Immortal as our heroic sage

Is every law he made;

The earth, the heavens, may fade from age, But his laws cannot fade.

CHORUS-TO arms to arms! &c.

We're born to die-then let us die

Where glory weaves death's wreath;
On to the fight, our patriots cry—
To victory or death.

The bayonet thirsts for traitors' gore;
Bright gleams the patriot's sword;
Place us our country's foe before,
And give the battle-word.
CHORUS-TO arms! to arms! &c.

A banner o'er our heads we raise,
Ennobled in past wars;
On it the light of freedom plays
The glorious Stripes and Stars.
A star may fall from yonder sky,
Or clouds its lustre mar,

But that broad flag we raise on high
Must never lose one star.

CHORUS-TO arms! to arms! &c.

THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY THE OCCASION,

On the Night of Thursday, July 4, 1861.
BY "J. C. B."

Night has enveloped in her robes the earth,
And thousands in rejoicings unite,
Commemorative of a Nation's birth,

Which thrilled of yore each patriot with delight, And bade him hope that in this favored clime Freedom would bloom perennial through all time.

Standing upon Potomac's verdant shore,

I gaze upon these tributes to the day,
And, whilst the rockets and the camp-fires pour
A radiance almost rivalling night's sway,

I ponder sadly on events which bring
To every heart a shadow and a sting.

Far more magnificent than all the show

Which man conceited in his art would try, Behold the comet with mysterious glow

Spreads its vast tail athwart the star-gemmed sky.*
And lo! a meteor blazes through the night,
The fleet precursor of the rocket's flight.t

How peaceful is the spot where now I stand;
Across yon river hear what stir and noise.

This "heavenly messenger" by some astronomers is supposed to be the return of that known as "the Emperor Charles the Fifth," but this is doubted and denied by others, and it seems to have come unbidden and taken the world by surprise.

t Of this meteor an Alexandria correspondent of the Evening Star writes:-"Last evening, (4th,) while a grand pyrotechnic display was taking place throughout the loyal States, a still grander and more beautiful one took place in the heavens. Some eight or ten minutes past 8 o'clock, whilst it was yet early twilight, a magnificent meteor was observed at this place. Its direction was from northeast to southward. Although at the time of its appearance it was hardly dark, yet it was of such intense brightness that it cast a shadow as deep almost as that cast by the sun. Its track could be plainly traced for five or ten minutes after its appearance by the bright streak of light which it left. Its scintillations were beautiful and gorgeous beyond description."

Here, the sweet products of kind Nature's hand;
There, man, mad man, most wickedly destroys
The fairest temple which was ever reared,
By good men rev'renced, and by bad men feared.
Surrounded thus, with scenes to stir the heart,
And thinking sadly of events and men,
Is it a weakness that the tear should start,

To make comparison between now and then?
Then, when our country towered in its prime;
Now, when it totters under loads of crime.
And can it be, that in so brief a space,

Since our brave fathers independence won,
That such unprofitable, deep disgrace

Thus brands the country of a Washington, And makes each patriot through the world lament, Lest man's incapable of self-government?

In Freedom's name, behold Americans

In hostile ranks glare one upon the other,
And, urged by madness, meditate their plans,
Each to pour out the life-blood of his brother;
And all to wreck the only earthly prize
Beyond all measure in the patriot's eyes!

And must it be, that man should strive to mar,
With crime and passion, God's supreme decrees,
And, with the hot and blasting breath of war,
Deface the beauty of such scenes as these,
For the mere gratification of a whim,
Which barters peace for devastation grim?

Can nothing check this fratricidal strife,-
And must the Ship of State in storms go down?
Must brothers madly seek each other's life?—

Ruin and murder wither with their frown?
O God of mercy, spare thy people! spare,
And keep us freemen, as our fathers were!
GISBORO', OPPOSITE WASHINGTON.

OH, SAY NOT IT IS BORNE TO EARTH!

BY REV. EDWARD G. JONES.

Oh, say not it is borne to earth,
Our Banner pure and bright;
For every star shall prove its worth,
With undiminished light.
Baptized afresh, devotion warm
That pennon shall unfold,
And scatter o'er the battle's storm
Its purest shower of gold.

Amid the din of clanking steel
Its waves of hope shall rise,
To give endurance to the will,

And kindle languid eyes;
And as its bearers sink in dust,

Stout hearts upon the wing Shall seize it, to redeem the trust, And new defiance fling.

Upborne upon the swelling surge,
Like meteor on the main,
To glory 'twill the patriot urge-
Glory without a stain.

Still in the van, though hardly pressed,
No rival can it own;

The cherub daughter of the West, Round whom our arms are thrown!

INDE X.

