PART SECOND. ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION-VOLUNTEERING, DRAFTING, COMMUTING, SUBSTITUTING, DESERTING, ETC. NOBLE INSTANCES OF RALLYING TO THE RANKS, AND OF ENLISTMENT AMONG THE AGED AND YOUNG; HEARINGS, LUDICROUS AND PERPLEXING, BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS; RAW RECRUITS AND ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS; APPLICANTS FOR EXEMPTION; RUSES AND QUIBBLES TO ESCAPE DUTY-STRANGE PHENOMENA OF NATIVITY, AGE, AND INFIRMITIES; BEWILDERED SURGEONS; LUCKLESS CONSCRIPTS; RARE BROKERAGE AND BOUNTY DEALINGS; FLUSH PURSES, HARDSHIPS AND MISERIES; SIDE SHAKING GAIETIES, JESTS, PUNS, &C., &c. "Sound. bugle, sound! and rally round "Lock the shop and lock the store, Put it through!" When the order came for me to join my company, sir, I was plowing in the same field in Concord where my grandfather was plowing when the British fired on the Massachusetts men at Lexington. He did not wait a minute; and I did not, sir.- Concord (Mass.) Volunteer. I can't do anything for him, but I'll tell you what I'll do for you: In case he's drafted and gets killed,-I'll marry you myself!-Gov. ToD, of Ohio, to an aged woman soliciting her husband's exemption. He is my all, but I freely give him to my country.-Consent of a Maine mother for her 'only boy,' a minor, to enlist. How does he Grow 'Em ? CAN old colored female from the battle fields, plants them down in Massachusetts after a while they begin to sprout, and the moment they see a chicken they make for it, when Lincoln's provost guard catches them and grafts them into the army." "Bless ye, say so! And are you 'uns into conversation, ex- dead rebels? replied the bewildered creature, completely transfixed to the spot where she stood. "No, we used to be, but we're now live Yankees. I'm Bishop Polk, who preached down here in Dixie." pressed great surprise as to where they all came from. A wag informed her that old Lincoln had a very productive field away up North, where he raised them at the rate of a million per year. Turning up her white eyes in blank astonish- here? Come after Misses Bishop and de ment, she exclaimed: "For de Lord's sake, you don't say so! How does he grow 'em?" "Oh," was the reply, " that is very simple. He gathers up all the dead rebels "De debil you aire!" exclaimed the now excited wench-" and what are you doin' chilen?" "No the children!" was the profane reply; "we've come to assist in whaling out of Jeff Davis." "You'll hab to cotch him fust," was the quick response; job." 66 'guess it's done gone | 1813, and was present at the surrender of McDonough. 66 "Well, we'll see," said the soldier; "it's a race between us and the devil, and may be Old Nick will win the heat." "How does he grow 'em?" I am now a farmer, in the town of Beaver Dam, Dodge county, and, with my son, the owner of three hundred acres of land; my son was a volunteer in the Federal army at the battle of Bull Run, had his nose badly barked and his hips broken in and disabled for life, by a charge of the rebel cavalry, and now I am going to see if the rebels can bark the old man's nose. I tell you (said the old man,) if England pitches in, you'll see a great many old men like me turning out, but the greatest of my fears is, that I shall not be permitted to take an active part in the present war." "Should'nt wonder. Dis nigger don't care neder," remarked the dusky matron, as she right-wheeled and double-quicked it back to the house. Old Men Turning Out when England Two Desertions-A Double Tragedy. A striking and most sad illustration of the effects of civil war in the domestic and The attention of travelers on one of the affectional sphere is that which the followWestern railroads was considerably at- ing event discloses. A lady had resided tracted, one day, by the appearance of a with an only daughter for many years in rather oldish man among a company of Alexandria. In the course of time, a recruits for the Seventeenth (Irish) Wis- mutual friend introduced a young gentleconsin regiment, who were on board the man of his acquaintance, belonging to cars, on the way to camp; he gave his Richmond, to the family. The young peoname, as follows:ple soon became quite intimate in their "My name is Rufus Brockway, and I social relations, and, very naturally, fell in am in the seventieth year of my age. I love. The parents on both sides consentam a Yankee from the State of New ing, the parties were betrothed, and the Hampshire; was a volunteer in the last marriage day fixed for the fourth of July. war with England for nearly three years. In the meantime, however, the Virginians I have served under Gens. Izard, McNeil, were called upon to decide on which side and Macomb, being transferred from one they would range themselves in the great command to another, as the circumstances political and military conflict then spreadthen required. I was at the battle of ing its dark wings over the land. The Plattsburg, at the battle of French Creek ladies declared themselves heartily on the in Canada, and at the battle of Chateau- side of the Government, but the gentlegay, on the fourteenth day of October, man joined the forces of his State. Such |