Here is good man's work! Break through and through! What matters hardship or danger to you? What were death to any true man, If the cause be true and high? Looks it calmly in the eye. Break, with the bayonet, those crowding ranks ! God's blessing! glory! and evermore, thanks! DUANESBURGH, August 5, 1862. THE NORTH STAR. "Flashes the Southern Cross bright in the sky," "Afloat on the sea, all unfettered and free, And the sands are of gold, and the summers all roses." And crowns, courts, and castles rang out in his song; There was 66 race to the swift"-there were "fields to the strong." But ever anon came as wild a refrain— 'Twas the song of the seamen-the dirge of the main. And see-there's a cloud-that bedarkens his sky; Helm a-port! breakers near! on a beaconless coast! Down, down went the vessel four fathoms or more, Sailor-boy! hadst thou known in the dew of thy youth, Had thy heart, like that needle, been loyal to truth; A voyage more safe had been thine, and the wave Had wafted thee riches, instead of a grave. Secession! whoso sails thy treacherous sea, TO THE LOYAL FAIR. Ye loyal fair to guard our homes Who've sent your best-your all; For each the Muse would twine a wreath, A fragrant one, though small. The flowers she culled grew on one stem, But few are left, is why the gift But these are strong-of vig'rous root; Our garden here hath num'rous sprouts, But now we see their tiny heads And soon our land will bloom again And in this little gift you'll see Whose golden leaves begin to spread The emblem of this shining leaf As one-a family group! Our faith, that round your shady throne, The prayer that heaven, oh! soon may bid To deck the festive board, That from our temple domes no more But shouts of joy-sweet peace hath come- And then for you, some gifted Muse, A sweeter song may twine, Than the Eolian strain hath poured BALTIMORE. THE DEAD SOLDIER. BY "XAVIERE." Gone in his beauty, Gone in his truth, Silkily soft his eyelids fall Hiding the splendor of midnight eyes Wrap round him the banner, It cost him his breath, He loved it in life, Let it shroud him in death! Let it silently sweep in its gorgeous fold, MARA O'er the heart asleep and and the lips that are cold. The lips that are cold! Once warm with love's token! God pity his mother, Her heart is broken! She bade him go forth, her hero, her joy, The pride of her heart, her godlike boy. Where the flag waved the proudest, Death claimed him at last. Now she waits for him ever, had come under my notice for more than a year, taking care to add that they ran home. He wanted to know if many of their men came over to us. I answered rather equivocally: "A few." "How many?" Fearful now that if I told him the great number that actually did come to us, the rebel leaders would increase their vigilance, I merely said that I had seen six, the number I had personally beheld. "I guess they go the other way," he replied, thereby acknowledging they suffered much from desertion. Mr. Tennessee wanted to know why we did not make the attack; they were anxiously waiting for us, and confident of victory. I said that they could not be more -Hartford Press. eager for the battle or more sure of success, than ourselves; that to us every thing appeared to be ready, but we were not supposed to know General Halleck's plans. Peace there, gentle soldier! Never war, never strife, A TALK WITH A REBEL PICKET IN MISSISSIPPI.-A private of the Sixth Ohio regiment sends to his friends in Cincinnati the following lively sketch of campaigning life: I must record a little adventure, pleasing and interesting, I had day before yesterday near Corinth. My last spoke about the continued firing between pickets. To such an extent was it carried, so incessant the firing day and night, that nothing short of a battle would alarm the camp, whereas a single gun should be the signal for the long-roll. But within the last three or four days a change for the better has taken place. We talked together some fifteen minutes, both of us very wary about giving contraband information. He was a gentlemanly, well-educated man, apparently under thirty years of age, and from Maury County, Tennessee. I gave him the pictorial, and asked for a Memphis paper. He had none, but promised to send me over one, if he could procure it during the day. Before parting, I remarked that it would be well to