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# ft ? V0& 1. NO. 15. t THE FREE SUUTH. PUBLISHED EVERY (Saturday Morning, , AT BEAUFORT, S. C. Jaime* M. Lalta&Co.,- - Proprietor*. J. G. Thourpwou. Editor and Publisher, j C. C. Leifh, No. 1 Mercer street, N. Y., Agent* f Who W authorised to receive subeci ij>tioiis.j ' ?. M. PETTINOILL & CO., No. 6 State street, Boston, Mass., Agents. TERM S?'These I>oi.laks per annum, in advance, i Single Copies, Five Cists. ADVERTISING?One Dollar per line, each insertion. ! A usual DieoorxT to quarterly and yearly advertisers. firfsx. [OrigiuaLj CORING HOME. BT L. A. s. Jiu coming home to vpu, mother ? I'm coming home to-day? Nor go to war again; I'm coming home to stay. Coming to lay my head, mother, Upon yowf loving breast; Your boy ha? weary grown, And hastens httne to rest 1 long to be at home, mother, You know not bow I pine, e ^ Thy smile to see and feel The warm, aweet kiss of thine. The thought of home and yon, mother. Has ahngat banished pain Tbc thought has brought rac joy, mother, That we may meet again., tTKtrrw - b^.,1, mother? You I led our shattered ranks A ? In thickest of the fray. And now aauptning home, mother, j r I shall to-day. r lee* this message home, mother. j (Thfct God may be your stay; Toot boy troot the same As when be went away. In that last dreadful strife ( Hot carnage nded the day; ?*? s. The shell that spared me life Tore half my limbs away. Thus mangled, now I come, mother. And shall be home to-day, Nor go to waMgtfb, i And yet nqt wi* thee stay? ? T C?yoo bear it, n%.le mother * ? i -A " S^wet me tell you, Vother, I'M oo*ise lions fo pis. fW I know It will be hard, mother, p y For you to^ive me up? To say "God's will be done," And drink the deathly cap. ? But"1'I Wve "fought the light," jj And whilst 1 suffering lie Thy smile shall be my light? At home theii let me die. 1 1 soon shall be at home, mother, O! do not mourn and weejx, 1 Bat greet with tearless eye, ( And kiss my sonl to sleep, ? Reclining on your breast, mother. Your warm breath on my cheek, t Twill not be hard to dia, mother, 0 Can I but hear you speak. j, 10 yea! I'm coining home, mother, I I'm coming home !o-day, ^ To go to war no more, Nor yet with thee to stay. *' * The angels borer-round me t To waft my soul on high, ,] And yet?and yet they wait, mother, -\ That I at home may die. m Would yon be Voting Again* nj t Would you be young again? J So would not I? ( One tear to memory given,* Onward I'd hlc. Life's dark flood forded o'er? c' All but at rest on shore - t Say, would you plunge once more, n With home so nigh < a 1 If you might, would you now Retrace your way ? . Wander through stonny wilds, Faint and astray ? I Night's gloomy watches fled, c Morning all beaming red, ^ Hope* smiles around us shed, Heavenward?away. ( Where, theu, are thoee dear ones, Oar joy and delight ft Dear and most dear, though now t Ukldden ftom sight* v Where they rejoice to be, There Is the land for me! J ^ My time-fly speedily! C rt'ome life and light! v 1 . i Home Iu War Time. t 5be turned the fair p?2e with her fairer handMore fair and frail than it was wont to be? s On each remembered thing he loved to see f She lingered, and, as with a fairy's wand, Enchanted it to order. Oft she fanned f # New motes into the sun; and as a bee 1 Sings through a bed of flowers, so mnrmured she, (1 {And so her patient love did understand t The reliquary room. Upon the sill She fed his fhvorite bird. "Ah, Kobin, sing! He loved thee." Than she touches a sweet string r Of soft recall, and toward the eastern hill S Smile* all her soul?(or Aim trfto cannot hear ^ The Haven, croaking at hie carrion car I ? m . r Leaf by leaf the?soses fall, E Drop by drop ie spring runs dry; f One by one, beyond recall, Summer beauties fade and die; , r But the roses blooai again, r And the spring wili gush anew, 'J In the pleasant April rain ( . - And the summer sun and dew. r So In honrs of deepest gloom ? c When the spring of gladness fail. And tiie roses iu the bloom, Droop like maidens wan and j>ale; t We shall And some hope that liea t I IJke a silent gem apart, *> Midden far from careless eyes Jit ttw fftrtta tf tbs ban, I l?L f W) v 4 Ik v X3J2J i I f.OKI OA. I It* S?il, Climate, and Resources. At one period the name " Florida," was 1 applied to a much larger tract of country than is now embraced within the limits of I the state. According to Koberts this j name was