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Colonel Anderson.
Wc Imy^utktsu some trouble to ascertain
the foltpyTog with reference to toe ante-
cedents of Col. Anderson, whoso cowardly.
Au) render of Fort’Guines has made evory.
true Akbaiaiaa fool as sad as if he had lost:
liir> Jearwa friend—and the 21st Alabama
rojritnc-n t. whoso fair naote be has so sadly
tarnished* .. ,, : > t
Audc soh w*a appointed from civil life
an officer,jn the regular army of the United
States, trader ‘ the four.regiment bill,’’ in
1851. When the war commenced in.1861,
he was itar.'.r'diatcly appointed Adjutant
(i. iicral on GladdeuAt.staff, where hp ,re
maincd until elected Colonel of the ,21st
Alabama.. This occurred after the buttle
ol Shilpli, upon the resignation of his prude*
cesror. Col. Ingersol.. . Col. Andsrsou has
never boon in a fight, honco his pluck bad,
never been tried by tho only reliable or*,
dial, shells, ininnfe balls and bayonets, at
close quarters. If not a native of Alabama,
as we have reason to believe, he has ro
lled in the neighborhood of Mobile, our
informant says, the bettor 'portion of bis
life. He is quite a young ;uuu, being con,-
siderably under forty.
Tho 21st Alabama, of which be was com*
mander at the time of tho surrender, bad
made a proud, record in this war before its
•dicers elected Anderson Colonel, over as
brave Captains as ever drew a blade in
defence of homo and country.
At “ Bloody Shiloh” it lost one-third of
it* number, and was especially compliment
ed for its gallantry - by tho Commanding
General. One ol its companies [K] sue
cewdully- defended Fort Powell lust spring
•gainst barragut’s entire fleet, when it
made an approach by Grant’s pass, in
appreciation of their gallantry, Gen. Maury
gave tbe entire company a ten days' fur-
Justice that, as a pii .. , . .
authority to receive that into the Treasury
which wjll not go out as easy as it cqrhcs
in. And certainly not.e to take that which
will not go out at all in payment of war-!
rants, which is the only use the State has
for .the taxes she collects of liar people. .
Respectfully, &c„
John Jones, Treasurer.
The Moral of the Blockade.
Tho special correspondent,ofthe London
Times, writing from Wilmington, North
Carolina, under.' Uffte of June 4, pp fo«.
subject of the blockade, .says:
i cannot leave the subject of the blockade
without pointing out the .moral' which
being taught by it, and which it. is'.ihcon-'
ce\yable why England does uot take more
painsto understand. Tjiere is no natidp;
upon oarth_ w hich_ has a, tqjith of the jitter*
Popular Errors.
Dr. Lard/ier, in his lectures, ptates that
the human body in otfr climate is always
much warmer, than the .atmosphere, apd .
is constantly throwlngj'off lieal, AHaob,
stances, ii^respect of heat, are tailed good
or bad conductors- If wo apply bur ; baud
V>the carpet, it will appear tolerably warm*
because i t is a bad conductor, and takes
no heat from us. If we.next touch the
est which England has in.closely observing
too working of the only ifpekade, on/ a
large and imperial scale, which has . been
established since the intr°duptjQp qfyteam
navigation. It can scarcely ^. prete^%,
that ipformation in regard .to tho systpip
of fhowing.lights to guide in .coming, veq
seL, concerning the infinite intricacies or
detail which experieuco. has flight the
blopkade runners cfWUtmpgtOfo Charles
ton and Mobile, concerning the most favor-i
able conditiouapfsea, sky and tide for.
running out or coming-in, can be obtained.