make some agreement about picket-firing, and learned that they had received orders precisely like ours. Gen. Garfield, who had the supervision of the outOn Monday our regiment was sent to the fortifica- posts, called me in; so we again shook hands and tions. It is the custom for the various battalions to separated, leaving many things unsaid that we would take their turn in staying at the breastworks for twen- like to have spoken about. Garfield questioned me ty-four hours, forming a sort of reserve picket; and closely as to our conversation, and seemed satisfied from each regiment so stationed two companies are that it was all right. However, being fearful that the sent to the outposts. It fell to our lot to go out. The rebels might learn something from us if such intercompany we relieved informed us that the rebels were course was allowed, he ordered us not to go out again, disposed to be friendly; and with instructions from but to let any rebel that wished it to come over all the field-officer not to fire unless fired upon, or the the way. I had reason to regret this very much, as enemy attempted to advance, we set to work to watch in the afternoon my friend, the doctor, came half-way the movements of our neighbors. The enemy's pickets with the promised paper. We gave him to underwere in the edge of a wood about two hundred yards stand that it was against our orders to leave the post, from us, and my post-one of the best for observation and if he would come all the way we would do him no -similarly situated in another wood, with a level be- harm. He said he had a very late paper, but could tween us. For some time we looked closely without not be induced to come farther than the neutral being able to see any of them, as they were disposed ground, and returned, much to our disappointment. to be shy. We, on the contrary, exposed ourselves to their view, which had the effect of making them bolder, and occasionally a rebel passed from one tree to another and levelled a field-glass at us. After the interview of the morning all apprehension from danger from bullets from either side was at an end, and the sentinels on both sides paced their beats without so much as thinking to seek cover. delphia Press, writing from Winchester, Va., relates REBEL ATROCITIES.-A correspondent of the Philathe following incident of Banks's retreat: "woman" I waved a handkerchief, which was answered from the other side, and tacitly understood to mean no firing. An hour later one of our Southern friends waved a handkerchief and shouted: "Meet me half-way.' "All right;" and arming myself with a newspaper, profusely illustrated with pictures incidental to the down on the steps of one of the houses of Winchester. A soldier was wounded in the foot, and had sat capture of New-Orleans, I started out. A rebel He had not been sitting there long when a surgeon of the Third Tennessee was the individual came out, and asked him if he were not able to walk? who met me. He was dressed in a citizen's suit of He replied that he was not. The woman seeing a black, with military buttons, and the rank of captain revolver in his belt, asked him to let her look at it. designated, not by shoulder-straps, but by marks on The man, suspecting nothing wrong, handed it to her, the collar. After shaking hands and exchanging the but she had not had it in her hands a few minutes customary salutations, we proceeded to talk about the when she presented it to his head, and demanded that He was at Fort Donelson, and made his escape he should leave the steps. He did so, and, after he the night before the surrender. Spoke of the battle had walked a few steps, she fired the pistol, the ball of Shiloh, at which he assisted; said it was their in-entering his side, and he fell on the street, where he tention to have made the attack on Saturday instead instantly expired. This is but a specimen of the nuof Sunday, but on account of a misunderstanding be-merous incidents I have heard, and I only give it as tween their generals the plan failed. The number of deserters from his side appeared to have a prominent one which I know comes from a reliable source. place in his mind, which he vainly endeavored to conceal. "Do you have many deserters from your ranks?" he commenced. I told him of only two cases which VOL. V.-POETRY 4 war. June 8.