given bv Ponce de Leon in con- ; sequence of liis having discovered the 1 country 011 Easter day in the year 1512. j Whether l)e Leon named the country or not. his claim to be the original discoverer must yield to Sebastian Cabot who coasted the whole of its eastern Rliore in im. By the treaty with Spain, in 1705, the Perdido was constituted the western limit of Florida. On the north, the 31st deg. of north latitude was extended from the Perdido to the Chattahooche river, the boundary, thence descended that river to the forks of Appalachieola; it thence proceeded eastward to the head of St. Mary's, thenceidown that river to its month. On the east, it is bounded by the Atlantic j Ocean, and by the Gulf of Mexico on the 1 south aud west. The peninsular of Florida, or that portion of Florida lying east and south of the Suwanee river bears the general designation of East Florida. Interesting descriptions are given of this region in the writings of Garcelasco de la Vega, Romans, Roberts, Stork, the elder ! and younger Bartram, Darby, Forbes, Vignolles, and Simmons. There is ^ilso a i rare and ancient manuscript in the Span; Lh lunonace. lately in possession of the keeper of the Archives at Saint Augustine, early history of Florida is TaTesfrfn^lTEma?^ -"^qrnlnr succession of i somewhat satisfactory ^ siles of ruins, the extensive moats, "*tIUT leep ditches, tlie numerous roads, the i jroad avenues, and the wide spreading j iehls, that even now show signs of form- !. >r cultivation. i' The climate of Florida is diversified, J ( embracing six degrees of latitude and as , nany of longitude. The mean tempera- i ( ure of St. Augustine in latitude 30 deg. I. iortli^is?i?l4out 68 lj, degAes. Frost hosT^ eA at K'^Vh-h- y~ r,a.^2^Lnn?h tUift deg. j io^th latitude. It is shown by the mete- 1 , >rological statistics published by Surgeon I General Lawson, United States Arrnv, as . ! I lerived from the diaries kept at all the j f nilitary posts, to have a more equable j, empesatur* in summer and winter than ! lUToth?r part of the United States. The < nercury, as he states, rises higher in sum- ] ner, and falls lower in winter, everywhere ^ Lse whore observations were made, than j ipon the coast of Florida, and in point of i ( quableness it surpassed Italy or Egypt. ^ ts regards healthfulness, the vital statis- ^ ies collected by the government with the ensus in I80O-UO. show that the peninsunr jKJrtion of Florida exceeds every other 1 ?art of the United States. Tho snperin- i endent United States census, under date 1 nly 10, 1855, writes: " That in the Connies of the peninsular, the number of [oaths returned by the marshals shows a atio of 0.93 or less than one per cent of he population. Second, this rate of morality is less than in any of the states, ."bird, in the counties of Nassau, l)uval, Columbia, Alachurw and Levy, (principal otton planting counties,) the ratio of j ieatlis to population was 0. G9 per cent.; | hat of the United States being 1.39, the aaximum in any other state being '2.31, nd the minimum 0.95 per cent. The soil of the peninsular is very proactive and yields all the richest staples, t produces the long staple or sea island otton of commerce over every part of it ritli a productiveness surpassing South Carolina and Georgia_tp wliich this staple ias been before limiteU; and can supply ny quantity of it to which the consumpion can ever reach. It produces sugar rith great advantage over Louisiana or [*exas, having a superior climate for the ane; and has sugar lands enough to sup?ly a large pari of the United States. The obacco produced there, })eculiar to its oil and climate, commands in market eventy-fivo cents per pound. It has the inest flavor wliou grown on old lands tlint 1 re well manured. The sandy soil near 1 he sea-coast, is well adopted for this pro- f taction; and a usual season will produce ( hree good cuttings from the same stalks, t Che seed should be sown in December, 011 1 ich beds finely pulverized, and kept con- i tantlv damp. From February 4o March \ he plants will be fij to transplant into the f ield, which ought to be well ploughed and j c aanured. Rice is a valuable crop, whore I resh water can be had to overflow the f pound during the dry season. Upland ice, too, can be cultivated with profit. j: Che pine lands when trod by cattle, have t ?ften produced sixty bushels of rough i ice td an acre. With one month's labor. \ me hand with a horse