would stand by her. tion in her defence. They were ready for any posi- | national flag; but never can she lay down her arms This is most remarkable. Out till Washington, the common property of the nation, of a nation of 1,500, they muster 200 warriors for reposes once more calmly in the tomb on the banks the defence of North Carolina. The Cherokees are of the Potomac, which he so loved in life, and desigexpert riflemen. They know nothing of military nated as his final resting-place. Sacrilegious is the tactics, but show them their work, and then they hand that has dared to violate the last wish of the have only to be told when to cease fighting. They Father of his Country.-N. Y. Herald, May 15. fight their own way, and every man for himself. The " Zouaves are ready at a moment's notice. Charleston News, May 10. A FORMIDABLE FOE.-It will be seen by the interesting letter of our Norfolk correspondent, that among the several thousand Confederate forces now at that point, is a body of three hundred Indians. These stalwart sons of the forest are from the county of Cherokee, N. C., and under the skilful training of Gen. Jackson, a distinguished member of the North Carolina Senate from Cherokee, are now ready for immediate action. A more formidable-looking body of men, we are informed by a gentleman who has seen them, never have been congregated on this continent. Not one of them is under six feet in height, and being built in proportion, they look more like modern Samsons than any thing else to which we can compare them. The rifle has been their constant companion almost from infancy, and they are confessedly the best marksmen the world has ever seen. They shoot running or standing with the same unerring certainty, and load and fire with a rapidity which is really surprising.-Petersburg Express, Ir was a little boy of Portsmouth, Va., who saved the splendid dry dock there from destruction at the hands of the Federal vandals. These had placed the powder for blowing up the dock, and laid a train for exploding it. When they fled, they lighted a fuse connecting with this train. Our little hero, who had been watching them from a place of concealment, turned over a plank over which the train had in part been laid, and thus "broke the connection," and saved one of the most valuable naval works in the United States or in the world.-Raleigh (N. C.) Register. May 15.-The sacred remains of Washington have been removed from Mount Vernon by Colonel Washington, who has recently joined the Confederate army. This act may appear at first sight no less than an impious outrage; but it must be borne in mind, that in the sale of Mount Vernon, Colonel Washington reserved to himself not only the tomb of Washington, but also an acre of ground around it. He also bound himself to renovate the tomb. THE BONES OF WASHINGTON. A year ago, and by the maples brown, O'erhanging swift Potomac's broadened wave, Passed there a stir from wasting bone to bone,- That the old king's great-grandson by his stone That latest victory of truth o'er time, Or was there foresight of the woe to be The stripes and stars torn from that flag away? Saw he the day that we see with amaze, When those to whom his life from youth he gave, Out of the shelter of that sacred grave, These details are all contained in the deed of sale now in the possession of George Riggs, Trustee of the Mount Vernon Association. It is indisputable, therefore, that Colonel Washington is the sole owner of the remains of his august ancestor, and has the legal right to remove them. But this will hardly suffice to stifle those emotions of indignation, and even horror, which will swell in every Northern heart at the shocking intelligence that the revered bones of our sainted Washington have been secretly extracted from his tomb, and hid away in some un-phia Inquirer writes:-" In order to determine the known and unhonored receptacle. Whatever may be the right of Colonel Washington, he has been guilty of an act of vandalism, which, for the first moment, will chill the blood of the North, and strike every one dumb with amazement. Up to this hour the North has had but one purpose-to vindicate the THE Washington correspondent of the Philadel truth or falsity of the rumor of the removal of the remains of Washington from the tomb at Mount Vernon, General Sickles despatched three messengers thither on Saturday morning. They left on horseback at 9 o'clock A. M., and crossed the Long Bridge into Virginia. One quarter of a mile beyond the bridge they met the first picket guard. They were mounted and armed with breech-loading carbines, sabres, and revolvers. The picket did not molest the party, as they stated they were simple travellers. Every two miles they met mounted scouts, similarly armed to the picket guard. At Alexandria they saw about six hundred troops. They were all well armed and equipped, and seemed to drill well. "The party registered their names at the Mansion House, and ordered dinner to be ready at 5 P. M. On their return they informed the landlord they were going to Mount Vernon, and that one of the party would leave for Europe on the following Wednesday, and was desirous of denying the infamous rumor of the removal of Washington's remains. On their departure they were questioned, and had their attention quietly attracted to the fact that one of the party was riding on a United States Government saddle. They pushed on, however, and