For the thunder and roar

Of their cannon are heard no more!

"VICTORY, brothers, VICTORY!"
Terror bursts on the rebels all;-
"HUZZA!" Their colors fall!

Ended, at last, is the sharp-fought fight,
And Day flashes over the conquered Night.
Now no foul stains

Our Flag retains

The Flag of the Loyal-the Flag of the Right!

Hark to the drum!-Hark to the fife!
No longer now a signal for strife;
But merrily, cheerily pealing,
Rousing each grateful feeling,
The wounds of sorrow healing,
Waking old joys to life!

In their souls rejoice,

All unite in one mighty voice;

And the ranks along

Burst forth in the glorious triumph song

Of" VICTORY!-VIC

Through the hearts of joy shoot the throbs of pain.
Oh the dead-the dead on the battle-plain!

"Farewell, fallen brother!

We part in this world; but, in another,
We meet again!"

THE HOMEWARD MARCH OF THE SIXTH CORPS THROUGH RICHMOND, MAY 24, 1865.

BY MRS. LUCY HAMILTON HOOPER.

THIS is Richmond. The winds of May
Toy with the Stars and Stripes to-day;
Proudly they wave o'er spire and dome,
O'er Secession's deserted home;
They woo the breeze with rise and fall
Over the rebel Capitol;

They float, in silken splendor free,
Before the eyes of traitor Lee:

Our souls are glad, our hearts are gay,

For the sight our eyes see here to-day.

Ring out, O music, joyfully!
The old Sixth Corps comes marching by:
Bronzed veterans, scarred and brown,
Homeward going to Richmond town,
Flinging out to the bright spring day
Flags that were splendid once, and gay,
Of silken sheen and brilliant hue,
Glowing with scarlet, white, and blue ;-

Now faded shreds and tatters all,
Rent by the storm of shell and ball,
Till scarce we know, amid their scars,
Which are the stripes and which the stars.
O loyal heart! throb high to see,

For each rent tells of a victory!

Through the deserted streets ye go,
Unmolested by rebel foe,

Not a traitor face from the window peers,
To mock your march with scorn and sneers.
Closed are the houses: Richmond seems
Like some lone city seen in dreams.
O heroes! blest indeed are ye,
Thus of the South accursed to be;
Well have ye all deserved of fate,
Northern loving and Southern hate.

On your going is flashing bright
The eagle eye of gallant Wright;
Gibbon views you with kindly smile,
His noble heart beats high the while:
But where's heroic Sedgwick,-where?
Looks he now from the realms of air-
All your glory and triumph knowing?
He has gone home-and ye are going.

Ring out, O music, mournfully!
Not all the Sixth Corps marches by,
O ranks so thinned by shell and ball!
You are going home-not all, not all.
Many that with you marched away,
We miss, alas! from your midst to-day.
This is a regiment passing by,

It would not muster a company,
Fifteen hundred marched to the fray,
Sixty are going home to-day.

Our eyes with sudden mists are blind,

As we recall those left behind,

But back, sad drops, and flow not o'er,

Tears and sadness should all be o'er,

Through Richmond marches the old Sixth Corps!

RICHMOND, VA., May 25th, 1865.

We record with great pleasure the marriage of our friend and former pupil, Colonel Clay, and are glad that the rebel balls, which took off an arm and otherwise damaged him, have left him, after all, a happy life and an honorable reputation to leave to those who may bear his name.

CLAY-KESTER.-On the 8th of June, 1865, at the Free Church of St. John Frankford Road, Philadelphia, by the Rector, the Rev. George P. Schetky, D. D. CECIL CLAY, Lieutenant-Colonel 58th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, to ANNIE WOOD KESTER, daughter of the late John W. Kester, Esq.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE

AND

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

FROM Bunce & Huntington, of New York, we have received a handsome octavo volume of 288 pages, which is of more than ordinary value in an historical point of view. It is entitled "The Lincoln Memorial," and contains a record of the life, assassination, and obsequies of the martyred President.

