to deal with every Foreign Power and their the time he was out of his wagon, and had representatives, whenever they interfere, been practising with his rifle at a' mark, directly or indirectly, between us and the and had just loaded. The younger brother traitors in rebellion against our Govern- said: "I'm glad you're thinking about ment. The exequatur of your consul is your gun. You'd better join a company." recalled; and I sincerely hope that no im- "I have done so," was the calm reply. prudence on the other side of the Atlantic, "Whose?" "Captains," naming the will compel me as summarily to terminate Captain of a company of Home Guards the very pleasant relations now existing that had been raised in that county. “Ah! with all the members of the Diplomatic that's what you are at, is it?" cried the Corps. younger brother-and, drawing a Colt's navy, he continued, "I've got something "And the brother shall deliver up the brother for you," and fired. The ball lodged in the breast of the elder brother, who staggered to death." A man named C-e, lived in Missouri, and fell with the violence or suddenness of about fifty miles from the Kansas border. the shock. Recovering himself, however, His family, originally from the South, had for a moment, with superhuman energy, he settled in southwestern Missouri. When got upon his knees, and seizing his rifle, the war broke out his two brothers avowed pointed it at his murderous brother, who their disloyalty to the Government, joined turned and fled, but the rifle-ball in his spine arrested the course of the rebel forThe family of the Union man gathered a few of their effects hurriedly, and fled with him in a wagon-at last reaching Kansas, where, though severely wounded, he slowly recovered. "And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death." ever. Female Traitors making Ashes of the Glorious Flag. In the earlier stage of the rebellion, four young gentlemen stopping in Alexandria, engaged apartments there of a highly respectable lady living in Prince street, with her daughters, the latter aged respectively sixteen and eighteen. Although the lady and her daughters were avowed secessionists, the former having two sons in the rebel army, the new-comers were nevertheless not quite prepared to hear them speak so contemptuously and bitterly of the the secession army, and they urged him to Union. The young gentlemen, it appears, do so too. But he was true to his allegiance took it into their heads to hoist the Stars to the Union and its starry ensign. Hesi- and Stripes on the top of their dwelling, tating, and with the ties of kindred to dis- one day. The lady and daughters, when tract him, he remained a passive witness they discovered it, raised such a storm of of events until all the man that was in him indignation that the gentlemen were afraid at length induced him to take his place in to approach them. One of the young ladies the great struggle. A few days after a clambered to the roof of the house, at the younger brother rode up to his house. At risk of life and limb, and, with the spirit of a tigress, tore down the flag, trampled | prisoner of war. Grant treated him kindly, it beneath her feet, and finally threw the invited him to his private apartment, and fragments into the stove. Not content with extended to him the courtesies of personal this disrespect to the glorious emblem of friendship. After he left, the General the country which had protected herself gave a little sketch of the rebel's former and family from their birth, this young trait- life to the members of his staff. He also ress took the ashes of the burnt flag and said, that when the rebel major was in his pitched them contemptuously into the room and he was talking to him about being in the Confederate service, the major replied: street. Merited Rebuke of a Secessionist by General "Grant, I tell you I ain't much of a rebel, after all, and when I am paroled, I will let the d- service go to the mis chief." Dr. Cottman in Butler's Hands. A good anecdote is told of how a violent secessionist at the Tennessee capital got a merited rebuke from General Dumont. A famous physician's female household deported themselves so rudely to our soldiers, There is a story of General Butler's adonce or twice actually spitting in their ministration in New Orleans which does faces, that the General ordered the house not appear in his excellent biography. By to be put under guard, with orders to let direction of the President, an election for no one pass in or out. The Doctor, who Congressmen was held in the First and was in the country at the time, was greatly Second districts. Dr. Cottman engaged incensed on finding his access to his own to be a candidate, and was thereupon sent house debarred by a guard of soldiery on for by General Butler. his return, and forthwith went to headquarters, boiling over with rage. On hear ing the Doctor's representation, the General calmly replied that he was not aware of giving any order to put the complainant's he would be required to take before enterhouse under guard. The latter insisted, however, that the fact was so, and pointed to his residence, which was in sight and near at hand, as evidence, for the guard could be plainly seen. The General, after inquiring whether it was really true that the Doctor was a candidate with his own consent, and receiving an affirmative answer, read the oath which ing upon his Congressional