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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. of b- Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1875. No.4. THE HERALI IS PUBLISHED FEVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING) At Newberry 0. U-9 BY TH Fe GR9NEKERt Editor and Proprietor. Tei-ms, se.5o er o1nmen Invariably in Advance. D-' The paper is stopped at the expiration time for wbich it is paid. 07 The X mark denotes expiration of su scription. .7- efisceuaneous. THOMPSON & JONES, D) en.tal SurgeonE~ 3mnumRy C.s, S. C.. (Graduates of the Pennsylvania College SDental Surgery.) War. 19, M7-1l-tf. THE CHRISTHN INDEX9 ATLANT.A, GEORGIA. -0 ORGAFHTE BAPTIST DENOMINATIONS -0 REv. D. SHAVER, D.D., : EDITo: ASSOCIATE EDITORS: RE., D. E.BUTLER. DR. J. S. LAWTO. coiRRmPx-DmYG EmIous. XW.S.HENDERSON.D.D., -APIyE- ,AL, 3ZEV-Z.B.TEAGL-E,D.D., .-SEr,Lk_&L, REV.T'I. G. JONES, D.D., - -NASHVILLE, TE-xl -0 Stead ty -devieted to the Tenets an great interests of the Baptist Denoininatioi this paper, which fornearly half a centur bas been th( o-.gan and favorite of the Bui tim of. Qeu~rgiz, aid for the past seve yVAm bearing the same intimate re'lation t V0 6WPoOd of Alabama and portioic of ennessee, South Carolina, Florida an Misbismippi-will, in the future, merit, b the excellency of its character, their h igbe4 a rciation. The reader will find that, 14 Uplrequantity of Moraland Re] fllktitwith which itts freigbtedweel ,y!Xis(= selection ofad,scellancons reat lug, And a complete summary of reliabl Injelligence-b)oth domestic und foreign .02 e th o em independent of other pi1 pus Coreclyprinted Market Reports c the prnipal cities will make the pape.r ir Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, S. C Dec. 10, 4i3-tf. j0ttrp. _ _ THE FLOWER SELLER. "Poor woman !" now I wonder why They call me so! They do not know How many treasures I've laid by! I am not poor! no poverty Is there in love And yet I move Sweet honest hearts to pity me! I poor-with all that's gone before? With all that waits Beyond the gates Till just this little life is o'er! Because I do not wear my wealth Upon my breast, A public test, They cast me pitying words by stealth. Because they miss in all this strife The songs I hear, They cry, How drear L. Must be the echoes of her life! I poor? Ah, well-we'll let it go d What did you say? You want to-day A cross of flowers all white? I know. 0 No doubt they'll say the same of you S As your black gown Glides through the town t But then you'il know it is not true. V 'Their costly gems, however bright And rare they be, Seem cheap to me - Besides this little cross, all white! IDA WHIPPLE BENHAM. AM I FAIR? BY 3 USTACKE DESCHANPS. XIVth Century. Tell me, tell me, am I fair? Does my mirror show me true? Sweet of face and blonde of hair Tell me-is that so to you? Tell me, tell me, am I fair? a Gray-blue eyes and eyelids thin, Clear-cut nose and rounded chin, Slender throat, neck long and white; Z Tell me, tell me, am I fair? Long arms on my molded breast, With long fingers, lie at rest, 5 Tall and slender is my height: Tell me, tell me, am I fair? Little feet so smooth and round, I Deftly sandaled, touch the ground; Blithe and bappy do I sing; Tell me. tell.me, am I fair? - Mantles have I, far arid gold, Robes of satin new and old; I have many a precious thing; Tell me, tell me, am I fair? Brave and proud and happy he, Who my love may win, shall be. - Was there e'er so sweet a maid ? a Tell me, tell me, am I fair? SAnd my faith, a woman's word, Pledged as though by heaven heard, Never shall be falsely played; aTeH me, tell me, am I fair ? If my lover gentle prove, Knightly, brave, and true to love, Slave and] servant will I be. STell me, tell me, am I fair? SJOHN IMORGAN% E80APE,9 A THRILLING EPISODE OF THE WAR FOR SOUTHEaN INDEPENDENCE ~Col. Don. Piatt, of tbe Washing t ton Capital, has communicated to ~'that paper, from Oakland, West Virginia, where he has been sum mering, an acconnt of John Mor a~ gan's escape from the Ohio Peni tenay, given by a Confederate s officer, also sojourning at Oakland, who was one of the party captured Swith Morgan and consigned with :him to the State prison. The story is interesting, not only as ~giving the Confederate version of the celebrated escapade, not here tofore published, but as a thrilling narrative of one of the most dar ing exploitsof the war. The first part of the story is taken up with the details with which the readers of the NEws AND COURIER are already familiar. LSMorgan, it is said, managed to communicate with sympathizing sfriends outside the prison, by the use of convicts, who, as their term of service was about expiring, and whose