non Junction, Ky., on the 17th of Septem- | teristics, military and personal, most admiber, 1861. While walking up and down rably portrayed, will find a fund of such the platform of that place, awaiting the matter in Captain Conyngham's sparkling repair of the telegraph line, Sherman's reminiscences of that great commander. segar gave out. He immediately took drawn from personal observation, and peaanother from his pocket and asked the ned with the hand of a genius not unwororderly sergeant of the marine Zouaves for thy the chieftain at whose side he rode,a light. The home guard sergeant had one of the books with which the reader, only a moment before lighted his segar, especially if a soldier, can never tire. and, with a bow, handed it to the General -probably the first Brigadier he had seen. during the war. Sherman lighted his segar carefully, took a puff or two to assure himself, and abstractedly threw the Ben. McCulloch and Joe Baxter. General Ben. McCulloch was in many particulars a remarkable man. Though a very common looking person, he was very vain of his personal appearance and proud of his fame. When the General was returning from Richmond, not long before the fatal battle of Pea Ridge, a little incident occurred-such as, perhaps, he was more than once the subject of The party consisted of the General, Captain Armstrong, his A. A. G., and Colonel Snyder, of the Missouri army, with two or three black servants, traveling in a Sherman's Absence of Mind. sergeant's segar away. A short time after, General Rousseau, who saw this scene, mentioned the matter to General Sherman. He could not recollect it, but said Gen. Ben McCulloch. "I was thinking of something else. It won't do to let to-morrow take care of itself. Your good merchant don't think of the ships that are in, but the ships that four mule ambulance. They stopped for are to come in. The evil of to-day is lunch by the wayside, about two days irreparable. Look ahead to avoid breakers. travel from Fort Smith, in Arkansas, and You can't when your ship is on them. were discussing the prospects of the ConAll you can then do is to save yourself federacy and the contents of a basket and and retrieve disaster. I was thinking of a demijohn, when a stranger rode up and something else when I threw the sergeant's inquired the way to Colonel Stone's winsegar away"-and then he added, laugh- ter quarters. The stranger was a perfect ing, "Did I do that, really?" Those who specimen of the genus 'butternut. He would see Sherman's remarkable charac- was dressed in bilious looking jeans, with "You be darned!" said butternut; "I would know you, Joe, if I was to meet you in Africa!" "Well, now," said the general, getting tired of his new friend's familiarity, "who do you take me for, any way?" a home-made hat and coarse boots, and don't think you know me, and perhaps wore his hair and beard very long. He have never seen me before." was mounted on a good horse, and carried on his shoulder a long, old-fashioned rifle. Before there was any time to answer his inquiries he cast his eyes on General McCulloch, and seemed to recognize him. Dismounting at once, he advanced eagerly to the General, with extended hand and a hearty "Bless my soul, Joe! how do nestly; "I don't take you for anybody; I you do?-what on earth are you doing know you to be Joe Baxter, what staid in here?" The General saw that the man the Perkins settlement, in Collins county, was mistaken, but answered him pleas- all last summer, a sellin' chain-pumps and antly, and invited him to partake of the puttin' up lightnin'-rods!" lunch, to which said lunch and demijohn "Take you for?" retorted Texas, ear Palmer's Spy-glass. the stranger did full and ample justice. Jerry the Genius, looking through General He told the General (for to him he addressed all his conversation, as to an old When General Palmer was on the Ten friend) that he was a volunteer, and had nessee river, there was in Company C, of joined Colonel Stone's regiment of Texan the Forty-second Illinois, a singular genius, Rangers, and that he intended to fight with familiarly known as Jerry, an easy, care "Old Ben McCulloch until we gained our less, jovial fellow, thinking a man a man independence." Old Ben enjoyed the anywhere, and paying no attention to the man's mistake until they were about ready shoulder-strapped gentry any more than to start on, when he said to his Texan copatriot, if they were not about. One day, General Palmer was among a company of officers, "My friend, I think you are mistaken looking with his glass at the battle-ground as to whom you have been talking to; I of Pittsburg Landing. Jerry was near by, and stepping up to the General, slap--who helped to keep the nation in good ped him familiarly on the shoulder, and humor, even when the clouds hung black said, "Say, old feller, let me see that thing, as night. Query: Would it not be interwill yer?" The officers expected to see esting to know the opinion of those masJerry sent in on bread and water; but, ters of wit, concerning the jokes of their always ready for fun, Palmer handed admirer, “Mr. Linkin?” Jerry his spy-glass. Jerry took it, and very deliberately looked it over; and, placing it about two feet from his eye, looked through it. One such look was sufficient, and turning to the General, with a look of extreme contempt, he said, Here, take the tarnal thing; I can see through it!" and retired amidst the shouts of the General and his officers. 