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????? - ????? lewis m. grist, Proprietor.! |n fnbepeubent Ifamilg ^tftospaptr: Jfor tjje $romotion of t|e political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of tjje Sonfjj. Jteems-mso ayeabjjj advahce VOLUME XIL YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1866. NUMBER 31. Heleriefo Jjoefrj). LOVE AND AGEI played with you 'inid cowslips blowing, When I was six and you were four; When garlands weaving, flower balls throwing, Were pleasures soon to please no more. Through groves nnd meads, o'er grass and heather With little playmates, to and fro, We wandered hand in hand together; But that was sixty years ago. You grew a lovely, roseate maiden, A nH tit ill on r ofirlv Invr Ktrnncr Still with no care our days were Taden, They glided joyously along; And I did love you, very dearly? How dearly, words want power to show; I thought your heart was touched as nearly; But that was fifty years ago. Then other lovers came around you, Your beauty grew from year to year, And many a splendid circle found you The centre of its glittering sphere. I saw you then, first vows forsaking, On rank and wealth your hands bestow; Ob, then I thought my heart was breaking; But that was forty years ago. And I lived on to wed another; No cause she gave me to repine; And when I heard you were a mother, I did not wish the children mine. My own young flock in fair progression, Made up a pleasant Christmas row : My joy in them was past expression; But that was thirty years ago. You grew a matron, plump and comely, You dwelt in fashion's brightest blaze ; My earthly lot was far more homely; But I too had my festal days. No merrier eyes have ever glistened Around the hearthstone's wintry glow Than when my youngest child was christened; Sut that was twenty years ago. Time passed. My eldest girl was married, And I am now a grandsire gray; One pet of four years old I've carried Among the wild flowered meads to play. In our old fields of childish pleasure, Where now, as then, the cowslips blow, She fills her basket's ample measure, And that is not ten years ago. But though first love's Impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our fast good-night. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Wiil be an hundred years ago. Artemus Ward in London. Mr. Punch, My Dear Sir :?I was a little disapioted in Dot reoeivio a invitation to jine in the meetios of the Social Science Congress. I don't exackly see how they got on without me. 1 hope it wasn't the intentions of the Sciencers to exolood me from their delibrations. Let it pars I do not repine. Let as remember Homer. Twenty cities claim Homer dead, thro' which the livin Mr. Homer couldn't have got trnsted for a sandwich and a glass of bitter beer, or words to that effeob. But perhaps it was a oversight. Certain ly I have been hospitably received in this country. Hospitality has been pored all over me. At Liverpool I was asked to walk over the docks, which are nice miles loDg ; and I don't remember a instance since my 'rival in London of my gettin into a cab without a Briten comin and perlitely shut in the door for me, and then extendin his open hand to'ards me, in the most frenly manner possible. Does he not by this simple yit tuchin gesture, welcum me to England ? Doesn't he ? Oh, yes?I guess he doesn't lie. And it's quite right amofig two great countries which speak the same langwidge, except as regards H's. And I've been allowed to walk round all the streets. Even at Buckingham Pallis I told a gard 1 wanted to walk round there, and he said I could walk round there. I ascertained subsequently that he referd to the sidewalk instid of the Pallis?but I couldn't doubt his hospital feelins. I prepared a Essy on Animals to read before the Social Science mcetiqs. It is a subjeck I may truthfully say I havesuooessfully wrastled with. I tackled it when only nineteen years old. At that tender age I writ a Essy for a lit'ry Instoot, entitled is "Cats to be Trusted ?" Of the merits of that Essy it doesn't becum me to speak, but I may be excoosed for mentionin that the Instoot parsed a resolution that "whether we look upon the length of this essy, or the manner in which it is written, we feel that we will not express any opioion of it, and we hope it will be read in other towns." Of course the essy I writ for the Social Science Society is a more finisheder production than the one on Cats, which was wroten when my mind was crood and afore I had mastereda graceful andellygant stile of composition. I could not even punctooate my sentences proper at that time, and I observe with pane, on lookin over this effort of my yooth, that its beauty is in one or too instances mard by ingrammaticisms. This was unexcusable, and I'm surprised I did it. A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop. You shall hear this Essy on Animals ? Some day when you have four hours to spare I'd read it to you. 1 thiok you'll eDjoy it. Or, what will be much better, if