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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1913. Brooklyn Society Brides of the Fall-Miss Antoinette Butler. Miss Marjorie Prentiss, Miss Grace Meurer Among Them. In all' likelihood.

this will be a fall notable for weddings of unusual, interest. Among the brides of these months will probably be Miss Marjorie Prentiss, Miss Antoinette Reeve Butler, Miss Dorothy Newcomb, Miss Eugenie Lexow and Madeleine' Clark. No dates have yet been aunounced, of course, and tails of wedding parties at the present moment be given. Miss Antoinette Butler's wedding, plans are not changed, will be one the most important of all. Miss Butler has been one of the leading Brooklyn belles ever since her debut.

She has proved a very distinctive and charming personality among the well-known girls of this borough, and she is to marry into a prominnt family of the Heights, the Hewitts, of Remsen street. Miss Butler is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth Reeve Butler, of Gates avenue. Her father, besides beirg a man of much ability professionally, is one of the most successful and renowned American medical authors, his technical having a very wide sale, and his -this coming bride's grandfatheris no less widely celebrated as a Biblical commentator.

Miss Antoinette Reeve Butler is a very engaging amateur actress, an especially good dancer, an active and important figure in philanthropic work, and one of the most attractive girls of the social world. Her bridegroom is to be Brower Hewitt, who now makes his home in New Haven, and is associated with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He is the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B.

Hewitt, of Remsen street, and brother of Edward (who was 1193. Miss Mary Hewitt, and now resides in North Stonington, Miss Grace Meurer and Ira Richards, whose engagement was announced only a few weeks ago, are to make another interesting bride and bridegroom at new Meurer country place, at of fall. Miss Meurer is now down the Belle Terre, L. I. She is, as will be well recalled, one of the daughters of Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob Meurer, Lincoln place, and her fiance, originally a North Attleborough man, is a nephew of Mrs. John B. Norris, of 104 Willow street, and a cousin of Alfred L. Norris.

This, it is likely, will be one of the most attractive of the September-November marriages. Miss Dorothy Newcomb, Mrs. Burnett L. Collins' sister, of St. Mark's avenue, and Stephen L.

Rae are also probabilities of the fall wedding list. Miss Madeleine Clark and Stephen Miles Bell are another couple of the fall, whose wedding cards friends are eagerly awaiting. Besides Miss Dorothy Newcomb, there is to be another St. Mark's avenue girl in the fall's bridal ranks, Miss Eugenie Lexow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Allan Lexow, and a niece of the famous exSenator Clarence Lexow of "upstate," and Kennth Lydecker of Manhattan. The Heights set really has two prosn pective brides, Miss Marjorie Prentiss, in addition to Miss Antoinette Reeve Butler. Miss Prentiss has been one of the very active social figures on the Heights, and she is to become the wife of Fordham Paye, who comes of an old and substantial Brooklyn family, being the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter K.

Paye of 31 Schermerhorn street. Miss Prentiss 16 noted as one of the cleverest of the girls who have managed charity entertainments in Brooklyn. She 1s, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt Prentiss of 108 Pierrepont street and a sister of Russell E.

Prentiss, who married Miss Della Carmen. Miss Marion Van Cleef Wins the Woman's Golf Tournament at Belle Terre. In the woman's golf tournament at Belle Terre on Thursday, Miss Marion Van Cleef proved the winner, beating Miss Helen Ruth Moore, last year's victor, by a very small margin. Miss Moore made an excellent second. Miss Van Cleef, who made her debut in Brooklyn this past season, and Miss Moore, who goes to Vassar this fall, are two of the prettiest of the girls in the Brooklyn Long Island colonies.

Miss Helen Rogers and Miss Jane Applegate Two of the Belles at Spofford, H. There 1s much gayety at Spofford, N. where many summer vacationists are gathered, including several impor-61 tant familles, from Brooklyn. Miss Helen Rogers Miss Jane Applegate are two of the belles. The season opened Friday evening with a Fourth of July ball at the Pine Grove Springs Hotel, the orders being elaborately decorated with reproductions of American flags in their full colors and a golden eagle.

Yachting, tennis, golf and riding are the chief amusements. House Parties. Miss Alice Blum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C.

