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Locked up in McHenry, she's safe, it is plain,
With Merryman, Habeas Corpus, and Kane.
And as for that crabbed old dotart, Judge Taney,
For much I would put him on board of the Pawnee,
And make his decisions a little more curt;
For the panic's fictitious, and nobody's hurt!

accordingly issued; but some of the more spunky of the secessionists would not hear to going home without having a fight, and, it having been ascertained that the report of the near approach of Gen. Lyon was false, the order to disband was rescinded—not, however, before many had taken advantage of the first order, and had left. Gen. Price being indisposed, (to fight, perhaps,) left for his residence up the Missouri River. During this entire day, and up to the very hour of the battle, men continued to arrive in companies, squads, and singly. Early Monday morning, it was ascertained that Gen. Lyon, who

And now I'll just say what I'd have you to do
In order to put your new President through;
First, four hundred millions is wanted by Chase,
He cannot run longer the Government's face;
And Cameron wants, for the use of old Scott,
Some three hundred thousand more men than he's came up the river in boats, was landing his forces,

got.

Then sixty new iron-plate ships to stand shells
Are loudly demanded (must have 'em) by Welles;
For England, the bully, won't stand our blockade,
And insists that we shall not embarrass her trade.
But who fears the British? I'll speedily tune 'em
As sure as my name is E Pluribus Unum,
For I am myself the whole United States,
Constitution, and Laws, (if you doubt it, ask Bates.)
The Star-Spangled Banner's my holiday shirt-
Hurrah for Abe Lincoln, there's nobody hurt!

-Baltimore "South."

THE BATTLE OF BOONEVILE.-The following statement of what occurred at Booneville may be relied on as strictly true. It was written by a citizen of Booneville who never states as truth what he doesn't know to be truth:

An account of the fruitless interview between Gov. Jackson and Gen. Price, commander-in-chief of the Missouri militia, on the one side, and Gen. Lyon and Col. Blair on the other, you have no doubt seen, as well as the proclamation of Gov. Jackson, calling for 50,000 State troops, which followed. Immediately after issuing the proclamation which named no point of rendezvous for the troops, steps were taken to move the military head-quarters, from the capital. Rumor named divers points as the future location of this department. The arrival, however, of a portion of the commander-in-chief's staff, followed by that of the commander-in-chief himself and workmen to put in operation the suspended foundry at this place, and to establish manufactories of munitions of war and military equipments, settled the question. Booneville, however, you will see, was destined to enjoy these honors for but a brief period.

On Friday morning, the 14th inst., messengers were sent in all directions urging those who had volunteered as "State Guards," as well as all armed citizens, to assemble forthwith, at this point. On the same day troops began to arrive, and an encampment was formed four and a half miles east of Booneville, on the bluffs on the south side of the Missouri River. The arrival of troops continued through Saturday and Sunday. On Monday morning, the 17th, at which time the battle occurred, there were in the camp probably 3,500 men. About 500 of these, only, could be said to be armed,-the remainder being furnished with the common squirrel rifle and shot gun. The officers' head-quarters were at Booneville, where most of the field-officers remained until their forces began a retreat. On Sunday morning the news came to head-quarters that Gen. Lyon, who commands the Federal forces in Missouri, was in sight. A hasty consultation between the Governor and his officers resulted in a determination to disband the State troops, and an order to disband was

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amounting to two thousand men, about two miles below the encampment. The State troops were called from their breakfast, of which many had not even tasted, to form and prepare for battle. the intention, it is supposed, of surprising Gen. Lyon in the confusion of disembarking, the State troops, many of whom were mounted, left their camp, and, in double-quick time, under the command of Col. Marmaduke, advanced to attack Gen. Lyon. But the Federal troops had already effected a landing and were marching upon the State camp, when the two armies met at a point less than half-way between the point of disembarkation and the encampment of the State troops. Some skirmishing took place previous to the actual engagement. This lasted about 20 minutes, a comparatively small number on either side having been actually engaged. The State troops retreated in the greatest confusion, abandoning their camp equipage, provisions, two iron six-pounders, quite a number of horses, guns, &c., all which, of course, fell into the hands of Gen. Lyon. The Federal troops took, in addition, about 40 prisoners, losing 2 killed, 11 wounded, and 1 missing. The State troops lost 3 killed and 7 wounded.

