Henry W. Beecher And The Cow

A cow had been purchased from a farmer rosiding two or three miles dis tant, and, being ratber wild, alie had led the Doctor, mounted on Cbarley, quite a steeple-chase, twice swimmiDg the Ohio and back aguin, and performing êundry exploits of an exasperating nature. Bnt, by infinite perseverance, the Doctor had succeeded in getting her home and safely faateoed in the atablo, and was reposiüg victorious in the house. Just at this time, Henry Ward, who had bnen absent, and knew nothing of the new acquisition, obanced to visit the barn for some purpose, and finding, as he Bupponed, a etrange cow, was seized with indignation, " WTiy, here," gaid he, 'here'w a strange cow in our barn ! Get out ! Go long ! Whay I " And, Buit iog actions to words, he geized a whip and drove the Mtonished brute out into the street. " Tbere," said he, coming in panting, where the Doctor was lyïng stretched upon the sofa, "there ! I guess that oow will not get into our barn again in a hurry ! '' " What cow ? " saya the Doctor. "What do you meao ?" " Why; I found an old cow in our barn, and drove her out into the street, nd chased her until I was tired out, and then gve her a good beating." " Well, there," exclaimed the Doctor, indespsir; "you have done t ! Here I have been chasing half the dav to get the cow iu, and you have gone and ohased her out again ? "-Dr. Beecher's Life. Clochester, the spiritualist, has taken out a license au a juggler, paying $20 for the same. The application was made lor a " licenBe for a spiritual medium, by gome people oalled jugglery," but the Assesnor refused to issue a li cense under thnt head, and he had to content himself with one for " jugglery." An editor publinhed a long leader on hog. A rival paper in the name village upbraids hitn for obtrudiug big family matters upon the public. A person who had become rather dis sipated, was accueed of having a loóse character. " I wíhIí it were loose," said he, " I'd soon shake it off." A lady wished a sent m a orowJed hall. A handsome gentleman brought her a oBair. " You are a jewel," eaid she. " Oh, no, I am a jowtler; I have juet eet the jowel." Curran'e ruling pahsion ■was bis joke. In his last illness, his physician observe(l in the moniing that he seem to cough with more dificulty he nswered : " tl. at is rather surprising as I have been practioing al] nigbt." Incidents in the LLe of Gen ShermanColonel S. M. Bovtmai), a porsoual friend of General Slienuau, haB WritteD, in conjunetion with Lioutenant-Colouel Irnii), a hislory of "fc herman and hi Oampaigns," whioh will soon be publishud. TUE SHERMAN FAMILY. Colonol Bowmau givea tho followiug account of the origiu of General Sherman : Wilüam Tecumaeh Shennan wae born in Lancaster, Ohio, on the 8th of Feb ruary, 1820. ïhe branch of tbe Sherman family to whioh lie belongg ii descended from the Honorablo Samuol Shermao, of Dodhain, in the oounty of Ebscx, England, who cama to Maachusetta io the year 1834 in cornpany with hi brother ihe Rev. John Siier mao. The two latter ettled at Milford Conneeticut, and beoume the founders ot UHeful families. Roger Shermau was a descendant of the captain's. Samuel Sherrnan, after residing for a time at Wethersfield, Conuücticut, remo?ed to Stamford, and fiually to Stratford, in the same State, vvhere the family reraained for tuany yeais. Taylor Sherman, one of tho descendents of Samuel Sherman, who died in 1815, was for many years judge of ono of the courtu of hi üative State. On lis death, his w'dow removed with her children to what is now Iho towa of Lanciter, in Fuirfield couuty, in the State of Ohio. Charles Robert Sher mau, the bod of Taylor Shennan, and he father of General Öhennan, wat jorn on the 26th ot September, 1788, and had one brother, Daniel, and a siser uamed Betsey. He was au accoin)lished luwyer, very sueoessful as an tdvooate, and fiom 1823 to 1829, when ie died of cholera, was one of the judges f tbe Superior Court of the Stato of Ohio. On the 8th of May, 1810, he manied Mary Hoyt, by vrhom be had en obildren ; first, Charles ïnylor a )romineut lawyor, formerly of Mnn.