I may suggest?omit all the picture in the next week's Punch, and do not let your contributors write anything whatever, (let them have a holiday; tbey can go to the British Mooseum ;) and publish my Essy entire.? It will fill all your ooliumes full, and create comment. Does this proposition strike you ? Is it a go ? In case I had read the Essy to the Sooial Sciencers, I had intended it should be the closing attraction. I had intended it should finish the proceedins I think it would have finished them. I understand animals better than any other class of human creatures. I have a very animal mind, and I've been identified with 'em doorin my entire professional career as a showman; more especial bears, wolves, leapards and serpents. The leopard is as lively a animal as I ever came into contack with. It is troo be cannot change hisspots, but you can change 'em for him with a paint bru9b, as I once did in the case of a leopard who wasn't nat'rally spotted in a attractive manner. In exbibitin him I used to stir bim up in his cage with a protracted pole, and for the purpuss of makin bim yell and kick up in a leopardy manner, I used to 'casionally whack him over the head. This would ' make the children inside the booth screan l with fright, which would make fathers o | families outside the booth very anxious t< come iD?because there is a large class o . parents who have a uncontrollable passim j for takin their children to places when | they will stand a chance of being frighten | ed to death. i One day T whaoked this leopard mori j than usual, which elissited a remonstranci | from a tall gentleman in spectacles, whi said: '-My good man. do not beat the poo caged animal. Rather fondle him." "I'll fondle him with a club," I anserec hitting him another whack. "I prithy desist," said the gentleman "stand aside and see the effect of hindoess ' * * - ' > J- :? .1, i understand tne laiutsyuciuuieo ui tucsi creaturs better than ye do." With that h< went op to the oage, and thrustin his fact in between the iron bars, he said, soothiniy "Come hither, pretty creetur " The pretty creetur come-hithered rather speedily, anc seized the gentleman by the whiskers which he tore off about enuff to stuff t small cushion with. He said, "You vagabone, I'll have yoc indicted for ezhibitin dangerous and im moral animals " I replied, "Gentle sir, there isn't a ani ma! here that hasn't beautiful mora), bul you musn't fondle 'em You musn't med die with their Idiotsyncracies." The gentleman was a dramatio cricket, and he rote a article for a paper, in whioh he said my entertainment was a decided failure. As regards Bears you can teach 'em tc do interestin things, but they're cnreliable I had a very large grizzly bear onoe, whc would danoe, and larf, and lay down, and bow his head iu grief, and give a mounful wale, etsetry. But he often aDooyed me T. *11 I L ] ^ ^ UA nAARDlnr 11 will oe rememuerBU mai uu iuc uvbooiuu of the first battle of Bull Run, it suddenly occurred to the fed'ral soldiers that thej bad busiuess in Washington whioh ought not to be neglected, and tbey all started foi that beautiful and romantic city, maintainin a rate of speed darin the entire distance that would have done credit to the celebrated French steed, Gladiateur. Very nat'rally our gov'ment was deeply grieved at this defeat; and I said to my Bear, shortly after, as I was givin' a exhibition in Ohio ? I said, "Brewin, are you not sorry the national arms has sustained a defeat?"? His business was to wail dismal, and bow his head down, the band (a barrel origin and a wiolin) playing slew and melanobolly rnoosic. What did the grizzly old cuss do, however, but commenoe dancio and larfin in the most joyous manner. I had a narrei escape from being imprisoned for disloyalty I will relate another incident in the career of this retchid Bear. I used to present what I called in the bills A Beautiful living Pictur?showing the Bear's fondness for bis Master; in which I'd lay down on a piece of oarpeting, and the Bear would come and lay dowu beside me, resting bis right paw on my brest, the Band playing "Home, Sweet Home," very soft and slow. Altho' I say it, it was a tuchin thing to see. I've seen Tax Collectors weep over that performance. Well, one day I said, "Ladies aod gen tlemen, we will oow show you the bear's fondness for his master," and I went and laid down. I tho't I observed a pecooliar expression into his eyes, as he rolled clnm sily, to'ards me, but I didn't dream of the 6cene which followed. He laid down and put his paw on his breast. "Affection of the bear for his master." I repeated. "You see the monarch of the western wilds in a subjugated state Fierce as these animals natrally are, we now see that tbey have hearts, and can love. This bear, the largest in the world, and measurin seventeen feet round the body, loves me as a mer-ther loves her che-ild !" But what was my horror when the grizzly and iufatnus bear threw his other paw under me, and riz with me to his feet. Then claspin