and plow, can raise i on acres of rice, worth $450. Indigo was t lie principal staple of the Florida plan- . ei*s, while the British possessed the conn- i ry. It brought the highest price of any f wrought into the London tuarket, with the i * - ? TflBl . pad ip" ipattpopt s. C . satilr JUX1 L' JL W IV x ^ ?.7 exception of that from Curacea*, which 1 was said to have been manufactured in u I better manner. Except cane this is the \ most certain crop raised in Florida. It w < a native of the country, the pine barrens! f are covered with it. The old fields culti-" t vated by the English eighty years ago, are ? still covered with it, in spite of time and i 1 cultivation in other products. The usual L' product to each hand was one hundred <. and seventy-five pounds, which sold for f one dollar per pound. As the climate is j the best in the -world for the production of 1 | silk, and as there are considerable districts * I of country, that will produce no crop so t i well as the mulbery tree, the culture of J j this staple should be encouraged. The Cochineal insect as a native of Flor! iila, and as tha male nopal is also a native i plant, found about the Florida Keys, it is I believed that this might be cultivated to a , certain extent. Cora, Irish and sweet potatoes grow in every part of the state. ; Florida has fine and extensive natural pasj tuiages, and produces large supplies of neat cattle for market. Of fruits the orange seems indegenous, large natural : groves are found on the St. John's river : and in the very heart of the peninsular, i ; Shaddocks are cultivated; forbidden-fruit, citrons, lemons, aad limes, arc rapidly inI creasing. The pomegranite is met on almost every plantation. The quince suc, ceeds but the apple does not Figs are ; abundant and richly flavored. They are raised with great ease. A limb cut from a bearing tree will produce figs the second vear after planting. Peaches and ap ricotscoine to perfection. Large orchards ore cultivated. The persimmon of FloriThe^i!r?-mL thnt of the middle states, cy. The Hawjy more and ^n!" grows upon* lArgo arul n*111^1116' j* ing tree. Tlie^eocoanut isanath^ 8Pretw " or at least naturalized south of the 2?t*. ' leg. of north latitude. Sugar and custard ^ apples grow perfectly well. The cocolobe P< or sea-side grape flourishes on the south;>rn coast. Its abundant clusters arc usu- M fijlv abonTujuc i^>ot k?4?; the jffhpe tAstes*1^ iinioh like a cling-stonc peach. Of plums there are the chickasa^, the pickok, cork- 01 er, sowland, hueso, mastil, and pigeon; F: ill these are native. The plantain, ban- 01 ma, and pine apple have been cultivated at vith success. n< Vegetation varies with soil and climate. d< The most frequent trees in the pine bar- ai ens are, pitch pine, loblolly pine, yellow pi oine, willow oak, and bhick jack. Of tli rines the muscadine grape is most abun- hi lant. The grasses are also numerous; 8^' here are few spots indeed of pine barren ^ hat are not covered with grass. 01 The uplands are clay formations which irise generally on tho subtending lime- ^ itone; they unually commence about a wenty miles from the coast. The trees L>n this soil are abundant, and form the deasantest groves imaginable; such as re >aks; block, red, yellow, Spanish, post, er ind white, yellow pine, black hickory, ^ hick-shelled liickory, magnolia, umbrelift al ree, yellow poplar, dogwood, wild cherry, m lersimmon, holly, sassafras, mulberv, " in jloek gum, cntalpa, scarlet maple, plumb, mnona, gordonia, hopca, white locust, nc icach, chestnut, birch, white, iron-wood, Ii loney locust, sweet bay, wliich produces ?e imber inferior only to mahogany, which jn t closely resembles, spice wood, ameri- i? an olive, spotted haw, cabbage palm, cot- 6? on tree, juniper, red ceder. sweet gum, 111 ivc oak, and saponaria. The trees most ^ leculiar to swamps are: same as pine bar- m ens, swamp ash, white ash, oval leaved, ac >lack; willow oak, lyre-leaved, chestnut, md pignut; tujielo, plane tree, winter ^ )lumb, loblolly, ogecliee lime, bumelia, cr md cyprus. ' gi On approaching the 2?tli degree of north ^ altitude the whole vegetation begins rap- tv tUy to change. Oaks and yellow pines ht lecouie rare, and at length disappear. The ^ ^ lawly, cocoloba and gum elemi take their ihvces on the sea coast, and pitch pine j] akes the place of yellow pine in the inte- m ior. Among other timbers the following uay be found: The white mangrove , rrows to the size of a forest tree, one and 0E i lialf feet in diameter, and often rises to bn lie height of sixty feet without a limb. Jlaek mangrove, lignum vibe, maliogany, naderin, logwood, wild cinnamon, sattin vood, mastil, blockwood, water willow, or >apadillo, papayer, hickok, or coco plum, n} nstord apple, red bay, manchineal, -isp- ^ >al, white-stopper, tamarind, cocoanut, ^ ind palms. B< Florida is plentifully watered by clear ^ md wholesome springs, abundant in ev- su 17 direction. The bays and rivers abound n delicious fish and oysters. Wild tnrcoys and deer are numerous, so arc wild ^ vater fowls, and of great variety. A wri- jft| er of recent date gives the following pro- uc luctions of California: tapioca, made from c" he manidive plant, (Jastropha manihot,) J,"' igs, citrons, raisins, prunes, almonds, to iutwega, and mac$, "It is estimated/' | it* I ' I i rW * DAY, APRIL 18, 1863. ie says, 41 that 8400,(XX) per annum could >e retained in the state if their products rcre cultivated to the extent of the home lemand." Now all of these productions crow in Florida, and there are not less lion ten million acres whege the soil and limnte are congenial to theuegrowth. Inleed, most kinds of tropicakor European ruita rii>en in Florida. Vines, oranges, itrons, lemons, limes, olives, figs, pomejmnites, mulberries, tamarinds, mangoes, xieoanuts, sugar cane, pine apples, and Dananos attain perfection. Two succes five crops of corn and three of potatoes ire often produced in the year. " The question is often asked, will people >f the northern states enjoy accustomec1 health in Florida? The transition fron Kew England to a region bordering or te tropics is very considerable, but sola] at is^nok' a cause of disease, nor is i Kg!' degree of temperature merely, unfa vorable to human life. The climate of St Helena which corresponds very nenrh Th'th Florida is not ill adapted to the Eu r^peait constitution; indeed it lias beei found congenial to the crews of vessel tfct have been kept for a long space o tjflte on salt provisions and without vege t JHe*. The aterage temperature of th tl^rmomet^r throughout tho whole yen is, in this island, from 56 to 78 Fahrenheit Ott of a population of 5,000 or 6,000 thei were but eighty deaths, and of tliem nin wcte above seventy years of age. So i Fl^ida, the healthy condition of the ij habitants is visible in their cheerful mai ners and active rural industry, the cultivi tion of the soil being their principal occi pafion. Tlie proportion of white inhab tafftswho own slaves is less in Florii than any other slave state, except, pe haps, Texas. In tU6 peninsular of Floi da the trade winds are pretty constan and the atmosphere is therefore more fr ouently roRfflrp.fAV?.JT^ti ' ' ^CTduring the whoft year a fresh* nd very elastic air, by reason of thj ^M'^^oua action of J? *^^^f>rinciple, by which liquids arejj uicu, mill e>eu ice loiwuu uj rtuiuroup atfon or exposure to a cnrrent of air. rom the coolness of the night, it is the dinary custom to hare a blanket folded tli? foot of the bed to draw up when Hjessary. The benefici^ and abundant ;ws, (arising from the numerous rivers id Hikes,) cool and invigorate the atmoslerc and give a vigorous luxurience to le vegetation. To conclude, the beauti1 mere of East Florida, enchanting i>pe^ forests of palms, and orange ove<, succulent roots, delicious herbs id fruit, abundant and nourishing food 1 thdearth, in the air, and in the wnter, finc( its azure skies, deep blue seas, rtile glades and elastic atmosphere, have ich aid all combined to make it almost realisation of the dreams of Ponce de eon. . Wisconsin and Minnesota.?Wo hare ad w?h great pleasure an address delived Iw Thomas Wliitpey, Esq., at the lening of the new Chamber of Com* erce ivoms in Milwaukee. The address >oundi in instructive statistics. It entioris the fact, that Wisconsin.has out* ripped every state in the Union, in rapid crease of population?Minnesota alone ;cepte4. The ratio of increase in Uli)is froii 1840 to 1850 was 79 per cent, i Iowa *346 per cent. Wisconsin 887 per >nt. ijhe ratio in Minnesota from. 1850 1860 jras 2,701 per cent. The ratio of crease f? tlie United States from 1850 to j GO waa85*? percent. In the Northwest j \ pr ceii. Wisconsin 150 pr cent. Fanug lands in Wisconsin (1860) 7,880,170 ires, valued at 8131,000,000; a gain in due du&ng ten years of over a hundred illions of dollars. In 1861, 1,112, G00 