conduct had inspired confi dence, were sent into Columbus on 0 errands, At first it was his de sign to organize a general revolt among the convicts, seize seventy ., stand of arms, which he knew to 0 be within the walls, overpower " the guards and blow up the prison. o From a conviet with whom he communicated through the ventila tor of his cell, Morgan obtained information which induced him to abandon this scheme and adopt one entirely different. It was to the y effect that this convict, with a number of others, had been em poyed to open an obstructed drain that ran the entire length of the o prison, directly under the cells, tc the river. This drain Morgan de .termined to reach, and through ii mthis freedom. The cell appropriated to th( .General was in the second - tiei ~~ above, reached by a stairway and ,a gallery ; so he selected the on< :occupied by his brother in whici -.l to make the attempt. Their firs1 e- object was to obtain tools wit! per which to work. This they accom * pished by taking from the con m is' dinnr tnale sthey nae To this end paddies were con structed out of their underclothes, stuffed with the filling of their mattresses. After this Morgan's men slept with their headscovered, so that their inanimate substitutes might not be discovered. For awhile the officer would call the prisoner, but found it so difficult to awaken him that this was aban doned, the puzzled guard saying that Kentucky "rebs" slept like "niggers," with their beads cover ed, and "sound as white oak wood." All was ready for the desperate attempt, and the leader was wait. ing for a stormy night, when one day he received through their trusted-messenger a bit of paper. On the paper was written, "War den of the prison changed to-mor !row." John Morgan was not slow to learn the meaning of this. A new commander meant a new broom, now regulations, an inspec tion and perhaps discovery. Morgan did not know that this change was the result of an anony mous letter received by Secretary Stanton; written and mailed in Columbus, that hinted darkly at a revolt in the State's prison and the destruction of the State's capi tal. But he did know that the at tempt was to be made that night or abandoned. During the winter almost a per petual twilight reigns within the gloomy walls of the State prison at Columbus. Sometimes this deepens into night, and then the unhappy inmates know that a storm is raging without. The eventful day forced on them for the attempt so long in preparation was lighter than usbal, and it was resolved to figpht their way out should that way be obstructed by guards. To this end their blunted knives were sharpened to a point, and fourteen of these deadly weap ons, deadly in such hands, were distributed to as many men. The first difficulty to be over come was to get Gen. Morgan from the cell in the upper tier to one of the cells communicating with the sewer. He selected his br other, not only because of the personal resemblance, but for that he thought it just for others that the punishment following the dis covery should fall on himself through the one nearest ',o him. Night came, and the brother hurried into the general's cell, while the general placed himself in the one vacated below. The change worked well, wvhen, at the moment the guard was about leav ing, havmng locked in the prison er's, one appeared at the cell door so lately occupied by the general, thrust a lantern in at the opening, and, just as the younger Morgan was giving up all as lost, de-nand ed a rat-tail file loaned the gene ral the day before. "What file ?" thought the young man. He had not heard of the article, borrowed under pretence of making a ring for a lady from a bone. He had, however, enough presence of mind to betray no confusion, but began, with his back to the door, an ac tive search for the miserable file. As luck would have it, his hand fell on the article where it had been left upon the bed. Covering his fae3 with his hand, as if the light hur', his eyes. he gave the file to the guard, and then listen ed with throbbing heart to the footsteps that died away in the distance. The clang of the iron-grated door as it swung to was the signal for immediate action. The pave ments above the sewer at the de signated places w e re broken through, and fourteen men drop ped into the foul receptacle. The candles wor'e lighted and the work began. Five feet ot earth had to be removed before midnight, and taking turns, they worked as pro. bably men never labored before. Rapidly as the earth was loosened it was passed back into the sewer, 'their woolen caps being used for this purpose. At last an opening was made, enlarged sufficiently to admit the passage of a man, and