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BY MR'. MART A. DBMSO.

It Avas ncaring the gray dawn. Along the dim aisles if the hospital a few nurses moved, ministering to the wants of those who were most in need of care and sympathy. Now and then a Faint moan broke the silence or asnfferer tossed uneasily, and begged some favor of the nurse. One of the latter stopped before the little cot of John Morris, and thraw the net back. John was a frank, nobl aced, cheii ful-heaitcd young soldier only twenty-three, lie bad borne his sufferings like a man. When he first entered the hospital, he was quite merry over his misfortune a shattered leg. The doctors, he said, thought it wasn't as serious a case as it might le, and as long as he could keep his leg, why, he was willing1 to be laid up awhile." Still it was hard not to be able to go with the boys. Poor John Morris, he had a cheerful word for everybody, a smile as bright as the sunshine Day alter day he appeared to be getting better, an 1 ev erybody who knew him was pleased to hear good news of John Morris. r i i -i suddenly, nowever, theiecame a seri ous change. The surgeons began to knit their brows over poor John to talk to gether in low voices, and finally they de cided that John's leg must be amputated Poor fellow ! he heard their decision with a sigh, and begged for a little longer delay, but the case admitted of none. It was death or amputation, and the opera tion Avas performed. For days after, he seemed to rally. Now and then there was hope that all would be well and never man struggled harder for life than he. So much to live for, so voting ! so full of energy and ambition! it was verv hard to think of death. On this gray morning, as I said before, the nurse threw back the net from poor John Morris. Well, John, how do you feel now ?" he asked. I am going, Tom, going very fast,' whispered the soldier, and his lips quivered like those of a babe he was so weak! 'O ! I hope not, John.' 'Yes, it's so, was the quiet reply. 'Please give me the picture under my pillow. It was found and opened for him the face of a gentle girl smiled in his. Tears ruske I to his eyes, and he sobbed "it's very hard, very hard ;' but presently conquered himself. Ly this time two ur three of the nurses had gathered about him. They saw by the sunken temples, the glazing eyes, that his hour had indeed come. As he bade them all farewell, the sun first broke through the clouds of the morning. 'I wish I could stay,' he murmured, as he saw the glorv of its brightness on the pleasant walls, 'but I suppose it's for the best. I try to bo resigned. Coys, I should like what little belongs to me, in money ami clothes, to be sent to my mother. She's a poor widow, God help her ! After 1 am gone, you can take the ring off my little finger,, do it up with the picture there, and send it to Katv Fields, Hoboken, Ncav York. Put down the name, for fear you might forget. It was done. Now, boys, good bye, one and all. I'm going where there are no battle fields and no l.opitals. Tell the fellows in my company, if you ever see any of them, to stick to their colors and never show the white feather. Tell them to be good boys and honor God; that they may lie where I do, and then they will regret all their wasted time and wicked conduct. Good bye." His faltering tongue refused to say more. It began to be noised through the hospital that John Morris was dying. The sick men had all learned to love him. Two or three Zouaves, members of his company, listened to his farewell, crying like children. They pressed forward to hear one parting Avoid, to get one last pressure of the hand, but the chill of death was too heavily upon him. He could not rally, or turn his dim eyes towards them. Once, twice he breathed the words' 'mother' and Katy,' and after a few short struggles, his spirit had gone to the Giver. It was not long before a plain coffin was brought, and the body of John Morris Avas on its way to the Congressional burying ground. There, sad to say, without prayer or the solemn voice of singing, he Avas lowered to his last resting place. The birds sang Avhen he was buried, the sun tshone, lighting up the checkered aisles of the dead, and making almost beautiful the sombre head-btoues that lifted up everywhere. At the same hour, in a little school house in Hoboken, the youthful teacher sat before her desk, her head bowed upon her folded arms. Her miud was afar off, wandering through scener of horror and suffering, such as no man, even, can witness unmoved. Through the long lines of shadowy, beds she glided, seeking a familiar face. John had written that his hospital Avas in a church, and she tried to fancy how their rleaeant church yonld look converted into a hospital. O ! if she could only be there ! What Avas he suffering now ? She lifted her head and her sad blue eyes, and took from her pocket a letter, poorly Avritteu, for the hand that traced it was trembling with F&m. In it ehe read ;

