a considabul than to lick the same boddy | up, saying to the soldier, "I am a Demowhen it's twiste as considabul, isn't it?" After a brief interval for reflexin he concurd. "And," ses I resoomin agin, "it's easier -isn't it-to smash horseteal boddies wen we air able, than it is when they air able to raze Cain with us?" crat, but I can't stand that; he did hurrah for Jeff. Davis, and now pitch into him." The veteran hesitated not a moment, and, though by far the smaller of the two, he went at the Jeff. Davis sympathizer and administered a spirited and most thorough drubbing, concluding the performance by compelling him to shout twice, as loud as he was able, for Abe Lincoln. Then, "D. V.," he rejoined, smildin compleasantly, "you borrord that silly gism from a remark of mine in the Missidge, and I am allowing the fellow to get on his feet, he proud to say the logic is correck." 66 Ef so," ses I, "why in thunder don't you tell Burnside to go in and win, afore the rebils sets ther arthworkt, and rifle pits and mast batteries a twixt him and Richmond, thicker'n mink traps in a Western Swomp ?" "My noble and esteemabul friend," he responded, wipin his nose with visabul emoshin, "your sentimens does honor to your hed and hart; but I've gin the Seckatry of War discresennary powers." "I'me right glad to larn it," I remarkt sneeringly, "for it's the gineral opinyun that he hesn't enny of his own." You should have seen the Honabul Abe lay back and shake his honest sides. It dun me good to look at him. Hurrahs for Jeff. Davis in the Wrong Place. cautioned him never to repeat that opera tion again in his presence, saying "I have fought rebels three years, and had a brother killed by just such men as you are, and whenever a traitor shouts for Jeff. Davis in my hearing I will whip him or kill him." Stanton's First Meeting with Cabinet When General Cass-grieved and indignant-left Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet, Mr. Attorney-General Black was transferred then absent from Washington, was fixed to the portfolio of State, and Mr. Stanton, Stanton One morning, as a returned soldier named Thompson, residing in Washington, was engaged in conversation with some parties at a public house in Peoria, Illinois, an individual entered, and as he passed the soldier, shouted, "Hurrah for Jeff. Davis!" In an instant the soldier turned and asked, "Did you shout for Jeff. Davis?" The individual surveyed Thompson for a moment, and, seeing that he meant mischief, replied that it was not he. "Well," upon as Attorney-General. said the soldier, "I believe that you did, night he arrived at a late hour, and learned and if I was sure of it I would give you from his family of his appointment. Know. cause to remember it." He again declared ing the character of the bold, bad men, then that he had not done so, when at this in the ascendency in the Cabinet, he deterjuncture one of the men Thompson had mined at once to decline; but when, the been conversing with, and who had always next day, he announced his resolution at acted with the Democratic party, stepped the White House, the entreaties of the dis The same tressed and helpless President, and the heard in Buchanan's Cabinet, and the men arguments of Mr. Black, moved him to who had so long ruled and bullied the accept. At the first meeting of the Cabinet which he attended, the condition of the seceded States and the course to be pursued with the garrison at Fort Sumter, were discussed, Floyd and Thompson dwelling upon "the irritation of the Southern heart," and the folly of "continuing a useless garrison to increase the irritation." No one formally proposed any course of action, but the designs of the conspirators were plain to the new Attorney-General. He went home troubled. He had intended, coming in at so late a day, to remain a quiet member of this discordant council. But it was not in his nature to sit quiet longer under such utterances. The next meeting was a long and stormy one, Mr. Holt, feebly seconded by the President, urging the immediate reinforcement of Sumter, while Thompson, Floyd President were surprised and enraged to be thus rebuked. Floyd and Thompson sprang to their feet with fierce, menacing gestures, seeming about to assault Stanton. Mr. Holt took a step forward to the side and Thomas contended that a quasi-treaty of the Attorney-General. The President had been made by the officers of the Government with the leaders of the rebellion, to offer no resistance to their violations of law and seizures of Government property. Floyd, especially, blazed with indignation at what he termed the "violation of honor." At last, Mr. Thompson formally moved that an imperative order be issued to Major Anderson to retire from Sumter to Fort Moultrie abandoning Sumter to the enemy, and proceeding to a post where he must at once surrender. Stanton could sit still no longer, and rising, he said with all the earnestness that could be expressed in his bold and resolute features: "Mr. President, it is my duty as your legal adviser to say that you have no right to give up the property of the Government, or abandon the soldiers of the United States to its enemies; and the course proposed by the Secretary of the Interior, if followed, is treason, and will involve you and all concerned in treason!" implored them piteously to take their seats. After a few more bitter words the meeting broke up. That was the last Cabinet meeting on that exciting question in which Floyd participated. Before another was called all Washington was startled with the rumor of those gigantic frauds which soon made his name so infamous. At first he tried to brazen it out with his customary blustering manner, but the next day the Cabinet