John Morgan pushed his way through and stood upon the ground of the court. He found the sky overcast and a drizzling rain slow ly falling. The place seemed de seted. The man on guaid had evidently sought shelter trom the inclement weather. One by one these resolute men emerged from the hole. Grasping each other by the hand and led by their general, they moved slowly and quietly to the wall that divided the female prison from that which they so lately occupied. The wvall was reached, and the stoutest bracing himself against it with his hands, another mounted on b is shoulders, then a third climbed tabove the two, and a fourth was e making his way up, when, the tseeond man missed his footing and .all fell to the Ground. I -and riot from their own, as thi would have excited suspicion-the short, strong dull knives, ground square off at the end so as to rot them of danger as weapons. Ev. ery day added a knife to the Con federates, until fourteen were se cured. Their first. effort was to re move the stone pavement beneath the cot of the cell selected. The pieces were broken into small fragments and deposited in the ashes of the large stoves used to warm the halls. This had to be done slowly and cautiously, for the appearance of any large quantity or large fragments would at once arouse inquiry. After the stone pavement was removed a lay er of cement was found. This, too, was broken up and divided between the stoves and mattress, from which the stuffing was re moved and burned as the material increased. The bed of the cell consist3d of a cot, reared during the day against the wall, and, when down, covered the hole at which the men were digging. They took turns at this slow, tedious process, and at the end of three weeks reached the sewer, arched with brick. Through this a hole was opened large enough to admit the body of a man. Had the brickwork, cement and pavement been honestly executed the prisoners would not have so readily opened the way. But like all the government work, it was found to be rotten and easily re moved. To lower one of their number into this foul receptacle and explore the same, came next. Owing to its size, and the fact that water was flowing through it continuously, the air was not so poisonous as thQy feared; but they found at the lower end, where the sewer leaves the prison for the river, a heavy iron grating that defied all efforts to break through. Driven from this end, the prison ors tried the other. It terminated at a wall. They attacked this wafl. Their first impression was that, getting through this obstacle, they would find themselves in the open country. Close but cautious questioning of guards and convicts -such convicts, as I have said be fre, being near the close of their terms, were therefore used as messengers-with such observa tons as their indomitable leader could make, convinced them that this wvall was betwveen them and, noiiberty, but a court surrounded partly by a prison and partly by a wall some thirty feet in height. There was nothing left them, how ever, but to dig through. It seemed an endless work. Cer tainly no ligbt one, for the wall was found, when pierced, to be fourteen feet from outside to out side. This work was again facili tated by the dishonesty of the government contractors in build. ing the prison. After penetrati n_ the shell of solid masonry the inte rior was found to be rubble held together by mortar and sand. One day a messenger convict, who had been trusted by the confederates in. carrying written messages tc their friends outside, produced from one leg of his pants a slen der pick, such as miners use-, and from the other a short, stout handle. This was repeated until more picks were furnished than could be used, And then followed-this time from~ his bosom-a shovel. After came bits of candles, and continued un til Mr. Morgan ordered the man te desist, fearing he might be discov ered. The fellow gave over witl) much reluctance, for the recoipn signed by Morgan for each artick~ delivered brought him a hundrec dollar greenback, and he was rap idly and easily accumulating fortune. The heavy wall was pierced al last and quite .an excavation wva made in the earth of the court yard, when the conspirators turn ed their attention to constructinj openings into the thirteen othe: cells. As the escape wvas to b< made in the night time each cell of course, had to be tapped. A fte: careful reassuremen t and calcula tion, the precise places were d signated, and working from below the arch was broken and the eartl removed, all but the stone pave ment-that was left so that a fec blows would open the way at th moment when escape was deter mined .on. In the meantime other necessar