Blum, is to entertain at her country home, in Bay Shore, over this coming Sunday, Miss Janet Christie Bowers, Vincent Armstrong and Caryl Sayre. At Bay Shore, also, Miss Marguerite Du Mary is to have as her guests over the same weekend, Miss Alma Bogue, Dana Burnell and Ruel Ross Appleton, jr. Another house party, this having already taken place, had as its hosts Mr. and Mrs. William H.

English. The English country home is at Red Bank. Mr. and Mrs. English and Radford English entertained Miss Anne Ward, W.

Harris Thurston, Miss Dorothy Luckenbach, Walter De Grauw, Caryl Sayre and Miss Dorothy Thurston. Brooklynites Who Are Summering in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or New York State. While Long Island and New England are by far the favorite summer homes for well-known Brooklyn familles, there are many who yearly choose New Jersey or New York State. Pennsylvania has a few households from this borough, although it has, somehow, never been a popular resort for Brooklynites. The following list will prove interesting: New Jersey.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Troy, Spring Lake; Mr. and Mrs.

Franklin W. Hopkins, Alpine; Dr. and Mrs. George Gray Ward, Seabright; Mrs. Henri Werlemann, Locust; Mr.

and Mrs. Benjamin D. Benson, Caldwell; Mr. a and Mrs. Charles D.

Sayre, Englewood; Mrs. Joseph C. Hoagland, Mr. and- Mrs. John H.

Emanuel, Englewood; Mr. and Mrs. R. Morton La Vie, Avon-by-theSea; Mrs. Robert H.

Turle, Colonia; Mr. and Mrs. John N. Sayre, Asbury Park; Mr. and Mrs.

William M. Runyon, Summit; Mr. and Mrs. George H. Fletcher, Spring Lake; Mr.

and Mrs. George H. Prentiss, Elberon; Mrs. Maude Boody Carey, Montclair; Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Edwards Prentiss, Elberon; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hoagland, Red Baude; Mr. Mrs. John M.

Rider, Avon-by-theSea; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Wise, Stend- ham. New York.

Mr. and Mrs. William Cary Sanger, Sangerfield; Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R.

French, Paul Smith's, Adirondacks; Mr. and Mrs. Juan A. Almirall, Cragsmoor; Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew J. Ferry, Cherry Valley; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edward Henry, Hague, Lake George; Mr. and Mrs.

a Charles M. Englis, Chippawa Bay, Thousand Islands; and Mrs. Edward Hatel, Port Henry; the Rev. J. Howard Melish and Mrs.

Melish, Lake George; Mr. and Mrs. W. Irving Glover, Twilight Park; Mr. and Arnold Watson Sherman, Unadilla; Mr.

and Mrs. Everett L. Crawford, Port Chester. Mrs. John E.

Tousey, Lake Mohonk; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Marache, White Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.

Peabody, Lake George; Mr. and Mrs. Qmri Ford Hibbard, Twilight Park; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Malloy, Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Rogers Mallory, Port Chester; General Mrs. W. Wingate, Mr. and Mrs.

John Garrett Underhill, Twilight Park; Miss Florence Hegeman, Lake honk; Mrs. Charles W. Ide, St. Hubert's, Adirondacks; the Misses Wheelock, light Park; Mr. and Mrs.

William Harkness, Briarcliff Manor; Mr. and Mrs. E. Victor Frothingham, Bolton; Mr. and Mrs.

Campbell C. Broun, Twilight Park; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Hineaman.

Pennsylvania. Colonel and Mrs. William C. Beecher, Mr. and Mrs.

James Guthrie Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. de Selding, Buck Hill Falls. Miss Helen Truslow Has a The Dansante Given for Her.

her summer home in Cranford, N. Mrs. Augustus F. Babcock (Miss Lillian Sloan that was) gave a The dansante a week ago yesterday for her niece, Miss Helen Truslow, Mr. and Mrs.

Frederic C. Truslow's daughter. It was an afternoon affair with nearly fifty guests present. The large veranda was made use of as well as the entire first a floor of the house itself. MUNICIPAL REGISTER.

lie Finnegan, 2967 Decatur avenue, Bronx; Doran, Gertrude Way, Hooper 862 avenue; Cauldwell Catherine avenue; Savage, Anita Lillian Bettinger, East 130th street, Manhattan; East Thirty street, Manhattan: Anna Kearns, 78 Castor avenue; Irene Farrell, 11 Spruce Court: Margaret Kelly, 2108 Madison avenue; Louise Themas, 1901 Atlantie avenue; Elizabeth Stack, 796 Classon avenue. Preferred Board of Water Supply; Engineer; New Brighton, List; S. Grade Arthur Bernhardt, Ruggles, 360 East 270th street. For information on civil service matters, address The Brooklyn Daily Eaglo Civil Service Bureau. Answers will be published in this column.

