es--for any wag
who has been to the wars seldom loses his humor, although he may have
lost all else save that and honor. Witness a sketch from life:

A LITTLE HEAVY.

C----, good soul, after taking all the little comforts he could afford
to give to the wounded soldiers, went into the hospital for the fortieth
time the other day, with his mite, consisting of several papers of
fine-cut chewing-tobacco, Solace for the wounded, as he called it. He
came to one bed, where a poor fellow lay cheerfully humming a tune, and
studying out faces on the papered wall.

'Got a fever?' asked C----.

'No,' answered the soldier.

'Got a cold?'

'Yes, cold--lead--like the d----l!'

'Where?'

'Well, to tell you the truth, it's pretty well scattered. First, there's
a bullet in my right arm, they han't dug that out yet. Then there's one
near my thigh--it's sticking in yet: one in my leg--hit the bone--_that_
fellow _hurts_! one through my left hand--that fell out. And I tell you
what, friend, with all this lead in me, I feel, ginrally speaking, _a
little heavy all over_!'

C---- lightened his woes with a double quantity of Solace.

* * * * *

C---- was a good fellow, and the soldier deserved his 'Solace.' Many of
them among us are poor indeed. 'Boys!' exclaimed a wounded volunteer to
two comrades, as they paused the other day before a tobacconist's and
examined with the eyes of connoisseurs the brier or bruyere-wood pipes
in his window, 'Boys! I'd give fifty dollars, if I had it, for four
shillins to buy one of them pipes with!'

* * * * *

In a late number of an English magazine, Harriet Martineau gives some
account of her conversations, when in America in 1835, with
Chief-Justice Marshall and Mr. Madison. These men then represented the
old ideas of the Republic and of Virginia as it had been. The following
extract fully declares their opinions:

'When I knew Chief-Justice Marshall he was eighty-three--as
bright-eyed and warm-hearted as ever, while as dignified a judge as
ever filled the highest seat in the highest court of any country.
He said he had seen Virginia the leading State for half his life;
he had seen her become the second, and sink to be (I think) the
fifth.

'Worse than this, there was no arresting her decline if her
citizens did not put an end to slavery; and he saw no signs of any
intention to do s