"Perhaps I shall come home to mydear ones on crutches. I believe there is no longer any hope of saving the poor leg. I have tried by eAery means in my power to keep it Avith me a little longer in the journey through life. 'We have been friends together,' but 'the - best of friends must part, so farewell to my poor sinister. It has played me a great many tricks, that left leg. I broke it once, you remember, and it was a long time getting well. I was always thankful for the broken leg, because it brought me you. What shall I be thankful for now ? what will it bring me now, I wonder? No good, I'm afraid. I believe the boyg, nurses, and the doctor, give me credit for being very jolly over it Avell, 'what's the use of sighing V I only wish it Avas well over. Uut never fear for me : John has got a good deal of life in him yet, and when I come home I'll learn basket-making, or sonic of the fine arts, so that my life shall not be entirely valueless.

I here ! isn t this pretty good for a man in anticipation of losing his leg before morning leu mother I can t ; she will nearly die but when von iret this tis all over, and so farewell, for the pres ent. Mot devotedly ATonrs, etc., etc. Kate had shed not a few tears over this sad news. That his handsome, manly form should be so disfigured, was not the most of her troubles. But the old moth er who had no other earthly dependence ; she could not bear the thought that henceforth, in all probability, she must struggle with her son, and krtow discomfort and penury in her extreme age. The little home, whose purchase John had taken upon himself, was only half paid for, and it was probable that the poor fellow would be disabled from business for at least a year. Then all hijplans for the future would be put back nis marriage his business. O ! the heart-aches occasioned by this war ! The tide of desolation as it rolls through the land, sweeps down the sweet hopes of mother and maid, and is swellcd by the tears of orphaned children and widowed wives. Putting the letter back in her pocket, Kate bustled about a little, dried her eyes, threw on her Avhite crape bonnet, and hurried to the cottage of widow Morris. Have you a word from John V was the first salutation. 'Yes, mother, I have.' 'Well,' the woman, almost breathless, eyed her narrowly. He writes in good spirits, but you'll see him coming home bye and bye with a wooden leg, she forced herself to sav. 'Then they have cut it off!' cried the widow, shrilly. My handsome boy my beautiful, straight-backed boy 1 O ! why did he ever go to this dreadful war ; It has broken my heart. Kate, Kate, it's in my mind that he never'll come back never, never. U ! my poor child I Would God I could be with you.' lo all this anguish Kate could say nothing, for she Avas struggling bitterly with her own feelings.. An hour elapsed before she left the widow's home, but all the Avay she was haunted Qiy her Avhite, despairing face. Then, if he should never come back, oh ! thought of terror ! His misfortune would' make no difference to her, no, not if it were doubled. The little money she had saved, two hundred dollars, should be put Avithout reserve into his hands, and by her talents she would assist him. But if he should never come back I the thought took away her strength. Arrived at her boarding house, little Lucy, one of her scholars, took her hand, but said no Avord. Her face Avas mournful yet beseeching. Whoever met her, she thought, seemed anxious to avoid Iher, and sorrow marked every face. She hurried to her room, laboring under a vague presentiment of coming evil. A little package laid upon the table she had left empty. Her heart stopped all color fled her cheeks, she sank clown almost fainting nor for a sad hour did she dare to face the evil she knevv Avas in store for her. At last, on her knees, praying God for strength, she cut the strings of the little package. God answered her prayer. He strengthened her, else how could she have lifted that precious ring, or unclosed that miniature-case to behold one lock of curly brown hair ! 0 ! yes, God strengthened her, even though as she arose she staggered. Gone even then under the sod noble, beautiful, generous John Morris. Never more to laugh, with his bright hazel eye looking into hers neA'er more to be the leader in all merry sports never more to bless the heart of his fond, doting mother, who had now no earthly stav or comfort. It Avas growing dusk. Kate took the miniature the ring she put on her finger, and Avhite and trembling, she set out for the widow's house, speaking to nobody cn her way. She Avalked straight into the neat little sitting-room, Avhere the unconscious clock was ticking the hours with monotonous voice. She went up to the widow sitting in the arm-chair, the Bible on her lap fell on her knees with one great cry "Mother, I ha'e come to stay Avith you t always," and bending her head upon the Bible sobbed as if her heart was broken. To her astonishment tlieAviiow comprehended it all and was calm. "Child, I knew it," she said in a broken voice "the Lord told me, even as I

