began to
fag. They were out of wood, water, and oil. Their rapid
running and inattention to the engine had melted all the
brass from the journals. They had no time to repair or
refit, for an iron-horse of more bottom was close behind.
Fuller and Murphy, and their men, soon came within four
hundred yards of them, when the fugitives jumped from the
engine, and left it, three on the north side, and five on
the south side; all fleeing precipitately, and scattering
through the thicket. Fuller and his party also took to the
woods after them.

Some gentleman, also well armed, took the engine and some
cars of the down passenger train at Calhoun, and followed up
Fuller and Murphy and their party in the chase, but a short
distance behind, and reached the place of the stampede but a
very few moments after the first pursuers did. A large
number of men were soon mounted, armed, and scouring the
country in search of them. Fortunately, there was a militia
muster at Ringgold. A great many countrymen were in town.
Hearing of the chase, they put out on foot and on horseback
in every direction, in search of the daring, but now
thoroughly frightened and fugitive men.

We learn that Fuller, soon after leaving his engine, in
passing a cabin in the country, found a mule, having on a
bridle but no saddle, and tied to a fence. "_Here's your
mule_," he shouted, as he leaped upon his back, and put out
as fast as a good switch, well applied, could impart vigor
to the muscles and accelerate the speed of the patient
donkey. The cry of "Here's your mule," and "Where's my
mule," have become national, and are generally heard when,
on the one hand, no mule is about, and on the other when no
one is hunting a mule. It seems not to be understood by any
one, though it is a peculiar Confederate phrase, and is as
popular as Dixie, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. It
remained for Fuller, in the midst of this exciting chase, to
solve the mysterious meaning of this national by-word or
phrase, and give it a practical application.

All of the eight men were captured, and are now safely
lodged in jail. The particulars of their capture we have not
received. This we hope to obtain in time for a postscript to
this, or for our second edition. They confessed that