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to converse, but found him quite silent, have dreaded night, for they are horrible and, observing him kneel for prayer be- nights. When on picket I always see

fore retiring, they concluded he was too Dupoy stand a little way front, his face pious for a soldier, but was perhaps to be all bloody, and the bullet hole in his head. chaplain. Next morning the surgeon was At night, when in my dreams, he stands at sent to have a conversation with the recruit the entrance. I awake, he is there, pale before the oath was administered, and he and bloody, but vanishes as soon as I see being rather observing than otherwise, con- him. I could not keep the horrible crime cluded, after a short "confab," that the a secret any longer.

young soldier was a very pretty female. After considerable blushing, she acknowledged the fact, stating that her intended was in the ranks, and that she was determined to accompany him. It seems that "cruel parients," as usual, were the cause, they having refused to let the young folks marry, and, in the desperation of the moment, the young swain sought the army, and a night or two following, the lovestricken maiden donned a suit of her bro

ther's clothes, and joined her lover at Camp Blue Lick. The Colonel discharged the young Romeo the next morning, and that evening the fortunates were made one.

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Officer-I mean, won't you leave the abolition army, and join the free South? Pat-Begor, I never enlisted in th' aboWhy John Rawley became a Substitute. lition army, and never will. I agreed to During the battle of Olustee, Florida, sarve Uncle Sam for five years, and the Jerome Dupoy, of Company D, Seventh divil a pin mark was made in the contract, C. V., was shot in the back of the head, with my consint, ever since. When my evidently by some one in his own ranks, time is up, if the army is'nt the same as it and suspicion fell upon a substitute for a is now, I won't join it agin. drafted man, named John Rawley, of the Officer-Pat, the "Second" (Cavalry) same company, who had a quarrel with was eighteen months old when you and I Dupoy and been stabbed by him. Ser- joined. The man who raised our gallant geant Broes charged Rawley with the regiment is now the Southern President; crime, when he confessed, and is reported the man who so lately commanded it, is to have made the following statement: now a Southern General. Can you reWell, Sergeant, I did kill Dupoy; he main in it, when they are gone? stabbed me at St. Helena; I swore if ever Pat-Well, you see, the fact of the I got a chance I'd kill him. I had one at matter is, Lieut. C., I ain't much of a Olustee, and I killed him. Nor is he the scholar; I can't argue the question with only man I have killed or caused to die. you, but what would my mother say if I I cut out the entrails of a sailor on a gun- desarted my colors? Oh! the divil a giveboat, since this war begun; and I killed, in I'll ever give in, now, and that's the by stabbing, a man in New York, which end of it. I tried to run away once, after caused me to leave my family and go as a enlistin', but a man wouldn't be missed substitute for a drafted man last Fall. thin. It's quite different now, Lieutenant, But the ghost of Dupoy is the only one and I'm not going to disgrace naither iv that ever troubled me. Since the battle I my countries.

Officer-Do you know that you will bosom, and his heart sank within him at

have to fire on green Irish colors, in the Southern ranks?

Pat-And won't you have to fire on them colors, (pointing to the flag at Fort Bliss,) that yerself and five of us licked nineteen rangers under? Sure, it isn't a greater shame for an Irishman to fire on Irish colors, than for an American to fire on American colors. An' th' oath'll be on my side, you know, Lieutenant.

the prospect. Too poor to pay a substitute, he saw nothing left to him but to be put in the front and fight, perhaps die, just as life was blooming into the brightness of springtime. Under these circumstances, the notification above referred to, brought sunshine back to the young and despondent couple. But the strangest point in all this experience was yet to be developed-one, too, partaking largely of Two days after the examination of the young man, at about the

Officer-D-n the man that relies on the romantic. Paddies, I say.

Pat-The same compliments to desar- hour of nine, a carriage drove up to the ters, your honor.

door of his residence, and the driver placed
the following note in the hero's hands:
"OCTOBER 21, 1864.
"Come with the bearer of this. A dy-
ing friend wishes to see you. Be quick,
or you may be too late."
L. G."

