to
as I did; and I carried out of it a stronger breath and a warmer feeling
for my fellow-men. They talked of their brother often, but thought him
dead. I did not enlighten them; I kept my promise: and besides, I would
not raise in their house the evil spirit of the Luck of Abel Steadman.

AT BAY RIDGE, LONG ISLAND.

Pleasant it is to lie amid the grass
Under these shady locusts, half the day,
Watching the ships reflected on the Bay,
Topmast and shroud, as in a wizard's glass;
To see the happy-hearted martins pass,
Brushing the dew-drops from the lilac-spray:
Or else to hang enamored o'er some lay
Of faery regions; or to muse, alas!
On Dante, exiled, journeying outworn;
On patient Milton's sorrowfullest eyes,
Shut from the splendors of the Night and Morn;
To think that now, beneath the Italian skies,
In such clear air as this, by Tiber's wave,
Daisies are trembling over Keats's grave.

"RUNNING AT THE HEADS":

BEING AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.

It is laid down in our Cavalry Tactics, that, "to perfect the troopers
in conducting their horses, and in the use of their arms, they are
exercised at the running at the heads,"--of the Rebellion nowadays, be
it added. This is high and exciting drill, especially when the scene is
the pine woods of Georgia, and the "heads," not of canvas stuffed with
hay and planted on posts in the riding-ground, but of the flesh and bone
of the President and chief men of the Confederacy in flight.

As there are many curious accounts of the capture of Jefferson Davis
going the rounds of the press, it seems proper that one should appear
that is literally true, to the minutest detail; and such a one will here
be given.

The Colonel of the Fourth Michigan Horse Cavalry is Robert H. G. Minty,
an officer who has not his superior in the service, and the only one of
whom the question is urged, in and out of the army, "Why is he not among
the Generals?"--but he being in command of the Second Cavalry Division,
the command of the regiment devolved upon the Lieutenant-Colonel, B. D.
Pritchard. We had heard of the capture of Lee and the surrender of
Johnson, and knew that the fugitive "head" of the Confederacy was being
piloted across the State of Georgia. It was certain that he was in the
country south of Macon, but it was not known that he had crossed the
Ocmulgee River. General Wilson