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to succeed, and to wish your country and your countrymen to fail? And if these unholy desires, Shultz, don't define you a rebel, there is no language to define one. Don't you see that buying gold inevitably turns honest, patriotic, devoted men like you, away from the cause which they ought to support, and which they think they do support, because they have made it for their interest not to support it? Don't you see it, my dear fellow?"

"Be shure I do," said the honest man, with gravity of manner and a humility in keeping with the discovery he had made; "and I ax pardon of the war. Put de whole of dat in Seven-Thirties. My money goes mit my principles." Honest soul!

Middleton it was discovered by the Major that he was too late to intercept the marauders, and he consequently ordered the horses unsaddled and fed. Now, the Major's hostler was a son of the Emerald Isle, entirely ignorant of everything pertaining to the equestrian art, and, coming in from half an hour's scout through the village, in a state closely bordering on intoxication, he put the Major's saddle on facing to the rear. When the horses were brought up for a fresh start, the Major, instantly discovering the mistake, demanded with a wondering scowl why the saddle was put on in that manner.

"An' shure," said Pat, a little terrified, "an' shure, Major, an' I didn't know which way you was going!"

An explosion followed-the Major was abundantly satisfied-and Pat escaped without further rebuke.

Saddling to Suit the Route. While the Sixth New Hampshire regiment was stationed at Russellville, in southwestern Kentucky, the inhabitants Moderate Ideas of a Competency. of the surrounding country were frequent- While Mr. Lincoln was visiting New ly annoyed by the incursions of guerrilla York city, some time previous to the bands from Tennessee. News coming in assembling of the presidential Republican one morning that a band of these outlaws nominating convention at Chicago, he met had plundered one of the neighboring vil- in one of the business establishments in lages, Lieutenant-Colonel P., the active New York, an Illinois acquaintance of former years, to whom he said in his dry and good-natured way:

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"Well, B., how have you fared since you left Illinois?"

"I have made," replied B., "one hundred thousand dollars and lost all; how is it with you, Mr. Lincoln?"

"Oh, very well; I have the cottage at Springfield, and about eight thousand dollars in money. If they

and efficient commander, immediately dis- make me Vice-President with Seward, as patched a small detachment of the regi- some say they will, I hope I shall be able ment, commanded by Major Q., in pursuit to increase it to twenty thousand, and that of them. On arriving at the village of is as much as any man ought to want."

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