Colonel Heg's regiment is mostly composed of Norwegians, or Scandinavians. They are generally from, and are known as the 15th Wisconsin; are a splendid body of well-disciplined men, and all speak our language fluently. I heard an amusing anecdote of one of their captains, who, a short time since, took a lot of rebel prisoners. As this Norwegian captain had them drawn up in line, he said to them, in broken English, and in accent very like the German: "Say, you fellers, you putternuts, I vant you all to schwear a leetle. It do you goot to schwear mit de Constitution. I schwear him tree year ago; now you schwear him. Now, recollect, you schwear him goot; no d----n nonsense. You schwear him, and keep him down, and not _puke him up again_!" The 24th Illinois are close at hand, also the 8th Kansas. These boys are in view of the rebels every day. There is in the 24th Illinois Regiment a very clever officer who has an intolerably red nose. He says he can't "help it;" he strives to temper it, but it is no go. A friend inquired of him, how much it cost to color it out here; his reply was, "$2.50 a canteen." The "rebs" played quite a trick upon the chaplain of the 24th Illinois. After they received his papers, they refused to send any in return. This would have been termed a nasty _Yankee trick_, had any of our boys committed such a breach of faith with them. But such is Southern _honor_. REBEL WITTICISMS. The following is copied from the Chattanooga _Rebel_: If it is true that General Marmaduke hung the regiment of armed negroes at Helena, he certainly made a center shot at old Abe's emancipation-insurrection scheme; for he "knocked the _black_ out" every time he hung a darkey. We do not know for certain that the price of negroes is going up; but there must have been a slight _advance_ upon a regiment of them at Helena, the other day, if the wires were correct. Grant's permitting his dead soldiers to decay and create a stench around Vicksburg presents the worst feature of the Yankee _die-nasty_ we have yet had to chronicle. Richmond papers announce that Hooker has again, "changed his base." He took it out of the saddle awhile ago, to go and tell old Abe "how the thing was did." The soil of the South is becoming so fertilized with. Yankee bodies, that we will be able to raise nothing but wooden nutmegs after the war. The "typos" of the _Rebel_ suggest the necessity of the immediate return of Vallandigham, and our finishing up the Yankee raid on Vicksburg. Both exciting subjects cause too heavy a "run" on the capital "V" box. The Yankee officers who lead armed negroes against the Southern people will have "a _high_ old time," for our boys will certainly hang them "as high as Haman." The Chicago _Tribune_ says: "There are already twenty thousand colored troops in the Federal army." Does he mean the _blue-bellied_ ones, or the black ones?