any quarter than from that. They came to join in the country's grief, and the world's honor, of that remarkable character which Providence had raised up for his mission, and so inexplicably removed the moment his work was finished. There is no other character like his in all our strange history, and no other work like his in the world's history. And among all the tributes paid him at his death, there was none nobler, certainly none so unexpected, as the one which came from the world's great caricaturist, the editor of London Punch. If we could have known at the time, what was discovered afterwards, that the leering, jeering spirit of fun, which had taken no end of satisfaction in ridiculing the rugged face, the tall, gaunt form and awkward manners of Lincoln, had been conscience smitten for his crime, and was following that funeral train like a barefooted monk, crowding up to that bier as to a holy shrine, and pouring out its penitence and prayers for the dead, and in that guise was atoning for its sins—if it had not been that John Leech himself told us, that this was the way in which he chose to make his acknowledg ment, and right the wrong he had done this great, good man-we never could have expected such remorse within the privileged field of caricature, or had such admiration for one of the profession. TRIBUTE TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN. You! lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier! His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face, His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, or art to please! You! whose smart pen, backed by the pencil's laugh, Reckless, so it could point its paragraph Beside the corpse, that bears for winding sheet Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer; My shallow judgment I have learned to rue, How his quaint wit made home truth seem more true, How humble, yet how hopeful he could be; Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame. He went about his work-such work as few Man's honest will will heaven's good grace command. Who trusts the strength, will with the burden grow, That God makes instruments to work his will, If but that will one can arrive to know, Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. So he went forth to battle on the side That he felt clear was Liberty's and Right's, As in his peasant boyhood he had plied His warfare with rude nature's thwarting mights. The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil, The iron bark that turns the lumber's axe, The rapid that o'erbears the boatman's toil, The prairie hiding the mazed wanderer's track, The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear; Such were the needs that helped his youth to train Rough culture; but such trees large fruit may bear, If but their stocks be of right girth and grain. So he grew up a destined work to do, And lived to do it-four long suffering years— Ill-fate, ill-feeling, ill-report lived through, And then he heard the hisses changed to cheers, The taunt to tribute, the abuse to praise, And took both with the same unwavering mood, Till, as he came on light from darkling days, And seemed to touch the goal from where he stood, A felon hand, between the goal and him, Reached from behind his back; a trigger pressed; And those perplexed and patient eyes were dim, Those gaunt, long, laboring limbs were laid to rest. The words of mercy were upon his lips; Forgiveness in his heart and on his pen; When this vile murderer brought swift eclipse To thoughts of "Peace on earth; good will to men." The old world and the new, from sea to sea, Utter one voice of sympathy and shame! CHAPTER XXV. THE WAR Over. The Cost of the War-Measures Taken to Stop the Expenses-Grand Review and Disbandment of the Army - Difference Between Eastern and Western Troops-Equal Tributes Paid to Both by their Two Great Commanders. The war was now over, and the first thing to be done was to stop the military expenses, disband the army, and scatter the navy. When Lee surrendered, and Richmond was evacuated, General Grant did not enter the city, but hurried off to Washington to stop enlistments for the army and navy, and supplies for both, which for four years had seemed such a bottomless sea of waste for the resources of any nation. The cost of supporting the great armies and fleets used in the Civil War, is shown by the rapid increase of the national debt, which was in 1860, June 30, $64,769,703; 1861, June 30, $90,867,828; 1862, June 30, $514,211,371; 1863, June 30, $1,097,274.360; 1864, June 30, $1,740,036,689; 1865, March 31, $2,423,437,001; 1866, January 1, $2,749,491,745. As to this statement, Draper's "Civil War" says: "The great increase indicated by the last item, apparently after the war was over, was due to the paying off of the troops and the settlement of outstanding bills. Such was the debt, but to it should be added the sums expended by individual States, and local bodies, in raising and fitting out their several contingents. The total rises above $4,000,000,000. Bounties were paid to the amount of about $200,000,000, and about $100,000,000 more to the families of absent and deceased soldiers." The same authority says, as to numbers of men in the field: The entire force called into the national service during the war was 2,688,523 men. Of these there were enlisted: For three months, 191,985; for six months, 19,076; for nine months, $7,558; for one year, 394,959; for two years, 43,113; for three years, 1,950,792; for four years, 1,010; total, 2,688,523. Many of these were mustered in more than once. Making suitable allowance for this, and other necessary deductions, it may be concluded that about 1,500,000 soldiers were employed. Of these, 56,000 were killed in battle; 35,090 died in the hospitals of wounds; 185,000 died in the hospitals of disease; many more died subsequently; and the health of still more was irreparably broken down. The breadth of the field of the war, extending over a territory more than a thousand miles square; the extent of seacoast, and number of ports to be blockaded; the important part which railroads were to have in all its operations; the new navy which had to be created both for the ocean and for our great rivers; and the very arms, from turreted and iron-clad ships, to siege guns, breech loaders and repeating rifles, which were to be invented and manufactured; explain the cost of such military operations. Almost simultaneously with the cutting off of the outlay for recruits and supplies, and the support of the armies in the field, came the disbandment of the great forces, which had for years been withdrawn from civil life and were now to return to it. The greater part of the men were quickly mustered out wherever they happened to be, but Sherman's army and the Army of the Potomac under General Meade, and that of the James under General Terry, were assembled at Washington, and there 200,000 veterans marched in the never-to-be-forgotton review of May 23 and 24. Tuesday, the first day, was devoted to the review of the Eastern troops. The President and Cabinet occupied a stand along the line of march, while General Grant and his staff led the procession, with General Meade leading the Potomac army, and General Terry at the head of the Army of the James, with the several commanders in place. The next day, Wednesday, the 24th, was equally beautiful as to weather, |