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lewis M.asisT, proprietor. I fnbejrcuiicnt Jfsmiljt Uclospaper: .for tlj? |romolion of tjje political, facial, Agricultural anil Commercial Interests of % Stoafjj. {TEHM8~t3.T.? VOLUME XII. TORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1866. NUMBER 7. SfMtA iffltftg. | . i From the Carolina Spartan. STARVATION. A FACT, BY HARRY HOPEFUL. Oh give me but one pint of meal, Twill feed my da'ling babes a day, And may be then God will see fit, To take them far from earth away. For four long days I've begged for work At almost every door, I was ashamed to ask for bread, I'd never asked before, I looked so guant and ghastly pale; The people seemed to teel, That should 1 get within their homes, I could not help but steal. I I got a few cow peas one day, I cannot tell vou how; My babes and I have eaten them. That's bow we're living,?now; You say I should not be ashamed To ask for what I need; !!?? HK t)i0 Irnlfo nf hanohtv ?rnrn. Has caused my heart to bleed. Five years ago my babies had From want a solid shield; But long, long since his bones were bleached On Shiloh's bloody field. Wbiie he was here we never knew The name of want or care; No beggar ere turned from our door. Without a cheerful share. But when the patriot bugle rang The Reveille ot War, He went to guard Virginia's soil, Away from home afhr. And when he gave his last embrace He told us not to weep; That all around our many friends In comfort would us keep. I went to see one of those friends, T'was only yester morn ; I begged him for a little bread, And then a little corn. He said I've none to give away And not too much to sell; I'll give you none without the price, You know this very well. A wagon stood near by the crib, 'Twas loaded full of grain To take down to the whiskey still, So I turned back in shame. And now I ask a little meal, Just but a pint or so; I cannot see my babies die, Oh ! God, 1 can't, no, no. j| jFMti Jftng. From the New York Watchman. BELLE BOYD, THE SOUTHERN HEROINE. Tbe first signt we ever naa or x>ene Boyd was in tbe cars, in January, 1864. We entered at Chester, Sooth Carolina, en route for Colombia?that Columbia whose winding-sheet was of lurid flames When we entered the cars, every seat was occupied, and we stood a few seconds?for in a Southern car no lady ever stands longer than that spaoe of time?looking about for a place to sit. There reclined on a seat near as a figure, bot whether it was that of a man or a woman, we were at a loss to decide. On seeing us, the person arose, and in deoidedly feminine tones courteously offered us herseat. Of course we declined, and some Confederate soldiers oo the nest seat politely vacated it for us. When seat ed, we took a survey of the lady in frout of us?for lady she turned out to be. She wore a gray dress, the jaoket of which was buttoned up to the throat with gilt buttons; the sleeves were made like a man's coat sleeve, and decorated with the insignia of a nantoin Jn rhe Confederate armv. That v?rv? sleeve conveyed the impression that a man wore the dress, but the rest of the costume was all womanly. A straw hat aDd black veil surmounted the short hair, which was brushed in slight curls over the temples; a grey shawl thrown back, and a neatly fitting pair of kid gloves completed the costume. The appearance of this lady, notwithstanding her somewhat mannish dress, was exceedingly prepossessing. She was very youthful in appearance, seemingly not more than twenty years of age. Her hair was of a deep auburn, her complexion brilliant, and her features somewhat aqueline. She was tall and decidedly distinguished in appearance. One of those remarkable instinots which are sometimes given us, told us at once that this lady was no other than Belle Boyd, that young and daring Southern girl, in whose exploits we had felt so muoh interest. We soon entered into conversation, and she said, with amusing naviette, "Perhaps you have heard of me; I am Belle Boyd." "Heard of yon ! Yes; you are one of our heroines." "Thank you," she said quietly. We did not tell her how, in our Northern home, where fate had placed us the first two years of the war, she had been to us a peculiar object of sympathy and solicitude. How we daily scanned the papers for some record of her daring?how we had mourned over her imprisonment, and thought with horror of what might be her ultimate punishment. And now here we were, in our own sunny South, quietly sitting, talking with her, after her second captivity of many long and tedious months. She bad just been released from prison, and her mind seemed full of the horrors she had endured. She told us that she was completely shattered in mind and body; the typhoid fever, from which she had just recovered, had left her with a violent cough, and in a miserable state of health. She never mentioned the services that she had rendered her country; her mind only reverted to the fearful horrors of her prison life The most mortifying circumstances of her career was, that she was marched up to Butler's headquarters, at Fortress