of that African will never darken the field | for them to remain until six o'clock. On of carnage. "Mustered In." turning to the door they were surprised to find that the house was closely guarded, and that for the balance of the day they The boys of the One Hundred and Sevwere prisoners. By this ruse the General enteenth New York tell a good joke in re- not only succeeded in preventing informagard to the "mustering in" of a darkey tion of his movements being carried to the attached to that regiment, who became rebels, but brought many an old sinner to fearful he would be deprived of his pay the altar who had not seen it for years. Prompt Administration of the Law. After General Schenck's arrival in Cum unless he was joined to the service. Ai huge mustard plaster was applied to his back, about a foot below where the rear buttons of his coat were placed, and, un-berland, one of his first decisions was very der the belief that all soldiers were served characteristic. A secesh Colonel had sold in the same manner, as a sort of military his negro to the Confederate government, institution, he wore it until the pain betaking pay, of course, in scrip. The negro, came unendurable, at which time he was employed in fortifications, managed to esformerly declared "mustered in," accordcape to Cumberland, where he spread himing to the law in such cases made and pro- self considerably. A constable, knowing vided. If that darkey didn't get his wages, the circumstances, and wishing to turn a it was not because he failed to suffer for penny, had the negro thrown into prison as an escaped slave. General Schenck, hearing the facts, sent for the parties. "By what right,” he asked of the constable, "do you hold this man in prison?" "As a fugitive from service." his country as a patriot duly put through by the One Hundred and Seventeenth. "Benefit of Clergy." "Don't you know that he escaped from the service of the rebels?" "Yes, but we have a law in Maryland that covers the case, General." "And I have a law upon which it can be decided. Colonel Porter, set that negro at large and put this constable in his place." The "Volunteer" was the title of a 'broadside' published by the boys of the Iowa Tenth, then stationed at the little secesh town of Charleston, about twenty-five miles west of Cairo. The following story tells the way in which, the day after the Tenth took possession of the village, the people thereof went to church: On his arrival, on Sunday, General Payne found the churches vacant, and no evidences of that The astonished snapper up of trifles was devotion on the Sabbath so necessary to marched off to the cell lately occupied by all well-regulated communities; he accord- his proposed victim. After being detained ingly summoned the inhabitants of the there precisely the same number of days place and its surroundings to meet him at he had imprisoned the poor darkey, he was the Court-house, at half-past one in the set at large, fully impressed with the belief afternoon, where he proposed to expound that the grim-visaged General had never to them the weightier matters of the law. learnt to be trifled with. The house was filled (the General occa to General Scott. sionally sending after a prominent ab- Command of the Virginia Forces tendered sentee), and after giving them some good advice, he called on a reverend divine to Judge Douglas stated, soon after the conduct the services, quietly informing the breaking out of the rebellion, that one day audience that his services were required while walking down the streets of Wash elsewhere, and that it would be necessary ington, he met a distinguished gentleman, a member of the Virginia Disunion Con- | boot with a hole in the toe, and, in other vention, whom he knew personally, and respects, decidedly the worse for wear. had a few minutes conversation with him. "He told me," said Judge D., "that he had just had an interview with General Scott: that he was chairman of the committee ap "How came you here with such boots as those, my friend?" asked the patriotic citizen. "When the order came for me to join my company, sir," replied the soldier, "I was plowing in the same field at Concord, General Scott pointed by the Virginia Convention, to wait upon General Scott, and tender him the command of the Virginia forces in this struggle. General Scott received him kindly, listened to him patiently, and said to him: "I have served my country, under the flag of the Union, for more than fifty years; and as long as God permits me to live, I will defend that flag with my sword, even if my own native State assails it." Minute Men of Massachusetts. As one of the Massachusetts regiments was passing through New York on its way to Washington, under the President's first call for seventy-five thousand men, a gentleman of the first-named city met one of its members on the street. "Is there anything I can do for you?" said the New Yorker, whose heart warmed toward the brave representative of the brave Massachusetts militia who had been so prompt to shoulder the musket. Minute Men of Massachusetts-1775 and 1861. 