No queries Certified for Appointment. Police fifth grade: Andrew Evans, 410 West 140th st, Manhattan; John A. Miller, 1648 Sixty-ninth street; Frank Crabtree, Port Richmond, L. I. Police Department--Clerk, fourth grade: George Crosby, Richmond Hill, L.

Vincent Finn, 2044 Washington avenue, Bronx; Robert Gay, 273 Steinway avenue, Long Island City. Police Department-Clerk, third grade: Joseph Nichols, 862 Willoughby avenue; John Dillon, 58 Concord street; Harry Rubin, West 117th street, Manhattan; Stephen J. McDonald, 10 Milford street; Thomas Gaffney, 533 West 148th street, Manhattan; Edward Ray, Flatbush, L. George Kane, 273 Albany avenue. Health Department--Clerk, first grade: Christopher O' Brien, 2311 Crotona avenue; Samuel Sternberg, 614 Sutter avenue; Adam Keane, Morton street, Manhattan.

Police Department-Patrolman: Michael Dwyer, 110. Fourteenth street; Thomas Crawford, 456 West Fifty -fifth street; Patrick Crawley, 2790 Sixth avenue, all of Manhattan; Henry Robbins, 1325 Washington avenue, Bronx; Emil Blumler, 1337 Vyse avenue, Bronx; Charles Tuttle, 613 Liberty avenue: James Kelly, 533 Henry street; Andrew Kerrigan, :80 Wyckoff avenue; Henry Darling, Jamaica, L. Williams, 110 East Ninety-eighth street, Manhattan; Antonio Caravetts, 42 Baxter street; George Barr, 462 West street, Manhattan; George Dapping, 948 Tilden avenue. Health Department; Dentist-Theodore Peterson, 452 Bergen street; Edward Riblet, 366 West 145th street, Manhattan: Eldin Smith. 814 Prospect place; Thomas Webb, 2025 Cropsey avenue; Winfield Terry, 140 East Ninety-second street, Manhattan.

Department of Water Supply, Gas a and Electricity; Third Grade: Clerk--George Price, 22 Elton street; Michael Ryan, 188 Jefferson street; Cornelius Hasey, 326 West Forty -second street, Manhattan; Frank Muelle, 623 Lafayette avenue; Edward Henderson, 6647 Bay Twentyfirst street. Department of Public Works; Attendant; Pre-Margaret Woods, 108 East 118th street, Manhattan; competitive list, Anna Pidgen, 349 West Fourth street, Manhattan; Matilda Hogg. 226 West 111th street; Ellen Dinen, 645 East Twelfth street; Isabella Ahren, 15 East 199th street; Minnie Comerford, 264 West Twentynfth street, all of Manhattan; Theresa Roome, 256 Montauk avenue; Disa Huntington, 278 Union street; Josephine Lahey, 32 Leroy street; Mary Casey, 839 Bergen street. Department of Public Works, Manhattan; Assistant Engineer--Charles Shaughnessy, Cold Spring, L. Richard Bradsbury, Pleasantville, L.

George Shaw, 1835 East Nineteenth street; Martin Sanborn, Pleasantville, L. Theodore Coffin, Katmah, N. Robert Brown, 21 West 127th street, Manhattan; Walter Cohen, 109 Kingston avenue; Stephen Vernon, Albany, N. Virgil Hale, 131 West Twenty-first street, Manhattan: Arthur Kahn, 567 Sixth street; George Knight, 208 Ryerson street. President Borough of Manhattan: Attendant; Preferred--Catherine Reilly, 166 Delancey street; Mary Corsath, 620 Lenox avenue, Manhattan.

