་ They gather they gather! true-hearted and brave! The cattle are grazing beneath the green shade, Is lost in the current of martial reviews; The veteran warrior doth buckle once more The falchion which flashed through the battle of yore, With sons and with grandsons, yes! all for the foe, Then haste to the rescue, ye patriot sons, They've roused the old lion, Scott, out of his lair; They gather they gather! &c. Our country is calling; wake, sons of the true! Yet pause in your songs, let the banners float low, Half-mast o'er the turf, while a nation's tears flow! As young Zouaves in the soil which he loved make a grave For their golden-souled leader-young Ellsworth the brave. When bearing the olive of freedom and peace, name. "LAURA, LAURA, DON'T SECEDE." Kiss me, Laura, ere I go, Arm'd and drill'd, to meet the foe; When on the tented field, perhaps, Cling unto thy mother, dear; Good-bye, Laura! No regrets From "broils and battles "-(boils, I mean; When badly seasoned, than the bore Back to ease and thee will fly; -Washington Star, Aug. 22 CAMP SONG. BY CAPT. CHARLES WINTER. Written on receipt of the intelligence that the Massschusetts soldiers had been fired on in Baltimore, and the dead bodies kicked about the street. AIR-"Ye Parliaments of England.” We tell you, traitors of the South, You have made a war, unholy; You'll be sure to rue the day When you meet the Freemen of the North In battle's stern array! Go on with all your hellish work, curse all the nation's laws SIR:-Among the Washington telegraphic despatches of Defile the Constitution, each passage, and each this morning is the following: "WHY THE FORWARD MOVEMENT IS DELATED. "Army officers declare that it is impossible to make a decided forward movement until more wagons have ar rived. By the 15th of July the builders have contracted to furnish 1,000, and it is claimed that to march with a less number is simply out of the question." Seventy-seven days have elapsed since the nation sprang to arms at its chieftain's call, and yet those immortal geniuses whose sublime military plans we are forbidden to scrutinize are waiting for the wagon. This suggests a new version of the old song: WAIT FOR THE WAGON. I. A hundred thousand Northmen, Why give the traitors time and means With stolen guns, in ambuscades? CHORUS OF CHIEFTAINS. You must wait for the wagons, II. Now, if for army wagons, clause; Your race will be a short one, but remember on your trip, That the boys of the Crusader will ne'er the ship." 'give up We want to see your privateers-why don't you send them out? We'll treat them very civilly in the waters hereabout; But be sure and send a good fleet-we'll satisfy your mind How Yankee sailors always feel for traitors of your kind. Can't you send a dashing frigate, that will shine at every dip? The Crusader's boys are harmless, but they won't "give up the ship." Oh, do fit out some first-rate craft, so other folks may see How much you love Secession, Davis, Twiggs, and company; Be sure to roar, to rip and tear, and curse the Stripes and Stars, And brag about your battery built up of iron bars; But send along your privateers—we'll give the friendly grip, And, don't forget, the Crusader's boys will ne'er "give up the ship." We are anxiously awaiting to see your Commodore, And as we get acquainted, he'll think of us the more; crew; -who through a cloud, Not of war only, but detractions rude, Ho! sons of the Puritan ! sons of the Roundhead! The foe is advancing, the trumpet hath sounded— Who spake unto Gideon : But the New York Zouaves are going to take up And old Massachusetts' hills echo the burden: line; They want to see Montgomery, where things are done up fine. They'll spread the Stars and Stripes to view as onward forth they trip; Their vengeance will be terrible-they "don't give up the ship." "Sons of the Pure-in-heart, never give o'er! Though blood flow in rivers, and death be the guerdon, All the sharper your swords be-death welcome the more! Swear ye to sheathe your swords Not, till the heathen hordes On their craven knees breathe the words, 'The Lord's we restore!"" Then on to the battle-shock! and if in anguish, Gasping, and feeble-pulsed, low on the field, Struck down by the traitor's fell prowess ye languish, In Jehovah behold ye your Refuge and Shield! Or, if, in victory, Doubts shall come thick to ye, Trust in Him-He shall speak to ye Ho! sons of the Puritan ! sons of the Roundhead! Raise the old pennon's staff! Let the fierce cannons laugh, Till the votaries of Ammon's calf -Boston Transcript, July 3. COMPROMISE. Inscribed to the Congress of the United States, assembled in Extra Session, July 4, 1861. BY EDNA DEAN PROCTOR. Compromise! Who dares to speak it As we falter in the race! Face to face to meet the foe? Compromise is Treason's ally, Traitors' refuge, cowards' raid; All the wrongs that Justice suffers Flourish in its deadly shade. Compromise is base undoing Of the deeds our fathers wrought; They, for Right and Freedom suingWe, disdaining what they bought. No! By all the Mayflower's peril As he knelt with reverent knee; To the Roll of Freedom gave; By the tears, the march, the battle, Where the noble, fearless diedWild around the cannon's rattle, Waiting angels at their sideBy our children's golden future, By our fathers' stainless shield, That which God and heroes left us, We will never, never yield! VOL. II.-POETRY 9 Hear it! ye who sit in council, We, the People, tell you so! Will you venture "Yes" to whisper, When the millions thunder "No"? Will you sell the nation's birthright, Heritage of toil and pain, While a cry of shame and vengeance Compromise-then Separation- SIGNING THE VIRGINIA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION. -The hour for signing the ordinance of secession having arrived, the Secretary produced that glorious instrument, elegantly executed, and, spreading it out on the clerk's table, Mr. Janney, the Fresident, descended from his clair, and, with a dignity and firmness worthy of the noblest Roman, affixed his name, and returned to his seat. It was observed that Mr. Janney tried and rejected several pens before he was suited, evincing that he felt he was about to transmit his name to the latest posterity, and of course was desirous of impressing it on the parchment in the best style he could. All the members present came up as they were called by the Secretary, and affixed their names. Another report of the proceeding says:-In the course of calling the roll, several members who had voted against the ordinance of secession asked leave to say a few words in explanation of the reasons why they were now going to sign that instrument. The argument used by Mr. Armstrong was in effect the same that those who followed used; that is, that though he voted against the ordinance in Convention, he had voted for it at the polls, and would now sign it, because circumstances had transpired, in the action of the Federal Government, and in the overwhelming voice of the people of the State, which made it the duty of every patriot to stand by the State. Mr. Early and Mr. Woods, of Barbour, followed in the same strain in explanation of their course. Timothy Rives prefaced the act of signing the ordinance, by saying, that he had regarded secession as a revolutionary right, and he desired to put the word revolution against his signature. Many |