Gov. Jackson, with some officers and the only well drilled, and well-armed company under his command as a body guard, remained, during the battle, about three miles from the scene of action. Upon the first report of a retreat, he and those with him hastened to town, and, after a hasty, horseback consultation, left for parts unknown. It is supposed that he has filed to Arkansas. It is due to the State troops to state that they were wholly unprepared to contend with the men they had to face. They were hastily brought together; undrilled, for the most part unarmed, and wholly unofficered, they were compelled to fight each independent of the others. The Federal officers give them credit for bravery.

General Lyon, with his command, entered the town about 12 o'clock without any opposition whatever, establishing his head-quarters at the Fair Ground, and quartering Col. F. P. Blair's regiment in the Thespian Hall.

General Lyon came into our midst with considerable prejudice existing in the minds of many against him. He had been represented as being blood-thirsty and unscrupulous. His men had been represented as being a band of lawless hirelings-respecting neither the property nor rights of others; but this prejudice is broken down. The General's humanity to our wounded, who were left on the battle-field by their friends, his kindness to the prisoners, who were finally released on parole, the promptness with which he punished his men for little depredations committed on the property of men they regarded as enemies, the protection he extends to all, his accessibility and gentlemanly deportment to even rank secessionists, have made him many friends amongst those who

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RICHMOND, VA., June 24, 1861.

I left St. Louis on Wednesday evening last, the 19th inst. We had received authentic news from the battle fought at Booneville on the morning of the 17th inst. Gen. Lyon, in command of 5,000 Federal troops, left St. Louis on the 15th instant for Jefferson City; arrived on the 16th; took possession quietly without any resistance, where he left 2,000 of his troops, under command of Col. Boernstein, and he (Gen. Lyon) continued on to Booneville, 40 or 50 miles above Jefferson City. When arriving near Booneville, Gen. Price, in command of the 1,500 State troops at that place, made a partial retreat, taking 1,000 of them, with which he thus succeeded in decoying Lyon and all of his men on land, save a few hundred on board the Iatan. Gen. Price had masked batteries in a small skirt of woods, from which he opened a brisk cannonade immediately after Lyon drew his men up in line of battle, which resulted in the repulse of the Federal troops with a loss of 300 killed and 700 taken prisoners. Gen. Lyon himself was captured, and six pieces of cannon and 800 stand of arms. The steamer Iatan, with the few hundred who were left on board, was shot to pieces, and sunk into the river, the remainder, about 1,800 or 2,000, retreated to Jefferson City. All their boats were captured. Boernstein, who was in command at Jefferson City, immediately after their defeat telegraphed to F. P. Blair, Jr., who had command in St. Louis, to send up all the forces he could possibly spare. Upon receipt of the despatch he sent up 3,000 troops from St. Louis, the evening before I left.

Upon the reception of the news from Booneville, the secessionists in St. Louis turned out about 3,000 to 4,000 in number, greatly elated, and cheered for Jeff. Davis, Beauregard, and Gov. Jackson. They expected to make an attack upon the Dutch that night, who were under the command of Blair, at the Arsenal, and supposed to be about 3,000 in number. The battle of Kansas City took place on Monday morning, the 17th. Thirteen hundred Federal troops made an attack upon about that number of the State troops, under command of Captain Kelley. After a desperate fight the Federals were repulsed, leaving 200 dead on the field of battle, 150 taken prisoners, four pieces of cannon, &c. Loss of State troops, 45 killed and wounded.

I passed through Cairo on the night of the 19th; met with no difficulty, further than the inspection of my baggage. T. S. DAVIS. -Charleston Mercury.

C. S. A.-The above significant letters, says The Milwaukee Sentinel, having been discovered recently upon the closed doors of an individual known to have been largely interested in Southern business, his anxious creditors came to the conclusion that he

| had incontinently "sloped" for Secessia, until one of them chanced to meet him in the street. "Hallo!" says the creditor, "what are you doing here? I saw the placard on your door, C. S. A.-Confederate States of America." "Softly," replied the debtor, "that's not the way I translate it; C. S. A.-Can't settle accounts."

