throw away all for which our fathers fought, nor to call our glorious Government a failure. Indulge me in one word more. Slavery is wrong. You have determined to defend that wrong. You have counted no cost in defending it even before it was assailed, but have been willing even to destroy our Government for fear it might be. May God forgive you; your position is utterly false, and my heart bleeds that men calling themselves Christians can connect themselves with so wicked a cause, even calling it holy, and daring to compare it with that of our God-protected fathers!! Your Christians will meet ours in battle. The Seventh regiment of New York numbers many of our members. The Twelfth and Seventy-First as well; and to-morrow the Ninth takes others, active earnest Christians. Dr. Tyng's son is second in command of a company now in Washington. My friend Mr. Abbott, corresponding secretary of the Trenton Association, is also under arms. Mr Haddock, of Troy, writes me the same. Upon you and your "institution" must rest the responsibility of this fratricidal war, and shirk it or dissemble it how you may, God will require an account of every man who abets the treason of the South. I cannot pray for the Southern Confederacy. NOBLE HEATH, JR., Cor. Sec'y N. Y. Young Men's Christian Association. WM. P. MUNFORD, JOEL B. WATKINS, WM. H. GWATHMEY, Richmond, Va. SECURITIES AT THE SOUTH. my, and no person domiciled within the Confederate States can hold any intercourse or communication with him during the war; and if such intercourse result in a negotiation, agreement, or contract, such negotiation, agreement, or contract is illegal, and absolutely null and void. It is time that the law on this subject should be well understood, for no intercourse whatever, without special permission of the Government, can be lawfully carried on between enemies except that of a hostile character. The remittance of money for any purpose, the making of contracts, the acceptance of trusts, the creation of any civil obligation, or commercial relation whatever, is unlawful and forbidden, simply because it is inconsistent with the hostile attitude of the parties. The belligerent Governments have placed their respective citizens in an attitude of hostility towards each other, and no relation inconsistent with hostility can be lawfully created by the acts of individuals without the express permission of the Government. Respectfully, THOMAS J. SEMMES, Attorney--General. "WALTER G. ROBINSON, Esq., President Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, New Orleans."-N. O. Picayune, June 7. RUNAWAY SLAVES ARRESTED BY NORTHERN SOLDIERS. Seventy-one runaway slaves from Maryland and Virginia have been confined in the public jail during the month of May. Sixty-four of that number have been returned to their masters, and the others are held to be returned as soon as called for. The largest portion of these slaves have been arrested by Northern soldiers stationed in Washington, and most of the slaves have expressed themselves to the effect that they thought they would be free if they could get into Washington.-Washington Star, June 3. THE MURDERERS OF THE UNITED STATES PICKETS NEAR ALEXANDRIA.-It is undoubtedly the understanding among the people residing in the neighborhood of the pickets of Gen. McDowell's command, and the line of pickets of the disunionists in Gen. McDowell's immediate vicinity, that the nightly attempts being made to murder the United States picket guards by stealthily creeping up in the bush and firing at their backs, is the work of the two brothers of the late James Jackson, who killed Col. Ellsworth. They are said to be finely mounted, and we (personally) know well, know every cow trail in the vicinity of the United States lines in Fairfax and Alexandria counties. They are believed to head a company of some fifteen or twenty. It is necessary that their assassin work should be summarily stopped, as it can be, it seems to us, by a constantly moving patrol thrown out a short distance in advance of the regular picket guards.-Washington Star, June 5. NEW ORLEANS, June 5.-Within the past few days there have been some transfers of bank and other stock owned by Northern parties to residents here, not in the way of actual sales, but as a cover to property which is considered jeopardized by the hostile relations existing between this Confederacy and the Abolition Government at Washington. A case in point occurred yesterday, where a party applied to the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank to transfer certain shares of stock to himself under a power of attorney transmitted from New York. The President of the Bank entertaining serious doubts as to the propriety and legality of such a transfer, addressed a communication to the Attorney-General of the State, soliciting his opinion in the premises. The answer of this officer is conclusive as to the illegality of the proceeding. He pronounces every negotiation, agreement, or contract between a person domiciled within the Confederate States and an alien