"DEAR SIR: Monsr. d'Yrujo, the Spanish "Minister here, has been so kind as to spare me "200 bottles of Champagne, part of a larger par"cel imported for his own use, and consequently "privileged from duty, but it would be improper "for me to take the benefit of that. I must, "therefore, ask the favor. of you to take the proper measures for paying the duty, for which purpose I enclose you a bank check for 22 dollars, "the amount of it. If it could be done without "mentioning my name it would avoid ill-intend"ed observations, as in some such way as this, "by duty paid on a part of such a parcel of "wines not entitled to privilege," or in any "other way you please. The wine was imported "into Philadelphia, probably about midsummer "last. Accept assurances of my great esteem and respect.

"Gen. MUHLENBERG."

TH. JEFFERSON.

RECORD OF THE FOURTH INFANTRY.-The following are the battles in which the Fourth United States Infantry participated during the Rebellion, and names of officers serving with the Regiment, in each engagement:

April, 1862-Siege of Yorktown.-Lieutenantcolonel R. C. Buchanan, commanding Regiment; Captain L. C. Hunt, Acting field-officer; Captains J. B. Collins, Hiram Dryer, F. H. Bates, R. N. Scott, T. E. Turner; First Lieutenants C. H. Carlton, A. R. Benedict, Thomas A. Martin, A. B. Cain, Alexander Carolin, W. S. Collier, John L. Buell, Regimental-quartermaster; Second Lieutenants A. E. Sheldon, R. P. McKibbin, William H. Powell, Adjutant, G. M. Randall, H. W. Patterson, E. F. Brenner, S. G. Krepps, S. T. Crowley.

June, 1862-Gaines' Mills-Captain J. B. Collins, commanding Regiment; Captain Hiram Dryer, Acting field-officer; Captain T. E. Turner; First Lieutenants C. H. Carlton, J. W.

Adams, A. R. Benedict, Thomas A. Martin, A. B. Cain, Alexander Carolin, W. S. Collier, John L. Buell, Regimental-quartermaster; Second Lieutenants A. E. Sheldon, R. P. McKibbin, William H. Powell, Adjutant, G. M. Randall, H. W. Patterson, E. F. Brenner, S. G. Krepps, S. T. Crowley.

July, 1862-Malvern Hill.-Captain J. B. Collins, commanding Regiment; Captain Hiram Dryer, Acting field-officer; Captain T. E. Turner; First Lieutenants C. H. Carlton, A. R. Benedict, Thomas A. Martin, A. B. Cain, Alexander Carolin, W. S. Collier, John L. Buell, Regimental-quartermaster; Second Lieutenants A. E. Sheldon, R. P. McKibbin, William H. Powell, Adjutant, G. M. Randall, H. W. Patterson, E. F. Brenner, S. T. Crowley, S. G. Krepps.

August, 1862-Bull Run, No. 2.-Captain J. B. Collins, commanding Regiment; Captain Hiram Dryer, Acting field-officer First Lieutenants C. H. Carlton, A. R. Benedict, Thomas A. Martin, A. B. Cain, Alexander Carolin, W. S. Collier, John L. Buell; Second Lieutenants A. E. Sheldon, R. P. McKibbin, G. M. Randall, H. W. Patterson, Acting adjutant, S. T. Crowley, S. G. Krepps, George Williams, E. F. Brenner, Regimental-quartermaster.

September, 1862-Antietam.-Captain Hiram Dryer, commanding Regiment; Captain C. H. Carlton, Acting field-officer; First Lieutenants A. R. Benedict, Thomas A. Martin, A. B. Cain, Alexander Carolin, John L. Buell, A. E. Sheldon; Second Lieutenants R. P. McKibbin, G. M. Randall, H. W. Patterson, S. T. Crowley, George Williams, E. F. Brenner, Regimentalquartermaster.

December, 1862-Fredericksburg. - Captain Hiram Dryer, commanding Regiment; Captain J. W. Adams, Acting field-officer; First Lieutenants A. R. Benedict, Thomas A. Martin, Alexander Carolin, W. S. Collier, Ira F. Gensel; Second Lieutenants G. M. Randall, acting Adjutant, H. W. Patterson, Regimental-quartermaster, S. T. Crowley, George Williams.

