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future dealing with the Rebellion accord but a short shrift to gentry of this stripe. He waited, - and humanly considered he was wise in doing so - to know whether the people were at his back: and he will now have recourse to direct methods. God bless Abraham Lincoln who - alike thro' evil report - and thro; good report - thro' doubt and darkness and scoff and scorn - when the impatient were with him - when the Conservative stood aghast - when friends stood aloof and enemies spat at him their little venom - still kept unmoved his single-hearted way. The first man of all these later years who, never losing sight of policy, and of the relative associations of circumstance and principle, subordinated the whole drift of policy and the whole tendency of circumstance, to the highest national good; among all living statesmen best illustrative of Tennyson's animated line: "He stood four-square to all the winds that blew." - May I charge you with a Commission? Please purchase for me one-eighth of a yard of black silk velvet: 3 yards of 1/2 inch black velvet ribbon, and one and a half dozen Staff buttons, vest size. These materials cannot be procured here. I want them for the repair of a coat. Send them by mail, enclose a statement of the cost, and I will be greatly thankful. There is a fine article on Communication" in the October Atlantic. Have you seen it? It is a very thoughtful and thought suggestive thing. - If my eyes could follow where my heart leads I should see before I lay down to-night. Good night, the dear Father keep you, Amen. Richard Realf.