me in a close embrace he waltzed up and down the platform in a frightful manner, I yellin with fear and anguish. To make matters wuss, a low scurrilus young man in the audiens hollored out, "Playfulness of the bear ! Quick moosic !" I jest 'scaped with my life The bear met with a wiolent death the next day, by bein in the way when ahevily loaded gun was fired off by one of my men. But you should hear my Essy which I wrote for the Social Science oieetios j.i would have had a moviu effeck on tbeoi. I feel that I must oow conclood. Very respectfully yours, ARTEMUS WARD. Bold Attack on a Railroad Train ? On Wednesday night, about 2 o'clock, ae ; the train on the Louisville and Nashville ' Railroad was about five miles from Franklin. | # 5 I Ky , the engineer discovered that the road was barricaded He immediately slackened ; speed, but not until the engine, baggage car and express car were thrown from the ! track and upset The passengers being aroused, found the ; train surrounded by guerillas, who firechone shot as a note of warning, which passed ! through the car without injuring any one The guerillas then entered the sleeping, car, aud ordered the passengers to go for ward to the next car. As they crossed the platform, each one was compelled to band over his pocket book. The whole transaction occupied not more than five minutes, and, before the passengen fairly recovered from their astonishment the intruders were gone. When the guerillas had departed, it was discovered that the train was on fire, having oaught from a stove in the express oar, The passenger oars were pushed back out ol danger, but the engine, express car and j baggage car were burned. None of the express freight was saved, though most ol the baggage was removed. The safe of the Express Company even was burned. Atlanta Era. i Cost of War in the Eighteenth and f Nineteenth Centuries. ) The Fall Mall Gazette has the following f observations: i Au exhaustive comparison of the cost of 5 war now and formerly would be a most io structive aod a somewhat appalling docu meet . It would be impossible to draw out ; such a contrast with complete accuracy, ? but it might be done approximately. The 3 expensiveness of war to a country comprises r many items; the size of armies and navies; the cost of transport; the price of arms ] and ammunition ; the slaughter directly or indirectly caused; the extent and oompli. cation of the fortifications constructed and destroyed; and the wealth and civilization , of the district whiob is the seat of war. ; Some of these can be ascertained or esti, mated; others can only be guessed at. Thus the siege and destruction of a fortress j like Sebastopol is incomparably more costly I to both parties than the seige of a fortress like Namur. A campaign in England, or t in the heart of France or Germany, as compared with a campaign carried on in Russia, in Poland, or even in Spain, would ' be costlier beyond all measure of comparison, both in reference to the amount of property destroyed, and the delicate and complex processes of civilized and indus trial life suspended or deranged. In wild and thinly peopled lands war may cost nothing but gunpowder and life; in rich ' and populous countries far advanced in | all the luxurious appliances of modern existence its expense becomes actually in calculable. } A few facts may, howover, be noted down by which something, not of an estimate, | but of an idea, may be arrived at as to the I vastly increased cost of warfare now and in the days of our fathers and grandfathers. One point of comparison is that the armies 1 we fight with are enormously greater than they used to be. This is owing in part to our improved facilities for the transport of troops, materials and the commissariat. Railways do now, and do far more rapidly 1 and cheaply, what bullocks and wagons -did for Frederick the Great aud the Duke of Wellington. In the campaigns of the last century, in all the chief battles of the Seven Years' War, the Prussians never bad more than seventy thousand men in 1 the field, and very rarely half that number. In only two or three cases did the aggregate of the combatants ou both sides reach one hundred thousand, Even in the early battles of Napoleon the forces engaged were what would now be considered small. Before Wagram he never bad more than one hundred thousand men in the field, and seldom nearly as many. At Marengo he had not thirty thousand. It was not till the day of his downfall approached that be began to deal with corps d'armee as numer ous aud colossal as those with which the ' wars of our days are making as familiar. At Borodino and Dresden a quarter of a million were eugaged, and at Leipsio, if 1 figures can be trustred, not far from half a 1 million. The British force with which our great Duke won the Peninsular viotories never once, we believe?at least, not more ' than once?reached fifty thousand, and his entire army, even reckoning Spaniards and Portuguese, seldom much exceeded that 1 number. At the