accents of expiring age. Thus shall survive and be perpetuated the American Union, and when it shall be proclaimed that time shall be no more, and the curtain shall fall, and the good shall be gathered to a more perfect Union, still may the destiny of our dear land recognize the

the Revolution-preserve it for its great ele- |
ments of good-preserve it in the sacred name
of liberty-preserve it for the faithful and de-
voted lovers of the Constitution in the rebel-
lious States--those who are persecuted for its
support, and are dying in its defence. Rebel-
lion can lay down its arms to Government-conception, that
Government cannot surrender to rebellion.

Give up the Union! "this fair and fertile plain to batten on that moor." Divide the Atlantic, so that its tides shall beat in sections, that some spurious Neptune may rule an ocean of his own! Draw a line upon the sun's disc,

"Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along,
And a voice, as of angels, enchantingly sung,
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,

The Queen of the World, and the child of the skies."

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that it may cast its beams upon earth in divi- BATTLE AT MONROE STATION, MO., sions! Let the moon, like Bottom in the play, show but half its face! Separate the constellation of the Pleiades, and sunder the bands of Orion! but retain THE UNION!

Give up the Union, with its glorious flag, its Stars and Stripes, full of proud and pleasing and honorable recollections, for the spurious invention with no antecedents, but the history of a violated Constitution and of lawless ambition! No! let us stand by the emblem of our fathers,

JULY 10, 1861.

THE following particulars of the affair at Monroe, being gathered from parties that were present, may be considered substantially correct. On Monday, Colonel Smith, hearing that the State troops, under General Harris, tion with a force of 500 men, to disperse them. were encamped near Florida, left Monroe StaAfter passing Florida, and when a short distance north of one of the fords of Salt River, on the other side of which the State troops were encamped, his force was suddenly fired And all thy hues were born in Heaven." upon from the roadside by about 200 of Harris's command. At this spot there was an open field, Ask the Christian to exchange the cross, with lying to the right of the road, and about eighty the cherished memories of a Saviour's love, for yards in width. The State troops, who were the crescent of the impostor, or to address his a mounted scouting party, had left their horses prayers to the Juggernaut or Josh, instead of a short distance back in the woods, and fired the living and true God! but sustain the em-in ambush from the opposite side of the field. blem your fathers loved and cherished.

"Flag of the free hearts, hope, and home,
By angel hands to valor giver,
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome

The only person injured by the fire was Capt. McAllister, of the 16th Illinois Regiment, who was mortally wounded. The Federal forces returned the fire without effect, and retired to Monroe Station to await reënforcements, the balance of Harris's command having crossed the ford and commenced a system of guerilla warfare. After retreating a few miles, the Federal forces encamped until the next day, when they again retired toward Monroe Station. A short skirmish was here engaged in, without loss to either side. In the mean time, no guard having been left at Monroe, Capt. Owen entered the place with about 200 of the State forces, and

Give up the Union? NEVER! The Union shall endure, and its praises shall be heard when its friends and its foes, those who support, and those who assail, those who bare their bosoms in its defence, and those who aim their daggers at its heart, shall all sleep in the dust together. Its name shall be heard with veneration amid the roar of Pacific's waves, away upon the rivers of the North and East, where liberty is divided from monarchy, and be wafted in gentle breezes upon the Rio Grande. It shall rustle in the harvest, and wave in the standing corn, on the extended prairies of the West, and be heard in the bleat-burned the depot and some cars. ing folds and lowing herds upon a thousand hills. It shall be with those who delve in mines, and shall hum in the manufactories of New England, and in the cotton gins of the South. It shall be proclaimed by the Stars and Stripes in every sea of earth, as the American Union, one and indivisible; upon the great thoroughfares, wherever steam drives and engines throb and shriek, its greatness and perpetuity shall be hailed with gladness. It shall be lisped in the earliest words, and ring in the merry voices of childhood, and swell to Heaven upon the song of maidens. It shall live in the stern resolve of manhood, and rise to the mercyseat upon woman's gentle availing prayer. Holy men shall invoke its perpetuity at the altars of religion, and it shall be whispered in the last

