He remained at this place until the 9th the following Monday, to Williamsburg to of September, when he ventured out of endeavor to bring his children back. He his retreat, to go up to Jamestown, hoping consequently remained at her house, purthat, as the patriotic enthusiasm among posing to await her return; but on Sunthe Southerners had considerably died day he saw a certain Mr. Slader, a well away, he would be granted the necessary known slave hunter in those regions, come pass for following up the oyster business towards the house, and knowing that a at Hogg's Island. However, poor Peter price of $500 had been put upon his head soon found himself mistaken on this score. he thought it best to vamose' as quickly The authorities at Jamestown, in pursuance as possible; therefore, when he came in at of Governor Letcher's mandates, under the front door Peter ran out at the back, confederate law, at once demanded that and, it being dusk at the time, he safely he should unconditionally enlist in the reached the shore, where he soon found a army, and when he refused to do this they skiff, and pushed off into the river. In confiscated his schooner with all its con- thirty-two hours he rowed between forty tents, including $150 in gold, and sent and fifty miles. him as a prisoner to Williamsburg. Here he remained for forty two days, without being once permitted to have a fair hear Effect of Crinoline on 'Union' Sentiments. William Growman, a rebel deserter, who was drafted in Michigan, escaped from the provost-marshal by concealing himself under the crinoline of his intended. After the marshal left, it was hard to persuade the man to run the risk of coming forth Gov. Letcher. ing. He was confined in a cell next to three negroes, who had previously attempted to run away, and with their assistance, a hole was dug sufficiently large, under the wall, to admit one man at a time. Effect of Crinoline. On Thursday evening he made good his escape. That night he walked twelve miles, and during Friday hid himself in from his hiding-place, fearing, so he said, a cornfield. Towards midnight he reached that the officer was still on the look-out the house of Becky Simpson, an old ac- for him. But when he did finally emerge quaintance of his, and a woman with from the friendly shelter thus afforded him, strong Union feelings, who offered him he wanted-out of gratitude, probablyshelter, and further volunteered to go, on to marry the girl on the spot, and did so the next day, after paying his three hun- verses: 2d book of Chronicles, 20th chapdred dollars commutation. He thus, at ter, 16th and 17th verses: 66 To-morrow least in a constructive sense, proved him- go ye down against them: behold they self a prompt 'Union' man. Married Applicants for Exemption. Commissioner."What have you to Say?" come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the edge of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle; set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Applicant.-"I'm forty-eight years old." lord with you. O, Judah and Jerusalem: "Where were you born?" "Don't know." fear not, nor be dismayed; to-morrow go out against them; for the Lord will be "How old were you when you came to with you." The thing was settled-the this country?" "Don't know." mother consented. There was no appeal from the very pointed text which had "How do you know you are forty-eight been resorted to as the arbiter. years old?" "I know it. I'm sure of it." The Commissioner, after various ineffectual trials to make applicant show what reasons he had for his belief, now asks, "Are you married?" Enlistment of Stonewall Jackson in the Union Army. One morning, a young farmer from Ogdensburg, N. Y., applied at the recruiting office in Brooklyn for a place in the Union ranks. The attending surgeon gave a favorable opinion of applicant's physique and he was accepted. When asked to sign his name he wrote, in very legible characters, "Stonewall Jackson." The commissioner very Are naturally asked him, on seeing the signa (Applicant very sulky, but no answer.) "I asked you if you are married. you hear?" "I don't wish to be insulted." "No one wishes to insult you. you married?" Did Applicant, in a very loud voice,-"Of course I am!" No Appeal Left. At Newport, R. I., on mustering in the new companies for military service, several minors were finally rejected, because they did not produce the certificate of consent from their parents. One young man-his mother a widow--had first enlisted and then went to his mother with a certificate for her signature. But she, not being willing for him to go, withheld her consent, yet finally, after much persuasion, said she would agree to do it on one condition, namely, that her son should thrust his ture, if that was really his name. "Everyfinger at random through the leaves of the body asks me that question," said the young closed Bible, and the language of the text volunteer; "it riles my blood. It is my upon which it rested should decide her ac- name, and I mean to let the rebels know tion in the matter. He did as she requested, that there is a Stonewall Jackson North." and his finger, when the Bible was opened, We would like to adorn these pages with a was found resting over the two following likeness of that noble youth, side by side with that of his epauleted but treacherous namesake who threw away his valuable life in so ignoble a cause. Commissioner Deciding a Question of Age. Commissioner, (a young lawyer, looking very grave and dignified): "Well, Sir, how do you claim to be an exempt?" Applicant, (an Irishman, in the prime of life, with a bewildered look): "I am forty-six years old." "Where were you born?" "Don't know." All the men being ranged against the walls, Colonel Wilson, with a drawn sabre in one hand and an American flag in the other, stood forth uncovered, and addressed his men amidst deafening cheers. After a short adjuration to the flag, for which he declared his devotion, he called upon all to kneel and swear with him. Waving the banner and flourishing his sabre, he knelt on one knee. All present knelt with him and repeated the oath which he put to them to support the flag, and never flinch from its path through blood or death. "How old were