Monroe, through a file of negro soldiers. She appeared to dread the idea of being taken captive in her anticipated running of the blockade at Wilmington, the possibility of which we hinted at. "I will throw myself into the sea/' she said, "sooner than again fall into the hand9 of the Yankees." She was attended by a major of the Conr federate army, who remarked to us aside, that she was the bravest person under fire ever seen; and had done more to advance the cause of the South than some of her generals?that she was the only regularly commissioned female officer in the Southern army, and well deserved the compliment. As the shades of evening approached, Belle Boyd commenced a song, in which she was joined by the soldiers present; and soon the sweet strains of "Home Again" floated oat on the silent air. It was a touching sight to ace this young girl, who t hud braved so much, suffered so much for I her country, and these boys?for they were ' scarcely more?clad in their coarse grey, I some with the marks of deep wounds still < upon them, singing in unison the songs i which doubtless had cheered many of the i weary hours in camp. This little musical < scene would have made a beautiful pioture. < As Belle Boyd sang, the soldiers gathered I around her, and told with looks not to be < mistaken bow dear the regard they felt for t this brave child of the Confederacy. I "Miss Belle is a charming lady," said one, i as be turned to leave the cars. \ "Most charming," was the enthusiastic 1 answer of the young soldiers. TTM .1 ?* T3?1U YY UCU tuc YYai uiunu UULj Utut i^yjfu a pleasant home was among the first devas- i tated by the Northern army. Enthusiastic ? and daring by nature, she threw herself t heart and sonl into the contest, stimulated by the wrongs and woes which had fallen upon her beautiful home in Martinsburg. There was no office she disdained for the ? Confederates; and - when the sick and wounded were brought to Martinsburg she 1 devoted herself to nursing them. When ( the Confederates under Jackson retreated i to Winchester, Martinsburg was entered by t the Federal troops. Here they committed i many depredations, destroying property a which they did not want, stealing what t they did, and in the grossest language in- i suiting the women. . ? Determined to serve her country, Belle ( Boyd made the acquaintance of many of 1 the officers of the Federal army, from f whom she obtained much valuable infor \ mation, which she committed to paper, and 1 despatched to some of the Confederate c generals. Une ot tier missives tailing into c the hands of the Federals, she was taken to I headquarters and severely reprimanded. \ From this time she was suspected, and the c epithet "rebel spy" fixed upon her. Noth- * ing daunted by her castigation, she paid a s visit to Manassas where her father was sta- a tiooed, and frequently acted in the capacity c of a courier between Generals Jackson and c Beauregard. When the Confederate forces retreated s down the Valley, Belle Boyd was at Front i Royal. Being desirous of returning to f Martinsburg, she obtained a pass to do so; f but was seized while on her way there and r taken to Baltimore as a prisoner. How- t ever, she was soon released, and sent home, t where the strictest surveillance was keept fi over her. After a while permission was s granted her to go to Front Royal, and it j was there that she performed those deeds e which have made her so justly dear to the b Southern army. f General Shields held a council of war in 0 what had formerly been the drawing-room 0 of the aunt of Belle. Ever on the alert 1 to carry out her mission, the young girl stole ud stairs, and findine a hole in the s """ f / p closet floor, she applied her ear to it. Here she remained until one o'clock, overhearing the whole of the deliberation, and took down iD cipher every thing that she thought was of importance. To communi ca:c the intelligence thus gained was the next object. Being surrounded by the Federals, she had to proceed cautiously Making her way to the stables, she saddled her horse, and galloped alone in the direc 0 tion of the mountaius. Being several times brought to a halt by the sentries, she 8 showed them her passport, which was a ^ pass she had procured for a Confederate s soldier going South, and which had not ' been used for that purpose. <- .? .i !_?, 1 a OUspeciing nuiuiug, mey let uei ?