False, false, every word; for that fame is upheld Who said there were murmurs of grief in our midst, Ah, no!-'twas not so-every heart hushed its woe, We trusted this band, the fair flower of the land, Who said the good name of our country was gone— Let traitors beware! By their dark plots we swear, Who questions the promise? Not we who behold This love and this national pride Sweeping on through the clime, in a torrent sublime, Who fears for the issue? Ah, that must be left While He holds the scale, Truth and Right will prevail, And Error and Treason will fall. A stain on our banner? Oh! shame to the heart As when first the bright symbol was bought. Heaven's blessings upon it! Its stars never shone Like a beacon's calm ray, pointing out the safe way, -N. Y. Times, April 29. WESTERN VIRGINIA ON THE SEIZURE OF SHERRARD CLEMENS. A good sword and a trusty hand, A merry heart and true, The Richmond men shall understand And have they fixed the where and when? And must our Clemens die? The West shall set this matter right, Though Richmond jail had Moultrie's guns, Alluding to the departure of the Seventh Regiment. We'll cross the hills, a lively band, And when we come to Richmond's wall, Our Clemens, he's in keep and hold, But here's twenty thousand freemen bold -Boston Transcript, April 22. THE BALLAD OF COCKEY'S FIELD. It was on Sunday's holy day, They were as far as Cockeysville; And with ten thousand more behind- The children cried, the women screamed— And good folks in the churches met, As if, in such a din as this, And sober folks, who'd lost their wits, To see if they could buy, or beg, Until, at last, some wiser head And see how many men there were, And started off in hottest haste: The horse had caught the fire, And there he found two thousand men, They did not have a thing to eat- And so he rode up brave, and said: Why did you come? What do you want? How many in the rear? And so the Captain he replied, Most courteously to him: "We stopped because the bridge was gone; We had to stop—or swim. "We're going on to Washington, "But when 'Old Abe' the war-note sounds, "Hurrah for our old Stars and Stripes, It never waved o'er coward heads; And so came back the messenger, And then they called the fathers out, And they resolved, "No hostile foot "We'll tear our railroads up a space; And when defence was all arranged, "We'll send them something up to eat, And so great loads of all good things A moral in the load. NEW ORLEANS, April 28.-The courts being closed, and the lawyers having nothing to do, those of the Second and Third Districts have formed a military company, in the ranks of which none are received under the age of 45 years. The roll contains already 69 names, the first among the privates being that of Hon. Pierre Soulé. The Captain is Judge Louis Duvignaud; the Lieutenants, J. P. Monnier and Emile Wiltz; the Sergeants, J. Mallet, P. Caudrain, Fenelon F. Coquet; and the Corporals, A. Dreyfous, L. Rigand, Rudolph Hetch, L. N. Johan, A. Duvignaud, L. Deroche, J. P. Montagnet, and Amédée Porche. Most of these gentlemen are already renowned for their deeds in another field. If Cicero could come up, what would he say, he who uttered once those famous words, Cedant arma toga -N. O. Picayune, April 28. THE Richmond Whig says that the last reliable intelligence represents that Old Abe had been beastly intoxicated for the previous thirty-six consecutive hours, and that eighty Border Ruffians, from Kansas, under the command of Lane, occupied the East Room to guard His Majesty's slumbers. It is broadly hinted in a Washington paper, that his guard exerts a despotic control over the Presidential inmate-that | all his decrees are of its inspiration. The paper (The States and Union) then proceeds to shed a becoming quantity of tears over this "sad subject for contemplation."—N. O. Sunday Delta, April 28. THE following has been placarded on all the dead walls in the upper part of the city of New York: CONDITIONS OF PEACE REQUIRED OF THE SO-CALLED SECEDED STATES. Art. 1. Unconditional submission to the Government of the United States. Art. 2. To deliver up one hundred of the Arch Traitors to be hung. Art. 3. To put on record the names of all others who have been traitorous to the Government, who shall be held infamous and disfranchised forever. Art. 4. The property of all traitors to be confiscated to pay the damage. Art. 5. The seceded States to pay the balance of the expense, and to restore all stolen property. Art. 6. The payment of all debts due to Northerners, and indemnity for all indignities to persons, loss of time, life, and property. Art. 7. The removal of the cause of all our difficulties, which can only be done by the immediate and unconditional abolition of slavery. Art. 8. Until a full compliance with all the above terms, the so-called seceded States to be held and governed as United States territory. The above is the least an indignant people will accept, outraged as they have been by the foulest and most heinous and gigantic instance of crime recorded in history.