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." That noble soldier was furnished at once with every thing that could meet a soldier's wants. Patriotism of the Rarest Kind. Messrs. Nathaniel Davis, Robert Davis, and William Robertson, co-partners in business in Montreal, Canada, abandoned their establishment immediately on receipt of the President's proclamation calling for troops, and issued the following card: "The business of Nathaniel Davis & Co., 1058 McGill street, will cease on Thursday of this week, as the proprietors leave for the scene of war on Friday. Our landlord, Mr. Flynn, kindly releases us from our agreement to occupy his store for another year. The President of the The soldier hesitated a moment, and United States has issued his call for volfinally, raising one of his feet, exhibited alunteers. As Americans we respond at Compromising the Capitol Flag. once. Every drop of blood in our veins belongs to our country. We are thankful Under the administration of Mr. Buto Divine Providence that we are alive and chanan, a man named Duddington was in good health to do duty to our govern- captain of the Capitol police at Washingment. The name of Washington will re- ton. Though he held an important and ceive new lustre from the glorious deeds responsible office connected with the safety about to transpire in the trial of the cause of the Capitol, he was a secessionist—a of freedom and a republican government." decided but not an obtrusive one; he made little display of his Southern patriotism, and his politics were practically of that mild type which was not inconsistent with sion of Lincoln. In fact, he was not indisa willingness to retain office after the acces They Had Heard of Him. When the steamer Maryland reached Locust Point, Baltimore, carrying Captain Sherman's Light Artillery, and a regiment posed to mediation and compromise, and of Pennsylvania volunteers, the troops was inclined to bring back our misguided were met by the noted Mr. Kane, Marshal of the city, when the following colloquy by gentle and conciliatory means. and rather impetuous Southern brethren took place: “Major, can I be of any assistance?" "Who are you, Sir?" "I am Marshal of the Police of Baltimore, and would render any assistance.” "Oh, yes! we have heard of you in the region from whence we came. We have no need of you. We can take care of ourselves." The secession-hearted Marshal retired, and the disembarkation of the troops took place immediately, the Harriet Lane presenting her broadside to the point where the cars waited to convey the passengers to the Relay House. So he visited Senator King, during the special executive session of the Senate called to consider the nominations of the new President, and suggested as a measure of reasonable compromise that the American flag, which always floats over each house of Congress, when it is in session, should not be raised. "Not raise the American flag! Why not?" asked the sturdy Republican Senator. "Because," said the official, "it irritates the Southern people." The careful compromiser soon after-about of the Interior from Mr. King—fell a vicas soon as a note could reach the Secretary tim to "this proscriptive Administration," and the places that had known him in Retort Courteous from an American in Paris Washington knew him no more. to M. Thouvenel. A distinguished American, conversing in the city of Paris, with M. Thouvenel, the French Minister of State, was asked rather impatiently by that distinguished French official, "But, Sir, how much time do you want to take Richmond? How long must we wait?" “I think, Monsieur, with great respect," was the courteous reply of our countryman, "that we shall be satisfied if we are granted as much time as the allies took to reduce Sebastopol." M. Thouvenel changed the subject. He was next, and very soon afterwards, heard of in command of a rebel battery, one of those which so long blockaded the Potomac, and were unfortunately left so long without being "irritated" by our arms. Under the Star-Spangled Banner. Over the large gate at the Provost Marshal's splendid head-quarters in Nashville-Elliott's female school-waved a Union flag. A very ardent secesh lady, who wished to see Colonel Matthews, was about to pass through the gateway, when, looking up, she beheld the proud flag flapping like an eagle's wing over his eyrie. Starting back horror-struck, she held up her hands and exclaimed to the guard: "Dear me! I can't go under that dreadful Lincoln flag. Is there no other way for me to enter?" "Yes, madam," promptly replied the soldier, and turning to his comrade he said "Here, orderly, bring out that rebel flag and lay it on the ground at the little gate, and let this lady walk over it!" The lady looked bewildered, and after hesitating a moment, concluded to bow her head to the invincible Goddess of Freedom, whose immaculate shrine is the folds of the Star Spangled Banner. Description of South Carolina by Mr. Pettigru. The late Judge Pettigru, of Charleston, South Carolina, stood, solitary and alone, among his peers in that treasonable city, there," turning and pointing to the south: "and there," pointing to the west; "and there again," pointing to the north: "You cannot possibly go amiss." When asked an explanation of this singular direction, he said, not having the fear of Rhett, Pickens, Magrath & Co., before his eyes: "The whole State is a lunatic asylum, and the people are all lunatics." When prayers were offered in the Charleston churches for "President Davis," Judge Pettigru took his hat and left the place of worship where