Bureau Licenses; Temporary Clerk: Preferred-Roger Hogan, 115 Avenue Frank Ryan, 276 Broadway, both cf Manhattan. Department of Street Cleaning; Clerk: Second Grade--Joseph Russell, 75 Seventh avenue: Edward Anderson, -second street and Third avenue; Charles Alexander, 141 East 114th street. Manhattan. Law Department; Telephone -Florence Wade. 463 West Fifty-ninth street, Manhattan; Rose Hickey.

22 Tompkins place; Nel- MISS RUDOLPH ENGAGED. Mr. and Mrs. W. H.

Rudolph of 399 Hancock street have announced the engagement of their daughter, Gladys Marie, to Daniel Denison Streeter, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Streeter of Brooklyn.

PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From The Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Taupe charmeuse gown, with pale blue yoke, lace collar and cuffs, blue buttons. THE FLOOD PEACE A 1 WAR BALKAN olate than the portion of Virginia which we left. "The boys marched cheerfully, along, although we were pushed fearfully, freBut nothing troubled me.

I have got a quently making over twenty miles a day. splendid horse, an immense beast, strong and sound, and he gets fat where many a good horse gives out. He does not lack for care or feed, for the whole drum and corps about (sixteen the boys hardest about set 16 of years cubs old ever heard of) are anxlous to rub him or steal oats for him along the road for the privilege of riding him to water and going errands for me on him. Drum Corps a Pest to the Officer in Charge. "The drum corps are the special charge of the adjutant, and a nice charge they are, as you may suppose, in camp.

I have the half or the third of them in the guard, house and sweeping the camp a good share of the time, and on the march it is almost Impossible to keep them in the ranks. They throw away the drums and break in the heads so they need not play, and this morning, in passing through Littleton, I called for music. I found but one drum in order out of the whole. They are a nice set. "As we passed through the town, Must as the head of the regiment passed, a woman came to the door with a basketful of doughnuts; such a thing hadn't.

I teen seen in the drum corps since they came out. They made on rush en masse, on the doughnuts, and if the woman had not been inside she surely would have been trampled to death. She was glad to drop the basket and retreat as it was, while the rest of the regiment grumbled and swore at the greediness of the drum corps. "We stopped at Point of Rocks on the night of the 26th, near Petersville. On the 27th, while passing through this town, a woman on a of a fine house, stood holding the Stars and Stripes, the first the boys had seen except in their own ranks, for many a long day, and the cheers that rose from the column as regiment after regiment passed the house must have startled the old Secesh that stood along the walks, looking as though their last friend had departed.

The next night we camped close to Frederick; the next morning at daybreak we passed through the city. "Gettysburg, July 2-I was interrupted by the bugle call to fall in. I will go on with my story now. We reached Tennytown, on the 29th and on the 30th we crossed the Pennsylvania line and camped that night at Littleton. Left there next morning and reached the camp when I commenced this at noon yesterday.

About 3 p.m., while writing this we fell in and moved nearer the town. Soon we began to see the women and children coming back. Very shortly the wounded began to appear, while the thunder of the guns ahead told us what to expect. We soon reached a and passed the reserve line and took our position on the left to prevent a flank movement. We passed about 500 or 600 Graybacks and one or two rebel colors that had been captured and the boys felt well.

We moved about until after dark, when we laid down in line of battle and slept until 3 o'clock this morning. Regiment in Line of Battle as Letter Was Written. "We then moved about a mile to the right and formed our line where we now stand (10 a.m.). The rebel line of battle can be plainly seen about a mile ahead of us. We are hid in the woods.

Skirmishers are out on both sides and every moment a shot can be heard, and at little intervals a shell goes whistling through the air, sometimes on the right and again away off on the left. What they or we are waiting for I cannot imagine, but a few hours will tell the story. The day is good for a fight, cloudy and cool. "The First Corps lost heavily in yesterday's fight. The whole Army of the Potomac is here, I think, and we are confident of victory.

I will go and get something to eat now and will close my letter and direct it in case anything should happen. "Your affectionate son, "VIRGIL." TIMELY PRINTS BY EAGLE. (From the Bookseller. Newsdealer and Sta- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has two publications that are timely, and annuals that have come be looked for. The 1913 edition of "Trolley Exploring' has all the excellent features of the previous well-known editions and many new additions that will be of use to the trolley traveler in six States, namely, Now York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

This year's edition has among other up-to-date features a route on the way to Gettysburg. There are 140 pages, many of which are illustrated as usual, and all the new trolley lines are given with full and lucid descriptions of the new attractions along each route. (Price, 10 cents.) "The Summer Resort Directory Section, 1913," is a valuable help to those uncertain souls who want suggestions as to where to spend the summer, what it costs and how to get there. Its maps, diagrams and tabulated resorts and places are grouped under States in such a way as to be a source of great value to tourists, commuters and vacationists. The information is accurate and its range is wide.

