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Newspaper Page TextSAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. I—NO. 50. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING) 18 PUIUeUED BY O. W. MASON «fe CO., Ax 111 Bat Street, Savannah, Georgia. terms: Per Copy .Five Cents. Per Hundred $3 60. Per Year $lO 00. ADVERTISING: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first In sertion ; One Dollar for each subsequent one. Ad vertise aieuts inserted in the morning, will, if doslred, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PRINTING every style, neatly and promptly done. CHARLESTON. Interesting Particulars of its Fall—How the Chivalry linn Away—Appearance of the City. A-war correspondent Avhojaccompanied Gen. Gillmore on the enhance into the city of Charleston gives a very interesting and graphic narration of the Palmetto City by our forces, from which we make the follow ing extracts: THIS LANDING IN CHARLESTON. The Coil, tlie fifth vessel to reach Charles ton, swung beside a crazy old pier. The motley crowd of someone hundred on the pier to which the tugs were fastened, seeing a handsome transport land with its two large white stars ou a field of blue, flying at the jackstaff, deserted the little crafts aud the Admiral, and rapidly made a detour to the pier at which we rode. A lot of urchins, in worn out rebel jackets, were the skirmishers; then negroes of both sexes, rushed to shake bauds with such oi the crew as were alieady ashore; then ten or fifteeu stragglers, all Irish or German, from the rebel army, who had hiddeu that they might fall into our bauds, looked on without de monstration ; and, lastly, a squad of five young ladies, of German extrac tion, pretty well dressed for Charleston, twenty per cent, of the five being rosy, plump, good looking, and not in the least afraid of the Yankees. Iu all, general Gill more's cornmitttee of reception number ed barely one hundred, and was composed as I have stated. DECAY AID DESOLATION. Along the whole line of piers not another soul was visible, save a few of our colored soldiers. The streets down which we could look were deserted, not a horse or veliicle in sight. No smoke arose from the chimneys, no blinds were thrown open. But the piers told the most eloquent tale of decay. They were crazy, neglected, and a 6orry tombstone to departed traffic. Ou none of them was there the slightest evidence that any com merce had been carried ou there in the mem ory of man. The piles were awry, the planking warped and dismantled, and in places removed altogether. Even the rings worn in the stanchions by the old time ca bles were no longer visible. Around the piles, and for a short distance out in the har bor floated clots of half-consumed cotton, sent nearer shore by every impulse of the flood-tide, ami not at all detracting from the aspect of commercial ruin. EFFECT OF THE “ SWAMP ANGEL’S ” FIRE. That portion of Charleston subject to the Swamp Angel's favors lay opposite where we were moored, and it was not necessary to stir from the deck of the Coit to see a fair specimen of the havoc occasioned by them. Holes were visible in the w r alls of brick houses through which a horse might enter. Many roofs along the pier were perforated by a smashing bolt, making, an opening large enough for a photographic skylight, and the piers themselves had been hastened in their neglect and disorder, by stray shell-fractures now and then. APATHY OF THE PEOPLE. The utter nervelessness of the people who remained was a matter for curious They did not appear to care a pin about the matter, aud seemed so well prepared for it that they took the approach of our boats and the landing as a matter of course. TALKS AVITH REBEL DESERTERS. I descended from the Coit aud engaged in conversation with three deserters—ali Irish— one of whom had no further capacity for snuffing the battle afar off, owing to the fact that he had enriched the soil of Virginia with the largest and most ornamental portion of his nose at the battle of Chancellorsville. The spokesman of the party was a deserter horn the Palmetto State, one of the rebel irou clads in Charleston harbor. The fleet, con sisting of the Chicora, four guns, the Palmet to State, four guns, and the Charleston, six guns, was run a short distance up Ashley river, and there destroyed, early in the morn ing. One deserter said that if our fleet had attempted to run past the forts it would have neeu pretty well warmed; in which I am disposed to believe he is correct. CONCEALED COTTON AND TOBACCO. I singled out, in the crowd on the pier, a man wtiom, I judged from dress aud appear ance, $o have not much in common with the poor people around him. Catching my eye, he approached and asked fora New Yoik paper. I was unable to give him one, but probably furnished all the information he de- Rirecl when I gave, in answer to further in quiry, the price of cotton. He informed me that he had secreted, in his store and dwell ing house, about two hundred bales of cotton and over seventy-five thousand dollars’ worth ot tobacco. This, to