crowning viotory of Waterloo the forces on both sides were under ' one hundred and forty thousand, and of j these not one third were English. Com | pare these armies with the three hundred I thousand who fought at Solferino, the four | hundred and twenty thousand at Sadowa, and the multitudes, often exceeding a quarter of a million, with wbioh the Americans tried the terrible issues of ther civil coo| trovcrsy, and the advance made in recent I times, if it. be an advance, will be obvious at once. It is some comfort to know that the slaughter in our days, in spite of our mightier artillery and our armes dt precision, is not proportioned to the number engaged. Why this should be so we are not j prepared to say, and we are aware that the | popular impression is a different one, but 1 we believe the facts would be found to bear ! us out. Id Frederick's wars the proportion ( of killed and wounded on both sides to the I forces in the field ranged from one-sixth to one-tenth, and at the peculiar battle of Zomsdorf far exceeded this ratio. In Na! poleon's campaigns it was still higher, often averaging a fifth ; while at Eylau and Boro ' dino it is said to have reached a third. In : some of these cases, perhaps, the "missing" may have been included, but not usually. Alison's calculation is that from 1792 to 1815 three millions of Fieuch soldiers perished in the field or in the hospital, and at least an equal number out of the ranks of i their antagonists. Tho proportion of the slain and disabled in the American battles i is not known with any accuracy, but probably no one would place it higher than one I tenth; while in the Italian battles of 1859 ' it is estimated at scarcely more than a ' twelfth, and at Sadowa about a fifteenth. Still, though the proportion is less than it i used to be, the positive number who fell is s even greater, and the cost in life therefore 1 heavier. If wt compare the cost of the arms and ! artillery uow in use, and their suitable amI munition, with the ruder and cheaper !! weapons which contented us in the last war, IJ some of the figures are very startling. The old calculation for a mau-of war used to be > roughly X1000 per gun; a threedeoker i cost, therefore, ?100,000 or ?120,000. A , first rate iron-plated vessel cannot, we believe, be completed under half a million, i and some of our experimental ships are > understood to have oost nearly twice that sum. A Minnie or an Enfield rifle, with its f cartridge, is nearly five times as expensive 1 as the old Brown Bess. Even before ooni version into a breech loader, an Enfield I F (complete) costs upwards of X5 We > doubt if the old musket, when manufactured i wholesale, cost much above XL The rifled j twelve-pounder now in favor for field bat tcries costs ?90, and eaob shell it fires 4s. The brass pine-pounder, which it superseded, cost ?80, and its shell 3s. But as this would be worth as old metal ?50, while the iron gun would scarcely sell for anything, the true comparative figures would be ?90 against ?30 Lastly, the sixty-eight pounder, formerly in use for fortifications and shore batteries, cost ?100, its carriage and slide another ?100, and its shot 4s. The 1- ?- I-- 4-- -lit Armstrong oine-inon iweive-ion guu, wmi which we should now arm oar forts, costs ooe thousand two haDdred pounds, and its iron carriage and slide three hundred pounds more; while the steel shells it fires cost, as we stated a few weeks since, nine pounds each The Palliser shell, which will probably supersede these, can be made for fortyfive shillings If the more costly missile be used, every shot we fire in the next war from our great embrasures will be worth a ten pound note. Labor for the South. We do not know what to say on this subject the labor of freedmen, as the olose of operations for the season, has proved to be an utter failure. The experiment of introducing white labor from the If*rlh is nearly as bad, if not worse; so that the Southern planter must be at his wit's end to solve the problem of labor. At Beeoh Island, in this State, they have an agiicultural club, and the information there developed shows that the great ques tion of Southern labor has yet to be solved. Mr. Jonathan M. Miller made a statement to the society, which would induce the planter to believe that foreign white labor cannot be relied upon. Mr. Miller says: "At the commencement of the yeur, I employed as maoy negroes as I thought necessary for the cultivation of my lands, but in consequence of a portion of them being dissatisfied, dismissed them, thinking I could procure others in their places. In this I was disappointed, and after repeated efforts to obtain other negroes, and failing, offering to pay them at the rate of $12.50 per month, I was induced to try white la bor. Consequently, I wrote to my brotherin-law, Muj. N. W. Smith, in New York, to send me fifteen white laborers; which he did?thirteen men and two women. They arrived at Augusta on the 15th of March, I paying their passage to Savannah by