were allowed to pass the scouts without being detained or suspected, until within about four miles of Mount Vernon. "Here they were overtaken by scouts, and ordered to halt. The scouts then informed them they would accompany them, which they did. In conversation, one of them stated there were seven thousand cavalry in Virginia. At 1 P. M. they arrived at Mount Vernon, went to the house, and then proceeded to examine the tomb. They found it had never been molested; cobwebs were on the bars of the gate, weeds had grown up from the ground in the interior of the vault, and the party received from Mr. Williamson, who was one of the scouts, and a member of the Loudon Cavalry, a certificate that they had visited the tomb, and telling pickets to pass them, as they were from the South, and were going to Washington to contradict the infamous libel on the State of Virginia. "They also visited the grounds. They met a carpenter who was engaged in repairing the house, and he stated that there had been no soldiers there. The party then left, and took the outskirts of Alexandria on their way home. They were at last met by the picket near the Long Bridge, and showed the scout's pass, after being ten hours and a half in the saddle, and having ridden over forty-six miles. What will the Virginians think, when they learn that Mr. Frost, a member of the Sixth Company New York Seventh Regiment, Captain Van Nest, New York Seventy-first Regiment, and Dr. A. Rawlings, of Sickles's Brigade, were the party?-N. Y. Evening Post, May 22. of the Elizabeth and Nansemond rivers, are these admirable contrivances for giving an unexpected hoist to an invading fleet. In one place, we are informed, the work is of a character that would damage seriously the largest squadron that ever floated on the waters. It is also said that the same contrivances either have been or are about to be arranged at various places along the coast. The batteries around Norfolk are in tip-top condition, and any demonstration upon that point will be met in a manner that will make the eyes of the next generation of Virginians sparkle with delight when they open that illumined page of her history.—Richmond Dispatch, May 17. found in a Yankee dictionary, and is there defined FLUNKY, is a genuine Yankee word. It is only by a periphrasis. The great Webster, who under"A term of stood Yankeedom thoroughly, says: contempt for one who is mean and base-spirited; perhaps from the Scottish funkie, a livery servant." Worcester, another omnipotent Yankee authority, says: "A mean-spirited person, a servile followerused contemptuously." The word could only have had its origin in a land where the thing itself had Yankee product. Recent events go to prove that it existence. The animal, flunky, is an unadulterated is not merely the exclusive, but universal growth of that region.-Charleston Mercury. THE SHADOW AND THE SUBSTANCE. "MR. EDITOR :-Did the following facts ever occur to all of your numerous readers, in regard to the true position of the two Presidents now recognized on North American soil? "The First-President Lincoln, the Shadow-with Lieut.-General Scott, and over 50,000 WELL-ARMED SOLDIERS around him, at the Capital, to protect his dear life! "The Second-President Davis, the Substancein a country town, amid his family associations and among his civic friends-in daily intercourse with the people, and travelling at any and all times from one | flanked around the rear crescent by a wood of fanportion of the Confederacy to the other! "Truly, here is a great contrast of position; one that should awaken Northern fanatics and insane politicians to a true sense of the unpopularity of their war against the South; and fully picturing to them the shadow' and the 'substance' of North American affairs. JOHN." -Natchez Courier, May 21. GEN. PILLOW, who is a clever gentleman in the private relations of life, and a very companionable man, sent us a message recently, which is explained in the following reply: "GEN. GIDEON PILLOW :-I have just received your message through Mr. Sale, requesting me to serve as Chaplain to your Brigade in the Southern army; and in the spirit of kindness in which this request is made, but in all candor, I return for answer, that when I shall have made up my mind to go to hell, I will cut my throat and go direct, and not travel round by the Southern Confederacy. "I am very respectfully, &c., leaved maples sprinkled with blossoming dogberries, and looking out at the cone upon the river-swards below. The plain is full of mounds and ridges, save where it bulges in the centre to a circular elevation perfectly flat, around which, like façades about a court-yard, are arrayed the spiral tents, illuminated in honor of the coming nuptials.) The bride is the daughter of the regiment; the to-be-husband a favorite sergeant. Marching thus, preceded by two files of sixes, and followed by the glittering rows of groomsmen, the little cortege has moved out of the great tent on the edge of the circle, and comes slowly, amid the bold strains of the grand "Midsummer-Night's Dream," towards the regimental chaplain. You have seen the colored prints of Jenny Lind on the back of the music of "Vive la France." You have noted the light-flowing hair, the soft Swiss eye, the military bodice, the coquettish red skirt, and the pretty buskined feet and ankles underneath. The print is not unlike the bride. She was