JEFF. DAVIS IS COMING, O! O! Air-" Campbells are Coming." Jeff. Davis is coming, O! O! When shall we see him, O! 0? When the river is rising? Oh, No! He will wait till the river is low.

And Johnston is coming, O! O!
Go get me a trumpet to blow-
His movements are dreadfully slow,
And when, if he comes, will he go?

Beauregard is coming, O! O!

On a charger as white as the snow
Col. Thing-a-mee gave him for show-
He will free us (of money) I know.

There they are, all three in a row,
Brave Johnston, and Jeff., and the Beau. ;
Will they wade, if the river is low?
Or wait till it ceases to flow?

-Baltimore American.

THE ANCESTRY OF GEN. BEAUREGARD.-When Col. Fremont became a kind of great man and was a candidate to the Presidency of the United States, the Canadians were loud in claiming the adventurous "Pathfinder of the Rocky Mountains" as a countryman of theirs. He was born in their country, said they, on the lovely banks of the Ottawa River, and Dr. Fremont, of Quebec University, is his uncle.

A few years later, when Garibaldi conquered the two Sicilies with a handful of Italian patriots, the Canadians were up once more, stating, with the most comical earnestness, that the Nicean hero was not a white man, but an Indian of mixed breed, born in one of the old parishes near the St. Lawrence, above Montreal, and who had been adopted in a tender age by a missionary, with whom he travelled in many countries, and finally settled in Nice. As a corroborating proof of this piece of startling intelligence, it was said the glorious old chief with the red shirt was keeping a regular correspondence with a brother of his, a savage, settled near the thriving little city of St. Hyacinthe.

Now that the name of Gen. Beauregard begins to be famous, he could not escape being dubbed a Canadian by our friends on the other side of the lakes.

"His grandfather," says one of the Montreal French papers, "was a Canadian. His name was Pierre Toutan, and he emigrated from Batiscan, in the district of Three Rivers, to New Orleans. There he made a great fortune in a very short time, and his influence over the French population of Louisiana became very great. As a reward for his political services he obtained his son's admission to the military academy of West Point, where the young cadet was entered under the name of Pierre G. Toutan. In the mean time, he bought, in the vicinity of New Orleans, an estate to which he gave the name of Beauregard, (fine sight.) When the son got his commission of

officer in the army, he half dropped his modest name of Toutan, to adopt the more aristocratic one of Beauregard, and henceforth signed Pierre Toutan de Beauregard."

Thus, we may see one day, two generals of alleged French Canadian extraction-Jean Charles Fremont and Pierre Toutan de Beauregard-at the head of powerful armies, one from the Northern States and the other from this Confederacy, contending with each other on the banks of the Potomac, or the Ohio, or the Mississippi, for the independence or the subjugation of this country.-N. O. Picayune, August 14.

THE following is a copy, verbatim et literatim, of the endorsement upon a copy of the postal laws, returned to the Postmaster General, at Washington, from Flat Rock, Georgia :"M blair

i returne this with my contemt ware i in rech of you i'd spitt in your fais for your empertenent presumption "p m flat Rock." -Washington Republican,

ABE LINCOLN ASSASSINATED!-ARREST OF THE AS

SASSIN-GREAT EXCITEMENT!

WASHINGTON, August 7, 10 A. M.-Abe Lincoln was shot through the heart last night, just as he was entering his carriage, after leaving his cabinet in consultation. The assassin, a Southerner, is now in the hands of the authorities. There is great excitement, and "On to Richmond!" is the cry.

LATER.—11 A. M.-Abe is still alive, but there is no chance for him to survive. The excitement here is great.

STILL LATER.-12 M.-Abe was wounded in the abdomen and not in the heart. His physician thinks he will recover. The excitement is abating.

LATER STILL.1 P. M.-It is now currently reported that Abe was only slightly wounded in the leg. No excitement.

THE LATEST.-2 P. M.-An investigation now proves that the bullet intended for Abe's heart missed its mark, and only killed one of his footmen. The people are returning to their business.

LATER STILL.-3. P. M.-Abe's footman was not killed, as reported, but badly wounded. He will

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"Let Gen. Bragg detail a few thousand of his ten thousand to the work of catching snakes, and as soon as they have collected several cartloads of these interesting reptiles, let tin or sheet-iron shell or canisters be charged with them-the enclosure being cylindrical and of size to fit the largest mortar, and so made that it will break to pieces, and liberate its contents upon falling within the fort. We would warn those who charge the shells to put only the same species into each, as if the different snakes were mixed they would sting each other to death before having a chance to operate on Billy Wilson's Zouaves. The corners and interstices in each shell

might be filled up with a few quarts of tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes, and lizards, however, to make close work, as the snakes would pack loosely."

LACONIC CORRESPONDENCE.-Soon after the passage of the Virginia Ordinance of Secession, Governor Letcher sent the following despatch to the Mayor of Wheeling : RICHMOND, April 20, 1861. "TO ANDREW SWEENEY, Mayor of Wheeling: "Take possession of the custom-house, post-office, all public buildings, and public documents, in the name of Virginia. Virginia has seceded. "JOHN LETCHER, Governor."

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Mayor Sweeney replied in the following laconic WHEELING, April 21, 1861"TO JOHN LETCHER, Governor of Virginia: "I have taken possession of the custom-house, post-office, and all public buildings and public documents, in the name of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, whose property they are.

"ANDREW SWEENEY, Mayor of Wheeling."

The correspondence here closed. Mayor Sweeney continued to hold possession of the Federal property until the organization of the new State Government at Wheeling. Governor Letcher made no further attempt to seduce him from his allegiance.-N. Y. Evening Post, July 3.

A TRUE HERO.-At the Vienna surprise, Daniel Sullivan, of the Ohio Volunteers, had his arm shattered by a ball. This was the brave boy who, when ordered to fall in, replied, "I wish I could," at the and carried back with the retreating force. He died same time showing his arm. Sullivan was taken up before leaving Alexandria, but his heroism was shown to the last. A handkerchief was bound upon his arm, near the shoulder, to check, in a measure, the flow of blood. This rude bandage Sullivan himself adjusted several times, tightening it to check the blood, and again loosening it when the pain became too great. While he was lying in this condition, some of his comrades approached, and one asked, "Dan, how do you feel?" "Boys," said the young hero, lifting with the other hand his shattered arm, Union still!" Poor Dan died very soon after, but and then laying it gently down, "Boys, I'm for the his last words will be a mighty power in the hearts

of his comrades.

THE FLAG DIVIDED.

Says Abe to Jeff., "A truce to wars,
Let's split the flag here o'er our pipes;
The North will take the glorious Stars,

The South may have the grievous Stripes."

THEY HANG AND BURN FOLKS.-A letter from a young lady at Evansville, Ind., dated May 5, contains a description of outrages committed by the Southern traitors. She says: For the last few days our city has been literally filled with deserters from the Southern army, and they are the happiest men alive. They are all for the Union, but had been forced into the Southern army. There were five of them, who came from Memphis Friday week; they were in father's store, and told him how they were treated; went South with several boatloads of tobacco for the purpose of selling it; there were 30 men in all, I believe; they were taken from their boats, and had to

choose between joining the Southern army or having all the hair shaved off their heads, having a number of lashes on their bare backs, and being put in prison for 30 days upon a diet of bread and water. Five of the men were true to the Union-the five who told this story; the others (25) joined the army, but intend to escape. The five men had all the hair shaved off their heads, and their backs were terribly mutilated. They escaped from prison and ran all the way to the river, and got aboard the boat which brought them hither.

Another young man, by the name of James, told father his story. He is a deserter. He said the secessionists tried to force him and four companions to join their army. Three of them said they would not do it, that they preferred death; and all three of them were hung on the nearest tree, in the presence of all the soldiers and their comrades. The fourth one called them cowards, thieves, traitors, and taunted and cursed them, when they poured cold tar over him and set fire to it. Mr. James joined the army. At night he was awakened by some one creeping over his body. He asked what they were doing. They said they were going to desert. He joined them. When he got outside of the camp he ran until he came to a railroad station. It so happened that he had money enough to take him to Memphis, where he got on the boat and never stopped until he reached our place. He does not know what became of those that left with him, as he ran faster than they and left them behind. At the time he was forced to join the army he was at Pensacola, and it was there where the three men were hung and the one was burned.Boston Cultivator, May 25.