use his own expression, he had “squatted” from time to time, in an ticipation of the event that had just accuned that rnoruiug. Two or three stragglers at tempted to bum his cotton half an hour be lore our troops reached the‘city, but were Tightened off without accomplishing their object. He said there was a considerable Quantity ot cotton and tobacco secreted in lie city, which had been so well hidden that the officials knew nothing of it, and other lots had escaped through bribery. No doubt a S°od deal of both staples will come to light. HOW TUE CHIVALRY RAN AWAY. * This gentleman informed me that alter the capture of Savannah the people of Charleston considered the fall of their own city as a thing accomplished. The military endeavored to laamtam a hold front, and the newspapers SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1865. displayed a portentously calm confidence; but nobody was deceived. For a month, in reality, the process of evacuation had been going on. Citizens sent off their valuables, and families under one pretext and another, always receiving with virtuous indignation any hint that connected their departure with a military crisis. They had contemplated doing this and that for two years they said, and shrank from the word evacuate as if it touched them on the raw—which it may have done. Everybody was very rhetorical, but singular to say, it was yery hard to get the flow of rhetoric plugged by the stimulating process of biting cartridges, which a number of drill-sergeants were ready to impart—loss of teeth immaterial. Everybody who was rich fell to putting liis house in order, and strange to relate, found his neighbors on each side of the way doing the same thing, and with energy. It was a coincidence—nothing more. Evacuated! Pooh, blow that. They were only carrying out a long cherished de sign. And so, in pursuance of designs of remark able antiquity, some went to Columbia, some to North Carolina, some to Richmond. The long fostered intention did not refer to Au gusta or Wilmington. They were ssffe enough of course, but not in the ancient field of contemplation. For a month wa3 this poor farce acted and re-acted—very badly acted, however, as if the low comedian had a wife to bury after the performance ; the soubrette anew boarding house to hunt, (to say nothing of a most distressed cold in the head) ; as if the manager had been smiling vacantly at the mention of salary; as if the property man found it impossible to amass pennies numerous enough to purchase the chemicals that tone water into Burgundy; as if the coals were out, ahd the clerk of the weather had turned bear ; as if the call-boy. debauched by hot getting his money, had disappeared with the every day wardrobe of the company, and left them to go home in the costumes of funny people, generally be longing,to people of the seventeenth centu ry- During four or five days preceding the evacuation the mask was thrown off. Sher man’s daring was terrifying, and his rate of speed, per diem, not the modest average day’s march through Georgia. The mantle of dig nity fell off the sham, and the skedaddle (I don’t like the word, but it is good enough for Charleston,) rapidly culminated. The roads to W ilmington being the only ones not tapped by Sherman were thronged. All hope of getting off any further chattels was abandoned. The situation had become highly personal, and among the guilty burghers arose the cry sauocyui pent, ancl they vanished to happy hunting (or food) grounds further north. STARVATION. A German deserter with whom I conversed was chiefly concerned about the prospect of making money under the new regime. He dwelt upon the fact that a. week Jbelore we entered s2so(Vin Confederate rags would not buy a barrel of flour. There was a shrivel led Irish female begging bread for the chil der, the idea of there being any denomina tion of money in the world so low as twen ty*five cents having seemingly escaped hert mind. “How much is this? ’would be fol-" lowed with “How much will this buy?” If disappointment resuited when the first ques tion was answered, the revulsion was great when, in return to the second, she ascertain ed that two twenty-five cent pieces would buy bread enough to give both herself and childer enough and to spare for One meal, provided her family was not more numerous than it had a right to be, even for an impov erished Irishdamily. A DEAD CITY. I walked clown the pier into the streets and glanced up and down them, my time being too brief even for a hurried stroll.