Worse than being Drafted. One of the earliest names drawn in the South District of St Louis, Missouri, for the war, in the draft of 1864, was that of George R. B—, a young man who had recently commenced business in the city, Bidding his wife adieu, telling her busiand who not long before had married a ness called him away for a short time, he very respectable young lady. At noon stepped into the carriage, and after driving on the day of the publication of the list for near half an hour, stopped in front of a of drafted men, in which his name ap- comfortable-looking cottage in the suburbs. peared, he received notice from a substi- In a few moments he was ushered into a tute agent, that he—the agent-had eight room in which was every evidence of a hundred dollars in hand with which a sub- tasteful but modest luxury. On a low stitute was to be procured. This seem- couch in the centre of the room lay an ingly eccentric proceeding was no cause emaciated woman, of perhaps forty years of surprise to the young man, inasmuch as of age, who, roused from an unrestful doze, he had from his very cradle been the re-opened her languid eyes and looked upon cipient of bounties from an unknown the young man as he neared her. A wild, source, having been left an orphan by the ravages of the cholera in 1848, and placed in one of the benevolent institutions of the city. He was put in the best schools as soon as he arrived at a proper age, and ever "George, I am dying. You are my since he had been supplied with a sufficiency son. I have been wicked, but suffering of means, the institution which had guarded has purified me; and because I am worthy his infancy being the trustee of the funds. to hope for God's forgiveness, I have sent Since commencing business he had been for you to-night to see you, and let you able to live independently, and whatever know the mystery and history of your life. sums he was informed were placed to his Father who is here, will tell you credit at his alma mater he generously all. I have supported you all your life, donated to the charity fund. But when and to me you are indebted for your exhe was drafted his hopes of the future be-emption from the draft. All I ask is, that came clouded. His wife wept upon his you will not curse the memory of your

peculiar expression lit up her countenance, and she seemed deeply affected. But the interview was short, for her strength was fast failing. Said she:

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mother. For years I have lived secluded, and you perhaps dead—dead?” and endeavored to retrieve the errors of poor little heart seemed ready to burst other days. Be virtuous!" with grief, and her sobs were painfully The dying woman here became ex- affecting. Flinging herself upon his neck hausted beyond the power of utterance, she again exclaimed, "John! do not, do and not long after breathed her last. The not leave me." Then she repeated her young man learned that she had been a tale of sorrow, present and prospective, to notorious character in St. Louis, and was Mr. Blunt. But John, as most self-willed divorced from her husband soon after her husbands are, they say, was stoical and son's birth, the father having died about indifferent to all these feeling appeals, untwo years after, previously placing the moved and unimpassioned. Mr. Blunt boy in the orphan asylum spoken of. looked on all this, while hesitating what to Knowing the whereabouts of her son, how- do. Finally, without paying the bounty, ever, she superintended his education and he allowed them both to pass out of the furnished means for his proper mainte- surrounding crowd into the more private nance, by her vicious course, but at last, apartments provided for the new recruits, with amended life, dying in the hope of a there to consult together alone on the subhappy future. But the young man was ject. so deeply affected by this knowledge, that his reason for a time was almost overthrown. The next day, without even informing his wife, he left the city for parts unknown.

Changed his Mind.

A tall and good looking fellow made his appearance before Supervisor Blunt, in New York, intending to volunteer. To all appearance, he was well to do in the world, and, passing through most of the forms usual in enlisting, he reached the chairman of the committee, of whom he expected to get his bounty. At this point another character stepped upon the scene.

With what arguments she assailed her John here, what appeals she made, or what witchery she practised, are not known; but, like most intelligent women who accompany their strong protestations with a copious flow of tears-real tearsshe triumphed at last. She obtained his consent to remain with his fond wife and family. Then they appeared again before Mr. Blunt-she with a triumphant air, and her face all aglow with joyful smiles, he looking as an obedient husband should, resigned and satisfied. She announced that her husband had changed his mind and concluded not to go. The little rogue knew very well that it was she who had changed his mind. He was asked if he had determined not to volunteer. He said he had. "Why?" says Mr. Blunt.

"Why, you see this little natty wife of mine has fairly persuaded me out of it, and she would control the devil himself, I believe, if he stood in her way."

A tidy looking young woman, who claimed to be, and doubtless was, his wife, appeared unexpectedly before the wouldbe recruit, and in a modest, yet determined manner, protested against his taking the money. She appealed to him with tears in her eyes, to remain at home with her and the children. "You know, John," As the enlistment was not consummated said she, “that I am not strong," and her fully, the Supervisor allowed him to go, delicate frame indicated this to be true, and a happier woman never left the presence of a woman's court than was that young wife as she passed out of the prosence of those who came so near sending her husband to the "front." Husbands, obey your wives.

"and what can I do without you? How can I take care of and support myself and our three dear, dear children, without you to assist? The three hundred dollars will soon be gone, and then where shall we be,

Scene of Domestic Sadness: Woman's

Firmness.

home as a corpse, than to find you alive, branded as a deserter. But go, my son; do your duty as a man and a soldier, remembering that your mother's prayers are with you, and do not come home again until you can come as a man who has nothing to fear."

