"brethren," after refreshing their spiritual their reception to their principals. The appetites with the crumbs of his sanctu- next Sunday, after another refreshing seaary, took his case into consideration, and son, the "brethren" again met and took unanimously determined that he should action upon the contumacy of Mr. Wright. be made to leave the country, appointing The Captain of a company of secessiona committee to inform him of their de- ists was present, and after due deliberacision. tion, it was determined that upon the next One of the party, although an ardent Thursday he should take his command, secessionist, happened to be a personal proceed to Wright's, and summarily eject friend of Wright, and forewarned him. him from the sacred soil of Missouri. Wright, knowing that he had done nothing Wright's friend was again present, and he to warrant such proceedings, determined soon communicated to Wright the state of to fight it out, and in this he was backed affairs, and begged him to save bloodshed by his wife. He provided himself with by leaving. two revolvers, and his wife took one, and awaited further developments. Wright lived in a portion of the country remote from the church, and the residence of those who were endeavoring to drive him out, and he determined; if possible, to prepare a surprise for the worthy captain and his gallant forces. To this end he bought a barrel of whiskey, another of crackers, a few cheeses, and some other provisions, and then mounting a Monday afternoon, three men rode up and inquired for Mr. Wright. He walked out, with the butt of a revolver sticking warily from his coat pocket, and inquired their wishes. The revolver seemed to upset their ideas. They answered that it was nothing in particular, and proceeded to converse upon every thing in general, black boy upon a swift horse, sent him but never alluded to their errand. Finally, after a half hour had passed, and the men still talked on without coming to their mission, Wright grew impatient, and asked if they had any special business-if not, he had a pressing engagement, and would like to be excused. Well, they had a little business, said one, with considerable hesitation, as he glanced at the revolver butt. around the country, inviting his friends to come and see him, and bring their arms. By Wednesday night he had gathered a force of about three hundred men, to whom he told the state of things, and asked their aid. They promised to back him to the death. The next day they concealed themselves in a cornfield, back of the house, and waited the development of events. So, a little after noon, the captain and some eighty men rode up to the place and inquired for Mr. Wright. That gentleman immediately made his appearance, when the Captain informed him that, being satisfied of his abolitionism, they had come to eject him from the State. "Won't you give me two days to settle up my affairs?" asked Wright. "Two days be! I'll give you just five minutes to pack up your traps and leave!" Saying this, he pulled out his revolver and cocked it. The fellow glanced a moment at the deadly looking pistol, and took in the stalwart form of Wright, who was glaring at him with retribution in his eye, "But I can't get ready in five minutes. and concluded to postpone the announce- I have a fine property here, a happy home, ment. The three rode away, and reported and if you drive me off you make me a beggar. I have done nothing. If I go, Reverend Pecksniff, who officiated, and my wife and children must starve." then left them to plot Treason and wor "To hell with your beggars! You ship God in their own peculiar and pious must travel!" "Give me two hours?" "I'll give you just five minutes, not a second longer. If you ai'nt out by that time (here the gallant soldier swore a most fearful oath,) I'll blow out your cursed abolition heart!" "Well, if I must, I must!" and Wright turned toward the house, as if in deep despair, gave a preconcerted whistle, and almost instantly after the concealed forces rushed out and surrounded the astounded Captain and his braves. "Ah, Captain!" said Wright, as he turned. imploringly towards him, "won't you grant me two days-two hours, at least, my brave friend, only two hours in which to prepare myself and family for beggary and starvation-now do, won't you?" The Captain could give no reply, but sat upon his horse as if ague-smitten. He at length found voice to say"Don't kill me!" "Kill you! No, you black-livered coward, I won't dirty my hands with any such filthy work. If I kill you, I'll have one of my niggers do it. Get down from that horse!" manner. He soon became Major Wright, doing brave and valuable service for his country. Noble Greeting by a Loyal Southerner to a A tall, splendid-looking man, dressed in the uniform of the Allen Greys, Vermont, stood one day conversing with a friend on Broadway, New York city. He was entirely unconscious that his superior height was attracting universal attention on that crowded thoroughfare, until a splendid barouche drove up to the sidewalk, and a young man sprang from it and grasped the soldier's hand, saying, "You are the most splendid specimen of humanity I ever saw. I am a Southerner, but my heart is with the Union; if it were