enemy, such as those must be deemed who are domiciled in the United States, to be absolutely null and void. No intercourse, other than a hostile one, can be tolerated between the people of the two sections. The remittance of money for any purpose is unlawful and forbidden. So far as the latter point is concerned, Con- How A MAN WAS TREATED IN EASTERN VIRGINIA. gress has provided by special enactment that all pay--Mr. H. C. Strunk, formerly of Philadelphia, but ments to the enemy are prohibited. for the last four or five years a resident at Millborough Springs, Bath co., Va., reached Philadelphia on June 5, having been forced to leave his home on the 23d of May, under threats of personal violence. Mr. Strunk was the owner of a farm of 175 acres, which was tolerably well stocked. He had made no secret of his Union sentiments, and prior to the election of delegates to the State Convention, there was not any necessity for it, as was shown by the election of the Union candidate in Bath co. by a large majority. On the 23d of May the secession ordinance was sub The closing paragraph of the opinion referred to, is as follows: "It is clear, that the acceptance of the power of attorney by Mr. W. E. Leverich from Mr. H. S. Leverich is illegal, and he has no lawful authority to act in pursuance of its mandate. The transfer of the stock, or agreement to transfer the stock, between W. E. Leverich and H. S. Leverich is illegal, and cannot be tolerated. Mr. H. S. Leverich being domiciled in New York, is to be regarded as an alien ene mitted to a vote of the people, and Mr. Strunk, supposing that he would be permitted to vote as he pleased, when he gave his name at the election poll, and was asked how he intended to vote, replied for the Union. Squire McClung, who was one of the commissioners to receive the votes, remarked that it was the first Union vote polled that day. As he said this, Wm. Howard, a violent secessionist, seized Mr. Strunk by the throat, dragged him some distance to a bank six feet high, over which he was thrown. With the assistance of others, Howard then dragged him to a pond, into which they threw him. He crawled out, and was pushed back two or three times. Howard drew a pistol from his pocket, and would have shot Mr. Strunk, but for the interference of a person in the crowd. It was finally proposed that he should have three hours in which to leave the place, and he did leave within the specified time, abandoning all his property but such small articles as he was able to sell to the neighbors, who sympathized with him. One of them loaned him money, to enable him to reach Washington, which he did by the way of the Manassas Gap and Fairfax Court-House.-N. Y. Times, June 9. A LITTLE girl, recognizing the uniform of a Massachusetts soldier, at Baltimore, on Sunday, ran up to him, slipped a rose into his hand, and was out of sight before he had a chance to thank her.-N. Y. Sun, June 7. IN Vicksburg, Mississippi, the ladies are opposed to the "Home Guard" business, and can't see any bravery in the young men who prefer home duty to service in the field. The following is a copy of one of their bulletins : "To ARMS! TO ARMS!-There will be a meeting of the young ladies of Warren county, to be held at Bovina on Thursday, 18th inst., for the purpose of forming themselves into a Home Guard, for the protection of those young men who will not volunteer for the country's cause. A LADY." -N. Y. Sunday Mercury, June 18. CLEVELAND, O., June 14.-The train from Cincinnati yesterday afternoon brought a family who had been driven out of the South on account of their Northern birth. The family consisted of a mother and three little children. The woman, who told her story in a straightforward manner, without any at COL. ELLSWORTH'S LAST SPEECH.-"Boys, no tempt to obtain charity by its means, stated that her doubt you felt surprised on hearing my orders to be name was Phebe Drew, that she was originally from in readiness at a moment's notice, but I will explain Maine, but that for the last four or five years she had all as far as I am allowed. Yesterday forenoon I un- lived with her husband, who was also from Maine, in derstood that a movement was to be made against Dallas co., Southern Arkansas, near the post village Alexandria. Of course, I was on the qui vive. I of Fairview. They had a farm, and kept a lumber went to see Gen. Mansfield, the commander at Wash-yard. Since the troubles broke out that part of Arington, and told him that I would consider it as a personal affront if he would not allow us to have the right of the line, which is our due, as the first volunteer regiment sworn in for the war. All that I can tell you is to prepare yourselves for a nice little sail, and, at the end of it, a skirmish. Go to your tents, lie down and take your rest till two o'clock, when the boat will arrive, and we go forward to victory or death. When we reach the place of destination, act as men; do nothing to shame the regiment; show the enemy that you are men, as well as soldiers, and that you will treat them with kindness until they force you to use violence. I want to kill them with kindness. Go to your tents and do as I tell you." FUGITIVE SLAVES.