SHARP SHOOTING.-A correspondent of the Boston Traveller gives the following account of a little battle of words in Baltimore:

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"Our officers and soldiers did not always bear contumely in silence, though they could not strike down their tormentors, when these were women and children. Sometimes they answered such scoffs with fitting words. 'Are you a Massachusetts soldier?' said a woman, elegantly dressed, and doubtless deemed a lady in Baltimore. I am, madam,' was the courteous answer of the officer of our regiment thus addressed. Well, thank God, my husband is in the Southern army, ready to kill such hirelings as you!' Do you not miss him, madam?' said the officer. 'Oh yes, I miss him a good deal.' 'Very well, madam, we are going South in a few days, and will try to find him and bring him back here with his companions. You ought to have seen how angry she was. 'You are from that miserable Boston, I suppose,' she said, 'where there is nothing but mob law, and they burned down the Ursuline Convent the Puritan bigots!' 'Some such thing did happen in Charlestown, many years ago, when I was a boy,' said the officer, at least I have heard so, and am very sorry for it.

called 'Jeff. Davis,' in honor of that distinguished rebel, and asked if he did not object to driving such a horse.' 'Oh, no, sir,' was the instant reply, 'to drive Jeff. Davis is the very purpose of our com ing South.' Our secession gentleman imitated his sister traitor in preserving a discreet silence."

Ir is a noteworthy fact that the Cheshire Light Guard, of Keene, N. H., attached to the Second New Hampshire regiment, have been supplied with eight tents, seven of which were captured from the British, in the war of 1812. They are now the property of the town of Keene, and have been well preserved. They all bear the mark "G. R," (Georgius Rex,) and one of them has also upon it the manufacturer's mark, "Turner's, Bond street, London."-Albany Journal, July 2.

NEW YORK, June 27.-A Southerner who does not like the New York Evening Post, informs the editor of it as follows:

"Mr Editer The letter which appeared in your damn abolition Evening Post last thursday and perpurting to be wrote by a young Lady of Charlston is about on a par with the damn Abolition lies which constitute the Staple of News in the Mersenary Press of the Abolition States. As it was merely promiscuously as it were that my attention was called to it, I take the liberty of indignently stigmertising it as a false counterfiet and damn abolition lie, do you understand that, sir, a damn abolition lie. It is plane language sir and in my section of Country though we are not Quakers we are in the habit of using plane language espishally when dealing with damn Nigger theives. In branding you with this contemptable eperthet and insult I wish you to understand that it is the brand of a citizen of the Proud glorious conquoring independant Palmetto State of South Carolina that has embarmed among its illustrious Arkives the immortal names of the Gallant Brooks and the equally honerd PINKNEY."

Gov. LETCHER of Virginia has at last returned Mrs. Bradford's wardrobe. His Excellency probably did not wish to have her again use her pen against him. The articles were sent from Norfolk on the boat which took the families of Union men to Fortress Monroe.-N. Y. Commercial, July 1.

HOW INFORMATION IS CONVEYED TO THE REBELS— The wife of a former clerk of prominence in the Postoffice department at Washington, is the heroine of quite a story. Her husband resigned a few weeks after the inauguration of President Lincoln, and now holds a commission as one of the Assistant Postmasters-General of the Rebel Government. He left town, and his wife remained behind until about two weeks since, when she prepared to follow him. She procured passes, and knowing that her effects would be searchBut can you tell me what streeted, she provided for this. Her trunks were examined. that is! Pratt street,' was the unsuspecting reply. All was right, and she departed for Dixie's land; -What happened there, madam, on the 19th of but, sewed within the folds of her under dress, she April, this very year?' He got no answer from the carried with her numerous despatches, letters, and angry secessionist, but the loud shout which went up drawings of our fortifications and positions, which, of from the Union bystanders, who generally are of the course, she succeeded in delivering to the rebel humble order, atoned for her silence. People that authorities without trouble. Her friends boast of this live in glass houses had better not throw stones. The performance; and there are still left in Washington same officer, riding in a chaise with a gentleman who, scores of females of like stamp, who are ready to deto his surprise, showed secession proclivities, but was camp in a similar way, and for similar purposes, who courteous in their demonstration, was told by the delight in thus furnishing aid and comfort to the enegentleman that the horse which was drawing them was my.-N. Y. Times, July 1.