res of knd were cultivated in wheat in riseons(i?, yielding 27,31G,000 bushels. risconsi6 is now the second wheat proicing sate in the Union. The wheat op for J801 was three million bushels eater tlThu that of Ohio, New York and I the >$w England States combined, lie average crop to the acre for 1861 was renty-foiV and a half bushels. A greater erage yfeld than England, France, or landers could show. Passing from com, its, rye, and hay to live stock?the value live stock in 18G0 was 817,807,366. hat year fc ew 1,011,915 pounds of wool; ade 13,GI,653 pounds of butter. The due of lumber worked in 1860 was 84, 16,150. The yearly report of,furs and ins from Milwaukee alone is not less than ic millionjdollars. Nine thousand more .mo/VIo AI Ivt*# *\ArtVA/1 i?> UlCin ui mxi ]KK next iu iUiinniini i; 1802 tliafc in the entire State of New )rk for 18$t).?Exchange. HoSITTAM IX PHILADELPHIA. ? There e lit present Ucetly-sijc soldiers hospitals Philadelphia, providing nccommoda)lis for thou*a/>(l four hifmired aim rli)-tfre idfRhd wounded soldiers. These 0* usroillj efflled to their full capacity. ?sides the *ovision made by government r their management, many ladies volunrily devote their time to minister to the ffering. _ A Vehemlext Protest.?The Eightv st Oliio re#mi nt, largely composed oi moerats, stationed at Corinth, Miss., tely adopted resolutions vehemently demueing the copperheads, their protest jsing thus r^'We want every man, woan, and child in Ohio to know that our giment is opposed, bitterly and forever treason in ?.i midst, in its front, and In i war,11 to5 +i \ j Note* from a Plantation. 1 j?t hmox rrts. * 1 I described to you in my last, Mr. Edi1 tor, the process by which I became a ' "Gideonite," and now it remains ^o tell ; how I conduct the affairs and enjoy the life of such a character. Perhaps you j 1 have lived on a plantation yourself, sir, | and can bear testimony to the fact that j your imported planter is not quite as 1 much a nabob as cheering friends at the k North had pictured to his expectant imagination. Oh, said they, his position will ' be very agreeable indeed; he will have a nice house to live in, plenty of servants to 1 ! wait on him, to fan him and keep off the ^ flies, and all his labors will be comprised 1 in, "Do this," and "Do th^jt" But de* i ponout can't see it. la soon as I had r succeeded in clearing my "nice house" of negroes, I removed my effects thereinto, and commenced the life, of a nabob in earnest. You must know what my ; effects were: one chair, (taken from a house j f in Beaufort, without leave,) one child's ( crib, spliced out to the ordinary length of the human stature: all'other effects were 1 in a trunk. A tabic and a sideboard, j * found on the plantation premises, com- j if* plcted your nabob's outfit of furniture. , A cook was soon fouhd, as the only essen- j ffiri interrogatory was, "Can she make 0 waffles?" and bringing out several tin arti>r cles for culinary purposes, the nabob eomt. mcnccd his business. You know how one ,e ulways remembers his first impressions of things, and you know also how, on better 0 acquaintance, thoge first impressions ben come "as trees walking." Well, night l- was coming on; the sun went down in a j. red-hot glow, and darkness and the mosquitoes came on together and all at once. a* I stood on the piazza of my "nice house " i- to enjoy what of coolness the evening i- could impart, and along the road I saw i- the niccht pickets marching to their posts. "* I then began to realize that I was in a T' war country, where defense against ene**" mics was necessary. Then came sundry jc reflections,^induced by my ignorance of the surrounding country. How far I was [from actual rebels I knew not, and how easy it might be to be stolen out of bed k by some Floyd and tied up to a live oak 1"nh' Jvith no R'try thin doors, and in case they'gave ; n [ out, a pair of very tolerable skedaddling ; utensils. Then all grew still, and I began i ^ to think of retiring. I looked the two ! iSJ thin doors, closed tho shutters, and then p came again the thought that I was alone. \ How did I know but spies niight be out- ! t< side, or rebels plotting my downfall? -I j1] had an impulse to walk on tiptoe and han- ! t] die tilings carefully. I felt somewhat as I : ? used to when a child, and thought a ghost : ti or the devil was after me, and found no . y relief till I was safely ensconced in bed, ! tl which is