— The interior streets, like those on the quay, are dead. Charleston is the deadest south ern city I have ever seen since the rebellion commenced. Savannah is a Paris beside it. Debris from shells lies in the.street3 where it fell. Every scar where a fragment had struck is as visible as tiie day on which it was made. The lower third of the city was an infected district. No one dared sleep there, and even when the guns at Morris Island were silent, men walked with acceler ated gait and their eyes pricked.' The dam age to Atlanta from shells is« inconsiderable besido that to Charleston. Before leaving the enemy fired several ar senals, workshops and storehouses, and pro bably some twenty or thirty hous6s in all have been, or will be, destroyed. The fires have all gone down, at the moment I close this letter, save in one place, and there it is growing smaller fast. AN OLD NEGRO’S STORY. The captain of the fort picked up on the pier an old negro, in his day a harbor pilot, but fallen into disuse since the war. He is a loquacious old fellow, uses congest for sug gest, and other words a trifle inexact, but he talks good sense in spite of suffixes and pre fixes of uncertain quantity and quality. He tells how Charleston vainly expended millions of dollars upon the harbor obstruc tions, and timber enough to build a hundred three-deckers; how massive chains were wrought’and planted in the channel, and swept away by the ebb tide; and how Charleston finally concluded that if they made a chain strong enough to resist the tide, and fastened one end around Sumter, and the other around Sullivan’s Island, that the island and the fort would be dragged up by the roots and tow T ed out to sea. Then the quicksands that swallowed up our stone fleet had also, luckily for us, an appetite for torpedoes, and nobody in Charleston knew when the torpedo that sunk the Patapsco was planted, or how it got down the channel. Then he expatiated on blockade-running, of which there has been more at Charleston than the country is aware of. And finally he paid a tribute to the Yankees (“we Yankees; I suppose I may say now,” he observed), for taking their fleet in Charleston harbor, where before the war, a fishing smack was fearful of grounding. Tit for Tat.—The Senate of Massa chusetts killed the hill which passed the House that provided for the election of as sessors, etc., for three years, and the House killed the bill which passed the Senate, al lowing the polls to be opened at 8 o'clock instead of 9 o'clock. Yocng America Indignant. —Few people in qniet towns like our own, are aware of the deep hold the mania for speculating iu “ fan cy” stocks has taken upon people of all ages and classes since the Gold and Petrol eum rage has had possession of the stock market. The following letter, which the Boston Herald avers is a genuine document, will give an idea of how Young America stands affected: Boston, March 0. Mr. Editor : —You have printed some pieces about oppressive laws, and now you just see another thing. What right have fathers and mothers to step iu and break up a good thing that a fellow has got up in stocks, you know? You may think it is funny, but I am fourteen years old, apd about as tjdl as mother is now; but when 1 was selling five thousand gold at the News Room the other day at 08, seller ten, mother came in and shamed me before all the gen tlemen there by taking hold of my ear and leading me out doors. I was mad enough to hit her hack, and I should have done it, only I was afraid it would make a row and hurt my credit. If the old lady would keep quiet 1 could make a “pile.*” But she don’t understand about these things, and still the law allows her to interfere. Father don’t know about it, and I don’t want lie should. He don’t understand about those things ei ther. He is just about fit to sell goodiC but he aint got the dash a fellow needs to trade in stocks. Pitch into the old fogies. You can say something about irresponsible pa rental oppression. Ail the boys take the Herald, and think it is a bully paper. Yours in haste, “Chunky” Brown. P. 8. What will you give for a thousand gold, seller ten ? Hard.— ln the United States Senate, yes terday, an order Avas adopted directing the .Sergeant-at-arms to remove forthwith from so much of the Capitol, as -is under his care, all intoxicating liquors, and hereafter to ex clude liquors in every form from the Senate portion of the Capitol. We suppose of course, that resolution em powers the Sergeant-at-arms to search every member, to find if hehas a bottle of Jamaica Rum or Old Bourbon concealed ou his per son, but Ave should like to bo informed whether it gives him permission to tap the Honorable Gentlemen Avith a gimlet ? He’ll never succeed in “removing from the Capitol” all the liquor, and manage to “exclude it in every form” until he does. Punishment of a Drowsy Bhtde.