not, such noble-looking fellows as yourself would enlist me in the cause." The subject of this salutation, although surprised, was perfectly self-possessed, and answered the cordial greeting of the young Southerner with warm enthusiasm. He was of superb stature- several inches above six feet, and his noble, open countenance, beamed with the ancient patriotism of the Green Mountain Boys, of which he was so fine a specimen. He had walked fifteen miles from the village of Chittenden to enlist, and was the only representative of that village; but he was a host in himself. Parson Brownlow expressing his Sentiments in Jail. The gallant Captain obeyed, imploring only for life. The result of the matter was that the whole company dismounted, laid down their arms, and then as they filed out were sworn to preserve their allegiance inviolate to the United States. An hour after, Mr. Wright had organized a force of two hundred and forty men for Parson Brownlow's sufferings while in the war, and by acclamation was elected jail for his fidelity to his country are well Captain. The next Sunday he started known, as well as his unflinching endurwith his command to join the National ance of them. General Carroll, of the troops under Lyon, stopping long enough Confederate army, who was at one time on his way to surround the Hard-shell a great friend of his, visited the parson in church, at which his miseries had all been jail, and said to him, so augmented. After the service was over, he administered the oath of allegiance to every one present, including the "but here I am." "Brownlow, you ought not to be here." "So I think," responded the Parson; "The Confederate Court is sitting within a hundred yards of the jail, and if you will take the oath of allegiance you shall be immediately liberated." "Sir," said the Parson, looking him steadily in the eye, "before I will take the oath of allegiance to your bogus Government I will rot in jail, or die here of old age. I don't acknowledge you have a Court. I don't acknowledge you have a Government. It has never been acknowledged by any power on earth, and never will be. Before I would take the oath I would see the whole Southern Confederacy in the infernal regions, and you on top of it." "Yes, Sir. We have voted on secession, and this district gave three thousand majority for the Union." "Yes, at the point of the bayonet." "No, Sir. There were neither bayonets nor muskets to intimidate us. Every man was free to vote as he pleased." "Then we have been most damnably deceived." "Hail Columbia," and the "Star Spangled Banner," at Fort Sumter. It is familiar to all, that, on leaving Fort Moultrie, Major Anderson brought away with him the flag which he had been in the habit of hoisting over that fort. He entered Sumter on the night of 26-27th plain talk," said the Gen- December, 1860, and determined to hoist eral, indignantly leaving the jail. the flag at noon on 27th. "That is "Yes, Sir-ee," said the Parson; "I am a plain man, and them's my sentiments." Confederate Notes in Maryland. Anderson. The rebel officers treated the citizens of Frederick with a great deal of courtesy, but generally forced upon them their worthless Confederate notes and scrip, in exchange for provisions, or any thing else they desired. The merchants and others who had articles to sell, upon the rebel forces entering the town, closed their places of business and refused to sell. Stuart threatened to use force unless the stores were opened, and then the merchants concealed the bulk of their stocks, and opened A short time before noon Major Andertheir doors. At one store Colonel Gordon son assembled the whole of his little force, called, and insisted upon paying for goods with the workmen employed on the fort, he wanted in Confederate notes. The merchant happened to be a man who did not hesitate to utter his Union sentiments freely, and he told the gallant rebel that Confederate notes were not worth the paper they were printed on. The Colonel, in reply to this, asked, around the foot of the flag-staff. The national ensign was attached to the cord, and Major Anderson, holding the ends of the lines in his hands, knelt reverently down. The officers, soldiers, and men clustered around, many of them on their knees, and all deeply impressed with the The chaplain made an earnest prayer-such an appeal "And pray what may be your political solemnity of the scene. sentiments?" "I am a Union man, Sir, and always for support, encouragement and mercy, as intend to remain one." one would make who felt that 'Man's ex "Indeed! are there many people like tremity is God's opportunity.' As the earnest, solemn words of the speaker you here?" ceased, and the men responded “Amen with a fervency that perhaps they had never before experienced. Major Anderson drew the 'Star Spangled Banner' up to the top of the staff, the band broke out with the national air of Hail Columbia,' and loud and exultant cheers, repeated again and again, were given by the officers, soldiers, and workmen. Cities built and in Embryo: Schaffer and 6 that was said, and then replied: "Suppose, gentlemen, all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara river on a rope, would you shake the cable, and keep shouting