"Father," was the kindly but decisive response, "if you could make it $100,000 it would be of no use; for where the Seventh Regiment goes, I go."-Tribune, April 20. man in New Orleans, on behalf of the Union. She | iering." "Determined not to be outdone in a matter of such grave importance, the captain, who was not in the room during the above proceedings, was next found and appealed to. He heard their case; said his wife had reported him correctly on the Union | question, nevertheless, he would go with them to the room and see if the matter could be amicably arranged. The captain's disposition to yield was not to be seconded by his better half. The proprietors next proposed to vacate the best chamber in her favor, in some other part of the house, if that would be satisfactory; but the lady's 'No!' was still as peremptory as ever. Her point was gained, and the St. Charles was doomed to have a dark front chamber. Pleased with this triumph, Mrs. devised the following manoeuvre to make the most of her victory.-Summoning a servant, she sent him out to procure for her an American flag, which, at dusk, she suspended from her window. When evening came the streets, animated by a merry throng, were illuminated, but, alas! the St. Charles was disfigured by its sombre chamber, when suddenly a succession of lamps, suspended on both sides of the flag, revealing the stars and stripes, were lit up, and the ensign of the Union waved from the centre of a hotel illuminated in honor of its overthrow! The effect was, to give the impression that the whole house was thus paying homage to the American flag; and what is more significant, is the fact that the latter was greeted by the passing crowd with vociferous applause. So much for the firmness of a true Union woman."-Phila. Press. THE Missouri Democrat has a letter from a soldier at Fort Smith, Ark., bearing the date of March 5, in which the following passage occurs: "Yesterday the citizens of Fort Smith raised a Palmetto flag in town, and one of the soldiers, private Bates, company E, First cavalry, went out and climbed up the tree upon which the flag was suspended, took it down and brought it into the garrison. Captain Sturgiss ordered him to take it and put it back where he got it. He said he never would. The captain ordered him to the guard house, and in going he tore the flag in pieces. He was then ordered to be put in irons, and was sent to the blacksmith shop for that purpose; but the smith (a citizen) refused to put them on, and he was discharged in consequence. D company, First cavalry, farrier was then ordered to put them on, and he refused, and was sent to the guard-house. E company, First cavalry, farrier then put them on. The soldiery then gave three shouts for Bates, and the blacksmith who refused to put the irons on."The World, April 1. "My son," said a New York merchant, to his heir and namesake, on Thursday, "I would rather give $1,000 than have you go to Washington sold. Ir is not an insignificant sign of the feeling at New York, in regard to the course of affairs, that not only do Government Six per cents stand firm on the Stock Exchange in the face of the cannonade of Fort Sumter, but when Kentucky Sixes were called to-day, the whole Board sprang to their feet, and gave three long cheers for the gallant Major Anderson. It is also a noticeable feature that when one of the members of the Board offered to sell Government Stock "short" on time, he was instantly hissed down.-Evening Post, April 12. A CHARLESTON despatch states that "the first shot from Stevens's battery was fired by the venerable Edmund Ruffin of Virginia," A piece of the first hemp that is stretched in South Carolina should be kept for the neck of this venerable and bloodthirsty Ruffian.-Idem, April 13. BALTIMORE, April 13.-A man made his appearance on the streets in this city this morning, wearing a large secession cockade on his hat. He was pursued by a crowd, and had to be protected by the police.-Idem. April 13.-Among the ridiculous rumors to day, are the following: that the South Carolinians "have made a breach in Fort Sumter; "that Senator Chesnut fired a shot, "as an experiment," and made a hole in the wall of the Fort; that Major Anderson is the guest of General Beauregard, and that Senator Wigfall received the sword and returned it to Maj. Anderson.-Tribune, April 16. April 11.-The President received a letter from St. Louis directed to "Old ABE or any other man." On one side was the Confederacy flag, on the other the seal and flag of the United States, with the words "played out." Inside was a five-dollar note on the Union Bank of South Carolina, to help pay the expenses of reinforcing Fort Sumter. Times, April 12. AN incident occurred during the cannonading, of Fort Sumter, which, for its peculiarity, deserves particular mention. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia, ex-Member of Congress, was one of the second deputation that waited upon Major Anderson. He was the very embodiment of Southern chivalry. Literally dressed to kill, bristling with bowie-knives and revolvers, like a walking arsenal, he appeared to think himself individually capable of capturing the fort, without any extraneous assistance. Inside of the fort he seemed to think himself master of every thing—monarch of all he surveyed-and, in keeping with this pretension, sceing upon the table what appeared to be a glass of brandy, drank it without ceremony. Surgeon Crawford, who had witnessed the feat, approached him and said: "Sir, what you have drank is poison-it was the iodide of potassium-you are a dead man." The representative of chivalry instantly collapsed, bowie-knives, revolvers and all, and passed into the hands of Surgeon Crawford, who, by purgings, pumpings, and pukings, defeated his own prophecy in regard to his fate. Mr. Pryor left Fort Sumter "a wiser, if not a better man.”