that everything on that lot, in the well and out A few pages further on was a specimen of of it, was his individual property. The Assistant keeping accounts: Provost Marshal gave him an official wink, and intimated that all was right.' Mack thought if it was not, it would be in the end. A strong posse of freedmen was sent down into the well to work. Bucketful after bucketful G Harden Detter for work 26 days $26 $14 for cofoy too Pounds of rubbish and mud was drawn out; but no treas- after the writer arrived in Polk county, Missouri. Several pages of correspondence occurred ure as yet made its appearance. Occasionally The writer wrote to his friend, that "wee hav the officer of the guard went down on a prosIn punching about with his bay-sasafrass tee to drink," and concluded, hopefully, pecting tour. plenty of corn bred and pore beefe to eat and net he hit upon something that had the true thus: metallic sound. They had the treasure now sure. Again the negroes went to work, and after laborcome wee will, come I hope wee will come in ing some hours succeeded in bringing out the top peace and can enjoy our lives as wee yewst to do bee of an old tin-plate stove. At last the firm bot- fore the wore broke out." tom of the well was reached, but no iron safe. 66 Mack said he thought the safe was about ten feet, It will be seen by the following, that Pegasus further down. Whatever may have been the accompanied Shelby in his raid, and was ridden provost marshal's opinion on the subject, he con- by William H. Landreth: cluded he had not time to prosecute the search further, and withdrew his forces, leaving Mack in possession of a thoroughly cleansed well, and at liberty to hunt up the safe if he wanted to. Mack didn't want to. HOW THIEVES WERE TREATED IN THE NINTH CORPS.-Brigadier General Potter, commanding the Ninth Corps, riding along with his orderly in East Tennessee, saw a man running with something in his hand, followed by a woman crying out after him. Stopping him, he found he had stolen some article, and asked him his corps. "Ninth Corps,” "Very well," said the General; and he ordered his orderly to tie him up to a tree, and give him a good strapping, with a stirrup strap. Amid his howls it came out that he belonged to the Fourth Corps. "Very well," said the General. "I am commander of the Ninth Corps; if you belong to it, all right; if not you'll know how we treat fellows that steal in the Ninth Corps." WAIFS AND ESTRAYS.- After the retreat of Shelby's force from Boonville, Mo. a small bundle of papers was picked up on the street, left there by some systematic and sentimental Confederate in his hasty flight. First among this bundle was the log-book, containing a succinct diary of events, belonging to a rebel soldier. The leaves of the diary were composed of heavily ruled, coarse blue foolscap, and the cover made of wall-paper. It contained a chronology of daily events, of which the following is a specimen: HEART-RENDING BOAT BALLAD. 1. father father bild Me a Boat and pot it on the oason that I may float 2. She handent Bin Sailen far on the Main An of him She did in quire of her swee Salar 3. Capttain Captain tell me trew if my sweet william is in your crew Il tell you far lady Il tell you My Dear your Sweet William is not hear. 4. At the head of rockeyilent as we past By I thaut in my Soal her heart was Break 5. go bring me a Cher for to set on a pen and ink for to set it down at the end or ever line she dropt a tire at the end of ever virs it was o My dire. 6. go dig my grave booth Wide an deep poot a marvel Stone at my head an feet an on my breast you may carv a dove too let the world no that I dide for love. WM. H. LANDRETH. THE NEW RIVER SHOOR-A BALLAD. 1. at the foot of yon Montain wher fountain do flow, 2. I ask her rite kinley could She fancy Me, all tho my fourtun is not grat that's noth She She, 3. as soon as her old father, this same come too her, 4. She rote Me a letter an in this letter these lines, 5. I Prused this letter I Prused it moast Sad, I drew out My Brawd Soard an onward did go, 6. as Son as her old father, tis same came to hear, 7. I Drew out My Brawd Soard an Waverd it round, 8. So hard is the Coquest of all women kind, When the old man heard this, he could hardly speak; his hopes were almost at an end. He showed the pigs, however; they were no more than such a family would need, nor as much. 66 The officer then kindly said: "You may keep all these things; they will help you and can be of little good to us," and gave the old man a safeguard," which might save his property from our troops. Three