... A Scotch traveller, who visited the United States, furnishes to the Edinburgh Scotsman the following anecdotes: Mr. Osborn (President of the Illinois Central Railroad) told me a story of Admiral Farragut and his son. They were on the Mississippi, and Farragut's fleet was about to pass Port Hudson, which was then held by the confederates. Farragut's son, a lad of about twelve, had been importuning h...