The arresting officer professed to act by authority of the United States, but exhibited no warrant, and said he had none. The reason of the arrest has never been assigned, but it was undoubtedly because the Government of the United States was determined that the control of the city of Baltimore should pass into the hands of those who were devoted to the war-policy of the National Government.

Soon afterward, the City Council were, by General Wool, then in command in Baltimore, compelled to resign, and a new City Council was chosen, by an election held in such a way as to secure the result designed by the Government.

Various offers were made to Mr. Brown, on the part of the Government, to release him from imprisonment, provided he would take an oath of allegiance and resign his office, or give his parole not to return to Baltimore, but he refused to accept any such conditions.

The following correspondence, which occurred while he was in Boston, on parole, for the purpose of attending to some private business, shows the position which he maintained:

"MARSHAL KEYS, Boston:

"BOSTON, January 4, 1862.

"Sir: I called twice to see you during this week, and in your absence had an understanding with your deputy that I was to surrender myself to you this morning, on the expiration of my parole, in time to be conveyed to Fort Warren, and I have ac cordingly done so.

"As you have not received any instructions from Washington in regard to the course to be pursued with me, I shall consider myself in your custody until you have had ample time to write to Washington, and obtain a reply.

"I desire it, however, to be expressly understood, that no further extension of my parole is asked for, or would be accepted at this time.

"It is my right and my wish to return to Baltimore, to resume the performance of my official and private duties.

(Signed)

Respectfully,

GEO. WM. BROWN."

"DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 6, 1862.

"JOHN S. KEYS, Esq., U. S. Marshal, Boston:

"Sir: Your letter of the 4th instant, relative to George W. Brown, has been received.

"In reply, I have to inform you that, if he desires it, you may extend his parole to the period of thirty days. If not, you will please recommit him to Fort Warren, and report to this Depart

ment.

"I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

"Sir: In my note to you of the 4th instant, I stated that I did not desire a renewal of my parole, but that it was my right and wish to return to Baltimore, to resume the performance of my private and official duties.

My note was, in substance, as you informed me, forwarded to Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State, in a letter from you to him.

"In reply to your communication, F. W. Seward, Acting Secretary of State, wrote to you, under date of the 6th inst., that 'you may extend the parole of George W. Brown, if he desires it, but if not, you are directed to recommit him to Fort Warren.'

"It was hardly necessary to give me the option of an exten sion of parole which I had previously declined, but the offer renders it proper for me to say, that the parole was applied for by my friends, to enable me to attend to important private business, affecting the interests of others as well as myself- that the necessities growing out of this particular matter of business no longer exist, and that I cannot, consistently with my ideas of propriety, by accepting a renewal of the parole, place myself in the position of seeming to acquiesce in a prolonged and illegal banishment from my home and duties.

(Signed)

Respectfully,

GEO. WM. BROWN."

On the 11th of January, Mr. Brown returned to Fort Warren, and on the 14th an offer was made to him by the Government, to renew and extend his parole to ninety days, upon condition that he would not pass south of the Hudson River. This was also declined by him.

On the 27th of November, 1862, after his term of office had expired, and another Mayor had been elected, Mr. Brown was unconditionally released.

For an account of his imprisonment, the reader is referred to the narrative of Frank Key Howard, Esq.

DR

A. B. HEWITT, M.D.

R. A. B. HEWITT, a practising physician of haham, Illinois, was one of the occupants of room No. 13 of the Old Capitol Prison, a name now familiar to Americans as occupying a place in history, corresponding to that of the Bastile in the capital of France, during the French Revolution.

His lameness was so great that it excited the pity of his fellow-prisoners, and should have prevented his arrest, without the proof of the crime with which he was charged was unquestionable. Nevertheless, early in August, 1862, he was kidnapped at his home, in Illinois, and conveyed to Washington City, where he was imprisoned until the month of November, and then released without a trial, and without a charge of any kind having been preferred against him.

On his arrival at the prison, in consequence of the Bastile proper being filled from yard to attic, he was placed temporarily in the hospital. On the 26th of August, he and the "Wandering Jew" were transferred to room No. 13, where they remained until the close of September. No. 13 being needed about that time for the accommodation of some Federal officers accused of serious offences, the occupants were transferred to No. 16, which afterward became famous as the abode of nearly all the prisoners of state confined in the "Old Capitol."

Dr. Hewitt whiled away the time of his captivity in making finger-rings out of peach-stones, until the supply was exhausted; and then his mind, being unemployed, and allowed to dwell upon the wrongs and cruelties to which he was subjected, became affected almost to frenzy.

The prisoners, with scarcely an exception, were haggard

in appearance, and restless in their movements as caged wild beasts, and, in a word, exhibited in their persons pictures of such a cruel despotism as would have moved to madness, had they seen them, the American people, and incited them to emulate the illustrious example of the Parisians to tear open the Bastile and avenge the wrongs perpetrated upon its

inmates.

But care was taken that they should neither be seen nor heard; and their correspondence being subjected to the strictest surveillance of the tyrants and their underlings, the people could learn nothing of the treatment measure out to them by the hand of despotic power.