Some of thorn, through nedect of their masters, are
more ignorant than I had Imagined it was possible for
a human creature to bo. Some of the bands amuse
themselves by discoursing music to these colored audi
tors, and to-day a very funny incident happened upon
one of these outbursts ot musio.
A brigade band, seeing a large gathering of Africans
by the side of the road in advance, reserved its musio
until exactly opposite them aud then commenoed a tune
with a tremendous blast of Its trumpets and a thunder-
ing thump of its bass drum. The effeot was amusing.
Like tbe dried leaves of Autumn before a hurricane,
they ted a from a hideous and many-torlgoed monster.
One* arrived at a safe distance front the beast they hid
behind tsssat and rtewod, with aaaUons eyes, tie cause,
af (hetr dims. j .*

, The Fotrteetofo. fCorps t-neempsd for tho tight near
Oxford, aad the eoth eroosd Wnhramborcegga.
Nsja tub lUxmn Ernst, Vs., JsTsy-4, IMS..
'This morning both Corp* reaobed tho Boanoke
IUrer, at Tsyior's Ford. Joined tholr pontoon trains,
forming a bridjrs is; yards long, and crossed, the Four-
teenth Corps thenoe taking the road to Nottoway Cross-
Beads via Boydtawn and Lrivistown, aad the Twen-
tieth making for Blaoh's and White's.
Thsdsy passed without muok lnoldant, both aom-
minds making good marohes.
Nlil ihb Bio Noftowat Btvhb. Va., May B, 1855.
As the army neare Richmond it 1 begins to
grow impatient, Home becomes near and more vivid
In the mind's oyo, and hearts beat more longingly for



Arreat of Oate of the Kaanmttarss IKara'erera
— Industry «f she Japanese Police— A
ItloOtra Delilah oad at Aold Outlast—
nia Public I. • ccmlea at Yokohama.
From Onr 8s«clsl Corrnpoivtent.
KiSiCAWj, Japan, Jan. 91, 1863.
