her own carriage, with her trunks strapped | Never! while they are the miserable foes behind. Suddenly the vehicle was stop- they have proved themselves. Every day ped by a policeman, who assured the lady I see more clearly the necessity of an etershe was under arrest, and would be obliged nal separation. And where the dividing to repair immediately to the office of the line is fixed I want a wall built so high Provost-Marshal. Mrs. W., somewhat that a Yankee can never scale it!" indignant at the request, refused to go, alleging as an excuse, that such a public place was unfit for a lady to frequent; she said that she would go to the Commanding General, Dix, at Fort McHenry, but if the policeman attempted to take her to the Provost Marshal she would shoot him.

"As you please, madam; I will get into the carriage and go to the fort with you." "You are mistaken,” replied Mrs. W., "this carriage is mine, and if you attempt to get into it I will immediately fire upon you."

The policeman took a seat with her coachman, in whom Mrs. W. confided as her protector, and they drove to Fort McHenry. On reaching the Fort, she sent for General Dix, and seeing her he said: “Madam, I do not know how to address you."

"It is time you did, Sir, since I am arrested, I suppose, by your authority."

"Madam, you look wearied; walk into my office."

Ordering some regulars to bring in the trunk and search it, the General remarked to Mrs. W.:

"This is a military necessity, madam, I would these things were not, but the Government must be supported. United we stand,' you know. Madam, have you any sons in the Confederate army ?"

"I have three, Sir."

"Did you aid and encourage them to enlist in that service?"

The trunk breakers having satisfied themselves that nothing objectionable to the Administration could be found, reported the same to General Dix, who, on consultation, determined to have the person of Mrs. W. searched. The gallant General remarked:

"Madam, it is necessary now that your person be searched; you will not object, I hope?"

"Oh, no, Sir, if the person to perform that ignoble office is a female.”

"Oh, yes, madam, a lady, your equal."

"Sir, you are mistaken-not a lady, nor my equal. Were she either, she would not do the degrading work you assign her."

Mrs. W. was taken to a private apartment, and the search was begun. Finding the woman delinquent, Mrs. W. threatened to report her, if she did not perform her duty faithfully. "Pull off my shoes," she continued; "look well into them; make a thorough search, and see if you can find a combination of red and white, or anything inimical to the Union-savers ; look well, or I will report you."

The woman finding nothing treasonable upon Mrs. W., returned with her to the gallant General, telling him she would not search another lady for five hundred dollars that such a persevering character she had never encountered.

General Dix, shocked, no doubt, at Mrs. W's agitated appearance, again pro

"General Dix, are you a married man?" posed refreshments, saying, "I am, madam."

"Then ask your wife what she would have done under similar circumstances." "Madam, you look faint and weary; let me order you some refreshments." "What! eat here? I, a Southern woman, break bread with the Yankees?

"Madam, do have a glass of wine." "Only on the condition, Sir, that you will drink with me to the health and success of General Beauregard!"

The wine, it is believed, was not taken. Mrs. W. then, turning to General Dix, said:

cause.

days, calling, no doubt, to mind, Richard Cœur de Lion's famous truce with Saladin

Poor Pat's Idea of the Thing.

"Sir, I hope you are satisfied that I have nothing traitorous to your righteous (!) You thought to find the Confederate flag in my trunk, or on my person; indeed, you are not good at hide and seek. There is a story told of an Irishman Your soldiers are too little interested in who, landing in New York harbor, was your righteous cause to serve you faithful- met and welcomed by a countryman who ly. They searched my house a fortnight had been longer here. since for the flag. Both you and they have been foiled. I sent that flag to Virginia ten days since under a load of wood; it now waves over the glorious Confederates at Manassas. Sir, it seems the Yan- ment together, and presently the newlykees' peculiar pleasure is to try to frighten arrived began to make some inquiries women and children. They cannot gain about voting. battles, so they revenge themselves in this ignoble manner. And now, Sir, I imagine you have done."

"I regret, madam, that we should have met under these unfortunate circumstances. I will detain you no longer."

"Sir, I demand one thing of you, before I depart. I have been arrested on suspicion. I desire now an honorable discharge."

"Welcome, Pat," said the latter, "I'm glad to see ye; you've come just in time, for to-morrow's election day."

Pat and his friend took some refresh

"Ye'll vote for who ye plaize," said his friend, "sure it's a free counthry."

"Well, thin, be-gorra," rejoined Pat, "I go agin the government—that's what I always did at home."

Juvenile Political Sentiments.