steamer, and thence by railroad to Augusta, at $25 each, was to pay them at the rate ?for men, $12.50 per month, and for the women, $8. At the expiration of the first month, their wages were paid them, and they insisted that their wages should be raised, for the men, $15, and for the women, $10; notwithstanding that they had made a contract for the first mentioned amount, before leaving New York. I agreed to do 90, as they worked very faithfully Their ra tions were corn bread and bacon; as they 1 . . ? T . I_ were unaccustomed to tno corn, i gave mem occasionally rye and wheat bread, with fresh beef; also, vegetables, such as peas, tur. Dips, sweet and Irish potatoes, as soon as I raised them. I also furnished them coffee, likewise their bedding, tbey furnishing their own clothing uod paying their doctor's bill. At the end of the second month, seve ral of the best workers amoDgst them insis ted on their wages being increased still higher, two of them 817 per month, and one who acted as a gardener to 825. I put up the wages of the two to 817, as they were the best hands, and the gardener I dismissedj several of the others left; one of the women I made cook and wash for the men." _ Jdr. Miller goes on to say that the plan of introducing foreigo white labor through the ageooies of New York emigration com panies is all a humbug. These societies, when they get orders for laborers, send out runners and gather up the dregs of the city of New York, and all such as they oan pick up, and make from three to ten dollars per head for each hand furnished. They charge both parties, the employer aud employee? the former for hiring him laborers, and the latter for getting situations They bind both parties in contracts, which might do in the North, but as we have no laws to enforce such coDtracts in the South, arid as there is do honor io such characters, Mr. Miller looks upon these companies and must of their laborers as mere swindlers?the sole object being to make all the money they can out of the South?the societies by fur nishing them, and the laborers by obtaining j a free passage to the South. This labor problem is one of the most important that the Southern people have to solve We believe that the labor of the j freedmen will turn out worthless, and that j some surer mode of securing farming labor, j than exists at present, should be at once j eDtered upon. Agents should be appointed to go to Europe direct, and there make j the contracts, shipping the laborers direct- J ly to Southern ports. Irish and German ( farmers should have leases of farming lots, aod, in time, become proprietors of tho farms they work. Foreign labor is what we have to depend oo, and the easiest mode of getting it ought to engage, at ooce, the attention of Southern agriculturists. Lincoln's Last.?We have heard an anecdote of the late President Lincoln, whioh unlike some of the stories attributed in Knliaco on nntiinl fnnt, T)n CU UlUi) IOj IIXj MWiiVfv^ -M ? riog Mr. Lincoln's practice of his profession of the law, long before he was thought of for President, be was attending the Cir cuit Court which met at Bloomington, Illinois. The prosecuting attorney, a lawyer by the name of Lamon, was a man of great physical strength, and took particular pleasure in athletio sports, and was so fond of wrestling that his power and experience rendered him a formidable, and generally : a successful opponent. One pleasant day j in the fall, Lamon was wrestling near the j Court House with some one who bad chal- j lenged him for a trial, aDd in the struggle j made a large rent in the rear of bis unmen-1 tionables. Before he had time to make any ohauge, be was called into court to take up a case. The evideoce was finished, and L&mon got up to address.the jury, and having on a somewhat short coat, his misfortune was rather apparent. One of the lawyers for a joke, Btarted a subscription paper, which passed from one member of the bar to another, as they sat by a long table fronting the bench, to buy a pair of pants for Lamon "he being," the paper said, a poor bat worthy young man." Several put down their Dames with some ludicrous subscription, and finally the paper was laid in front of Mr. Lincoln. He quickly glanced over it, immediately took up his pen and wrote after bis name, "I can contribute nothing to the end in view. Familiar Conversations. number one. "Ah, Mr. Editor, I wish to advertise by the year in your paper. What will four squares cost ?" "Fifty dollars, sir." "Fifty dollars ! Why, I used to get it done for thirty, before the war. I can't pay any more now?there is do justice or reason in such high prices " "Very well, sir, if you don't like the price, let it alone. I wish to buy a pair of good sewed shoes. What is the prioe ?" "Six dollars, sir?a very nice article " "Ahem I what was the price of such shoes before the war?" "From two and a half to three dollars, sir; everything in our line, you know, is higher now." "Yes, sir. Have you some ooffee?and what is the price 7" "Wc have