duties—a pretty stringent covenant by the way, declaring that the deponent had never given aid or comfort to the internal or external enemies of the Republic, never held or sought "Is that your residence?" inquired the office under the pretended government of General, blandly. the Confederate States, or in any way countenanced the great rebellion. Having thus called the attention of the Doctor to the terrible ordeal which awaited him, the General drew forth a large fac-simile of the Ordinance of Secession, and pointed to the signature, Thos. E. H. Cottman, which appeared thereon in a fair, round, schoolmaster-like hand. But you signed the ordinance—and the signature looks as though you thought it was something to be proud of." Accidents Will Happen. General Garfield had a bad egg thrown at him by some treason sympathizer while "I signed it merely as a witness to the speaking at Chestertown-the same place record!" where, he said, a few weeks since he was "Signed as witness! Bosh! What non- face to face with the companions of the sense! Suppose, Doctor, you really were miscreant on the field of battle. "They a Member of Congress, and old Jake Bar- carried more dangerous weapons," said the ker, as the representative of Benjamin General, "but as I did not run there, it is Franklin, should present a claim for wit- not probable that I shall run now; and as ness fees, on the ground that his ancestor I fought then, if necessary, I can fight signed the Declaration of Independence now!" The mob were intensely gratified only in that capacity-would you vote for by this plucky speech, and proceeded to it?" inflict summary justice upon the eggthrower, which they did, unfortunately, by administering a tremendous beating to the wrong man! If a true patriot, however, he doubtless forgave the accident, and was willing thus to suffer vicariously in so good a cause. The Doctor appeared to be afflicted with a bronchial disorder, which prevented his making immediate answer. "Now," says the General, "I tell you I think it an insult to loyal men that a signer of that ordinance should offer to take the oath I have read. You know very well that the signing of that document was made a test of the devotion of members of the Convention to the cause of Secession. You know very well that it was made a test in the case of Mr. Rozier, and you know that he did not meet it as you did by surrendering to treason." "Very well, Sir, I will announce in the newspapers that I am ordered by the military commander to withdraw my name from the canvass." I Disturbing an Orator. When the Union lines advanced towards Corinth, in the summer of 1862, a battery was planted on an eminence commanding a considerable portion of the country, but completely shrouded from view, by a dense thicket. Scouts were sent out to discover the exact position of the rebels, and when they were but a short distance in advance, to give a signal as to the direction to fire, if any were discovered. "No you wont-nothing of the sort. One of the rebel commanders, unaware have given you no orders; I shall give of such presence, called around him a you none. I have only to say that I think brigade, and commenced addressing them it grossly scandalous that you, after having in something like the following strain: signed an ordinance of secession, should" Sons of the South! We are here to ask the people of this District to put you defend our homes, our wives and daughin a position to take this oath; and even ters, against the horde of Vandals who if you can bring your conscience to allow have come here to possess the first and you to take that oath, certain it is that no violate the last. Here, upon this sacred House of Representatives would allow you soil, we have assembled to drive back the to take it in its presence!" northern invaders-drive them into the So the Doctor went his way, and an- Tennessee. Will you follow me? If we nounced in the newspapers that unforeseen cannot hold this place, we can defend no circumstances commanded his withdrawal spot of our cherished Confederacy. Shall from the canvass. we drive the invaders back, and strike to death the men who would desecrate our point. His vessel ran aground, and he homes? Is there a man so base among was obliged to stay several days in this those who hear me as to retreat from the contemptible foe before us? I will never blanch before their fire, nor-” At this interesting period the signal was given, and six shells fell in the vicinity of the chivalrous officer and his men, who suddenly forgot their red-hot resolves, and fled in confusion to their breastworks. One of the Things to be Done. A very gentlemanly, intelligent Union soldier was one day standing by the side of a 32-pounder, at Annapolis, Maryland, over which, under the military rule of General Butler, there proudly floated the Stars and Stripes. In the course of a conversation with some disunionists who surrounded him, one of them said: place. He was put in jail, had no funds to pay some infernal fine with, and would have been sold by the State into slavery, had not several of us, who happened to hear it, raised $800, and secured his liberty." "Why, you surprise me; I never heard of that." "No, and you never would have heard of it under your state of things. But now you will find that papers will print different matter from what they used to. And that, my friend, is one of the things that we expect to