— The folloAving singular occurrence took place, not a great Avhile since, in Lyons : A young couple who had just the banns proclaim ed in the church of their district, preparatory to their marriage, came to church to celebrate their wedding ceremony. During the time the venerable ecclesiastic who presided at the ceremony was addressing them, the bride fell into a most profound sleep, which lasted till the moment came at Avliich the young husband Avas to put the nuptial ring on the finger of his drowsy partner; but on per ceiving her state of unconsciousness, he was, as may readily be believed, shocked and ir ritated at such a flagrant disregard of all and - Out of respect, hoAvever, for the sacrednes3 of the place, he concealed his angry feelings till on leaving the church, when entering the carriage, along with his own friends, he intimated to his father-in-law that lie Avas determined to leave the city and his bride, and that she could shift for herself as she pleased. Nothing could sway his de termination; and the next morning, after hoving paid over 3000 francs stipulated in the contract of marriage, he set out to enter on his duties as foreman of an extensive tobacco manufactory in Belgium. MAJOR-General Sanford, with the approba tion of the Commander-in-Cuief, has pre scribed for his, the First division New York Shite Militia, the system of lufantry Tactics of Brigadier-General Wiiliam H. Morris, United States Volunteers. In his order, he says:—The simplicity and celerity of the flank movements and the small space re quired for the execution, the great facility with which they can be acquired, tiie revised Manual of Arms made to suit the rifled-mus ket now in geueral use, the rejection of all superfluous commands and evolutions, and the adaption of the entire system to the pre sent wants of the State and general service, recommended to it the special consideration o the National Guard. Rosa Bonheup. has just got through a suit brought against her by a M. Ponchet, with whom she had contracted to paint a horse picture for from 5,000 to 10,000 francs; and had broken the contract, refusing to paint it because he was so importunate. The court decided that as no time was specified, the* contract was not exactly violated, but that she must deliver the work within eight months from the time of judgment, and that after the expiration of this time she must pay 20 francs for every day’s delay during three mouths, after which further remedy should he provided, Ro3a to pay the costs. Rather rough on Rosa. As strong a sentence as words can form js the following from tiie Providence Journal: “As the hand falls lifeless, when the heart is pierced, so Charleston dropped, when Sherman lifted his sword on Columbia.” The Pieavuue speaks of a very bad ren dering of “As You Like It,” in New Or leans : Fancy, it says, for example, the well known, familiar and oft-quoted line3, “Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly aud venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head,” read iu this fashion : “Sweet are the adversities of nature ; Which, like the toad, Wears a precious jewel in his ear !” The inaptness of titles is thus illustrated: “Once,” said a Quaker, “I had the honor to be in company with an Excellence and a Highness; His Excellence was the most ig norant and brutal of his species, and His Highness measured just four feet eight inch es without his shoos. Secesh “Played Oyt” is Paris. —The Paris letter writers are telling us of a grand revolution going on at the French capital among fashionable circles and which lias cul minated in a decided “cut” of the “Confed erates.” Secesh is no longer the rage in Paris. The correspondent of the NeAV York World, in a letter of the 14th ult., tells how the change was bronght about and the rebel Minister Slidell out-general led. He says: When the astute rebel commissioner Sli dell first Avent to Paris he took with him his accomplished Avife and beautiful daughters. He well knew the sendees which these fair Avomen could render to the cause of Dhaus, and good use did he make of their influence. He installed them in a magnificent apartment in the champs Elysses, bought handsome equipages for them, and gave their carte blanche at Mmc. Rogers’, the dressmaker “c/e In cour," Avhile the modisto de /'/tnperatrice was requested to make their chapeaux, and Felix was their coiffeur. Dinner parties aud receptions became the order of the* day at the rebel “embassy,” as it was called by Slidell and Eustis, and soon the secesh be came all the rage in Paris. Those prominent members of the Parisian press who Avere ob durate when gold was ottered them, melted beneath the ardent glances of the fair ladies in question, and at grand dinners and petite sovpers promised allegiance to a cause wliich could produce suc h fair, such entrancing ad vocates. Iu the Faubourg St. Germain even, these people Avere admitted, because they Avere polished, were agreeable, and gave in return for dinners or parties offered them such grand entertainments. “La Salon Slidell’’ became one of the favorite rendezvous of the beau monde of Paris, aud at one of their bal masques both the Emperor and the Empress were present, in domino it is trae, but they were unmistakably there. All this was in tensely flattering to the Slidell ladies, and the cause of Davis went up, in stock parlance, away above par, and the people ia Paris talked openly of recognition ana of the glori ous future of the “Confederacy." A German baron, a capitalist and a good fellow, Emile Erulanger, managed just at this time to obtain a divorce from bis wife, wee Mile Lafitte, and be at once threw himself bodily and with determination among the numerous admirers of Miss Slidell. He soon .distanced them all—he is a banker aud a niii lifcuaire, and Papa Slidell scented iu an alli