to him, Blondin, stand up a little straighterBlondin, stoop a little more-go a little faster-lean a little more to the Northlean a little more to the South!' No, you would hold your breath, as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off till Colonel Schaffer, chief of staff to Gen- he was safe over. The Government is eral Butler, and General Ould, the rebel carrying an immense weight. Untold Commissioner of exchange, were the best treasures are in their hands. They are of friends, personally, and, in their official doing the best they can. Don't badger interviews, always very pleasant and agree them. Keep silence, and we'll carry you able to each other. On one of these occa-safe across." This simple but wonderfully sions, when chatting at City Point on mat- graphic idea answered the complaints of ters and things in general, Colonel Schaf- half an hour, and not only silenced but fer picked up a map of Virginia, and charmed the auditors. glancing at it casually, it occurred to him Ould at a Joke. tion. President Lincoln took it into his head to call one day at the studio of the artist who at that time was engaged in painting the Cabinet group. Mr. Lincoln inquired how he was getting along with the happy family. The artist informed him that he was progressing finely, and would soon have it completed. Mr. Lincoln, after scanning closely the arrangement of the group, expressed his admiration of the work. that there was a good site for a city in the Cabinet Pictures Before and After the Elecneighborhood of City Point, and expressed his astonishment that it had been overlooked so long. Said he, with great seriousness, "If I had the capital, I would invest it right here. It's bound to be a great city some day or other." Ould kept his eyes for awhile on the map, and then looking at the Colonel, remarked, hardly able to suppress a smile that was trying to force its way out, "It seems to me, Colonel, that instead of building a new city, you had better take one already built." "Sam," said the Union Colonel to the servant, "get that black bottle out of my basket;" and the rebel joke was washed down with old rye. Blondin's Art Serving a good Figure. Some gentlemen from the West obtained an interview with President Lincoln, at the executive mansion, when things looked dark for the national cause, and gave vent, in an excited and troubled manner, to their feelings as to the commissions and . omissions of the administration. The President, as usual, heard patiently all "Yes," said the artist, "it will be a fine painting, and as soon as I get it completed, I intend to travel through the country and exhibit it." "What!" says the President, "exhibit that all over the country? It will ruin my chances for re-election. Everybody expects me to change my Cabinet." Danger of Freedmen Voting. Some southern gentlemen were discussing the question of the possibility and propriety of giving votes to the freedmen of the South; a measure in the expediency of which the Southern Unionists— more particularly those from the far South Vanity of Patriotism and Honor. -appear to be tolerably unanimous. One A humorous colloquy took place upon of the gentlemen present-a loyal Texan the hurricane deck of one of the Cumber-announced himself inflexibly opposed to land river craft, between a newspaper corany such a grant of votes to the blacks, respondent and an elderly darkey. The "because," said he, "in six months after latter possessed a philosophical and retroyou give the right to negroes to vote, half spective cast of countenance, was squatted the politicians in the country will go about upon his bundle, toasting himself against swearing that they have negro blood in the chimney, and apparently plunged in their veins." a profound state of meditation. Finding upon inquiry that he belonged to the Didn't like Vallandigham's Defeat. Ninth Illinois, one of the most gallantly The news of Vallandigham's guberna-behaved and heavy-losing regiments at the torial defeat, when announced to the Ohio Fort Donelson battle, and part of which troops, caused a good deal of lusty cheer- was aboard, the correspondent interrogated ing,—such as would have been heard after the reading of an official dispatch on dress parade, proclaiming a signal victory for our troops. The noise attracted the attention of the rebel pickets in front, and many of them inquired what it all meant. following conversation on the subject took place in front of Fort Wood: The him somewhat on the subject. That the "Were you in the fight?" "Run at the first fire, did you?" "Yes, sa; and would have run soona, had I known it war comin'." "It's worth more to me, sa." "Then you must value it very highly.” "Yes, sa, I does -more dan all dis The officer of the guard made his ap- wuld-more dan a million of dollars, sa; pearance very shortly, and asked what for what would even dat be worth to a was wanted. The rebel picket replied-man wid de bref out of him? Self-pres"Brough's elected and Vallandigham's erbashun am de just law wid me." whipped like h-I. You had better send word to General Bragg." The pickets were told to find out how the election went, if they could, and send word to head-quarters. "Then patriotism and honor are nothing to you?" |