read His holy Avord. God help us twojnil se helaves I'll never pay her and poor women ! Ha will, Kate. He will." Mto that's my belafe too."

For days thereafter the aged mother Avas prostrate, but gradually she came out of the great sorrow, and began to set her house in order. John Morris's ring is on the third finger of Kate Fields. As long as it stays there, no man can marry her. The widow is her charge.

White vs Black. The other Sunday, a Rev, Mr. French, one of the numerous negro gospellers in the pay of the present negro loving administration, delivered a lecture in the Hall of Representatives, in Washington. We make the following extract, as published in the Washington Chronicle : "Rev- Mr. French set out by remarking that he should lay such facts and statements before his audience, as in his judgment would be interesting to and profitable for them lo know. If he were to take a text, it would be in the words of the Saviour, "Loose him and let him go." The people must take the grave clothes from the dead man. God is not in the habit of doing the people's work. A few Aveeks ago the speaker, Avith dispatches from the Secretary of ar, took passage on a vessel for South Carolina. The captain had neAcr been on that vessel or route before. Before they reached their destination the heavens darkened, and for more than a day and night, neither sun, moon, stars or land could be seen. They could not tell in Avhat latitude or longitude they were. Much alarm was exhibited by all onv board for their safety. Among the passengers was Robert Small, a colored man. This man at length Avent to the halyards, and after remaining there a long time he called the captain and informed hfm that he had seen land, and that he knew where they were. We are off St. Helena Sound, said Sma'l. I was born on St. Helena Island. The captain believed him. He saw through the eves of the bla?k man, and arrived safely at Beaufort, S. C. that black man saw what he could not. This morning he had heard numbers of his audience ask, where are avc ? To answer the question, we must look- through the Hack mail's eyes, The black man could tell you when the rebellion Avill be crushed. An intelligent colored man in answer to a question as to when the war would end, had replied ? "Why, massa, when you give us a chance.' It is astonishing a negro should recognise the place where he was born and had lived a good portion of his life, and establishes the superiority of the black race. The "give us a chance" is significant it means "a chance" for these black devils to murder women and children and this clerical hound Avas advocating it. The Wonders of the Atmosphere. The atmosphere rises abve us with its cathedral dome arching toward heaven, of which it is the most perfect synonym and symbol. It floats ftaround us like that grand object which uie apostle John saw in his vision, "a sea of glass like unto a crystal," So massive is it that when it begins to stir ittosses about great ships like play-things, and sweeps city and forests, like snow-flakes, t destruction before it. And yet it is so noble that Ave have lived years in it before avo can be persuaded that it exists at all, and the great bulk of mankind never realize the truth that they are bathed in an ocean of air. Its weight is so enormous that iron shivers before it like glass, yet a soap-ball sails through it with impunity, and the tiniest insect waves it aside with its Aving. It ministers lavishly to all our senses. We touch it not, but it touches us. Its warm south wind brings back color to the pale face of the invalid ; its cool west Avinds refresh the fevered brow and make the blood mantle to our cheeks ; eA-en its north blasts brace into new vigor the hardened children of our rugged climate. How to Cure Bacon. In answer to a questian "how to cure bacon by the mild process" the Irish Farmer's Gazette gives the following directions : Singe off the hair, and scrape thoroughly clean ; when, cut up, rub the flesh side well with common salt, aud pack the pieces on top of each on a tray with a gutter round it to catch the brine ; once every four or five days, the salt should be changed, and the flitches moved, plac ing those on top at the bottom ; live or six weeks of this treatment will suffice to cure the bacon. Avhen it may be hung up to dry, hist rubbing them o.er with coarse bran, or any sort of sawdust except deal ; if smoking be preferred, hang in a chimney ; if not, in a dry, airy part of the kitchen, not too near the fire. We are not aeqninted Avith the Limerick mercantile process ; the Wicklow U simi lar to that given abore, and practiced by farmers there. jr-iT An Irishman being a little fnd died Avas asked what was his religions belief. "Is it me belafe ye be asking about? Its the same as the widdy Biadv. 1 owe her twelve shillings for whiskey.