preparations were being made. - rope was constructed of the sheet of their beds, torn into strips an twisted together. At seven ever Inight the prisoners were lockedi their cells, and as an hour afte1 wards, there was an inspectior wich consisted of a lantern bein thrust through the door, so tbs the officer in command could se that his prisoner was in bed, w- name.es~ to e an batitate we're fightin' all day, and his name's Squibob, Col. Squibob, of I the One Hundred and Ninety sixth Ohio Volunteers," was the response of the chicken thieves as they moved on. The two arrived In Cincinnati as the day began to break. At that hour police -vaken, cats steal home, and at intervals milk carts and meat wagons can be heard rat tling over the rough streets. The (ow they met regarded them as arly travellers seekihg the depot, and unobstructed they found them solves on the banks of the Ohio. I'he ferry boats were preparingI their daily rounds,but the two hesi tated trusting themselves to this sort of conveyance, for they saw a squad of infantry under com mand of a sergeant hurrying to Dne of the landings. They did not know but what their escape had been discovered, and were well aware that in an hour the guard! would take their rounds through the prison, and immediately there after the telegraph wires would fairly hum with the news of John Morgan's escape. While they hesi tated and thought, a small boat rowed by a boy shot in near the spot where they stood. Morgan approached the lad and asked him what he would charge to row them to the Kentucky side of the river. The boy eyed the two in quiringly as well as he could in the dim light of the morn, vnd then responded that he thought fifty cents apiece would not be too much. This compeusation was immediately agreed to,and then the money-getting gamin said he must have it in advance. The shrewd. boy suspected the two men call ing for a rowboat when the ferry boats were plying between the shores, and the information that be. gathered cost subsequently some money and no little blood shed. The only track the auth6ri ties had of Gen. Morgan, after he left the penitentiary till he struck the Ohio River, was from this ob servant little Yankee, and the proof ofdhis shrewdness was in the fact that he collected his fare in advance. The boat was small, and the two heavy men sunk it into the gun' nels, but it carried Caesar and his fortunes, or rather, I should say, carried Cesar to his fate. Could the daring rider, who sat with arms folded in the stern of that frail craft, have had the present darkness suddenly lifted and the future revealed. I doubt if he would have cared ni hether the boat sunk or floated. He would have seen that his brilliant career had already ended, and in the fu ture was only the applause given a popular actor as he leaves the stage, while the ignoble death that began with treachery and ended in a few shots, and a body throWvn upon a wagoner's horse, would make that found in the quiet waters of the wintry Ohio far more pleasant and dignified. While slowly breasting the swift current the ruddy couriers of the early dawn began to bright en up the east, while night hung dark and gloomy in the west. In this dim and cloudy quarter, high upon the Kentucky bank of the river, Morgan saw a bright light, and asked the boy what that was. "That," answered the little boat man, looking over his shoulders without ceasing his efforts, "why that's widow Ludlow's; she keeps her house lit up all night, 'cause they say she's f eard of ghosts. "Land me there and I'll give you another dollar." "Fork over," was the brief re sponse, and getting his money he turned his boat more with the current, and in a few minutes landed the fugitives near the widow's house. Getting once more upon Ken tucky soil, John Morgan drew a long breath, filling his lungs with not only to him free air, but giving to his heart a fresh impulse of cour age for the cause he helped to make immortal. Hie and his comrade found refuge in Mrs.. Ludlow's house. What followed I have not space to tell, nor is it miy pro vince. I sat down only to detail the heretofore unknown history of his escape from the Ohio prison. All that followed is already known and belongs to the history of our country. A showman whose notice called for a few fat boys to 'feed his can ibals,' received a card from a man saying that he couldn't spare his boys, but he had a good. 