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nia. Four Union prisoners, captured near Carlisle, were brought into town under guard, when the two young ladies above named stepped into the street and presented each prisoner with a bouquet, tied with red, white, and blue.

In passing through Maryland the rebel army lost large numbers by desertion, the most of them being Virginians and North-Carolinians, while some few were Northern men and foreigners. When the Union cavalry entered the town several rebel soldiers came in and gave themselves up.

the enem ies of the confederate States," were directed to be tur ned over to the authorities of "State or States in which they shall be captured, to be dealt with according to the present or future laws of such State or States."

On the twenty-first of July, however, the Commanding General telegraphed to the Secretary of War for instructions as to the disposition to be made of the negroes captured on Morris and James Islands, and on the twenty-second received a reply that they must be turned over to the State authorities, by virtue of the joint resolutions of Congress in question.

Accordingly, on the twenty-ninth July, as soon as a copy of the resolution or act was received, his Excellency Governor Bonham was informed that the negroes captured were held subject to his orders, to be dealt with according to the laws of South-Carolina.

On the same day (twenty-ninth July) Governor Bonham requested that they should be retained in military custody until he could make arrangements to dispose of them; and in that custody they still remain, awaiting the orders of the State authorities. Respectfully, your obedient servant, THOMAS JORDAN,

Chief of Staff.

After the passage of Longstreet's corps every thing remained quiet until Sunday, when, about six o'clock in the evening, thirteen cavalrymen belonging to a New-York regiment made a dash into town, and, with the assistance of the Union boys of the town, who ran to the confederate hospital and seized the muskets there stored, they succeeded in capturing quite a number of prisoners, among them a rebel mail-carrier and his mail. Chaplain Dabney Ball, (formerly pastor of Wesley Chapel in Washington,) who was in town, made his escape by jumping from his horse and taking to the fields. His horse was secured by a smart little fellow named Richard Boward, who rode the horse to Frederick, and handed it over to the military. Again, on Monday last, twenty men of the Fifth regulars made a dash into town and captured eleven stragglers, two carbines, four muskets, and four horses. red at Salem, Indiana, during the raid of John MorSECESH SYMPATHY.-The following incident occurThis command took breakfast at the Washington House, kept by Harry Yingling, a well-known rebel gan. Some of his men proceeded out west of the sympathizer, and who has been taking rebel scrip from road. On the way out they captured a couple of per town to burn the bridges and water-tank on the railthe confederates for bills contracted. It was suggested to the officer in charge that he should pay his bill sons living in the country, one of whom was a Quaker, with the same kind of money, and the "gray-backs? The Quaker strongly objected to being made a prisoner. Secesh wanted to know if he was not strongly being furnished him by a citizen, he paid Harry off in opposed to the South. "Thee is right," said the Thee is right; I did vote for Abraham." Quaker, "I am." "Well, did you vote for Lincoln ?" "Well, what are you?"

his own coin.

And again, on Tuesday morning, our men made another dash, and captured eleven prisoners and two horses. The rebels, hearing of this, came over in force from Williamsport, but our men had made their escape with their prisoners.

NEGROES TAKEN IN ARMS.On this very important subject, in reply to some strictures of the Charleston Mercury, (made under misapprehension,) the Chief of Staff of General Beauregard addressed to that journal the following letter:

HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF S. C., GA., AND FLA., CHARLESTON, S. C., August 12, 1863. Colonel R. B. Rhett, Jr., Editor of Mercury: In the Mercury of this date you appear to have written under a misappréhension of the facts connected with the present status of the negroes captured in arms on Morris and James Islands, which permit me to state as follows:

"The Proclamation of the President, dated December twenty-fourth, 1862, directed that all negro slaves captured in arms should be at once delivered over to the executive authorities of the respective States to which they belong, to be dealt with according to the laws of said States."

An informal application was made by the State authorities for the negroes captured in this vicinity; but as none of them, it appeared, had been slaves of citizens of South-Carolina, they were not turned over to the civil authority, for at the moment there was no official information at these headquarters of the Act of Congress by which "all negroes and mulattoes, who shall be engaged in war, or be taken in arms against the confederate States, or shall give aid or comfort to

man.

Cannot thee let rne go to my home?" "Thee may naturally suppose that I am a Union. "Yes, yes; go and take care of the old woman," said secesh.

The other prisoner was taken along with them, but not relishing the summary manner in which the Quaker was disposed of, said: "What do you let him go for? He is a black Abolitionist. Now, look here, I voted for Breckinridge, and have always been opposed to the war. I am opposed to fighting the South, decidedly."

"You are," said secesh; "you are what they call around here a Copperhead, an't you?"

"Yes, yes," said the Butternut, insinuatingly; "that's what all my neighbors call me, and they know I an't with them."

"Come here, Dave!" hallooed secesh. "There's a Butternut. Just come and look at him. Look here, old man, where do you live? We want what horses you have got to spare, and if you have got any greenbacks, just shell 'em out!" and they took all he had.

