hey were all agreed."

SORRY FOR THE HORSES.

When President Lincoln heard of the Confederate raid at Fairfax, in
which a brigadier-general and a number of valuable horses were captured,
he gravely observed:

"Well, I am sorry for the horses."

"Sorry for the horses, Mr. President!" exclaimed the Secretary of
War, raising his spectacles and throwing himself back in his chair in
astonishment.

"Yes," replied Mr., Lincoln, "I can make a brigadier-general in five
minutes, but it is not easy to replace a hundred and ten horses."

MILD REBUKE TO A DOCTOR.

Dr. Jerome Walker, of Brooklyn, told how Mr. Lincoln once administered
to him a mild rebuke. The doctor was showing Mr. Lincoln through the
hospital at City Point.

"Finally, after visiting the wards occupied by our invalid and
convalescing soldiers," said Dr. Walker, "we came to three wards
occupied by sick and wounded Southern prisoners. With a feeling of
patriotic duty, I said: 'Mr. President, you won't want to go in there;
they are only rebels.'

"I will never forget how he stopped and gently laid his large hand upon
my shoulder and quietly answered, 'You mean Confederates!' And I have
meant Confederates ever since.

"There was nothing left for me to do after the President's remark but to
go with him through these three wards; and I could not see but that he
was just as kind, his hand-shakings just as hearty, his interest just as
real for the welfare of the men, as when he was among our own soldiers."

COLD MOLASSES WAS SWIFTER.

"Old Pap," as the soldiers called General George H. Thomas, was
aggravatingly slow at a time when the President wanted him to "get
a move on"; in fact, the gallant "Rock of Chickamauga" was evidently
entered in a snail-race.

"Some of my generals are so slow," regretfully remarked Lincoln one day,
"that molasses in the coldest days of winter is a race horse compared to
them.

"They're brave enough, but somehow or other they get fastened in a fence
corner, and can't figure their way out."

LINCOLN CALLS MEDILL A COWARD.

Joseph Medill, for many years editor of the Chicago Tribune, not long
before his death, told the following story regarding the "talking to"
President Lincoln gave himself and two other Chicago gentlemen who went
to Washington to see about reducing Chicago's quota of troops after the
call for extra men was made by the President in 1864:

"In 1864, when the call for extra troops came