est;
But I can't forget until I die
Ol' massa an' de blue-tailed fly."

While humorous songs delighted the President, he also loved to listen to
patriotic airs and ballads containing sentiment. He was fond of hearing
"The Sword of Bunker Hill," "Ben Bolt," and "The Lament of the Irish
Emigrant." His preference of the verses in the latter was this:

"I'm lonely now, Mary,
For the poor make no new friends;
But, oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends!
And you were all I had, Mary,
My blessing and my pride;
There's nothing left to care for now,
Since my poor Mary died."

Those who knew Lincoln were well aware he was incapable of so monstrous
an act as that of wantonly insulting the dead, as was charged in the
infamous libel which asserted that he listened to a comic song on the
field of Antietam, before the dead were buried.

OLD MAN GLENN'S RELIGION.

Mr. Lincoln once remarked to a friend that his religion was like that
of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he heard speak at a church
meeting, and who said: "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I
feel bad; and that's my religion."

Mrs. Lincoln herself has said that Mr. Lincoln had no faith--no faith,
in the usual acceptance of those words. "He never joined a church; but
still, as I believe, he was a religious man by nature. He first seemed
to think about the subject when our boy Willie died, and then more than
ever about the time he went to Gettysburg; but it was a kind of poetry
in his nature, and he never was a technical Christian."

LAST ACTS OF MERCY.

During the afternoon preceding his assassination the President signed a
pardon for a soldier sentenced to be shot for desertion, remarking as
he did so, "Well, I think the boy can do us more good above ground than
under ground."

He also approved an application for the discharge, on taking the oath of
allegiance, of a rebel prisoner, in whose petition he wrote, "Let it be
done."

This act of mercy was his last official order.

JUST LIKE SEWARD.

The first corps of the army commanded by General Reynolds was once
reviewed by the President on a beautiful plain at the north of Potomac
Creek, about eight miles from Hooker's headquarters. The party rode
thither in an ambulance over a rough corduroy road, and as they
passed over some of the more difficult portions of the jolting way the
ambulance driver,