EDITOR Laity :
Mary Diver is dead, sal I can (most
hear you ask in aumazement, who is Mary
Diver? She was the girl with one thou
saud fathers. Many poor girls consider
themselvey lucky to lave one, and there
are plenty who find even one imore than
they can comfortably get along with;
but Mary had a thousand, and none of
your common stock either, but every
one a born aristocrat, and as far as she
was concerned, a Preux Chevalier, who
would have fought for, and, if needs be,
died for her. Mary Diver was the adopted
daughter of the 7th Regiment of New
York, and if 4 ey were fortunate in hav
ing so good a daughter she was exces
sively fortunate in so many fathers. It
is not necessary to say that the 8eventh
is the crack regiment of the city; pri
vates in it rank about equal a Colorado
Colonel, while a corporal or sergeant
esteems himself the peer of all Arkansas
or Oregon brigadier. Mary's father was.
a member of the Seventh forty years ago.
He distinguished himself in the Mexican
war and died after his return to New
York, leaving Mary a helpless orphan.
