A Story Of The Petersburg Mine

General Horace Porter tells the followiug auccdote of the explosión of the Petersburg ruine iu his "Caiupaigriiug With Grant, " iii The Century: A surgeon told us a story, one of the many echoes of the ruino affair, about a prisouer whp had been dug out of the cráter and carried to one of our field hospitals. Although his eyes were bunged aud his face covered with bruises, he was in un astonishingly ainiable frame of mind and looked Hke a pugilistic hero of the prize ring coming up smiling in the twenty-seventh round. He said: 'Til jest befc you that after this 111 be the most nnpopular man in my regiment. You see, I appeared to get started a little earher thau the other boys that had taken passage with me aboard that voltaño, and as I was comin down I met the rest of 'em a-goiu up, and they looked as if they had kind o' sonred ou me and yelled after me, 'Stragglerl' "