f Uip,Upat,of our. hand
U metals, be»ug eminent
JU0T ASIATBl JilPLekATION. « ;
M. Vambrey, a Hungarian traveler, has
recently penetrated, in the disguise of a
dervish, through the tofriUiry ofthe Tuf-
comanstolf niva, Bockharaand Samatcand,
. in Central Asia* travelingXlirough districts
which have not been yisited by a E‘n'0|>0i«n
sinoe the day a qf Marco Palo. After sev-
eral years of preparation in a Mahoramedan
college, lib joined aH Tehe fau Jr iii ? Mai'eli,
I8(J3, a cbnipwiVy of |1toor pibgrims who were'
returning to Tartary from Mecca, giving <
out. that be was a pious Mussulman travel
ing-to Central Aoia with a veligio.us object,
audio a communication just, iaid.beForo'the
1 ° ' ‘iunounces
substance
yonr altars j engrave it io letters of fire on .-
your hearts, f nd let it give courage to the,
timid, energy to the weak, dottrniinatiou
to the wavering,"aptf a desperate resolve
tor the whole people; which laughingly, de-
fiantly. gloriopsly,' look defeat, desolation
^and death in the face^ rather than yield
OTe iota of politieal independence. Then
Shirk not From ascrifice-^ttblopme priva-
tioh—endure hardship as -gOod -aeldierp of. j
.‘ihw Ci»88 Q|qj|rist....Iiet ypa^cpnnlry’s
weal mingle in the incense , whicl)' rises,
from.your altars *bf prayer^ 2ahiJ let'yciar •’
cry go up to Hefcveif ahd be : recorded tb'Cro:
enable us te
loui*h
TLo 21st Ib, in part, we learn, a duplicate
of the veteran 3d A'abama regiment, and
was lbrnaiKl in this manner; Such of the
Gull City Guards, Mobile Rifles, Washing
ton Light. Infantry, Motile Cadets, and
8ucli oilier old volunteer organizations us
did not leave with thair companies when
they caimi to Virginia, soon afterwards
rained new companies, having the same
name au-*hu old organization, with No. 2
added ly way of distinction- They were
composed mainly of Uie younger brothers
and relatives of the original companies.
The officers of Uiese companies have been
from the first and still are, wo are informed,
ol the best blood of Mobile.
It is passing strange* therefore, that,
their protest against the -cowardly pro
ceedings of their Coionelhad not a.moahtetf
to open mntiuy—seeing, as they have done,
the serious blow thereby aimed at their
bt-auiilul and beloved city. •'
Since the above was in type, we have
received a communication from a detailed
member of the 2lst-, of which we give, by
way of ecri'eciiibn, a Summary. From this
it will be scon that we are misinformed as
to feome few oil tile statements made above.
Col. Anderson; ear informant Says, was
Major oi the ]8tb Alaberim after the batt'.o
ol ohiU h—in which be participated as a
etnff officer, and acquitted himself with
credit. Ho w»s afterwards made Colonel
of tho 21st. He thinks ihat there was
only one company of th'e 21st at Foi-t
Gaines at the time of its surrender, a.por-:
tion being nt- Fort Po well, under Lieht. '
Go! Williams, another detachment at FOrt .
Horguu, while the romaindcr wer6 geard-
i >a tho salt works. M
Col. Anderson is a native rind resident
of Alabama.—Jiichmotid Whig% • -
otherwise than upon Southern. soil. Tot
& is not deemed by tbe British Admiralty
to be a matter of ipiporfiahpo tha^/they .
8houid ; bi? representedut Jviltaipgton and ,
elsiiwhero by one of our mostjtC(?o.mp|is(vja
nay id offiqor^ -
It is humiliating to be--L»ld, as I'have
been, again and ugsin, thotl’niischfHi e*nt§- ' dif
sary will be sent without the consent of
Mr. Adams, and that this Consent he will
never give. But, groat? as is the concur
rence of opinion among Englishmen in
America upon the linportanoe of this sub
ject, there is but too much reason to fea^
that this blockade will he unheeded and its
lessons unlearnt by competent English of
ficials. it is idle,for me to point oat that
not only is there opportunity, Tot' a maval
officer to gain invaluable information, but
, that, in spite of the answer givee toree
montbs ago by Lord do Gray to the: effect
that it was not important to send military
officers to toe South by reason of. the in
feriority of ils resources, if is tbe. opinion
of every English officer who has been .to
the Southern States, thatthoro is infinitely
more to be Larnt here during a month
than in the North daring a year. It is, I
think, pretty well admitted, by this time
that, as . ogards construction of guns or
the architecture of ironclad Monitors, Eng
land iia.* nothing to learn from tho North.
