had been quartered in the Capitol at Washington, and had amused themselves by running their bayonets through the pictures which adorned it, and that the rich hangings of the different rooms have been pulled down and made into blankets and wrappers for the use of the troops.

Another man, who was organizing a corps of infantry, told them they had nothing to do but to march to glory and wealth. "What," said he, "could a Northern army do on our sterile hills-they would starve to death. But you," he continued, "have but to march to Washington, and lay that in ashes-then to Philadelphia, which is rich in all kinds of wealth -from that through all the North; there is a village every five miles, and every village has a bank, and every bank has a vault of specie, and you have but to help yourselves."-Cor. N. Y. Times, May 1.

guard, was mustered for worship. The decorations At 10 A. M., the Regiment, except those on of the interior-gilding, painting, enamel, oak, marble, and velvet-blended together to the eye in the dim, religious light, that falls from the ceiling. The reporters' gallery afforded a place for the band; the

Ir is rumored that LINCOLN has been drunk for three days, and that Capt. LEE has command at the Capitol, and also that Col. LEE, of Va., who lately resigned, is bombarding Washington from Arlington Heights. If so, it will account for his not having arrived here to take command, as was expected.-speaker's desk, tapestried with the country's flag, Norfolk (Va.) Herald, April 22.

"NEW ORLEANS, April 20.-The Baltimoreans captured the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, taking eight hundred stand of arms.

"It is reported that one hundred lives were lost. Maryland has raised her State flag.

"Rumors of fighting in St. Louis." "LOUISVILLE, April 20.-Kentucky has declared, through her Legislature, that she will secede.

"Lincoln will instantly resign in obedience to Gen. Scott's example."

-The news that Kentucky has seceded and that Mr. Lincoln is about to follow Gen. Scott's example and resign, The Mobile Tribune declares to be specially worthy of confidence.-N. Y. Tribune, April

27.

GEN. SCOTT, it seems, has taken position against his native State. It is a sight to see the drivelling old fop, with his skinny hands and bony fingers, undo, at one dash, the labors of a long and active life. With the red-hot pencil of infamy he has written upon his wrinkled brow the terrible, damning word, "Traitor."-Abingdon (Va.) Democrat, May.

ANNAPOLIS, MD., April 28.-"To give you an example of the punishment traitors receive, we can see from where I am writing, about two miles from shore, on the yard-arm of the U. S. Brig Caledonia, two men hanging-one for smuggling provisions and powder to the rebels at Charleston, the other for piloting the Seventh Regiment on the Chesapeake bar, with the intention that the Baltimoreans might get possession of Annapolis before the Seventh could land."-Ex. from a Letter, date Annapolis, in N. Y. Sunday Atlas, May 5.

held the Bible and Prayer-Book of the chaplain; and the choir ranged themselves in the clerk's circle below. The Regiment nearly filled the floor and galleries, and the whole scene was impressive.

The opening voluntary swelled to the remotest corner of a room better adapted to proper musical effect than any ever entered before.

The words of the Collect-" Defend us, thy humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in Thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries "—had a meaning never felt before.

The chaplain selected for his text the 39th verse of the Sermon on the Mount:

"But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." -N. Y. Express, April 29.

A REGIMENT OF SMITHS.-We understand that it is the intention of Mr. Chas. Smith, connected with ment to be composed entirely of members of the Hodge's banking establishment, to organize a regiSmith family, for the purpose of establishing a right of way through Baltimore. All persons of the name of Smith, (none other need apply,) who are capable of bearing arms, and desire to join such a regiment, are requested to call at No. 558 Broadway.-N. Y. News, April 29.

WHEN the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment passed through Trenton, N. J., a person residing there asked one of the soldiers "if he had any whiskey to stimulate him." The other put his hand in his pocket, and drawing out a Bible, said, "That is my stimulant." A noble answer, worthy of the cause in which he is engaged. History informs us of an army which carried Bibles and sang hymns, and " no enemy ever saw their backs.”—Phila. Inquirer.