waited long for his appearance. At last he came; the door opened-his resignation was thrust into the room, and Floyd disappeared from Washington, with a brand of infamy upon him, which only ceased to increase in blackness till the time when he was called to his final account. Such was the end of Floyd and the beginning of Stanton. Stanton and Holt were noble co-laborers in that dark period of the country's political travail, and nobly did they sustain themselves through the four Such language had never before been years' conflict. Hiding the Flag-Female Artifice. The Federal commander at Camp Herron, Missouri, having learned that a certain very fine secession flag that waved defiantly from a flagstaff in the village of Manchester, twenty miles distant from the camp, (until the successes of the Union forces caused its supporters to conclude that, for the present, "discretion would be the better part of valor,") was still being very carefully preserved, its possessors boasting that they would soon be enabled to re-hoist it; determined upon its summary capture. der, conducted by the gallant Lieutenant, started to visit the residence of Mrs. S., in search of the flag. The distance to the lady's residence was soon traveled, the house surrounded, and the flag demanded of Mrs. S., who proved to be a very intelligent lady, and had around her quite an interesting family. The lady replied to the demand, that she would like to see the person who stated that she took the flag from Esquire B-'s; that as to its whereabouts she had nothing to say; that the Lieutenant could search On the 15th of November, 1861, First her house, and if he could find any thing Lieutenant Bull, of Company C, Ninth that looked like a flag, he was welcome to Iowa regiment, was directed to take charge it. Accordingly, a thorough search was of this little expedition, and to detail fif-made, in which the lady and her daughter teen good men for the purpose, which detail the Lieutenant made from Company C. They left camp by the cars at half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, landing at Merrimac, three miles from Manchester, proceeding from thence to Manchester on foot, and surrounded the house of Squire B., who had been foremost in the secession movement of that strong secession town, and was reported to be in possession of the flag in question. aided, but no flag was to be found. The lady then thanked the officer for the gentlemanly manner in which the search had been conducted, and added that she trusted he was satisfied. He replied that he was quite satisfied that she had the flag, and that it would have been far better for her to have yielded it; but as she did not, as unpleasant as the task was, he should arrest her and take her to head-quarters at Pacific City. But the 'Squire protested against the Two men were then dispatched for a imputation, declaring that the flag was not carriage with which to convey the lady to in his possession, and that he knew not of Merrimac, and from thence the lady was its whereabouts. His lady acknowledged informed that she would be sent by railthat she had for a time kept it secreted in road. She accordingly made preparation a box in the garden, but as it was likely to go, but after an hour had elapsed in to become injured, she took it out, dried waiting for the carriage, the lady again it in the sun, when it was taken away by demanded the name of the informants, some ladies who lived a long distance and when told that it was Mrs. B., and in the country, whose names she refused that Esquire B. was already in custody, to give. Finally, after a thorough but she then asked whether any indignity fruitless search of the house, after the would have been offered to her had the Lieutenant had put her husband under arrest, and he was being started off to head-quarters, the lady, probably hoping it would save her husband, acknowledged that it was taken by a Mrs. S., who resided a mile and a half in the country,not such a terribly long distance, after all. 66 Will you pledge your honor," said she, Her husband was then sent to Merrimac," that if I surrender the flag I shall not escorted by four soldiers, and the remain- be arrested, nor my family disturbed. flag been found in her possession. To this the courteous Lieutenant replied: "Certainly not, Madam; our object with Esquire B. was his arrest and the capture of the flag; but with you, our object was the flag." "You will not be arrested, nor your to fight. He explained how this feeling family disturbed." "I wish you to understand, Sir, that no fear of arrest or trouble would ever have made me surrender that flag; but 'Squire B.'s family induced me to take that flag to save them from trouble, saying that it should be a sacred trust, known only to ourselves, and I consequently surrender it." She then went to a bed that had been fruitlessly searched, took from it a quilt, and with the aid of her daughters, proceeded to open the edges of the quilt, and cut the stitches through the body of it, and pulled off the top, when, behold! there lay the mammoth flag next to the cotton, being carefully stitched twice and nearly a half across the quilt. When taken out and spread, it proved to be a magnificent flag, over twenty-one feet in length, and nearly nine feet in width, with fifteen stars to represent the prospective Southern Confederacy. "Recollect," said the lady to Lieutenant Bull," that you did not find it yourself, and when you wish detectives you had better employ ladies." She also added, that she gave up the flag unwillingly. The daughter remarked that she had slept under it, and that she loved it, and that fifteen stars were not so terribly disunion-in her estimation-af ter all. An