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by our ears. We were stationed on Warwick Creek,
and the enemy's pickets were on the opposite side,
about six hundred yards above. They kept up a con-
tinual fire during the afternoon, and the way some of
their bullets whistled past our heads, if we poked them
from behind a tree, inclined us to believe that they
were well armed, and understood their use.
Our or-
ders were not to fire back, but, in violation of orders,
a stray shot would once in a while find its way to the
opposite side, to let them know that we still lived.
This firing was kept up until dark, when the tongue
superseded the rifle. Now came the tug of war.
Epithets were hurled spitefully across Warwick's tur-
bid waters. The burden of their song appeared to be:
"We will give you Bull Run." "What do you think
of Corinth?" You can have Yorktown if you can
take it." "You are five to one, but you can't whip

By the brave blood that floweth like a river,
Hurl thou a thunderbolt from out thy quiver!
Break thou the strong gates! Every fetter shiver!
Smite and deliver!

Slay thou our foes, or turn them to derision,
Till, through the blood-red Valley of Decision,
Peace on our fields shine, like a prophet's vision,
Green and elysian !

A correspondent at Seven Pines,

AN INCIDENT.
Va., relates the following:

derson Zouave, and of rigorous barbarism character

An incident of adventure characteristic of the An

istic of the blood-earnest warfare of these rebels. On

picket yesterday, Henry Oehl, of company G, Anderus;" to which latter assertion one of our boys replied, son Zouaves, with a comrade, went forward to a disthat it was so, as it took four Yankees to catch one of tant farm-house, to get information, and enlarge his them, for one of us to whip. They finally came to topographical knowledge of Virginia. The farmer came into the yard, and conversation sprang up be the conclusion, they could not out-talk us in that style, so they tried another tack, made all manners of in tween the three. "Suddenly," said Oehl, "twenty quiries, of how we lived? what State we were from? rebel soldiers rose like ghosts from the edge of the etc. They informed us that they were from South- woods just beyond the house, and rushed toward us, Carolina, and if we would not fire upon them in the calling to us to surrender. Not being much in that morning, they would come out and talk with us. line of business, we raised our pieces, and let fly at Morning came, and with it a friendly conversation them." They returned the fire. A ball struck Oehl's ensued, at first under cover of trees, and as they gain-right hand, knocked his musket out of it, and entered ed confidence, either party came out from cover. They side. To run had now become a duty. Oehl doubled the abdomen at the centre, and went out at the left told us that they lived principally upon fresh meat the corner of the house, and made for the nearest reand "sponge"-soft bread; shingles"-hard bread

was a keen one.

- had played out with them. Salt was not within cesses of the White Oak Swamp, via a corn-field, and the their limits, it being twenty dollars a sack. Coffee bushy covers of a line of old rail-fence. The ebase could not be got-it was a luxury not enjoyed by a Oehl's coolness, cunning and cousoldier. We asked them if they had any "salt-junk "rage saved him. Embosomed in the swamp, he watch No, they had not got down to pickled mule, yet. ed his own hurt, and plugged the wound through his The Monitor, they averred, was a humbug; the abdomen with his fingers. Soon he saw his pursuers Merrimac a big thing. She was not injured by the return to the house, talk a moment with the farmer, Monitor, but broke off her iron prow by collision with seized him, and some entered his house. The hidden and gesticulate forcibly to the doomed man. Some the Cumberland; had been on the dry dock, and was Zouave was near enough to the building to catch the launched the day before. They had a large story of sounds within of the shrieking of children. Immeour being whipped at Corinth, but since then their diately these rushed out of the door, followed by pickets have owned up that they were well used-up at that point. smoke, and soon by flame. The ruffians burned the They are not allowed to read any thing but the Virginian's house over his head, for the crime of taikRichmond Dispatch, and they said that lied like hing with Northern soldiers who entered his yard, and When the time came for them to be relieved, they told us to look out for ourselves, as there was a new crowd coming on, and they would not be responsible for what they would do. And sure enough, in a short time the ball was again opened by whistling bullets from our opposing friends. They told us that Gen. Magruder was on a drunk the day before, and was putting on his airs, as usual, when in that condition. We were thirty hours on this picket, and all were well pleased with the novelty of the service.

