ceased, and the men responded “Amen with a fervency that perhaps they had never before experienced. Major Anderson drew the Star Spangled Banner' up to the top of the staff, the band broke out with the national air of Hail Columbia,' and loud and exultant cheers, repeated again and again, were given by the officers, soldiers, and workmen.

that was said, and then replied: "Suppose, gentlemen, all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara river on a rope, would you shake the cable, and keep shouting to him Blondin, stand up a little straighterBlondin, stoop a little more—go a little faster-lean a little more to the Northlean a little more to the South!' No, you would hold your breath, as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off till Colonel Schaffer, chief of staff to Gen- he was safe over. The Government is eral Butler, and General Ould, the rebel carrying an immense weight. Untold Commissioner of exchange, were the best treasures are in their hands. They are of friends, personally, and, in their official doing the best they can. Don't badger

Cities built and in Embryo: Schaffer and

Ould at a Joke.

interviews, always very pleasant and agree them. Keep silence, and we'll carry you able to each other. On one of these occa-safe across." This simple but wonderfully sions, when chatting at City Point on mat- graphic idea answered the complaints of ters and things in general, Colonel Schaf- half an hour, and not only silenced but fer picked up a map of Virginia, and charmed the auditors. glancing at it casually, it occurred to him

tion.

that there was a good site for a city in the Cabinet Pictures Before and After the Elecneighborhood of City Point, and expressed his astonishment that it had been over- President Lincoln took it into his head looked so long. Said he, with great seri- to call one day at the studio of the artist ousness, "If I had the capital, I would who at that time was engaged in painting invest it right here. It's bound to be a the Cabinet group. Mr. Lincoln inquired great city some day or other." Ould kept how he was getting along with the happy his eyes for awhile on the map, and then family. The artist informed him that he looking at the Colonel, remarked, hardly was progressing finely, and would soon able to suppress a smile that was trying to have it completed. Mr. Lincoln, after force its way out, "It seems to me, Col- scanning closely the arrangement of the onel, that instead of building a new city, group, expressed his admiration of the you had better take one already built" work. "Yes," said the artist, "it will be "Sam," said the Union Colonel to the a fine painting, and as soon as I get it comservant, "get that black bottle out of my pleted, I intend to travel through the basket;" and the rebel joke was washed country and exhibit it." "What!" says down with old rye. the President, "exhibit that all over the country? It will ruin my chances for re-election. Everybody expects me to change my Cabinet."

Blondin's Art Serving a good Figure. Some gentlemen from the West obtained an interview with President Lincoln, at the executive mansion, when things looked Danger of Freedmen Voting. dark for the national cause, and gave vent, Some southern gentlemen were disin an excited and troubled manner, to cussing the question of the possibility and their feelings as to the commissions and propriety of giving votes to the freedmen Omissions of the administration. The of the South; a measure in the expediPresident, as usual, heard patiently all ency of which the Southern Unionists—

Vanity of Patriotism and Honor.

more particularly those from the far South | -appear to be tolerably unanimous. One A humorous colloquy took place upon of the gentlemen present-a loyal Texan the hurricane deck of one of the Cumber-announced himself inflexibly opposed to land river craft, between a newspaper corany such a grant of votes to the blacks, respondent and an elderly darkey. The "because," said he, "in six months after latter possessed a philosophical and retroyou give the right to negroes to vote, half spective cast of countenance, was squatted the politicians in the country will go about upon his bundle, toasting himself against swearing that they have negro blood in the chimney, and apparently plunged in their veins." a profound state of meditation. Finding upon inquiry that he belonged to the Didn't like Vallandigham's Defeat. Ninth Illinois, one of the most gallantly The news of Vallandigham's guberna-behaved and heavy-losing regiments at the torial defeat, when announced to the Ohio Fort Donelson battle, and part of which troops, caused a good deal of lusty cheer- was aboard, the correspondent interrogated ing,—such as would have been heard after him somewhat on the subject. That the the reading of an official dispatch on dress Ethiop's philosophy was much in the Falparade, proclaiming a signal victory for staffian vein, the following will show: our troops. The noise attracted the attention of the rebel pickets in front, and many of them inquired what it all meant. The following conversation on the subject took place in front of Fort Wood:

Rebel-Say, Yank, what's all that noise

about?

Union-The boys are cheering for Brough's election. Vallandigham is whipped.

Reb.-How do you know Vallandigham ain't elected? your telegraph's out, ain't it?

Union-I don't know about that. Rosey says Brough's elected.

Reb.-Rosey's a d-n liar, I guess.
But is Brough elected, honest?

Union-Yes, he is, honest.
Reb.(vociferously)-Officer of the guard,

No. 6!

"Were you in the fight?"
"Had a little taste of it, sa."
"Stood your ground, did you?"
"No, sa, I runs."

"Run at the first fire, did you?"

"Yes, sa; and would have run soona, had I known it war comin'."

The officer of the guard made his ap-wuld-more dan a million of dollars, sa; pearance very shortly, and asked what for what would even dat be worth to a was wanted. The rebel picket replied-man wid de bref out of him? Self-pres"Brough's elected and Vallandigham's erbashun am de just law wid me." whipped like h-1. You had better send word to General Bragg."

The pickets were told to find out how the election went, if they could, and send word to head-quarters.

"Then patriotism and honor are nothing to you?'

"Nuffin, whatever, sa; I regard dem as among de vanities."

It is safe to say that the dusky corpse

of that African will never darken the field | for them to remain until six o'clock.

of carnage.

"Mustered In."

On

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 Sev- were 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. unless he was joined to the service. A huge mustard plaster was applied to his Prompt Administration of the Law. back, about a foot below where the rear After General Schenck's arrival in Cumbuttons 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 be- taking 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 his country as a patriot duly put through as an escaped slave. General Schenck, by the One Hundred and Seventeenth. 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." "Don't you know that he escaped from the service of the rebels?"

"Benefit of Clergy."

"Yes, but we have a law in Maryland that covers the case, General."

The "Volunteer" was the title of a 'broadside' published by the boys of the Iowa Tenth, then stationed at the little seeesh town of Charleston, about twenty-five miles west of Cairo. The following story tells the way in which, the day after the "And I have a law upon which it can Tenth took possession of the village, the be decided. Colonel Porter, set that nepeople thereof went to church: On his ar-gro at large and put this constable in his rival, on Sunday, General Payne found the place." 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 occasionally sending after a prominent absentee), 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,

Command of the Virginia Forces tendered

to General Scott.

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.

1775 and 1861.

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 aunteers. As Americans we respond at

once. Every drop of blood in our veins belongs to our country. We are thankful

Compromising the Capitol Flag.

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 a willingness to retain office after the accession of Lincoln. In fact, he was not indis

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 and rather impetuous Southern brethren of the city, when the following colloquy by gentle and conciliatory means. So he

took place:

"Major, can I be of "Who are you, "I am Marshal of the Police of Baltimore, and would render any assistance."

any assistance?" Sir?"

"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.

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 as soon as a note could reach the Secretary of the Interior from Mr. King-fell a victim 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.

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

A distinguished American, conversing in the city of Paris, with M. Thouvenel, the French Minister of State, was asked rather impatiently by that distinguished being "irritated" by our arms. 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.

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.