'stall-fed mothr-in-law' that he thought would suit. - - - . - - They now say that Bozarris didn't, "cheer his band" at all, but hid in a confenld a soon a the Nilntt 5. ANCIENT TREES IN NEVADA. The Virginia City (Nevada) Enterprise says: "In the bottom of Lhe main shaft of the Virginia City Doal C>mpany, Eldorado Canon, Lyon. County, has been encoun Lered in the trunk of a tree four foet in diameter, a long relic of an incient and extinct forest. When ut.throngh by the shaft, this old Iree is found to be perfectly car bonized, turned into coal. Outside the old log is comple4ely crusted ver with iron pyrites, many of which are so bright that the crys tals shine like' diamonds. These pyrites also extend into the body :f the log, filling what were ap parently once cracks or wind ihakes, and even forming clusters bout what was once the heart of the tree. This relic of an old timne rorest lies far below the two veins :f coal the company are about to :pen. The finding of this old trunk, is evidence that the coun try was at some time, ages and iges ago, covered by a forest of large trees, though the native Limber growth, when the country was first visited by the whites, and as far back as the traditions of the Indian extend, was but a shrubby species of nutpine. A few miles from the shaft in which this arbonized tree was found are to be seen on the surface the petri fied remains of many large.trees. In the early days of Washoe, be fore the prospectors had broken them up for specimens, pieces of tree-trunks, two or three feet in diameter, and twenty or thirty feet in length, were to be seen lying upon the surface of the ground. However, these trees, and even the one found in the bottom of the shaft of the -coal-nine, may have come from the. fbotWills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains may have drifted out wen seas ol *ater, everywhere covered- our present valley'. The wAter-lines visible on the hills show that the whale country was filled with lakes, and the petrified trees lying here and there on the surface ol the ground probably floated out on the waters of the extinct lakes, and finally sunk to the bottom in the places where they are now found. FaENCH POLITENEs.-Tbe fa moas saying of Charles II., of Eng land is often quoted as an illustra tion of politeness in death. where the king begged pardon of his courtiere for detaining them so unconscionably long in dying. But two Frenchmen bave out done the monarch. A citizen of France had unfor tunately done something which necessitated his being hanged; and, as there was no professional exe ctioner available for the occasion, the painful duty of carrying out the sentence devolved upon an amateur, who apologized for any possible shotteomings to the per son principally concerned. "I hope you will pardon me," sa'd he, "if I put you to any unne Bessary inconvenience; but the fact is, I have never hanged any one before." "Pray do not mention it," re plied the other; "for that matter I bave never been hanged before. We must each do our best. HOUSEHOLD WoRDs.-Stop your noise ! Shut up this minute ! I'll box your ears! Hold your tongue! Let me go! Get out! Behave yourself! I won't ! You shall ! Never mind ! You'll cat ch it ! Put away those things! You'll kill yourself! I don't care ! They're mine ! Mind your own business ! I'll tell ma ! You mean thing ! There, I told you so ! You don't ! I did ! I will have it ! Oh, look what you have done! 'T was you! Won't you catch it, thought ! It's my house! Who's afraid of you! Get out of this room directly! Do you hear me ! Dear me ! J never did see such things in al my born days ! As EXPRESSIVE SERMoN.-In I terrible agony, a soldier lay dying in the hospital. A visitor asked him: "What church are you of ?" "Of the church of Christ," he re plied. "I mean, of what persuasion ar< you," then inquired the visitor. "Persuasion !" said the dyini man, as his eyes looked heaver ward, beaming with love to th Savior ; "I am persuaded that nel ther death, nor life, nor angolh nor principalities, nor powers, d~ things present, nor things to coin nor height, nor depth, nor an other ci-eature, shall be able t deaaem rm h oeo o separat me foCrom9th ove oG .ms is in Chrise Jesue. HOW WE TREAT OUR BODIES. Our bodies grow slowly. De velopment is the work of time, and the result of conformitv to certain fixed laws of diet, exercise, rest, etc. Now if growth is a slow process, disease is none the less so. But when once a large part of the organism is impaired, the abnormal processes go on very rapidly. When checked in some impropriety, how often we hear people say, -Oh, this never hurts. me! I have done it thousands of times." But I tell you there is no margin allowed to any of Nature's laws, nor exeeptions in favor of individuals. As throghout the material universe we4have laws capable of matbematical -demon stration that the lapse of ages never varies, so in the govern ment of our bodies there is an equally demonstrable code