<j wli e her way, and thus she dashed oo for fifteen miles, through the darkoe33 of the night, and through fens and marshes, until she 8 reached the bouse of a frieud. No woman ^ oot possessing a brave spirit could have ' takeo such a ride as this alone, in the s i midst of enemies and on a dark night. But there was no sacrifice Belle Boyd was a not willing to make for her beloved South; * and let those of her sisters who stigmatize a her as "fast," ask if they have done even a this, the least of her deeds, for the sake of v their country. c After communicating her information to ] Colonel Ashby, she remounted her horse, 1 and reached her home safely, barely escap ' iog a bullet which a sleepy sentinel sent 3 after her. The Federals little imagined how a ? young girl had put to flight all their wavy * plans for entrappiug the Confederates. There was soon an unusual stir in Front ^ Royal, for the Confederates were approaching unexpectedly upon the town; but the heroic girl wa9 possessed of further information which it was desirable to convey to ' the annroaohin?? armv Generals Banks, ' ~rr -? n * White, Shields, Geary, and Fremont were to co operate against General Jackson with ' their separate divisions, was the information ^ she wished to convey to that General. IIow to reach him was the question ; but it 1 did not take her long to decide. Putting 1 on her white sun bounet, she proceeded j through the streets, which were crowded : ' with Federals officers, and soon gained the 1 open fields On, on she went, while the ' bullets poured like thick rain around her.. Exposed to a cross-fire from the Federal1 j and Confederate artillery, the shot and j shell whistled over the head of the daunt- j 1 ] less girl, who was also exposed to a tire , 1 from the pickets of the Federals, and from 1 the wiudows of the hospital. The shot pierced her clothing, but not one reached 1 her body. A shell burst immediately in 1 her vicinity, and sho had to lie down to ; escape the danger. Put all this terrible, ' fiery rain had no power to stop her onward ' career. Few women, fewer young girls, would have braved such a terrible fire as this, and Belle Boyd even now wonders ] what power gave 6uch fleetness to her steps , ( and such undaunted courage to her heart.1 ] Constitutionally brave, her bravery was i severely put to the test; but love of coun-! < try, love of home, bore her triumphant: through the fearful ordeal. She neared' 1 ;be line, and waved her boDnet to signify ;hat the troops should press forward. Seeing a female standing undauntedly on ;he battle field, amid such a fearful shower )f shot, filled the Confederates with the wildest enthusiasm, and cheer after cheer ang through the welkin. Tho troops dash3d upon the town, and the beroio girl proseeded on to deliver a note with which she lad been entrusted, to one of the Confedjrate Generals. Acting upon the informsdon which she had conveyed to the Confederates, they gained a complete victory, ind it was a proud day for Belle Boyd vhen the following note was placed in her lands: "May 23, 1862. "Miss Belle Boyd : I thank you, for uyself and for the army, for the immense lervioe that you rendered your country o day. Hastily, I am your friend, T. J. JACKSON, U. S. A." But dark days of imprisonment and luffering were approaching for the intrepid rebel spy," as the Northern press called ler. Imprudently entrusting a letter for 3eneral Jackson to the care of a person vho called himself a Southern soldier, but vho, iQ reality was a Federal spy, the doolmcnt was forwarded to Washington, and in order for her arrest issued by Mr. Stanon. It did not take long to put the order nto execution, and Belle Boyd was soon iafely ensconced within the walls of the 31d Capitol. The poor caged bird, who iad soared with so free a wing through the ields of the sunny South, now beat its vings wearily against the hard prison bars; >ut there was no escape. The young pris>ner could but think of the sunshine with>ut; of the sweet liberty of which she had * " i i? J ? J _ _1_ _ >een deprived; or tne oaring aeeus sue vould have done; of her bleeding, suffering lountry she might have helped, and pine vith a throbbing heart for the days that vere no more, for the loved home so far iway, and for the desolate hearts who wept iver the cruel captivity of this heroic and taring child. But no trouble seems to have tamed her pirit; she refuses to take the oath, hangs ip Mr. Davis' portrait over her mantel >iece, with the inscription, "Three cheers or Jeff. Davis and the Southern Confedeacy!" communicates with the prisoners, hrough boles in the wall and crevices in he floor, and sings "rebel" songs in a clear irra voice, and with a very disloyal empha is. Here, for several months, she was subected to rigorous treatment?the sentry ven going so far on one occasion as to break t _ 4l. t-.ii i _ri_: ler tUULUD wun ine ouu euu ui ma uiusiiui, or placing some sugar in the hands of one f the officers of the prison, to be passed ivcr to some Confederate soldiers, by pernission of that very sentry himself. But at length came the joyful news? he was free; and, escorted by Maj. Fitzmgh, of Stuart's staff, she entered an open carriage, and amidst the cheers of the specators, was driven to the wharf. The perinacity of this young girl is remarkable ; 11 her trials could not shake her allegiance o the cause she thought just; and we find ler bearing off, concealed about her person wo gold sabre-knots, one of which was inended for a present to Gen. Jackson, the ither for General Joseph Johnston. When Belle Boyd returned to the South, he received her commission as captain and lonorary aid-de-camp to "Stonewall Jackon " When the troops were reviewed in he presence of Lord Hartingden and Col jeslie, she attended on horseback, and