Bet, in*ebery other department of the
vast, science of war, tifore is morei to be
gained as regards the.present struggle'by
studying it from a Southern than from a
Ncrt horn point of view. As an instance,
it may be asked wbolher.there is upon this
continent anything, to be compared io in-
terest with an inside view of Charleston
and Fort Sumter. . It is the opinion of ex
perienced judges that the earthworks
around Richmond are the most formidable
that modern .experience has known-. The
novel system oi defensive works around
Mobile is described to me, upon .excellent
testimony,as the most instructive of studies
for a military engineer. 1 know not
Whether there be truth, in the assertion,
which has greeted me bore, that two French
-pflicers at ability are momentarily expected
in the South, but it has -.always, appeared
10 my incomprehensible that the. French
Emporor should have shown an apathy
about this war which, . mistaken aa l hold
.it to bain England’s cape* admits, to far as
England is conoernbd, of easy and playa
ble explanation,..: f*na
As an iiiustraAion of the facility and cer
tainty with which: the. blockade/is, now.
defied, ierdl tnOntian in condusioSiA few
facta., Between the 1st of. May atid too 1st
of June, no teas toan twonty four v essels
mode the port of Wilmingtou safely, with^
out disaster befalling a single v^sel. : No
wonder that-piles upon piles of Govern
ment goods are dtorod here, aumiting; when
there; ia less strain u pem the rai I roads,
-transportation, to Richmond. »«d Atlanta.
as it fakes spnqie of
eWay:, Iren and all ^ ^
. inductors*^.w^l: ab*trtct.a great
. quantify of heat from us,so tha, ,whcn we
cpifie to touch that,, it ( 4ill appear, vqry
cold, from tlic l^ssqf heat which our body
imroediittolyexp«ri#nc«8. , t; .
The same fallacious testimony of the
touch would induce.to to behove tbat.wa-,
Uke a cojd ,bato*wy^exponcncs^ a ch*4y.
sensation in passing out of ;the ftmospbere
into ihs water, although atherpsqmeter will
tolf ue that bothsm of toe same *, tftiup«ra v
tune} ttuy. is, heceutp it has a^ pipperty pe
culiar to itself by {which : it absorbs, and
* fcartrie^Away wbAtiver best kb^.inny *»?'•
brought in contuetprito it, and Which is
equivalent In its remits tp the r^iToP® 11 ^ 9^;
« r honductpr 9 . Thfs, it !( wMf §|iFear t^iai ‘
what seems to bo ‘ —• -«
from
!more
: tftem; And .thus if if Abut the^n-.
, j/ttftr, of tha Hnivirse.fprmea op)’ seofe» toi,
ahswef the ordinary pgfp*jsefsqf v ’lifi4 aqd .
gave us intelleqi to correct their errors and
‘ ; thp^ .to, higher and
science,.
*ii
■ ; tii'i ... I. !l.— " '"i-T, > **;>’;■;
A Fartsi» Holiday,
The Tuileries,- which have been the
theatre; of many* gay, strange end .terrible •
scenes on the 8th ult.-witaessod one which
wqu Id have filled toe hoart of a philnn thro
pist with joy. In tbe vast gardens of tbe
Palace the Emperor and Empress, in the
-name of their eon, the Imperial ■. Prince,
gave a /5e«a to the members of a no of the
charitable, societies which uro under the <
patronage W the-Prioce, and .whiob - bears
his name. And uot o’nly all tho members,
of- the. soeietjv: but their ekildcen were
bidden to the fete~indeed, it via more to
tho children than to the papas a nd mamas:
that the festival was -given. There were
itandspf music,and marionettes*and Punch
and Judy shows, and all other things in
which children delight; there - were .long*
rows of stalls containing piles of cakes and
fruits, from yhic'u every One could*take
j what be pleased; and lemonade and orange
ade, and other drinks were hawked about
and freely offered to every thirsty, soul.
Tbe members of tho society arei„of .two
classes—-the rich who find toe funds, tbe
poor who profit.by them; and yet they all
meet on the footing of equality, no aristo
cratic haughtiness <*n toe one hand, no plebi-
an insoleuce'on tne other. And ttieEmporOr:
and Empress moved freely in the vast,
assemblage, and the Imperial Prince, play
ed and romped with, the boys and girts..
• ■<:<;[ -t !■'.:!— — i " i. i•—j
The litallaa Baiamander.
• 'Thb most remarkable' exhibition which
we have had Uur good fortnne to witness
for a long thne, took -place at J<mes Wood,
New York; on Wednesday afternoon. 1
Christoforo Buono Cory, who fits Created
great excUementj not only among tbe
masses of tho people of^London, but- also
among the savans, appeared at J Ones Wood
at the tilde named, to give an exhibition
to f select nambei of genltoiaen of the
ivonderful merits of a dress which'-be had
invented, sad which be claims is not Only
impervious to fire,- but, when worn will
;preeervWthoh«dy from injury, though the.
drees beth»Uo0Tia1 Contact with-toe flaRtes.'