of ac tion. A slight exposure now may not be felt to-day; but the system has been shocked, its equilibrium disturbed, and expenditure of vi tality must occur for.its retora tion to normal action. But as cn ly a given amount of vitality is furni4hed at the-outset, Itheso ex posures finally result in total losst of strength and action, and we talk about "acute aitacks," or sud den cases of disease, and seek in vain for the cause. The cause has been a series of wrong -doings, extending through a long period of time, and showing the effeti of the whole by one grand manifes tation of suffering to which the wise (?) give some wonderful name that savors more of superstition and aldhemistic empiricism than of common sense or even reason. Now, while habits of body and ef fects thereof may be perpetuated from generation to generation, it is never too late to begin the re medial efforts of reform, and often the victims of prenatal ignorance or wilful abuse, may, by strict ob servance of legitimate rules, great ly modify evil tendencies, and per haps utterly remove them from the system.-&cience of Health. "I CA'T Do I."-What a vol ume of human misery is unfolded in this. short sentence? What mighty efforts of undeveloped ge nius are chained by this eonclusion of despondency when *a barrier chances to interrupt the inward progress of the will. What domes tic unhappiness, what down ward marches toward the g'loom yand solitary abodes of poverty-what anxious solicitude, that fills the breast of the dependent wife what ardent wrestling with the' demon of despair-what social wretchedness-what deep painiful anxiety-what unheard of evils are depicted in the spirit of that ex pression ! It is the language only of the self-wretched-the determni nation of the weak and imbe cile. It is the voice of the m> ral cow ard, who, standing upon .the shore of. some desolate island, in the stormy ocean of life, and looking out upon the billows, strown with the wreck of earlthy grandeur and human happiness, is so blinded by fear, that hd cannot see through the surrounding gloom. It is the articulated feeling of the traveler of the desert, who having gained an eminence, sees nothing but a barren plain before him ; thirst parching his tongue, and weari ness subduing his strength. But shall he lay do Nn without hope ? Nay, let him press forward, make but one effort and agreea'oasis will meet his vision-a cool stream will bubble up fron some unfore seen fountain, and ho will reach his journey's end, crowned with the rich rewards of his persever ance. UNPALATABLE ADVICE.-"Don't kiss the baby," says the &ientgic American. It, of course, bases its command not on the shifting sands of sentimentalism, but on the rock (pasteboard or otherwvise) of science. The danger it finds in the kissing of babies is, that dip theria may be given to them by an adult who has the disease in such a mild form tbat he (or more probably she) treats it only as a cold. The American admits that "it would be absurd to charge the spread of diptheria entirely to the practice of child kissing," b ut says that it is hard to conceive of any Smode of propagation more direct ly suited to the spread of the infee tion. It is so natural for gooa -men and good women to kiss ,bright little children, and it is a sign of good.vill and affection SO ~,readily understood by the babies, that they might after all suffer omore from living without either kisses or diptheria than from dyin~g with l?ath This mode of scaling a perpen dicular wall is successfully prac ticed by French zouaves and acro bats. But it requires strength and dexterity, a dexterity that comes of long practice, and this practice had been denied Morgan's men. Gen. Morgan then shifted from the dividing wall, after lis tening a minute to find whether the noise cf the unlucky tumble had been heard, to the corner fur thest from the prison. In former years on this corner had been a platform and a box for a sentry. But as the guard was over women, not given to at-. tempted escapes, and as the sentry was subject to a continuous vol ley of abuse from the female wards belo w, the guard had been removed. Aided by the corner, that served as a support, the human ladder succeeded in reaching the top of the wall, and the men clambering upon it with their improvised rope, made it fast. One by one all of the fourteen came up, and dropped on the outside, and in a few minutes the entire party found themselves free. Here, of course, they were met by their sympathizing friends. My informant, on this part of the business was silent. Who guard ed the escaped prisoners to a place of refuge and gave each a chang,3 of clothing-wurm overcoats, cloth travelling caps