epistle to be brought before him, when the following conversation occurred between them: "What is your name?" "Edward Wright." "Sign that, sir." "I won't. I am a British subject, and claim the protection of the British consul." "Sign it, sir." "General Butler, you may put every "Have I ever had the pleasure of see- ball of that pistol through my brain, but ing you before?" "Not that I know of." "Have you ever been before an officer of the United States charged with any offence?" "No, sir." I will never sign that paper." "Captain Davis, make out an order to the Provost Marshal, to hang this man at daybreak to-morrow. In the meantime, let him have any priest he chooses to send for. Gentlemen, I am going to dinner." Before the General had reached his quarters, an orderly came running up. "General, he has signed." "Well, keep him in the guard-house all night, and let him go in the morning." Mr. Parton might perhaps have added to his capital narration, that the Southern "patriots" of the Wright stamp were indeed only too glad to have Butler dis like this, which was written at the bottom placed by General Banks,-a gentleman of the letter: "I, Edward Wright, ac- of the most bland courtliness, and whose knowledge that this letter is basely and civil and military administration was of abominably false, and that I wrote it for just the right stamp, after the wild elethe purpose of bringing the army of the ments had been so effectively subdued by United States into contempt." his firm-minded predecessor. PART SIXTH. ANECDOTES OF THE REBELLION-COMMISSARY AND RATIONS, FINANCE AND CURRENCY, THE PRESS, THE TELEGRAPH, POST-OFFICE, ETC. UNCLE SAM'S SUPPLIES; SUBSISTENCE UNDER DIFFICULTIES; "HARD TACK" AND MULEBEEF LEGENDS; FORAGING RAIDS; DISLOYAL FOWLS AND CONTRABAND DAINTIES; IMPROMTU CONFISCATIONS IN A SMALL WAY; DIALOGUES WITH THE QUARTERMASTER; SHAMEFUL IMPOSITIONS; SCRIP AND CURRENCY VARIETIES; UNIQUE BANKING OPERATIONS, COLLECTION EXCURSIONS AT THE SOUTH; CHIVALRIC REPUDIATION; TRICKS, ARTIFICES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF EDITORS, REPORTERS AND CORRESPONDENTS; TELEGRAPHIC ODDS AND ENDS; MISCELLANIES OF POST-OFFICE EXPERIENCE; &c., &c. "Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms, I must decline furnishing both armies any more. Let me know which army is to be supplied, and the Department will be able to meet the requisition.-Ironical reply of GENERAL RIPLEY. It was a perfect reproduction of the scene and all its incidents; and it is a marvel to me how you writers can perform such tasks.-GENERAL HOOKER on the reports of the Battle of Antietam. I would sooner face all the cannon of the enemy than taste that glass of wine.-One of the heroes of Ball's Bluff. Be gorra! I thought yez was gintlemin, and paid for what yez wanted. Divil a bit of money have I seen for a year, and "Confederate" scrip has brought me wife and childers to starvation almost.-Irish peddler at the South, to Union soldiers who jocosely offered him Confederate" currency. I will teach them, if they need the lesson, that the men who have periled their lives to open the Mississippi River, for their benefit, cannot be imposed upon with impunity.-GEN. GRANT on river captains' exactions. One of the Best. kept them in a cool, refreshing twilight. They called him "Doctor," and the Major with the flag of truce was directed to leave him at some "landing" above Jamestown Island. was a sort of political prisoner, on his way to some point where, with The "Doctor" had contrived to procure others of his plum- somehow, and had somehow brought on age, he might be out board the steamer, a quantity of sugar of harm's-doing. As and coffee, contrary to regulation and withhe was being thus out authority. The dinner-hour arrived taken, his imagina- and passed. Every hungry rebel had tion wandered away done ample justice to the occasion, and among the horrors of Swamp Angels,' had eaten as an Esquimaux eats when he his limbs became tremulous, his voice sees before his bodily eyes one huge meal husky, his eyes were fountains of involun- of walrus or whale blubber, and before tary tears, and his hat-rim overhung them his mind's eye a week or month of probalike a weeping-willow, whose broad shadow ble starvation or "short commons." The |