" Prom Africa the Negro came, Stand up Old Abo and bless hisnamo-

Emancipation Proclamation. "H Aeiuxrmx, Janu.iry 1, 1-. PROCLAMATION BY THE mESIDLNT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WnEREAS, on the -2d day of September, in the year of our Lord 1mV2, a proclamation Avas issued by the President of the United State, containing among other things the following, to-.vit : 'That bn the 1st day of January, iu the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, (1803,) all pets ins held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, if tha people thereof shall there be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, henceforth and forever free, and the Uxeeutive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authoiity thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or anv of them, iu any effort they may make for their actual freedom.' "That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, issue a proclamation, designating the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people therein respectively shall then be in lebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall, on that day, be in good faith lepresented in the Congress of the United States bv members chosen thereto, at elections wherein a majority of the qual ified voters of each State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervail ing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not in the rebellion ugainst the United States ; now, there fore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President ol the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as lyonimander-in-cnict of the Army and Navy in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority ol the Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, tn this, the first day f January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance av it h my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the date of the above first mention ed order, and designated as the States and parts of States Avherein the people thereof respectively arc this day .in re bellion against the United States the all owing, to-Avit : "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana except the parishes of La Bernard, PlaqucminW V C . Tt t 1 I . . es, ueiierson, ot. .lonn, cc. Vyimrics, or. dames, Ascension, Assumption, Terr Bonne, La rourche, St. M.irv, St. Mar tin aud Orleans, including the city of New Orleans Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Yirginia excepting the forty-eight counties designated as Western Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, North Hampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne and Norfolk, including the cit of Norfolk and Portsmouth, which excepted parts arc, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation Avere not issued ; and by virtue of the power and for the purposo aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within the designated States and paits of States are, and Henceforward snail be, nee ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recog nize aud maintain the freedom of sai l persons. 'And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from ail violence, unless in necessary self-defense ; and I recommend to them that, in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable Avages. I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition. will be received into the armed service of the United States, to garrison forts, positions-, stations and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in sai I service ; and upon this, sincerely believe I to be au act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I in voke the considerates judgment ot mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eightv-eventh. r;.r,o.n ni? it at i.iwril.V ' .hr?h.'t;.U(. ...... "Vm H. Seward, Secretary of State." sixty-nine poun l shell burst near an Irishman in one of the trenches. Pat coolly surveyed the ruins the fragrnents had made, and exclaimed : . "Be jibers them's the fellows to soften the wax in a man' ears V