fair-haired, blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked, darkened in their hue by exposure to the sun, in just the dress worn by les filles du regiment. She was formed in that athletic mould which distinguishes the Amazon from her opUNDER the head of "A Proposition to Major An-posite extreme of frailty. You could not doubt her derson," the New Orleans Picayune of May 17th publishes the following, "from a well-known citizen": "W. G. BROWNLOW." "NEW ORLEANS, May 16, 1861. "MAJOR ROBT. ANDERSON, late of Fort Sumter, S. C.: "SIR:-You hold my three notes for $4,500 each, with about $1,000 accumulated interest, all due in the month of March, 1862, which notes were given in part payment of twenty-nine negroes, purchased of you in March, 1860. As I consider fair play a jewel, I take this method to notify you that I will not pay those notes; but, as I neither seek nor wish an advantage, I desire that you return me the notes and the money paid you, and the negroes shall be subject to your order, which you will find much improved by kind treatment since they came into my possession. capacity to undergo the fatigues and hardships of a campaign, but your mind did not suggest to your eye those grosser and more masculine qualities which, whilst girting the woman with strength, disrobe her of the purer, more effeminate traits of body. You saw before you a young girl, apparently about eighteen years of age, with clear, courageous eye, quiverless lip, and soldierly tread-a veritable daughter of the regiment. You have seen Caroline Richings and good old Peter (St. Peter!) march over the stage as the corporal and la fille. Well, this girl, barring the light flaxen hair, would remind you of the latter, drilling a squad of grenadiers. The bridegroom was of the same sanguine, Germanic temperament, as the bride. As he marched, high cheek-bones, aquiline nose, piercing, deeplyfull six feet in height, with long, light-colored beard, "I feel justified in giving you, and the public, this studded blue eye, broad shoulders, long arms, sturdy notice, as I do not consider it fair play that I should legs, feet and hands of a laborious development, be held to pay for the very property you so oppor- cocked hat with blue plume, dark blue frock, with tunely dispossessed yourself of, and now seek to de-bright scarlet blanket, tartan fashion over the shoulstroy both their value and usefulness to me. I ask no more than to cancel the sale, restore to you your property, and let each assume his original position; then your present efforts may be considered less selfish, because at your expense, and not mine. JOHN G. COCKS." AN INCIDENT OF CAMP LIFE AT WASHINGTON. THE MARRIAGE AT NIGHT.-Six bold riflemen clad in blue, with scarlet doublets over the left shoulder, bearing blazing torches; six glittering Zouaves, with brilliant trappings, sparkling in the light; and then the hollow square, where march the bridegroom and bride; then seven rows of six groomsmen in a row, all armed cap-a-pie, with burnished weapons, flashing back the lustre of the Zouave uniform; and all around the grand regiment darkening the white tentfolds, as their ruddy faces are but half disclosed between the red and yellow glare of the fires, and the soft, silver light of the May-moon. (This is all, you will bear in mind, out on the broad, open air. The encampment occupies a conically-shaped hill-top, der, small sword, you would have taken him for a he himself would have taken him. In default, howhero of Sir Walter. Faith, had Sir Walter seen him, ever, of Sir Walter, I make bold to appropriate him as a hero on the present occasion. Indeed, he was a hero, and looked it, every inch of him, leading that self-sacrificing girl up to the regimental chaplain, with his robe, and surplice, and great book, amid the stare of a thousand anxious eyes, to the music of glorious old Mendelssohn, and the beating of a thousand earnest hearts! The music ceased; a silence as calm as the silent moon held the strange, wild place; the fires seemed to sparkle less noisily in reverence; and a little white cloud paused in its course across the sky to look down on the group below; the clear voice of the preacher sounded above the suppressed breathing of the spectators, and the vague burning of the fagot heaps; a few short words, a few heartfelt prayers, the formal legal ceremonial, and the happy "Amen." It was done. The pair were man and wife. In rain or sunshine, joy or sorrow, for weal or woe, bone of one bone and flesh of one flesh, forever and ever-amen! Mr. Sturgis will be happy to dine with you at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening." Exeunt omnes. The groom's people formed a hollow square around | your raising a small amount in this market! Our the newly-wedded couple. In one corner a gateway I was left for the entrance of the men. Then came one by one the members of that troop, with a kind word each, as each touched the bride lightly on the cheek, and grasped the bridegroom heartily by the hand-of one the sworn fathers, of the other the friends and brothers, comrades in arms.-Philadelphia Press. While this scene was being enacted at the Barings, Mr. Dudley Mann waited upon our countryman Peabody, who holds three hundred thousand dollars of repudiated Mississippi bonds, on which there is due more than six hundred thousand dollars of interest. Mr. Mann was very magnificent and grandiloquent, but, withal, prosy; and Peabody, suffering from gout AREA OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.