do." Friendly Advice to a Doubtful Unionist. Colonel Marshall, an old army officer, distinguished by his explorations on the "I would just like to know now, what Plains, regarded the valley of the Pamunyou all expect to do?" With the gun for his seat, the flag for his protection, and slaveholders for his audience, he replied: "We expect to enforce the laws of the United States, in all the States. We intend, that persons living in Charleston, South Carolina, who desire to subscribe for any Northern paper, may, with perfect safety, take such paper from its wrapper, and read it with impunity in the public rooms of your hotels. And when vessels with colored sailors, having regular papers from the United States custom houses, go to Southern ports, we intend that those sailors shall not be molested, in any manner whatever." Why, you are an abolitionist! "No, Sir, not a bit of it. But I am an American citizen, having certain rights, which have not, heretofore, been protected; but which hereafter, thanks to your folly, will forever be secured. Why, only a year ago, when I was at Wilmington, a colored man, who had bought himself and a small schooner, was engaged in the coasting trade hereabouts, and happened to find key as almost a paradise. The green fields of waving grain were so luxuriant that he was induced to inquire how long the ground was run without change, and was astonished to find that once in six years was the reply. The houses are built of brick, and the barns are of the most substantial character. Upon one occasion he encamped in a clover field, and, as was very natural under the circumstances, the horses, being in clover, lost no time in taking advantage of it. The gentlemanly proprietor of the clover field, having made serious remonstrances without effect, at last demanded payment therefor, when the following brief and conclusive colloquy ensued: himself in trouble, not far from this very oath of allegiance to the United States? PROPRIETOR. No, Sir. COL. M. Then get Jeff. Davis to pay you, and get out of my tent, you infernal traitor. Dr. 's Loyalty rather Coppery. Down in old Eastern Massachusetts (town not mentioned), resides a certain Dr. whose loyalty was commonly reputed as rather "coppery," but who is Rousseau's First Step toward making Loyal wonderful in his success in transplanting trees and making them thrive-in fact has Men of Rebels. On General Rousseau's succeeding raised a paradise around his fine old manGeneral Mitchel in his command in Ala- sion. A clerical guest once making the bama, he was visited by a gentleman re- rounds, said, "Doctor, the United States questing permission to go beyond our lines Marshal ought to have an eye to your and visit his wife. He had never taken proceedings." "How so," asked the Docup arms against the Union, but he had tor, a trifle startled, and wondering whether aided and abetted those who had, and ad- he had spoken out a little too plainly any mitted that he was still a Secessionist. time. "Because you have such a happy "You can't go," said the General. way of encouraging trees-on." The Doc"It seems very hard,” replied Secesh, tor laughed, and "owed him one.” "that I can't go to see my wife." "Well, but General, Raising the Flag. "No harder for you than it is for me," returned the General; "I want to see my A great city for Union people, Union wife. You have compelled me to leave speeches, Union flag-raising, etc., is her, by your infernal treason. You surely The boys are even more vociferous in don't expect me to grant you a favor which cheering for the Union than are their payour rebellious conduct prevents me from rents, and when the 'Stars and Stripes' enjoying." are to be unfurled to the breeze, specimens of Young America may always be seen honoring the occasion with their presence. At one of these gatherings, where, with the above described concourse, were assembled the stanch Union men of the city, "What do you wish me to do, General?" one among the latter class was chosen to "I wish you to return to your allegiance, address the assembly. Accordingly, he and, as far as lies in your power, to dis- arose upon the platform, and amidst the countenance rebellion and treason." deep silence of the expectant audience "But, General, my conscience will not began, 'slowly but surely,' as follows: allow me to do that." "It is useless to talk, Sir. If you will go to work and assist me to return to my wife, I will do all I can to enable you to return to yours." "Neither, then,” replied the Kentucky patriot, "will my conscience allow me to grant you favors which are due only to loyal men." Of course there was nothing further to be urged; the baffled rebel took up his hat and left. The General turned toward those who were sitting in his tent, and quietly remarked, "When you have rendered these rebels fully sensible of how much they have lost by their rebellion, you have taken the first step toward making them loyal men." "Countrymen !-friends!-fellow-citizens !-why are we here assembled this evening?" Scarcely had this question been thus put to the listening crowd when an impatient juvenile patriot, indignant at the very thought that the man selected to address the people should be ignorant of the reason why they had there assembled, answered in a drawling, whining, but perfectly audible voice : "To raise that flag, ye big fool ye!" This information was applauded by a general laugh-the orator asking no |