-From the census returns of 1850 and 1860, it appears that the number of slaves that have escaped from each of the Southern States during the last twenty years is as follows: Alabama. Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Louisiana. kansas has been in a most lawless condition. Union men were hung, shot, or cut down wherever found. Within three weeks eight men had been shot for expressing Union sentiments in that neighborhood, and two of them were Methodist preachers. About three weeks ago her husband was threatened with death on account of his Northern birth and known Union sentiments. He fled in the night, intending, if pos sible, to make his way to Maine, and directing her to settle up affairs and follow as soon as it could be safely done. Since then she has heard nothing of him, and is ignorant of his fate. As soon as her husband fled, the secessionists scized the lumber yard and all the available property connected with it. A few days since they again visited her, and stole her cow, entered the house and carried off every thing in it-even to the meal, bread, molasses, and bacon-leaving not a mouthful of bread for herself and three little children. They then ordered her to leave the State forthwith. Hastily 36 gathering up the few effects left her into four boxes, 28 she hired a conveyance to take her partly on her 12 way. The thieving scoundrels stole the largest of 11 the boxes, saying that three trunks were enough for a woman to travel with. From 1840 to '50. From 1850 to '00. 23 When she started she had $20 in her pocket. 46 After many hardships, insults, and dangers, she 115 reached the free States. During her passage through 63 the South she found no one to give her the slightest 99 assistance. Once in the free States, she found no 61 difficulty in obtaining a passage towards her home. Kentucky 96 119 90 23 When she arrived here she was wretchedly clad, and her children were barefooted. They wore the same clothes in which they had set out from home, 117 which were those they wore when the secessionists broke in upon them. She had only $2 to take her to 803 Maine, and provide for the children and herself on 1,814 the way. Supt. Nottingham gave her passes on the of men from the North, who have made their homes in this city, are true to the South, there is no doubt; but there are others whom it will not do to trust. Lake Shore Railroad, and some of the railroad officers | leave this city as soon as possible. That a number gave her an addition to her slender stock of funds. The poor woman was deeply grateful, though she besitated about taking assistance in money, and her manner was convincing proof that she was no beggar, imposing on the credulity of the public. No one could look on the poor little group of exiles, so shamefully treated by their former neighbors, without cursing the heartless wretches who thus waged a merciless war upon the helpless women and children. -Cleveland Herald, June 14. IN Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, a captain who is also a Methodist preacher, arose and began to exhort the men, stating that this war was one of right, and if God was not in it, he, for one, would have nothing to do with it. Then, exclaiming with great vehemence, "If God is with us, who can be against us? "Jeff. Davis and the devil !" cried a "wild cat boy." The service closed hastily. A LETTER from Fortress Monroe in the New York Commercial Advertiser, says : The steamship Cambridge, just in from Boston, has brought not only a supply of munitions of war, but an abundance of intellectual weapons. The Massachusetts boys are in high glee with their letters, books, and papers. Col. Woodruff, of the popular and well-drilled Third regiment Massachusetts volunteers, showed me at his quarters his full files of Atlantics, Harpers, North Americans, and Blackwoods. This is the way the Old Bay State invades the Old Dominion.-Boston Transcript, June 8. THE Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist of the 30th of May, says: "President Davis's war horse passed through this city last night, on his way to Richmond, Va. Accompanying the animal was the President's saddle, on the horn of which is a compass, to be used in case the rider should lose his way." A MEMPHIS PROCLAMATION.-The following is a correct copy of a proclamation posted up in the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, for a few days before the late clection: TRUE MEN OF THE SOUTH TO THE RESCUE. Whereas, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Northern States, has seen fit to make a call upon the States of the Union for 75,000 men, for the declared purpose of subjugating the States of the Southern Confederacy, and make them subservient to his will; and whereas such a call is repugnant to the feelings of the people of the border States, and must, therefore, be treated with contempt. And whereas, also, the Republicans of the North are heaping insult and injury upon friends of the South in their midst, and have forced them to leave their homes in the North in consequence thereof; We, loyal citizens of the South, who have pledged our lives, our property, and our sacred honors, in support of the Government of the Confederate States, deem it incumbent upon us to urge immediate arming of all our able-bodied men who are willing to resist the cohorts of the North; we also urge all friends of the South to be vigilant, and use their utmost efforts to preserve the honor and integrity of our United South. Our safety requires that those living in our midst, who do not wish to abandon their allegiance to Lincoln's Government, who are in favor of negro equality and the degradation of the white race, should They are men who, notwithstanding they have made all they are worth from Southern patronage, are recreant to the South, and in her hour of peril will prove themselves traitors. Those men must bo compelled to leave here. We do not counsel force for this purpose, unless a refusal is given to comply with such a demand. Let the proprietors of business houses, machine, carpenter, and cabinet shops, foundries, printingoffices, paint and tailor shops, hotel and boarding houses, report immediately the names of all those who they know cannot be trusted as friends to the South. It is important that this be done-the security of our property and the safety of our families demand it. Our gallant sons, who are anxious to march wherever the service of the South requires them, wish to carry with them the consoling thought that they have not left behind them the lurking enemy, who, while lingering around their homes and firesides, would incite our negroes to insurrection, and bring the worst calamities upon our wires, our mothers, and our daughters. "Those who are not for us are against us." Let every citizen remember that "Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." of the election was by writing the name of each voter, The process of marking the Union men on the day as it was entered upon the poll book, upon the back of the ticket, with the corresponding number entered on both; so that, after the vote was counted, the Union tickets could easily be selected, and the voters attended to. This design was known before the election, and, of course, deterred Union men from voting at all, or compelled them to vote for secession. A CHEMICAL Correspondent of the N. O. Crescent gives that paper the following etymological analysis, and, as it is altogether too rich to be lost, we give it a place here. "Davis " is the Gallic orthography for David, which signifies "well-beloved;" and his repu tation maintains its original signification as a great leader of an oppressed people, who are freeing themselves of the tyrant's yoke. "Lincoln," authentically traced to its origin, is found to be a compound word in the Celtic tongue, lin and coln. "Lin" means a pool, mire, morass, marsh, mud. "Coln" is a contraction of colon, which in this connection signifies an inhabitant of a colony. Therefore Lincoln originally signified the inhabitant of a mud colony, which, modernized, may be the same as a mud-sucker. This probably accounts for his not being very clear.-N. Y. Express, June 18. THE war occasions many ludicrous incidents. It is stated that Mary W. Dennis, six feet two inches high, is first lieutenant of the Stillwater company, Minnesota regiment. She baffled even the inspection of the surgeon of the regiment in discovering her sex, but was recognized by a St. Paul printer, who became shockingly frightened at her threats of vengeance upon him if he exposed her, and he decamped. Among the women who marched in procession with the Garibaldi Guard, in New York, the other day, were several volunteers as washerwomen, who evidently do not believe in the old saying that every man should be his own washerwoman. compel savage warfare. The North can make it either. Let them now decide.-N. Y. Commercial, June 20. The Mobile Advertiser defends the offer of a premium or bounty of $25, made by the Confederate Government, for every prisoner captured and delivered to the authorities by the privateers. The object of the proclamation, it insists, is "that an influence may be exerted to render the prosecution of privateer warfare as bloodless as possible, by offering an inducement for checking the conflicts on the sea at the carliest stages of the actions when victory is secure-to induce care for the wounded and other prisoners, that they may be brought alive and safe to a port where a live prisoner is worth $25 to his cap-member his face, when the fugitive asked him if he tors." A secessionist proposes through the Mobile Regis ter to raze Fort Pickens with red pepper. He would mix red pepper and veratria with the powder in the shells, and make the garrison cough themselves out of the fort. The morals of the people down there must be improving, for it was only last week a correspondent of a Mobile paper proposed to poison our men. They like any way, it seems, better than fight ing. The correspondent of the Register ought to be banished to Cayenne.-Boston Transcript, June 1. DR. SMYTп, a prominent scholar of South Carolina, inquires in a pamphlet, "What is the difficulty and what the remedy? Not in the election of Republican Presidents. No. Not in the non-execution of the Fugitive Bill. No. But it lics back of all these. It is found in that Atheistic Red Republican doctrine of the Declaration of Independence! Until that is trampled under foot, there can be no pcace !"—Idem. A MEMBER of the Seventh regiment, in a letter to his father, writes: "I heard a good anecdote of Gen. Scott yesterday. He was asked what he intended to do with Jefferson Davis. In answer, he merely put up his open hand, and gradually closed his fingers, till his hand was clenched. He could not have given a more expressive answer."-Idem. THE Charleston Mercury makes these remarks on the capture of the privateer Savannah : The loss of the schooner in times like these would scarcely call for a moment's consideration. But the circumstances are such as to render the fact one of grave import-perchance the results may be still graver. With the insane and blood-thirsty spirit ruling the Government of the North, there are probabilities that the crew of the Savannah will be executed. The United States Government has said it-the popular clamor has approved the bloody declaration. Will their bloated vanity and malice give way to the milder voice of national law-of reason and discrction? Will they not go on in their mad pathway of violence and lawlessness? Their course, up to this time, has been uniform. Will they at this day pay regard to reason, justice, or law? If they do not, what then? AN INTERESTING INCIDENT.-At Boston, a fugitive slave, arrived from Baltimore, (via U. G. R. R.,) was passing through the Doric Hall, at the State House, when he recognized one of the soldiers wounded on the 10th of April at that city, and at once accosted him, inquiring after his health, and asked him if he did not know him. The soldier did not at first re did not remember a colored man bringing him water to drink, and rags to bind up his wounds, while he lay wounded in the street. He replied that he did, and at once recognized his Good Samaritan in the person of the fugitive. The peculiar circumstances of the case made the interview deeply touching. Without revealing facts which might do more harm than good, we will simply add that the fugitive has a wife and two children, and when the Massachusetts soldiers fell wouuded in the streets of Baltimore, the fugitive's wife tore up her clothes to make rags to stanch the flow of blood. These rags she threw out of the window in her master's house, when her husband gathered them up and carried them to the wounded soldier.—Boston Pine and Palm. AN INCIDENT.-The Cleveland Plaindealer tells the following incident, which recently transpired in the Kentucky Legislature: A venerable farmer from a neighboring county, one of that kind for whom Kentucky has an instinctive veneration, appeared in the Legislative Hall, uncovered his snowy locks, and sat down. At the first lull in the debate he rose slowly and said ho had a word to say, but was aware it was out of order for him to speak before the Legislature while in ses sion. His dignified and venerable appearance arrested attention, and "Go on," "Go on," from several voices, seemed to keep him on his feet. Again expressing his diffidence at speaking out of propriety "Hear! hear!!" resounded generally over tho room. The members' curiosity as well as,respect for the appearance and manner of the man was up, and silence followed the "Hear! hear!!" when the old hero delivered the following eloquent but laconic speech: "Gentlemen: I am delegated by my county to inform you, that if you hold a secret Session here, as you threaten to do, not one stone of this Capitol will Good rest upon another twenty-four hours after. day!" and he left. CAPTURE OF MISSOURI SECESSIONISTS. CAIRO, June 11.-Yesterday an old farmer from Rush Ridge, named J. G. Long, and a citizen named Kelton, who had been driven out by the secessionists, gave information that there were two armed companies of secessionists formed to be taken into the command of Watkins, one of Claib. Jackson's brigadier-generals, who were driving out and threatening all Union men there. After they had driven Mr. Long and family out, he sent an agent to tako care of his farm, but they would not permit him even that privilege. His daughter, in passing by one of these companies, was fired at by a volley designed to frighten her horse and throw her off. If the hair of the head of a single man of this crew is injured, South Carolina will demand that the outrage be atoned for an eye for an eye-a tooth for a tooth-a life for a life. Aye! and she will have it— no more and no less; on the battle-field and after the battle. Let one of these, her citizens commissioned in her cause, perish as a pirate, and woe to the enemy who falls into our hands! Humanity and justice, no less than the cause itself, will