--field, Dhio, now of Washington city; eecond, ilary Elizabeth ; tbird, James; fourth, Amelia; fifth, Julia; sixth, Williara "ecumseh; seveuth, Parker; eighth, ohü, for many years an iufluontial member of the Houso of Represen taives from Ohio, now senator from the ame State; nintb, Suaaa Hoyt; and enth, Franoes, iïi death left this larga fnraily in ery moderate circumstauoe. Shortly fterwards, being tben but little past nine years of age, William Tscumseh waa adoptad by the Honorable Tho. Ewing, one of bia fatber's most intímate friuuds, as a member of bis own i'amily. Mr. Ewing sent him to school in Lncaater until bis aixteenth yaar, wben baving, as a member of (Jongress froin Ohio, tha privilege of Dominating a youtb from hia oongressional district for appointment aa a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, be exercised tbis rigbt by procuring the warrant for bis youtbful cbarge. SHKRMAN AT WSST POINT. In June, 1836, cadet Sbennan entered the Academy, where, with the exceptioos of the months of July and August, 1838, whicb bis claas was permitted to pend at home on furlougb, ho remained pursuing the course of studies and military duties then in force, until the 3Oth of June, 1840, when he graduated, standing siith ia cbe order of general merit of liis class of forty-two mömbors - all tbat remained of a huudred and forty wbo bad eutered the institution with hiin. Among his classmateB wero Stewart Van Vilet, George A.. Thomas, Richard S. Ewell George W. Getty, William Hayg, Buahrod R, Johnson and Thomas Jordán. In one of his letterg, dated February 17th, 1839, be writes froni West Point : " Bill is much elated at the idea of getting free of West Point next June. He does not intend remaining in tbe army moro tnau oue year, toen toresigu. and study law, probably. No doubt you admire bis ohoico ; but, to speak plaiu aud candidly, I would rather be a blacksraith. Indeed, the nearer wa come to that dreadful epoch, a graduation day, the higher opinión I conoeivo of the duties aud life of an officer of the United States army, and tbe more con firmed in tbe wish of epeuding my lifo in the service of my country. Think of that. Curse ït ! the church bugle has juet blown, acd in a moment I must put on my side airus and march to cburch, to listen to a two hours sermón, witb its twenty divisions and twenty-one subdivisions. ♦ " As we have, then, two or tbiee dancing partios eacb week, at which tbe gray bobtail is sufficient recouimemlation for an introduction to sny one, you eau well cnceive how the oadets have always had the reputation, and have still, bere in tbe Eat, of beiug great gallants and ladies' men. God ouly knows how I will sustain that roputation !" Hero in a glimpse of liis tastes and occupations : TASTES AND OCCÜPATION8. " The last encampmont, taken all in UI, I think was the rnost pleaeant one 1 1 bave ever pent, even to me, wbo did uot participute in the dance and baila given evcry week by the different oleses; bosides the dutiei wero of' altogether a different nature from any of the )revious ones, such as acting as officurs upon guard and at artillery drill, prac.iiingat target firing with long twentyours and thirty twos, mortars, howitssors, io-, as also cavalry exeroise, which has been introduced this year. As to lordiog it over tbe plebes, to whicb you ref.rred, I had only one, whoni I mude, of ourse, tend to a plebe'a duty, such as bringiug water, policing the teut, cleaning my gun aud accoutrements, and the like, and repaid him iu tbe usual and ebeap coiu- advico ; and sinoe we have commenoed atndying I innk hún bono (study), and explaia to hun the difBeult parts of Algebra and the Frouoh gramniar, uiooe bo is a good ouo and a fiua fwllow ; bat ehould he not oarry himself straight, I should hava him found in Jatiuary and seut off, thnt boiug tho usual way iu ïuoh oaes, acd tlien Uke hio bed, table and cha.it, to pay for the OhrutuM pree '' I presume you have aeen the register of cadots for tb Ust year, and re marked tliat I still maia'.ain a good stand iü my claus ; aud if it wero nut for that column el 'dement' it would b etill better, for they are oouibiaod with the proüoiency in study to maka out thti ■tauding in general mei it. In faot, tbi year, aa well n the last, io studies alone, I have been aonong the stars. I fear I havo a difficult part to act for the noxt three yeare, booauso I am alruogt ooufident tliit, your fatb-r's wishes aod intoütion will clasb witb uiy inclination. In the first plao I think be wishes me to strivo