AN IRISH REGULAR.-The following dialogue really took place between Lieutenant A. C. Cd, late of the United States Texan army, and Pat Fletcher, one of the privates of the Second Cavalry, now at Carlisle, then near Fort Bliss:

Officer-Well, Pat, ain't you going to follow the General (Twiggs)?

Pat-If Gineral Scott ordhers us to folly him, sir, begor Toby (Pat's horse) can gallop as well as the

best of 'em.

Officer-I mean, won't you leave the abolition army, and join the free South?

Pat-Begor I never enlisted in th' abolition army, and never will. I agreed to sarve Uncle Sam for five year, and the divil a pin mark was made in the contract, with my consint, ever since. When my time is up, if the army isn't the same as it is now, I won't join it agin.

Officer-Pat, the "Second" (Cavalry) was eighteen months old when you and I joined. The man who raised our gallant regiment is now the Southern President; the man who so lately commanded it, is now a Southern General. Can you remain in it, when they are gone?

Pat-Well, you see, the fact of the matther is, Licut. C., I ain't much of a scholar; I can't argue the question with you, but what would my mother say, if I desarted my colors? Oh, the divil a give-in I'll ever give in, now, and that's the ind of it. I tried to run away once, a few weeks after enlistin', but a man wouldn't be missed thin. It's quite different now, Lieutenant, and I'm going not to disgrace naither iv my countries.

Officer-Do you know that you will have to fire on green Irish colors, in the Southern ranks?

Pat-And won't you have to fire on thern colors, (pointing to the flag at Fort Bliss,) that yerself and five of us licked nineteen rangers under? Sure, it isn't a greater shame for an Irishman to fire on Irish colors, than for an American to fire on American colors. An' th' oath 'll be on my side, you know, Lieutenant.

say.

Officer-D-n the man that relies on Paddies, I

Pat-The same compliments to desarters, your honor.-N. Y. Commercial, April 29.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE-WAS IT ACCIDENT?--It has already been noticed, that the attack upon the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment at Baltimore, occurred on the anniversary of the battle of Lexington-the one being on April 19th, 1861, and the other on April 19th, 1775, just 86 years previous. This fact was remarkable, but not as much as another in the same connection.

The town is situated about midway between Bunker Hill and Lexington. The company belonged to the Seventh Regiment, which had not been ordered out. On Tuesday night it was determined at head-quarters to attach the Stoneham Company to the Sixth. Capt. Dike, who had no warning of this intention, received his orders at 4 o'clock in the morning. At 10 o'clock, he and his company, with sixty-four muskets, and every uniform full, were at Faneuil Hall ready to march. The same (Wednesday) afternoon they left for Washington with the Sixth Regiment; on Thursday they were in New York; on Friday they were in the midst of the fight at Baltimore, where Capt. Dike and ten of his men were wounded, and one lias been reported killed.

The most remarkable of all is, that the first man who fell at Baltimore was a member of the Stoneham Company, and he a lineal descendant of the first one killed at Lexington! Thus we have the connection in the days of the year, and the late and unexpected change of the Stoneham Company from the Seventh to the Sixth Regiment, with a sceming design to the remarkable connection in the first victims of the two wars-the one to establish freedom in this country, and the other to defend and maintain it.-Toledo Blade.

FIGHTING RESOURCES OF THE NORTH.-The extreme Southern editors seem to be as thoroughly ignorant of the spirit that animates the whole North, as if they had never been acquainted with the people of the United States at all. For instance, see what the Mobile Advertiser says of the fighting materiel at the disposition of our Government:

Paradoxical as it may seem, a chief element of the strength of the North is its poverty. It is levying for its war upon us, for our subjugation, (save the mark!) a pauper soldiery. We have reports that corporations make appropriations for the support of the families of volunteers. We need not mistake this for patriotic liberality. It is any thing but that. It is the coercion of necessity. The armies that are marching against us are composed of mercenary pauper soldiery. We all know the stagnation of industrial and mechanical pursuits which has ensued at the North; how thousands of operatives and mechanics are begging bread,-are, with their families, supported by public charities. To this class, so numerous in the cities which are offering the most imposing contingents, the call for volunteers was a God-send, indeed, for it gave them a chance to get bread at the public cost which could not be earned by individual exertion, and was bitter in the eating if the dole of public or private charity.

