GOD SAVE OUR NATIVE LAND. BY JAMES WALDEN. AIR-"America." God save our native land Home of the free! O Lord! we humbly pray, Ere that shall be; We cling to thee! O Lord! when, hand to hand, Shield thou the right! With freemen's might! Lord! may this strife soon cease; Parted we fall! Long may our banner wave Over the free and brave God save us all! O Lord! our country save -Sunday Times. OUR FATHERLAND. God save our Fatherland! from shore to shore; No hand shall peril it, No strife shall sever it, East, West, and North and South! One evermore! THE NEW YEAR AND THE UNION. BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE. God has made A wilderness of worlds; His will, and strong The mighty One Who sweeps the lyre of Ages, and commands Proud children of the brave, the free, For ever circling through the boundless heaven To brand the traitor hearts that dare forget God save the Union!-Give the dawning year To take their place at last with those that tread Chorus-God save our Fatherland! true home of Before the golden gates and battlements Freedom! God save our Fatherland, one evermore; One in her glorious dreams, One in Love's noblest themes- Strong in the hearts of men, love is thy throne; Union and Liberty crown thee alone; Nations have sighed for thee; All are thine own. Chorus-God save our Fatherland, &c. Ride on, proud Ship of State, though tempests lower; Ride on in majesty, glorious in power; Though fierce the blast may be, Chorus-God save our Fatherland, &c. -Evening Post, Feb. 23. And pray to-night, That angels bright May watch them and caress them. Chorus-For we're the boys That hearts desthroys, Wid making love and fighting; The girls we court, But most the last delight in. -N. Y. Times. THE UNITED STATES FLAG-1861. INSCRIBED TO S. P. RUSSELL, ESQ. (As read by JOHN KEYNTON, ESQ., at the great Union Meeting at Yorkville, N. Y. BY WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE. Flag of the valiant and the tried, In that broad grandeur fit to make O fairest Flag! O dearest Land! Who shall your banded children sever? God of our fathers! here we stand, A true, a free, a fearless band, Heart pressed to heart, hand linked in hand, Still glorious Banner of the Free! The dinted sabres fiercely start O sacred Banner of the Brave! Of Washington lights all the gloom, "Americans! YOUR FATHERS shed THEIR BLOOD to rear the Union's* fame ; On mountain, valley, prairie, flood, The Right shall live, while Faction dies! *How pure the spirit in that form enshrined.-Gov. CHASE. Then, dearest Flag, and dearest Land! Who shall your banded children sever? Heart pressed to heart, hand linked in hand, NATIONAL GUARD MARCHING SONG. BY A. J. H. DUGANNE. A sound through the nation is rolling amain, "An army with banners" moves mightily on; They are marching, all marching, in Liberty's cause, Lead in Union the hearts of the free and the bold! Not a whisper of doubt or a shadow of dread Band in Union the hearts of the free and the bold! SONGS OF THE REBELS. WAR SONG. AIR-"March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale." [The writer has a husband, three sons, two nephews, other relatives, and friends, in the companies mentioned, to whom these lines are most respectfully inscribed.] March, march on, brave "PALMETTO" boys, "SUMTER" and "LAFAYETTES," forward in order; Soon shall the Lone Star be famous in story. Vict'ry be thine again, Fight for your rights, till the green sod is gory. March, march, &c. It was a noble Roman, In Rome's imperial day, Who heard a coward croaker Before the battle say"They're safe in such a fortress; There is no way to shake it ""On! on!" exclaimed the hero, "I'LL FIND A WAY, OR MAKE IT!" Is FAME your aspiration? 66 Her path is steep and high; In vain he seeks the temple, Content to gaze and sigh; The crowded town is waiting, But he alone can take it, Who says, with "SOUTHERN FIRMNESS," "I'LL FIND A WAY, OR MAKE IT!" Is Glory your ambition? There is no royal road; Alike we all must labor, Must climb to her abode; Who feels the thirst for glory, In Helicon may slake it, If he has but the "SOUTHERN WILL," "TO FIND A WAY, OR MAKE IT!" IS SUMTER Worth the getting? But only he can take it, In all impassioned warfare, ነፃ That victory crowns the valiant, -Charleston Mercury. RUMORS AND INCIDENTS. Ir was feared that Major Anderson might be short of fuel, but it is found that there are extensive old buildings at the fort, and sheds and timbers used during the construction of the works, which need to be removed, and which will afford abundant fuel for six months to come.-N. Y. Times, Jan. 11. HON. Owen Lovejoy was asked what he thought of Senator Seward's speech, noted somewhat for its conciliatory tone. "We want," said Lovejoy, "no Melancthons now; we want Martin Luthers. We want no one to write essays upon the Union and the sin and disasters of secession, but some one to throw the inkstand right at the Devil's head."-N. Y. Times, Jan. 16. and vanished. That little thief is now a senator in Congress, advocating and justifying and threatening the robbery of forts and the stealing of the military cutlery, and hardware generally, of the Federal Government, without any more color or shadow of pretext than he had for his like operations on his fellow-students just thirty-three years ago. A third of a century has not made, and can never make, any change in such an originally born rascal. Had these early filchings been a mere thoughtless, boyish cscapade, a momentary yielding to temptation while in great want, they would not deserve mention now; but they were systematized theft-long-continued, accumulated and hoarded pilferings, from trustful bosom friends. Had the fellow not at length reproduced his private morality in public life, I would have allowed the secret of his early crimes to remain in the hearts of the few who then knew and now remember it."