-N. Y. Express, April 26. A CORRESPONDENT of the Richmond Whig, writing from Norfolk, gives the following account of affairs at the time of the destruction of the Gosport Navy Yard: The truth is, everybody was drunk, from Commodore Macaulay, the commandant, down. The Commodore was so drunk as to be incapable of any duty, and had to be borne to the ship on a litter. Nearly | every officer, it was reported, was having a high old time. It seems we have a swilling set opposed to us, even those filling the highest stations. A gentleman arrived here this morning, who, with several others, was arrested while passing through Washington, for being Southerners, and taken into the presence of the august Baboon. He declares that Lincoln was so drunk that he could scarcely maintain his seat in the chair; and it was notorious in Washington that he had been in a state of intoxication for more than thirty-six hours. The man is scared nearly to death, and few people in that city are in any better condition.-N. O. Delta, April 29. A GENTLEMAN from Washington reports that the following is the language of Mr. Lincoln to the Baltimore Committee: GENTLEMEN: You have come here to ask for peace on any terms. Such a desire, on such terms, is not like the course of Washington or Jackson. Theythe rebels-attacked Fort Sumter, and you attack the troops sent to the Federal Government for the protection of the same, and for the defence of the lives and the property of the inhabitants of this city. My intention was never to attack Maryland, but to have those troops, as I said before, for the protection of Washington. Now, gentlemen, go home and tell your people, that if they will not attack us, we will not attack them; but if they do attack us, we will return it, and that severely. Those troops must come to Washington, and that through Maryland. They can neither go under it nor can they fly over it, and they shall come through it.-Philadelphia Press April 26. A DEPUTATION of sixteen Virginians and eight Marylanders visited the President on the 21st of April, and demanded a cessation of hostilities until after the session of Congress. Mr. Lincoln of course declined the proposition. One of the deputation said that 75,000 Marylanders would contest the passage of troops over her soil; to which the President replied, that he presumed there was room enough on her soil to bury 75,000 men.-N. Y. Times, April 27. WHEN Major Anderson and his command passed out of the harbor on their way to join the fleet of the United States, the Marion Artillery, a company which, according to high military authority, contributed very materially to the reduction of Fort Sumter, in testimony of their appreciation of his gallant defense, formed on the beach and stood with uncovered heads until the Isabel had passed their position.-N. O. Delta, April 25. NEW ORLEANS, April 25.-In the ranks of the Louisville Blues, now at Montgomery, from Barbour County, is the Rev. Alexander McLenan, of the have enlisted with the company for the term of Methodist Episcopal Church, who, with his two sons, twelve months, in the service of the Confederate States. In a speech made by him at Clayton, on their way to Columbus, he remarked that “our cause was honored of God, and He would crown it with success." Mr. McLenan is upwards of sixty years of age, and the greater part of his manhood has been dedicated to the service of the ministry. Equality and justice to the South is a motto to which he has always been religiously devoted.—Columbus Sun, April 21. FIRST CATCH THE RABBIT.-Ole Dabe threatens to burn Baltimore if the railways leading to Washington be obstructed. Hadn't he better get Baltimore before he burns it? Ole Dabe ought to consult Miss Leslie's recipe for hare soup—“ first catch the hare," &c.-N. O. Delta, April 26. THE Conduct of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment at Annapolis, Md., is deserving of the greatest praise. When Gen. Butler asked if any of them could sail the Constitution, fifty-four men stepped from the ranks, one of whom was the son of the man who built her! A similar incident occurred when the General called for mechanics to put the dislocated engine together. One stalwart Yankee stepped from the ranks, and said, Well, General, I rather think I can-I made that engine;" and in two hours the engine was at work drawing trains with the troops towards Washington. The efficiency of the stalwart six-footers with which the regiment abounds, was a most fortunate thing for the vast body of troops concentrating there.-N. Y. Times, April 27. 66 THE insane fury of New York arises from purely mercenary motives. She is concerned about the golden eggs which are laid for her by the Southern goose with the sword. Let us assure her we have more fear of her smiles than of her frowns. New York will be remembered with especial hatred by the South to the end of time. Boston we have always known where to find; but this New York, which has never turned against us till the hour of trial, and is now moving heaven and earth for our destruction, shall be a marked city to the end of time.-Richmond Dispatch, April 25. THE following is an extract from a private letter, dated 22d April, from a Southern lady, now in Washington City, to a lady friend and relative in New Orleans: This place is in a terrible condition; the streets are thronged with soldiers; it is really unsafe for a lady to walk out alone. Old Lincoln sleeps with a hundred armed men in the east room to protect him from the Southern army. He is expecting them to attack the city every night; he keeps a sentinel walking in front of his bed-room all night, and often gets so frightened that he leaves the White House, and sleeps out, no one knows where. These are facts. Mrs. Lincoln, a few nights since, heard whispering in the hall in front of her room; she rose from bed, dressed, and sat up the remainder of the night watching for the Southern army to blow up the White House, as they are confidently expecting it. Senator Gwin's son, a fine-looking, intelligent young man, about twenty years old, has thrown up a cadetship at West Point, and gone to Montgomery to seek an appointment in the Confederate Army. The Senator himself has gone to California, and his family have broken up housekeeping, and will spend the summer on his plantation in Isaquena County, Mississippi, and thus Mrs. Gwin and her daughter may grace New Orleans with her presence during the sumif there is no epidemic in your city.-N. O. Delta, April 28. mer, AT New York, a matronly lady, accompanied by her son, a fine youth of about nineteen years, entered a gun store on Broadway, and purchased a full outfit for him. Selecting the best weapons and other articles for a soldier's use, that could be found in the store, she paid the bill, remarking, with evident emotion, "This, my son, is all that I can do. I have given you up to serve your country, and may God go with you! It is all a mother can do." The incident attracted considerable attention, and tearful eyes followed this patriotic mother and her son, as they departed from the place.-N. Y. Times, April 29. York, April 26th, for the defence of the Union, a Ar the great demonstration at Union Square, New committee was appointed, which was subdivided into obtain subscriptions in aid of the fund to be provided. other committees, and among them a committee to Mr. A. T. Stewart, who is one of the latter, headed his own subscription list with the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars!-N. Y. Times, April 26. RICHMOND, Va., April 23.-It is reported hero that a dispatch has been received by Gov. LETCHER from Mr. CAMERON, the Secretary of War at Washington, inquiring whether if he came to Richmond he would be protected, his purpose being to ask for an armistice of sixty days. WM. B. DOBBIN, of the Fifty-third Regiment of Maryland, arrived here last night from Baltimore, and says that no report had reached here with regard to the rumored slaughter of the Seventh Regiment at Annapolis.-N. Y. Times, April 27. THE CONFEDERATE FLAG IN HAVANA. A vessel from a Florida port came in the other day with the Confederate flag flying as her nationality. The boat of the Captain-General immediately came alongside, and required that it should be at once lowered, as it represented no known nation, and the master, who had an American flag ready at hand, hoisted that in place. He then went to the Vice-Consul, Mr. Savage, acting since the departure of Major Helmn, and presented a register from the Confederated States. The Consul replied he could recognize no such papers: but on the captain representing that he was innocent in the matter, having taken command at the last moment, and the register having been taken out in the name of a previous master, the consul said that if he would make oath that the vessel was owned wholly by citizens of the United States he would give him a sea-letter, which would enable him to return to any port in the United States, but that he should retain his register and forward it to Washington. The case was an anomalous one; the owners might be really loyal citizens, but forced in absence of regular United States officers, to take out Confederate States papers, and in the absence of any instructions from Washington, Mr. Savage hardly felt willing to take the responsibility of entirely refusing to have any thing to do with the vessel, after she had hoisted the United States flag, and thus of condemning her to lie here, unable to leave, an indefinite time. Perhaps it would have been better to have assumed the responsibility, and have declined any connection with a vessel that could not prove her right to fly the United States flag, by her papers. But for a ViceConsul, and so near home, and so easily within reach of instructions, to assume to decide in so grave a case, is a thing that could hardly be expected. It would certainly seem, however, as if it were very desirable that immediate instructions should be given by our Government, in regard to such cases.-N. Y. | April 19, by Hon. Mr. Moore, Her British Majesty's Express, April 27. Consul at Richmond. In preparing the usual clear. ance papers for a British brig from Halifax, N. S., he erased the printed words "United States of America," and wrote "Commonwealth of Virginia.”—Boston Journal, April 25. REIGN OF TERROR IN NEW YORK. A gentleman of Richmond, Va., was in New York. The scenes which he witnessed in the streets reminded him of the descriptions of the Reign of Terror in Paris. Nothing was wanting but the bloody guillotine to make the two pictures identical. The violent and diabolical temper everywhere conspicuous, show. ed but too clearly whither all things are tending in the commercial metropolis. A spirit is evoked, which can only be laid in blood. The desperadoes of that great city are now in the ascendant. At present, they are animated by very bloody designs against the South. They have been persuaded, or urged by hunger, to believe that by enlisting for the war they will win bread and honor and riches. By WHEN the boats from the Baltic landed at Fort Monroe, one of them was left at the fort under the command of Lieut. SNYDER, U. S. A., who was a passenger in the Baltic. Soon afterwards he started from the fort, having in his boat a howitzer, with two boxes of ammunition and 16 boxes of rifle cartridges. The current was so strong that the heavy-laden boat could not make the ship, and was only brought up about five miles away from her by making an anchor of a box of rifle cartridges, and she drifted into shallow water, awaiting either a change of tide or succor from the Baltic. While lying there, two horsemen came down to the beach, and after surveying the boat for a few minutes, retired and reported to a company of soldiers, who were concealed in the bushes at some distance from the beach. The horsemen returned in about half an hour, and riding into the water, flourishing their swords, hailed the boat and asked who she was, and what was her business there. Lieut. SNYDER replied that it was a boat from the Baltic, with a howitzer and ammunition for that ves-and-by, they may come to reflect there is an abunsel. The horsemen rode off without further question, the word howitzer probably conveying the idea of sharper work than they were prepared to encounter, and Lieut. S. was unmolested during the remainder of the night. At the change of tide he made his way to the Baltic, reaching her about daylight, with the loss of one box of rifle cartridges.-N. Y. Times, April 27. dance of meat and bread, and inexhaustible supplies of money all around them-in the banks, the palatial residences, in the fire-proof safes of the princely merchants. They may consider that all this meat and bread and money may be won with fewer risks of cracked pates and bloody noses than the meagre, unsavory food of the poor South. That they have only to demand to have it. That they have as much right, as men and Christians, to call for it and help themselves, as to be compelled to travel five or six hundred miles to plunder a poor people, who never did them any harm. It is quite natural for such thoughts as these to come into the heads of men who, having no means of subsistence, and being elated with a sudden idea of their great importance, and seeing a wealth of treasure and good things all around them THE Vestry of Grace Church, in New York, were desirous that an American flag should wave from the very apex of the spire of the Church, at a height of 260 feet from the ground. Several persons offered to undertake the dangerous feat, but on mounting by the interior staircase to the highest window in the steeple, thought they would scarcely have nerve enough to undertake it. At last, William O'Donnell to be had for the taking. We do not know that and Charles McLaughlin, two young painters in the their quick wits have yet comprehended all the ademploy of Richard B. Fosdick of Fifth avenue, de- vantages of their position. But they will not be cided to make the attempt. Getting out of the little very slow in finding that they are masters of the situ diamond-shaped window about half way up, they ation. They have only, in swaggering along Broadclimbed up the lightning-rod on the east side of the way and looking into some of the magnificent stores spire, to the top. Here one of the men fastened the that grace that vaunted street, or stepping into one pole securely to the cross, although quite a gale was of the Banks, or looking over the list of the recipients blowing at the time. The flag thus secured, the dar- of specie by the last steamer from California-or the ing young man mounted the cross, and, taking off his names of the subscribers to the last Government loan hat, bowed to the immense crowd which were watch-the Grinnell's-King's Sons, &c., to be convinced ing his movements from Broadway. As the flag floated freely in the air, they burst into loud and repeated cheers.-N. Y. Tribune, April 26. WHEN Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, in command of the Massachusetts regiment, landed at Annapolis, Md., some of the authorities protested against the passage of Massachusetts troops over Maryland soil; when he replied: "Sir, we came here not as citizens of Massachusetts, but as citizens of and soldiers of the United States, with no intention to invade any State, but to protect the capital of our common country from invasion. We shall give no cause of offence; but there must be no fugitive shots or stray bricks on the way."-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, April 26. THE first official act of the representative of a foreign Government indicating a recognition of the independence of the Old Dominion, was performed that a military contribution on New York would yield a hundred fold more than they could hope to realize in ten bloody and desperate campaigns in the South.-Richmond Whig, April 22. WASHINGTON, April 27.-A gentleman from Richmond this morning, gives some information of the feeling prevalent there. He represents it as a perfect reign of terror, and an excitement that he never saw paralleled. The troops in the city, he thinks a fine, hardy body of men, but ignorant beyond belief. It is upon the ignorance of these men that the leaders play. Some of the statements he heard made, would hardly be credited as the assertions of sane men. He listened to one man who publicly stated that the Seventh Regiment had been cut to pieces in the streets of Annapolis, and that he himself saw more than 100 of their dead bodies lying in the streets of that city. Another man he heard assure the crowd that the Massachusetts vagabonds (her glorious volunteers) |