some very nioe Java at fifty cents " "Fifty cen's! What was the price before the war 7" "From eighteen to twenty, sir." "Well, Mr. Graspall, let mo see some of yonr bleached shirting. What is the price of that 7" "Bleached shirting is worth half a dollar per yard, sir." "Did you not formerly sell it at ffteen oeuts per yard 7" "Yes, sir; but, as I before remarked, ev erything in our line is higher than formerly." "Well, sir, I see I can't afford to buy dry goods and groceries; but I am obliged to have some flour, bacon and corn. What are those articles worth 7" "Flour is from sixteen to twenty dollars per barrel; corn, one dollar and a half per bushel, and bacon tweuty-eigbt, cents per pound." "Don't you remember when I advertised for you for thirty dollars, you sold flour at 85 per barrel, corn at 60 cents per bushel and bacon at 12} cents por pound 7" "Well, yes, I believe so." "How, then, do you expect me to pay from one to two hundred per cent, advance on former prices and not raise my rates 7" "Well, I don't know, Mr. Editor; but it does seem to me that your prices are very extortionate." !!! "ii i... a. .i r. .u.i.L . ixeauer, cue auuve is uu iunuy oaciuu , nor docs it apply to merchants alone. NUMBER TWO. "Hello! is the Editor in ?" "Yes, walk in, Mr. Muggins?take a seat, sir." "I just called to see about taking a pa- | per, Squire. W hat are they going at now?" "Four dollars a year, sir." "Four dollars 1 why, I never heard of rach extortion." "Well, Mr. Muggins, I understand you have some wheat?what do yoa ask for it ?" "Three dollars a bushel, sir." "I also want some bacon. What is the price f" "Twenty eight cents per pound, sir." "I wish, likewise, to get some corn and fodder?what are the prices of those articles?" "Corn is a dollar and i half per busiiel, and fodder a dollar aud a half per hundred. But hold on ; let us settle that newspaper ( affair. Can't you let me have it for less than four dollars ? I do not see any good reason for asking more than you did former- ' ly?which was two dollars, I believe " (Editor, somewhat excited ) "The thunder you don't! I formerly bought wheat at a dollar a bushel?you now ask three! I ' bought bacon at 12$?now you ask 28 ! I bought corn at from 50 to 75?you now ask * a dollar and a half! I bought fodder at 50 ^ cents per cwt.?you now ask a dollar and a 1 half I And so on to the end of the chap- 8 ter. Let us look at the practical working ( of the thing. I offer you my paper at two j dollars?the old price?if you will pay in produoc at old-prices This you decline to 1 do, because it would take two basnets ot wheat, which you estimate at six dbllars.? It would take four bushels of corn, which t at the present price, would amount to six dollars. It would take four hundred pounds * of fodder for which, you now ask six dol- < lars." I "Hold on, Squire?don't go any farther. s Here are four dollars; put down my name. I find editors are not, after all, so unreasonable as some of the rest of us " t Athens (Ga.) Watchman. 8 t A Family without Young Children. ?"You have no children, madam?" said the particular proprietor of a quiet bouse be- | fore letting a lady the best apartments ? "They are in the cemetery," was the gloomy reply. A tear was attempted on the part I of the landlord, the agreement was signed, I and the next day the lady arrived with a c oouple of youngsters. "I thought your l children were in the oemetery," said the I landlord. "So they were yesterday, sir," ti was the reply, "placing a few flowers on li the grave of our former landlord, who was i nervous, and, to tell the truth, so irritable, t that"'? "I understand, madam, I under- r. stand," said the enraged owner, "yourchil- e dren killed him." v Energy. Brigadier General McCallum, Director and General Manager of United States military railroads daring the war, has just presented to the War department a report, of which the following brief resume is given by the Herald: On General McCallnm's assumption of u:? \t. v._?? u:_ k.n. mo uuvico) i'ii. ubouiuu &avc uiuj vcfuaujf this NapoleoDio order: "I shall expeot you I to have od hand, at all times, the necessary men and materials to enable you to comply promptly with any order giveo?nor must < there be any failure." To comply with these exaoting requirements General McCallum organized a transportation corps to control the movements of trains, and maintain the rolling stock, and a construction oorps to lay, tear up or repair railroad tracks, build bridgee and 1 burn them if necessary. In the Department of the Mississippi bis construction corps, five thousand strong, was organized into six divisions, each a distinct body in inself, provided with all necessary tools camp equipage and field transportation, and ready to move anywhere od emergency ; his transportation oorps numbered 12,000 men. 1 Some of the achievements of General Mo- ' Callum's department deserves to rank with ' the most remarkable engineering feats of 1 modern times The wonderful bridge over tbe Chattahooche, seven