The publication is too. well known to need any special commendation. This year's edition occupies seventy-two pages with pictorial cover. Price, 50 cents. Are You Planning -to build a house? -to remodel one? -to decorate and furnish one? If you are considering any of these matters we want you to give us an opportunity to explain our methods and to show what we can do for you.

A visit to our studio-showrooms will be a pleasure. J. Clawson Mills Co. General Contracting Decorators, 44 Clinton Street, Brooklyn. failed every day under this treatment and some of them sickened and died.

For my own part I grew so weak and poor that I could not walk without difficulty from one end of the camp to the other. For the last week I could not leave my tent at all; when I stood up I became so dizzy that I had to hold on to something to keep up. Guards Sold Small Loaves of Bread at 50 Cents. 50-YEAR-OLD LETTER A GETTYSBURG RELIC Written on Field of Famous Fight on July 1 and 2, 1863. WRITER DEAD 10 HOURS LATER Captain J.

Virgil Upham Wrote to His Mother While War's Horrors Raged About Him. Out the past of fifty years ago, a letter was brought to light in Brooklyn today to speak as nothing else could of the drama of Gettysburg. It was written in two sections, on July 1 and July 2, fifty years ago, on the battlefield which markmost sanguinary conflict of the Civil War; and ten hours after its writer had signed and sealed it, he fell dead, shot through the head, while aiding in the defense of Culp'6 Hill. The writer of the letter was Captain J. Virgil Upham, commander of a company of the 102d Regiment of New York State Volunteers.

His brother, Vernon B. Upham, who has been in business in Brooklyn for forty-seven years, now living at 159 Bainbridge street, brought out the letter today. Captain Upham, in his letter to his mother, wrote as one would write who had to tell of the interesting country and the incidents seen on a week -end visit. No reader could glean from it anything cf the horrors of war, nor anything that would indicate a dread of the cannons' thundering, which the writer a says that he heard as he wrote. The letter begins with the date line, "Camp Near Gettysburg, July 1, and there is no indication that the deciding battle of the war is being waged as he writes.

The first four lines of his letter are in ink, remainder in pencil, with simply the notation, "Ink is played out." There is an abrupt break in the letter half-way through, and then it goes on under date of July 2, being written now as it the pencil were being handled in desperate haste, so that all that needed to be said could be placed on paper before the writer had to leave it -for the battle, the end of which he could not tell. Day Cloudy and Cool, "Good for Fight." This second section is inscribed while Captain: Upham's company is In actual line of battle, at 10 a.m. of July 2. He tells of the shells going whistling through the air, now on the right and now on the left; cannot imagine "what they or we are waiting for;" notes, like the true soldier, that "the day is good for a fight, cloudy and cool;" records his belief that the whole Army of the Potomac is. on hand and "we are confident of victory," and then finishes: "I will go and get something to eat now and will close my letter and direct it.

in case anything should happen." "Something" did happen, and the let-; ter went on its way to the mother as the last message she would ever have from her soldier son. There was room at its end to write the final chapter: "Ten hours later, while in command of 8 company in the defense of Culp's Hill he was shot through the head and died immediately," Since then, the letter has been treasured and guarded and has never before been published. The mother died in 1878, and was buried in Greenwood, and Vernon B. Upham has since had the letter. His brother's regiment, in the battle of Gettysburg, was under the command of Louis R.

Stegman of Brooklyn, chairman of the Battlefeld Commission. Text of the Battlefield Letter. This is the story of the two days fifty years ago, and the days preceding them, as they were actually experienced by the man whose story was finally interupted by the call of death: "Headquarters 102d N. Y. "Camp near Gettysburg, Pa.

July 1, 1863. "Dear Mother--I received your letter while on the road, a few miles from Frederick City, Md. An orderly brought it to me while the column was moving. It came in a small headquarters mail via Frederick. Ink is played out.

