A Little Romance

Mail Carrier George Althisar, of Port Jervis, will attend the Grand Encampment of the G. A. R., at Detroit, next week. Being a veteran of the civil war, and a member of Carroll Post of G. A. R., it is but natural that he should desire to attend this grand meeting of veterans and of Grand Army poste. Such, however, is not the molive which impels him to make the journey. It is of a purely sentimental character. He has in his possession a bible which he found in the knapsack of a rebel soldier on the battle-field of Bristow Station, whereit had been left by one of Stonewall Jackson's discomfited and retreating soldiers, who were gaüantly repulsed by our boys on that day. By the aid of inscriptions written on the fly leaf of the volume, Mr. Althisar discovered that it originally belonged to one David Webster, a Union soldier, hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and that it was presented to him by his mother, probably on the eve of his departure for the scène of war. During the peninsular campaign, and while the Union army was operating in the vicinity of Richmond, it feil into the hands of a confedérate soldier named Hayes, who inscribed his name and the circumstances under which the volume feil into his possession on the fly leaf. Mr. Althisar's motive in going to Detroit next week is to restore this relie to its original owner, if living, and