was asociated with the staff officers of tLe sevral commanders. After a tour thiough the Southern States, he returned to her home io Martinsburg, mt she was not suffered to remain there ong. Martinsourg became again in the posession of the Federal troops, who placed he "rebol spy" under the strictest espionige, not even allowing her to walk out into ler own balcony. At length there came a ummons from Washington for her arrest; ind, accompanied by her father, Belle Boyd vas torn from her sick mother and proceed id with a heavy heart and tearful eyes to neet her doom of imprisonment in the Captal Prison, in Washington Once more he heavy iron bars of a prison shut out this mung Southern girl from all that made life )lcasantto her; and again she commenced he weary round of a captive's life But the found sympathizing frieuds without as veil as within the prison walls, who mauiged to waft her many acomforting missive. | "lonfederate flaes were also sent her, with i which she decorated her room. Then came a scene of suffering which the jast had nothing to compare. A severe atack of typhoid fever laid her on a bed of IIdcps. The mother's hand, whioh had al- i ways been placed softly on her brow, was : far away ; no gentle voice whispered com-! 'ort to her heart; no kindly friend was per- j uitted to visit her. She says, in alluding ;o the distress she suffered : 'Years may roll by, but my sufferings in :hai prisoo, both mental and physical, can aever be obliterated from my memory ; and .0 attempt to describe them would be utterly impossible. When she recovered, it was to be told Aat she had been sentenced to hard labor luring the war, in the Fitzburg Jail. This information caused a relapse, and again she was thrown on a bed of illness. By the ex-1 srtions of her father her sentence was commuted to "banishment to the South, never to return North again during the war."? When it is remembered that her parents lived within the Federal lines, Martinsburg being in possession of the North, this sentence will not appear a light one. On the first day of December, she was released from prison and sent South, without being permitted to see her father, who lay ill in Washington. At Fortress Monroe, her trunks were examined ; and any Dne who has undergone this ordeal, knows precisely what it means. It means, (so at least our experience proves,) a wholesale ! theft?a gigantic robbery; a license of pillage and plunder; a starting with a fall trunk from Northern shores, and landing on Dixie's soil with a lamentably empty one. The celebrated "forty thieves" were moderate in their exactions compared with these "flags of trace" trunk examiners, and "snappers up of other people's unconsidered trifles." The contents of this daring girl's trunk not a little astonished the man and two women who were ransacking them. Oat came two suits of gentlemen's clothes, a majorgeneral's uniform, a dozen linen shirts, several pairs of army gauntlets, and other "contraband" goods. How she had managed to smuggle these things into her prison remains a mystery, excepting to a favor ed few. Of course they were taken away from her, together with a pair of field glasses which had formerly belonged to General Jackson, and which Belle Boyd greatly prized, and also, nearly all of her olothing. Thus bereft, she had to undergo a personal search, and was then permitted to proceed on her way. When she reached Richmond, she was met with a most enthusiastic reception. But her happiness was soon destroyed by the news of her father's death.? The shook she then experienced produced a severe illness; and then it was she felt as she says, all the loneliness of her position. In vain did she petition the authorities at Washington to permit ber to return to her heart stricken mother; but every appeal was sternly refased, and as her health was considerably undermined she determined on a visit to Europe. On the 8th of May, entrusted with dispatches for the Confederate Government, Belle Boyd set sail from Wilmington, in the Greyhound. But here ber good angel deserted her again, as was the case on several former oocasions. A Federal cruiser bore down udod them, and after a pretty hot fire during which it was said that Belle Boyd, the only lady passenger, sat quietly on deck, fanning herself, and watchiog the effect of the shot and shell, the whole party were captured. This was a severe blow to the pleasant anticipations of Belle Boyd, but what seemed to her a sure road to another long and weary imprisonment, proved the way to a more agreeable and happier destiny. If it be true that marriages are made in heaven, then Providence took this way of bestowing a protector upon this desolate young girl, and in her gentlemanly captor she found a loving and tender husband The second evening after the capture, Belle Boyd, and Lieutenant Hardioge were seated on deok. The evening was lovely, and these two young hearts full of love.? Love at first sight is not impossible with some temperaments; and so it proved in this ease. The gentleman told his love and the lady listened Bat she was a little