An artist from the North was sitting on a bluff, at New Orleans, making a sketch of a river scene, when a whole bevy of

"Oh, madam, that is unnecessary; it is little children came round to watch him, a mere form, and therefore useless."

"I like forms, General Dix, particularly when connected with official docu

ments."

The General, seeing Mrs. W. determined, ordered the Secretary to write the discharge, and, handing it to Mrs. W., said: "Madam, I believe that is all."

"No, Sir, not all yet. I wish your name added. I believe that it is essential to such a document."

The General, more reluctant to sign his name than to grant the discharge, was finally brought to the point.

conversing freely upon the merits and demerits of the picture, with all the acuteness and correctness of any full-grown critic. A conversation between the artist and the little ones soon commenced, and as the lighter the straw the better can be seen the way the wind blows, these little fellows gave the man of the pencil as good an insight into the real state of political feeling there as could have been obtained from the older and more wily population.

"What are you all, youngsters-Union or Secesh?" asked the artist.

"Union, Sir," simultaneously exclaimed the half-dozen tiny voices, with a decision that was surprising.

"And now, General Dix," said Mrs. W." do you know what I intend doing with this discharge? I shall send it to "Oh, yes, it's very well to tell me that, my sons at Manassas, and if they have with all those blue-coats coming up the any of the spirit of their mother, they will hill; but were you not all Secesh yesterone day make you rue this encounter."

day?"

After Mrs. W. left, they say the Gener- "No, SIR! we were always Union," al vowed he would not see another woman firmly replied the leader-the same who for three years, three months, and three had been reading from the note-book

"we ain't afraid of your soldiers, either; | Union to-day floats in every State of the when they come here we know we are Union but Texas. The rebellion came going to have something to eat." upon us when we were possessed of an "Don't you have any thing to eat, then, army less than any other country keeps when the rebels are here?"

ers.

for an armed police. Traitorous hands had so disposed of it, and scattered our navy, that neither was available to immediately crush the incipient rebellion. But in two years we have seen three-quarters of a million of men raised." Before this last sentence was completed, one of the audience asked in a sneering tone,

"Where are they now?"

"WHERE ARE THEY NOW?" replied General Butler, with his customary prompt"Some of them lie sleeping beneath

ness,

"So did mine," chimed in all the oth- the sod; and others are still fighting the battles of their country; while you remain at home aiding the cause of traitors!"

"Don't you think your parents took it because they were afraid of us?" asked the artist, turning to his young friend of the note-book.

"No, Sir; father and mother were always Union. I wish you could have seen how she took care of a sick Michigan soldier for three months; he used to call her mother, and the soldiers always loved father and mother. I wish I could show you my mother, Sir."

The artist said he would be glad to see

her, and shortly after set out with the boy

to show him through the town, which he did most effectually, pointing out not only every building and thing of note, but every well-known Union or Secesh dwelling. The former appeared to be in a lamentable minority; and others again he said had taken the oath, but he didn't think they were "good for much."

Where are They?

Rosecrans and Vallandigham coming to an
Understanding.

When Vallandigham arrived at Murfreesboro', General Rosecrans went to see him. "I wanted to see you," said the General; "I wanted to see you, Vallandigham, to see if you had a rascal's face." Then changing the subject rather abruptly, and bringing down the forefinger of his is a conspicuous feature of his gesticularight hand in that rapier-like style which

tion when he is in terrible earnest, he

said: "Vallandigham, don't you come back here. If-you-do-Vallandigham, I'll be, and may God forgive me for the expression-I'll be if I don't hang you!"

People will be pleased to remember that the General claims that he " blasphemes, but sometimes swears."

never

John Letcher's Views on a Very Personal
Subject.

General Butler, during the interval of his military duties, made a visit to the White Mountains in New Hampshire, and When the boys of the Fifteenth West while there he was compelled to make a Virginia regiment went into Lexington, speech. He enumerated the various Va., they paid a visit to the home of Expoints gained by the Union armies, and Gov. Letcher, and among other things the work which had been accomplished, in found in his dwelling was a composition the following strain: "The flag of the read by him during his school days. As

the composition is on a subject that might have proved of no small personal interest to the author, it is here given word for word, and letter for letter. The subject is that of Capital Punishment.

The manuscript bears the following indorsement on its back, and is also signed by its author, viz:

Government is right. You young men must sustain it.

Col. E.-But I approve of the Emancipation Proclamation, and all.