years before, this man owned a large, well-stocked plantation; had cattle and hogs in plenty, with servants to come at his call, and corn to sell or keep. Now, he was sincerely thankful, and much moved that we spared him his four little shoats, his pittance of corn, and his old mare-mule with which he hoped to make a small crop next spring. The war has been at his very door; he had seen it in all relations, and knew that it was vigorously prosecuted. THE LITTLE GIRL'S KINDNESS TO THE SOLDIERS." After the battle of Sharpsburg, we passed over a line of railroad in Central Georgia. The disabled soldiers from Gen. Lee's armies were returning to their homes. At every station the wives and daughters of the farmers came on the cars, and distributed food and wines and bandages among the sick and wounded. . "We shall never forget how very like an angel ONE OF THE PICTURES OF WAR.-A cor- she went to a great rude, bearded soldier, who was a little girl,-how blushingly and modestly respondent relates the following interview of a had carved a crutch from a rough plank to reFederal foraging party with a Tennessee farmer: At another place we called on the owner, a he was hungry, and how he ate like a famished place a lost leg; how this little girl asked him if man of over sixty years, well saved, yet evidently wolf! She asked if his wound was painful, and much cast down and disheartened. He was po- in a voice of soft, mellow accents, Can I do lite, and answered all questions studiously. On nothing more for you?. I am sorry that you are so being asked what he had to spare, he answered, "Not much; indeed, nothing." His wife and badly hurt; have you a little daughter, and wont she cry when she sees you?' four children, standing beside him, said not a word, but the countenance of the whole group showed that the old man told the truth. Indeed, I have nothing," said he; "what, with one army and another campaigning through this part of Tennessee, they have stripped me of all I could spare and more too." 66 Have you no horses or mules?" asked the officer. "Yes," answered the man, "I have one more mule, which is entirely broken down; it was left by a trooper, who took my last horse in its stead." "No beef-cattle?" was the next question. 66 No, not one," was the answer. "Any hogs? tears of love and gratitude filled his eyes. He "The rude soldier's heart was touched, and only answered, 'I have three little children; Goa grant they may be such angels as you.' "With an evident effort he repressed a desire to kiss the fair brow of the pretty little girl. ile took her little hand between both his own, and bade her good-by, God bless you!' The child will always be a better woman because of these lessons of practical charity stamped ineffaceably upon her young heart."- Southern paper. HOW BRAVE MEN SUFFER AND DIE.-"If anybody thinks," says B. F. Taylor, in his ac "Yes, sir; I have four pigs, which I had in- count of the battle of Chicamauga, "that when tended for my winter's supply of meat." 66 Any negroes?" asked the officer. "No, not one; my servants all left me two or three months ago. I have not one on the place. I have to chop all my wood, and my wife and daughters do the in-doors, what they can." Any corn or wheat?" "No wheat, and only two or three barrels of corn," was the reply. "Let's see your mule," said the officer. It was brought up, and was as the old man said. "Show me those pigs," was the next demand. men are stricken upon the field they fill the air with cries and groans, till it shivers with such evidence of agony, he greatly errs. An arm is shattered, a leg carried away, a bullet pierces the breast, and the soldier sinks down silently upon the ground, or creeps away if he can, without a murmur or complaint; falls as the sparrow falls, speechlessly; and like that sparrow, I earnestly believe, not without a Father. The horse gives out his fearful utterance of almost human suffering, but the mangled rider is dumb. The crash of musketry, the crack of rifles, the roar of guns, the shriek of shells, the rebel whoop, the Federal listening to the narration, at once responded, cheer, and that indescribable undertone of rum-"I'll take the poor fellow up there for nothing. bling, grinding, splintering sound, make up the I carried just such a one up last night, but I guess voices of the battle-field." I shant lose nothing." No, thought we, my dear fellow, such true nobility of nature shall not result in loss to you if we can help it, so we deAN INCIDENT OF SHILOH. During the bat-manded his card, and here it is. tle of Shiloh an