-At St. Louis, Mo., in the Presbyterian church, at Eleventh and Pine streets, the child of Samuel Robbins, who resides at Chestnut and Thirteenth streets, was brought to the altar for baptism. The child was decorated with red, white, and red, and was christened Sterling Price. The officiating pastor was Dr. McPheeters. Several similar instances have occurred in the city.-Cincinnati Gazette, June 14. CARTE DE VISITE. "'Twas a terrible fight," the soldier said; A group for the painter's art were they: The soldier with scarred and sunburnt face, A fair-haired girl, full of youth and grace, And her aged mother, wrinkled and gray. These three in porch, where the sunlight came Through the tangled leaves of the jasmine-vine, Spilling itself like a golden wine, And flecking the doorway with rings of flame. The soldier had stopped to rest by the way, "Yes, a terrible fight; our ensign was shot As the order to charge was given the men, then He, too, fell dead on the self-same spot. "A handsome boy was this last: his hair "What was his name?-have you never heard?— The color fled from the young girl's cheek, "Pity my daughter-in mercy speak!" "I never knew aught of this gallant youth," "But when we buried our dead that night, One glance, and a look, half-sad, half-wild, Passed over her face, which grew more pale, Then a passionate, hopeless, heart-broken wail, And the mother bent low o'er the prostrate child. DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER. IN MEMORY OF GEN. PHILIP KEARNY, KILLED SEPTEMBER 1, 1862. BY GEORGE H. BOKER. Close his eyes, his work is done! As man may, he fought his fight, Lay him low, lay him low, Fold him in his country's stars, Leave him to God's watching eye, God alone has power to aid him. Lay him low, lay him low, Lay him low! INDEX. EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS IN THE INDEX. D. stands for Diary of Events; Doc. for Documents; and P. for Poetry, Rumors and Incidents. ture, D. 51 official reports of the battle at, "A confederate Eclipse," P. 8 "A Contra-Band-Ditty," P. 14 "Aquilla," schooner, captured, Alabama, Halleck's Report of Pope's "A rebel soldier's epitaph," operations in, Doc. 537 the Unionists of, D. 40, 92; Doc. 281 Arkansas, Gov. Rector's address, Doc. See H. M. Rector. D. 68 First Cavalry of, D. 82, 83 D. 41 ALDRICH, T. BAILEY, Aldie, Va., rebel stores captured at, D. 93 at, Alexandria, Mo., rebel depredations D. 53 Allen Infantry, of Allen, Pa., P. 13 Doc. 86 Doc. 454 B 11 BACHE, A. D., LL.D., D. 32 Va., Doc. 138 D. 17 D. 35 ARNOLD Capt., Fourth R. I., P. 36 in command at Washington, D. C., D. 76 D. 25 notices of, D. 82, 57; Docs. 843, 363, 380 "American Volunteer," office of, de- Ashby's Gap, Va., fight at, D. 84 Bardstown, Ky., fight at, D. 92 D. 86 Ashland, Va., occupied by the Nation- BARKER, DAVID, P. 47 32 als, D. 20 BARNARD, J. G., Brig.-Gen., D. 45 71 D. 1 ANDERSON, RICHARD H., Gen., Doc. 27, 97 D. 86 ANDREW, JOHN A., Governor of Mas- to new troops, Massachusetts Regiment, Doc. 60, 318 P. 10 P. 14 "A Song for all True Americans," by P. 18 BARNES, Col. Eighth Kentucky, Doc. 115 Doc. 616 D. 76 BARTON, Col. Forty-eighth N.Y.S. V., of New-Jersey, Doc. 257 Doc. 576 BROWNSON, SARAH M., P. 20 Doc. 461 Doc. 174 P. 35 Bay River, N. C., Unionists at, Doc. 441 P. 23; D. "Border State" account of the fight at Independence, Mo., "Beauregard," gunboat, seamen of, captured, Beaver Dam Creek, Va., expedition to skirmish at,- D. 44 BOTTS, LAWSON, Major, rebel, official reports of, BELL, JOHN, of Tenn., Doc. 609 D. 4; Doc. 137 D. 74 Benson, Ky., rebel depredations at, D. 75 "Berry, N.," schooner overhauled in Big Hill, Ky., reports of the fight at, BINNEY, HENRY M., Capt. See Har- per's Ferry. linois Cavalry, D. 26, 33; Doc. 191 BRYANT, Lieut. Com., mation at Bardstown, Ky., D. 83 teers at Harrisonburgh, Va., Doc. 186 Common Council of, D. 53 BERRY, GEORGE W., Col., BERRY, HIRAM G., Gen., BERRY, NATHANIEL S., Governor of N. H., message of, D. 23 the Gulf of Mexico, "Bible Inscription," BICKHAM, W. D., See Corinth, Miss., D. 64; Doc. 590 the fight at Augusta, Ky., Doc. 618 Va., "Black flag," Doc. 17 D. 55 Blackford County, Ind., D. 87 D. 60 Black River, S. C., reconnoissance up BLANTON, Col. rebel, Braxton County, Va., National cap- D. 67, 68, 79; P. 85 and the Louisiana planters, suppressed newspapers in New-Or- D. 9 D. 9 D. 24 soldiers, D. 23 |