66 Marriage Scene in the Army of the Potomac. An event calculated to destroy the monotony of camp life—a marriage—took place in the Seventh New Jersey volunteers, one of Hooker's old regiments in the Army of the Potomac. The camp was very prettily decorated, and being quite trimly arranged among the pines, was just the camp a visitor would like to see. A Old Abe fixing the Responsibility. little before noon the guests began to arMr. Lincoln was naturally very anxious rive in considerable numbers. Among to know who was really responsible them were Generals Hooker, Sickles, Carr, for the calamitous surrender of Harper's Mott, Hobart, Ward, Revere, Bartlett, Ferry. So he summoned Halleck. The Birney, Berry, Colonel Dickinson, and General did not know. "Very well," said other aids to General Hooker; Colonels the President, "then I will ask General Burling, Farnham, Egan, etc. Colonel Schenck." That General merely knew Francine and Lieutenant-Colonel Price, that he was not to blame. The President of the Seventh, with the rest of the officers sent for Milroy. Milroy averred that he of that regiment, proceeded to make all was not guilty. Hooker was summoned. welcome, and then the ceremony`comFighting Joe hoped it was clear to His Ex-menced. In a hollow square formed by cellency that he had nothing to do with it. the troops a canopy was erected, with an "Perfectly clear," said our Uncle Abraham, altar of drums, officers grouped on each smiling. So he assembled all the four gen- side of this. On General Hooker's arrierals in his room. 66 Gentlemen," ," said he, val the band played 'Hail to the Chief,' "Harper's Ferry was surrendered, and none and on the approach of the bridal party of you, it seems, are responsible. I am very the 'Wedding March.' It was rather cold, anxious to discover the man who is." He windy, and threatened snow, altogether walked up and down the room, while they tending to produce a slight pink tinge on still sat there. Suddenly he stopped. "I the noses present, but the ladies bore it have it," he said; "I know who is respon- with courage, and looked, to the unaccussible." The generals crowded about the tomed eyes of the soldiers, like real angels President, each a little suspicious. "Who in their light clothing. To add to the is it, who is it, Mr. President?" "Gen- dramatic force of the scene, the rest of the tlemen," replied our uncle, with a twinkle brigade and other troops were drawn up in his eye, "General Lee is the man." in line of battle not more than a mile Everybody knows that the good President away to repel an expected attack from was exceedingly fond of those witty Fredericksburg. Few persons are wedwriters, whose books he was glad to have ded under more romantic circumstances in his library,-Artemus Ward, Petro- than Nellie Lammond and Captain Deleum V. Nasby, Major Jack Downing, Hart. He could not get leave of absence, Shillaber, Doesticks, and Orpheus C. Kerr, so she came down like a brave girl, and married him in camp. After the wed- | his country. Oh, shame! He shall know," ding was a dinner, a ball, fire-works, etc.; said she, rising with proud indignation, and on the whole it eclipsed entirely an "that he is physically disqualified to husopera at the Academy of Music in dra- band me!" matic effect and reality. "Physical Disability" Exempting from the Draft and from Something Else. And the father, physiologically considering how the seeds of disease are entailed from one generation to another, approved his daughter's decision, and informed the A young man succeeded in getting a young man that he might henceforth concertificate of exemption from the draft, sider himself "exempt " from the proposed from the Board of Enrolment, on the marriage, on the ground of acknowledged ground of "physical disability," and hast-"physical disability." Characteristic Lady's Joke. A patriotic lady of St. Louis, Missouri, took it into her head to prepare for one of the Military Fairs a wreath, to be composed of locks of hair from the heads of the prominent Union members of Congress. She wrote to the honorable gentlemen, delicately stating her purpose, and requesting the favor of capillary specimens. Among the many, Thad. Stevens was the recipient of a missive on the subject. It was rather a joke on the venerable Thad., unintentional on the part of the lady, no doubt, as the Honorable Chairman of Ways and Means hadn't had a lock of hair that he could call his own for twenty years, but had, during that long period, been a patron of the wig-maker. ened to his betrothed to announce his escape. Strangely to him, the good news affected her in an unexpected manner, and she withdrew from his presence with but the shadow of an excuse. The young man was