A WAR HYMN.

BY THEODORE TILTON.

Thou who ordainest, for the land's salvation,
Famine and fire, and sword and lamentation,
Now unto Thee we lift our supplication—
God save the Nation!

Are these people barbarians, or are they only earnest Oehl says he feels sure that they killed him beside. in carrying on war? While this tragedy of Virginia justice was in performance, at the house adjoining Massachusetts soldiers were buying hoe-cakes for twenty-five cents a piece, eggs at fifty cents a dozen, and tained the abuse of the virago on the profitable side butter at seventy-five cents a pound, and playfully sus of this commerce, who gnashingly informed the soldiers that they would catch falling fits" in a few days.-N. Y. Tribune.

STATE STREET, BOSTON.-10 A.M.-Stocks feverish, a rebel having been seen making towards Winchester with a loaded pistol.

11 A.M.-Stocks lower, a rebel skiff having crossed the James River, throwing brick-bats at one of our gunboats.

12 M.-Great reäction in stocks, a telegram having just been received that Jeff Davis is down with the cholera morbus.

1 P.M.-It is reported that Davis took paregoric and now better; stocks depressed; government sixes declined two per cent.

By the great sign, foretold, of thy appearing-
Coming in clouds, while mortal men stand fearing-is
Show us, amid this smoke of battle clearing,
Thy chariot nearing!

2 P.M.-Stocks buoyant, the news of the taking of

two blacksmiths' shops and a buggy, by eight members of Banks's cavalry, having infused fresh confidence into

the market.

2.30 P.M.-A rain has just commenced. Stocks lower, as operators fear the rain may carry away the James River; 7 30s declined 14 per cent since the shower commenced.

YE BALLADE OF MANS. LOVELL.

Mans. Lovell he mounted his General's steed,
All on the New-Orleans levee;

And he heard the guns of old Cockee But-ler,
A sounding all over the sea-sea-sea-
A-sounding all over the sea!

"Oh! what shall I do?" Mans. Lovell he said-
"Oh! what shall I do?" said he;
"For this Butler's an old Massachusetts man,
And he'll hang up a traitor like me-me-me-
He'll hang up a traitor like me!

Mans. Lovell he called for a brandy cock-tail,
And galloped from off the levee;
And he vamosed New-Orleans, betwixt two days,
As fast as his steed could flee-flee-flee--
As fast as his steed could flee!

O Mansfield Lovell! you left New-York,
A rebel and traitor to be;

But, if ever you're caught by Cockee But-ler,
Look out for your precious bod-ee--dee--dee--
Look out for your precious bod-ee!

THE PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT'S LIFE.-For a long time it was believed that an Italian barber of this city was the Orsini who undertook to slay President Lincoln on his journey to the capital in February, 1861, and it is possible he was one of the plotters; but it has come out on a recent trial of a man named Byrne in Richmond, that he was the captain of the band that was to take the life of Mr. Lincoln. This Byrne used to be a notorious gambler of Baltimore, and emigrated to Richmond shortly after the nineteenth of April, of bloody memory. He was recently arrested in Jeff Davis's capital on a charge of keeping a gamblinghouse and of disloyalty to the chief traitor's pretended government. Wigfall testified to Byrne's loyalty to the rebel cause, and gave in evidence that Byrne was the captain of the gang who were to kill Mr. Lincoln, and upon this evidence, it appears, he was let go. Providence Journal, April 4.