you, when you left Ire- He said he would lead them to Baltimore, land?" "By Gorra, I don't know." and they would march through it or die; at which they all arose with a tremendous "How do you know you are forty-six yell, flung up their hats, and brandished years old?" their glittering knives, amidst prolonged Billy Wilson's Zouaves- -Extraordinary Billy Wilson's Zouaves composed a regiment made up from what are called the "Roughs" or "B'hoys," of New York city, and were formally mustered at Tammany Hall, the evening before their departure for their encampment at Staten Island. On this occasion the following extraordinary scene was enacted: 66 Colonel Wilson. and frantic cheers. He then denounced death to the Baltimore traitor secessionists The men were ranged round the hall and Plug Uglies, and said they would three deep, with Colonel Wilson and the leave a monument of their bones in the other officers in the centre of the room. streets of Baltimore. Amid yells of The men had all clad themselves in the Death to the Plug Uglies!" he said, gray shirts and pantaloons which had been though he might be the first man slain, he provided for their uniform, and which was had but one thing to ask, which was that completed by a common brown felt hat, each one of his followers should secure his brogans and leather belt. They carried man and avenge his blood. That they a short knife, about seven inches in length, would do so, he again called upon them to between a sort of bowie knife and butcher swear, and marched around the hall holdknife in shape. Many also had revolvers, ing up the flag and his sword, and accomone or two being intended for the arms panied by two officers, the one on the of each man, as well as a slung shot and right bearing a banner inscribed "THE a Minie rifle. UNION BATTALION OF ZOUAVES: DEATH SECESSIONISTS!"-while the other fficer, on his left, held up, in both hands, a bowie knife and revolver. Wilson shouted to them to swear, and they responded with shouts of "Blood!" "Blood!" "Blood!" "We swear!" Governor Tod and the Applicant for Exemption. A good thing is told of Governor Tod, of Ohio, whose labor in the great work of suppressing the rebellion may be characterized as of the heartiest and most telling character. An old lady, between fifty and sixty years of age, entered the Governor's office, and made an effort to induce that personage to exempt her husband from the draft. Mr. Tod looked at her an instant and exclaimed, "Why, the old gentleman is exempt, isn't he?" 66 Ah, but he arʼnt an old gentleman," added the applicant, "he's only 35!" "In that case," said the Governor, "I can't do anything for him, but I'll tell you what I'll do for you; in case he's drafted and gets killed, I'll marry you myself." This seemed to satisfy the old lady, and she accordingly departed. Quite the Youngest Recruit for Uncle Sam. One of the principal recruiting factories was once on a time enlivened by one of those amusing episodes which help the appetite and spirits. "So, Sir, you've clapped your dirty sojer trappings on my husband, have you?" "Who is your husband?" asked the officer. "Billy McCurtee, an' shure, an' a bould boy he is, so plaze ye. But it's a dirty thing of ye, my pretty man, to take him from his wife an' childers." Happy Ending to a Sad Mistake. One day, during the stringent pressure for men to fill the ranks and the rigid activity to prevent the draft being baulked, Captain Maddox, of Brooklyn, New York, sent a provost guard to arrest a German, a deserter, whose name sounded very much like Ferral, and who was at work somewhere in South Second street, near the residence of Mr. John Ferral. The guard. took it for granted that Mr. Ferral was the man they had been sent to take into their custody, and straightway made known to him that his bodily presence was required at the office of the Provost-Marshal. Mr. Ferral, who was just in the act of sitting down to a most toothsome . "Can't be helped," said the officer; "it's dinner, which it seems had been prepared too late now." with especial pains, "didn't see it;" he thought there must be a mistake or a joke somewhere. He was told that it was soThen he said he would see Mr. Maddox very cheerfully, but-he "Then take the baby, too," she cried, as she forced the little one into the arms of Lieutenant Adams: Take them allI'll send ye four more to-day." ber earnest. Off she ran at a rapid pace, leaving the must see his dinner first. But the guard's instructions were positive, and nothing | said, "You will pass, Sir; a dollar, if you would do but that Mr. F. should forth- please." go But, doctor," said the man, with. So he was duly marched off, ac- "let me run down stairs once more, and cording to the manner provided for de- then try me." The doctor said "Oh, yes;" serters and similar culprits, between two the man ran down stairs again, but this muskets, down to the office of Captain time with such increased velocity that he Maddox, of whom he demanded an ex- forgot to come back. Western Zeal in Volunteering. Soon after the formation of Camp Morton, in Indiana, an old man of sixty years of age, with gray hair and flowing white beard, presented himself at head-quarters, full of the fire of patriotism, and offered himself as a volunteer soldier in defence of his country's flag. The officer in command was obliged, however, to refuse the old patriot's offer, on account of his advanced age; whereupon, quick as thought, Unintentional Trick taught by an Examin- he went to a barber's, had his beard crop ing Physician. ped, and his hair and beard dyed, and An applicant for exemption in one of again applied for admission to the coveted our towns, on account of physical dis- ranks of his country's defenders. Not beability, informed the examining physician ing detected, he was at once received, and that he was troubled with heart disease. being asked his age, for enrolment, modThe doctor told him to run up and down, estly replied, "Rising thirty-five." At the stairs leading to his office once or twice. This the applicant did, when the physician, after listening to the motions of the heart, the same camp might have been seen a young man on horseback, looking wishfully upon the scene before him. Speaking to |