confounded, and, visions of rivals rising up before him, he sought an explanation from the lady's father, who always treated him graciously, and was favorable to the proposed alliance. The father in turn was mistified, and immediately seeking his daughter, found her in great grief. "Oh, father," said the girl, "I have been shamefully deceived. Oh, how mortifying to be known to be engaged to a man who comes shamelessly to me, just before our marriage, and rejoices in 'physical disabilities.' Why did not you tell me that the man was imperfect or sickly before matters went so far? I have no ambition to turn my future home into a domestic hospital, or myself into a perpetual nurse!" The father tried to persuade her by saying that probably a trifling ailment, north of Albany, Gentry county, Missouri, magnified by the complaint, might have a party of the Union militia force entered obtained his exemption from service, and that place to secure horses with which to reminded her that her lover was a fine enter the service under the call of General rider, a graceful skater, and very expert Fisk. A Union girl promptly came forin most manly exercises. ward and placed her horse at the service "And under all this," added the fair of the gallant and patriotic boys, and also girl, "he hides some dreadful infirmity. took the liberty to point out to them anSurely, you do not think I would be en- other fine steed, which she archly remarked gaged to him if I knew him to be con- was the property of a secessionist lady sumptive, scrofulous, or worse? I thank friend of hers. A Union trooper was God that the draft has lifted the mask. soon snugly astride of the 'contraband,' And the man actually delights in being ad- and was about to leave with him, when vertised as physically disqualified to serve the lady owner made her appearance, and Spirited Fight between Two Girls at Church. On a Sabbath day in July, while public worship was being held about six miles plumply protested against giving the ani- "Meade" and Ale. At the time the rebel army was on the march from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, The Union girl urged the soldiers to go to Gettysburg, several privates stopped at along, she had voluntarily contributed the hotel of Mr. John Brown, in Fayetteher horse, and insisted that the secesh ville, and inquired for ale. Mine host' inhorse should also do duty. At this the formed them that he was just out of that rebel girl applied all sorts of opprobrious article. One of the rebs remarked that epithets to the Union girl, who in turn be- they were going to Baltimore, and there came angry and-knocked her opponent, they would get plenty. A few days after, by a spirited thwack, flat on the ground, when the rebs were retreating from Getthen jumped upon her, and dealt her sockdologers at a terrible rate. A spectator finally parted the Amazons, but they didn't stay parted, and were soon fighting each other again, accompanying their blows with piercing screams of defiance. Their gay Sunday dresses were soon in shreds; long, beautiful tresses of hair were mixed with blood from dainty noses, etc. Despairing of putting an end to the shameful setto, the bystanders were compelled to form a circle, and seat themselves to await the final result of the she-tiger encounter. The combatants fought long and skilfully, until Miss Union seized Miss Secesh by the throat, when the latter fell to the ground and gave up the struggle. The parties tysburg, Brown happened to meet this were then duly cared for by their respective friends. Robbery by Mistake. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. same man on the South Mountain. He asked him if he had got any Baltimore ale. "No," replied Johnny Reb; "we only got as far as Gettysburg, where the Meade was too strong for us, so we had to give up the Baltimore Ale." Two ladies, while General McClellan was at dinner at the Massasoit House, Springfield, Mass., on his passage through that city, ventured to rob a military cap, Courage of Woman during Battle. which they supposed to be the General's, The millions who never heard the roar of both its buttons, tearing them out in a and crash of a great battle, but especially very unfeminine manner, to be preserved women, are naturally interested in the feelas mementoes of that military chieftain. ings inspired-the sensations evoked, by The mortification of their feelings and the the actual and imminent presence of desredness of their faces can only be faintly perately contending armies. The battle imagined when one of the aids carelessly of Gettysburg brought "the noise of the as usual put on the mutilated cap, and the captains, and the shouting," nearer to the General put on his own, which was intact. people of the Northern States than any Those buttons were not preserved, but the other great combat of the present century; story has been-being told much oftener and of the many personal reminiscences than was agreeable to the eager but disap- of that great struggle, the following, from pointed curiosity-hunters. the pen of Miss Carrie Sheades, of the |