satisfy the officers that a cruel "sell" had to pass through the swampy grounds on been practiced upon him. Of course, the way to Richmond. One of the most "Timothy Jones" was nobody less than a noted chief commanders of the Union army lazy correspondent who had got behind in was singularly liberal in this respect, and his duties; and he at once improved his even the good General Steele left supplies chance, went up to Frederick, and got in for the rebels on a still larger scale. To his account as soon as his poor competitor facts of this kind is probably due the rewhom he had practiced this sorry joke ply attributed to General Ripley, on a requisition for supplies being made upon him, before he was displaced: "Gentlemen," he said, "I must decline furnishing both armies any more. Let me know which

upon.

Hooker and the Newspaper Correspondents. General Hooker always treated every newspaper correspondent who visited him army is to be supplied, and the departwith great politeness, but he cared very ment will meet, if able, or refuse, if not,

little for their opinion, and was as lenient towards the journals whose language was inimical to him as to those professing to be his friends. The representative of a radical journal once asked him why he allowed a certain "Copperhead" journal to circulate in his army. "Well, I'll see about it," said Hooker. Sometime afterward, when asked by the same party why he did not suppress it, he replied that he "had read it carefully every day for two weeks, and was still looking for the overt act which would justify him in doing it." Nothing more was said about the suppression of newspapers by that party.

the requisition."

wards discovered that their uninvited conInability to furnish Supplies to both Armies. fidant could talk as well as l'sten. The It was regarded as a necessity by our transmission of a message was suddenly men that they should throw off their interrupted by the ejaculation "Opshaw!" blankets and great coats, in order for them A moment after it was again broken with

"IIurrah for Jeff. Davis!" Individual- (only about 3,000,) and their exact locaity shows itself as well in telegraphing as tion!

in the footstep, or in handwriting. Mr. Hall, one of the Memphis operators, instantly recognized the performer, not by

Lieutenant

's Perfumed Breath.

Little Freddy H., a four-year-old, son

his tune, but by his time, as a young man of Chaplain H., of a New York regiment formerly in Buffalo and other Northern of volunteers, perpetrated a good thing offices, but then employed by the Confed- while said regiment was at camp at Suf

erates.

taken this time; I am Mr. Hall surprised him by reply-not a doctor." "Yes, you are a doctor ing promptlytoo," replied Freddy; "I know you are a doctor; for I can smell the medicine!" This was too good a thing to be kept, and half an hour did not elapse before it had

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Ed. Saville, if you don't want to be hung, you had better leave! Our cavalry is closing in on both sides of you!" There was a little pause, and then the spread throughout the regiment. reply

"How in the world did you know me? However, I've been here four days, and learned all we want to know. As this is becoming rather a tight place, I think I will leave. You'll see me again, when you least expect it. Good-bye, boys!"

The rebel operator made good his escape. He had cut the wire, inserted a piece of his own, and by a pocket instrument, been reading the official despatches. Some of the utmost importance, giving the very information most desired by the rebels, were passing, and as they were not in cipher, they could easily be read. One from General Hovey, in reply to a question from General Halleck, stated the precise number of our available men in Memphis,

Sharing General Magruder's Table. General Magruder always enjoyed the reputation, among his men, of being a brave officer and kind man, but filled with vanity, self-conceit, and pomposity. Shortly after the war commenced he was sitting one day in a restaurant in Richmond, enjoying, solus, a twelve o'clock d jeuner with rigid dignity, every button of his splendid uniform exactly in situ, and his immaculate shirt-collar adjusted at precisely the proper angle. He had hardly tested the merits of his repast when in sauntered a tall, long-haired, red-shirted private of the Louisiana First, which regiment had just arrived in the city. With the utmost coolness red-shirt sat himself down in the

vacant chair opposite the General, and let | a pretty clear idea of the battle, he was ininto the good things before him with a zest stantly surrounded at his hotel and overthat plainly told of long marches and pre-whelmed with questions. The result was vious scanty rations. This was too much that the Captain fought the battle overfor the aristocratic old officer. Drawing and refreshed himself with "some of the himself up a la General Scott, and with same," until he got rather confused-so one of his severest frowns and the harsh- much so, indeed, that he was often caught est voice he could command, he exclaimed, getting the line of battle in disorder, and in tones of evident disgustdoing other very unmilitary movements. In the height of his excitement, Colonel a friend of the Captain's, came in, and the latter, determined that the former should have a clear idea of the action, commenced over again as follows:

"Sir, what do you mean? Do you know at whose table you are sitting?"