THE negroes of Colonel L. A. Jordan, of Georgia, hearing that he had a company on the coast named after him, made with their own hands, and presented through their master to Lieutenant Moffett, of the Jordan Greys, seventy-six pair of socks, part wool and part cotton. - Memphis Appeal and Norfolk Day Book, April 2.

said what they would do if attacked. Now comes the
"fun." About five o'clock the carriage is seen com-
ing up the hill, and when nearly opposite the flag, two
of our citizens walked out into the middle of the street
and gave the command, "Halt," which was promptly
obeyed. The next command was: "Salute that flag."
After an excuse or two about a "bad cold," and "how
salute it?" they gave a weak "cheer." The answer
was,
"That won't do; a little louder !" and the second
time their voices raised considerable; but "louder
yet" was commanded, and the third time they gave a
mighty good proof of strong lungs. They were then
ordered to curse Secessionism, and they did so, after
which they were allowed to pass on, wiser, if not better
men.--Banner of Liberty, March 24.

April 1.-At Charleston, South-Carolina, the fall of Newbern created the greatest consternation. The fireeaters ridiculed the North-Carolina troops, charging them with cowardice. The shopkeepers and bakers of Charleston also refused to receive North-Carolina money, and there being two North-Carolina regiments there at the time, a revolt was the consequence, and the shops were broken open and the troops helped themselves. These regiments refused to serve any longer, and were allowed to return home.-Baltimore American, April 2.

A PENNSYLVANIA REBEL.-Among the rebels taken at Winchester was Lieutenant George C. Junkin, a native of this State, and a son of Rev. D. X. Junkin, a Presbyterian minister. Dr. Junkin was a resident of Hollidaysburgh, in this State, for some eight or nine years, and was appointed a chaplain in the navy in 1858 by President Buchanan now holds, and is stationed at Newport, Rhode Island. -a position which he He was among the first to join the rebel army, and re

ceived a lieutenant's commission. As soon as the father heard it, he secured the necessary documents, both from the powers at Washington and the rebel powers at Richmond, with which he proceeded to Harper's Ferry, and used every exertion to induce his son to resign and go North with him. This George refused to do under any consideration, and the loyal father fate. It is a singular coïncidence that in the first battle was compelled to disown him and leave him to his in which he was engaged after Bull Run, that he was compelled to face and fight against many of his old friends and acquaintances from Hollidaysburgh and vicinity, who were in the Eighty-fourth regiment. Immediately after his capture his father applied for his release, and at his instance the young rebel has since been discharged.—Pittsburgh (Pa.) Chronicle.

ENERGY OF YANKEE SOLDIERS.-A party of rebel soldiers went up from Fort Macon and destroyed the most important bridge upon the railroad-that across the creek near Lucknow, or Newport station, eight miles below Havelock. The object was evidently to prevent the advance of the Union forces eastward, to LIBERTYTOWN, MD., March 24. -On Thursday of Morehead City and Beaufort. On the Sunday followlast week four young men of the city of Frederick ing Major Wright, in command of the Fifth Rhode Iscame to the good old town of Liberty, and whilst pass-land, arrived at the bridge, and, after examining its coning the Stars and Stripes floating from a pole at the dition, reported to Generals Parke and Burnside, when west end of the town, took occasion, we are told, to curse the latter ordered the immediate reconstruction of the that time-honored emblem, and say something about bridge. Major Wright, who is one of the most thotaking it down. Hearing, however, that they would be rough civil engineers connected with the expedition, called to account for their rebellious acts, they loaded and a practical mechanic, was charged with the execu their pistols before leaving the hotel, we are told, and tion of the order, and Captain M. D. Field, with a party

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of mechanics, were detailed to coöperate. A number of colored mechanics, picked up in the neighborhood, were also brought into use. The bridge was a truss structure of one hundred and ninety feet span, and cost nearly one hundred thousand dollars. Five weeks would have been allowed to build such a work, with all the materials at hand for the purpose. It required two days to remove the debris of the old wreck. commenced work on Monday morning. An old secession fort near the place furnished timber, and the iron rods were cut up into fastenings to secure the upright supports upon the old posts. On Friday evening the track was complete over the creek, and on Saturday every thing was ready for a train of fifty tons' weight to pass over.-Baltimore American, April 11.

