Lincoln When Ten

The following'graphic sketch of' tho late President Lincoln when he was ten years of ago is from an article in the Springflrjld Kepublican. It shows that,with unfavoring circumstances, he was an upright boy, Sixty years ago, a boy of ten and a girl of twelve wcre living alone with their father in a rough log-cabin in Indiana. The cabin had no floor, and only holes in the side for a door and a window. Instead of chairs, there were threo-legged stools, and for a beadstead thcre was a row of poles with one end stuck in a crack of the logs, and the other end laid in a forked stick driven into the ground, with some boards laid across the poles, and upon these a heap of leavos covcred with skins and old petticoats. Tho boy. and girl were dirty, halfdressed and neglected. Their mother was dead, and their father was a rough hard man. Once he left them for some time, and whon he carne back, he brought with him a splendid bureau, a table, a set of chairs.a clothes-chest, bedding and othcr furniture - and a new mother for the children ? She, poor woman, had supposed she was marrying a well-to-do man ; and had come with him all the way from Kentucky, cxpecting to Gnd a home awaiting henelf and her three children, instead of it she found this forlorn place. But, like a bravo woman, she made the best of it. With hor furniture and her carOjshe soon made the cabin homelikc. Tho two children, Abc and Nancy, were soon cleaner and botter dressed than they had cvor been before. Both of them were good children, and she loved them both. To the boy, her coming was the boginning of a new life. She sent him to school whonever thero was a chance, which was not often ; she encouraged him and sympathized with him, and was a truc mother to him, the only mother he ever know. Many years afterward, ho said to a friend, with tears in his eyes, "All that I am or hope to be, I owe to iny angel mother. And sho said of him af'ter he was dead : "Abe nover gave me a cross word or look, and never refused, in fact or appear ancc, to do anything I requested liiin. "I never gave him a cross word in all my life. His mind and mine - what little I had - seemed to run togother. He was dutiful to me always. "Ithinkho loved me truly. I hada son, John, who was raiscd with Abe, " Both were good boys, but I must say, both now being dead, that Abc was tho best boy I ever saw or expect to sec." The oldest member of the Chicago convention was Joel Eastman, of New Hampshirc, agcd 83, who in 1840 took part in the Harrisburg eonvention that nominated Harrison. The younge.st was a son of öov. A. B. Cornell, of New York, and a delégate from the Ithaca district.