-N. Y. Independent. WRITTEN AFTER READING GENERAL WOOL'S RECENT LETTER.* Such soldier talk assures the land It isn't wholly bursted; Our Wool against their cotton, and .. THE following query appeared in the New Haven Journal: "Editor Journal: In the autumn of 1828, or previous, Rev. Dyer Bull occupied the first front chamber in the old Roger Sherman House, near South College, New Haven. Mr. Bull then had with him as private pupil, a short black-eyed young man, whom he introduced to the writer as Mr. Benjamin. Benjamin soon went out, and the writer asked Mr. Bull if that man was a member of college? 'No,' said he; he has been, but has left the college. He steals so that it seems almost impossible to break him of it-steals from his classmates, and any thing that he happens to fancy, that he can put A FRIEND of Lincoln writes: Lincoln goes for his hands upon. Whether this same young man no compromise with Southern leaders of secession has not since risen to offices of high financial trust, not at all. I speak advisedly. Again and again has not been a senator in Congress, and has not he has said to me, Compromise is not the remedy directly or indirectly been cognizant of the late-not the cure. The South, i. e. the leaders, don't wholesale mint robbery at New Orleans, may be want it-won't have it-no good can come of it. well a subject of inquiry.-VERITAS. The system of compromise has no end. Slavery "He is the same man. He left college under a is the evil out of which all our other national evils discovery of theft.-[ED. JOURNAL.]" and dangers have come. It has deceived us, led us to the brink of ruin, and it must be stopped. It must be kept where it now is." Such are his views, and calmly he awaits the forty-seven days longer, when, if his life is spared, he will fearlessly tell the millions of the land the line of policy he ral Wool a few days ago, saying to him, that he intends to pursue. He received a letter from Gene(General Wool) was commander of the eastern division of the United States army, and as the times what forces he desired at the capital on the 4th of were threatening, he desired Mr. Lincoln to say March, and they should be on hand. Mr. Lincoln said to me, "I never saw General Wool; but it was a most comforting letter, and I wrote to him in reply-As you and General Scott are as well and dangers, and the necessary means to meet them, better acquainted with the nature and extent of the I take pleasure in committing all that to your discretion, and so the matter rests."-Newark Daily Mercury. "THERE was one of the class of 1829 whose name cannot be found on the list of graduates, or any annual catalogue after 1827. He was and still is a handsome little fellow, looking very small in his class, who, with a few exceptions, were of full manly growth. This youth hailed from a great State of the chivalrous sunny South,' bright-eyed, dark complexion, and 'ardent as a southern sun could make him.' In the early part of 1828 there was a mysterious trouble in that class. Watches, breastpins, seals, pencil-cases, penknives, two-bladed knives, four-bladed knives, &c., &c., &c., and lastly, sundry sums of money, 'lying around loose' in students' rooms, disappeared unaccountably. The losers looked gloomy at each other, and suspiciously at others. Something must be done, and they finally constituted themselves a volunteer detective force, set their trap, baited with thirty-five dollars in good bank-notes, and soon caught the thief. He confessed. On opening his trunk, in his presence, they found it nearly full of missing valuables-jewelry, pocket cutlery and horologery enough to stock a Chathamstreet store. He begged pitifully not to be exposed; they looked piteously into his handsome young face, and relented at the thought of blasting his opening life. He had been a universal favorite, the pet of his class; so they agreed not to inform either the city magistrates or the Faculty of the University, but ordered him to clear out' at once and forever. He went instantly to good President Day, obtained a certificate of honorable dismission, ་ Jan. 20.-There is no doubt that the command of the Southern Army has been offered to Jefferson Davis, and it is equally well understood that he is in a state of mind bordering on despair. He seems to be the only rational man among the secessionists, and clearly comprehends the terrible fate which must befall the South in the event of a conflict with the General Government. He does *See Document II. not disguise his gloomy apprehensions from his friends; and his only remaining hope is that war may be prevented, and the Union reconstructed. Mr. Davis was a fiery Secessionist ten years ago, but gradually the fires have died out, until his intelligent mind is left free to comprehend the peril ous position to which the South, with its institution of Slavery, has been brought by the madness of her sons.