A YANKEE MILLWRIGHT.-Captain Arnold, of company E, Rhode Island Fourth regiment, after the battle of the fourteenth, was ordered to take possession of the cross-roads at Havelock station. Near this place he came upon a large and valuable property, in the shape of a corn and flour-mill, combined with a saw mill, belonging to Dr. Master, of Newbern. He found the place deserted, and the machinery purposely thrown out of gear to prevent its use by the Yankees. The turbine wheel had wedges and clogs placed in it, so that it would be both difficult and dangerous to attempt to start the mill. Being a practical mechanic, and withal possessing some experience in the management of mills, Captain Arnold immediately discovered "what was the matter with the mill." He drew down the pond, came to the seat of the difficulty, repaired damages, and in a few hours the mill was jogging along as good as new, doing good service in the cause of the Union by grinding corn-meal for the use of the troops. After it had been restored, a person, claiming to be an agent of the Doctor, made his appearance, when every thing being made satisfactory, the premises were gracefully turned over to him without any charges for repairs.-Baltimore American, April 11.

"GOD IS A UNION MAN."

An article from the Louisville Journal contains the following paragraph:

"There is a retribution in the glorious victories which grace our Heaven inspired cause. When the Union troops marched through one of our towns with the beaming Stars and Stripes waving over them, a beautiful rainbow (a bow of promise, let us hope-a covenant of honorable peace) appeared in the heavens. A little boy, perceiving it, ran to his mother, exclaiming : 'Mother, God is a Union man! His mother asked him his reasons for thinking so. He replied that he had seen his flag in the sky, and it was red, white, and blue! Every soldier in arms, and every patriot who loves the land he lives in, feels that God is a Union man, for this nation has been his peculiar care, and its people have been his people. The Union troops, then, are God's soldiers, fighting for the right and for the truth. Let them go on, then, conquering and to conquer. Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just,' and what cause so just as that which wars for the preservation of our Union, reared by patriot prayers and patriot blood?"

The beautiful incident immediately suggested the following impromptu lines:

The soldier's tread, as he marched along,
Kept time to the patriot's Union song,

As the nation's banner he waved;

From window and door the crowd looked forth
To see the brave of the loyal North,

And they shouted: "The State will be saved !"

The sun looked down from his throne above
And he seemed to say, with a glow of love-
Bright, bright be the path of the true;

Away, away to the field of blood!
You march in a cause both wise and good,

To the tune of 'The Red, White, and Blue."" The clouds as they sped in their noiseless path, Responsively shouted, but not in wrath,

All hail to the brave Union boys!
And the tears of joy they shed on their way,
And their echoing thunders seemed to say,
We share in your valorous joys.

They paused in their flight, and in glory arrayed,
A beauteous bow as a banner displayed,
Which augured the conquest of peace.
O mother! exclaimed a bright boy as he ran,
Our God whom we serve is a Union man!
And the Union can never cease.

My patriot boy! why, why think you so?
The rebels all boast that Jehovah doth know

Their cause is the right and the true!
But mother, I've seen, as the soldiers passed by,
God's banner afloat o'er their heads in the sky;

That flag of "the Red, White, and Blue !” Oh! God's for the Union! rebellion he'll crush, And the tumult of war he will speedily hush, And our banner in triumph be waved O'er the East and the West, o'er the North and the South;

And He in his mercy will fill every mouth

With shoutings-Jehovah hath saved!

His bow in the clouds is his banner on high,
Its promise is peace, and rebellion shall die,

The Union be stronger than ever!
No treason at home, nor proud envy abroad,
Shall sunder in madness one strand of the cord
That binds us in Union-No, NEVER! C.

OUR MOUNTAIN SOLDIERS.

BY MARION DOUGLAS.
Hurrah! hurrah! let traitor hearts
And traitor hands be wary;
Our country calls her eagle down,
From off her mountain eyry!

As chainless as the streams that leap,
Amid their granite ledges;
As hardy as the pines that spring
Around their mountain edges,

They come, the heroes of the North!
In all their gallant daring;
The trusty bayonet and gun,
The starry banner bearing.

A's bright, as when its beauty nerved
Our fathers' hearts of iron;
As when, before its burning stars
Fled back the British Lion!

What if, with hands unused to hold The musket or the sabre,

They looked for calmer scenes of toil,

And humble fields of labor.

