July 9.-At a meeting of the Directors of the American Express Company, held at New-York, it was unanimously

Resolved, That any of our present employees, who may promptly enlist under the recent call for troops, shall continue to receive one half of their pay during the term of their service in the war, and their situations restored to them on their return.

Two thousand men are in the regular employ of this company, at an average salary of over six hundred dollars per annum.

without meting out to him his just dues under military orders, deponent saith not. - St. Louis Republican, September 18.

KNOXVILLE, July 24.-Col. John H. Morgan sends by special courier to the headquarters of Tennessee, a despatch dated Georgetown, Ky., nineteenth instant. He states that he had taken eleven cities and towns, with a very heavy amount of army stores, and that he has a force sufficient to hold all the country outside of Lexington and Frankfort, which places are chiefly garrisoned by home guards.-Petersburgh Express, July 26.

THE Nashville Union says that on Tuesday night, July 22, Col. Haggard's Fifth Kentucky cavalry, who had been in pursuit of the guerrillas for several days, came within one mile of Forrest's banditti, on the Murfreesboro road, thirteen miles from that city, when the whole gang of rebel horse-thieves, chicken-stealers, house-breakers, and assassins, cut and run like quarter-horses. The last seen of them, Forrest was leaning over his horse's neck whipping for dear life, while his men were dropping pistols, shot-guns, canteens, green apples and stolen chickens along the road. When last

CAPTAIN DE KAY'S EXPLOIT.-One of the neatest exploits of the Norfolk campaign was performed by Capt. Drake De Kay, of Gen. Mansfield's staff, while awaiting the General's arrival at a house called Moore's Ranch, a kind of summer hotel kept by a man named Moore, at Ocean View, the place of debarkation. All the white men and most of the women of this vicinity had fled-it was said by those they had left behind, to the woods, to prevent being forced into the rebel service. Captain De Kay, while supper was being prepared, mounted his horse and determined to explore the country, followed only by his negro servant. As he was passing a swamp toward evening, he came suddenly upon seven of the secession troops, who were lurking by the roadside, and were armed with double-seen they were still running. barrelled guns. The Captain turned and shouted to his (imaginary) company to prepare to charge, and then riding forward rapidly, revolver in hand, told the men they were his prisoners, as his cavalry would soon RICHMOND, July 26.-A few nights ago, at the great "Union" meeting in New-York, Dr. Francis Lieber, be upon them, ordered them to discharge their pieces and deliver them to him, which they did without de-a renegade from his adopted State, South-Carolina, lay. He then informed them that his only "company" the South. Two weeks before, his son, Charles Liemade a flaming speech, calling for the subjugation of was his negro servant, and directed them to follow him into camp. An hour later, just after Gen. Wool ber, a brave confederate soldier, fell by a Yankee bulhad returned from Norfolk, the Captain rode to the let, while charging a Yankee battery. His remains beach and informed Col Cram, as chief of the Gener-were sent to South-Carolina.-Richmond Dispatch, al's staff, that the seven prisoners, whom he had July 26. marched to the beach, were at his disposal.-New-York Times, May 13.

NEW-ORLEANS, LA.-A Mr. Matthews, who got through the rebel lines into Gen. Banks's department, JACKSON, MISS., July 24.-Lieut -Col. Ferguson, of assured him that " Mr. Lincoln kept himself shut up says that at Shreveport, La., a tavern-keeper's wife Starke's cavalry, with two companies and a field bat-in an iron cage, and did not allow any one but Mrs. tery, has captured and destroyed a Federal mail steam- Lincoln and Mr. Seward to see him-because he was er at Skipwith's Landing, eighty miles above Vicks-afraid of being killed."-Detroit Advertiser. burgh. Col. Ferguson succeeded in obtaining possession of the mail-bag from the ship Richmond, en route for Washington. The contents are highly interesting. Yankee letters admit the impossibility of capturing Vicksburgh without an immense land force, and admit that the Arkansas whipped them. They evince great terror of the Arkansas. Her appearance round the bend this morning was the signal for a general stampede. The bombarding continued slowly to-day.Richmond Examiner, July 26.

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ST. LOUIS, MO., September 18-Information reached here by the North Missouri train last night that the guerr lla chief Poindexter escaped from Hudson yesterday morning. To some it is not a matter of surprise. was feared that "a way would be made for his escape,' and it is now reported that the officers in charge of him took the irons off him, and sent him out on some pretext with two guards, upon whom he played the played-out" trick of throwing red pepper in their eyes, and ran off. This is the whole story in a few words. Why he has been kept this long at Hudson

FEMALE PATRIOTISM.-Mrs. Sarah Spencer, of Middletown, Ct., has procured two substitutes-one for herself and one for her niece, paying each fifty dollars extra bounty.

NEW-YORK, August 3.-Secretary Stanton is credited with the saying that a draft will be made by way of asserting the national majesty. To draft will be all right, but the best way to assert the national majesty would be to conquer the enemy, to do which twice over the country has furnished government with men and money enough.-New-York Commercial.