compel to prompt and ample retribution; and the sooner this is under- Gen. Prentiss detailed Capt. Hassfurther's comstood, the better for all parties to the war. Civilized pany to capture them. Having surrounded the dwellwarfare will be met in kind; savage warfare willing, they captured eighteen of the gang, who were suddenly started out of their beds. They then marched rapidly to another neighborhood, where a company, raised by a secessionist named Hunter, were said to be encamped. Unfortunately, some one who had seen the troops, had sent word ahead, and when the troops had got to the place, the birds were flown. The company returned with their prisoners to the camp, several of their wives accompanying them. In the evening they were brought over, and an informal examination was held in the sitting-room of the St. Charles Hotel, by Gen. Prentiss. Messrs. Long and Kelton were the principal witnesses, others not having yet arrived. They testified in the most positive terms to the avowed objects of these armed gangs, which were, to fight against the Union when they obtained arms and reinforcements from the South; also, to the threats that they had made of soon cleaning out "the d-d Dutch and niggers" at Cairo, as they termed them. After the examination had been gone through with, each one was asked if he would take the oath of allegiance to the United States. They all declined except three young men, who had been enticed into bad company. Before discharging them, Gen. Prentiss made a few forcible remarks to them. "Go home," said he, "raise to-morrow morning the flag of the Union, of your country; load up your weapons, and shoot the first man that tries to pull it down. Have nothing to do with traitors; don't work for them. If you want work, come, and I will give it to you. Loyal citizens shall be protected. As for those traitors, they will be set tomorrow to work wheeling dirt, and shall be kept at it until I get the balance of the witnesses, then I shall send them to St. Louis to be tried for treason." It was astonishing what effect this declaration had on them. One butternut-coated individual said he thought they would all take the oath; that they did not understand what it was before. The General pleasantly remarked that the prospect of wheeling dirt had suddenly convinced them of the duty they owed to the country that protected them, but it was now too late. He would not take the oaths of such men, who were only forced to take it for fear of punishment. A schoolmaster, McPherson, became suddenly inspired with a Union eloquence and love, and was launching out to prove that he and all his comrades were, and always had been, Union men, when he was suddenly checked by a witness, who reminded him that the day after the capture of Camp Jackson, he had made a violent secession speech, denouncing the United States troops as murderers and d-d Dutch, and urging the people to fly to arms. General Prentiss told him that he should make up his mind that he had to wheel dirt, and to learn a lesson never yet taught in his books.-St. Louis Democrat, June 13. AN UNREPORTED UNION CONVENTION.-The daily Indiana American says that the Rev. Bishop Ames, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while recently preaching at a camp meeting, remarked that there had been one grand Union convention, the proccedings of which had not been reported by telegraph. "It was held amidst the fastnesses of the everlasting hills. The Rocky Mountains presided, the mighty Mississippi made the motion, the Alleghany Mountains seconded it, and every mountain and hill, and river and valley in this vast country sent up a unanimous voice-Resolved, That wo are one and insepa rable, and that what God has joined together, no man shall put asunder.'"-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. FLAG SONG OF THE MICHIGAN VOLUNTEERS. BY D. BETHUNE DUFFIELD, ESQ. (Adapted to the Anvil Chorus from Trovatore.) Trumpet, and ensign, and drum-beat are calling, From hill-side and valley, from mountain and river, "Forward the flag!" e'en though heroes are falling, Our God will His own chosen standard deliver. Star-Spangled Banner! our hopes to thee are clinging, Lead us to victory or wrap us in death! O'er this fair land, wide and free. "Union and Freedom!" our war-cry is rolling, Now over the prairie, now wide o'er the billow, Hark! 'tis the battle, and soon will be tolling The knell of the soldier, who rests 'neath the wil. low. CHORUS.-Star-Spangled Banner, &c. Banner triumphant! though grand is thy story, CHORUS.-Star-Spangled Banner, &c. Wise were our fathers, and brave in the battle, Trumpet, and ensign, and drum-beat are calling, From bill-side and valley, from mountain and river, "Forward the flag!" c'en though heroes are falling, Our God will His own chosen standard deliver. Star-Spangled Banner! our hopes to thee are clinging, Lead us to victory, or wrap us in death. COTTON IS KING. Cotton is King. Tired of her Queen, Britain is seen Gazing far o'cr To Columbia's shore; Where, lying prone, Hurled from his throne, |