A Heroic Achievement

A correspondent of the Missouri Demucrat, writing from J.lund No. 10, giveti Uw tollöwiup acoount of a gsilunt achieveinent bv Lieut. Allen, of the Twenty-Seventb Illinois Regiment: " In a f'ormei' letter I vvrote of a conternplated attétlipt, on the part of Lient. Alk'ti, oj' üompany O, of the Twenty-seventh Illinoie, to spike the gung oí' the upper rebol fort at this ilace, chris-eneil, e (kivo bue.'i tokl, Fort Po!!-:. Tl.is bbld task was nndertaken lijst fruhiy niglit, when the Lieutenunfc, in uoinpany wiih four other men, dioppe'l down in a skilï', and [ound a l'-irgB lnnly of rebels at work constructing plutform's ior sgippprting their cannon. The Lieiltermnt resolved Bot to ba totaüy disappoiiUod, and, landing, verj' coollv npproaehed a spntmet, who was pacïn'g a parapet at the lower extromit. of the fort, and; repreenting himsílf as a brotiier rebel, remiuked: 'I wiil reiievo you from duty Dow, ir,1 Thé rebel guard, wearied and thankful, nioved off to his qnnrtors, when the Lieutenant spiked the pntmder íit the lower pmt .f' the fort, vrbioh was sorved wilh muuh accuniov agLiinst us on hist Monday. The pruxiüiity ol the laboriog rebels would not suffer hini tn proseeute any fnrlher ;i work whioh had alrendy proven him a daling (ifficcr."