-We publish and Mississippi repudiation, lost his temper; and, the following table in a corrected form : Total. 1,593,199 1,008,342 755,371 shaking his clenched fist at the rebel, emphatically said: If I were to go on 'Change and hunt up the suffering and starved widows and orphans who have been ruined by your infamous repudiation of honest debts, and proclaim that you are here to borrow more of our gold and silver to be again paid by repudia1,082,847 tion, (as I believe it is my duty to do,) you would 145,694 inevitably be mobbed, and find it difficult to escape with your life. Good morning, sir."-N. Y. Courier 666,431 and Enquirer, May 25. Total Population. Area, States. in sqr. miles. Whites. Slaves. Virginia,. .61,352 1,097,373 495,826 North Carolina,..50,704 South Carolina,..29,385 Georgia,... .58,000 Florida, 407,551 479,607 May 22.-In Nashville, Tenn., while secession banners wave from every other building, both public and private, one heroic lady (Mrs. McEwin) has placed the National Flag on her house, and says she will shoot whoever attempts to tear down the glorious old Stars and Stripes. Let her name be engraved on the hearts of all loyal Americans.—Louisville Journal. THE REBEL COMMISSIONERS IN ENGLAND.-A gentleman who was present and heard what he reports, relates that the Commissioners from the rebel States having been formally introduced to Mr. Bates, the head of the house of Baring Brothers, the great financier told them to proceed. They commenced with a most elaborate and glowing description of the resources and wealth of the rebel States. After a pause Do the Northerners begin to recognize the inevitable decay of their system of Government, and the fact that this sudden upheaval has demonstrated, that law is at an end, and that by brute force they must keep in check their antagonistic forces? Do they see faintly, or clearly, that Government based upon the nominal equality of all, amid the ceaseless warfare of labor and capital, where labor is indiscriminately armed with that terrible scourge of the ballot, and where labor out-votes capital, is an utter failure? Have these people determined to set in motion armed men, preparatory to the grand change of their form of Government, in order to save what is worth saving, from the carnage and the devastation that must attend the anarchy which usually intervenes between a free Government, and a firmly established despotism? Have they at last learned the unwilling lesson, that they neither deserve, nor can maintain, a free Government, when deprived of the ballast, the conservatism of domestic slavery? Do they comprehend the end to which their foul licentiousness, their unbridled lusts, are fatally hurrying them, and see that the ballot cannot be taken from their laborers, till first an organized soldiery is prepared to do the Mr. BATES" Have you finished?" COMMISSIONERS "Not quite." [Then a speech behests of property, and, under the lead of some from Commissioner No. 2, and a pause.] Mr. BATES-"Have you finished?" COMMISSIONERS "Almost." [Then a speech from really seems that they are waking up to these great Commissioner No. 3, and a pause.] Mr. BATES " Are you through? COMMISSIONERS-"Yes, sir; you have our case.' Mr. BATES "What States did you say composed your Confederacy?" COMMISSIONERS" Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana." Mr. BATES "And Mr. Jefferson Davis is your President? COMMISSIONERS-"He is. We are proud of him." Mr. BATES "We know Mr. Davis well by reputation. He is the same gentleman who stumped his State for two years in favor of repudiation, and justified the conduct of Mississippi in the United States Senate. We know the gentleman; and although we have no reason to be proud of him or his antecedents, I think I may safely say, that if you have brought with you to London the necessary funds to pay off, principal and interest, the repudiated millions owing to our people by your States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, there is a reasonable prospect of taking things easy. "Sir, you ought to be drilling your company. Your sentinel don't know how to do his duty, and I took his gun away from him." "Well, I dare say he will be much obliged to you. I reckon he was tired of carrying it." Another good story was told, which has not found its way into the Charleston papers. The light boat which was captured, has been anchored at the mouth of the creek which leads to Stono River. Two guns have been placed on board. The one aiming down the creek is kept loaded with shot, while the one pointing toward the city is used to fire a morning and evening gun. Not long since, when the sunrise gun was fired, a twelve-pound ball ripped through a negro's shanty, and lodged in a hotel, greatly to the consternation of an old negro and sev- | eral boarders. The crew of the light boat did not discover that the boat had turned with the tide during the night!-Boston Journal, May 18. A PORTION of the river Indus was infested by a large old crocodile, which had carried off two or three natives. His skin was so thick that no ball would penetrate it; some young artillery officers engineered his destruction in the following way: They killed a sheep, and in its body placed a bag filled with powder and other combustible matter, to which a long wire was attached, with detonating powder at the end. The crocodile scized the prey, and carried it to his hole. Time was allowed him to swallow the sheep; the wire was pulled, there was a great explosion, and up came the crocodile with his stomach blown open. Acting upon this precedent, a Hoosier proposes to get rid of Jeff. Davis.