prudent, for she deferred her answer until they should arrive at Boston. The result may be easily anticipated?the answer was not a rebuff, and Belle Boyd pledged her faith to one who was to her almost a straDger but who seems to have won her regard by his kind and gentlemanly demeanor?so indifferent to that which she had experienced from her former captors. In Boston she was under the surveillance of spies, and, after remaining three weeks, a telegram arrived, saying that she was to be escorted beyond the lines into Canada; and if again caught in the United States or by the United States authorities she should be shot. She soon, however, left the American shores, and, after a prosperous voyage, landed in England. Mr. Hardinge followed her, and, in August, 1864, they were married in London. Her felicity was not of long duration- After they had been married two months, Mr. Hardinge found it Decessary to return to America, leaving his yonng wife in England. lie wus arrested, when on a visit to Virginia, and thrown into prison by the United States Government. With feeling of agony his wife heard of his fate ; and, to add to her unhappiness, the remittances sent to her failed in reaching their destination. Sick and destitute, alone in the wide world of London, no wonder this brave spirit that had stood the fierce fire of ? ilt AnnAmy] " ??? ? J KflP T\ 01*0/1/"Ml f AT*Q U IIIUU3UUU j^UUO OIIU Uaitu UV1 |>viuvuuwiu in her lonely prison, almost sank with dismay at the pressure of this new burden put upon her. But at length her husband wa3 released, and it was not long before he found his sorrowing young wife in her London home. Such is a brief history of the varied career of Belle Boyd, "the rebel spy"?the Southern heroine. It8eemssomcwhat remarkable, thatthough the Southern women entered with all the enthusiasm of their natures into the late war, so few of theiu distinguish themselves for any daring deeds in behalf of their suffering country. We can only account for it by the fact that the Southern women are naturally retiring, and shrink instinctively from notoriety. Thoy were not found on the battle-field, but they took their places amid the wretched wards of the hospitals; and wherever a Southern soldier was found, there was the Southern woman, too, his ministering angel. We do not think that the entire annals of womanhood present a more complete picture of unselfish devotion rn a n.insi>. and nerfect self-sacrifice, than that exhibited by the Southern women du: ring the late unhappy contest. Although | there was but one Belle Boyd among them, 1 there were many Florence Nightingales, and ! thousands of other devoted women who were ! willing to suffer in a cause which they be! iieved to be just, and for which their bej loved ones were periling limb, liberty and life. i But it is all over; the lurid war clouds j have rolled away?the rainbow of peace arches the sky. The North has its triumphal cars, its wreathes of victory and its countless spoils. The South has its broken hearts, its ruined homes, and its martyrs, tombs, and the glorious history of its stand for constitutional liberty. "Song sinks Into silence? The rnory Is told." bat occasionally a narrative like Belle Boyd'i wakes ap the sleeping echoes, and the deedi of the past send a thrill of masic throng! the weary heart of some poor suffering Southerner. E. B. C. President Lincoln. In conversation the other day with Col Thos. Jones, of Kentuoky, he gave us i piece of biography of President Lincolr which we regard as true, and so ouriousthal it ought not to be lost. We had seen some thing like it, years ago, in the newspapers but wo never supposed, then, that there was a word of truth in it. The publication wac made in the Southern papers at the begin' ning of the recent secession war. Col. Jones owns lands in Hardin Conotj Ky., and went there to look after them.? He met Governor Helmes, of Kentucky, living in that County, who told him that he knew Abraham Lincoln very well, when a boy He was born in that neighborhood, and was five years younger than Governoi Helmes. His mother's name was Nancj Hanks. There were two men who were attentive to her, Abraham Winslow, or Eoslow, and a Mr. Geety. Abraham was bore out of wedlock, and it was doubted by the community whether he was the son of Winslow or Geety. The latter person was a member of the Kentucky Legislature, and living at the time Lincoln waselected Pres ident of the United States. He was very old, and some one jeered bim about being the father of the President. The old mar said "No," he was not the father of Abra bam Lincoln, "although he had had a bun dred chances of being so. Lincoln's fathei was Abraham Winslow." In proof of it, he said that he, Geety, was a short, fat man, and all of his family were so. Winslow was a tall, gawky man, six feet two inches high, and was intimate with Nancy Hanks Moreover, she named hereon "Abraham," after Winslow. This proof of old Geetj was regarded as pretty conclusive, consid ering the tall, gawky figure of Linooln. TTT Urtn A Kfnknm nroa fioa TJflOfO hlfl TTI A, TT iicu aUiaUBLU TTOO UTV JUUIO VIUJ u*u UJV ther, "Nancy Hanks, married an old fellow named Lincoln, who was a miller, and mO' ved with bim to Illinois. He there took the name of Lincoln, and perhaps nevei knew but that Lincoln was bis father. His mother soon died, and his step father, Lin coin, married again. His second wife wat said to have been a good, clever woman, and was very kind to Abraham. Old Lin coin died whilst Abraham was young."