In a New York village resided a widow named Smith, who had sent four sons to the war, two of whom were minors, leaving behind them only two sisters. After a while two of them returned home, Nathaniel Smith, a member of the EightWhile his mother was still engaged in eenth regiment, and the other a member talking to him in strains of sorrow and reof the Seventh artillery, the latter on a gret, his aunt came in-feeble in health, furlough. On Thursday night following but strong in feeling. Mortified that he this, there was to have been a jubilee at had deserted his comrades, she appealed the house of their uncle, given in honor to him as a lover of his country and a of the boys' return, and they had set off member of the family to go back to the to meet companions, when, unexpectedly, army and do his whole duty as a soldier, officer Burt stepped up to Nathaniel and and not return again until he had served arrested him as a deserter. This was so his time out. The mother and aunt's tears unlooked-for that he almost fainted on the were too much for the soldier, for they spot. It appears that Nathaniel deserted both wept tears of regret. With their the regiment just previous to the second blessings, the soldier left his mother and Bull Run battle, and since that time had aunt, promising them henceforth to be a been loitering about Washington and man, a true soldier, and not to return home Alexandria, wholly unknown to the au- until discharged. thorities in those places. Had he enlisted at the breaking out of the rebellion, and

had he remained with his regiment he

Bounty-Jumper Captured by a Dog.
The good deeds of a dog have more

would have been mustered out of service than once had to be put in contrast with

in May. But he deserted eight months the mean tricks of the human kind, and before his time was out, and consequently

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was compelled to make good that loss. After a parley with the officer who arrested him, the latter consented to go with him back to his mother's house, and here a scene ensued which shows the earnest patriotism of a true woman's heart.

When taken back to his mother's house as a deserter, and she being informed of the fact, she burst into a flood of tears and said:

"I have sacrificed four sons to my country-two minors; I have buried my husband and children; but I never knew what trouble and grief were before. To have one brought back as a deserter is more-more than I can stand. I do not blame the officers for doing their duty, but I do you for deserting. Go, my son, you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. here is an additional illustration of this I would rather have seen you brought truth. A man who had in charge a boun

Bounty Jumper captured by a dog.

ty-jumper, stopped at the Union House, Re-enlisting, but on a Different Side. Wheeling, with his prisoner. The man Captain Crane, who commanded at Fort left his charge in the hall in order to look Meyers, tells a good story, illustrative of into an adjoining room for a person he the value of time-in this instance viewed wished to see, when the nimble jumper from a military point. When the Captain jumped out of the door, upon the side- landed at Fort Meade he found a solitary walk, ran up the street with great rapidi- sentinel marching back and forth, with a ty and darted down the alley in the rear chip hat on his head, a dingy blouse on his of the Union House. A Newfoundland back, and a double-barreled shot gun dog-honest patriot!-observing that the across his shoulder. This sentinel marchjumper was being followed, with loyal in-ed up and down, while Captain Crane and stinct joined in the pursuit. The dog soon his men were busily removing the stores overtook the fleeing rascal, seized him by and doing other things usual on such octhe boot leg, and squatted down in the casions. mud. The jumper kicked the dog off, but At length the sentinel looked that way, he had no sooner extricated himself than and called out, "I say, fellows, who in hell the faithful animal caught him again, and are you?" Captain Crane, with the brevicontinued to hang on and delay the cul- ty of a soldier, replied with the one word, prit until his pursuers came up and cap-"Yanks." "Are you genuine Yanks?" tured him. was the rejoiner. "We are that same," was the answer. The rebel sentinel passed up and down a few times more, and A party of raw recruits-very raw- then called out, "I say, fellows, will you were on their way home from a tavern in allow a fellow to come up to you?" Capthe town of —, where they had spent a tain Crane replied that he might. At this portion of the evening in revelry, when the sentinel laid down his two barreled gun they brought up at a church where a re- and went to where the Union men stood, vival was in progress. They marched into when he again addressed Captain Crane the crowded aisle of the sanctuary, and-"Will you allow a fellow to take arms for a few minutes closely observed the with you?" The answer was in the af minister, who was urging his unconverted firmative; upon which the rebel expressed hearers to at once "enlist in the army of himself in this manner: "Well, I reckon the Lord!" At length the worthy minis- my time with old Jeff. is out this day; ter, noticing the uniformed men standing and, as I don't like to waste time, I will in the aisle, approached one of them, who enlist with you." And enlisted he was on was pretty near oblivious to the scene be- the instant. Captain Crane said he had fore him, and remarkednot a better soldier in his corps than the one who thus so readily 're-enlisted.'

Peculiar Question of Bounty.

This puts one in mind of Sir Walter

"I am glad to see by your uniform that you are soldiers of your country! That is right-glorious! But you should now Scott's Captain Dugald Dalgetty, who, join the army of the Lord!"

when taken prisoner by the Marquis of "Eh?" queried the soldier, whose tav- Montrose (or Argyle), refused to serve ern entertainment had put him in such a the Covenanters, on the ground that he state that he but imperfectly comprehend- had stipulated to serve the king for the ed the invitation" eh? join the Lord's space of six months, but averred that, army? What bounty does he give, eh?" after his six months had expired he was

The minister attempted to explain, but open to any offer from the most noble soon gave it up as a bad job, the recruit marquis.

being really too raw for 'impression.'

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