The St. Louis Republican, says: A day or two since, the police found a boy in military rig, barefooted, dirty and ragged, wandering about the Levee, and supposing him to be a young Levee thief, he was conducted to the calaboose and locked up.

Subsequently, however, he attracted the attention of the Chief of Police, Cousins, and, on being questioned by the Chief, gave a straightforward and interesting account of himself. He gave his name, but we regret that is has not been preserved. He was twelve years of age, and belonged to. the Third Illinois Cavalry in which organization be enlisted nearly a year ago as a bugler. He endured the hardships of the Southwest campaign, late last fall and winter, and finally took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, where his war-like career was pretty effectually terminated by one of the enemy’s bullets.