Admiral Farragut is a man of remarkably pure and vigorous health, and though no longer young, is more elastic, vigorous and enduring than most young men. His health and strength are the just recompense for a cleanly and temperate life. He seems to have that sort of innate or constitutional abhorrence for every unclean thing, which has characterized some great reformers. There is a pleasant story of a rebuke once administered by him in a most neat and decorous, but very effective manner, to a tobacco-smoking bishop, which conveys a good lesson. At dinner with Farragut, and after the meal was over, the Bishop, about to select a cigar, offered the bunch to the sailor. "Have a cigar, Admiral?" said he. "No, Bishop," said the Admiral, with a quizzical glance, "I don't smoke--_I swear a little, sometimes_." We regret that the limits of our sketches do not allow us to do justice to those wonderful, inspiring, romantic scenes by which our navy gained possession of New Orleans and Mobile. But if one wants to read them in poetry, terse and vivid, with all the fire of poetry and all the explicitness of prose, we beg them to read the "River Fight," and "Bay Fight," of Henry Brownell, who was in both scenes as a volunteer officer. There he will find Homeric military ardor baptized by Christian sentiment. Full red the furnace fires must glow, That melts the ore of mortal kind; The mills of God are grinding slow, But ah, how close they grind! To-day the Dahlgren and the drum Are dread Apostles of his name, His kingdom here can only come In chrism of blood and flame. [Illustration: _John A. Andrew_] CHAPTER IX. JOHN ALBION ANDREW. Governor Andrew's Death Caused by the War--The Governors Dr. Beecher Prayed for--Governor Andrew a Christian Governor-- Gov. Andrew's Birth--He goes to Boston to Study Law--Not Averse to Unfashionable and Unpopular Causes--His Cheerfulness and Social Accomplishments--His Sunday School Work--Lives Plainly--His Clear Foresight of the War--Sends a Thousand Men to Washington in One Day--Story of the Blue Overcoats--The Telegram for the Bodies of the Dead of Baltimore--Gov. Andrew's Tender Care for the Poor--The British Minister and the Colored Women--The Governor's Kindness to the Soldier's Wife--His Biblical Proclamations--The Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1861-- The Proclamation of 1862--His Interest in the Schools for the Richmond Poor--Cotton Mather's Eulogy on Governor Winthrop-- Gov. Andrew's Farewell Address to the Massachusetts Legislature-- State Gratitude to Governor Andrew's Family. Among the many heroic men who have sacrificed their lives in the great battle of liberty in our country, there is no one who deserves a more honored memory than John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts.