RUMORS AND INCIDENTS.

does this railroad go?" he answered "the road doesn't go at all." Kentucky won't "go," she'll stay.-Louisville Journal.

A HEROINE IN BALTIMORE.

The band of the 6th Regiment, that left Boston consisted of twenty-four persons, who, together with their musical instruments, occupied a car by themselves from Philadelphia to Baltimore. By some accident the musicians' car got switched off at the Can

The Philadelphia Press contains the following: "Mr. Editor: In your paper of the 1st instant is inserted a copy of a letter to a mercantile house in our city, from A. C. & A. B. Beech, of Nashville, promising to make an effort to pay their Eastern indebtedness when the war is over and the smoke of battle clears away; until then, nothing can be done!" As an offset to the above, do us the favor to pub-ton Depot, so that, instead of being the first, it was lish, side by side, the following patriotic letter of Morgan & Co., Nashville:

forbid.

"MORGAN & Co."

left in the rear of all the others, and after the attack had been made by the mob upon the soldiers, they came upon the car in which the band was still sit

"NASHVILLE, April 23, 1861. "Gentlemen: Enclosed find check of the Union ting, wholly unarmed and incapable of making any defence. The infuriated demons approached them Bank, on Manhattan Co., New York, for three thou-howling and yelling, and poured in upon them a sand dollars. We would have remitted more to-day, shower of stones, broken iron, and other missiles; but could not procure the exchange. We intend to wounding some severely, and demolishing their meet all our engagements promptly, war or no war! instruments. Some of the miscreants jumped upon Repudiation is not the weapon we fight with, if the roof of the car, and with a bar of iron beat a fight we must, which God, in His infinite mercy, hole through it, while others were calling for powYour friends, der to blow them all up in a heap. Finding that it would be sure destruction to remain longer in the car, the poor fellows jumped out to meet their fiendish assailants hand to hand. They were saluted with a shower of stones, but took to their heels, fighting their way through the crowd, and running at random, without knowing in what direction to go for assistance or shelter. As they were hurrying along, a rough-looking man suddenly jumped in front of their leader, and exclaimed: "This way, boys! this way!" It was the first friendly voice they had heard since entering Baltimore, and they stopped to ask no questions, but followed their guide, who took them up a narrow court, where they found an open door, into which they rushed, being met inside by a powerful-looking woman, who grasped each one by the hand and directed them upstairs. The last of their band was knocked senseless just as he was entering the door, by a stone, which struck him on the head; but the woman who had welcomed them immediately caught up their fallen comrade and carried him in her arms up the

A SPY HUNG.-Captain William Jones, of the sloop Isabel, has terminated his brief but notorious career at the end of a rope. The account we hear is, that on the arrival of the cars at Scooba, a passenger on the train pointed out Jones, as boasting to him of being the person who "provisioned Slemmer," and that he was then on the way to Washington, with despatches to Lincoln's Government. He was arrested, the proofs of his treason found upon him, and he was executed upon the spot by the enraged citizens.-Mobile Advertiser.

THE OTHER "ABOU-BEN-ADHEM."-The following ingenious and witty parody of a poem universally known, is from a feminine pen. The tart and some what malicious allusions to "Rye" refer, we suppose, to President Buchanan's letter to some Western friends, acknowledging, with thanks, the receipt of some excellent rye whiskey: James B-Uchanan, may his tribe decrease, Awoke one night from a strange dream of peace, And saw, within the curtains of his bed, Making his t'other eye to squint with dreadOld Jackson, writing in a book of gold. Exceeding Rye had made Buchanan bold, And to the stern Ex-President he said:

stairs.

"You are perfectly safe here, boys," said the Amazon, who directly proceeded to wash and bind up their wounds.

After having done this, she procured them food, and then told them to strip off their uniforms and put on the clothes she had brought them, a motley assortment of baize jackets, ragged coats and old

"Wha-what writ'st thou?" The spirit shook his trowsers. Thus equipped, they were enabled to go head,

The while he answered, with the voice of old :
"The names of those who ne'er their country sold!"
And is mine one? asked J. B. Nary!" cried
The General, with a frown. Buchanan sighed,
And groaned, and turned himself upon his bed,
And took another "nip" of " rye," then said:
"Well, ere thou lay thy record on the shelf,
Write me at least as one who sold himself!
'Democs' and 'Rye' so long my spirits were,
That when the 'Crisis' came-I wasn't there!"
The General wrote, and vanished; the next night
He came again, in more appalling plight,
And showed those names that all true men detest,
And lo! Buchanan's name led all the rest!

THE Secessionists ask, "where will Kentucky go?" When the countryman was asked "where

out in search of their companions, without danger of attack from the Plug-Uglies and Blood-Tubs, who had given them so rough a reception.

They then learned the particulars of the attack upon the soldiers and of their escape, and saw lying at the station the two men who had been killed, and the others who had been wounded. One of their own band was missing, and he has not yet been found, and it is uncertain whether he was killed or not On going back to the house where they were so humanely treated, they found that their clothes had been carefully tied up, and with their battered instruments, had been sent to the depot of the Philadelphia Railroad, where they were advised to go themselves They did not long hesitate, but started in the next train, and arrived at Philadelphia just in time to meet the 8th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, under the command

of Gen. Butler, who told them to hurry back to the Old Bay State to show their battered faces and broken limbs, and that they should yet come back and play Hail Columbia in the streets of Baltimore, where they had been so inhumanly assaulted.

April 25.-Among the officers of the frigate Niagara who resigned at Boston, was first Lieuten ant I. N. Brown, a Kentuckian. After resigning he took rooms at the Tremont House in Boston, and immediately got into hot water. The story is told as follows:

"Some excitement was created by two rumorsone of which was to the effect that he had purchased tickets over the Boston and Worcester Railroad for two slaves accompanying him, and the other, that the lieutenant had uttered treasonable sentiments in State-street. The first was unfounded, but it caused considerable excitement in the streets, and an excited mob rushed to the Worcester dépôt to prevent the slaves from being carried away. Others rushed to the State House to ask Governor Andrew to have Lieutenant Brown arrested, but they were unable to obtain an interview with his Excellency. While in State-street, Lieutenant Brown is charged with having stated that he was he found flying over it, and for his native State. His remarks caused some angry feelings, but he was not molested. Application was made to District Attorney Woodbury for a warrant for the arrest of Brown, but after hearing the statements of witnesses, he said he had no authority to issue a warrant under the proclamation of the President, as rebels by that proclamation were allowed thirty days to lay down their arms. He advised Mr. W. L. Burt, who was acting in the case, to apply to Governor Andrew, who at once commanded his arrest, and by the following note from the Mayor it appears that Lieutenant Brown was placed under

The noble-hearted woman who rescued these men is a well-known character in Baltimore, and, according to all the usages of Christian society, is an outcast and a polluted being; but she is a true heroine, nevertheless, and entitled to the grateful consideration of the country. When Gov. Hicks had put himself at the head of the rabble rout of miscreants, and Winter Davis had fled in dismay, and the men of wealth and official dignity had hid themselves in their terror, and the police were powerless to protect the handful of unarmed strangers who were struggling with the infuriated mob, this degraded woman took them under her protection, dressed their wounds, fed them at her own cost, and sent them back in safety to their homes. As she is too notorious in Baltimore not to be perfectly well-going to his plantation, and should fight for the flag known by what we have already told of her, it will not be exposing her to any persecution to mention her name. Ann Manley is the name by which she is known in the city of Blood-Tubs, and the loyal men of the North, when they march again through its streets, should remember her for her humanity to their countrymen.-Boston Sat. Evening Courier. CASSIUS M. CLAY, Minister to Russia, offered his services to Secretary Cameron, either as an officer to raise a regiment, or as a private in the ranks. Mr. Cameron said: "Sir, this is the first instance I ever heard of where a foreign Minister volunteered in the ranks." "Then," said Clay, "let's make a little history." He has been surrounded by friends, shaking hands and congratulating him. He will not leave the country just yet. -Times, April 19.

THE TRAITOR'S PLOT.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Evening Post tells the following anecdote:-Three months ago I was returning from Washington, when Colonel Taylor, (brother of the late President Taylor,) who is now in the federal army, being on a visit to Newark, N. J., joined our party. Colonel Jeff. Davis, as is well known, ran away with General Taylor's daughter, and the families were intimate. Colonel Taylor had but a short time before held an after-dinner's conversation with Jefferson Davis, and while lamenting the approaching troubles, gave us an account of that conversation. The words of Colonel Taylor were nearly as follows:

"After a free talk about our country's troubles, we sat still smoking for some time, when I said, Colonel, what a bad way we are in.' 'Oh! yes, yes,' replied Davis, with comparative indifference. Thinking to touch his pride a little, I said, 'Colonel, what a fine chance for a southern man to distinguish himself by uniting the North and South!' We shall see, we shall see,' was Davis's answer, and he went on smoking. By-and-by, wishing more to draw him out, I said, 'Well, you are a southerner, and an ambitious, talented, reckless fellow; why don't you bring this about, and make the North and South shake hands? You will immortalize yourself by doing that, as Washington did by founding his country.' Davis replied, taking the cigar from his mouth, 'You are at one end of the rope, colonel, and we are at the other; let us see which of us can pull the longest and the strongest.'

arrest:

"MAYOR'S OFFICE, City Hall, Boston, April 25, 1861.

"MR. W. C. DUNHAM-Sir: Lieutenant I. N. Brown, late of the Niagara, is in the custody of the police of this city, and will so remain until released by the Governor, or other competent authority. "J. M. WIGHTMAN, Mayor.'

"Before his arrest, Lieutenant Brown removed his baggage from the Tremont House, and was In the taken in a coach to unknown quarters. meantime, a crowd visited the Worcester dépôt, where a portion of Lieutenant Brown's baggage was, and broke it open, but finding no materials of war, disturbed it no farther."-Boston Post.

MR. LINCOLN keeps his own counsels so carefully, that Virginia sent a Committee to him to ask him to speak. Mr. Buchanan always blabbed so much, that the whole country felt disposed to send a Committee to him, to ask him to keep his mouth shut.

Married, on Saturday last, Mr. McCraw, in the 81st year of his age, to Miss Patty Haverston, aged 71; both of the poor-house.-Toledo Blade.

We are afraid, that, if the Southern Confederacy and the Northern Confederacy, after separating and living apart several years, and exhausting all their substance in war, shall conclude to be reunited, their marriage, like that of the old couple at Toledo, will have to be in the poor-house.-Louisville Journal.

The Mobile Advertiser speaks of the Northern volunteers as, "men who prefer enlisting to starvation; scurvy fellows from the back slums of cities, whom Falstaff would not have marched through

"When the order came for me to join my company, sir," replied the soldier, "I was ploughing in the same field at Concord where my grandfather was ploughing when the British fired on the Massachusetts men at Lexington. He did not wait a moment; and I did not, sir."

It is unnecessary to add that the soldier was immediately supplied with an excellent pair of boots.

Coventry with; but these recruits are not soldiers
-least of all the soldiers to meet the hot-blooded,
thoroughbred, impetuous men of the South. Trench-
er soldiers, who enlisted to war upon their rations,
not on men; they are such as marched through
Baltimore, squalid, wretched, ragged, and half-
naked, as the newspapers of that city report them.
Fellows who do not know the breech of a musket
from its muzzle, and had rather filch a handker--Evening Post.
chief than fight an enemy in manly combat. White-
slaves, peddling wretches, small-change knaves, and
vagrants, the dregs and offscourings of the popu-
lace; these are the levied forces' whom Lincoln
suddenly arrays as candidates for the honor of being
slaughtered by gentlemen-such as Mobile sent to
battle. Let them come South, and we will put
our negroes to the dirty work of killing them.
But they will not come South. Not a wretch
of them will live on this side of the border,
longer than it will take us to reach the ground and

drive them off."

THE TRUE SOLDIER'S SPIRIT.-The following extract is from a letter written by one of the Salem Light Infantry, (Zouaves.)

"We have got to push our way through Baltimore in the morning at the point of the bayonet. But our boys are determined and in for it. Our bayonet exercise has got to put the whole regiment through fire and brimstone. To tell you the truth, our boys expect to be split to pieces. But we have all made up our minds to die at our post. We have one great consolation before us: the famous Seventh Regiment of New York will join us to-night in Philadelphia, and at three o'clock in the morning we expect to take up our line of march. There is an unheard-of hot time before us; we are furnished with no ammunition as yet, and we are to rely on our bayonets and revolvers solely. Our Lieutenant is collecting our letters, and I must leave you. Perhaps before you receive this I may be lying on the field among those recorded with the dead. But what is more glorious than to die for one's country? I am in as good spirits as our dubious position will admit, and I will die like a soldier-and a true one if I must."-Boston Express, April 27.

A PATRIOTIC MOTHER.-Henry B. Stanton, of Seneca Falls, now in New York, received a letter from his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls, stating that their two older sons had joined the army, and that she regretted that the next three were too young for service. Mrs. Stanton is daughter of Judge Daniel Cady, and grand-daughter of Colonel Livingston, who figured in the war of the Revolution, and it will be perceived that the old fire has been transmitted by inheritance.-Idem.

IN the Virginia Convention, when it was proposed to send a committee to ask Mr. Lincoln what was the object of his military movements, Mr. Carlisle suggested that a similar committee should be sent to Montgomery to ascertain from Jeff. Davis what he intended to do with all the troops he is raising. Henry A. Wise enquired whether Mr. Carlisle would be named as one of the committee to be sent to Montgomery, for, "if so, that would be the last they would ever see of him." That remark was in the true spirit of the Secessionists; they have tak en their States out of the Union without consulting the Border States; they are trying to complicate us in difficulties and place us in false positions in the hope to compel us to join them; and, if we have the temerity to ask why large armies are raised and extraordinary expenses incurred, the threat of murder is made at once. Lynch law is the only law proffered to the friends of the Union in the Confederate States.-Louisville Journal, April 23.

A

A MAN named Steele hoisted a Secession flag at East Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He was warned day after day, but refused to take it down. party from Mattapoisett paid him a visit and demanded the flag to be taken down. He refused to comply with the request, and threatened to shoot ing awhile, he was taken and marched three miles whoever attempted to take it down. After parleyto Mattapoisett, where a coat of tar and feathers handsome set of tail feathers, and then he was com was applied to a part of his person, giving him a pelled to give three cheers for the Stars and Stripes, take an oath to support the Constitution, and never again raise other than the American flag.-Boston Transcript, April 29.

THE Cincinnati Times says: "A friend, who is just from the Military Institute, located near Frankfort, Ky., tells a good one. He says the institution employs a fifer who served in the Northwest in the second war with Great Britain, and took part in the battle of the Thames and other fights. During the late Secession tornado over Kentucky, the cadets, affected with the fever, talked pretty severely against those devoted to the Stars and Stripes. The old veteran listened, but said nothing. One evening he went into the room of our informant, and seemed to be in something of a passion. He paced backward and forward, saying nothing, and refusing

"If we recognize the right of secession in one case,

to answer all questions. At last he pulled out his | the simple reply of the youth, was, “Oh, the flagfife, and, sitting down, sent forth Yankee Doodle' the stars and stripes."-Phila. Press, May 1. with its shrillest strains. Then he played 'Hail Columbia,' and then 'The Star-spangled Banner,' while the tears rolled down his aged and weather-we give our assent to it in all cases; and if the few beaten cheeks. Concluding that, he jumped to his feet, and exclaimed: 'Now, d-n 'em, I guess they know which side I'm on!' He and our informant instantly gave three cheers for the Union; and they will both stand by it until death. Kentucky has plenty of such men.