The officers on the Hannibal and St. Joseph road report thirteen passenger and seventeen freight cars destroyed, and another station-house burned a short distance from Monroe. Col. Smith, as soon as he reached the latter place, threw his entire force into a large building used as an academy. Harris's command, some 2,500 in number, surrounded him and brought two six-pound cannon to bear on the building. Owing to the distance at which they were placed and the unskilful working, they did no

execution.

During the constant interchange of shots that took place, two men, not connected with either side, but residents of Monroe, were killed. The

name of one was Hotchkiss.

-St. Louis Republican, July 13.

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THE BATTLE AT CARTHAGE, MO.
COLONEL SIEGEL'S OFFICIAL REPORT.
HEAD-QUARTERS COLONEL SIEGEL'S COMMAND,
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 11, 1861.

To Brigadier-General Sweeny, Commander South-
west Expedition:
HAVING arrived with my command in Sar-
coxie, twenty-two miles from Neosho, on Fri-
day, the 28th ult., at five o'clock P. M., I learn-
ed that a body of troops under General Price,
numbering from eight to nine hundred, were
encamped near Pool's Prairie, which is about
six miles south of Neosho. I also learned that
Jackson's troops, under the command of Par-
sons, had encamped fifteen miles north of La-
mar, on Thursday the 27th, and that they had
received the first intimation of the United States
troops in Springfield being on their march to
the West. Concerning Rains' troops, it was
reported to me that they had passed Papins-
ville, on Thursday evening the 27th, and were
one day's march behind Jackson on the 28th.
I at once resolved to march on the body of
troops encamped at Pool's Prairie, and then,
turning north, to attack Jackson and Rains,
and open a line of communication with Gen.
Lyon, who, it was reported, had had a fight
on the 28th ult. on the banks of Little Osage
River, near Ball's Mills, about fifteen miles north
of Nevada City.

I will remark, in passing, that I had sent several scouts in the direction of Ball's Mills, but only one of them returned, and he had no reliable news.

coxie. I also ordered Captain Conrad, of Company B, (Rifle Battalion, Third Regiment,) to remain in Neosho, in order to afford protection to Union-loving citizens against the secession hordes, and if necessary, to retreat to Sarcoxie. Company H, Captain Indest, was one of the two companies which I had sent to Grand Falls. It had not returned when the battle commenced.

On the evening of the 4th of July, our troops, after a march of twenty miles, encamped southeast of Carthage, close by Spring River. I was by this time pretty certain that Jackson, with four thousand men, was about nine miles distant from us, as his scouts were seen in large numbers coming over the great plateau as far as the country north of Carthage, and conducted their explorations almost under our very eyes.

The troops under my command who participated in the engagement on the 5th of July, were as follows: Nine companies of the Third Regiment-in all, five hundred and fifty men; seven companies of the Fifth Regiment, numbering four hundred men; two batteries of artillery, each consisting of four field-pieces.

With these troops, I slowly advanced upon the enemy. Our skirmishers chased before them numerous bands of mounted riflemen, whose object it was to observe our march. Our baggage train followed us, about three miles in the rear.

After having passed Dry Fork Creek, six miles beyond Carthage, and advanced another three miles, we found the enemy drawn up in battle array, on an elevation which rises by gradual ascents from the creek, and is about Scarcely had our troops left Sarcoxie, on the one and a half miles distant. The front of the morning of the 29th, when I received news that enemy consisted of three regiments, deployed the camp in Pool's Prairie had been broken up into line and stationed with proper intervals of the same morning, and the troops had fled to space. The two regiments forming the wings Elk Mills, thirty miles south of Neosho, in the consisted of cavalry. The centre was composed direction of Camp Walker, near Maysville, of infantry, cavalry and two field-pieces. Sevwhich place is not far distant from the south-eral other pieces were posted at the right and western extremity of the State. It now be came my duty to direct my whole attention to the hostile forces north of me. Supposing that they would try to make their way into Arkansas, I ordered a detachment of two companies, with two field-pieces, under command of Captain Grone, to proceed to Cedar Creek and Grand Falls, in order to occupy the road and collect whatever news they could concerning the movements of the enemy.

