finement he was treated with marked kindness by our citizens more especially by the gentler portion of this community, who provided him with better fare than he would have shared in a soldier's camp." These were the newspaper articles which caused Mr. Wilson to be kidnapped and taken to the Old Capitol. Let us hear him give an account of the affair himself, for no one is better qualified than he, especially to make light of a serious matter. After his release from the Old Capitol, Mr. Wilson resumed his paper, and in the first issue after his return home, he gave his readers the following account of what had occurred to him: RESUMPTION. We resume to-day the publication of the Gazette, (temporarily suspended by reason of the involuntary absence of the captain and his crew,) and hope that no adverse winds or drafts may again throw it upon its beam ends. On the morning of the 15th of October, a Government detective visited our villiage, and in our absence thoroughly searched our store house and premises, having been informed, as he said, that there were Government stores secreted about the building. He soon found out that he had been misled by his lying informer, who had, for some purpose, set him upon our track. His search was aided by a squad of soldiers, under the command of a Captain Bullock, and on our return to town, at noon, we reported to the captain, who at once put us under arrest. A private and informal examination of the case was held before the Provost-Marshal, of the the county, the detective and the captain, and after some discussion between these functionaries as to who had the greatest power over our case, a parole of two hours was given, when we were to report - and hear our fate. At the hour appointed we found a horse in readiness, and were told that Washing ton was our destination thither we were taken, and safely arrived at the Old Capitol, at 9 o'clock, P. M., where we were lodged with ten or twelve genial, whole-souled Comstitutional Democrats, (among them two clever Western editors,) whose kindness and sympathies we shall long remember. At the examination in Marlboro', the Marshal and detective acquitted us fully of the charge alleg ed, but the captain arraigned us upon the editorials published in the Gazette of that day. He read and re-read them, torturing our language into an “interference with the draft," and charging us with sarcasm in calling his soldiers "the sons of Abraham." The last we answered by reminding him that it was a cognomen of their own choosing, as their song announced that, "We're coming, father Abraham, And if Abraham be their father, they were the "Sons of Abraham "-and we could not see why they should be ashamed of their father. We certainly meant no disrespect to them or the President, and no reasonable man could take exception to the use of the term. But our argument was no go;" somebody had to be hurt-some feat was to be performed-and we were the victim. The escape from the civil authorities (the Marshal and the Detective,) and the arrest by the military, brought to mind the situation of the Irishmen in 1798: "Them were hard times for an honest gossoon; After remaining in the modern Bastile for six days our case was taken up, and we were discharged. Our respected Representative in Congress, Mr. CALVERT, was instrumental in obtaining a hearing for us, and we feel deeply indebted to him for his friendly offices in our behalf. After our release we found work to do in obtaining substitutes in Baltimore for our drafted neighbors and employees, and for a week we were made a regular draft-horse in this business. And now here we are again at our old desk, free to chat with our readers as of yore (except on the subject of a military draft!)" During the few days which Mr. Wilson was an occupant of the Old Capitol and an inmate of No. 16 of the famous-infamous, rather-Bastile, he made his room-mates forget, most of the time, that they were victims of despotism. His bon mots and witticisms seemed inexhaustible, and for hours at a time the writer and several others of his companions in durance sat by him enjoying the pleasure which he seemed to delight in giving to his fellow-victims of tyranny. Nor did his interest in the well-being of his fellow-prisoners cease with his separation from them. No sooner did he reach home, some twenty miles from Washington, than he dispatched a large box of provisions, which he knew, by his six days' experience of the treatment of prisoners of state by the Administration, that they much needed. Geo. W. Wilson, of Upper Marlboro', Md., will ever be held in grateful remembrance by his fellow-victims of despotism of No. 16, O. C. P. THE CASE OF DR. ELLIS, A MEDICAL DIRECTOR IN THE ARMY. I WILL next refer to the case of Dr. Ellis, of New York, who was arrested on the fifteenth of October, 1862, in his house, at night. Dr. Ellis is a British subject, and was surgeon in the British army in 1851. Dr. Ellis was requested by the military authorities to accept the office of Post-Surgeon, as they deemed him, from his military experience, peculiarly fitted for its duties. He relinquished a large and lucrative practice for this purpose, Secretary Cameron waiving the oath of allegiance in his case. He discharged the onerous and responsible duties of organizing the medical staffs of the volunteer regiments fitted out for the war, in New York, These duties ceased in the spring of 1862, when Mr. Stanton put a stop to recruiting. He then, by request of Surgeon-General Hammond, proceeded to the Peninsula, and ably discharged the duties of Acting Medical Director in the care of the wounded, after the several engagements of the army of the Potomac. His services were frequently commended by the heads of the Departments, and called forth from the newspapers of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, and the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, the warmest praises. He continued to fill this responsible office until his health, broken down by exposure and fatigue, obliged him, in September, 1862, to return to his home, from which he was kidnapped by detective Baker and his minions, the first day he left his bed of sickness, taken at night to Washington, incarcerated in the Old Capitol Prison, and kept there three months, one half of which he was kept in solitary confinement. The reader will ask, what was his alleged offense? He, to this day, has never had a charge preferred against him. His letters to his wife were suppressed, and his frequent demands for an investigation were treated with silence. His wife, who, after his arrest, was despoiled of her furniture and turned out of her house, not knowing whence he had been taken to, went to Washington, called on Judge Advocate Turner, who told her " he knew nothing of his arrest; had never heard of it; said it was an outrageous shame, and promised to look into it." The Secretary of War and his assistant also denied all knowledge of it, and made similar promises; and Detective Baker told her he would be discharged the following day, as there was no reason or cause for his detention. This Baker sent a man to her, who told her if she would pay $250 or $300, he would have him discharged from prison, which she properly refused to pay. Dr. Ellis, conscious of his innocence of any wrong, and anxious for an investigation, repeatedly wrote to Stanton, Turner, and several Senators and Members of Congress, claiming his right to a hearing. For this, and his denunciation of the wrongs inflicted on him, and his threatened exposure of Baker, he was put in solitary confinement. After some time, another victim was put in the room with him, and, as Baker and the Superintendent of the prison thought he learned from his fellow-prisoners some facts in connection with their cases, they again put him in solitary confinement, as he refused to become their |