JAMES LEONARD, of Upper Gilmanton, N. H., who had been rejected as a volunteer on account of his being over forty-five years of age. says: "After accepting several men over forty-five years of age, and several infants, such as a man like me could whip a dozen of, I was rejected because I had the honesty to ac

knowledge I was more than forty-five years of age. The mustering officer was a very good-looking man, about thirty-five years old, but I guess I can run faster and jump higher than he; also take him down, whip him, endure more hardships, and kill three rebels to his one."-New-Hampshire Statesman.

Ar the battle of Hanover Court-House, Va., two sergeants met in the woods; each drew his knife, and the two bodies were found together, each with a knife buried in it to the hilt. Some men had a cool way of disposing of prisoners. One, an officer of the Massachusetts Ninth, well known in Boston as a professor of muscular Christianity, better known as "the child of the regiment," while rushing through the woods at the head of his company, came upon a rebel. Seizing the " grey buck" by the collar, he threw him over his shoulder, with "Pick him up, somebody." A little Yankee, marching down by the side of a fence which skirted the woods, came upon a strapping secesh, who attempted to seize and pull him over the rails, but the little one had too much science. A blow with the butt of a musket levelled secesh to the ground and made him a prisoner. There were many marvellous escapes. -Boston Transcript, June 14.

the hospital tent on the ground where the fiercest contest had taken place, and where many of our nien and those of the enemy had fallen. The hospital was exclusively for the wounded rebels, and they were laid thickly around. Many of them were Kentuckians, of Breckinridge's command. As I stepped into the tent, and spoke to some one, I was addressed by a voice, the childish tone of which arrested my attention: "That's General Rousseau! General, I knew your son Dickey. Where is Dick? I knew him very well." Turning to him, I saw stretched on the ground a handsome boy about sixteen years of age. His face was a bright one, but the hectic glow and flush on the cheeks, his restless manner, and his grasping and catching his breath as he spoke, alarmed me. I knelt by his side and pressed his fevered brow with my hand, and would have taken the child into my arms, if I could. " And who are you, my son?" said I. "Why, I am Eddy McFadden, from Louisville," was the reply. "I know you, General, and I know your son Dick. I've played with him. Where is Dick?" I thought of my own dear boy, of what might have befallen him; that he, too, deluded by villains, might, like this poor boy, have been mortally wounded, among strangers, and left to die. My heart bled for the poor child; for he was a child; my manhood gave way, and burning tears attested, in spite of me, my intense suffering. I asked him of his father; he had no father. Your mother? He had no mother. Brothers and sisters? "I have a brother," said he. "I never knew what soldiering was. I was but a boy, and they got me off down here." He was shot through the shoulder and lungs. I asked him what he needed. He said he was cold and the ground was hard. I had no tent nor blankets; our baggage was all in the rear at Savannah. But I sent the poor boy my saddle-blanket, and returned the next mornDISTURBING AN ORATOR.-The Corinth corresponding with lemons for him and the rest; but his brother, ent of the Cincinnati Gazette tells this story:

EPIGRAM.

WHILST Butler plays his silly pranks,
And closes up New-Orleans banks,
Our Stonewall Jackson, with more cunning,
Keeps Yankee Banks forever running.

-Charleston Mercury.

When our lines advanced toward Corinth on the twenty-eighth, a battery was planted on an eminence commanding a considerable portion of the country, but completely shrouded from view by a dense thicket. Scouts were sent out to discover the exact position of the rebels, and were but a short distance in advance, to give a signal as to the direction to fire, if any were discovered.

in the Second Kentucky regiment, had taken him over to his regiment to nurse him. I never saw the child again. He died in a day or two. Peace to his ashes. I never think of this incident that I do not fill up as if he were my own child.

SKEDADDLE.-The American war has introduced a new and amusing word. A Northerner who retreats One of the rebel commanders, unaware of our pres-"retires upon his supports;" but a Southerner is said ence, called around him a brigade and commenced to "skedaddle." The Times remarked on the word, addressing them in something like the following

strain:

"Sons of the South: We are here to defend our homes, our wives and daughters, against the horde of vandals who have come here to possess the first and violate the last. Here upon this sacred soil, we have assembled to drive back the Northern invaders-drive them into the Tennessee. Will you follow me? If we cannot hold this place we can defend no spot of our Confederacy. Shall we drive the invaders back,

"

and strike to death the men who would desecrate our
homes? Is there a man so base among those who
hear me as to retreat from the contemptible foe before
us?
I will never blanch before their fire, nor -
At this interesting period the signal was given, and
six shells fell in the vicinity of the gallant officer and
his men,
who suddenly forgot their fiery resolves, and
fled in confusion to their breastworks.