ance with this nabob the successful negotia tion of Confederate loans and what not. So his consent was given, and as Erulanger ob tained the beautiful rebel, he opened his purse strings aud the commissioner of Davis waxed still more prosperous. Lately minister Billaut, private Secretary Mocquard, and other friends of Secessia have deceased in France and persevering Prince Napoleon became so poweriul that his cous in, the Emperor, was said to cease all con test with him, and by granting him influ ence join issue with him. So Plon-Piou was appointed chief of the Privy Council France, and he has become the great power ia the empire, next to the throne. Iu honor of this new dignity the Prince lately threw open the reception balls of the Palais RGyale, a time-honored building in Paris, closed since the death ot Kiug Jerome aud gave therein a magnificent ball, toe marked feature of which was that “ Confederates ” were tx cludd therefrom Aii Paris lias resounded ! with this facr, and already Secessia is at adi » 1 couut iu that capital ot fashion, where tl. last riseu to power are ever the monarchy o; the hour. We shall soon hear that t 4 e beau monde of Paris has followed the example set by Prince Napoleon. Tiie Author of God Save the Queen. — Henry Carey was a man ot genius. He wrote for the theatre with immediate and lasting success. Next he handled satire, and Popt took his verses for Swift’s, and Swift's h r Pope’s. Lastly, he settled to lyrical art With a rare combination of two rare talents he invented immortal melodies and the im mortal words to them. He wrote the Na tional Anthem ; for this last he deserved a pension, and a niche in Westminister Abbey. In a loose age be wrote chastely. He never failed to hit the public. He was of his age, yet immortal. No artist can do more. But there was no copyright in songs. Mark the consequences of that gap in the law; while the theatres and the streets ruug with his lines and tunes, while fiddlers fiddled him and were paid, songsters sang them and were richly paid, the genius that set all these empty music pipes a flowing, aud a million ears listening with rapture, was fleeced to the bone. All reaped the corn except the sower. The sower was an author—an inventor! And so, in the midst of successes that enriched others and left him bare ; in the midst of the poor, unselfish soul’s attemptto found charity tor distressed performers, nature suddenly broke down under the agony of a heart full of wrong and an empty belly and the ffian hanged himself. They found him cold, with , skin on his bones, and a half-penny in his pocket! Think of this, when you next hear “God Save the Queen.” —Charles Reade. Sale of a Wife and two Children.— Not -a little gossip, with something like resent ment and indignation, has arisen in the neighborhood of the Dudley road, fn this town, owing to a resident in “California” having, it is alleged, sold his wife and two children to an American sailor for £l5O. The wife, it appears, was valued at £IOO, and the children at £25 each. The money Is posi tively stated to have been paid, and the wife and children transferred. The buyer and parties sold are, it is stated, going to Leeds. The vender, who is a coal-dealer, remains to occupy Jiis more than half-deserted dwelling, subject, however, to not a little annoyance from his neighbors. Os course we peed not say that such a bargain is of non-e fleet.- In reference, no doubt, to this transaction, a man who was tendered for bail at the police office, a day or two ago, on being asked if he was worth £2O, replied, “No, I ara’t, but my wife and two children are." The answer, of course, excited considerable laughter.”— Wolverhampton ( England ) Chronicle. A little girl employed in a paper mill at Wcstville, Conn., lately found S9O in green backs in a pamphlet brought from Washing ington, which the proprietor generously allowed her to keep, and with it her mother completed the payment on a house in w hich she Jives. PRICE, 5 CENTS. A DREAM AND ITS FULFILLMENT. AN INCIDENT OF I'ENNSYLA'ANIA. Some years since, a most brutal murder was perpetrated by by a stupid, ignorant hos tler of a county inn, upon the person of a German pedler, in the western part of Pennsyl vania. The murderer \A'as supected, arrest ed, tried, made a confession, and, in due time executed It appeared on the trial, that the pedler ar rived one day at the inn where he was weU known, with some new and flashy dry-goods, and proceeded at once to the kitchen to get up a trade with the inmates thereof; one of AVhom Avas the sweetheart of the hostler. For the Avant of the “needful,” no trade was then made, and the pedler tied up his goods and started on bis way ; not, however, before the devil entered into the heart of the hostler to possess himself of some of the ar ticles offered lor sale, as a bridal gift to his lady-love. Going out Avith the pedler he remarked that he had some wood to cut, that would take him the same way he was going, and taking an axe from the shed as they passed out. they Avent on their way. Not long after they reached the