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al of a politician, but rather improved it by her social alliances. Miss Lane never alluded to politics, and Mrs. Pierce knew nothing about them. She was probably the most simple-hearted woman that ever presided at the Presidential table. The word "simple" is not used in a depreciative sense. She was a pure-minded, unselfish, Christian woman, and knew nothing at all of the world. A concert at Gen. Banks's headquarters. A correspondent of the Worcester Spy, writing from Darnestown, Maryland, thus narrates an evening's experience at the headquarters of General Banks: "It was dark when we reached General Banks's quarters. We found him at his tents, where the time was passed very agreeably until half-past 9 o'clock. For an hour or more, during the time, a choir from his bodyguard sang patriotic and other songs, and they sang magnificently. This guard consists of a company of cavalry and a company of infantry carefully picked in Philadelphia. A large proportion of