volunteered to go to the Fort and procure his release, which they did the same evening.

He was confined in one of the most filthy prisons it is posible to conceive, and which he found to be full of old resi dents of the Plains, who had been seized, dragged from their homes, and imprisoned for weeks, without any known cause, and denied all intercourse with outside persons.

The sanitary condition of the prison was totally neglected, and the stench, arising from the accumulated filth on the floor, was sickening. Soon after entering it, he had an opportunity to see the food furnished the prisoners for supper, which was as loathsome and disgusting as it was unwholesome, and was totally unfit to be eaten by a human being.

This, together with other uncalled-for inhumanities which were practised on those noble pioneers of civilization, who were charged with no offence, and whose fealty to the Government was above reproach, was an act of cruelty and injustice which will be remembered by the citizens of the West, long after its perpetrators shall have sunk into the tomb of the Capulets.

As soon as the friends alluded to could go to the Fort and obtain an order for the General's release, he was discharged, but ordered to report at 9 o'clock A.M., on the 30th of July.

He reported at the Provost Marshal's office at the appointed time, and was informed by that official, that there were no charges against him, but that he must enter into bond, with security, not to leave the State without the permission of the Military Commission, and to appear before it when notified to answer to any charges that would be made against him.

On the 18th of August, he demanded an honorable release from his bond, which was sent to him with the following indorsement:

"Prisoner honorably discharged, August 26, 1862, and bond cancelled. E A. CALKINS,

(Signed)

Major 3d Wisconsin Cavalry, and Provost Marshal "

On the morning after his release, he made known to the residents of the city of Leavenworth, that a large number of persons were held in durance Ly the military authorities, who did not know why they had been arrested, as no charges had been filed against them. He succeeded, with considerable difficulty, in obtaining their release on the last day of July.

General Brindle returned to his native State in October, 1862, where he has since resided.

JOHN T. GILMER, M.D

R. JOHN T. GILMER, of Adams County, State of Illi

DR.

nois, was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, in the year 1808. He was a son of Dr. John T. Gilmer, a Virginian by birth and education, who removed from Virginia to Georgia, and from Georgia to Kentucky, in the year 1813, and from Kentucky to Illinois in 1833.

The subject of this sketch had in early boyhood embraced the Christian religion, and, throughout his life and in the hour of death, he was cheered and sustained by its influence.

He was courteous, kind, generous, and hospitable. These virtues drew around him the poor, who sought his beneficence, the helpless, to whom he extended a generous aid, and the persecuted, who found shelter beneath his roof.

A hungry man never left the house of Dr. Gilmer, nor did a shivering stranger ever approach it without receiving an invitation to warm at his fires, and share the comforts of his home.

When the reign of cruelty, torture, and terror was supreme in Missouri, hundreds of its best citizens were driven out of their houses to witness the destruction of their property, insult to their families, and to make their escape at midnight, by the dazzling light of their burning dwellings. Others, seeing their parents or children shot down, fled, to escape with their lives, and in distant places sought shelter, until the murderous storm was over.

"Wherever they hoisted their standards black,

Before them was murder, behind them was wreck."

Men were shot down in the fields, and their remains were fed to the swine. Nameless cruelties were perpetrated, until many

of the people of Missouri were strangers and pilgrims, scattered over the Mississippi Valley.

The wide extent of Dr. Gilmer's acquaintance, as a member of the Christian Church and as a physician, attracted many of the most respectable of these refugees to his house, where he entertained them with a liberality, which will be kindly remembered after his persecutors are dead and forgotten. This kindness was considered an offence against "loyalty," and occasioned his arrest.

In the summer of 1863, the Doctor was seized at his home and dragged to Quincy, by a regiment of mercenaries, mainly Austrians, who had been engaged with Haynau in his butcheries in Hungary, and who had committed several murders in the Quincy military district. From Quincy he was taken to Springfield, Illinois, by these brutes, (who had insulted his family at the time of his arrest,) cast into a miserable, filthy prison, and there detained until the indignation of the people, at the grossness of these outrages, became so wide-spread, that the authorities were compelled to release him.

He had committed no offence, unless it be an offence to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and visit the sick.

This imprisonment wounded his proud and sensitive spirit to such an extent, that he never afterward enjoyed good health. He had a stroke of apoplexy, induced by his imprisonment, from which he partially recovered, but finally yielded to its power.

He died as he lived, the friend of liberty, and the servant of God.

THE

JOHN H. COOK.

HE case of Mr. John H. Cook, althougn not a grievous one in con.parison with others, because he was not sub jected to the personal indignities which many others suf fered, is an interesting one from the fact that it shows the malice, the lawlessness, and the vindictiveness with which he was persecuted.

Mr. Cook was born in the village of Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware, on the 22d day of July, 1817. He has been for thirty-three years a resident of the city of Philadel phia, and has always borne an unexceptionable character.

He was arrested on the 22d of September, 1862, on an order issued by the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, and directed to Benjamin Franklin, Chief of the Detective Police Force of the City of Philadelphia. The names of those who are supposed to have made the affidavit on which the warrant for Mr. Cook's arrest was issued, are George Wood, William Lowry, and Thomas Naylor. The order was placed in the hands of John Lemon and W. Bartholomew, who made the arrest. Mr. Cook knew not then, nor has he yet been informed of the cause of his arrest, but supposes it was because he had the moral courage to openly proclaim himself a Democrat.

At the time of his arrest, he was engaged at his daily business, he being the receiving teller in the Kensington National Bank, which position he has held with credit for fifteen years. He was taken from the bank to the Mayor's office, and incarcerated in the room of the detectives. Mr. Cook having, on his way thither, incidentally met with I Newton Brown, Esq., a member of the Philadelphia bar, in an undertone stated his case, and requested Mr. Brown to