? Mr. Bancroft, in his Oration on the Char acter of President Lincoln, says that bic mother could read, but not write, and thai his father could do neither Abraham grew op and evinced a greal deal ot talent and cleverness Wnen twen ty-one years old he was eleoted a member of tbo Illinois Legislature. Whilst in the Legislature he made a speech which attracted attention. A lawyer at SpringGeld, the capital of Illinois, suggested to young Lin coin the idea of reading law, whilst a member of the Legislature. He told him he could read with him, and apply to a Judge at Chambers and be admitted. This be did during the time he was a member of the Legislature. Immediately after his adrais sion to the bar, the candidate for Congress, in Lincoln's Congressional Distriot, had tc go off electioneering, and eouli not attend the Court He requested Litcoln to take 'charge of a case of homicide, which be had and make a speech for a gambler who war indicted for murder. He told Lincoln tba' the defendant would pay him handsomely if acquitted. Lincoln defended the gum bier successfully and he was acquitted. He received a fee of five hundred dollars it cash. Thereupon he went to Joshua Speed of Springfield, who was a wealthy merchant and said to him, "I have five hundred del lars, which is more money than I ever ex pected to have at one time in my life, and if I bad one hundred and fifty dollars more, I would purchase a quarter section of lane for my step-mother, who is veiy poor, anc has always beeD very kind to me." Mr Speed replied, "I will lend you the money.' Lincoln said, "I owe you one hundred and fifty dollars already." Speed said thai made no difference, and gave him the mon ey. Lincoln immediately mounted hi: horse, went to the Land Office, and took uj the quarter section in the name of his stepmother. After Lincoln was elected President, he wrote to Joshua Speed that it was now it his power to reward him for his kindnes! ! wheQ he was starting in life. Mr. Speec i- i ' - *? l.ji ? -a;? ; repueu cuac ne waumu uu umuc uimacu but that he had a young brother who was ? practicing lawyer at Louisville, Kentucky and would be glad for Lincoln to do some thing for him. This young brother was thereupon appointed Attorney General oi the United States, and is still discharging the duties of this high office under Presi dent Johnson. Col. Jones informed us that be had the I above information likewise from J. Winter j Smith, of Kentucky, who knew the state ment of Governor Helmes to be true in ev j cry particular.?Greenville Mountaineer. John Morissey's Gambling House ?The Louisville Courier's New York cor respondent writes: You have heard of John Morissey's gam bling bouse. It is palatial iu its apartment and with splendid suppers, wines and liquor; and the conflict with the "tiger" there ii all that may be desired by one inclined tc sport. Millions of dollars have been losi and won in that house, but always on tb< square?at least suoh is the reputation o Morissey that none question the fairness o his game. And there have been big gamei played there. I knew of a New Yorkei who, in what is technically termed a "snap' game, lost $63,000 in a single night, anc within a month turned the tables and wor $72,000 from the winner. This individua i is the biggest better in the world, and has i often won and lost as maoh as $10,000 to i $20,000 in a night. ; There are manj large betters here, bnt none with half the nerve, and I may add, , few with half the fortune, since his income is $200,000 per year. He plays for excite( ment rather than for gain. Faro is a grand passion. An Hour with Grant?Hia Views upon Various Matters, i The editor of the Lewiston Falls Journi al, now at Washington, reoently spent an t hour in the stndioof the Maine artist, Sim. moos, in conversation with General Grant, t and gives an interesting statement of the j opinions expressed by the leading man of , the country, npon "men and measures."? . We make a few extracts : The general, who was dressed in a plain p black oivilian suit, had hardly removed his . bat from bis head before he took a cigar | from his pocket, lighted it and began to , paff out wreathes of smoke. "I am break rr> /? i n t_ . 1 n L ing on irom smoKing, remarsea urant. 