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A good Samaritan.--A letter from Washington on the battle of Bull Run, says:--“While in the quarters of the Michigan Fourth this morning, I met with a very intelligent corporal, who became separated from his regiment during the retreat, and was obliged to seek shelter among the bushes.
When night came, he wandered along and lost his way in the woods.
Being slightly wounded in the leg, his progress was somewhat slow.
By Wednesday night he had only reached the environs of Fairfax.
Exhausted and completely dispirited, he espied a Confederate picket, and deliberately walked up and told the sentry who he was. To his utter surprise the soldier poured out some whiskey, gave him food, told him where he could find a stack of arms, and where he could sleep during the night in perfect safety in a negro hut. He added: ‘I am a Union man, but preferred to volunteer to fight rather than to be impressed.
I thus save my property, and will trust to luck.
If we meet again in battle, I will not try very hard to shoot you, and mind you don't me.’
Truly a good Samaritan, and a wise man.” --Phila. Bulletin, Aug. 2.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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