I furthermore ordered the battalion under Colonel Solomon, just then under march from Mount Vernon to Sarcoxie, to join the force under my command in Neosho, by forced marches.

As soon as this battalion had arrived and our troops were sufficiently prepared for the movement, I sent them from Neosho and Grand Falls to Diamond Grove, (seven miles south of Carthage,) where they arrived about noon, advancing in a northerly direction. I ordered one company, under Captain Hackmann, to make a forward movement from Mount Vernon to Sar

left wings. The whole number of troops which thus came to our view may be computed at two thousand five hundred, not including a powerful reserve which was kept in the rear.

My rear guard being already engaged, I sent two cannon, together with two companies of the Third Regiment, for its support. Another cannon and a company of the Third Regiment I ordered to a position behind the creek, so as to afford protection to our baggage and the troops in the rear against the movements of the cavalry. The remainder of our troops I formed in the following manner:

On the left the second battalion of the Third Regiment, under command of Major Bischoff, in solid column with four cannon. In the centre the Fifth Regiment in two separate battalions, under Col. Salomon and Lieut.-Col. Wolff. On the right, three cannon under command of Capt. Essig, supported by the first battalion Third Regiment, under Lieut.-Col. Hassendeubel.

Having made these dispositions, and advanc

ed a few hundred paces, I commanded Major | of Col. Salomon and Lt.-Col. Wolff, in solid colBackof to open fire upon the enemy with all the umn. Lt.-Col. Wolff, seconding my movement seven field-pieces. The fire was promptly an- with his accustomed ability, formed three comswered. I soon perceived that the two mount-panies of the first battalion, Third Regiment, ed regiments of the rebel army made preparations to circumvent our two wings. They made a flanking movement, and, describing a wide semicircle, caused a large interval of space to be left between them and the centre. I forthwith ordered the whole fire of our artillery to be directed against the right centre of the enemy, which had the effect in a short time of considerably weakening the fire of the rebels at this point.

I now formed a chain of skirmishers between our cannon, ordering two of Capt. Essig's pieces from the right to the left wing, and gave my officers and men to understand that it was my intention to gain the height by advancing with my left wing, and taking position on the right flank of the centre of the enemy.

At this critical moment Capt. Wilkins, commander of one of our two batteries, declared that he could not advance for want of ammunition. No time was to be lost, as part of our troops were already engaged with the hostile cavalry at the extreme right and left, and as it seemed to me of very doubtful expediency to advance with the remainder without due support of artillery. The moral effect which the hostile cavalry made in our rear could not be denied, although the real danger was not great. The threatening loss of our entire baggage was another consideration not to be overlooked. I therefore, with great reluctance, ordered part of the detachment at Dry Fork Creek back, while Lieutenant-Colonel Hassendeubel, with the first battalion of the Third Regiment and a battalion of the Fifth Regiment, under Lieut.Col. Wolff, followed by four cannon of Wilkens's battery, proceeded to the baggage train in order to protect it against the meditated attack.

into line, and made them take up marching line against the cavalry in front of the baggage. Behind these troops and the baggage, Lieut. Schrickel, with a portion of the first battery of artillery and two companies, took a precautionary position in view of that part of the enemy coming in the direction of Dry Fork.

After the firing of one round by our whole line, our infantry charged upon the enemy at double quick and routed him completely. His flight was accompanied by the deafening shouts of our little army.