PAGE

"A Battle Hymn," by James Mac-
key,
Abolitionists "to be scourged into
good behavior,"
D. 75
Acquia Creek, Va., skirmish at, D. 46
Acrostic-on Jefferson Davis, P. 44
ADAMS, C. W. See Indians, D. 64
ADAMS, JOHN, ex-President, letters
to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, 1789,
D. 3; Doc. 146
"Adams' Troop " of Natchez, Miss.,
P. 85
"Addenda to the celebrated 'Nine
Miles to the Junction.' າງ by
Lieut. Millard, U. S. A., P. 16
"A Disunionist answered," Doc. 127
"Ad Poetas," by Geo. H. Boker, P. 89
African Slavery, Mr. Powell's reso-
lution in reference to,
Mr. Sherman's remarks on Pow-
ell's resolution,

P. 11

D. 88

D. 34

"After the Fight at Manassas," by

Sarah Helen Whitman,

P.

2

"A Gathering Song,"

P. 77

"Agnes," Song by,

P. 54

ALLEN, W. P., escapes from Sudley
Church, Va.,
D.
46
Allegiance, National and State, Doc. 206
to King Cotton,
Doc. 208
ALMSTEDT, Col.,
Doc. 467
"Alvarado," the bark, destroyed
near Fernandina, Florida, D. 56
account of the capture and de-
struction of the,
Doc. 489
ALVEY, R. H., rebel account of the
arrest of,
P. 83
America, War expenses and war
taxes in,
Doc. 119
American Democracy, reply to the
London Times on,
Amherst College, Address of D. S.
Dickinson at,
AMES, -, Bishop, his "Union Con-
vention,"
P. 60
"A Monarch dethroned," by Mrs.
E. Vale Smith,
P. 109
ANDERSON, Col 4th Regt. 0.
8. V.,
D.
ANDERSON, FRANK, Lt.-Col, rebel,
P. 31
ANDERSON, ROBERT, Gen., receives
a gold medal from the citizens
of New York,
tribute to, by Reverdy Johnson,

Doc. 116

9

of two brothers at the battle of
Bull Run,

P. 9
of the Shriver Greys, rebel, P. 13
of Mrs. Curtis,

AGNEW, CORNELIUS R., M. D. See

Sanitary Commission.

Aiken, the U. S. revenue cutter. D. 58

"A. L.," Poem by,

P. 34

Alabama, Regt. of, arrived at Har-

per's Ferry, Va.,

D. 12

havoc in the Regts. of, at Bull
Run,

P. 13

P. 87

D. 73

"Alarum," Vanity Fair,

Albany Journal," on compromise

and peace,

ALBERGER, F. A., Seward's letter to,
on Foreign enlistments, D. 59
ALDEN, Capt., cannonades Gal-
veston, Texas,
Doc. 481
Alexandria, Va., slaves at, liberated,
D. 51
murder of the U. S. pickets at, P. 56
Alien Law, the Confederate, D. 65
Jeff. Davis' proclamation relative
to,
D. 66
Aliens, Confederate Congress_act
respecting alien enemies, Doc. 492
Jeff. Davis' proclamation in refer-
ence to the act respecting alien
enemies,
Doc. 526
ALLEN, Col. First Regt. N. Y. S.
V., arrested at Fortress Monroe,
D. 11
D. 65

D. 24
Doc. 145
Anderson Zouaves, N. Y. S. V., left
N. Y.,
D. 75
ANDREW, JOHN A., Gov., calls upon
the citizens of Mass. to fill up
the regiments,
D. 73
Proclamation to the citizen sol-
diers of Mass., Aug. 20, Doc. 539
Anecdotes, of Turner, the rebel

postmaster of Western Va. Doc. 244
of Gen. J. W. Ripley,
D. 17
of Garrick, the negro cook of the
schooner Enchantress, D. 52
of Englishmen at the battle of
Carrick's Ford, Va., Doc. 291
of the young soldier dying,
of Joseph Lane of Oregon,
of Gen. J. B. Magruder,
of the wife of Capt. Gilvery,
of a lady of Alexandria, Va.,
of a Good Samaritan at Bull

of Willie P. Mangum, Jr., P. 16
affecting anecdote of a soldier at
Bull Run,
P. 2S
of Mass. Vols.at Baltimore, Md., P. 41
of Gen. Scott and a Virginian, P. 41
of Bishop Simpson,
P. 46
of Alice and Phebo Cary, P. 47
of a Methodist preacher at Camp
Curtin,

of a Baltimore negro,

P. 5S
P. 59

of a farmer in the
Legislature,

Kentucky

P. 59

of Daniel Sullivan, of the Ohio

Vols.,

P. 71

BROWN, G. W., Mayor of Baltimore,
approves the protest of the
Police Board,

BROWN, JOHN, "dead, yet spenk-

count of the battle of, Doc. 291
"N. Y. Tribune" narrative, Doc. 293
Richmond "Dispatch's" account

Broome County, N. Y., Union
meeting at,

D. 83

P. 16

resolutions of July 18th,

Doc. 332

BROWN, CLARENCE S., Major U. S.

speech of Capt. Wilson of Atlanta,
Ga., on the battle,

P.