hundred and eighty i1 feet long and ninety-two feet high, was ' built by the construction corps in four and ( a half days j the bridge over the Potomac 1 creek, at Acquia, four hundred and four- 1 teen feet long and eighty two feet high, was ' built ready for trains to pass in forty work- ' ing hours. In their leisure time this corps rebuilt the Chattanooga rolling mills, which 1 ! t .1 i * - I tumea in a tew montns nearly tour tnous- 1 and tons of railroad iron for the Government, and were sold at the end of the war for a hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. With justifiable pride Gen. Mc Galium classes the attempt to supply Sherman's army of a hundred thousand men and sixty thousand horses and mules from abase three hundred and sixty miles distant, over one line of single track, as one of the bold est ideas of the war. Whole corps, and even armies, were frequently transported hundreds of miles on the mere verbal or ders of their commanders. In 1865 the Fourth Army Corps were transported from East Tennessee to Nashville, distance of three hundred and sixty miles, without delay or difficulty?this herculean task requiring nearly fifteen hundred cars Nor wero the services thus rendered unattended with danger. Guerillas and raid ing parties dogged the footsteps of the construction corps wherever they went. In the first six months of 1865 one wrecking train picked up and brought into Nashville sixteen wrecked locomotives and nearly tbree hundred carloads of wheels and bridge iron, the destructive handwork of rebel raiders. Hood was a thorn in McCallum's side; but the damage he did was repaired with won derful celerity. In October, 1864, Hood, passing round Sherman's army, tore up thirty-live miles of track and burned four hundred and fifty feet of bridges between Chattanooga aod Atlanta. The damage was made good and the line put in working order again in thirteen days. Between Tunnel Hill and Resaca twenty five miles of track aod two hundred and thirty feet of bridgiog were reconstructed in seven days and a half. A Brother. ?AU hands on deck! take in sail ! was the hoarse shout of the mate down the oompanion way. and I tumbled out of my hammock, rubbed open my eyes, aod hurried on deck. The sky was cloudless, clear and blue. The ocean was smooth as a "sea of glass." "What is up, Mr. N ?" said I.? He pointed towards the west, without a word. A little cloud, no larger than the hand, wus swiftly moving up the horizon I had been in the tropical latitudes long enough to know what it meant. I was second mate of the ship, and tho' out a mere boy, had become an expert holmemnn and in times r*f duntrnr incnrinhlc 8 > ? ? ? I :ook my station at the helm, beside the sea- 8 nan who was on duty there. Darkness came dowD upon the ocean as though a mantle had been thrown over it a [n twenty minutes all was dark as the darkest night, and the howling winds threw the J* 'oam high over the deck, and dashed the 1 vaves upon as with stanning force All 1 tail had been furled. The sailors aod offi- 0 sers had been holding on, or were lashed to 1 .he spars and rigging. Nothing was said, a 'or no voice could be heard above the storm ' hat raged around us ! I put my lips to the ear of the helmsman, Q "Bill, did you ever see such a storm os a his, before?" 8 "Aye, aye, my boy, many of them. I c vas once ship-wrecked off this coast, was ^ Iritted ashore on a plank, and should have ^ )een eaten by canibals bad it not been for f, l brother." Brother ?" shouted I. 8) "Yes, a brother. Just as they were a- Q >out to roast me, I saw a venerable chief c, ipproaohing; and without, for a moment, ^ hinkiog what I did, I gave him the sign Q hat Masons give when danger is nigh.? Q 3e looked at me in wonder, and on my re- j( testing it, he rushed up to me, took me in lis arms-and olaimed me as his brother." My mind had not then reoeived the b iight of Eternal Truth ; but sinoe that day ] have wondered at the almost superhuman d ompleteness of that system of brotherly d ove which has endured since the days of ai n o_ l m t it vmg common s lempie. ana Deen ever p rae to its Great Teacher, even in heathen h mds. There, among the worshipers of ^ dots, and the devourers of human flesh? ic here where ail was darkness, superstition d: ad ignorance, the Light of Eternal Knowl- sj dge shone through the clouds and left its tt ?arm radiance upon the human heart. at A Paris Miser's Breakfast.?A miser recently died iu Paris, and bis ways of living were oertainly novel in the extreme. He boasted that bis breakfast never cost him more than a half penny, and that it always consisted of bread and batter, or bread and fruit. This was his economic plan: Every morning be bought a soar roll of bread. With this he went to one of the . markets, ana if it was winter, be began by tasting the country-woman's batter. A bit of this was put in his month, with a bit of bread previoasly deposited. Somehow the kiltfOi* tbaa nlnnna kn/1 a* Ka/1 oAfna Aava* wuwwii vraa otvwujo uauj vi