I wrote my last from Leesburg, Va. We left there on the 26tb, I think, and crossed the toon at Edwards Ferry and commenced our march through Maryland. 0 what a change -it would be impossible for anyone to believe without seeing it what a difference in the country an hour's march made. Nothing could be finer than this portion of Maryland at this season of the year, aud nothing could be more des- Brooklyn Man's Trials In a Southern Prison Wartime Letter Written by Veteran Tells of His Capture and Confinement in Libby--James D. O'Connell's Interesting Experiences.

The experiences of a Brooklynite in Libby Prison during the Civil War are graphically related in a letter written from within the prison walls by the late James D. O'Connell, of 822 St. John's place. Mr. O'Connell was a member of Winchester Post, 197, G.

A. at the time of his death. He was the bearer of the historical letter sent Grant to Lee after Appomattox. Mr. O'Connell's letter, written July 26, 1863, follows: "Camp Parole, "Annapolis, July 26, 1863.

"Friend: It is with pleasure that I sit down to write to you again, and let you know that I am safe and in good health, after five weeks'. experience in Dixie. I am goirg to give a full count of what I have seen and suffered, from the time of my capture at Aldie until my arrival at Annapolis. will say nothing thout the fight at Aldie, as the papers have informed you all about it, only that we met the enemy about the middle of the afternoon of the 17th of June, when a fierce and bloody contest was commenced by the Harris Light Cavalry, who were in the advance as skirmishers. The rest of the brigade was halted in the town while the artillery was taking position.

We had been halted but a few minutes when Colonel Kilpatrick, who was in command, ordered the First Massachusetts forward to support the skirmishers. "When we got sight of the euemy the First Squadron charged, driving them a short distance, and then the squadron advanced to support First. While we were forming the charge, the on a hill opposite within pistol enemy suddenly mades their appeararce range, and opened a murderous fire on us, picking off both men and horses. We stood their fire for about five minutes before we were allowed to return a shot--the men and falling at every volley from the horses. How Mr.

O'Connell Was Captured by Confederates, "Just as we got the order to fire, my horse was shot, causing him to reel and fall, thereby dismounting me. I got hin up and tried to lead him to the rear, in order to get another. As I was leading him off (he was 80 badly wounded that it was very difficult for him to get along), the rebels charged our men, driving them on the road behind me; and, in order to save myself from being trampled by the crowd, I had to let the horse go, jump over a fence, and cross a large field close by. "I had scarcely got over the field when three rebel sharpshooters made their appearance from a clump of bushes, with their pieces leveled at me, and ordered me to surrerder. There was no help for it, I had to comply with their demand or be shot, SO I threw down my arms and gave myself up.

I was then hurried into the woods and given in charge of three others, to be carried to the rear of their forces, They had another of our boys with them, and v. were hurried off through a circuitous path in order to avoid any of our men that might be scouting around. We were marched through the most secluded paths, as the rebels seemed very much afraid of falling in with our scouts, until 10 o'clock p.m., when they stopped at a farm house where they procured a good supper for us all, and where they concluded to stay until morning. After supper we were shown into an attic room, where we were told we could sleep until called. One of the guard occupying the next room to us.

At about 2 o'clock, and after recelving directions how to proceed, we commenced our march for Upperville, which) place, we were told, was twenty-two miles distant. About one mile from the house We had to ford a deep creek. Our guards did not even give us time to take our boots off. After crossing the creek we still kept the by-paths, passing through farm yards and fields, until we came to a very handsome house, occupied by a man apparently a citizen, but from soine remarks I overheard I found that he was a major in Moseby's Guerrillas. Such are the peaceable citizens, who can have their property guarded whenever our forces are near them.

Hel 'gave the guard directions how to proceed in order to keep out of the way of any of our men, who might happen to be around. "After marchirg about six miles, I found that my boots, being heavy cavalry boots, were not fit to wear, and I gave them to a farmer for a pair of shoes. Prisoners Fed on Milk and Hoecake at Farmhouse. Our guard got some milk and hoecake for us at the farmer's house. When we arrived at Union we were given over to another guard, who were to carry us to Upperville.

This guard was composed of pretty good fellows, who allowed us to ride their horses a good part of the way. We reached Upperville at 2 p.m., and had been there but a short time when, to our surprise we saw about three hundred of the Rhode Island boys marching into the place. Our names were all taken, and the whole squad was started for Winchester under a detachment of the Fifth North Carolinary Cavalry as a guard. They marched us to Paris, a distance of eight miles. As we entered this place a heavy thunder shower came up, which lasted A about two hours, drenching us through.