May, 1863—Chancellorsville.—Captain Hiram Dryer, commanding Regiment; Captain J. W. Adams, acting Field-officer; First Lieutenants Thomas A. Martin. A. B. Cain, Alexander Carolin, W. S. Collier, A. E Sheldon, H. W. Patterson: Second Lieutenants S. T. Crowley, George Williams, John Miller, G. L. Luhn, G. W. Dost, George Atcheson, J. J. S. Hassler, John Simmons, Adjutant.

July, 1863--Gettysburg.-Captain J. W. Adams, commanding Regiment; First Lieutenant, A. R. Benedict, Acting field officer; First Lieutenants Thomas A. Martin, Alexander Car olin, W. S. Collier, A. E. Sheldon, H. W. Patterson, S. T. Crowley; Second Lieutenants

from Newtonville, Spencer-county, Ohio, that that region is rich in American antiquities. In dian arrows, wedges, stone-hatchets, pestles, and mourds are plenty. One of the most prominent mounds can be seen on Corn Island, near Troy. It is half a mile above the coal landing; and has a large two-story frame house on it. A cellar and a cistern have been dug in it. The mound covers about three acres; and is about twenty feet above the general level. About twelve inches below the surface, is a layer of flat stone, under which human bones of large size are found in abundance. Skulls, larger than the whole head of a man, are found. The lower jawbone can be placed over the jaw and flesh of a large man's face. The whole skeleton is very large. An excavation near by shows where the dirt was obtained. Inclosed I send you two teeth, taken from the upper and lower jaw of a human head, which was obtained twenty-one feet below the surface. They are large and sharp, and show the carniverous habits of a larger race of men than the present. Half a mile from this mound, is another of less proportions, but every way similar.

Also twenty or thirty other small mounds are not far off, all containing bones, etc. In one was obtained a wedge of pure copper, that weighed over a pound. The mounds are full of bones, from top to bottom, showing that large numbers were buried there.

In this connection, I will speak of a very large mound near Petersburg, Pike-county, Indiana. It covers about four acres at the base; is one acre on top; and about seventy feet high. Here also an excavation shows where the dirt was obtained. Human bones, of immense size, hatchets, arrows, etc., here also mark the habits of a warlike race of giants.

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"you how I came by that painting, provided," (bowing to one of his guests) "it does not go into the newspapers, as it involves an anecdote, at "the expense of my old friend, Mr. Adams." He then proceeded thus: "Mr. Adams, Gallatin, "and myself, three of the Commission for nego"tiating a Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, "in 1813, were at Ghent, boarding at the same "hotel. One morning, we went to a great exhi "bition, or sale, of paintings; and each of us "purchased one. On returning to our quarters, our paintings were sent to us. Admiring Mr. "Adams's purchase very much, I said to him, "Mr. Adams, I would like to win your painting "from you: I will stake mine against yours, at "a game of cards." Agreed,' said Mr. Adams, "What game will you play?' said I. "Fours,' said Mr. Adams. We cut for the "deal; I won it; dealt; turned up Jack; and "scored High, Low, Jack and the Game;' and "the next hand counted out, and won the "stake. I turned to Mr. Gallatin, who had pur"chased a fine painting of the Virgin Mary, and said, 'Mr. Gallatin, I would like to win your painting from you, in the same manner as I have won that of Mr. Adams.' 'No, Sair,' "said Mr. Gallatin, in his broken English; 'I "did not win the Veergin so, and I sall not loose heer so.""

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The company were all highly amused at the anecdote, and at the manner in which Mr. Clay narrated it, fully coming up to his reputation as a reconteur. The cream of the anecdote was that Mr. Adams, a demure gentleman, should have not only assented to play cards with Mr. Clay, but should have proposed a game of “All "Fours," at which Mr. Clay was a perfect adept. The anecdote, in due respect to Mr. Clay's admonitory proviso, has never been in print; but now, that the illustrious parties concerned have

How HENRY CLAY AND J. Q, ADAMS PLAY ED "ALL FOURS."-In the Summer of 1888, one of our editors was an attache of the South Carolina Railroad delegation to Lexington, Kentucky, to attend a barbecue given by the citizens of that place to Hon. Robert Y. Hayne, as President of the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston Railroad.

