he wandered out into Ibe etreetB of the great 
city. It vu a cold November day, and the 
north-west wind that swept along Pennsylvania 
Avenue, pierced hi? fragile frame most cruelly, 
and sent a chill, as of ague, to his very finger 
tips. 
More than ever Bii.lt felt bow sad a thing it 
is to be friendless and alone. Even the privilege 
of braving shot and stull on the battle field for 
the sake of country — 1 hat country which his 
father died to save —seemed now to be denied 
him. The cruel order of a thoughtless surgeon 
had deprived him of the companionship of a 
whole regiment of men be had learned to love. 
How cold and gloomy and desolate 6eemed all 
the wide world around him. How gladly would 
he have welcomed death and been at rest. But 
no such deliverance came. 
Without scarcely reflecting why, Billy fol¬ 
lowed a pale and haggard looking woman into 
the ante-room of the Executive Mansion, whose 
missiou was in btlialf of a soldier brother doom¬ 
ed to die; and vaguely dreaming that the great 
head of the nation might render pity, he 6tood 
awaiting the result. The historian says—“ The 
President saw him &tandiDg, looking feeble and 
faint, and said, ‘Come here, my boy, and tell 
me what you want.’” Sure enough here was 
a friend in the person of our lamented Lincoln. 
Let us pause in this narrative for a moment, to 
contemplate the beauty of that scene, when the 
President of a great Republic forgot tbcmoinep- 
tous questions of legislation in his interest for 
a little pale-faced wanderer. Angels, from their 
shining seats on high, gaze with delight, while 
they chant in Btrains of heavenly music, “ Well 
done, good and faithful servant.” Bili.t fol- 
e tall man to a chair, and as he eat, 
a wail of deepest angnish, and the wife and 
mother would not be comforted. Her feeble 
and falling constitution could not stand the 
shock, and she yielded up her darling boy to 
the' charity of strangers, and her spirit to Gon 
who gave it. Here wc found Billy, at the com¬ 
mencement of our story, so sad and lonely — 
hardly twelve years of age —with no brother or 
sister, no uncle or aunt, no one to care for or to 
care for him in the w ide, wide world. How his 
little heart ached, and how devoutly he wished 
to lay down in the coffin beside Lis mother 
and die. 
That night was such an one as Billy had never 
experienced before. “What should he cloy” 
“Where should lie go?” were thoughts that 
filled Ids mind as he lay dowu upon bis little 
cot and vainly tried to sleep. In the midst oi 
his distress ho remembered the instructions of 
his 6aintcd mother and knelt in fervent prayer. 
Ho prayed that when morning came he might 
be directed what to do. That was not a petition 
mingled with the Incense of riches, «r eloquent¬ 
ly rounded with the rhetoric of a learned divine. 
It was the petition of a little orphan boy in the 
midst of his poverty and utter loneliness. Is 
the ear of Jehovah deaf to the cry of shuch an 
humble one V Does He give no answer hack ? 
Billy prayed and slept, and the morning 
broke upon him full of glorious sunlight and 
perfumed breezes. 11c rote from his couch and 
espied from his window a group of men and 
hoys, crowding about a new-made cabin sur¬ 
mounted ifith the American flag, and placarded 
with large band-bills headed, “Volunteers 
Wanted! ” lie put on his clothes and went 
directly to the spot, arriving in time to hear the 
officer in charge inquire, “ Do you know of a 
boy that I can enlist as drummer?” Without 
waiting for any reply to be made, Billy stepped 
promptly forward and said, “ 1 will go, sir.” 
His manner at once pleased the recruiting offi¬ 
cer and he immediately enrolled him, clothed 
him in “ linlon Blue,” told him where he might 
find some breakfast, and bade him then go and 
dispose of his little effects and return io him 
again. 
The command to which the drummer boy’s 
regiment was assigned, was then operating in 
Eastern Tennessee. In November came the 
three days of blaod at Chattanooga, During 
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TlahWf f-ufxi ii>i* nn 
lowed th 
placed Ills little hand in the broad palm, and 
with bowed head and Hmid accents, said: 
“ Mr. President, I am a drummer boy. I en¬ 
listed in July, 1B6H, and have been with my reg¬ 
iment, except when sick or wounded, ever 6ince. 
For some time past I buve been 6iek in hospital, 
and the Surgeon, for some cause or other, has 
turned me away this morning, with no direc¬ 
tions to return to the regiment. I am cold, sick 
and lonely, and come to see if you would not do 
something for me.” 