The overalls,• to ail appearances/ consist
simply of a Very eoanfc* ceu vasa covered
wito ttsf'paint;'which blisters readily at
•• mod Crate ’beat. The head piece is formed
of some substance ofaboat* tho consistency
of pasteboard, add isitso cover* d with red
paint- These ho> t#s to os, of coil rse/hefore
goi^g into tbe-fire; which is- prepared as
fdllowwt-' ’!'• *” ; u
Two iron cages are framed•to r Intersect
I aiu informed, by the Government., agent j padh-uther, about fiiteeh foet lorgby seven
li- J. <
Letter from the Treasurer ofHleorgUu
Treasury or Georgia,!
MilledgevtUo, August 18, 1864. f -
Editor Constitutionalist:—A writer In
jour daily of the 16th inat., over the com-
mon and much abused name of Justice, '
i>eein8 to think it necessary to excuse
himself and the eommunity generally in
relusiug to toko the old issue Confederate
Roles by calling attention to my advertise-
moot of July 14tb, V.
1 thank the writer for* republishing mV
oovciUsenieat/a nd hope.it will be heedi
The State had no ' * ‘I 'm
Rot ho paid out to i
mdobtej. Ar,d
poatotlly—almoa
lemons prosont
^e-thtrdji
htiapoe
fiVSHi on) ...
lh ®,P*»tont,
this dt
author
ledei’i
'vhieh
here that, in bis whole. experioDcfij ltabaa
hteVer loKt a single outward bound- tetter:
A gentleman at Bei-muda,tbeagaUt ofaq
-. feet blgb/bat Only throe fcet wide,- with
four openings or doorways'. These he
efemphitelyscrrounch and covers toithlight
Every man, woni&h And chrld^s a debtor to ' '
the, cause. Send'-lbrwfcrd an&tber ibstal-
nichti oi-supplies, And - let the soldier kaoiif i l
" that1ie,} ft ,j{K»t.%gptten?oc
toe Tarant -tribe. Froui tliiA plaeehe
visited, the ruins-of toe wail built by Alex
ander tho Great, which commences on the
shores ofthe sea near this place,and stretch:
ea About o'life hundred ruilee inland, in the '
foimof an embankment dotted with turrets
and fortifications.- Continuing with the
party in a northernly direction* east ofthe
Caspian, he passed the rjyor Altrock, cross- .
mg tho Hyrcanian desert, a horrible jour-"
uey of twenty-two dhy8, an d reached tlCht-
va-io the beginning of Jimei- The present
condition of the country of which Khiva is
the ciipitaj^^p. describes as being most,
wretched-
. The reignihg Prince, So'id MahommedVa
• siok tyVaat, dbCtf little else but slaughter
hundreds «f hi* hubjecto - tor mere trifles
which he calls < tiwusgieaaiun* of. the holy -
Wgioapf/^ahymmed.. ^Yambroy made
excursion^ as far as Kooograd,and wasa?-;
tonishod at the great ‘firlllity of tho coun-’
try, whfdh lie thodVj’hi^apdJior to anything
be hud hilhefto seen in Asia: .-! •
After spending, q mouth in Bokbura*.M.
Vambroy proceededfp 11 ofanticipatious, to
the city of Saiuafcaud. . *fle. traveled for
six iiayk“through a toickty peoptecl and
“tVflU edkivated• Chantry, arid was greatly '
aurprisod-ai th® quick succession of.towns'
and villages on the.- road. But in Samar-* .
qabd he. jvas much disappointed, flo
found the capital of Tiuiour in a state of
decay, although he saw a few remains of its
ancient glory, was cpiivtoo^fJ, t^at tj;o an-
oient reputation of the plac# waa greutly
exaggerated. ^ -
The mdst-remarkable of the hncient ed-
ificeS were tke Inedressos ,br colleges; one
of which,-erected by the wife of Tbnour, a
Chinese Princess, was a moat-splendid
building; but tbe maguificcot portico, opo
hundred feet high, is laid sith Mosaic, in
the form of roses, is all thaitnowrem^ins
of.it. TUe palace of Timotir he deacribos
an very interesting,- especially his itomb,
and a huge block of green stone the base
of his throne, which must have been derived .
frorii some distant country, although how
it was conveyed to the place is no\v diffi
cult U> surmise. M; Vambrey teiminated .
his narrative with his arrival at Herat in
October; the country to the northyf w,l|H-b
place he found in great disorder, owing to
the revolt against the Affghan yoke Con
sequent upon the death'Mohariiuied.