wood, and having gone some distance in the road that led through it, the hostler made excuse about not having made his purchases at the inn, and requested the pedler to allow him to make a selection then and there. The bundle of goods Avas accordingly deposited by the way-side, opened, and Avhilst the un suspecting victim stooped over it, the hostler buried the axe in his head, killing him in stantly. This done, the goods were secreted and the body taken to the Avoods and hastily covered with leaves, though it was moro than once moved by the murderer afterwards. The pedler and brother had a regular “beat” iu this part of the State, rendezvous, and stated times and places of meeting. The aforesaid brother not making his appearance for some time, suspicion began to be generally entertained, that he bad met with foul play, and, after a long search, it was believed that he bad never passed through the woods Just mentioned. Vigilant search was then made by a number of persons, including the brother of the murdered man, but without success. Not long afterwards, four gentlemen, con stituting a “Board of Education," for the purpose, among other things, of introducing into that part of the State the public schools, and of which the writer was the Secretary, held a stated meeting at Coalcastle, at an inn not far from Pottsville, and just at the foot of Broad Mountain, where there was a well of very pure water, held in high estimation both by man and beast, and ut which almost all travellers stopped to refresh themselves The “Board” had finished its business. I had tied up iny books and papers prepara tory for a start for home, when I heard soma one in the front room, or on the sidewalk, say: “That is the brother of the pedler who was murdered some time ago.” My curiosity at these words being natu rally excited, I passed out of the house and there saw, with a bucket in his hand, water ing his horses, a very handsome man, the brother of the murdered peddler. As I drew near him I heard him say in broken English: ‘•Yes 1 They will hang him I suppose, but I wish they would not. What good will it do ? It will not bring mv dead brother to life.” Here one of the by-atanders asked him if it was true, as he had heard stated, that, in consequence of a dream at the aforesaid inn, he had ffcadily found his brother s bedy alter ai. search .in the woods had failed ? “Yes, it is true,” said he, and tnen added i “Returning to the inn, after a lruitlesa day’s search tor my brother, I took some tea and went to bed, where, the fatigue of the body overcoming my distress and anxiety of mind, I soon fell asleep. During my sleep, a voiie with marked distinctness said, if I would go to a certain point of the road and there turn to the right, I should soon see the stump and roots of a very large pine tree upturned by the wind, at which lay my brother s remains, with the toes of his boots projecting. I in stantly awoke and found the day just break ing, and so firmly was I convinced that my search would not this time be in vain that I scarcely gave myself time to dress. * Hastily passing down stairs, without awakening any of the inmates of the house, I made my way with all possible speed to the spot in the road, turned to the right, and, passing over ground examined only the day beforeTl soon saw, while some distance from the pine tree stump, the toes of my brother’s boots from above the hssty covering of dirt and leaves thrown over them." The Age of Fohty-Six.— Thomas Hood died at the age of forty-six, at the time he had excited the greatest expectations. There seems to be a fatality at this period of life for certain intellects, nearly as great as that which has rendered the age of thirty-seven dangerous to the higher walked artistic gen ius of Raphael, of Mozart, of Bums, of Byron. It is the grand climateric of the sol dier’s and the statesman’s life. At forty-six Pitt gave up the ghost, and passed away in the prime of his powers; at torty-six Na poleon lost the battle of Waterloo, and end ed his career; at forty-six Wellington won that battle, and it may be said almost com menced hi 9 civil career. At forty-six Nel son’s hour had come at Trafalgar. In liter ature we find that Spencer died at forty-six; Addison at forty-seven; Goldsmith at forty six ; Hood at forty-six. Mrs. Partington on Organs.— And so, Isaac, you’ve been to see Lincoln and Ham lin s Cabinet Organ ? They say it has an aro matic smell that's not like anybody elas’*, and is even better n the night blowing seirous. I hope you didn’t hear the one that has the penal base. It’s strange good people can patronize these baser sort o’ things. And you heard the sympathy of A. Miner, did you ? For nyr part I should raley like to hear that. He was our next door neighbor, and my Paul used to say that Adolphus Miner hadn’t a mossel of sympathy for any body, and people generally didn’t think he had; but, la me! times change, and now it seems he's got some, and had it set ioto music.— Boston Post. Nevada produced silver o: th3 value of $1’,000,000, in 1864. What has become of it all?