'When I was in the field I smoked eigh teen or twenty cigars a day, bat now I smoke , only nine or ten !" "There were bat two failures in toe Vir. ginia campaign of '64 which ought to have i been successes," said Grant, "and those , were the failure to capture Petersburg when . we crossed the James, and afterwards at t the mine explosion." "Bat," added Grant, I "it was all forthe best that we failed in those . two instanoes, for, had we sncceeded at eir ther time, Lee woald have at onoe been , obliged to abandon Kiohmond, and would , have been able to secure a safe retreat into the interior of the South, where he would . have prolonged the contest for years. Our . failures then, and the determination of the Rebels to hold on to their capital, gave us time to extend our left Southward, to bring , up Sherman from Georgia, and thereby , made it impossible for Lee to escape." The conversation turned to the Virginia > campains of 1864 and 1865. "I notioe," , remarked General Grant, "that Mr. Swio. ton has published a history of the campaigns in the Old Dominion, in which he rnlraa fhn rrrnnnrl f ha f T rvainor? nnfhinnr bOAUtJ VUV gIVWUU VUHV J. UVVUIUG*) r bat, on the contrary, lost m&Dy valuable . lives uselessly, by moving my army from ; the Rapidan direct towards Richmond, . rather than by taking it around by water to , the Peninsula, as McClellan did. This," , observed the General, "is a revival of the , exploded theory [referring to the McClellan | policy] of subduing the rebellion by peaoe . measures. A half a million troops might . have been kept within sight of Washing. ton till dooms day, and the rebellion would , have flourished more and more vigorously ; day by day. Fighting, bard knocks only, could have accomplished the work. The rebellion must be overcome, if overoome n f nil, by (orao, ito rooourooa daatroyoJLf~ . its fighting material obliterated, before peace , could be obtained." Referring to the temper of the Southern people, he remarked that they are muoh less disposed now to bring themselves to AtiAnAw r\f mins) fKon fKor mora nna LUC U^ICl liauiw VI tuiuu uuwu vuvj nwtw vmw , year since. "A year ago," said be, "they , were willing to do anything; now they reI gard themselves as masters of the situation. , Some of the rebel generals," he added, "are behaving nobly, and doing all they can to induce the people to throw aside their old , prejudices and to conform their coarse to I the changed conditions of things. Johnston , and Dick Taylor, particularly, are ezercis( ing a good influeuoe; but," he added, "Lee , is behaving badly. He is conducting himl self very differently from what I had reason, from what he said at the time of the surren. der, to suppose he would No man at the ; South is capable of exercising a tenth part , of the influence for good that he is; but, instead of using it, he is setting an example ; of forced acquiescence so grudging and pernicious in its effects as to be hardly realized." [ In reply to a question as to whether he ( was not surprised as to the suddenness of [ the collapse of the rebellion, Grant said ho moo alfhnnoh ho horl nlwavn finn. I "u?" j-,- ~~ J r posed that when it did break dowD it would go all at once. "I thought, however," he remarked, "that it would hold out another season, and I am not sore," he added, | "but that it would have been better for the | country if it had. There were some parts ! of the country where our armies had never ! trod, particularly Texas, which needed to feel the blighting effects of war to bring their people to a realizing sense of the enormity of their crime and the necesity of a thorough repentance. I find," said he, "that those parts of the South which have not felt the war, and particularly those which have been within our lines, and have therefore escaped the rebel consoription and taxes, are much less disposed to accept the , situation in good faith than those portions f whioh have been literally overran with fire f and sword." ) Congress Warned.?The Constitu3 tional Union, published at Washington, in its issue of Wednesday contains an article . I on Congressional aotion in the following . words: "These men had better beware; they are j not a legal Congress, bat an unconditional . j body of usurpers. The country feels that j the one great error of the President was in his ever recognizing them at all. In their self-imposed rump condition, they had no ; claim for recognition as an official body 3 from an honest man, or any other branch of 3 Government. We doubt whether the Su) preme Court will ever affirm any of their t acts to be valid. This thing of Congress sional -fanaticism and treason ought to be f done away with. The American Congress f now is the fac simile of that rump Parlia3 ment which stunk in the nostrils of all r | good men, and which Cromwell kioked oat ' j of doors, and served them just right. A 1 j little Cromwellian pluck is just the thing i needed now, and there are 2,000,000 Dem1' ocrats at the North who would face that kind of plaok with a good deal of relish jastoow. The issue should bo joined at once." Ben Beaat Bottled Butler. Saoh is the heading of an article which we publish below from the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Democrat, in relation to Maj. Glen. Benj. F. Batler, late of the United States Ajtny.? Wilmington Dispatch. "Daring the Summer Campaign of 1864 in Virginia, Gen. Butler was entrusted with the duty of capturing Petersburg and Richmond, while General Grant was fighting Gen. Lee from Spottsylvania Court House down to the James River. "After making his advance to the neighborhood of the first named city, he found, am nnavma/tfajllv ?n him a flAnMortta force coder the command of Geo. Beauregard?which foroe after a fight, compelled him to retire in the direotion of Drary's Blaff. Being followed, he was again defeated, (and very badly too) when he fell baok to 'Bermuda Hundreds.' "Those who are familiar with the geography of the country in that locality, will remember that by the windings of the James River, the ground he occupied was very muoh in the shape of a bottle. 