The soldier, scarcely looking up replied, in the interval between a bite and a drink, "I know I am dreadful hungry; and I ain't a bit particular who I eat with since I've gone soldiering!"

All for the Whiskey.

"Look here, Colonel-you see the Michiganders were stationed along here;" and the Captain stuck his finger into his neighbor's sherry cobbler, and with the mixture, as it dropped off his finger, drew a short line on the top of the bar counter. "This, gentlemen," said the Captain, warming up, "that's the Michigan-ic-ganic Regiment, and here the Vermonters in the rear of the Indi-Indi-an-ians in the centre." Hereupon, the Captain stuck his finger in somebody else's glass, and drew a second line with his finger. "Now, you see," continued the Captain, with a very self-satisfied air, "that the Twentieth Maine was stationed out here ;" and pop went the Captain's finger into another glass, the action resulting in the making

In one of the battles in Mississippi, an Indiana regiment was fiercely attacked by a whole rebel brigade. The Indianians, unable to withstand such odds, were compelled to fall back about thirty or forty yards, losing—to the utter mortification of officers and men-their flag, which remained in the hands of the enemy. Suddenly a tall Irishman, a private of the color company, rushed from the ranks across the vacant ground, attacked the squad of rebels who had possession of the conquered flag, with his musket, felled several to the ground, snatched the flag from them, and returned safely back to of a formidable water-line considerably inhis regiment. The bold fellow was, of course, immediately surrounded by his jubilant comrades and greatly praised for his gallantry, his captain appointing him to a sergeancy on the spot; but the hero of the occasion cut every thing short by the reply, "Oh, niver mind, Captin, say no more about it; I dropped me whiskeyflask among the rebels and fetched that back, and I thought I might just as well bring the flag along."

Going Over his Battles Again. Captain McD. arrived in New Orleans about four hours after the battle at Baton Rouge, and as he was a good talker, and had

advance of the other two. "Now," said. the Captain, by, way of parenthesis, "I believe if General Butler has a fair chance, he can whip the Confederacy or any other man." Just at this moment, one of the barkeepers, a stolid old negro, whose business it was to keep things neat and clean, espied the three marks the Captain had made on the top of the counter, and swinging rornd his formidable towel the front: line disappeared in an instant. The Cap--. tain glanced on the darkey for a moment, but most penetratingly, and then wrathfully exclaimed, "You infernal nigger you! don't you observe you have wiped out the Twentieth Maine Regiment ?"

The Captain having so suddenly been conflict, started for their respective desti deprived of one of his most reliable regi- nations, each seeking, of course, to come ments, and the Michiganders at the same out in advance of the others with the pubtime beginning to "dry up," he concluded lic report, one of the gentlemen being he would adjourn the description until a connected with the press of Chicago, Illimore favorable season. The Captain was nois, and the others with New York papers. seen the next day, and seemed to complain The three arrived together at Nashville, of a severe headache-owing to the fact, Tennessee, when two of them leagued to perhaps, that there was a hole in his mos- play a joke upon their associate. All of quito-bar, and he was so bit up the night them being wearied, they thought it not previous, by the insects, that he could'nt in bad taste to regale their appetites with sleep. (Ahem.) some strengthening beverages. The ubiquitous John D-, of the N. Y.

Swamp Angel" Incident.

boasted that he could drink more and not Colonel Serrell, of the New York En- get drunk than any other knight of the gineers, had the charge of the construction quill in the Army of the Cumberland. of the "Swamp Angel," at Morris Island, The Chicago man and the other New S. C., and being of an energetic constitu-Yorker closed the bet, and soon, the three tion himself, and not afraid to enter were engaged in their bibulous labors. swamps, his surprise can be imagined The boaster tossed them down-the when one of his lieutenants, whom he had 'slings' and 'skins,'--without regard to ordered to take twenty men and enter that what his competitors did, and soon got swamp, said that he "could not do it-the himself into a condition in which mere mud was too deep." Colonel Serrell or- terrestrial affairs and worldly vanities gave dered him to try. He did so, and the him very little trouble. Business was the Lieutenant returned with his men covered great point with his rivals, and by a leetle with mud, and said: closer attention to that than to the bowls, "Colonel, the mud is over my men's succeeded in keeping sober, and when the heads; I can't do it.”

