The Valley Of Jehoshaphat

Tbe efforts the Jews have made, and the sufferings, losses, and humiliations they have borne, for the purposo of obtaiuing sepulture in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, foi ui a singular feature iu human bistory. No other nation has thus struggled, not to live iu their own land, but to be suffered to lay tbeir dust therein. Many descriptious have been made of this marvelous place ; but I eonfess none of them ever afforded rae a notion of its actual appearance. Wanderiog alone past the fountain of Siloam, and by the arid bud of Kedron it suddenly opened oii me a perfect mountain of graves - a hill sido paved with sepulehural shibs. - Eaeh stone is small, so small as to load to the conclusión thut the budies must be buried perpendicularly. At all events if the multitudes thero interrod wero to nrise, they would form a itrowd as dense and compact as it would be enormous - Short Hebrew iuscriptious (soine evidently of great age) aro on all the stoues ; and these ara laid togethor with intervals only of a few inches, as in our oldest ehurchyards. The slabs are ahnost on the level of the ground, and of ejual height, so that it is literally one large pavement of death - an appalliog, ahnost an overwhelming sight. - razer's Magazine. Mr. Lincoln is held responsible for tbe follovring. A gentleman visited Mr. Lincoln to solicit a pasa into Virginia to sec a brother outside our line. "Hyve you applied to Gen. Halleck?" inqiiired the President. "Yes, and met with a flat refusal." "Then you must see Stanton." "X have, and with the samo result," was the reply. "Well, then," said Abe, witb a 6mile of good humor, "I can do nothing ; for you must know that 1 have very littU infièexie tiïïd (Ls ád.rimistrtitiox.'1 '