Anecdotes Of President Lincoln

An English correspondent of a London magazine, atnong other thingg, relate? the following anecdotes of President Lincolo's conversational manners, as ha saw tlie President reeently in a small party in Washington : The conversation, like that of all American official men I have met with, was utirestrained in the presenee of strangers, to a degreeperfectly astonishing. Any remarks that I heai'd made, as to the present state of affairs, I do not feel at liberty to repeat, though really everj' public nisn here appears not only to livo in a glass house, but in n reverberating güllery, and to be absolutely indifferent as to whp_ sees or hears him. There are a few Lincolnania," howover, which I may fairly quote, and which vi!l show the style of his conversation. - Some of the party began oraoking, and our host leuiarked, laughingly, " The President has got no vices; he nehher smokes nor drinbs." " That is a doubtful compliment," answered the President ; " I recollect once being outside a stage in Illinois, and a man sitting by me offered me a cigar, I told him I had no vices. He said nothing, smoked for some time, and then grunted out, ' It's my experience that folks who have no vices have plagued few virtues.' " Again, a gentleman prcseut was telling how a íriend of his had been driven away from New Orleans as a Unionist, and how, on his expulsión, when he asked to see the writ by which he was expelled, the deputation which ealled on bim told him that the government had made up their minds to do nothing illegal, and so they had issued no illegal writs, and simpiy meact to make him go of his own tree will. " Well," eaid Mr. Lincoln, "that reminds me of a hotel keeper down at St. Louis, who loasted that he never had a death in his hotel, for whenever a n;uest was dying in his house hc carried him out to die ia the street." í' jL2ST' The cold weather in January must have been parliculary hard ou Longstreet's forces iti East Tennensee. Five hundred prisoners iinivcd at Louisvifle frotn Longstreel's oommand about the Ist, iind the Journal pronounces tbem piiiable objects. Many were in shirt siouves and barefoot, and nearly starvud. They stnied that hiseutire army is wretchedly a{ Wo ad vanee vaüantly, cheerfully through the days, building up rich palaces of hope in the futuro, with moft daring eight, looking down a lengthy vista o! years to como, when puddenly the ice of death floats over onr summer sen, und we are gone - nVitte and cold and so much food for worms. 8" Xo man, it han been stiiJ, in a hcro to 'nis vulet : and this ia prcbably true ; but the fftolt is at tóat as likely to be tho alot's as the hero's ; for it ia certain that to tho vulgar eye few things are wouduifiil that ure not distttot. ISF" E'op's f'.y, sftting on the asle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for o;claiming, "vvhat a dost I de raise !" Ytít whioh of us, in his way, has not somelimes been guilty of (h{) lika. J" A Streng effort aftt-r excellence vvill Fornetimes solaco iiself with a mere 8hadow of sncces, and he who hnR much to untold will eometimos unfold it imperfectly. rSBf-if - Of 1,800 conscripts inMilwaulie Wip,, all hut 80 coramuted.