The troops and baggage train now crossed the creek undisturbed, and ascended the heights which command Carthage from the north, this side of Spring River. Here the enemy again took position. His centre slowly advanced upon us, while his cavalry came upon us with great rapidity, in order to circumvent our two wings and gain the Springfield road. Deeming it of the utmost importance to keep open my communication with Mount Vernon and Springfield, I ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Wolff with two pieces of artillery (Lieut. Schaeffer, of the second battery) to pass through Carthage, and occupy the eastern heights on the Sarcoxie road. Capt. Cramer, with two companies, (In|dest and Tois,) was ordered to follow him, in order to protect the western part of the city against a hostile movement in this direction. Our rear took possession of the city, in order to give the rest of the troops time for rest, as they had marched 22 miles on the 4th, and 18 miles more during the day, exposed to a burning sun, and almost without any thing to eat or drink. The enemy, in the mean time, derived great advantage from his cavalry, being able to cross Spring River at various places, scatter on all sides through the woods, and harass our troops almost unintermittingly.

I therefore ordered a retreat toward Sarcoxie, under cover of both artillery and infantry. We first took position on the heights beyond Carthage, and then again at the entrance of the Sarcoxie road into the woods, about two and a half miles south-east of Carthage. From the latter place our troops advanced unmolest

The enemy slowly followed us to Dry Fork. Capt. Essig's battery had taken position behind the ford, assisted by Captain Stephany's company (Fifth Regiment) on the left, and two companies of the Third Regiment, Captains Golmer and Denzler on the right, while at the same time two companies of the Fifth (Captains Stark and Meissner) stood as a reserve behind the wings. At this point it was where the aforesaid companies and battery made suc-ed as far as Sarcoxie. cessful resistance to the entire force of the enemy for two hours, and caused him the heaviest losses. By that time two rebel flags had been shot out of sight, each act being accompanied by the triumphant shouts of the United States volunteers. In the mean time the two cavalry regiments had completely surrounded us and formed a line against our rear.

They had posted themselves close by a little creek, called Buck Branch, over which we had to pass. In order to meet them, I abandoned my position at Dry Fork, and ordered two pieces to the right, and two to the left of our reserve and baggage, supported by the detachments

Our whole loss in this engagement amounts to thirteen dead and thirty-one wounded, among whom is Captain Strodtman, Company E, Third Regiment, and Lieutenant Bischoff, of Company B, same regiment. The first battery lost nine horses; the third one (Major Bischoff's) and one baggage wagon had to be left behind, in Carthage, for want of horses to pull it away.

According to reliable accounts, the loss of the enemy cannot have been less than from three hundred and fifty to four hundred men. One of their field-pieces was dismounted and another exploded.

On the other hand, it affords me intense pleasure to be able to say, in justice to the officers and men under my command, that they. fought with the greatest skill and bravery. Although threatened more than once on the flank and in the rear by powerful detachments of cavalry, and attacked in front by an overwhemingly disproportionate force, they conducted themselves like veterans, and defended one position after another without a man swerv-with, with sand. They left the bay at 9 o'clock ing from his place.

Having arrived at the island, Captain Myers | acknowledged and obeyed by all. God, in his proceeded at once in his yawl, with Major providence, and for our sins, may in his inscruSmith, with a load of shell and powder, being table wisdom, suffer the folly and wickedness received with cheers by Captain Thom, of the of this generation to destroy the fairest, noblest C. S. marines, and the sailors and soldiers, who fabric of constitutional freedom ever erected at once carried the supplies to the batteries. by man. Its whole history, from the first The enemy had tired some thirty odd rounds of moment of its operation even to the present shell and round shot, which sank in the sand, hour, bears evidence of its unrivalled exceland were used by our gallant sailors in return-lence. Our country, our whole country has, ing fire. The explosion of the enemy's shells did no other damage than slightly to injure one man in the leg.

