The Yorktown Surrender

At norm of the 19th of October we have the ürst act ofsurrender. Yorktown changcil hands. Two rcdoubts on the lelt of the ciiimy's works wero at that hour taken possesston ofby detach menta trom theallied armv. Col. Richard liuller communded the American and the Marqnii Laval the French party, eacfa of 100 mea. At2o'clock we reaco theclosing .ceno. The army of Uornwallis marehed out as prisonersof war, grounded their anus and then march back. Accounts agree in describing the display and ceremony on the occasion as quite imposlng. The British appeared in new uniforms, distributed among them a few daya before, and it only requlred tlie tlyingof' tlieir standard to glve their mareh the effect of a bollday parada But their colors were cased, and tlio.y wtre prohibited froin playing either a Freneh or an American tune. 'l'his was tlio return of a compliment, a pleoe 't Jastiflable as wel] as poetic retaliation on the part of the Americana for wliat the enemy were pleaeed to command when Gen. Lincoln was compelled to surretlder at Charleston the year before. The maller carne up at the meeting of the commlssioners. "Tblrlsa hamh article," said Rom to Laureas. "Whlch article V answered tbe latter. "The troops (hall mareli out. Uritfl colora cased, and Onmi hrnting a lirüüh or Oermtsn marrïi." "Yes, sir," retiirnrd Laurens, with a touch of snhij froid, "it isa liarsh article." "Then," saiil l'nss, '-f that is your opinion. why is it liere?'1 Whereupon Laurens, whobad been made priseoerat Charleston with LincolD'sarroy, proceeded to remitid Roes that the AmerlCJtni 00 that occasion had made a brave detCnse. but were ungallantly rcfuscJ any honors of sarrender, other than to march out with colon cased and drums not beatin; a ISritish or a Germán march. "Hut,'' rejoined Koss, "niy Lord Cornwallis did not Oommand at (harleston." "There, sir," said Laureng, ';you extort another observation. It is not the individual that is liere considered ; it is the natlon. This remainsan article, or I cease to be a cominissioner." Nothin"; more was to bc said; the artille stood, and the enemy marched out with colors cased, while the tune tliey olióse to follow was an old British march witli the quite approprlaU titlc of "The World Turned Upslde Down." As the prlsoners moved out of their works along the Hampton road, tliey found the French mul American aitnleS iliawn up on eitherside of the way, the Americana on their rlght, and extendlog for more thau a niile toward the field of surrender. The Frenoh troops presented a brilliant specta(]( in tlieir white uniforma, wlth plomad and decorated officers at their liead, and gorjreous standards of white silk, embroldereu with xoWenJieurs-de-lis, floatingalong the line. The Americana were loss of an attraction in ontward appearanee, but not the less eagerly eyd by their late antagonista, Among the war-worn oontlnentall there was variety of dress, poor at the best. distlngulshlng tlie men of the different llnes; but,to compénsate for lackof show, there was a soldierly bearing about them whicb roniniandv'd aftention. The militia f'ormed in their rear presented a less tnartial sijrlit, so l'ar as dothingand order were conqüerprs, and their very appearanee bcspoe the hardships and privation they and their states liad undergone to win in the Struggle. At the liead of the respective Unes were the eommanding generáis, nobly mounted - Washington, KOChambean, La Fayette, Lincoln, Steulien, Knox and tlie rest. Leadingthe British came Gen. O'Hara iisiea.l ol'CornwalIis. The latler pleaded illness, but he sent his sword by O'Hara to be :ivrn up to Washington. As O'Hara advanoed to the chief, he was rei erred to Lincoln, wlm, upon receivinfr the sword as atoken of'tlieenemy'ssnlimissioii, immediately retunied it to the British general, whose troops then marched bet ween the two Unes to s field on the right, where they grounded tlieir anus. liere is somethinfr new; wuetherit exista i tact or not, it forcibly exhibits what most pcople cali the " instinct " of bees. In a hot dry valley in New South Wales the iiilered last vear froni B long c.'iitinued drourht. Thi.s year. says a contemporary f that colouy, the wonderful Httle fellows have m:ide provisión SgaTnst another like trouble by filliiiff alarbe Immber ot externa] celia In oacb. hlye with pure water instead of honey. - Scieiitilie American. In eastern clties it is becötnlng quite common to tattoo the ehildreii. tlie sume as westers stockmen do tiukt cattle, tonlilv them n oase they are stolen