and gradúate in the engineer corps. This I can't do. Noxt, to resign and becorae s oivü engineer. Wbilst I propose aud iateud to go into the iufantiy, bo atationed in the far West, out of raaoh of what is termed civilization, aud tbare remaiu as long aa pusgibla. SnKKMIN AT A I'LOBIDA POST. Lieutenant Sherman's letteis to his family, written at tbis time, give aa interetiug iosight iato Uis tboughts aüd pursuit. Hero is a view of bis life in quarters at Fort Pioroe. writtua Anril 10,1841; l " Now tbat wo are at peace, and our uiiud withdrawn {'rom thoso pleasant oxoumions aud oxpcditiou iu wbich we have been ngaged for tbi pgc fcur moutb, we are thrown upoo our iugeuuity to devise meuns of spendiug the time. Books we have few, but it ia no use, you cau't read any but the ligbtogt trah ; and even the uewspaparu, whio!) you supposa we would devour, requiro a greater eflbrt of inind to waroh than we possess. We attributo it to the cliraate, and bring up theae native lazy Minorcansaa examples, aud are gatisfiod Yet, of courso, we must do soiuethiag however little. Well, in this, eauh purauea bis owu fancy. The major and I have a parcl of cliickaai, in whioli, we havo, by competition, takso em.ugli iuterest to tato up a fow minutes of the day; brides, I Lava a little favvu to play with, and ciowí, a craue, &o. ; und f you wero to autor my room you would hesitate whethor it Va tbe abode of man or basts. Iu on oorner n a heu, setting; iu another tome orows roosted on busbea ; tba othcr is a little bod bf busbes for the littlo fuwn ; whilut in the fourth is my buckot, waJi-basig, gluss, &o. So you aea it is three to one." In a aubaequent letter be tbus touches thö same veiu : " I've got moro pet now than oy baohelor iu the country - innumerable ohickoiu, tamt pigeoos, white rabbite, aud, full-blood Indiau pony rathar swaii raattors tor a uiaa to deal vvith, you doubtles thiük, but t is ir better to spand time ia trines nuch at tbcie thaii q drinking or ganjbüng." IJis dusiio for the fraedom oí froatiér life is tbua again shown : " We hear that-tbe nsw Secretar v of War iutends proposing to the next Codgress to raise two rifle regiment for tbe western service. As you aro at Washington, I preuurae yon can learn whether it is so or not, fUr I nbould like to go in suoh a. regiment, if statiouod in the far West ; uot that I am tbe least disploasod with nay preseut bertb, but when the regiment goes north, ie will, in all likelihood, be stationed in tbe vióinof some city, froiu whicb God spare me." All this time the young officer was uot unmiudful of the neoossity of professional study and improvement. He took care to inform himseif of the topograpbical features of the oountry in whioh he was statiooed or through whioh he traveled, as well as in regard to the occupatioos, eharacter, social orgauization and soaüments of the nhabitaots. The value of geography he specially appreciated. He prote to bis Irioad, Philemon Ewing: " Every day I feel more and more in need oí an ailas such ag jour father has at home; and, as the knowlodge of geogiapby, iu its minuteat details, it esential to a true military education, the idla time noceiwarily pent here raight be protitably devotod to t. I Hish, therefore, you would procure for me tha' beit geography aud atlas (uot school) extant." He writes, undor dato of June 12, 1844, from Fort Moultrie : " Since my returu, I have not beeu running about iu the city or the island, au huretofore, but have endearorod to interest myself in Blaokstone, whioh, with tho as8istance of Bouvier's Dotiouary, I find no difficulty iu underBtandlng. I liave read all four Tolume, Starkie on Evideuoe, and other bookg, seiui-legal ana historica!, and would be obliged to you if you would I give me a list of .such books aa jou were required to read, not includiug yoar local or State laws. I inteud to red the sooond and third volumes of Blackstone gin, also Kent's Uotmu tariea, wbich seem, as far as I am oapable of judgiug, to be the basis of the cotumon law praotioe. Thi courso of study I have adopted Irotu feelinp the want of t on the duties to whioh I wat latei y assigned." It is gnid a human body has twentyeight miles uf drainago throuh itsseven million pores. That ia notenough to oleanse some we have seen. A child with tb,ree torgues las been born ia Scetland,