GENERAL ROUSSEAU relates the following incident in a letter from Shiloh :

Two days after the battle of Shiloh I walked into

and Lord Hill wrote a short note to prove that it was
excellent Scotchi. The Americans only misapply the
word, which means, in Dumfries, "to spill "-milk-
maids, for example, saying, you are "skedaddling
all that milk. The Times and Lord Hill are both
wrong, for the word is neither new nor in any way
misapplied. The word is very fair Greek, the root
being that of "skedannumi," to disperse, to "retire
tumultuously," and it was probably set afloat by some
professor of Harvard.
-London Spectator.

WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR JEFF DAVIS?
Weave him a mantle of burning shame!
Stamp on his forehead that dreadful name
Which deeds like his inscribe in blood;
A Traitor to man! a Traitor to God!

Plait him a crown, of the flower that comes
In the ashes that lie o'er buried homes!
Let his sceptre be, the smoking brand
Which his fiat sent throughout the land!

CHARLESTON, S. C. July 15.-On Wednesday last the pickets of the Eutaw Battalion entered Legare's, the enemy having-to use their own expressive term -"skedaddled" the day previous. The first feature meeting the eyes of the advancing confederates was a number of mock sentinels stationed at intervals along the road. The dummies were neatly manufactured out of old clothes, and, with the addition of damaged gunstocks, looked quite the martial Yankee. They were doubtless posted on the road with the hope of frightening off the confederate pickets. Of course the countrymen of Barnum did not succeed with their little humbug. Our pickets found the deserted encampment covered with fragments of commissary stores; there were thousands of empty bottles, boxes, tin cans, etc. The rogues had undoubtedly been living luxuriously.

The Yankee newspapers captured are not of very late date, and it would be useless, therefore, to make extracts from them. They are redolent with magnificent Federal victories, in every one of which there are accounts of "splendid bayonet-charges" upon the rebels. The Boston Herald of June second announces

What was more interesting, however, our men captured a large quantity of Yankee letters, docu- the capture of Vicksburgh and Little Rock, and the ments and newspapers. The walls of the houses at light of the Governor of Arkansas into Mississippi. A Legare's were variously inscribed, most of the lan-graphic picture in Frank Leslie's represents Beaureguage being too indecent for repetition here. Ap-gard watering his horse in hell. It was engraved peals were frequently made to the victorious con after one of the numerous Federal reports of the death federates thus, "Now, boys, don't give up the Old of our hero. -Charleston Courier, July 15. Flag," or Boys, we are not fighting about the nigger, but for the Old Flag and the Old Union." Some facetious rogue indulged in the following: We had our whisky on the Fourth of July; say, Secesh, how about your whisky on the Fourth?" Another undaunted individual gave vent to his feeling in this style:

"Chivalric Southerners-Dear Sirs: As the hot season is at hand, you do not appear to be resorting to the usual fashionable resorts of the summer, we, the army of liberty, have concluded to withdraw from your marshes, and leave you to enjoy, as best you can, until weather sets in next fall, when we shall return and spend the winter season in your noble city near Sumter."

The following lines of doggerel were scribbled on one of the walls. The runaway writer has some fun in him, and we can almost forgive the hasty manner in which he left our shores without visiting Charleston:

TWENTY-EIGHTH OF JUNE-GOOD-BYE.
AIR- Mary Blane.

Oh! farewell, Carolinians,
We are going far away;

Don't cry-we'll soon be back,

Another game to play.

Our parting's full of pain;

CHORUS-Oh! farewell! oh! farewell!

A WAY OF DISGRACING SOLDIERS.-The Nashville Union gives an account of a military procession which passed through the streets of Nashville, exciting the pity of some and the derision of others. Some fifty Federal soldiers, who had been captured and paroled by the guerrillas at various times, under circumstances not at all creditable to the prisoners, were collected by order of General Rosecrans, and adorned with night-caps, with red tassels in the centre, and in this outre uniform paraded through the streets, to the roll of the drum, "And the shrill squeaking of the wry-necked fife," before the gaze of admiring thousands, who cheered them on their "winding way." No doubt a strict enforcement of military discipline would have condemned many of these soldiers to death for their pusillanimous behavior.

HOW TRAITORS ARE TREATED IN IOWA.-A very ludicrous scene took place last Saturday. It had been arranged that a lodge of the Golden Syrup order should be organized; a house was engaged and speakers from Marion and Otter Creek Townships provided to be on hand to give the faithful a good sermon on the beauties of the peculiar institution. The Marion speakers, however, failed to come to time, but Mr. James Thomas, of Otter Creek, was "thar," and found a

But do take care yourselves, my dears, much larger crowd than he expected to meet in such

We are coming back again.

Your swampy land's too hot for us.
We are going off to cool;

But never mind, our Monitor
Will put you all to school.

a strong Republican precinct, but not doubting they were all of the faithful, he proceeded to make the speech of the occasion. He abused Lincoln, pitched into Congress and the Cabinet, and showed such unmistakable sympathy with treason and rebellion that a cry of "hang him," "bring a rope," etc., was soon