ORGANIZED RESISTANCE TO THE CONFEDERACY IN LOUISIANA.-Many persons are disposed to doubt the correctness of the published statements of the condition of affairs at the South-such as the marked change of sentiment in North-Carolina, the wholesale desertions from the rebel armies, the banding together of conscripts to resist any attempt to force them into the confederate ranks, etc., etc. We now have positive proof of the fact however, that as long ago as last

February, conscripts in Louisiana formed together and defied the Government of Jeff Davis. The following is a copy of a letter found in Port Hudson, after the surrender of that place:

"PORT HUDSON, February 9, 1863. "Lieutenant-Colonel James H. Wingfield: "COLONEL: In obedience to Special Order No. 27, I proceeded to the Parish of Washington, and immediately commenced notifying all men belonging to my command to come to camp, when they promised to do so, and I find nine of them here on my return. "Others I saw belonging to my command, and some of company C, who positively refused to do so, saying at the same time that they would prefer to die at home. The absentees from this command, together with the conscripts, have formed themselves into a company for mutual protection and resistance of confederate authorities. They number some seventy-five men, and meet in their camp once or twice a week, and the depredations carried on by them are fearful. The citizens are intimidated, and dare not speak their mind in the neighborhood of these men.

into another State for trial, and there imprisoned in Chattanooga to satisfy the malice of the military authorities in Atlanta, whose acts of despotism caused the death of peaceable citizens, and murdered even the babe in my wife's arms. During my imprisonment my family became sick, one of my children died, and my wife's recovery was for some time regarded as hopeless. Sir, these are facts which many respectable citizens of Atlanta can corroborate.

"For defending the character of Michael Myers, a respectable citizen, who was arrested on suspicion of Union principles-and when visited by his friends on the following day, was found senseless, with a fracture in his skull about three inches long, from the effects of which he died in less than forty-eight hours from the time of his arrest-I was again made to suffer. Having dared to call for an investigation into the cause of his death, and accusing the provost-guards of at least some knowledge of his murder, has been, I well believe, the indirect cause of my repeated arrests, until deprived of all that could constitute a home. I was then, as if in mockery of my situation, "I applied to Lieutenant-Colonel Miller, the nearest called on to defend my home from "Yankee' invasion confederate authority at Ponchitoula, for force suffi-too-regardless of the certificates of two eminent cient to arrest these men. Answer is herewith inclosed. I also beg leave to submit the following facts: That the entire lake coast of St. Tammany, over sixty miles in width, is left unguarded, and daily communication is kept up with the enemy in New-Orleans; that cotton and other contrabands are shipped to the enemy to any extent the people may see proper. I saw many loads of cotton being hauled for shipment to New-Orleans.

"There is a steamer by the name of the Charles Rust, Captain J. Johnson, plying between the lower landings of Pearl River and some of the counties in the State of Mississippi. Upon the return trip she brings cotton to the lower landings, from thence it is shipped to New-Orleans.

Negroes are constantly leaving Washington and Fort Tammany Parishes, Louisiana, and Hancock and Pike counties, Mississippi, and the people think they will all leave if there is not sufficient force sent to protect the coast.

"I find the people much exposed to the depredations of this band, and I ask in behalf of the citizens of the Parish of Washington, in which companies A, C, and K of this battalion were raised, that some force be sent to protect the families of the men who are now in the service of their country.

"With the above facts, I beg leave to submit myself your obedient servant, J. J. SLOCUM,

"Captain Co. A, Ninth Battalion P. R." The above letter was brought home by a Massachusetts soldier.-Boston Traveller.

THE REBEL DESPOTISM IN GEORGIA.-Mr. J. Harford, a refugee from Atlanta, Georgia, sends to the Nashville Union the following account of the sufferings of the people of Georgia under the rebel rule:

doctors, proving my exemption from military service. These conscript officers have endeavored to force me to fight for their benign government. Military law having ignored all civil law, left me no means of redress. My wife, therefore, wrote an appeal to the military authorities, but the newspapers of Atlanta refused to publish it, stating that it was too personal."

SONGS OF THE REBELS.

BEYOND THE POTOMAC.

BY PAUL H. HAYNE.

They slept on the fields which their valor had won !
But arose with the first early blush of the sun,
For they knew that a great deed remained to be done,
When they passed o'er the River!

They rose with the sun, and caught life from his
light

Those giants of courage, those Anaks in fight-
And they laughed out aloud in the joy of their might,
Marching swift for the River:

On! on! like the rushing of storms through the hills—
On! on! with a tramp that is firm as their wills-
And the one heart of thousands grows buoyant and
thrills

At the thought of the River!

Oh! the sheen of their swords! the fierce gleam of
their eyes

It seemed as on earth a new sunlight would rise,
king-like flash up to the sun in the skies,
O'er the path to the River.

