The  next  day  the  party  returned  with  a  handsome
Bible,  which  they  presented  her,  and  which  she
accepted  as  worth  more  than  money.  Those  who
remember  how  the  measure  of  meal  of  the  widow  of
Zarephath  was  never  allowed  to  be  empty,  after  her
free  gift  to  the  wayfaring  prophet  when  hungry,  will
readily  come  to  the  conclusion  that  this  good  old
lady,  animated  by  the  same  spirit,  will  never  lack  the
early  and  the  latter  rain  to  give  verdure  to  her  fields
and  replenish  her  stores  abundantly. — National  In
telligencer,  May  17.
THE  WHEREABOUTS  OF  GEN.  BEAUREGARD.
J3y  Telegraph  to  Vanity  Fair — After  Manner  of  Daily

Papers.
HAVRE  DE  GRACE,  April  26. — Gen.  Beauregard
was  in  Richmond  at  23  minutes  past  6  o'clock  yes
terday,  and  will  attack  Washington  at  once.
PHILADELPHIA,  April  26. — We  learn  on  undoubted
authority,  that  Gen.  Beauregard  was  in  Alexandria  at
24  minutes  past, 6  yesterday,  reconnoitring.
BALTIMORE,  April  26. — Gen.  Beauregard  was  in.
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Norfolk  at  25  minutes  past  6  yesterday,  and  took  a
gin  cocktail  with  several  of  the  first  families.
HAVRE  DE  GRACE,  April  26. — I  learn  from  a  gen
tleman  just  from  Mobile,  that  Gen.  Beauregard  is  on
his  way  North,  with  150,000  troops.  Gen.  Beaure
gard  i*s  six  feet  high,  but  will  not  join  Blower's
"  Household  Guards."  Declines  advertising  the
Household  Journal.
ANNAPOLIS,  April  26. — Gen.  Beauregard  was  dis
covered  in  the  White  House  rear-yard  last  night  at
26  minutes  past  6,  armed  with  three  large  howitzers
and  a  portable  sledstake.  He  went  away  after  recon
noitring  pretty  numerously.