12

A, bravery of,

Doc. 5

BROWN,

Colonel 20th Indiana

loss of the rebels in the battle, P.
"Tall Running" at,

12
P. 17

Official Reports of the battle of,

Volunteers,

D. 49

Fire Zouaves at,

P. 18

Doc. 286, 548

release of the Federal surgeons
captured at,

Doc. 523

D. 9

Bull Run, Sunday, July 21st, by
Alice B. Haven,

"Cincinnati Commercial's" ac-

1

Bunker Hill, Va., Gen. Patterson's
Doc. 803
D. 30
Capt. Missouri 1st
Regt., bravery of, at battle of
Wilson's Creek,
Doc. 518
BURKE, , Col, on habeas cor-

flag,"

P. 75

D. 4

eth,"

his "song,"

P. 39; Doc. 245
P. 105

his "raid" into Virginia, Doc. 127
BROWNLEE, J. A., approves the Mis-

souri treason,

BROWNSON, ORESTES A.,

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, P. 1
BUCKINGHAM, W. A., Gov., call to

the people of Connecticut, Aug.

15,

Doc. 531

D.
in the advance into Virginia, D. 82
at Bull Run,
D. 36
report of battle of Bull Run, Doc. 18
eupplementary_report of, Doc. 20
BUTLER, BENJ. F., Gen., letter to
Secretary Cameron on the "con-
traband,"
D. 47; Doc. 437
order in reference to the sale of

intoxicating liquors, D. 52; Doc. 471
appointed to command of volun-
teer forces near Fortress Mon-
roe,
D. 74
Cameron's letter to, on "Contra-
bands,"
Doc. 493
D. 70
P. 97
Doc. 165
BUTLER, PIERCE, arrested at Phila-
delphia,
D. 71

of the battle of,
Doc. 542
Cartor's Creek, Va., Havemeyer's

account of the fight at, Doc. 169
Carthage, Mo., Battle at,
D. 19
Col. Siegel's report of the battle
of,
Doc. 271
"St. Louis Republican's" account
of the battle at,
Doc. 246
"N. Y.World's" narrative of, Doc. 247
"N. Y. Times'" narrative of, Doc. 249
Cartridge Boxes, music in, P. 87
CARUTHIERS, -, Lt., rebel, his en-

counter with Georgo Martin, P. 44
CARTWRIGHT, PETER, a crisp letter

Doc. 1-111

Monroe,

Doc. 1

D. 16
See Father Cree-

BUTLER, CHARLES WM.

don.

port on the battle of,

Doc. 366

report of Col. Pratt on,

Doc. 367

BUTLER, JOHN G., Capt., at the Bat-
tle of Bethel,

Beauregard's official report,
"N. Y. Times"" narrative,
"Atalanta Confederacy" narra-
tive.

Doc. 36S

Doc. 369

Doc. 871

BUTTERFIELD, DAN., Col. 12th Regt.
N. Y. S. M.,
D. 50

"Catholic Cathedral," by T. Hul-
bert Underwood,
CATLIN, J. D., arrested at Washing-
ton,
CATRON, Judge, expelled from
Nashville, Tenn.,
"Cavalry Song," Charles G. Leland,
P. 50
Cayenne Pepper, an implement of
P. 59
Centipedes, an implement of war, P. 71
Centreville, Va., the retreat from,
July 21st. See Bull Ran. Doc. 876
CHAMBERLIN, Capt., at the battle of
Bethel,
Doc. 164
CHAMBLISS, JOHN R., letter from
Jeff. Davis to, D. 48; Doc. 440
Chaplain, a lively
CHAPLIN, Lieut., U. S. N., at Mat-
thias Point,

"National Intelligencer" on the

battle of

P. 23

amendment of the Constitution,

D. 57
CAMERON, SIMON, Letter to Gen.
Butler on "Contrabands,"
D. 60; Doc. 493

CHARA, MANUEL, Lt.-Col. 2d Regt.
New Mexico Volunteers,
"Charleston Courier," opinion of
"Soulouque" Lincoln,

on the situation of affairs,

D. 29

196

D. 18

quotation from,

D. 10

"Charleston Mercury" on the bat-

tle of Bull Run,

P. 15