'Gen. Grant in making bis official report of the campaign says, in substanoe, that after Butler's retreat be took a position wherein Gen.Beauregard had him so completely '6ottled' that he was of no further use to him during the campaign until he came aoroes the James and relieved him. "Hence his title?the 'Bottled Imp/ 'We have seldom read a more bitter article than the one below, yet, oertainly think, that Mr. Butler deserves every word it contains. It was written on the oooasion of his resignation from the army of the United States: [From the La Crosse Wisconsin Democrat.'] 'At last this great American thief and blundering murderer has resigned and is no more an offioer in the army he disgraced.? Grant ban 'bottled him up forever' and in a few words proved the truth of our oft expressed opinion of this natural thief, and coward and military ass. What he will do now is more than we know. Moet likely go to shop lifting, 'grave.robbing, or insultin? ffnmnn.' At heart a traitor?bv instinct a thief?by edaoation a robber?Benjamin F. Batler has won a name for infamy, venality, and incompetency, second to none in the world. He was one of the peculiar tools of * * * * the Republican party, and has been a nightmare on the American people for the past five years. An original secessionist, ha never bad a patriotic motive in bis heart. He never deserved a position in the army?he never fooght a battle?he never won a victory?he never lost an opportunity to steal from and plnnder the defenceless?he never made the Union flag otner tna a a sigbaT to marTIGe depository of stolen goods, and shonld have been dismissed the army long ago. 'The greatest cnrse a mother oould put on a child would be to wish it the heart and attributes of Ben Batler, whose sua has at last sunk in the deepest infamy, and whose eternity we trust will be spent in the home of his employer. Thief, robber, abolition patriot, military blunderer, woman insulter, grave-yard robber, soldier murderer, egotistical ass, pet of Republicanism, child of the devil, cook-eyed abortion of humanity, bottled braggadocio, played out politician, dishonored general and traitorous citizen? EAREWELL. 'Thus one by one of the political generals and oaases of oar national troubles?one by one the cotton-thieving, plundering scoundrels who have stratted their hoar on the bloody stage, drop infamy here, as we trust they will in hell hereafter. Bottled Blunderer, Big Bethel Batoher, Bigoted Braggadocio, Ben Beast Butler?farewell ! How to Care for the Hair.?As to men, we say, when the hair begins to fall out, the best plan is to have it out short, give is a good brushing with a moderately stiff brush, while the hair is dry, then wash it well with warm soap suds, then rub over the scalp, about the roots of the hair, a little bay ram, brandy, or camphor-water. Do these things twice a month?the brushing of the soalp may be profitably done twice a week. Damp the hair with water every time the toilet is made. Nothing ever made is better for the hair than pure soft water, if the scalp is kept clean in the way we have named. The use of oils, of pomatums, or grease of anv kind, is ruinous to the hair of man y 7 or womao. We consider it a filthj practice, almost nniversal thought it be, for it gathere dust and dirt, and soils whatever it touches. Nothing bat pare soft water should ever be allowed on the heads of children. It is a different practice that robs onr women of their most beantifnl ornament long before tfceir prime; the hair of oar daughters shoo Id be kept within two inches until their twelfth year. [Hall's Journal of Health. Definition not in Webstib.?Bass, to kiss; again; plnribns, to kiss without regard to sex; sillybos, to kiss the hand instead of the lips; blunderbuss, to kiss the wrong person; omnibus to kiss all in the room ; ereboss, to kiss in the dark. Evidently the country girl who went down to the oity reoently had these definitions in her mind. A yonng gentleman was to esoort her some distance through the town and not wishing to walk, he remarked, "Hold on, Mary, let's take ambussbat Mary, blushing to the eyebrows, drew back, and with wounded modesty replied, "Oh, George, not right here in the street." tgr It is reported that a radical member of the Harris Diatriot of Pennsylvania, in his speeoh in the House on Wednesday, urged bis co-laborers to hurry up their business, as this might be the last Republican Congress that would meet for some time, if not forever.