the child's retreat from all hob- j goblins. I need not describe minutely f] the process of retiring, as mine does not | _ differ materially from that of the world in , general. I retire very much as George ! Washington, Esq., or Mr. Napoleon Bona- i s< parte, did. Well, after I was safely under h the netting, I couldn't sleep. What strange? ( a noises I heard! MoBquittves snug outsiue ' w the netting, beetles and indescribable in- ; n sects knocked themselves around the room, , 11 mice and rats tumbled about behind the i a ceiling^ cockroaches dropped from the c walls, crickets and locusts tiled their saws, e and out of doors, tree-toads chirruped, a frogs croaked, cats made music, a certain 1 o mocking-bird had a song that wasn't quite ' tl played out, add a certain dog considered , si it his prerogative to hark under my win- i " dow. All these sounds I actually lie;ird, ! ct and some others I imagined, such as the w occasional report of a gun footsteps about j c the house and 011 the piazza; but at length ,ii "tired nature's sweet," &c., came tamv k relief. Then I dreamed of a fellow witli n bonis, who had butternut-colored clothes, 1 tl and a half-eaten ear of corn, and a cotton 11 rope, and a brace of pistols in his pocket, a; and he was about to apply the rope to my neck, but I made so stout a resistance j that I awoke and heard some one pound- | *1 ing furiously on the window shutter. I 1 opened it, and it was broad day; u colored , * ' man stood before the window: . "I come to ye, sah," said lie. ; ^ " Well, I see you." ' w " I come to ax you, sah, if you would i please, be so kind sah, as to give me a P pas." ! (1 Where do you want to go?" ; w "Unfurl, sah." " I accommodated the mnu with a pass, a duly made out according to law. j1 " Please, sah, put two name dedda." 'l " What two names?" 11 "Sally anil me, sail. Tom nml Hagnr, ami Mary and Jinny, and Jenny and Phillis, ax for n pass too. sah." pi Very modest request that, but easily a granted, and the colored gentleman goes j a on his way rejoicing. H Among the things necessary for a plan- i hi tation superintendent is a horse, and with ( A one I was furnished by the government, tc The horse had been confiscated to the j W United States, though I thought then that { li! the United States, if they had tried the ; h< animal, would hardly hare wanted him. ' ie He was a venerable animal, gray with age, ; n< and marked with the infliction of repeated - p] blows. He walked with a slow and digni- j st lied guit, and live-oak switches could si scarcely induce him to cantor. His frame- hi work was quite apparent, but his eye , P retained still some of its pristine fire. I i called him "Bucephalus." in token of j what he might he might have been, hod liis ?ge been less, and gave him the sur- :l* name of " The Boney," to distinguish him from Alexander's celebrated nag. He was j j1' apparently quite fond of stumbling, and it amounted to a science to keep on his back. More than once I lay at Iris feet, ^ while lie looked placidly down and won- ?* dered how I got tliero. But Bucephalus ^ the Bvnoy, went the way of all living. l)l \ * to* & Y\ * . > \ v f ?iu? PRICE FIVE CENTS. He. had an intuition that he ought to be nt, ' better fed, and moreover, lie remembered I stables Where lie had tasted com. Tliither / lie hied himself one night, but not under- I standing the order of the sentinel to halt f and give the countersign, he received n severe bayonet wound in the aide. Soon after this he sickened and died, and the 1 buzzards devoured his earthly remains. Thereafter I was obliged to perambulate ' > l l-'i !,?? upon a iniue, which wohkiu i w m path I directed, and "would po in paths of its own choosing, and would throw me > nie into the road nnd across logs. But I bore it all; I was a (iideonite, and learned to enitiiro a good many tilings. Mules were not my greatest torments, by any means. I am writing of first impressions, and I must say a word about the colored people, as I first found them. My preconceived notions of the slave population, were drawn from Ordway'S and Buckley's. I expected to find tho" negroes a happy, contented race, especially given to music and the art of persona^ decoration. But I was rather disappointed. I had hoped to 6ee them seated at evening in the doors of their neat cabins, listening to the Jones of the banjo and bones, or to songs of colored love. But I have not seen a negro that ever