—N. Y. Tribune, April 19. "WHEN the State of Maine arrived at Fort Monroe with the Massachusetts troops, the Virginian residents around the fort, who were all Secessionists, were very much surprised, enraged and mortified. They collected around the captain of the steamer, who is as cool and intrepid a specimen of a Yankee as New England contains, and told him significantly, that the troops would never go back to Massachusetts. He replied that that was the last thing they thought of; that the country was 80 fine they intended to settle, and send for their friends, and he was going to New York to get another load. Another set, belonging to an armed schooner, engaged in enforcing the local laws of Virginia, insolently claimed the right of searching the State of Maine for negroes. The captain told them they should not go aboard to take out anybody, black or white. They replied that, by the laws of Virginia they had the right of search. He retorted that they knew nothing about the laws of Virginia, but sailed by the laws and under the flag of the United States. He also assured them, if there were any negroes there who were desirous of a voyage to New York, he should be very happy to accommodate them, and closed the conversation by saying-You have been preaching all your lives that the Yankees are a pack of misers and cowards, who won't fight; now you'll have a favorable opportunity to test the accuracy of your opinions on that point.'"-Boston Transcript. THE people of the North have had good reason to complain of the hoaxing done by the telegraph; but the way in which the people of the South have been humbugged is positively shocking. All over the South, they had, on the morning of the 20th, the resignation of Gen. Scott; his joining Virginia; the defeat of the New York 7th Regiment with an immense loss; capture of Norfolk Navy Yard, and Harper's Ferry Arsenal; the probable resignation of President Lincoln-in fact, the utter discomfiture of the North. The Natchez Free Trader says: "Forthwith our citizens thronged the streets, the bells of all the churches and public buildings rang out a long-continued, merry peal, sky rockets and other fireworks lit up the night, guns were fired, | the cannon roared and the people shouted most lustily and harmoniously. A grand mass meeting, gathered in ten minutes' notice, was held at the Court House, which with its surrounding grounds and the adjoining streets, was thronged. Speeches were made by sundry citizens, interrupted by frequent applause and cheering. Natchez never was so grand, nor her people so jubilant. The pen fails to make the record a just one. We are hoarse with shouting and exalted with jubilancy."-N. Y. Tribune, April 23. MR. GEORGE N. SANDERS, who is now in Montgomery, telegraphs from there yesterday, that "in order to prevent anarchy and war the Democrats at the north should at once rebel and accept the constitution of the Confederate States." How the rebellion of a political minority against the lawful government can prevent anarchy and war is somewhat difficult to conceive. But what means this well known Democrat by the term "should at once rebel"? Is it only a matter of time? Is the | Democratic party pledged to rebellion, and only waits the occasion? Who will explain.-Commercial Advertiser, April 11. WHEN the Massachusetts agent sent to Mr. Stetson for his bill against that State, he received the following reply: ASTOR HOUSE, NEW YORK, April 27, 1861 Gov. ANDREW, Massachusetts. DEAR SIR:-The Astor House has no charge for feeding Massachusetts troops. Yours, respectfully, STETSON & Co. -Tribune. THE Mobile Mercury says that the South Carolinians "will have to learn to be a little more conforming to the opinions of others, before they can expect to associate comfortably with even the cotton States, under a federative government." It is pleasing to see that Alabama is so rapidly getting acquainted with her Palmetto sister.-Prov. Jour. J. C. WRIGHT of Oswego, from Washington, says that General Scott remarked to a group of gentlemen, who pointed to him the report about his resignation :-" He could more casily believe that they would trample the American flag in the dust than he be suspected of resignation at this hour of trial. No, sirs! please God, I will fight for many years yet for this Union, and that, too, under_the_protecting folds of the star spangled banner.”—Exeter News Letter, May 6. THE Skowhegan (Me.) Clarion says, that some ladies of that village "got out the field-piece and fired a salute of thirty-four guns." Can you find ladies elsewhere, that have their courage? COL. PRENTIS, the commanding officer at Cairo received the following despatch from three of the most prominent citizens of Cincinnati : "General Pillow has several steamers ready at Memphis. He meditates an immediate attack on Cairo, Illinois." Col. Prentiss replied: "Let him come. He will learn to dig his ditch on the right side. I am ready."