So, on the call for volunteers, these povertystricken and starving creatures rush where rations may be obtained, and the men with families are en

It appears from a Boston letter in the New York World, that that Regiment was all from Middlesex County, which embraces the battle-fields of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. One or two of the companies are entirely composed of the lineal descendants of the patriots who were in the "Concord Fight." The gallant Sixth was first sent forward be-couraged to enlist by the promise that their responsi cause it first reported itself at head-quarters with full- bilities will be cared for. Men of the South rush to est ranks. Col. Jones received his orders at Lowell arms spurred by patriotic zeal, not compelled by the on Monday night at 11 o'clock, in the midst of a pangs of starvation, like these mongrel hordes of all driving northeast storm. He mounted his horse, and nationalities of the operative class of the Northern rode all night through the scattered towns in which cities. Our sons of the soil, patriots by birthright, his companies were. Every company was in Boston grasp their weapons, leaving their homes of plenty, with full ranks next Tuesday noon, and, if the equip- spring impetuously to arms, ask but one favor-that ments furnished by the State had been ready, the they may be placed face to face with the foe. Our Regiment would have left that afternoon for Wash-volunteer solaiery is not the soldiery of necessityington, instead of twenty-four hours later, which was done.

The Stoneham Company, Capt. Dike, which performed a conspicuous part in the affair at Baltimore, has a rather remarkable record for promptitude.

men worth their hundreds of thousands carry the musket in the ranks. Plenty reigns in our dwellings, and is gladly abandoned for the privations of the camp. Such is the materiel with which we meet a mercenary pauper soldiery. Who would doubt the

ALL the United States vessels are provided with gotten, until they have been duly punished for the engines for pouring volleys of hot water upon their atrocious crimes in which they have involved themassailants. We trust that the Southern defences will selves at Baltimore, Ross Winans, Thomas Winans, all be supplied with this efficient agent. We are shal, S. Teakle Wallis, and some others, are already Abel of the Baltimore Sun, Kane, the Police Marnaturally a hospitable people in the South, and ought known to the country. They are all traitors of the to give the new-comers a reception appropriate to blackest dye, and amply merit the traitor's doom. their merits. Scalding and skinning is the very least we now learn the name of another of these conmark of distinction we can bestow upon these invad-spirators to destroy the Union and ruin Maryland. ing swine.-Charleston Mercury, April 19.

after receipt of this note from date, by authority of the
Regulators Committee of the State.
"W. G. II. ERRMAN."

When the final settlement of accounts takes place at Baltimore, Mr. W. G. H. Ehrman, of the Regulators' Committee of the State, need not fear that he will be overlooked or forgotten.-N. Y. Tribune, April 29.

GENERAL PILLOW, being about raising a brigade of volunteers for the Southern army, sent a message to the noted Parson Brownlow, requesting him to serve as Chaplain. The "Reverend" individual replied in characteristic style, saying: "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 way of the Southern Confederacy." It is not necessary that the Reverend gentleman " should cut his throat to go to the place he mentions, as it is pretty evident he is making there direct without any such operation.-Charleston Mercury, May 1.

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THE following incidents of the late riot in Baltimore, and the concluding statements concerning the intentions and doings of the rebels there, are derived from a letter written by a prominent officer in the rebel forces:

the view of avoiding a sale, he asked the exorbitant price of $1,600. The property was taken, and a draft given for amount of the valuation.

The presence of the troops has had the tendency of inflating the price of every description of provisions. Flour was held at $20 per barrel.-N. Y. Commercial, April 29.