saw a banjo, .or flint could be persuaded it was* not sinful; heinously sinful, "towarble "Uncle Ned" or "Oh, Susanna." I have even been seriously reprimanded ; for playing the piano," us if the instru, iuent were incapable of anything but the devil's tattoo. Then, too, the personal , adornments were not as extensive as 1 had ' pictured. Indeed, I should say, if I were I to say anything, which I don't, that adornj mcnts were even too scanty to satisfy ; modesty, excepting on Sundays. , I But I will retain further observations i for another time. t A Bemakkahle Winter.?So far from ' New England being loft qut iu the cold, ; we seem to have changed climates with j the south aud west. The winter has been unusually mi]^ here, with no snow of any consequence, while there have Heeb two or three saow storms as far south as ForIn Ohio and Kentucky, I two -or tljrec weeks ago, a severe snow \ f ; storm blocked up the railroads, suspend,- ^ ! iug business and travel, and .nr^j* . iJhese hits ; ^JWff'ff^ashvillelthe ^nbitterkold the present ispatches report a heaVy snow in mountain regions of Pennsylvania, com- -> letely blocking up the railways. The enson in Cannada lias been about the [line its here, wliib in the island of Cape Ireton it has been even more remarkable, re learn that there liad boon no snow np ) January 27. K letter from Aric7iht^)f ira't date, how before us, -remarks, 4 4 Cat le and sheep continue, ns they did all sumigr and fall, grazing in our fields and pasires. The thing was never known before, leighing and winter always set in here at ie first of December, and ere the first of anuary, harbors, ponds and lakes are all rozen over. To-day is as mild as spring." -Bosfo/t Journal. A Path i otic Wife.?Last week, a de?rter from the Seventy-seventh arrived at is home in this city, after much doubling nd twisting, and many a weary and dretvry alk to avoid being captured. He was larried only the week previous to his reglient leaving Camp Peoria, and of course, . , fter brushing up a little, one of his first alls was upon his bride. The news, howver, of liis desertion had preceded him, nd his youhg wife, wlio*is truly a patritie and Union-loving lady, met him* at tie door and refused him admittance, Luting in a very emphatic manner, that ; there was no room in that house for a esertey." liis chop-fallen appearance lia mnt Yt-iiVi f/unnn nf Vila ol/l nccn. Ill U Jiv lUVf nvfMiv Wi lAAil V1V1 UOOV" iates, can welt be' imagined, and we are ^formed his wife utterly refuses to acnowlfcdge.him as her liege lord, until ho eturns to the line o/ Ins duty. He left .10 next day for the country, whero he is ow reflecting upon the fate of traitors nd cowards.?Peoria (III.) Transcript. " Mustek no in*. "?A joke is told by to boys of the 117th, in regard to tho mustering in " of a darkey attached to :ie regiment who was fearful he would bo eprived of his pay uidess he was joined ) the service. A huge mustard plaster us applied to his back about a foot be)w where flic buttons on his coat were laced, and under the belief that all soliers were served in the same manner, ho ore it until the pain became unendurule, when lie was declared " mustered in" ccording to the law in such eases niado nd provided. If that darkey don't get is wages it will not be because he has ot suffered for his country. How to .Toix the Parts.?At a dinner arty given in this city in the year 1775, gentlemen of considerable notoriety us m'f wna naked: "Prnv. what is a torv?" m replied, 44 A torv is a creature wliose end is in England, while his body is in rnerien, and 1 think the two parts ought > l>e joined by stretching the neck." Te have still pel-sons among lis not unke this description of the tory, whose ?ads are in liiclunond, while their bods are in New York; and though we might it recommend the old revolutionary wit's Ian of bringing the two parts together by retching the intervening membranes, we * lould certainly not object to seeing the >dv sent whore the head is.?Kerning oat. A Touching Incident in Poland. -^The reign papers have a touching incident >out Poland. A little boy was standing the door of his mother's house, when 3 saw the Russians lire a volley on the isurgents. "Mother," cried the boy, the Holy Virgin protects our friends, >r I saw none of theju fall. A Russian fieor rode up and sard. " See if the Holy irgin will protect yon," at the same time lowing out the hoy's brains with a pistol.