HIS FORESIGHT--UNDERSTOOD THE MISERIES OF THE SUBJECT-CLASSES--HIS APPRECIATION OF REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS--PREVENTED BY UNTOWARD CIRCUMSTANCES FROM GOING TO THE FRONT--NOT OF THE "NOBLE HOME GUARD." 36 =FIRST SEIZURE OF GUNS AT THE NORTH.= OFFICER MCWATTERS INTERCEPTS DAHLGREN GUNS ON THEIR WAY TO THE REBELS, MAY 11, 1861--HONORABLE MENTION BY THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE--FERNANDO WOOD'S INFAMOUS APOLOGY TO TOOMBS--WOOD AND MCWATTERS COMPARED--THE GRATITUDE OF REPUBLICS. 37 =OFFICER McWATTERS' SERVICES THROUGH THE PUBLIC PRESS.= ABLE AND SPIRITED LETTERS TO THE PRESS--NOBLE WORDS ADDRESSED TO THE WORKINGMEN OF THE NATION. 38 =KINDLY AND WISE PROVIDENCE.= PRIVATE APPEAL FOR LEMONS FOR THE FAMISHING SOLDIERS, MAY, 1863--IT DID A BRAVE WORK--EVENTUALLY INSPECTOR CARPENTER REVEALS THAT IT WAS ONE OF OFFICER MCWATTERS' BENEVOLENT DEEDS--OTHER EFFECTIVE MODES OF AIDING SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. 39 ="RIOT WEEK," JULY, 1863.--OFFICER McWATTERS IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT.= THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC PULSE OF THE NORTH WHEN THE RIOT BROKE OUT--THE NUMBER KILLED THAT WEEK IN NEW YORK ESTIMATED AT OVER FOURTEEN HUNDRED!--McWATTERS AND HIS FELLOW-OFFICERS FIGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE MOB INTO THE TRIBUNE OFFICE--McWATTERS FELLED TO THE GROUND; SPRINGS TO HIS FEET, AND DEALS DESTRUCTIVE BLOWS UPON HIS ASSAILANTS. 40 =OFFICER McWATTERS AND HIS LITERARY ASSOCIATES.= COUNTLESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC PRESS--HIS UNPRETENTIOUS CAREER--"PFAFF'S," A FAMOUS RESORT FOR AUTHORS AND ARTISTS--AN INTERESTING SKETCH OF THE PLACE, AND THE HOST OF McWATTERS' AUTHOR FRIENDS WHO MEET THERE; AN ILLUSTRIOUS ARRAY--OF THE DEAD OF THIS GOODLY HOST--A MOST INTERESTING RETROSPECTION--McWATTERS' AUTHORS' LIBRARY. 42 =OFFICER McWATTERS AS THE GOOD SAMARITAN.= AS A PHILANTHROPIST OFFICER McWATTERS HAS MOST DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF--HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEMONSTRATES TO HIM THE FOLLY OF FRAGMENTARY REFORMS; YET HE CONTINUES HIS WONDERFUL INDIVIDUAL CHARITIES--PATCHWORK CHARITY--HIS VITALITY OF BENEVOLENCE--McWATTERS IN THE RANKS OF THE HOWARDS OF THE WORLD. 45 =McWATTERS AND THE SOLDIERS.= THE POOR VETERAN SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND--McWATTERS' GENEROUS ENTHUSIASM IN BEHALF OF THE POOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES--HIS GREAT PASSION--THE POETRY OF HIS CURRENT LIFE. 49 =LADIES UNION RELIEF ASSOCIATION.=