and carpet bags will probably never be known. John Morgan selected one of his officers, now an eminent judge in Kentucky, a man noted for his cool self-possession and courage, as his companion, and, separating from the other twelve, the two walked into the depot at Colum bus at the moment the eastern ex press train was about to start for Cincinnati. They had no time to procure tickets, and boarding the cars, Gen. Morgan purposely se lected a seat by a Federal officer. In a few seconds the cars were dashing into the night, towards Cincinnati. Shortly after Gen. Morgan's companion pointed with his finger through the window next which he sat, and said: "That, sir, is our penitentiary, and just now, you know, it is the residence of the famous John Mor gan." "Indeed, it's there is it ?" re sponded Morgan. "Well, let us drink to the strength of its walls," and pulling from his breast pocket a flask of old whiskey the officer joined in the toast. The conductor collected his fare, and the passengers nodded and slept, and among the rest Gen. Morgan's Federal officer, who hav ing taken several draughts. from Morgan's flask, and dou btless being fatigued by his many labors of the. day, snorcd in the deepest sort of slumber. Daylight and the trains were ap proaching Cincinnati t o g e t b e r, when Morgan, leaning over whis pered to his companion that it was about time to get off. Putting his valise under his coat he went quietly to the rear platform. In a few minutes after his companion followed. Fortunately the brake man was at the other end of the car. Morgan directed his friend to throw his might and strength upon the brakes when he (Mor gan) should pull the bell-rope that signals a stop. This was done. The shrill scream of the locomo tive was heard, followed by the rasping noise of brakes along the train. Before it came to a full stop, but after it had ceased to run as to be dangerous to jump off, the two fugitives jumped from the platform and immediately hid i nthe bush that lined both sides of the road. They heard the train come to a full stop, they heard the voices of the conductor and brakeman crying to each other with much profanity; then the bell rang, the locomotive screamed and the train moved on. They waited 'intil the last faint roar died in the distarce, and then emerged from their biding places to fall almost into the arms of five government soldiers traveling along the track. "What the devii are you about here ?" cried one facing Morgan and his companion. "Rather," replied Morgan quiet -, but firmly, "what are you doing from camp at this hour ?" The question was embarrassing, for the men were laden with an admirable assortment o f dead poultry, and conspicuous among the lot an infant pig lately sacri ficed. "We're out buyin' provisions for our colonel," was the prompt reply, with some stress on the word that indicated the purchase. "Does your colonel send you out to purchase poultry after night--. and who. ia he ?" "Ye. ha dam8 '(anas. ym aee. ADVERTISINC RATES, Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.00 per square--one inch--for first insertion, and 75e. Vor each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent on aboe. Notices of meeting, ifituarkerind tribute of respect, same rates per square as ordinarY adverdwebts. Special notices in local colum-i 20 cents perlUne. Advertisements not marked wftb the num - ber of insertions will be kept in tMl forbid and charged accordingly. Special contrmets m2de with laWg adver tisers, wM 11ben deductions on sta0tums Done withIfeawasan dDispc. Terms Cas& "6FATHER, I STEP IN ALL YOUIR TUACK&." One bright winter's morning, af ter a snow storm, a fathirtcok his bat for!'a walk to attend to. 'some farm a~ffairs requiring atteation. As -he started, his little boy of ftve snammers also snatched his hit and followed the father withmmock dignity 'an'd an aissurned*btihiies like air. -When they reached .the door, the gefftleman noticed that no track or p)athIway ha (1 been made in the snow,,azdl.he%ehitat*d* about letting his boy follow 'hirb. But-the soft -fleecy, anovK Il[oked,. so tempting, so pearly white, that he concluded to allow tho cbild: to walk after him. He took.-short, strides thrJugh. the,.-'nntr6"#rt snow,whe n,s*uddenfv re6ombeing his little boy, he paused, lotced back for him,And exelaimed: 4-Well, my son, dont you- -find' it hard work to walk in thi4 Abtep snow?T' "Oh, no,"1 said thebq, i' coming;' fdr,'fhther, t s?tep Id* allt .Your tracks'." Trtie,enoaght the dear chUyd,va. plan ting his':-titV feet just where the parout 'had tr6ddn: The child's reply stitrtl6d the-Irathor, as he reflected that .Lbns ;,od ,.nf.a nrnniflfl of ft bOiSe can form N.