The simple garb of peaceful life

No coward spirits wore it;

The wind, that stirs the corn, may rise And drive the clouds before it.

Their country's sword! no quiet joys
Could tempt them to refuse it!
The deathless courage in their hearts
Shall teach them how to use it.

They leave not, conscript-like, their homes,
All dreary and benighted;

The fire, that glows within their hearts,
Was at their hearth-stones lighted!

The fairest scenes, the dearest eyes-
They manfully resigned them;

Their parting words, though brief and sad,
Left prouder friends behind them.

And not unblessed they come; their brows
Were kissed by saintly mothers;
Fond wives will for their husbands pray,
And sisters for their brothers.

Then speed them forward! they shall write
Our country's proudest story—
Or, if they die, their falling place
Will be the field of glory!
Hurrah! hurrah! let traitor hearts
And traitor hands be wary;
Our country calls her eagle down,
From off her mountain eyry.

BRAVE BOYS ARE THEY.
Heavily falls the rain,

Wild are the breezes to-night;
But 'neath the roof, the hours as they fly
Are happy, and calm, and bright.
Gathering round our fire-side,

Though it be summer time,

We sit and talk of brothers abroad,
Forgetting the midnight chime.
CHORUS. Brave boys are they!

Gone at their country's call;
And yet, and yet, we cannot forget
That many brave boys must fall.

Under the homestead roof

Nestled so cozy and warm,

While soldiers sleep, with little or naught
To shelter them from the storm,
Resting on grassy couches,

Pillowed on hillocks damp;

Of martial fare, how little we know,
Till brothers are in the camp.

Thinking no less of them,

Loving our country the more,

We sent them forth to fight for the flag
Their fathers before them bore.

Though the great tear-drops started,

This was our parting trust:

God bless you, boys! we'll welcome you home,
When rebels are in the dust.

May the bright wings of love

Guard them wherever they roam;

The time has come when brothers must fight,
And sisters must pray at home.

Oh! the dread field of battle!

Soon to be strewn with graves!

If brothers fall, then bury them where
Our banner in triumph waves.
CHORUS.-Brave boys are they!

Gone at their country's call;
And yet, and yet, we cannot forget
That many brave boys must fall.

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Should fall flat to adore an American Ram?

There have always been Rams! Father Adam, we know,

Found some Rams in his garden a long time ago:
In the raising of Rams Abel took much delight;
And a Ram was concerned in the very first fight-
And the first Ram afloat, we may further remark,
Was the Ram which old Noah took into the Ark!

Then, it seems, there were Rams which were tied up in stalls,

Driven out to do battle by butting down walls-
Alexander, Marcellus, and Sylla, we find,
Had a great many Rams of this desperate kind,
And when Titus encamped 'mid Jerusalem's palms,
It is said that the Hebrews saw nothing but Rams!
After these there came Rams not inclining to fights-
Rams resembling good Joshua's Gibeonites,
Which were "drawers of water"-Hydraulic Rams-
Quite domestic, and commonly found with their dams!
May such Rams still continue to thrive and increase
With the limitless Ram-ifications of peace!

Thus, we Ram-ble along through the cycles of Time,
Finding History's Ram-page is rather sublime!
But the Ram of all Rams is the Ram of our day,
Which is shaking the world with a Ram-pant dismay!
Iron-harnessed, steam-driven, it sweeps o'er the sea-
Our American Ram-part!—the shield of the free!

SAYS PRIVATE MAGUIRE.

BY T. B. ALDRICH.

I must beg the pardon of Private Maguire of the New-York regiment for thus publicly putting his sentiments into verse. The following lyric will assure him that I have not forgotten how generously he shared his scanty blanket with me, one terrible night in the Virginia woods, when a blanket was worth fifty dollars an inch.

"Och! it is nate to be captain or colonel,

Divil a bit would I want to be higher,
But to rust as a private I think's an infernal
Predicament surely," says Private Maguire.
"They can go sparkin' and playin' at billiards,

With money to spend for their slightest desire; Loafin', and atin', and dhrinkin' at Williard's,

While we're on the pickets," says Private Maguire.