Gen. C.-So do I. Whether or not the President had the constitutional right to declare the slaves free, the President's friends do not strengthen the measure by

"John Letcher, Composition read Sept. claiming it to be constitutional. I do not 25th, 1830.

I have often thought if capital punishments were abolished, our Constitution would be rendered more wholesome.

deny that there is that in the Constitution to justify the act; but the circumstances of the country clearly justify it. I do not fear its effect in the South-I only hope it will prove effectual. I cannot understand how any old Democrat can have any sympathy with the South; and I hope that if there are any persons in the North who would ever consent to a separation, they will not be permitted to have any position or influence.

To hang a man looks too much like barbarism among a people who call themselves a civilized nation, when we consider the manner in which publick executions are attended. They are generally if not always attended with riot and drunkenness, which is very prejudicial to morality. whereas if there were no publick The old general and statesman showed executions this not be the case. A great a good stiff backbone. multitude of people from a distance attend these executions whose families are on the eve of starving.

Cavender, the Martyr Preacher. There was in Van Buren County, Tennessee, an old Methodist preacher, of a great deal of ability, named Cavender. He was from the first, a most determined Union man, and as his influence in the County was great, they determined to make an example of him and get him out of the way. So the most rabid among

It would have been better J. M. Jones had been confined in the penitentiary than to have been hung he would have had a chance to repent and the State would have been paid for keeping him the time he was confined in Lynchburg. Upon the whole I am inclined to think if capital punishments were abolished our the rebels took the aged and service-worn constitution would be rendered more wholesome. J. Letcher.

September 24th, 1830."

Mr. Cass's Backbone.

Colonel Eastman of Chicago, having paid a visit to General Cass, narrates his political conversation with that venerable statesman, in substance as follows:

preacher out of his house, put a rope around his neck, and, setting him upon a horse, led him out into a forest. They then told him that unless he would publicly renounce his Unionism they were ready to hang him. Poor Cavender replied:

"God gave me breath to bear witness to His truth, and when I must turn it to the work of lies and crime, it is well enough to yield it up to Him who gave

Colonel Eastman-I have always admired and supported you as a Democrat, but perhaps you will not regard me as a it." Democrat now, as I have pledged my They then asked him if he had any support to the present officers of the Gov-parting request. He said "he had no hope ernment, and to all the war measures. that they would attend to any thing he General Cass-You are right. The might ask." They said they would. He

then requested that they would take his heard from you; and I am going to the body to his daughter with a request that field again, partly to get away from an she would lay it beside the remains of his atmosphere that tolerates such people." departed wife. They then said: Secesh sympathizer dumbed.

"It's time to go to your prayers."

"I'm not one of the sort," he replied, "who has to wait until a rope is around his neck to pray."

"Come, old man; no nonsense; if you don't swear to stand by the Southern Confederacy you'll have to hang," at the same time tying the rope to a branch.

"Hang away," said the old man. One of them then gave a blow with a whip to the horse upon which poor Cavender sat-the horse sprang forward, and the faithful servant of God and his country passed into eternity. As already recorded, they said they would fulfil his last request. Well, they cut the flesh off his bones and threw it to the hogs; his heart was cut out and lay in a public place till it rotted.

"God's Flag."

As one of the brigades of the reserve corps which came up to the rescue of General Thomas at Chickamauga was marching through the town of Athens, a brighteyed girl of four summers was looking intently at the sturdy fellows as they tramped by. When she saw the sun glancing through the stripes of dazzling red and on the golden stars of the flag, she

as a clincher to the whole story. There exclaimed, clapping her hands: "Oh, pa! was not a word of hope or cheer for the pa! God made that flag!-see the stars! country; nothing but the evils from which it's God's flag!" A shout, deep and civil wars are inseparable, could he see. Presently a returned soldier spoke something in this wise:

loud, went up from that column, and many a bronzed veteran lifted his hat as he passed the sunny-haired child of bright "All you say may be true, sir, but we and happy thoughts, resolving, if his good have no such sort of talk in the army. right arm availed anything, God's flag No man would be allowed to utter such should conquer. What a sweet and happy sentiments by the troops who are fighting christening the glorious ensign received the battles of their country to save it. I from those artless lips-God's flag!' and have served in the field three years. My so it is.

from

Taking his Choice.

time has expired. I joined the army patriotic motives-because I believe we have a country worth fighting for, and the The proffering of the Union oath of alleUnion is our only hope. I am sick and giance to the people of Tennessee, in the tired of hearing such talk as I have just infected districts, proved a severe experi