-Indianola Star. NEW ORLEANS, May 13.-Already a capital privateering vessel has been fitted out in this city, and is now ready, fully armed and ably officered, waiting for the letters of marque and reprisal which are daily expected from Montgomery. We have the names of the vessel and officers, which we will publish in due time. The work of fitting out another privateer is going on, something over one-fourth of the stock of $200,000 having been subscribed up to the hour of the meeting at noon yesterday in the old United States Court-room, for the purpose of furthering the enterprise. For the information of those disposed to embark in the work, we would state that the officers of the vessel are to be appointed according to the election of the stockholders. In this connection we have heard mentioned such names as Capt. Calendar Fayssoux, of this city, and Capt. Harry Maury, of Mobile, and many others suitable to command. Capt. Wilson and others taking an interest in this matter may be consulted daily, at the old United States Court-room. -N. O. Picayune, May 14. A PRIVATE letter, dated Camp Defiance, Cairo, May 13, 1861, contains the following: "Your blood would boil if you should witness what I have witnessed. Persons are daily arriving here who have been driven away from the Southsome for expressing love of the Union, and others for saying that they did not wish to fight against us. Many such have been whipped, scourged, and treated with all manner of brutalitics. One man, a Philadelphian, called upon Gen. Prentiss, and invited him to his room in the hotel, where he exhibited the welts and wounds inflicted by those fiends of rebellion upon his person. The devils had not only beaten him black and blue, but had slashed his arms and body saw. with their knives. He was the worst object I ever This man was making collections in the South for a Philadelphia house, and such was the payment received from Southern creditors. "The game of the villains is about up here. Every traitor who makes his appearance is arrested. We have one dirty dog from Columbus, Ky., under arrest, who was one of the seventy-five who took turns in lashing a man because he would not shout for Jeff. Davis's flag. Mr. Chivalry is very penitent, and he don't hear a pistol shot but he imagines it is for him. This beauty came here to see what the 'damned abolitionists' were doing, and was recognized by the victim, who reached Cairo before. Victim wanted an even show with Chivalry at any kind of a fight, and said if he did not kill him, he would submit to be hung the next minute. Chivalry did not want to fight-there were not odds enough-it was not seventy-five to one. If Gen. Prentiss had not arrested Chivalry, he would not have lived half an hour. He has been committed for future trial. Every boat brings hundreds of people flying North for safety. Such is the state of terrorism in the cities and towns below us."-Chicago (I.) Post, May 16, GEN. TWIGGS AND PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.-Gen. Twiggs, late of the United States Army, has addressed a letter to Ex-President Buchanan, in which he says:-" Your usurped right to dismiss me from the army might be acquiesced in; but you had no right to brand me as a traitor. This was personal, and I shall treat it as such-not through the papers, but in person. I shall, most assuredly, pay a visit to Lancaster for the sole purpose of a personal interview with you. So, sir, prepare yourself. I am well assured that public opinion will sanction any course I may take with you."-Charleston Courier, May 18. AMONG the gallant fellows in Meagher's Irish Zouaves, is an ex-member of the "Pope's Irish Brigade," who distinguished himself in the army of the Pontiff during the late difficulties in Italy. He goes out as Sergeant to join the Sixty-ninth Regiment. His name is John Gleeson, a six feet five Irishman, with all the bearing of a soldier. He was presented with a gold medal by Lamoriciere on the 5th of last October, for his brave services at the battle of Ancona, and was promoted from the rank of Sergeant to that of Lieutenant. This latter distinction was accorded to him for taking Monte Moratta while in charge of a company of skirmishers. He is a gallant son of Tipperary, and was wounded three times in action.N. Y. Herald, May 23. ELEVEN Second cousins of Mrs. Lincoln are members of the Caroline Light Dragoons. Mrs. Lincoln was a Miss Todd, niece of the.late G. T. Todd, Esq., of Caroline county. Lincoln's "foreign relations" would be glad to give him a deserved reception in the county of Caroline.—Fredericksburg (Va.) News. REV. M. L. WELLER, the young, zealous, and beloved minister of the Episcopal church in Hernando, Miss., on last Tuesday morning bade adieu to all the endearments of home and the society of his attached congregation, and left for Camp Davis, near Pensacola, Florida, there to take his position as an humble private in the ranks of Capt. Tom White's company, the 9th Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers. Few more noble examples of patriotism than this are recorded even in the pages of Revolutionary |