In a short time, after the shower was over, we were marched into an open field, where we had to take our quarters for the night tired, hungry and wet. We got no rations and were not allowed to buy any; the night was wet and I suffered for want of something to shelter me, as I lost everything I had when I was captured. We were started off again next morning without anything to eat, and marched to Winchester. a distance of eighteen miles, on an empty stomach. I thought I should die before I got there.

On our arrival I was surprised to find eighty of our boys, and a friend of mine gave me some coffee and bread, the first that I had eaten since the previous morning. We were kept in the courthouse that night. Next morning I noticed a number of citizens around trying to buy greenbacks for Secesh money, and offered two for one. From Winchester we had to march to Stanton, a distance of ninety miles, it being the nearest railroad communication with Richmond. We left Winchester at 10 a.m.- miscellaneous crowd of about five hundred prisoners, comprised of soldiers, citizens, women and children, and negroes.

One woman had a baby six weeks old. Her husband was wounded in Winchester and she went from Pennsylvania to see him: for that crime she had to undergo the hardships of a journey to Richmond. We marched about three miles and halted on the field where Shields fought Jackson. Here they issued rations of flour and pork the first we got since our capture. We camped in this feld until next morning.

When we resumed our march to Strasburg, a distance of -two miles, where we stopped for the night. The women got shelter in a house, and some of them took our rations of four and baked some bread for us. Next day we were marched to Mount Jackson, and from there to Harrisburg, the ninety miles in four days. Confederates Try to Buy Federal Greenbacks. In every town on our march crowds flocked around us to buy greenbacks, some offering as high as $5 for $1.

We did not suffer much from hunger on the road as some of the boys had plenty of money, and we were allowed to buy from the farmers as we went along. They charged a dollar for a small loaf of bread. I suffered a great deal with my feet, for I always got tired about noon, and for the rest of the day it was perfect torture to me. The prospects of the country did not look very flattering, for crops are scarce and I have seen large tracts of land without the least sign of tillage. Business in the towns seems to be entirely suspended.

The next day we took the cars for Richmond at 6 p.m. and arrived there at 10 a.m. Next morning we were marched to Libby Prison, and upon our arrival there every man was searched and everything of value taken from him including haversack, rubber blanket, canteen, allow. ing him to keep nothing but his woolen blanket and tin cup. In the afternoon they gave us a quarter of a loaf of bread and a pint of bean soup for a ration.

We were taken from the prison to Bell Island the next day. There were three thousand prisoners on the island, and we had to take up our quarters on the bare ground, without any covering or anything to lie on. We suffered very much from the heavy nightly dews until a number of the prisoners were taken off, and we had a chance to get under shelter. Our rations while on the island consisted of a quarter of a loaf of bread and an ounce of beef in the morning and the same amount of bread and one pint of soup in the afternoon; and such soup, it was made out of the muddy water of the James River, and sometimes it would take a very strong microscope to discover a particle of a bean in it. We suffered very much while on the island, for the rations were barely enough to keep the life in us.

and we had no chance for exercise as the camp contained nearly four thousand men, and did not coyer one acre. The men Some of the guards used to smuggle bread in at night and sell it at the rate of 50 cents a loaf--the loaf being no larger than a good size biscuit. They would take no money but greenbacks. Some of the guards said that as soon as they could get $25 in greenbacks they would run away and get into our lines. Several had done so.

Fifteen of them left the island one night, and took some of our boys with them. All agreed in saying that they were sick of war and some of them did not hesitate to say that they were serving against their will. The orders were very strict against giving papers to the prisoners, but the guard used to smuggle them in to us in the night. When the first news came from Gettysburg there seemed to be a general exultation among the officers, and some of them came into the camp and gave us the papers to read. The next day the news was not quite so good for them, and we were again prohibited from seeing them.