The special topics, as treated in the different chapters, are as follows:-I. The Life, with a succinct account of Mr. Lincoln's Political Career. II. The Assassination and Last Moments of the President. III. The Effect on the Country, as manifested by editorials, public speeches, and sermons. IV. The Funeral at Washington. Three other chapters are taken up with the funeral observances elsewhere. The eighth chapter presents the effect of the assassination in Europe, and the tenth and last gives a brief but very clear account of the capture and death of the miscreant, Booth. Every family should have a copy of this book, not only for the historical information it contains, but for the admirable manner in which it has been compiled and published. The portrait of Mr. Lincoln in the frontispiece is excellent, and there is also a sketch of the house in which he was born. $2.00.

George Washington Greene, one of our most enthusiastic and successful historical scholars, has just issued, through the press of Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, an admirable volume, entitled Historical View of the American Revolution. It contains a course of lectures, written for the Lowell Institute of Boston, in 1862, and presents the philosophy of our War of Independence with great clearness, and so divested of details that the mind grasps it in a new and most satisfactory manner. The twelfth lecture on the poetical literature of the Revolution is particularly entertaining, and his conclusion, linking our glorious past with our far more glorious present, and closing with Longfellow's touching and beautiful verses in the " Building of the Ship," is both striking and tasteful. The tables in the Appendix are of particular value as illustrating the lectures. 12mo, 459 pp.

From Messrs. Roberts Brothers, Boston, we have received another of those truly devout volumes, by the author of "Heaven our Home." The present one is entitled "Life in Heaven," and contains a description of the Heavenly Home, and the ways and means of reaching it. These books, simple, earnest, and entirely free from cant, can only do good, and we heartily commend them to our readers. They are handsomely and tastefully printed. 12mo, 273 pp.

We promise ourselves very great pleasure in reading The Clever Woman of the Family, by the author of "The Heir of Redclyffe." Miss Yonge fills a peculiar and unique place in prose fiction; her novels are as good as sermons, and far more entertaining. The present one, of which we shall speak hereafter, has the additional merit of being beautifully printed with twelve large and highly descriptive wood engravings; it is not a volume to be lent, and thumbed, and worn out, but to be bound and put among the elegant books in a family library.

EDITOR'S SPECIAL DEPARTMENT.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REVIEWS.-The daily papers have been full of the grand scenes enacted at Washington, when the vast and glorious armies of the country returned at length-their campaigns over, their great work achieved, and the rebellion finally and forever crushed-to receive the grand ovation of a grateful people, before separating for their homes. The troops passed for two days in marching order, in review, before the President, the Cabinet, and the Commanderin-Chief. The magnificent distances" of Washington for once were fully filled by this endless procession. The streets were decorated with mottoes and flags, and curious devices, and the veterans, so long pelted with balls, were now subjected to terrible discharges of flowers, and the lightnings of fair eyes. The roads were excellent, Mercury was propitious, and the grand historic pageant was a complete success. The display is over; its deeper meaning is far more permanent: it means that the military power of the rebellion, and with it the rebellion itself, is at an end; it means the outpouring of a nation's triumphant joy, and a nation's gratoful thanks; to the world at large it tells not only what we have done, but what we can do; that the nation, four years ago a nation of shopkeepers, is now a nation of veteran soldiers, the superiors, in our honest belief, of any fighting material in the world; in one word, and in our common parlance, the review at Washington was the great ratification meeting of our successes in the field, ratifying too the fame of our leaders, and the glory of our gallant armies. Since our last issue the surrender of the rebel forces has steadily continued, until no organized army remains in the field. Passing by the minor capitulations, we record the surrender of Kirby Smith, and the Trans-Mississippi army, in spite of his proclamation of April 21st, made in the wild original "Seminole" style; in spite of mass meetings at Marshall and Houston; in spite of Prince John Magruder's declaration, that he would rather be a Camanche chief than submit; in spite of hopes, and perhaps of promises of assistance, from a hard-pressed Maximilian, the surrender was sudden and complete. The men were deserting; Seminole Smith's sceptre was passing away, and he followed, with unexpected eagerness, the example of Lee, Johnston, and Taylor. We always predicted a collapse of the rebellion, but really hardly expected such an instantaneous fulfilment of our own prophecy. It has taken the wildest prophets by surprise.

