l Halleck, then Commander-in-Chief of the Union forces, and,
presuming upon a familiar acquaintance in California a few years since,
solicited a pass outside of our lines to see a brother in Virginia,
not thinking that he would meet with a refusal, as both his brother and
himself were good Union men.

"We have been deceived too often," said General Halleck, "and I regret I
can't grant it."

Judge B. then went to Stanton, and was very briefly disposed of with
the same result. Finally, he obtained an interview with Mr. Lincoln, and
stated his case.

"Have you applied to General Halleck?" inquired the President.

"Yes, and met with a flat refusal," said Judge B.

"Then you must see Stanton," continued the President.

"I have, and with the same result," was the reply.

"Well, then," said Mr. Lincoln, with a smile, "I can do nothing; for you
must know that I have very little influence with this Administration,
although I hope to have more with the next."

FELT SORRY FOR BOTH.

Many ladies attended the famous debates between Lincoln and Douglas, and
they were the most unprejudiced listeners. "I can recall only one fact
of the debates," says Mrs. William Crotty, of Seneca, Illinois, "that
I felt so sorry for Lincoln while Douglas was speaking, and then to my
surprise I felt so sorry for Douglas when Lincoln replied."

The disinterested to whom it was an intellectual game, felt the power
and charm of both men.

WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day,
"when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of
natural wonders?"

"The thing that struck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln
responded, with characteristic deliberation, "was, where in the world
did all that water come from?"

"LONG ABE" FOUR YEARS LONGER.

The second election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the United
States was the reward of his courage and genius bestowed upon him by the
people of the Union States. General George B. McClellan was his opponent
in 1864 upon the platform that "the War is a failure," and carried but
three States--New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky. The States which did
not think the War was a failure were those in New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, all the Western commonwealths, West Virginia, Tennessee,
Louisiana, Arkansas and the new State of Nevada, admitted into the Union
on October 31st. President Lincoln'