S:nitor Dougla' Opinion of What . Has Caused the Trcscnt Condition of the Country Au Important Reminiscence. Ou the 25th of Mirch. lGl, Honl Stephen A. Itngla i 1 1 the following discourse Avith a ll-publican United States Senator from Xcw Hampshire. Real it. and you have Mr. Dougla views of the piesent crisis. He said, in alluding to Mr. Lincoln's policy, w hich ho ha iincd repudiated : "That is a very good policy a much wiser and better one thin 1 lit I rxpctel or hoped for from a Republican Administration. 1 do not knMv that I should have ma le as great cfiuits to defeat them, if I had thought they tvoul I have acted Avith as much wis. him and patiijtism. "Mr. Clarke Yon did not defeat them. "Mr. Douglas No ; nor would I have made as great clfr tt to defeat thm. "Mr. Clarke You did ns no harm. "Mr. Dougla If 1 did not defeat you it was not my fault. I ued my best t-iforts to do it. "Mr. Clarke You could not quit come it. "Mr. Douglas I could not qm!ecom it, and you seethe consequences. Seven States are vut cf the Union, civil war it prmliitg over you, commerce is interrupt-, ed, confidence destroyed, the country gob"i to piece. V, Bl iCAUSi: 1 COULD NOT DKFLAT YOU! No man iu America believes thse consequence would have result ? I if I ha 1 been successful in my efforts to defeat you. You can boast that you have defeated me, but you have del-uteJ your couin.tr y with me.oucan boast that you have triumphed over me, but you hive triumphed over the unity of these &te. YOUR TRIUMril HAS BROUGHT DISUNION, and God.

on lyk 11 OWN what coiisequeuces may grow out of it Tli o Orgiuizin Ta'ent of MsClellaw. The Albany Evening Jon ual, edited by Tlturlow Weed, the con.'idcntial friend of Secretary Seward, says : "Hewa called to Washington. Hj was called at the urgent re quest of General Scott. He was called by th nnanimou vnfco of th j loyal p-jople. He found the "Army of the Potoma" a hideous mob. H found mutiny rif in the camp, an! insubordination the presiding genius oftho field. He found Washington filled whU drunken soldiers; Colonels an I Briga- , lior G.nir:i1 lvin. ilrnnt ?it mid day in hotel bar-rooms ; regiments whose commanders had not vUitid them for .lays; discipline laughed to scorn, riot . and lawlessness rampant all along our lines. He changed all this. He brought order out of chaos. He reinstated discipline. He cleared Washington of tho broods of uniformed sots that hid so long infested it. He compelled incompetent officers to resign. He compelled Captains and Coljnels and Brigadiers to make their headquarters with their com- " i . ... t . t-:ti-. i . - - i t. inaui.s iu tea i oi tn. i muiu .s ana ta-j National. He quelled the mutinies that . threatened to destroy our army. Ht checked the disorganizing and demoralizing tendency that had caused such pro- ' found and general alarm throughout thr country. He converted a mobofwoftto than undisciplined soldiers a rabble degraded by defeat and unmanned by panicinto what even Mr. Russell, of the Loudon Times, is compelled to call one of the finest armies in the avoiI 1. 'Without the orgatiizinggenias of General McClel'an, where avou!J avo have been to-day ?" What has bien tlc reward of General McClerlan for this great hervice to tho country ? His retirement at Trenton auswcis. Abolition Massachusetts. The Milwaukej News thus reviews tht action of Massachusetts : Our Republican cotcmporaries boast orer the Abolition triumph in Massachusetts. The may take her. She has burned women at the stake. Site has hung Q takers for opinion sake. She has resisted the federal laws. She was the author of the Hartford Convention. She manufactured the bine-lights bcrned at New London for the benefit of oar enemies in the last war. She Ins loLLid convents and refused to pay the loss. She refuses charters to colleges which do not Ktbscribe to the leliglous Bentiments of her people. She resolved the Union dissolved, bocause avo a ided the Lone Star of Tcxta to our banner. She welcomes her negro population to the polls, and drives Avhites away becan.e of their pl.ico of birth. She imprisons Democrat, and refuses to furnish men for the army except upon conditions. God forbid that she should rot t th ! Democratic ticket. - - : T A handful of flour Loun l on ft wound will prevent the blood, from flowing. Thousands of men who have bled to death on the battle-neld, would ave j Wen- saved had they had a handful ol j dour in their "sacks, an 1 bound it cn taeir wound with their haalkmbicf.