Although the review above mentioned, at Washington, absorbs the principal interest, we must not forget to record that of the Second Corps at Bailey's Cross-roads, on the 30th of May, and that of the Sixth, at Richmond, on the 31st. They were both enthusiastic recognitions of the services of our noble soldiers.

We return for a moment to General Sherman's truce, and the petite guerre to which it gave rise: we see no reason to change our opinion, already expressed on this subject. The reading world has all the material for arriving at its own conclusion. General Sherman's report, which our readers will find in this number, is able and conclusive. We have nothing to do with his criminations of General Halleck, for that officer's letter to Mr. Stanton shows that he is quite able to take care of himself; but we do assert, that there was a want of courtesy and consideration for General Sherman in the manner and phraseology of the Department. It may be

military, but it was certainly not civil; and to a man of Sherman's temper, it was irritating in the extreme.

General Weitzel has command of the expedition to Texas; it consists of two divisions of his Twenty-fifth Corps of Colored Troops, a cavalry brigade, and four batteries, and its presence with that of the other troops in Texas will be a whole. some check to illegalities of every form, in connection with the Mexican imbroglio. The following Military Divisions have been arranged:

First. The Military Division of the Atlantic.-This comprises the Department of the East, the Department of Pennsylvania, the Middle Department of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, to be commanded by Major-General Meade. Head-quarters at Philadelphia.

Second. The Military Division of the Mississippi.-This includes the Department of the Ohio, the Department of the North-west, the Department of the Missouri, and the Department of Arkansas, to be commanded by Major-General Sherman. Head-quarters at St. Louis.

Third. The Military Division of the Tonnessee.-This comprises Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, to be commanded by MajorGeneral George H. Thomas. Head-quarters at Nashville.

Fourth. The Military Division of the South-west.-This comprises Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, to be commanded by Major-General Sheridan. Head-quarters at New Orleans.

Fifth. The Military Division of the Pacific, to be commanded by Major-General Halleck. Head-quarters at San Francisco.

These divisions are severally divided into departments, each with a special commander. These commanders have not yet been determined on in all cases.

West Point, always an interesting spot, and particularly so during the annual examination in June, has been the scene of an unusual historical display. General Scott always makes it his summer quarters, and here he was met by the great heroes of the war, Grant and Sherman, who came reverently to lay their laurels at the feet of their Alma Mater. There, amid the admiring crowds who had followed them in their right royal progress from Washington to the West, Generals Sherman and Grant stopped to greet the older veteran, to receive the military homage of the cadets, and to link their boyhood with their noble and famous manhood. The daily papers give the details, which our space forbids, but the Mother of heroes will long cherish the day when, like the mother of the Gracchi, she shone in all the splendor of such jewels. Let every West Point man be prouder than ever of his Mother and his brethren. Although we cannot give details of General Grant's movements to Chicago, we must record him in a new character-one we are sure in which he does not take much pride or pleasure that of a wit. We give the cir. cumstance in the words of the New York Herald:

"Many persons in the crowd now demanded of General Sherman a speech. He excused himself, saying:

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:-I am here to-day a mere listener, a mere spectator like yourselves, and I cannot be drawn into any speech whatever. Always ready, always willing, always proud to back my old and beloved Commander-inChief, I will do every thing in the world that he asks me to do, but I know he will not ask me to make a speech.' (Voices, 'Yes, he will;' 'Tell him, Grant!' (Laughter and applause.)

"Lieutenant-General Grant again stepped forward, and, in response to the crowd, remarked 'I never ask a soldier to do any thing I can't do myself.' Much laughter, increased applause, and loud cheering.")