"When this war commenced I was engaged in the dry-goods business; have subsequently kept a dining. And saloon, with a license for the sale of liquors. In Atlanta citizens are compelled to obey military rules which they do not recognize as law, and which rules But, their banners, shot-scarred, and all darkened even that government (through Alexander A. Stephens).

with gore,

pronounced to be illegal, arbitrary, and unjust, yet for On a strong wind of morning streamed wildly before, refusing to obey which I have been seven times im- Like the wings of death-angels swept fast to the prisoned-my property forcibly carried away without compensation. My family thus robbed, I was sent

shore,

The green shore of the River.

NOTE. The foregoing lines were written on the eighth of Jan-But uary, 1881, for a friend who had intended to sing them in the theatre, but thought at the time to be too much in the secession The spirit. Cousin Sam, or C. S. Confederate States.-Richmond Examiner.

And swore a fearful oath to God, those men of iron might,

That in the end the wrong should die, and up should go the right.

The King sent over hireling hosts, Briton, Hessian,
Scot,

And swore in turn those Western men when captured
should be shot,

While Chatham spoke with earnest tongue against the hireling throng,

And mournfully saw the Right go down, and place give to the Wrong.

But God was on the righteous side, and Gideon's sword was out,

With clash of steel, and rattling drum, and freemen's thunder-shout;

And crimson torrents drenched the land through that
long, stormy fight:

But in the end, hurrah! the Wrong was beaten by the
Right!

And when again the foeman came from out the Northern Sea,

To desolate our smiling land, and subjugate the free, Our fathers rushed to drive them back with rifles keen and long,

And swore a mighty oath, the Right should subjugate

the Wrong.

Unawed by numbers, they defy
The tyrant North, nor will they fly,
Resolved to conquer or to die,

And win a glorious name.

Sprung from renowned heroic sires,
Inflamed with patriotic fires,

Their bosoms burn with fierce desires,
The thirst for victory.

'Tis not the love of bloody strife-
The horrid sacrifice of life;
But thoughts of mother, sister, wife,
That stir their manly hearts.

A sense of honor bids them go
To meet a hireling, ruthless foe,
And deal in wrath the deadly blow,

Which vengeance loud demands.

In Freedom's sacred cause they fight,
For Independence, Justice, Right,
And to resist a desperate might.

And by Manassas' glorious name,
And by Missouri's fields of fame,
We hear them swear, with one acclaim,
We'll triumph or we'll die.

THE LANDING ON MORRIS ISLAND, S. C.-Captain S. H. Gray, commanding two companies of the Seventh Island, on the ninth of July, 1863, gives the following.

And while the world was looking on, the strife uncer- Connecticut regiment, in the landing upon Morris

tain grew,

But soon aloft rose up our stars amid a field of blue. For Jackson fought on red Chalmette, and won the glorious fight,

And then the Wrong went down, hurrah! and triumph crowned the Right!

The day has come again, when men who love the teous South,

account:

"Early on the ninth we received orders to be ready by sundown for a fresh start. To prevent any mistake in the night, each officer and man had on his left arm a white badge three inches wide. General Strong was to embark two thousand men in boats, and take them beau-up Folly River in the Lighthouse Inlet; and at sunrise the batteries that had been erected (there were over by the forty guns and mortars in position) were to open, and the gunboats to engage the batteries on the opposite For foes accursed of God and man, with lying speech in good time, preceded by eight boat-howitzers from side of the island. The boats arrived with the troops the gunboats; the first boat contained General Strong and staff, and then came the battalion of the Seventh Connecticut volunteers.

To speak, if needs be, for the Right, though cannon's mouth;

and song,

Would bind, imprison, hang the Right, and deify the
Wrong.

But canting knave of pen and sword, nor sanctimoni-
ous fool,

Shall never win this Southern land to cripple, bind, and rule;

We'll muster on each bloody plain thick as the stars

of night,

And through the help of God, the Wrong shall perish by the Right.

-N. O. True Delta.

THE SOUTH IN ARMS.

BY REV. J. H. MARTIN.

Oh! see ye not the sight sublime,
Unequalled in all previous time,
Presented in this Southern clime,

The home of Chivalry?

A warlike race of freemen stand
With martial front and sword in hand,
Defenders of their native land,

The sons of Liberty.

General had concluded that our battalion was the "General Gillmore told Colonel Rodman that the most reliable, and could be trusted, and was selected for that reason. The batteries opened at daylight, and in a short time the enemy discovered the boats, and threw shell and solid shot, trying to sink them. The shot and shell struck and burst all around us, but only one boat was struck, containing some of the Sixth Connecticut volunteers, killing one, and wounding two or three.

แ The General's boat got two discharges of grape. Just at this moment, Lieutenant-Colonel Rodman said to the General: Let me land my command and take that battery.' The General hesitated at first, and then said: Go! Colonel Rodman stood up in the stern of his boat, and gave the command-as the boats were all in line and in good order-Seventh Connecticut! man your oars and follow me.' We had previously detailed fifty men as oarsmen, leaving us about one hundred and seventy-five effective men and officers. At the order, we all headed for the shore; and, as the boats struck, every man sprang as if by instinct, and in an instant the men were in line.