as President he told this story of the Black Hawk War:

The only time he ever saw blood in this campaign, was one morning when,
marching up a little valley that makes into the Rock River bottom, to
reinforce a squad of outposts that were thought to be in danger, they
came upon the tent occupied by the other party just at sunrise. The men
had neglected to place any guard at night, and had been slaughtered in
their sleep.

As the reinforcing party came up the slope on which the camp had been
made, Lincoln saw them all lying with their heads towards the rising
sun, and the round red spot that marked where they had been scalped
gleamed more redly yet in the ruddy light of the sun. This scene years
afterwards he recalled with a shudder.

MATRIMONIAL ADVICE.

For a while during the Civil War, General Fremont was without a command.
One day in discussing Fremont's case with George W. Julian, President
Lincoln said he did not know where to place him, and that it reminds him
of the old man who advised his son to take a wife, to which the young
man responded: "All right; whose wife shall I take?"

OWED LOTS OF MONEY.

On April 14, 1865, a few hours previous to his assassination, President
Lincoln sent a message by Congressman Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President
during General Grant's first term, to the miners in the Rocky Mountains
and the regions bounded by the Pacific ocean, in which he said:

"Now that the Rebellion is overthrown, and we know pretty nearly the
amount of our National debt, the more gold and silver we mine, we make
the payment of that debt so much easier.

"Now I am going to encourage that in every possible way. We shall have
hundreds of thousands of disbanded soldiers, and many have feared that
their return home in such great numbers might paralyze industry by
furnishing, suddenly, a greater supply of labor than there will be
demand for. I am going to try to attract them to the hidden wealth of
our mountain ranges, where there is room enough for all. Immigration,
which even the War has not stopped, will land upon our shores hundreds
of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point
them to the gold and silver that wait for them in the West.

"Tell the miners for me that I shall promote their interests to the
utmost of my ability; because their prosperity as the prosperity of
the nation; and," said he, his eye kindling with enthusiasm, "we shall
prove, in a very few years, th