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d to Fort McHenry a few days ago. You know I have an appetite for adventure, and as Captain — was there a prisoner, and had not been allowed any communication with his family, I played Union, and so was admitted. I feigned to be deaf, and had old Dix screaming at me more vociferously than Stentor himself. You would have been amused to hear me tell the old vandal that I had come to the fort "to see that poor deluded prisoner, Capt.--,to try to convince him of his error." The General, no doubt,as so deaf, all that he wished me to tell his friends. The guards were just at the door, believing that if he said anything to me they could hear it; and so they could, when, at intervals, I made him talk as though I were deaf. When I left, Gen, Dix thanked me cordially for my effort to bring Capt.--to the right way of thinking. I shall send this by the underground railroad, which is quite as regular in its schedule and far more convenient to our people than the Baltimore and Ohio Railro