-Times, Jan. 23. SHERRARD CLEMENS, in his speech, on the 22d of January, treated the Republicans to a Democrat's opinion of that party, and paid his respects to the Abolitionists in strong terms of denunciation. When he attacked secession and showed his own section the disasters to them, and the loss consequent upon dissolution and the formation of two separate Confederacies, there was an intense excitement on the Democratic side. In the midst of this, his hour expired, and upon an attempt to extend his time, a boisterous scene ensued, which at one time threatened a row. Martin of Virginia, and Rust of Arkansas, attacked Clemens bitterly, in violation of the rules and orders of the House. Martin said: "Let him go on with his treason; we will teach the traitor when he gets to Virginia." Logan, of Illinois, replied: "If his speech is treason, there is no man in Virginia who can answer it." Foulk, of Illinois, insisted upon Clemens going on. Rust and Hindman, of Arkansas, declared he should not, and upon an attempt being made to give him leave, first the Southern men very discourteously refused it. Their excited behavior showed that he had told the truth, and touched them to the quick.-Times, Jan. 23. HOW THE RUMOR OF AN ATTACK ON THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD GREW. AN Irishman named Patrick Meed wished to obtain work in the Navy Yard, and fancying that Jas. E. Kerrigan might have some influence in that quarter, he solicited it; and the two went over the river together to see what could be done. When there, the first application was made to the "boss laborer," who informed them that his department was full at present. From thence they went to the machine shop; but met with no better success. Kerrigan said to his companion, "Let us take a stroll down to the dock," the object being to see if work might not be found in that direction. As they went along the Irishman said, "This damned place ought to be burned up." The expression uttered by the companion of Kerrigan was enough, in the opinion of a few laborers who overheard it, to fix the idea in their minds that "something was afloat;" and as they talked one with the other, the molehill began soon to assume the dimensions of a mountain. When the laborers left the yard a rumor spread around the city-doubtless by a word or two dropped in such and such a store, then amended, added to and reorganized, until the whole city was alarmed-and the "authenticated" fact that James E. Kerrigan was at the head of a large and secret army, and intended to take and burn down the navy yard, was universally believed. The police were augmented and the militia ordered out, because a man in the heat of his temper, caused by disappointment and chagrin, uttered one simple hasty expression. But during the silent midnight hours, at which the attack was to be made, where was Kerrigan? The worthy "leader of ten thousand rebels" was quietly enjoying himself at the Brennan coterie, held in Irving Hall, completely unconscious of his great and elevated position. He was seen by many persons to be in the building from an early hour in the evening till four o'clock next morning, and certainly did not seem to have on his mind so mighty a plan as the seizure of the federal property of this State. In fact, the next morning he could scarcely believe his own eyes, as he read the startling news in the city papers, and expressed surprise how his name could have got mixed up in the affair. But as J. E. K. is a boy full of deviltry and nonsense, he fancied that he might have joked upon the subject, until the above facts came to his remembrance, when he soon discovered the "nigger in the woodpile."-Herald, Jan. 26. Jan. 24.-Advices from Charleston are, that the British Consul at Charleston has been instructed, and that the British Consul at New Orleans will be instructed, to certify to all clearances that may be issued from those ports. Also that the British and French Governments will recognize a Southern Confederacy.-Charleston Mercury. Jan. 27.-Mr. Winthrop, one of the Boston Union Committee, called on Senator Mason, and, referring to his former visit to Massachusetts, remarked in the blandest tones, "I hope, Mr. Mason, we shall see you again at Bunker Hill." To which the Senator stiffly jerked out the response-"Not unless I come as an ambassador, sir."-Times. Jan. 29.-The Cincinnati Commercial states that George N. Sanders, is at Louisville assuming to be the mouth-piece of Judge Douglas, and, as such, advising the immediate secession of the border States, with a view to “ reconstruction." Feb. 1.-Lieut. James E. Jouett reported himself at Washington, to Secretary Toucey. Lieut. Jouett is attached to the steamer Crusader, now in the Gulf, but was temporarily employed on the Wyandotte. He went ashore at Pensacola, and was immediately seized as a prisoner, but released on parol of honor, not to bear arms against the State of Florida, and a passport was furnished him. Having proceeded to New Orleans, with the hope of being able to join his vessel from that point, he was again threatened by Collector Hatch with arrest, unless he departed speedily. The next train found him en route for Washington. After hearing the statement, Secretary Toucey requested the statement to be committed to writing, as the position of Jouett is a novel one. This statement has been made, and, with the passport, laid before the Government. Jouett does not consider his parole binding, should the Department order him back to the Gulf. He silently received his passport, but gave no promise whatever.-N. Y. Times, Feb. 2. A MONKEY Over an open powder magazine would represent, with tolerable exactness, the late conduct and present position of the President of the once United States. No great confederacy, or family of states, was ever before cursed with a President so utterly ignorant of the real character of the people and principles he was called on to rule or direct.-Charleston Mercury, Feb. 2. |