such jargon sounds fell upon his ear. It seems almost impossible that such a noble-minded man could have been a fellow townsman and walked the same streets with that "architect of ruin," Colonel Rhett, who so boldly boasted of having "fired the Southern heart." for his undisguised and persistent anti- National Oath of Allegiance according to secessionism, facing with an unblenching Southern Honor. There is no doubt that much false swearing was "done" under the feint of loyalty, in order to serve ulterior ends, by citizens of the States in rebellion, and many likewise took the oath under avowed compulsion. The following will serve as an illustration of the circumstances under which many in Louisiana attested their "loyalty." A young man, well known in New Orleans, was anxious to send down some goods on a boat from Memphis. He applied to the Provost Marshal there for a permit, and the following form was gone through with as preliminary: "Are you a loyal citizen?" "No, sir." "You must take the oath of allegiance." "Very well, Sir." (Takes eye the social and political tide of antago- it without sugar.) "There, you have taken nism which rolled against him in his ven- the oath. Do you know what that means?" erable years and whitened locks. A person" Perfectly. It means a padlock on my meeting him in the street one day, accosted mouth, and a bayonet in my rear." him, and said: Col. Rhett. "Will you be so kind as to direct me to the lunatic asylum ?" 66 Shaky Abutments. President Lincoln's repeated reference Certainly," answered Mr. Pettigru: to the irreconcilable antagonism between "There it is," pointing to the east; "and the demands of the south and the spirit of the Constitution is well known. On a headed by a desperate leader, were sent certain occasion he illustrated this antago- to take him by force. He still refused to nism by an anecdote not less apt than heed their demands, when the leader of amusing. "I once knew," said Mr. Lin- the party struck him a blow upon the head coln, "a good sound churchman, whom we with a cane, producing an ugly wound, will call Brown, who was on a committee from which the blood flowed freely. The to erect a bridge over a very rapid and doctor deliberately drew a knife, telling his dangerous river. Architect after architect assailant he intended to kill him, and profailed, and, at last, Brown said he had a ceeded to execute his threat by cutting the friend named Jones, who had built several fellow until he died. Dr. R. soon found bridges, and could build this. Let us himself with twelve Confederate indicthave him in,' said the committee. In came ments pending against him, for murder, Jones. Can you build this bridge, Sir?' horse stealing, treason, and almost all the "Yes,' replied Jones, 'I could build a bridge crimes known to the law. to the infernal regions, if necessary.' The sober committee were horrified. But when in the southern part of Virginia, was Jones retired, Brown thought it but fair to defend his friend. I know Jones so well,' said he, and he is so honest a man, and so good an architect, that if he states, soberly and positively, that he can build a bridge to Hades, why, I believe it. But I have my doubts about the abutment on the infernal side.' And so it is with me. When politicians said they could harmonize the northern and southern wings of the democracy, why, I believed them. But I had my doubt about the abutment on the southern side." His escape from the jail at Pittsylvania, made partly by means of a key obtained from a two year old child and partly through the assistance of an unknown lady who procured a carriage and drove him to Lynchburg, where he remained some days and until the excitement growing out of his escape had subsided. From the time he was arrested until the time of his escape he was confined in twelve different jails, and was threatened with mob violence every time he was removed from one prison to another. In all these jails he communicated with unknown friendsUnion men, who made him proffers of assistance. While in Pittsylvania jail he The arrival at Fayettville, West Vir- received from different persons yarn and ginia, of Dr. Rucker, the Union refugee, aquafortis, and other means of sawing or was an exciting event in the history of cutting his way out. He was also prethat remarkable man-renowned as he sented with a pair of shoes, in the soles of had become for his persevering loyalty which he found watch springs which had under circumstances that would ordinarily been converted into saws. No more heroic cause the stoutest heart to quail. He instance of making political loyalty a point came up from Kanawha county, making of life or death can be found than this of his appearance in company with Colonel Dr. Rucker. Dr. Rucker-his Capture and Escape. Dr. Rucker resided in Covington, Vir- The case of Rev. William J. Hoge, D. ginia, and was regarded as a radical D., forms a sad page in the incidents and Union man. He was several times form- outgrowths of the rebellion. He was born ally requested by the authorities to take in Athens, Ohio, in 1826, and was for some the oath of allegiance to the Southern years a clergyman in that State, removing Confederacy, but this he unyieldingly re- thence to Richmond, Virginia, where he fused to do. At last a squad of men, taught for several years. In 1858-9 he |