After the barbecue, Mr. Clay invited the party to dine with him at Ashland, his beautiful country residence and rich cattle-farm.

At the table, one of the guests called attention to two beautiful paintings on the mantelpiece, whereupon Mr. Clay, pointing to one of the paintings, said archly, and smiling, "I will tell

SOME ACCOUNT OF THOMAS PAINE, RECEIVED FROM MARY Roscow.-After Willet Hicks and family began to visit Thomas Paine, not long previous to his death, they being near neighbors at Greenwich, he was much engaged in writing, which he performed with difficulty, bolstered up in bed, with something placed before him to rest his paper on, his shoulders being stiff, so that he could not move them; which, together with what Mary Roscow saw, convinced her, beyond & doubt, that he was spending his little remaining strength to leave behind him a proof against those principles he had so much of his time been endeavoring to inculcate. This circumstance occasioned Mary Roscow to be less careful to pre

"and to Christ." After pausing again, he asked her if she had ever read any of his writings. She replied she had, when very young. He desired to know what she thought of them. She said: "Dost thou really wish to know?" He answered: "I trust thou art one who has

ed.

The first time Mary Roscow saw him she was returning from meeting. When nearly opposite the house where he resided, a person, who also was passing, observed, with thoughtless vulgarity, "Paine looks like the devil." A voice from the door replied, "If I only looked like the "devil it would do." She then perceived that Paine was at the door, but was hidden from view by trees, and had heard the conversation which occurred.

In the course of Paine's illness, Mary Roscow was also sick. The physician who attended him was called to her. She asked the Doctor how Paine was. He replied, "Very ill. We think we have never seen such a suffering object. "He told me, to-day, that his bodily distress was "nothing compared to that of his mind.”

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When Mary Roscow recovered, she went to see Paine; and, in another apartment, she found a Frenchwomen, who had accompanied him from France, wringing her hands, and lamenting that she had forsaken her husband, friends, and religion, to embrace the principles of Paine, and had spent three years in following him. Now, he told her that those principles would not stand; and charged her not to build upon them. Said she, "I have none now to look unto."

There was a statement in a newspaper, a few weeks before his death, that two Clergymen came to see him, and he treated them very roughly. Mary Roscow asked him if this was correct. He answered "No!" but said that he sent for a Clergyman, who came with a Deacon or Elder; and he, supposing that Paine wished him to proceed in the usual manner, proposed prayer. Paine told him he did not send for him to pray, as he did not conceive that any form of prayer invented by man would avail; but that his motive in sending for the Clergyman was to relieve his own mind. To correct an error which he supposed him (the Clergyman) to be in, he then asked if he thought he was authorized by Christ to preach, which offended him, and he withdrew. Paine said he much preferred the Clergyman to himself; but feared he was in error, and might injure others.

The last visit Mary Roscow made him, on entering his room, she perceived him at prayer; and, on turning to go out, his nurse said to him: "There is a friend from Mr. Hicks, come to see "you." He paused; then asking her to come near him, said: "I hope you are a friend to God

"please such a vagabond as I am." She then told him, that for some days after perusing them she could not think a good thought but some of his reasoning would twine around and repel it; and, seeing other children eager to read the book, she found no peace till she had burned it. He then uttered an exclamation, denoting the horror of his mind, saying, "It would have "been better for my soul, at this day, if all the "world, like you, had destroyed my writings; "but the world was glad to have them. If ever "Satan had an instrument on earth to lead into "the ways of darkness, I have been that one. I "have passed many sleepless nights in endeavor"ing to pervert the right way.'

He requested Mary Roscow to ask Willet Hicks to come and see him, saying: "I love to "have him sit by my side; for, though he says "but little, it seems as if the devil was silenced, "and I feel as if I could do nothing but pour "out my cries and tears before God." When some of Mr. Hicks's family were there, one of Paine's former adherents came and opened the door; but, seeing them, called out roughly, "Paine, I have heard five lies about you: one "was, that you were dead: another, that you "have recanted and turned Quaker. As you “lived like a man, I hope you will die like one." Paine said to Mr. Hicks: "You see how I have "lived. This has been Heaven; but these, my "former adherents, can do nothing now but "afflict me."