•<- In toe course of axliseusaion which fel-
foweq toe rearing;of M- Vsnibiey.’si.-cora,
• rubuication in the Geograuhipal Society,
Sir Henry Rawliiison .said the country
iwbich M. Vaiabrcyihae tiuiuerfed Was in*
tores^Dg in.akwb fpld point (.1 view. In
too first place it bad hitherto b.cen terra
incognito: and in the next place it, pos-
. sessed gfbat political intefots, 'as fonhiiio-
the debatable land which mtb/venfcd
tween the Russtaoj'Empire and our own
India, posees^ioas. * -,
It would be remembered that .twenty-five
years ago grfeat alarm -was fel t at the ex-
: tension’-■fif Russian inffuence in ' Centfal
Asia. That feeling Which broughtkbuut
tko; Afighan war.hadpaasedaway,and-had
been attended . by. ^ tv feolipg,of aqpineness
which Was as little to be justified as thq
previous alarm.- We baza..very much lost
aigbtof what liatt bOcii:going oh during
the last:twenty-flve years, while.we have
.VIMSfoing that all was quiescent, the
Russia# .a#fi. Eqgljsh jfroptfoL; M en :
gradually approxiimMing .c.ver.a space of
jmpq tqpusancljipdss^fip toatjftpresyntth^ro
^of fiye of six hundred
miles betweon tho two frontiers.
i*tpat
- Prom ths J^.Ue^a«in GiuwUe.
Tyro Kemarkable Letters,
. . . LETTER NO. ONE. * ^
Brick Pomeroy, JEititor Daily Democrat:
Argns^eyed friend, I am in much tfoubW:
Will you hour-ray prayer aud'give vent to
ad vice? My -wife—the Bweet partner of
ray terrestrial joys and earthly halluoina-
tiohs—has jqiny4. the loyal, female league.
She is'on the benevolent altogether now
for-two months. Sho is a good woman,
toe goodest of ber sex, and compared to
her, all-Others of her sex are as insects, I
come hpme at mpon, and she is off.to see
Mrs. Hadley oji League business. I eat
cold victuals for dinner, and shout aloud
through the kitchen and tilings, but she
greets me not! I come home to tea, but
toV re 58 no tea l I grub H in the pantry!
That bleBsod wife bVmiriois off to see about-
the League. At midnight I come, home,
and she is still absc*nt l I go to bed. I
leave the door unlocked. I dream, of.vob-
b.srs. The children squall fir the nourish
ment I have not. It is lonesome. Soon I
hear a step. A pair of steps. Two pair
of steps. Tenor and bass. I listen. Two
5 air of steps climb my one pair of steps.
'Sioy linger at the threshhold—There are
distinct words—one pair comes up—on©
pair goeth hence—my wife has returned.
Noble woman ! Kind neighbor! All for
the soldiers.
I go down the next- day to ray shop.* I...
return at dinner time. My wife is out. I
eat 'another- tun eh: I return to ray shop.
At tea I go home. 1 want to ask ray wife
something privately, but two hundred wo
men are there to get the measure of my
drawers lor tho Leaguo. Then my wife
gpos down town. I follow her. She dodges
in ibis store—then m another. Forty wo
men dodge in and out. They run over me.
They take my wife off. I love her. I look
for her <iiligont!y„but she is not to be found.
. I stand _on the streets. She goes by orr
tbe other* side.- I cross over and she van
ishes. Noblewoman! She does so much
good.- Shelias helped send two pair of
mittens and an embroidered shirt tail to the
Sun. Coro. I have not seen her fivo weoks,
tl\at is to talk' with her.
When Will tfiis war be over. I want my;
wife to he at home alone. If you see my
wife tell her J want her- Noble womaa—
she loves the soldiers. .
Yours, truly, . Dodger.
wqrihy to b»
eminent English firm; told mo ttuitrdaring brushwood, which is tired, and -when the
two years
into Seceisia, and. tiiat in the wholo time
only two mails had been lost.
\ ' —r*'*-* < I«——.1 I ■ 1 l .. T:,--. Hit I
; A Heavy Joke on a Rebel Nt.wspapbu.
