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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 26, 6 January 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

About a tvvelvenjonth since,whendisa.ster everywhere overtook the Union arms in America, a young lady, scarce nineteen, just from fia academy, conceived the iiJe-i that she was destined by Providence to lead the Peoeral arms to victory. It was at first thought Ly her parents — a highly respectable family in Willoughby street, .New York— that her mind was 'weakened simply by reading continual accounts of the lival whys, and treated her as a sick child This only had the effect of making her more demonstrative, and- her enthusiastic declaration and appirent tincerity gave the family great anxiety. Ai lengch she succeeded ia making hcrescipe. This was lust April: She w<is mourned a«* lost by her parent", but it was uotfro. The in-iiUuciie-l giri, finding no sympathy among her friends., resolved to entor the army, dit-guised as a drummer boy, drfarnms that her destiny would be worked out such a mode, she joined the drum c r ( >s of a Michigan regiment at Detroit, her sex known only lo herself, and succeeded in getting with he.r regiment to the army of the Cumberland How the poor f>irl huivhed the haidahips' of tiit K.emuck> campaign, « liere strong men fell in noin bers, must for ever lemain a "mystery. The regiment to- which she was att-iched had a place in U>e division of the gallant Van Cleve, an I daring the late bloody battle the fair girl fell, pierced in the left side with a (Vlinie ball, and when borne Jo the, surgeon's tent her sex was discovered bhe was told by the surgeon that her wound was mortal, and advised to give her name, that her family might be informed of her fate.- This she finally, though reluctantly, consented to do, ani.tiiel colonel of the regiment became interested , in her belulf, aud prevailed upon her to ict him send a despatch to her fatner. ! Here, then, is a short incident of. ihe war which mi^hl read like romance. But to the unhappy iafmly who are now howed down by giief, romance 10-.es* its atuac-tio.-i, and me sad his.ory will be a fatally record for gencratioiis to cooie. A lett»r from Brest, of the 28th Sppt?mber, was posted in the Liverpool Underi wvners' iioom, reporting that the Florida h.id k-ftthe Government dr> r dock, and was then in the tnerc<iutile harbor 'ierittin<j. 1 ahe v< f as expected to go inio the roadstead I in eight or ten du)s, but would not be 1 leady for sea for three weeks or a month '5 he Federal ciui^er Kearsage had airived from Madeira an.l Ferrol. There was a scarcity of coal at Brest. A rather curious quarre£"'has arisen at Mirambeau (UharenteJ bnt^veen tlic brikeis and their customers. The Mayor had given oi'deis that when (ho bakers weni round to deliver their bread, they should carry scales and weights with ihcm The bakers' then refused to carry out the bread at all, and the were compelled to go for it, but, they could find none baked. The consequence was th.it recourse was obliged to be had to pota'oes as a substitute. The municipal councillors, and some of the inhabitants held a meeting^ for the /purpose of forming a joint-stock baking company. There is a witty story or l simile much used with ? a moral application, of a donkey who starved, between two bundles of hay, applicable to the folly of irresolu tion. .The idea is amusing, but the probability very questionable. It is mu^li to be doubted it any donkey would be such an ass. A man wa* taken up lately for robbing his fellow-lodger Hes^idhe commenced by cheating a newspaper, propnetor, and, after that, everything rasc&lly came easy to him. An English officer of high connnections, who has been a resident- in -Holland more than 80 > eats, on account, it fe> said, of a duel in England, in which he killed his adve*sary, will be tried next month for the wilful murder of a Dutch offiofr, I. is neighbor. The prisoner is about 70 year* of nge, and is known under the alias oi Somerset Lee. His son is at the present moment the high 'sheriff of an important Irish county.