Spirit Of Jefferson

WHERE DOES HE BELONG!-We have been shown a letter from Blanchester, Clinton county, Ohio, which says that a man named John Bamber, who belonged to the 47th Ohio Regiment under McClellan, and afterwards under Gen. Cox, brought to that county a little boy whom he says he got in South Carolina; but a fellow soldier says that Bamber brought him from Virginia. The boy is now in the hands of Bamber's parents, who treat him most cruelly, so much so that interference on the part of the citizens has more than once been talked of. The boy says his name is David Hollis, but he cannot tell what town or State he come from. He is about ten years old—fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, handsome and intelligent. John Bamber, the letter further states, has taught the boy to say and believe that his father was killed in the war, and his mother has gone off. The letter closes as follows: "If the child's parents are not in Leesburg, I think it advisable to send this along McClellan and Cox's route through Virginia. I hope you may find his parents, I will do all I can to relieve him, and I hope all Virginians will assist me." Signed,
M. E. STEPHENSON.

Blanchester, he says, is on the Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad.-Loudoun Mirror.