"Fresh rolls for all the officers and men to be made at once, and the boots of the Southern Confederacy to be blacked by officers duly appointed by the United States of America. All the officers to give their individual pay rolls, that they may be cashed by the United States. Such public and private property as has been stolen by the well-known Southern Confederacy to be turned over to the police-officers appointed to take charge of it. "Each officer will be permitted to retain both of his arms, and, together with the men, is expected to return calmly to his family, and not commit assault upon the United States of America without due provocation. "THE GENERAL OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE. ("Green Seal.") It is related in tradition, that when the knightly Munchausen received this epistle, he laughed horribly for the space of at least half an hour, as though greatly rejoiced at a bit of unparalleled waggishness. After which he delivered himself of four sinister winks at nothing, simultaneously exclaiming: "By Chivalry! here's magnanimity." After which he wrote thus: "GEN. MACK. BRIG.: "SIRRAH,--I have received your scrawl of this date, containing what may be denominated terms of first-class board for the celebrated Southern Confederacy. Inasmuch as said terms give me rather more advantage than half a dozen strategical victories over your vandals could possibly have procured for us, I hereby permit you to capture us at once, in order to avoid further carnage in your ranks. "MUNCHAUSEN X his mark." Other letters incidental to this business passed between the two paladins, my boy; but as the letters of all great men are proverbial for their great dignity and heaviness, and are immensely calculated to incline readers to untimely repose, I have spared you the infliction. Suffice it to say, that when Captain Villiam Brown read the Mackerel terms of surrender, he spasmodically applied his lips to a canteen, with the air of one who takes poison because the butcher's daughter has refused to be won by his manly shape. "Ah!" says Villiam, "such magnanimity!" Captain Bob Shorty was playing Old Sledge with three members of the Sanitary Commission when the document arrived. "By all that's Federal!" says Captain Bob Shorty, "it appears to me--it really appears to me, Villiam, that I never see so much magnanimity!" They took it to Captain Samyule Sa-mith as he sat by the roadside, straightening his highly-tempered sabre with a stone. "I cannot always agree entirely with my brother officers on all points," says Samyule, reflectively, "for some of them are ineddicated: but I find in this document great magnanimity!"