“DIDN’T SEE IT.”

A correspondent gives the following instance of Vermont pluck: “In Kilpatrick’s last ‘On to Richmond’ was a soldier boy by the name of Edwin A. Porter, whose mother lives in Wells, Vt. In one of the skirmishes, he rode up fearlessly to a squad of rebels. The officer demanded of him to surrender. He replied, coolly, ‘Don’t see it;’ and suiting his actions to his words, he instantly drew his sabre, with which he cleft the head of the officer, at the same instant wheeling his horse to join his company, the rebels firing a volley at him, of which shower the lad carried off in his person four bullets, joining his company, G. He kept his saddle for more than one hour, and is now doing well.

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