The President was touched by this feimple 
story of patriotism, sulfcring, and neglect, and 
a tear Was seen to glisten in his eye, and he tend¬ 
erly asked the drummer boy where he lived. 
“I have no home.” 
“ Where is yonr father? ” 
“ Be died a soldier at Vicksburg.” 
“ Where is your mother?” 
“My mother Is also dead. 1 have no mother, 
no father, no brother, to sister, and” (bursting 
into tears,) “no friends—nobody cares for me.” 
Many tears found their way to Mr. Lincoln s 
eyes, and the scene was wonderfully affecting. 
“ Can’t you sell newspapers?” 
“ No, 1 am too weak, and I have no money, 
and the. Burgeon of the hospital tolil me I must 
.leave, so I have no place to go to.” 
The President took a card from his pocket and 
wrote an order, addressed to the proper officials, 
giving special directions “ to care for this poor 
boy uutil fully recovered;” ordering also that 
afterward he be retained on light aud comforta¬ 
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the exposures of the field. O, what happiness 
beamed in the countenance of the little drum¬ 
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paper away. Had he not in the capital of his 
country, at least one true friend ? 
It is not my good fortune to know the subse¬ 
quent history of this brave and noble lad. I 
trust that his darkest days have passed, aud that 
a bright future has already opened before him— 
leading through a long life of usefulness and 
honor. The dark cloud (hat cast so deep a shad- 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
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Two equestrlnne, A and B set out together Rom 
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horses of equal speed. They can walk the dletanco 
iu four hours, and trot it In two hour*. A walks half 
ihe distance and trots the other half; U walks hall 
the time and trots the other half. Which will arrive 
first, at Sunbeam, and what will be the difference of 
the time of their arrivals ? 
Sunbeam, Ill. R. M. Deuil. 
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ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 851 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus :-Gray’s elegy on a 
country church-yard. 
Answer to Historical Enigma:-Man know thyself, 
enough for man to know. 
Answer to Anagram: 
A novel was a book 
Three-volumod, and ouee read, and oft crammed fall 
Of poisonous error, blackening every page; 
And oftener still of trifling, second-hand 
Remark, and old, diseased putrid thought; 
And miserable incident, at war 
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'TUI, done, be tried to recollect his thoughts, 
And nothing found but dreaming emptiness. 
Answer to Algebraical Problem85 89 - 18 Tinches. 
■Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
BILLY LOVELL; 
OR, TtHE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY 
Billy Lovell felt that he was nn orphan 
now, and, indeed, alone in the world. There, 
in a humble room, lay his dead mother; and 
goon the people would come, and the village 
hearse would bear away that mother to the silent 
City of the Dead. 
Bn.LT was a good little boy, and not only 
loved his mother tenderly, but was very kind to 
her, and was dearly loved in return. Hib father 
was an honest laborer, gained a comfortable 
living for his wife and child, aud surrounded 
Ms home with unalloyed happiness. But a dark 
cloud appeared in the southern sky, and ere 
long the roar o( distant cannon rolled over the 
Mil-tops and along the valleys of our beloved 
country. Thousands of loyal men saw and 
heard, with intense alarm, these ominous signs 
of war. In their breasts beat hearts warm and 
true for Freedom's cause. A host of men re¬ 
solved, with vows registered in heaven, to de¬ 
fend the old “ Stars and Stripes,” even with their 
blood, if need be. 
Billy’s father was one of the brave and 
patriotic number who thus felt and acted. In 
view of the separation, his mother wept as if 
her heart would break ; and Billy grieved, both 
from sympathy with his mother and because he 
must give up Ms hither to the stern destinies of 
the battle field,—for Billy was old enough, and 
bad read enough to know something of the 
business of the soldier and the dangers to which 
he is exposed. But, though his father was borne 
down with agoniz'mg sorrow, he felt that duty 
bade Mm go; so he struggled for a moment, 
prayed God to bless his wife and hoy, and joined 
the recruited ranks that were marching by. 
Days, months, aud even years came and went 
with their heavy history of those dark and 
gloomy times. Billy's mother grew pale and 
wan as battle after battle furnished their long 
lists of “killed and wounded.” filling the land 
with moaning sorrow. Still, the father lived to 
convey the intelligence, O, how precious, “I 
came through without a scratch.” Billy yvas 
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July, 18G3, which tokt of an inl'nrated rebel host 
on a march of invasion into Pennsylvania and 
the North, and tjfe heavy, bloody work of Vicks¬ 
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this latter place, toiled, suffered and died. On 
the 5th of July a universal shout went up from 
a million hearts because this stronghold of rebel¬ 
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