from the first, prospered under it, and because of it, with a rapidity, and in a manner, before or since, unknown to the nations. That prosperity vindicates the wisdom and patriotism of its good and great founders. Is this prosperity now to cease? Is it now to be dashed to the earth? Are the hopes of civilized man, the become the jest, the scorn, the detestation of the people of the earth? Are all memory and reverence for the great dead, whom living we admired and adored, to be now forgotten? Is all gratitude for the mighty, trying struggles of our fathers now to end? Are the warnings, the parting warnings of the peerless man of all this world now to be disregarded and despised? Is the country of Washington, consecrated by his valor, wisdom, and virtue to freedom and peace, now to be converted into a wild scene of disorder, fraternal strife, bloodshed, war? May Heaven in its mercy forbid! May it stay the arm of the madman, arrest it in mid-career before it strikes the fatal, parricidal blow. May it give time for reason and patriotism to After taking possession of the island, Captain resume their sway! May it remove the deluHiggins detailed the following officers, with sions of the misguided, strengthen the efforts the marines and sailors, to hold and defend it: of the patriotic, impart heavenly fire to the Lieutenant Warley, commanding; Lieutenant eloquence of the faithful statesman; silence, Thom, of the marines; Surgeon Lynch, and by the universal voice of the good and true the midshipmen. After the enemy had retired, men of the nation, the utterings of treason now the steamer Swaim arrived with Lieutenant- tainting the air and shocking the ear of patriotColonel H. W. Allen, of the Fourth Regiment, ism, and the whinings of imbecility now disfrom Mississippi City, with three companies. couraging and sickening the honest public Major Smith is now in command, fortifying the heart! May it, above all, rekindle that fraterisland, and a larger force may shortly be ex-nal love which bound us together by ties pected. So much for our first naval brush with the enemy, in which it is but just to say that our officers and men all acted with the greatest spirit and gallantry.

The steamers immediately commenced landing their guns and provisions, during which time the enemy again opened fire, the shot falling short, but being returned with great effect. It is supposed the attacking steamer, the Mas-world over, now to be blasted? Are we to sachusetts, was hulled three times, and a shell was seen to explode over her decks, which, it is presumed, did great damage, as she immediately hauled off, and put for the Chandeleur Islands, a distance of twelve miles from our batteries. Great credit is due to Major-General Twiggs and Captain Higgins for the expeditious and prompt manner in which this island has been fortified and defended.

The following is a list of the officers who were attached to this expedition: Captain E. Iliggins, commanding; Lieutenants Warley, Thom, and Dunnington; Surgeon Lynch; Purser Semple; Midshipmen Reid, Stone, Comstock, Dalton, and Robey, with 65 sailors and 85 marines.

-N. O. Picayune, July 19.

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REMARKS OF REVERDY JOHNSON,

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Ar the conclusion of his argument in an important case before this court, in December, 1860, Mr. Johnson spoke as follows in impressive reference to passing events and in just tribute to the historical place which, in any event, must be filled by the high tribunal before which he was called to plead :

May it please your honors, indulge me with a word or two more before I conclude.

This may be the last time that this Court will sit in peaceful judgment on a Constitution

stronger, infinitely stronger, than any which mere Government can create, during the whole of our Revolutionary struggle, and has since cheered us on in our pathway to the power and renown which have made us, until now, the wonder and admiration of the world!

But if all shall fail us and ruin come; if chaos, worse than chaos, is to be our fate, the spirits of those who have departed, and the survivors who have administered justice in this tribunal, in the general wreck and wretchedness that will ensue, will be left this consolation: that their recorded judgments, now, thank God, the rich inheritance of the world, and beyond the spoiler's reach, will, till time shall be no more, testify to the spotless integrity, the unsurpassed wisdom, the ever-bright patriotism of the men who from the first have served their country in this temple, sacred to justice and duty, and to the matchless wisdom of our fathers, who bequeathed it and commended it to the perpetual reverence and support of their