uau oviuo uaivi be did not like. Not to be rude, be swallowed it, bat made no purchases. Id summer be fared more luxuriously, especially io the time of the cherries, the strawberries, the plums, aud the grapes. "Have you good cherries to-day?" "Yes." "How do you sell them ?" "Six sous a pound." "Can I taste them ?" "Certainly." He takes two or three cherries, eats them with a mouthful of bread, and says, "Hen 1 heu ! they're a little sour," and he passes an to the next stall. Before be got half way dowD, he used to breakfast perfeotly. Of course, after time, the women who sold fruit and butter at the various markets began to know him, aud amused at this eccentricity, they seldom refased to let him taste their goods. He has recently died? seventy years old?very rich, having never breakfasted on dry bread, or at a cost exceeding a half-penny. t&* A good Story is related of a Congressman who in bis early days refused to believe io the telegraph and expressed his incredulity even after the line from Baltimore to Washington had been many days io successful operation. A certain friend of this honorable gentleman happened to have a little joke upon him. Walking late one fine moonlight night in the Capitol groonds, the Doctor caaght a glimpse of his distinguished friend in company with a lady very much prettier than his wife. Lest the jealousy of the latter should be excited, the pair hastily separated to avoid observation, and ooming over to the Doctor, the Congressman, with a communicativeness entirely uncalled for, assured his friend that he bad wandered up the grounds "to get some ?rass to feed hia rabbits." The Doctor consented to keep his joke to himself, with no restriction upon his own enjoyment of it. Now when this same Congressman one day entered the Baltimore telegraph office to iemand an experimental proof, and they :old him to name whom he would oall in Washington, it happened that he named the Doctor aforesaid. In a very few minutes ie was surprised to get word from the Doo:or, of some commonplace import. He still juspected a forged message, and ordered ;bat that faot be communicated to the Doc:or. The response was prompt?"I want a irtle grass for my rabbits." The operator vas coofounded. The incredulous honora}le looked at the message With a blush le tore it up, exclaiming. "The thing vorks, for that is Doc, or the d? 1." Massachusetts Colored RepresenrATlvES ? The Springfield Republican ,hus endorses the colored State representaives chosen : Two negroes are chosen as represents* ;ives to the Legislature?Charles L Mitch* ?H, who is elected from the richest and most irisfnrtrntin ward of Boston, which also han. pens to have the most colored people in it; tod Edward G. Walker, of Charlestown. rhese men are chosen, not as a joke or a latire, bat ia honest earnest, because they ire fit for the position, and because they lave rights which white men at least respect. Vlitobell is a printer, formerly lived in Hart'ord and Spingfield, and was employed for ;ome months in the Republican office.? iVe found him a capable and intelligent vorkman, and his brother representatives ire assured by our old printers that they vill find him "all right." Tftis is the first ime, we believe, that black men have held eats in our legislative halls, and taken a hare in tbe conduct of the Government. A Celestial Hotel ?There is in Pekin i "House with Chicken Feathers," where louseless vagabonds may sleep for one mill the tenth part of a cent) a night. In an mmense hall the floor is covered two or hree feet thick with chicken feathers. The ustomers are introduced into this ball and ake tbe first place they can find; they disppear in the feathers as if they were in rater All ages and both sexes lie pell ell together. Over this downy bed hangs canopy as large as the hall itself, the canpy is made of felt and is perforated with s many oval holes as the hall may contain leepers. When the hour is struck for the losing of doors this canopy is lowered to he floor Every sleeper hastens to thrust is neaa tnrougu a noie, in order to breatbe resh air and escape being sofFooated by the gathers. At the boar of rising a gong sands and each sleeper palls his bead oat f the bole to avoid being strangled by the anopy, which is palled ap to the ceiling by looks aDd pulleys. This seoares the waking f all the lodgers. They then go to tbe ffice and pay their mill for their night's )dging. Very Well Pot.?Some one writes oth gracefully and forcibly: "I would be glad to seo more parents unerstand that'when they spend money jaioioasly to improve and adorn the house nd tbe ground around it, they are in effeot _ _ lL Mia Aktldv/tn A ?v?/irvii(im a ntn n a4 ayiDg bucii uuiiuiou o picuiiuui it\j owajr aw ome as maoh as possible to enjoy it; bat iat when they spend money unnecessarily i fine olothing and jewelry for their chil? ren, tbey are paying them a premium to tend their time away from home?that is, lose places where they can attract the most Mention and make the most display."