From the island we could see the capitol, the Petersburg and Richmond Canal and two railroads. The news came to us one day through the guard that the Yankees were at the White House and that they expected an attack on Richmond. We could see by the way the citizens were leaving that there was a perfect panic, and for the next forty-eight hours we could see troops pouring into Richmond very fast. The prisoners were counted once a week, and on one occasion when they were counting them, they were all outside the camp, and had to march in by files. There was a ruffian helping to count them, and because one of the men was crowded on to him a little he whipped out his knife and stabbed him in the side, inflicting a deep but not dangerous wound.

This fellow is a deserter from an Ohio regiment, and holds a position as sergeant in the city police. There are also two deserters from the First Rhode Island Cavalry working in the cook house. They have got about two hundred deserters in the Libby prison. Those fellows who desert from our army and take the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy do not fare as well as they anticipate. They are kept under guard, are allowed $40 a month, and made to do all the dirty work about the city.

The prisoners were taken off at the rate of 1,000 a week. I thought my turn would never come, but at last at 5 p.m. on the July 22 the joyful news came that the First Massachusetts were wanted to go off. I was lying in my tent as usual when we were called for, and then it seemed as though I had received a new life. There were 1.200 of us to go that night, and it was almost 10 o'clock before.

we left the island. We were marched to the city and halted in front of the provost marshal's office. There were three Union women prisoners in this building on the charge of being spies; they came out upon the balcony to see us, and one of them sang in a sweet, but plaintive, volce "Home Sweet Home," the boys paying strict attention while she was singing. We were kept in a tobacco warehouse that night, and the next morning we were marched to the depot and took the cars at 6 a.m. for Petersburg, which is twenty-two miles distant, and after a great deal of puffing and blowing from the rickety old engine, we arrived there at 8 o'clock.

Here we took another train for City Point, which is ten miles distant from Petersburg. It took us two hours to run down there, and as we neared the point We had to g0 around a sharp curve, when the transport New York suddenly appeared to us with the glorious old flag at her peak; then a cheer burst from the boys that might be heard for miles. It seemed as if the rations on Bell Island had not affected the lustiness of their throats very much. We were soon on board and steaming down the James River, and we were all glad to be under the folds of the noble old flag once more. We were soon served with plenty of bread and ham, and what we longed for most--hot coffee.

I looked with interest at the places of note on the James River, such as Harrison's Landing, Cumming's Point, etc. As we came near Newport News the boat ran up all her bunting. There were two monitors, two gunboats and the flagship lying there, and when we got abreast of them, we hauled to for an officer to come on board. We gave three cheers to each one ag we passed them, to which they responded. The monitors' crews assembled on deck and cheered three times for us, and the flagship manned the rigging and gave three such cheers as Yankee tars alone can give.

One of the gunboats, which was a distance off, dipped her flag three times. We were soon off Fortress Monroe, where we anchored until 7 o'clock, when we steamed up the Chesapeake Bay for Annapolis, where we arrived at 7 a.m. the next morning. We were then marched to Parole Camp, there to remain until exchanged. As soon as we got to the camp, each man received a new outfit, went to the river and bathed, threw away his old clothes and came out a different man.

After we got all cleaned up we were served with hot coffee. We have liberty to go around where we please; there is no guard over us, and it I remain here for any length of time I shall enjoy myself. must now close by sending my best respects to you, and all hands. From your friend, JAMES D. O'CONNELL.

U. S. FLAG DESECRATED. Stars and Stripes Trampled On at British Parade in Canada. Washington, July 5-Two incidents involving desecrations of national flags which marked celebrations yesterday are expected to form the subject of complaints to the State Department, though so far nothing has been heard from them.

The affair at Winnipeg, Manitoba, involving the trampling of an American flag at a British parade, probably cannot be made the basis of an official protest for the reason that international law does not guarantee the protection of flags of a foreign country except where they are displayed over official buildings. In the Tucson, incident, however, where the flag overine Mexican consulate was torn down, the State Department probably will feel obliged to request the local authorities to make a proper apology and amends to the Mexican consul if that can be done without involving auy official recognition of the Huerta government, which appears to be the great apprehension of the State Department at this juncture. WALKS BACKWARD INTO RIVER. George Gerhert, 23 years old, of 1267 Gates avenue, was leading his horse on the South Second street pier, today, and while walking backward fell into the water. The tide carried him down to the Metropolitan avenue pier, where he was rescued by Edward Kelly, a life- -A caver, employed by the Department cf3 Docks and Ferries.

Kelly has had quite a record this summer in saving lives,.