time to depart had arrived, off they started, leaving the boozy and oblivious gentleman in charge of the chambermaid. Up to

The Colonel insisted, and told the Lieutenant to make a requisition for anything that was necessary for the safe passage of the latest date, no 'original' report had the swamp. The Lieutenant did make his requisition in writing, and on the spot. It was as follows:

appeared in the columns of that enterprising reporter's paper.

Honesty on the Battlefield. Lieutenant Tinkham was one among the many brave men who were killed at the second battle of Corinth. It appears that Lieutenant Tinkham was not seriously wounded when the rebels took possession of that part of the field where he fell, but was only shot through the leg; and as the Union boys were contesting the advance of the enemy with desperate bravery, Lieutenant Tinkham raised himself upon his elbow to see the fighting, when another leaden messenger pierced his body, and he fell to the ground again. Seeing that he

soon must be numbered among the slain, go well with him besides. He gave it up. and that his life blood was fast flowing On his release, he found in the prison out, he made some sign to a passing rebel office the sum of one thousand eight hun-which was said to be a Masonic sign of dred and twenty dollars, in Confederate recognition-who immediately came to money, ready for him, as the return of Tinkham's side, and rendered him all the his own which had been promised him. assistance in his power. Just before the He "couldn't see it." He said to the Lieutenant expired, he handed the rebel Quartermaster that he would rather have his watch and some money, with the in- his own money. He was replied to that struction to forward it to his family the Federal money was not currency in that first opportunity he had,-and in a few region, and he could not be allowed to moments after saying this he expired. take it. "Why," retorted Lieutenant The rebel now pinned a small piece of McFadden, "I read in the Whig of this paper on Tinkham's coat, stating his name city only this morning, that the Yankee and company, and left him. In this con- currency was worthless,-that the treasdition he was found by his company and ury was bankrupt; and, if it is, why may by them buried. Time rolled on, and on I not as well have my own money, espethe fourth of July, 1863, thirty-five thou- cially as I had rather have it?" The offisand rebels surrendered to the victorious cer replied that he wanted no words Federal army at Vicksburg, and among about it." "But," persisted McFadden, that vast multitude was to be found Lieu- "if my money is no currency here, it can't tenant Tinkham's rebel friend-all honor do you any good, and if yours is worth to himeagerly searching for the Four- anything it will do you some good, and I teenth Wisconsin regiment. This he at am willing to take my little pile instead last discovered, and, safely delivering the of your big one; why not make the exwatch and money to one of its members, change?" disappeared among the throng. The articles were duly received by the Lieutenant's friends. What it is to have an honest foe

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This plain Saxon “poser was met with the assurance that if he gave any further "lip" he should at once go to a cell and stay there. So he took the "money." The Quartermaster instructed the clerk

Estimate of Confederate Promises-to-Pay, to count it. Lieutenant McF. interrupted

Down South.

this rather unnecessary operation with the Lieutenant McFadden, of the Seventy- remark, "I am in a great hurry, Sir, and ninth Indiana, was taken prisoner at Chick- you need not wait to count it-a few hunamauga, and, at Richmond, confined in dred dollars more or less will make no Libby prison. He survived starvation difference." This came near sending him rations, and after his release gave an ac- back to prison whether or no, but he count of his amusing experiences, finan- managed to avoid the peril and get out cially, relative to the rebellion. When cap- to find that a hackman refused to carry tured he had two hundred and sixty dol- him to the boat, about a quarter of a mile lars in greenbacks, concealed, which he from the prison, for one hundred dollars hoped to be able to keep. But the rebels of his rebel money. This fact, as well as either heard of it or suspected it, and made the more significant one that the Governhim give it up. They assured him that if ment officials themselves gave seven dolhe gave it up readily it should be restored lars of their money for one of the Federal to him on his release, but if he refused, greenbacks, as the legal or at least the and compelled a search, he would lose it officially recognized-difference, shows entirely, and find that things would not that if the Confederacy had not itself