FEDERAL GALLANTRY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 August 1863, Page 3

FEDERAL GALLANTRY.

In a recent letter some mention was made of the many extraordinary pranks of MajorGeneral Schenok and his Provost-Marshal at Baltimore. Among others was recorded the story of a Mrs. Pairs, who was sentenced to banishment for her sympathies with the South and for the additional crime of writing disrespectfully of the commanding General of & city under martial law. The sequel deserves to be told. General Schenck was obdurate in requiring her to leave Baltimore, and transfer herself to the society of her Southern friends within the stipulated 24 hours which he graciously allowed Her children accompanied her, but her husband, not bein** atle to leave his business without ruin to his prospects, preferred

to remain behind, and pray for the happy time when war might cease, and husbands and wives be permitted to live together without the interference of General Sehenck, or any other big Bagshaw whatsoever. Mrs. Pairs's luggage, and that of her children, was overhauled and inspected before her departure, lest she should convey treasonable documents, or other aid and comfort to the enemy in her trunks and band-boxes. A quantity of quinine and other medicine was discovered, and, as it was pronounced to be far too much for the lady's own use, and evidently intended to be employed in the cure of sick rebels, it was solemnly confiscated to the Federal Government, with the exception of such minimum quantity as the Provost-Marshal adjudged to be fairly good for the lady herself to take. It might be thought that the force of petty tyranny could go no further. But General Sehenck and his agents could even beat this. The American ladies and children are, unfortunately for their health and the soundness of their teeth, great eaters of sweetmeats, and the "candy" shops, which they frequent, are only to be equalled in splendor and variexy by similar establishments in Paris. It has been the fashion in Baltimore to enwrap these dainties daintily in colored paper, so that fair or juvenile fingers might not be brought too unpleasantly into contact with candy or lollipop. Lately these variegated wrappings have, as if by the universal consent of the dealers and manufacturers, assumed the well-known colors of the Confederates, "red and white." Such lollipop, in General Sehenck's estimation, was clearly rebellious ; and the Provost-Marshal was duly instructed to make seizure of it wherever found, and compel the traitorous dealers to take an oath of allegiance to the United States ! But the ladies, though deprived of the usual adornment of their sweetmeats, were not to be utterly defeated, even by a great General, and their next move was to encase the legs and feet of their little ones in socks of the prohibited colors. What can General Sehenck do, except give up the unequal fight? The great Napoleon could bear a military reverse with Jmore equanimity than be could bear ridicule; and General Sehenck should profit by his example, and withdraw himself with all convenient strategy from a position which makes people laugh at hfm. — Timet Correspondent.