-Portsmouth (N. H.) Ballot. EVEN the Quakers are aroused, as appears by the following: A Quaker merchant in New York said to one of his clerks: "Well, friend is thee willing to enlist?" "I have thought of it," replied the clerk, "but hesitated because I feared to lose my situation." "If thee will enlist," replied the Quaker, "not only shall thee have thy situation, but thy salary shall go on while thee is absent. But if thee will not serve thy country, thee cannot stay in this store." This is but a fair sample of the spirit now being displayed all over the free States. Can freedom be crushed out among such a people? Not all the Yanceys, Wigfalls and Jeff. Davises in creation could do it!-Evening Post. Ir the secessionists succeed in taking Fort Pickens, they will be acknowledged-a confederacy of Pickens and stealings.—Punch. THE GREAT BELL ROLAND. SUGGESTED BY THE PRESIDENT'S CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS. [Motley relates that the famous bell Roland of Ghent was an object of great affection to the people, because it always rang to arm them when liberty was in danger.] BY THEODORE TILTON. I. Toll! Roland, toll! The great bell Roland spoke, With tramp of thronging feet All flying to the city's wall? It was the call Known well to all, That Freedom stood in peril of some foe: And even timid hearts grew bold Whenever Roland tolled, And every hand a sword could hold;— Were patriots then, Three hundred years ago! II. Toll! Roland, toll! Bell never yet was hung, Between whose lips there swung So true and brave a tongue! At thy first sound Then toll! and wake the test III. Toll! Roland, toll! -Not in St. Bavon's tower At midnight hour Nor by the Scheldt, nor far-off Zuyder Zee; But here this side the sea! And here in broad, bright day! Toll! Roland, toll! For not by night awaits A brave foe at the gates, But Treason stalks abroad-inside !-at noon! To Arms! Ring out the Leader's call! Till every dauntless breast Swell beneath plume and crest! Till swords from scabbards leap! -What tears can widows weep POETRY-40 Till cottager from cottage-wall Snatch pouch and powder-horn and gun- Ere half of Freedom's work was done! Till son, in memory of his sire, Once more shall load and fire! Till volunteers find out the art IV. Toll! Roland, toll! -St. Bavon's stately tower And by its side stands Freedom yet in Ghent; Men shout, "God save the King!" -Ameu!-So let it be; For a true king is he Who keeps his people free. This side the sea! No longer they, but we, And let thy iron throat Ring out its warning note, Till Freedom's perils be outbraved, -The Independent, April 18. THE SENTINEL OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST. BY J. B. BACON. In the midnight zenith gleam the stars. Steps that I love, and the welcome sound "Well!" for our land and our starry flag; "Well!" for the rights and the hopes of man, Echoes from plain and from mountain crag, "Well! all's well!" from the army's van. Sons of our homes! while the smiles ye love Prayerfully float round your banners of war, Look, 'mid the gleam of your bayonets, above! GOD holds the guerdon of Victory's star! -N. Y. Tribune, May 3. WORK TO DO. BY R. H. STODDARD. From the North and the West, For the flag of their sires, Rent are the bonds of gain and greed, Once coiled around our common life: Hushed are the hate of party strife, And jealousies of race and creed. We see the light the prophets saw, In eyes of age and eyes of youth— The sacred flame of trust and truth, Of justice, liberty, and law. In furrowed fields, in city walls, Forgot are lust, and sloth and fear; One voice alone-one voice we hearOur Country to her children calls. Lord God of Hosts, to whom we pray In faith to Thee our fathers fought; "O, brothers! blest by partial fate With power to match the will and deed," This is the hour of sorest need; Go forward ere it be too late! W. W. HOWE. Would you rend our country's breast in twain? But the sword that could drink her holy vein Peace, brothers, peace! Would ye part the river which north and south Sounds not a tone from its mighty mouth That the North and the South, like it, must be Peace, brothers, peace! Brothers, beware; the storm is high- And her flag, whose spangles have lit the sky, Our trust is in Thy arm alone; LONDON, January 4, 1861. -National Intelligencer, Feb. & -N. Y. Tribune. AN APPEAL FOR THE COUNTRY. BY MRS. ELLEN KEY BLUNT. [The following patriotic and impressive lines were written by Mrs. BLUNT, in London, on the 4th of January, after she had complied with the President's recommendation to observe it as a day of humiliation and prayer. The time, the circumstances under which they were written, and the character and associations of the writer, all combine to give a solemn interest to the appeal.] "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards man." From lake to gulf, from sea to sea We have knelt in one solemn Fast, That God may heal our country's strife, Forgiving us all the past. Hear we no voice as we listening stand? Comes there no touch on the angry hand? Thrills not one heart-throb through the land? Peace, brothers, peace! Oh, by our homes so bright and fair, "LIBERTY AND UNION, ONE AND INSEPARABLE." There floats our glorious ensign, Dare raise the parricidal arm With impious grasp to seize, The curse of Cain on him who wields Still floats our glorious ensign, Oh! brethren in the Union strong, When our sires, beneath that banner, When first its glories were unfurled Its stripes were dyed at Monmouth; Its stars shone out o'er Bunker's height; |