An Incident Of The War

-Tho Vicksburg correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette relate the following, of recent occurrence : "A wife who dwelt in the West, beyond the lakes, whose husband is an officcr in the army had not henrd f rom him forsorae weeks. Two small boys wcre with hun, their only ones. Whilc she sat at home, reading a paper, her eyes feil upon a noticc of the death of her husband. All the tendernessof a raother's lovc, all the Btrength of a wife's devotion, nervcd her to start immediately for her children, and clasp them to a widowcd heart. Day after day passed, how slowly, let a mother teil ; how tedious, let a widow speak who knows her idol broken in a distant land. Two weeks were past ere she reached Vicksburg. Threedays on a sandbar ! What torture 1 At last she reached the hoped-for c ty. As the boat neared the wharf, she lookcd at the crowd, and saw hor two boys pon ponies, and beside them the fatlier and husband. One long, piercing cry of joy filled the air ; the husband flew, rather than ran, and took the lifelcss form in his arms. It was too mueh of joy for a heart overcharged with grief. The strhigs snappfld,andreason totterod for a while, to fall, in two days, to the sleep of death." Josf ph Detweüer, of York County, Pa. was arrested last week on the charge of atyörnpting to evade the ineouie tax. It k alleged that he divided his properly among bis chüditn, bo that it would not come within the provisions of the law. Ht hs been held to auswer.