—On tho 18th the raiders arrived at Ashe
ville, having had the pleasure of skirmish
ing moat of the way. The A-Bhpville • Vi-
dotte, a rebel sheet 6f no raeau circulation
in Alabama, was just ready to ge to press.
The boys in blue took possession of tho
office, made tbe rebel devils unlock the at
forms, wiion tho editorial column was
abstracted and a new one inserted in its
stead. The first editorial, as prepared
wholb becomes as it wMc* ons-body of 1
flame, he entefs traversoe the sekcral, uar-1.
»w burning avsooes, pas8ing ii» '>ahd out
at eachr opening with apparent ease and
pei fectly unharmed. Goro »« not satis- ji
fied with the exhibition for which hAgives
owing-to: thw fact that a portion of the
brushwood brought bo tlie men was green
and did.not born readily. Soon after *the
wolod was fired, however, the heat Was so
great that the spectators could not -Rtand
S j nearer to it titan eight or tod' yards, and
at that distance only at a great discomfort.
All who saw toe experiment wore satisfied
-- stofreotyped i* every heart: ,, , j
What’s the news? is camstoptly nsised*
Well,.,^ is our .business to tell the^^ws, ;
and here # is,:fthemien wait^cipthwg and ; ,
shoes-r.tbat s the news A n^ th® °
-Homes want/pKqviplqpar-rtnd;’tint’s t^e
• iiwws,;' v N;^v' 8 wbWh'.4otik< .open, the J^arta
and purses a«d smoke hc-hao and dairy qf
evory’ lover.of his country anil its noble,
Thrfoauors. The grand armies arje doing ,
very well, and our great Generals, about
whose designs and movements yon are so
anxious, cua manage without your criti-
ciamsor advice, and neither your Irars rum
yohr plaudits affect them |I» their warlike
surroundings.. But,, the ^rtails must not
be overlooked. Thesiek soldier on his bal-
. letter no. two, (private.)
•My Dear Brief::—Don’t put this m the
Democrat, or I’ll caVch fits. ’ My wife is on
the loyal concerns just now. She has join
ed a woman’s society, where -one makes
flannel mittens for soldiers and the rest
toll yarns about their neighbors- J^gad, hut
ain’t I ,in luck. But you know I was
, hFOUgty'tip a pet: My blood is that of a
gazol’c. My wife in of the Amazon stamp.
'For size she-is not like-Mrs. Amazon, but
id spirit she is terrible.. She is sewing for *«
the.League. Anil what niot>-times I have..
Come in and take .supper with me—any
J irate.’ No danger of finding her at home.-
have tho finest ki mi of times now. Hired ; '
girl is very attentive. She has plenty to t
dp in the kitchen. ■ ; All the rest of tho house.
I ran. , . •_ ‘ ^ ' a
- To be sure thingslook a little rusty and '
ioyenly, but what of that? I can do as if -
lease. I gd to the saltion, drink beer, play
^Vttw- polker,-romp .with the servanfc girl, .
thrash thfl young ones, wear dirty shirts, ,, ,-j
smok© a,p.vpqio tbp parlor, hang my hat , . .
oh the floor, spit tobacco juice on; the
hearth, go‘pi/bed wfith ray boots on, gr» to t* iU *
dunce and'hbVi^Svith tho girls, play seven , t
up with, ray oldest boy; and do just as I;
.please. £qme,y i |fr%n{l gee rao. My wife is
on tho.Lpj aV:Leai^//;/^^uced ’glad of it.
Hope tbP'Lpagii’rLWfIjo'cbartfered to run A
forevtfrrf Hfe^a giwd thing, ain’t it.
1 If it comes in your way, givensy wife a >
uff. . ,SheI»k8S it. .It makes her^morc de- x
ofed to Mr. Loyal, and gives me abettor
chance to slosh round. - Come up and see 1
toe. air the 'fellows up. These ‘
'ieagUe^ aro Mg things. And bring up a -1«1‘
pi fit of paregoric for tfio babies, to keep >*8L
them quiet. / ^ Yours forever,^
•S£pf
3ER.
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I wonder where these clouds are go- *
jag ?” sighed Flora, pensively, as she point-^^fi
ed with her thin,, delicate finger to the
heavy funeral musses that'flpatetl'lazily in .
tlie sky. /“ I-think they are going to thua*^^.C
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