Alabama Planter and the Anti-Slavery Leaders Together. About the time of the breaking out of the rebellion, John G. Whittier, the Mas was fostered by the politicians of the South, and how the feelings of the North were represented there, and stated that almost his sole object in coming to Boston was to ascertain for himself whether the facts were as they had been represented., He was evidently surprised to find the anti-slavery poet "so mild a mannered man," and confessed that, generally, he did not perceive that the feeling of the North toward the South was so bitter and unfriendly as he had been led to expect He had received nothing but civility and courtesy, and admitted that Southerners generally received the same treatment. Finally, Whittier, after attending him to some of the places of resort interesting to a stranger, told him that, as he was now here, he might as well see the worst of the anti-slavery phase of Northern fanaticism as the fashionable phrase was,— and proposed to visit Garrison. The planter consented, and so they turned their steps to the Liberator office, where they found Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Fred. Douglass, and there they enjoyed a "precious season of conversation." Would it not have been a sight worth seeing-that conclave in the Liberator office, with Garrison, Whittier, Phillips, Douglass, and the Alabama planter, in the foreground? The planter went to his home a wiser, and perhaps a sadder man, than he came, for, after hearing all that was said, he protested that all he could do, while mourning for the condition of the country, was to pray over it. ence Hall by President Lincoln. On the twenty-second of February, 1861,-the anniversary of Washington's sachusetts anti-slavery Quaker and poet, Hoisting the American Flag on Independmet with an Alabama planter in Boston, who expressed a desire to converse with him, and an interview took place, during which there was a free interchange of birthday,-the interesting ceremony of views and opinions concerning the events raising the glorious flag of the American of the day. The planter frankly acknowl- Union was performed in Philadelphia, opedged that there was in the South a strong posite Independence Hall, by President feeling of hate toward the North and Lincoln, then on his way to be inaugurated Northern men, and they were determined at Washington. Just in front of the main entrance to gave renown and celebrity to this Hall, the State House, and but a few feet from cherishing that fraternal feeling which has the sacred hall of liberty, a large platform so long characterized us as a nation, exhad been erected for the President-elect cluding passion, ill-temper, and precipitate to stand upon before the people, while he action on all occasions, I think we may raised the starry banner of the republic. promise ourselves that not only the new The elevation, nearly six feet, enabled a star placed upon that flag shall be permitvast multitude to observe everything en- ted to remain there to our permanent prosacted thereon. The front and sides of the perity for years to come, but additional stage were wrapped around with an Amer- ones shall from time to time be placed ican flag, while lesser flags floated from there, until we shall number, as was antithe stanchions. cipated by the great historian, five hundred millions of happy and prosperous people. With these remarks, I proceed to the very agreeable duty assigned me." Before the flag was raised prayer was offered, and in reply to words of welcome addressed to Mr. Lincoln on behalf of the city, through its chosen orator, the President spoke as follows: EMANCIPATION The excitement was of a fearful character when the President-elect seized the rope to hoist the flag of the country to the crest of the staff over the State House. The souls of all seemed starting from their eyes, and every throat was wide. The shouts of the people were like the roar of waves which do not cease to break. For full three minutes the cheers continued. The expression of the Presidentelect was that of silent solemnity. His long arms were extended. Each hand alternately pulled at the halyards, and a bundle of bunting, tri-colored, which had never been kissed by the wind before, slowly rose and unfurled itself gracefully aloft. If the shouting had been fearful "Fellow Citizens,-I am invited and and tumultuous before, it became abso called before you to participate in raising lutely maniacal now. From the smallest above Independence Hall the flag of our urchin to the tall form which rivaled the country, with an additional star upon it. President's in compass of chest and length I propose now, in advance of performing of limb, there rose a wild cry,—remindthis very pleasant and complimentary duty, ing one of some of the storied shouts to say a few words. I propose to say that which rang among the Scottish hills in the when that flag was originally raised here, days of clans and clansmen. Suddenly, it had but thirteen stars. I wish to call when the broad bunting had reached the your attention to the fact that, under the summit of the mast, it unrolled at once in blessing of God, each additional star ad- all its amplitude, and blazed magnificently ded to that flag has given additional pros- in the sunlight which then spread so perity and happiness to this country, until brightly upon its gorgeous folds. At the it has advanced to its present condition; same moment the band struck up the and its welfare in the future, as well as in 'Star Spangled Banner,' and a cannon the past, is in your hands. Cultivating ranged in the square sent up peal after the spirit that animated our fathers, who peal. Mr. Lincoln was then escorted to |