officer hurriedly rode up to an aid and inquired for Grant. That's him with the field-glass," said the aid. Wheeling his horse about, the officer furiously rode up to the General, and touching his cap, thus addressed him, "Sheneral, I vants to make one report; Schwartz's battery is took." "Ah!" says the General, "how was that?" "Vell, you see, Sheneral, de sheshenists come up in front of us, and de sheshenists flanked us, and de sheshenists come in de rear of us, and Schwartz's battery was took.” "Well, sir," says the General, "you of course spiked the guns.' 66 Vat," exclaimed the Dutchman, in astonishment, "schpike dem guns, schpike dem new guns! no, it would schpoil hem!" "Well," said the General, sharply, "What did you do? " WILLIAM RYDER, Proprietor of Carriages Nos. 28 & 46. QUAKER GUNS. New York. When General Sills's division left Frankfort, Ky., the last thing they did was to remove the two monster cannon from their position on the hills over South Frankfort. Some Union men of Frankfort, during the night, went over to the spot and planted two empty beer-kegs in the place of the cannon, and covered them with a tarpaulin. All next day a lot of Morgan's cavalry were scouting around the kegs, but dared not enter Frankfort for fear of being charged upon. On Wednesday night "our forees " abandoned the kegs, when, as we learn, they made a bold and daring charge on the " tarpaulin beer-keg battery," and captured it without the loss of a man. The captain acknowledged that he had been "sold by the Yanks," and it COOLNESS ON THE FIELD. A lad of fif- was not until then that they were aware of the teen years of age, belonging to the Fifth Wiscon- fact that Gen. Sills's whole corps had left Franksin, whose name is Douglas, and resides at Beav- fort. Then, as they have always done, they er Dam, was in the battle of Williamsburg, and pounced upon an unprotected city. But Gen. got his gun wet so that it could not fire. During Dumont's forces soon let them know that it was the hottest of the fight, and whilst the regiment not the "battle of the kegs" when they attacked was falling back, he deliberately sat down, took them. It was these men and the two empty out his screw-driver, unscrewed the tube from beer kegs that kept the rebels from burning all his gun, dried it out, put it back, capped it, got the bridges around Frankfort. up and put into the field as if nothing unusual was going on. "Do? vy, we took dem back again!" ONE OF THE VIRGINIA RESERVES. -Pollard, in his observations in the North, relates the following: - A GENUINE NOBLEMAN.- Returning home from Philadelphia, we had or a fellow-passenger a poor, broken, emaciated Massachusetts soldier, General Butler followed up his little story by too weak to sit erect, and so far gone in physical an amusing account of an interview he had had constitution as to give little hope for aught else with a certain gentleman of Richmond - one of than his possible arrival at his home in Boston the "Virginia Reserves - who had strayed inwith the breath of life not extinct. He was ac- to his lines. I must confess his laughter was a companied by a kind matron, who, though no little contagious as he gave the details of the inrelation of the sufferer, was a Massachusetts terview. The unfortunate individual had come woman, and had in the pity of her soul volun- into his lines by some mistake, bewildered as to teered to attend his passage home to die. It the points of the compass. His appearance was was a piteous sight, and but a type of many hun- rather unmilitary, as General B. described it; a dreds we have seen the past year. Of course an suit of black, wet and glued to his skin, a stoveobject of such interest awakened the tenderest pipe hat, and what seems to have attracted most sympathies of all beholders. We proffered such at headquarters, as a curiosity of Richmond aid as we could, and on arrival at the wharf in "a black satin vest." New-York attempted negotiations with various carriers for a passage for the invalid up to the New-Haven cars. As the boy was destitute of money, as well as broken down in health, we tried to so far touch the pity of some of the Alluding only to the oddity of his appear hack-drivers as to get him conveyed at an honest ance," said General Butler, I remarked: "and price. While chaffering with the crowd, up how many more are there like you, Mr. stepped a frank and honest-looking driver, who, M 46 Who are you?" thundered General Butler. "Sir," said the unfortunate individual, with the air of importance in misery, "I am one of the Virginia Reserves." 66 " |