"Livin' in clover, they think it's a thrifle

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"Oh! now, for a row!-but Maguire be aisy,
Keep yourself sweet for the inimy's fire,
McClellan's the saplin' that shortly will plaze ye,
Be the holy St. Pathrick!" says Private Maguire.
"And, lad, if you're hit, (Oh! bedad, that infernal
Jimmy O'Dowd would make up to Maria !)
Whether ye're captain or major or colonel,
Ye'll die with the best, then !" says Private Maguire.

THE UNRETURNING BRAVE.

BY JOSEPHINE WILLIAMSON.

How many reeking swords have found a sheath
Within the hearts of our bold, fallen braves;
How many forms now claim beneath

The sods of alien States a warrior's grave.
Early they've mingled with their parent dust-
Fulfilled the promise to their fathers made.
To uphold Freedom was their trust,

With traitor's blood they've stained their swords'
bright blade.

They waved their glistering falchions in the air,
They soaked the sods of earth in human gore-
Poured out their life's libation then and there,

And pierced bold treason to its heart's deep core.
The same great God still reigns in heaven above

That reigned when all earth's victories have been
won;

His grace doth still extend both peace and love,
As in the days of our own WASHINGTON.
Oh! for the words to curse this Union's foe,
Whose blighting hand on happiness is laid;
May peace and freedom now give place to woe,
And each black heart see all its fond hopes fade.
May all earth's joys but mock their eager sight,

Be phantoms which dissolve themselves in air;
May they through blackened darkness see the light,
Which cannot burst upon their souls' despair.
The fallen brave! they need no "sculptured stone"
To laud their fame throughout this nation wide-
Enshrined in loyal hearts their deeds alone

Shall be Columbia's boast, Columbia's pride.
Though Southern winds their solemn requiems sigh,
And Southern stars watch o'er their lonely graves;
Their souls have joined the army up on high,
With Christ who giveth victory to the brave.
NEWPORT, KY., April 24, 1862.

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Oh! yes, 'twill be no thanks to you!
You never spoke one word,

Where heart and hands and all were due,
That I have ever heard-
One cheering word of sympathy,
One patriotic prayer,

One word of faith and hope, to be
A charm against despair.

"Twill be no thanks to you, good sir!
"Twill be no thanks to you,

When our troops come marching home from war;
The Red, the White, the Blue,

Still floating o'er them like a cloud

Of glory as they come,

While a nation's blessings, long and loud,
Shall shout their welcome home.

Yet you shall reap what they have sowed,
A country shall be yours;

For heroes' blood in streams has flowed,
A richness that endures.

Go, eat the fat and drink the sweet,
Bought by the brave and true,
And yet remember, as you eat,
It is no thanks to you!

THE STARS AND STRIPES.

Sung at the grand Union concert at the Assembly Rooms
Hanover street, given for the benefit of the National Union
Reading Rooms, April tenth, and repeated April nineteenth, 1862.
Rally round the flag, boys,
Give it to the breeze;
That's the banner we love,
On the land and seas.
Brave hearts are under it,
Let the traitors brag,
Gallant lads, fire away,
And fight for the flag.
Chorus-Their flag is but a rag,

Ours is the true one;
Up with the Stars and Stripes,
Down with the new one.
Raise then the banner high,

Ours is the true one;

Up with the Stars and Stripes,
Down with the new one.
Let our colors fly, boys,
Guard them day and night,
For victory is liberty

And God will bless the right.
Rally round the flag, boys,
Give it to the breeze,
That's the banner we love,
On the land and seas.
Brave hearts are under it,
Let the traitors brag,
Gallant lads, fire away,
And fight for the flag.

Floating high above us,
Glowing in the sun,
Speaking loud to all hearts

Of a freedom won.

Who dares to sully it,

Bought with precious blood?
Gallant lads will fight for it

Though ours should swell the flood.

Chorus-Their flag is but a rag,

Ours is the true one, etc.

-Baltimore American, April 23.

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