Paine wished Willet Hicks to endeavor to obtain permission for his interment in Friends' burial ground. Willet said he hardly thought it probable his request would be granted, stating his reasons. Upon applying for permission, he found Friends' sentiments as he expected, and informed Paine thereof, who was affected with the result, but thought it just. He afterward left directions to be interred on his own farm, at New Rochelle, giving the field, by will, as a place of interment for poor strangers.— Sunday Dispatch.

THE LATE GENERAL HAMILTON.-Our readers will recollect that Congress, at their last Session, passed a Law, allowing to the widow of the late Major-general Hamilton, the commutation of half-pay, which was granted to the officers of the Revolutionary Army, in lieu of five years half-pay. General Hamilton was, at that

time, a member of the old Congress; and, let it be remembered, was most anxious for the commutation, so as to relieve the wants of those brave men who aided in establishing our glorious Independence, the effects of which have been felt to this day, and will descend to posterity. In order to divest himself of every interest, and to give to his endeavors a weight, derived from the purest motives while effecting his commutation, he generously relinquished all claims that he had as an officer of the Army, and carried

his laudable views into execution.

We are led to this statement from having heard the eldest son of the General, who has just returned from Washington, speak on this subject; in which he expressed himself sensible of the liberality displayed in the construction of the Law, allowing to his respected mother, in addition to the amount of commutation, interest

thereon since the Peace of 1783, and of his having received from Government the whole amount, upwards of ten thousand dollars; and what made the settlement still more honorable, was making the Draft payable at one of the Banks in this city, by which upwards of seventeen hundred dollars is saved to Mrs. Hamilton. -An old number of the New York Advertiser.

SCRAPS.-A paper-mill was in operation in East Hartford, as long ago as 1776. It was owned by Watson & Ledyard, and supplied much of the paper that was used by the American Army, in the Revolution.

Maine, more than a hundred years ago, by the Germans, is still standing, with its twenty windows of four by nine glass, its square unpainted pews, its pulpit, sounding-board, and communion-table of pine. The last Pastor was Rev. John William Starman, a native of Helmstadt, Germany, who preached in this ancient house more than fifty years, in German and English, and who died, in 1854, ninety-one years of age.

setts, was organized, in 1635, under Rev. Peter -The First Church, in Hingham, Massachusilenced by the persecuting authorities of that Hobart, from Hingham, England. who had been day. The Meeting-house, built in 1681, has been in use ever since, and has lately been thoroughly repaired, with new floors, windows, and pews. It is supposed to be the oldest house of Worship in the country, and will stand another hundred years, if permitted.

-The heirs of William Penn have, from the English pension fund, "£4,000 a year, forever."

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BARONETS IN AMERICA.-The Royal Kalendar for 1775, contains a List of the Baronets of Great Britain, with their places of abode, and the dates of the original Patents. Among them I find the following residents of America.

Names.

Date of the original Patents. Beckwith, Jonathan, Virginia. April 15, 1681.

Head, Edmund, South Carolina. June 9, 1676. Johnson, John, New York. November 18, 1755. Pepperell, William, Boston, N. E. Oct. 29. 1774. ALBANY, O'C.

tion.

-Two Indian skeletons were dug up the other day at Marblehead, who, it was inferred, must have been buried ages ago, as they were underneath heaps of scollop-shells, which species of bivalves became extinct, in our waters, before Columbus's day.

-A man, in Waldoboro, Maine, prides himself on the possession of a hatchet with which, in 1749, his grandfather's skull was split by an Indian. It must be a pleasant thing to have in the family.

-Mr. Street, of Salem, Massachusetts, moved to Ohio, and founded the town of Salem; thence to Indiana, where he established the town of Salem; and thence to Iowa, where he erected the town of Salem.

LIST OF ADVERTISED LETTERS.-A list of letril 6, 1752, was advertised in the New York Ga zette. Among the lot, one is particularly indicated a "High Dutch Letter," without stating the name of the person to whom it was addressed! The chances are that it ultimately found its way to the Dead Letter Office. ALBANY.

AITKEN'S EDITON OF THE BIBLE.

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THE BIBLE.