join us. The brigade band accompanied it, and was drawn up
beside the road to play "Yankee Doodle" as we passed; but so eager were
the performers to see Davis, that they forgot their music, and the tune
came to a laughable break-down. Immediately after, they struck up "Old
John Brown," the boys putting in the words,

"And we'll hang Jeff Davis on a sour-apple-tree,"

with gusto,--which so affected him that he pulled down the curtain of
his ambulance. This force also brought out President Johnson's
proclamation of a reward for the capture we had already made. Reagan was
the first of the prisoners to read it, and he then handed it to Davis.
After this the party seemed to be more cast down.

It should be mentioned, that, in addition to the detachments under
Lieutenant-Colonels Harnden and Pritchard, there was a force sent out
under Colonel Rowland to patrol the left bank of the Flint River, so as
to make certain of Davis's capture, if he should conclude the forces on
the banks of the Ocmulgee. It will be observed that he was captured in
the country between the two rivers, not far from the Ocmulgee.

Without any mishap, from the time of the capture to the end of the
journey, save the breaking down of the ambulance, the loss of which was
supplied by the pressing of a carriage for Davis's convenience, we
arrived at Macon on the evening of the 13th, in triumph; and the bugle
thereupon sounding the "Recall," the great drill of "Running at the
Heads" ended, and the troopers were dispersed to their quarters.

THE CHIMNEY-CORNER.

IX.

LITTLE FOXES.--PART VII.

At length I am arrived at my seventh fox,--the last of the domestic
quadrupeds against which I have vowed a crusade,--and here opens the
chase of him. I call him

EXACTINGNESS.

And having done this, I drop the metaphor, for fear of chasing it beyond
the rules of graceful rhetoric, and shall proceed to define the trait.

All the other domestic faults of which I have treated have relation to
the manner in which the ends of life are pursued; but this one is an
underlying, false, and diseased state of conception as to the very ends
and purposes of life itself.

If a piano is tuned to exact concert pitch, the majority of voices must
fall below it; for which reason, most people indulgently allow their
pianos to be tuned a little below this point, in accommodation to the
average power of the human voice. Persons of only ordinary powers of
voice would