4t possibly some men would ba o ho objection at all to be 's,r+ed quite right.' No.thitig can tell.ereid a woman's dexterity ii" smash'g eighbor's 'glass house, -D4 9 whold proceeding is a MarVeld" 'exhibition of irgenuity. 'Povid d with the smallest pebbte, Iut f the highest polish, sho 'will "p. proach her poor sister, and, after . much fond palaver and kissig of cheeks, she will reti-e to a short distanec. Then, watching her op portunity, crash she sends the lit tle missile with the force and *ii of a' bullet. While she wat'h'ev the agony of her prostrate ~6rai, and then approaches with the sweetest of smiles to offer her pily and tears. Great God! is it pQei ble that such liveliness and tender ness can -'at times 'e albed :-te a ernelty in the re8nement ofwbj#h no wild tnimal can stirpasaftle mortal angel?"' STONEWALL yTACKSo-A C.aR ACTERISTIC INCIDENT.-In the Re ligious Herald for this week: ..we find the following interesting inei dent-in the life of Jackson, wtieh gives us an insight into eomoiof the thoughts -'that occupied. his mind the daiy after the- great bat tie in which he won his immnoffel sobriquiet of'">tonewall.". -A fewv days after the first battle rf Manassas, .an eager, abnxioiis crowd was assembled at the Post office in Lexington, Virgiriia" n the arrival of the mail, .The reatest excitement prevailed, end tidings frorn the front were eager y sought after. The venerale Dr. White (pastor of the P#esbg :erian Tburch) took a letter . rom hie Postoffice, and, recognizing'it is in the hand-writing of Briga Ijer General (afterwards . "Stone svall") Jackson, he said to tbfe irowd, "Here is a letter frorn Gen ~ral Jackson -now we will have aull arid anthentic particnlars of he battle." The crowd eagerly Lsked him to read aloud, and ressd*t round to- hear the expedt d stirring news from the fleld of ~onfliet. Re broke the seal, and, ~o the disappointment of all, found mly-these few lines : K[ANAssAs JUNeTION, July 22, 1861. "My Dear Pastor-I reme18r hat my subscription 'to: Domiestic flissions is about due. Please find nelosed $30. Yours very truly, T. J. JACKSON.~ No word about the great ba',tle n which he had played so con picuous a part, no time or inclina ien to tell of those heroic deeds w'hich rendered famous forever, Stonewall Jackson and the Stone. raIl Bilgade"-but he could a.fford he time to send to his gpastor aoney which he had promised to he treasury of the Lord.. The example of this great and ood man teaches a lesson which C 2any would do well to heed. Browniow tells the public that, so iC -om :lying, be expecta to recover his ealth. Brownlow is always saifds ;reeable things.-oisville Jograal