On the route South, into the secession States, your baggage is examined, not directly upon your crossing the line between North Carolina and South Carolina, but at Florence, S. C., which is the inspection point. The cars ran up to a tall pole bearing the flag of the Confederate States. Then comes the revenue inspector, who calls out for passengers to hand over the keys of their baggage. Each trunk is taken out of the car, and its owner furnishes the key and aids the inspector in turning up the contents, and satisfies him that there is nothing contained in them. There is no getting off from this, and no feigned loss of keys nor bogus pretence of rusty locks can save you. No more offensive thing can be done than this to an American citizen in the United States, and it is one of the very last acts to which they will quietly submit.-N. Y. Express, April 29.

It is going to be the very mischief to run the Lincolnites off Santa Rosa Island if they don't want to go. We may and will make Fort Pickens hot for them, but they have plenty of men, and can get as many more as Lincoln can send them; when Pickens is rendered untenable, they can entrench themselves

"An old, gray-haired man, aged more than sixtyfive years, saw one of the Massachusetts soldiers in the act of levelling his musket, when he rushed in his shirt sleeves from his shop, disarmed the man by main force, and killed him with the bayonet. Some thirty negroes engaged in unloading a vessel dropped their work and joined in the assault on the Massachu--beyond the reach of our batteries, if they like, and setts men, and did good work with their handspikes. Every shot gun, rifle, or boy's pop-gun for killing tom-tits, is brought into use throughout the State, and the sentiment is universal that no more Northern troops shall cross the State without fighting their way every step, and every rock and tree on the roadside will cover a sharp-shooter. This city alone has appropriated half a million of dollars, and a million more has been given by private subscription. Winans is running 700 men night and day, in his immense establishment, casting cannon, shot, and shells, putting up grape and cannister, and preparing other munitions of war; and every thing is moving on a grand scale.”—N. Y. Evening Post, April 29.

ANNAPOLIS, MD., April 25.-The general suspension of business during the past few days, and the hopelessness of the adoption of peace measures, have caused a neglect on the part of our citizens to give proper attention to their pecuniary engagements, and the notaries have had quite a harvest in the way of protests. They have been the busiest of our population, and, what is unusual, complain of having too much to do.

so keep up their camp as long as they please, or until we leave the mainland to attack them in their stronghold. We cannot starve them out without a naval force superior to that at their command. So we shall have to keep a strong force on hand to watch this nest of impudent fellows right under our noses. The knocking to pieces of Fort Pickens will not be getting rid of them if they are of a mind to stay on the island. There is plenty of sand there for batteries, and our reports show that the enemy is using it to fortify his lines.-Mobile Adv., April 23.

STRINGENT measures are being taken in New Or leans to rid the city of abolition agents and sympathizers. Several have been obliged to leave-with half their heads shaved.-Galveston News, April 30.

THE ATTACK ON WASHINGTON.-The papers in the interest of the Southern rebels have repeatedly avowed that the capture of the national capital was the ulterior object of the rebellion. The Secretary of War of the so-called Southern Confederacy publicly avowed the same purpose, in his speech at Montgomery after the evacuation of Fort Sumter. Notwithstanding this official declaration, some persons still affect to believe that no such movement was ever or is now intended. The following testimony on the subject from a gentleman whose respectability is abundantly vouched for by the Tribune, ought, we think, to be conclusive on the point. The gentleman was escaping from Fayetteville, North Carolina, to avoid impressment in the rebel service. He says:—

The citizens of Annapolis have no occasion of complaint in reference to the conduct of the Federal troops, every proceeding being conducted in the most orderly manner. In no instance have the rights of any one been interfered with to their detriment. In cases where it was necessary to take possession of property for the use of the Government, the most ample compensation was allowed, and the owners of property were required to assess its valuation. A At all the stations crowds were assembled, and the citizen who was the owner of four horses and carts secession fever ran high. At Warsaw, where our was called upon to dispose of them for the trans- informant took the train, he found Alexander H. Steportation of baggage and supplies. He declined to phens, who was on his way to Richmond. At nearly sell them, but the officers stated that they must have every station Stephens spoke. The capture of Washthem, and requested him to name his price. Withington was the grand idea which he enforced, and