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d at once commenced the invention of plans for his escape. She procured a Federal soldier's uniform, a clothes line, and an inflating life-preserving waistcoat. These she smuggled to his cell beneath her garments. During the arrangement she purchased plants and made for her husband a little garden at his cell window, thus disarming all suspicion that any escape was meditated. Sixteen days ago, everything being in readiness, just after dark, Alexander donned his disguise, and while Col. Zarvona (Thomas) engaged the attention of the sentinel, he slipped by, gained the ramparts, passed over the mortar battery, and sprang from the curtain into the ditch. The fall being great, he discovered, on rising, that he was crippled.--Nothing daunted, he crawled through the abattis, over the glacis, into the river, inflated his waistcoat, and made a bold stroke for freedom. After being in the water a long time, he landed and crawled three-fourths of a mile to a house. There he found so