"Nor yet have I alluded to the fact that, in July, 1861, a company of armed men, forty-four in number, wearing the uniform of United States soldiers, and acting professedly under orders from headquarters, surrounded my house, and ransacked it from cellar to garret. What they expected to find, or were looking for, I never asked, I never knew. Nor to the ransacking of my editorial office; the destruction of my private papers, etc., etc., which was done in April, 1862, when I was absent; nor to the almost numberless unlawful and unjust indignities, disabilities, etc., that were put upon me during the three years and more that I was a prisoner. Nor yet have I alluded to the horrible outrages, cruelties, and barbarities which I saw practised on helpless prisoners, and for no reason whatever. All this I pass by. If an aocount of them be given, let it be given by others."

ORMOND BARRETT, THOMAS C. MACDOWELL, J.

ON

MONTGOMERY FOSTER, AND M. J. JONES.

N the 6th of August, 1862, at about 4 o'clock A.M., Pro. vost Marshal Lafayette C. Baker, of Washington City, D. C., accompanied by Captain I. Dodge, (then acting as mustering officer and Provost Marshal at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,) the Chief of Police of that city, and a file of United States soldiers, arrested Messrs. Ormond Barrett and Thomas C. MacDowell, Editors and Proprietors of the "Patriot and Union," a Democratic daily and weekly newspaper, published at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, together with J. Montgome y Foster, Assistant Editor, and M. J. Jones, Local Editor of the said paper. The arrest of the above-named gentlemen was made at their respective homes, within a few minutes of each other. Colonel MacDowell's residence was first visited, and his arrest first made. When the object of their visit was ma le known to the Colonel by the Provost Marshal, which was done from the steps of his dwelling, where Baker stood dressed in the full uniform of a Captain of Infantry, the door was opened and Colonel MacDowell asked the mearing of the presence of armed men, who were surrounding his premises.

Both Baker and Dodge announced their desire to see Colu nel MacDowell, and requested to be admitted to the house. The Colonel answered that Captains Baker and Dodge, and the Chief of Police might enter, but none of the armed guard then present. This was assented to, and Baker, Dodge, and Chief of Police B. Campbell stepped into the parlor, where the following dialogue ensued:

COLONEL MCDOWELL. "What is your business with me, gentlemen?"

CAPTAIN BAKER. "I am ordered to arrest you, sir." COL. MACD. "Have you authority, in writing, to make ny arrest?"

CAPT. B. "I have."

COL. MACD. authority?"

"Will you be kind enough to show me the

Baker drew from his breast-pocket a paper and handed it to the Colonel, which purported to be an order from General H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief, commanding Baker to proceed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and arrest Messrs. O. Barrett, Thomas C. MacDowell, J. Montgomery Foster, and M. J. Jones, Editors and Proprietors of the "Patriot and Union" newspaper, and convey them to Washington City, to be tried by a Military Commission, for publishing a certain handbill discouraging enlistments, and that he (the Provost Marshal) "shall seize the presses, type, fixtures, and all the property found in the Patriot and Union' printing establishment, and turn the same over to the United States Quartermaster at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who shall forward the same to Washington City." (For some reason, the confiscation por tion of the order was never executed.)

Colonel MacDowell then asked permission to put up a few articles of clothing, and also to inform his family of the necessity of his absence. An hour was readily granted for this purpose, and on promise of Colonel MacDowell that he would report himself at the Mayor's office at the expiration of the allotted time, (5 o'clock A.M.,) the Marshal and his posse left his premises. About 5 o'clock A.M., Messrs. Barrett, MacDowell, Foster, and Jones were at the Mayor's office, and at about six o'clock they were marched off by the Provost Marshal and a file of soldiers, with muskets and fixed bayonets, to the depot of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, and put on the cars, with the Marshal and a guard of soldiers as close attendants.

On arriving at the cars, they found, for the first time, Brigadier-General James Wadsworth, then acting Military Governor of the District of Columbia, who, they were in

formed, had come to Harrisburg to superintend their arrest, but who had taken care to be neither seen nor known by any one until after the arrests were made, and the prisoners seated in the cars. General Wadsworth was in the full uniforma of a Brigadier-General of the United States Army, without side-arms. Arriving at Washington, General Wadsworth ordered the prisoners to be lodged in the Old Capitol Prison, by the Marshal, who still had them in charge. They were marched thither and handed over to the Superintendent, William P. Wood, who, after carefully examining their baggage and persons, assigned them room No. 10, where they were kept, as the other prisoners were in that place, until the 23d of August, 1862, when they were liberated, after undergoing the consummate farce of an examination by Judge Advocate L. C. Turner, in the presence of General Wadsworth.

When brought before the Judge Advocate, they demanded the affidavit upon which they had been arrested, the name or names of their accuser or accusers, and the specific charges that justified the great outrage that had been perpetrated in their arrest and incarceration; but, strange to tell, both the Judge Advocate and General Wadsworth had to acknowledge that there was no written specific charge, no accuser or accusers; and, after taking their respective statements under oath, in which they severally stated their unconsciousness of having committed any crime or offence against the Government, the Constitution, or the laws of the land, they were told they were at liberty to go whithersoever they pleased. They left Washington on the following morning, the 24th of August, 1862, and arrived at their homes in Harrisburg, the same evening, after ar imprisonment of eighteen days.

PHILIP HILBISH.

MR. PHILIF HILBISHI is a native of Pennsylvania, and

was born in 1813. In early life, with commendable am

bition, he determined to acquire an education. By his own industry, he fitted himself for, and graduated at college, with the highest honors.

His first enterprise, subsequently, was to enter into partnership with a friend in the mercantile business, in which he continued six years. At the expiration of that time, he had accumulated enough money, from an original investment of fifteen hundred dollars, to commence business on his own account. He removed, in 1845, to McKee's Half Falls, about twelve miles distant from Liverpool, Perry County, and rented a store and hotel. His business proved eminently successful, from strict attention, so that, in the third year, he bought the property he had rented, for twelve thousand dol lars, for which he has since been offered forty-five thousand dollars.

Continued success enabled him to purchase the valuable property of Dr. A. S. Cummings, at Selin's Grove, Snyder County, where he now resides, respected for his energy and perseverance, and beloved for his upright and manly charac ter, and practical benevolence. He was invited by his Republican neighbors to call a mass meeting, and urge upon the people the duty of enlisting in the army to suppress the rebellion. He firmly but courteously declined, adding "that he had no objection to any person enlisting in the service who desired to do so, but that he would urge it upon no one.' His two sons subsequently joined the army, and were honorably discharged. The one served over two years, and the other four years and two months.