April 21.-A rumor having reached Virginia to the effect that Lieut.-Gen. SCOTT was about to resign his commission as General-in-Chief of the United

States Army, Judge ROBINSON, an old personal friend and classmate of his, came to Washington, from Richmond, to offer him a commission as Commander-inlearning the purport of Judge R.'s errand, Gen. Scorr interrupted him with a declaration that if he went any further in making such a proposition to him, he (Judge R.) would not be permitted to get back to Richmond; adding, that having sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, he realized all the honorable obligations of that oath, and should of course observe them.-N. Y. Times, April 25.

Chief of the forces of the "Confederate States." On

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States upon the Gulf now are to separate themselves
from us, and erect a barrier across the mouth of that
great river of which the Ohio is a tributary, how long
will it be before New York may come to the conclu-
sion that she may set up for herself, and levy taxes
upon every dollar's worth of goods imported and con-
sumed in the Northwest, and taxes upon every bushel
of wheat, and every pound of pork, or beef, or other
productions that may be sent from the Northwest to
the Atlantic in search of a market.
into little petty confederacies. First, divide them
proposition now, is, to separate these United States
into two; and then, when either party gets beaten in
the next election, sub-divide again; (laughter, and
never;) then, whenever one gets beaten again,
Governor's election, the discomfited will rebel again,
another sub-division; and then, when you beat on
and so it will go on.
sistance by the sword and bayonet, to the results of
And if this new system of re-
the ballot box, shall prevail here in this country of
written in the history of Mexico. It is a curious
ours, the history of the United States is already
fact, a startling fact, and one that no American citi-
that Mexico separated from Spain, down to this hour,
zen should ever misapprehend-that from the day
no President of hers elected by the people has ever
been inaugurated and served his term of office. In
defeated candidate has seized possession of the office
every single case, from 1820 down to 1861, either the
by military force, or has turned out the successful

WHILE they were hoisting the Stars and Stripes over the officers' head-quarters at Camp Curtin, near Harrisburgh, Pa., and just as the men had seized the halliards, a large eagle, who came from no one knew where, hovered over the flag, and sailed majestically over the encampment while the flag was run up Thousands of eyes were upturned in a moment, and as the noble bird looked down, the cheers of three thou-man before his term expired. What is more signifisand men rent the air! Never was such ovation paid scoff at. No man would deem himself treated as a cant? Mexico is now a bye-word for every man to the "Imperial Bird of Jove." It lingered for a few a Mexican. moments, apparently not a particle frightened at the gentleman, who was represented as terrific noise, then cleaving the air with its pinions, he disappeared in the horizon.-Independent, May 9.

Why? Because he cannot maintain his government founded upon the great principles of self-government and constitutional liberty-because he won't abide by the ballot-box-because he is not willing to redress grievances inside of the constitution, and in obedience to its provisions, instead of seizing the bayonet and the sword to resist the constituted authorities. It is not a question of union or disunion. It is a question of order; of the stability of the government; of the peace of communities."-Stephen A. Douglas, at Wheeling, April 20.

MRS. MAJOR ANDERSON being desirous to visit her husband in Fort Sumter, Peter Hart, an officer of the Twentieth Ward, N. Y. City, was deputed to escort her to Charleston. Once inside the fort, Mr. Hart who had served under Major Anderson through the Mexican war, resolved to remain by his old commander, and aid in defending the fort. This he did, and in doing so, proved himself to be a gallant and intrepid soldier. After the stars and stripes had been shot down by the guns of the rebel forces, Hart seized the national colors, which he had so heroically defended in Mexico, and nailing the flag to a pole, raised it to its former position with his own hand, amid the cheers of Major Anderson and his soldiers.-N. Y. Tribune, April 20.

THE horses of the Providence Marine Artillery were quartered in the stables of Jesse Wandel, in Jersey City, and well supplied with provender.