should leave the country; a committee was appointed to notify him of the fact, but, as in other instances, after passing high sounding resolutions, and making boisterous speeches, the whole matter was permitted to sleep, each member of the committee depending upon the other to act, and all of them saying they could not find time from their business to do so. Having a personal difficulty a few months after, upon a frivolous pretext he was again arrested, and almost immediately discharged.

The Secessionists arrested in arms, in the mountain counties, presented a woe-begone and miserable appearance. Taught to believe they were performing a sacred duty they owed their cause, by shooting the friends of the Government, and appropriating their property, they skulked about the country, stealing horses and cattle, picking off pickets, and shooting from behind the rocks and bushes along the high roads all who bore the semblance of Union men-a most unnatural and cowardly species of warfare.

When arrested with arms in hand, they were, according to their accounts, the most innocent, as well as the most abused, of men. Not one of them ever purposed doing any harm.

On being interrogated as to their object in being armed, their invariable reply was:

"We were only hunting squirrels.”

They were mostly unshaven and unshorn,

presenting a filthy appearance, and were attired in the most heterogeneous and primeval manner, for Western Virginia is truly a museum of old clothes.

We would occasionally receive letters of the following character from officers at camps, where Secession prisoners were confined :

HEADQUARTERS O. V., U. S. A.,

Camp Chase, December 5, 1861.

QUARTERMASTER AT CLARKSBURG:

SIR-H. T. Martin, who is a prisoner at this place, had sent to him a carpet-bag containing clothes, and which, he says, is detained by you until his trial shall occur. If this be the case, such a course only compels the Governor to furnish him while here. Nothing is sent into the prison without an examination, and only when found unobjectionable. You will please, therefore, send everything belonging to said Martin that is necessary as evidence, to this camp.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

W. H. CLAPP,

Act. A. A. G.

Not aware that we were detaining Martin's

carpet-bag, we replied:

OFFICE OF ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER,

Clarksburg, December 9, 1861.

CAPTAIN-In reply to your communication of the

5th inst., I have the honor to inform you that I

never heard of Martin, or his carpet-bag, until the

receipt of your letter.

I am respectfully, yours,

CHAS. LEIB, Captain and A. Q. M.

CAPT. W. H. CLAPP, Act. A. A. G., Camp Chase, Ohio.

Among the prisoners sent to Clarksburg, was a young girl of seventeen, named Mary Jane Green. She resided in Braxton County, and, for a long time, was engaged in carrying a mail between Sutton, the county seat of that county, and the rebel camp on the Gauley. She was illiterate, perfectly fearless, and cordially hated the "Yankee vagabonds, as she termed the Federal troops. She was noted for her profanity, and when, with the rest of the family, she was arrested, cursed and swore like a professional blackleg, or horse racer, declaring she would have the heart's blood of every "Lincoln pup" in Western Virginia. The real cause of the war, and the effect of Secession, having been explained to her brother, he expressed a desire to be permitted to take the oath of allegiance, saying that he had been misled. Mary Jane became furious, forgot all sisterly affection she possessed, denounced him as a coward, and swore that he might take the oath, but that they could not make a d-d Abolitionist of her. When on her way to Clarksburg, in charge of