THE FEAST OF DOUGHNUTS.-The ladies of Au- | gusta, Me., some time ago distributed over fifty bushels of doughnuts to the Third Volunteer regiment of Maine. A procession of ladies, headed by music, passed between double lines of troops, who presented arms, and were afterwards drawn up in hollow square to receive the welcome doughnation.

Never before was seen such an aggregate of doughnuts since the world began. The circumambient air was redolent of doughnuts. Every breeze sighed doughnuts-everybody talked of doughnuts. The display of doughnuts beggared description. There was the molasses doughnut and the sugar doughnut -the long doughnut and the short doughnut-the round doughnut and the square doughnut-the rectangular doughnut and the triangular doughnut-the single twisted doughnut and the double twisted doughnut-the "light riz" doughnut and the hardkneaded doughnut-the straight solid doughnut and the circular doughnut, with a hole in the centre. There were doughnuts of all imaginary kinds, quali ties, shapes, and dimensions. It was emphatically a feast of doughnuts, if not a flow of soul.-Baltimore American, June 29.

A SONG SUNG IN NORFOLK.
Jeff. Davis is a brave man,
He will lead the Southern force,

I pity Lincoln's soldiers,

For I fear they will fare worse;
He will show the Union shrickers,
The Union it is done-
The secession flag, ere many months,
Will wave o'er Washington!

Jeff. Davis in the White House,

What glorious news 't will be!
Abe Lincoln in an inglorious flight,
In a baggage car we'll see ;
With Seward as conductor,

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procedure in one way. For every negro kidnapped, some Yankee prisoner must be put into the hands of the master who has been robbed, to supply the place of his servant, till the negro is returned, and for every slave sold to Cuba, or elsewhere, two Yankees must be enslaved. The time for forbearance with these wretches has passed, and the people of the South demand that they shall be treated as their crimes deserve.

A gentleman informs us, as from a "perfectly reliable source," that a letter was found on the person of Capt. Winthrop, who was slain in the late battle of Bethel Church, or County Bridge, directed to his sister, in which he said that he had not made much headway as yet; that he had captured twenty negroes, and when he had made sale of them he would send her a nice present.—Richmond Dispatch.

A CARD FROM A REBEL COLONEL.

TO THOSE DESIROUS OF SERVING THEIR COUNTRY. —Having assurances from the War Department of the Confederate States that all men volunteering under my command for the war now commenced between the North and the South would be accepted, I hereby give public notice that I have consummated arrangements for the establishment of a military camp twelve miles from Shorter's station, Montgomery and West Point Railroad, where all those willing to serve their country faithfully, zealously, and unmurmuringly will be properly fed, uniformed, and equipped, free of all expense, until they are mustered into the service of the Government. This camp is intended only for those who are willing to volunteer for the war, and to enter at once upon the duties of the true soldier. Those objecting to the strict discipline of a military camp had better not make application, for they would doubtless be of more service in any other capacity than the capacity of a true and worthy soldier. The volunteers residing in Randolph, Tallapoosa, and Chambers counties, who have signified a desire to join my command, will report immediately by letter to me at this office, so as facilities for their immediate transportation to camp can be effected. The great cause in which the people of the South are SOME Massachusetts soldiers stationed at Yonkers, N. engaged is sacred and just. The necessity is upon us Y., went up the river to Tarrytown, and looked at the for action-action should be the watchword, and to monument to Andrè. Thence they visited the ceme- the rescue the talismanic cry. Already the unhaltery where repose the remains of the peaceful Wash-lowed tread of a servile foe is upon our soil. Already ington Irving. A hedge is around the burial plot. have the hands of tyrant hirelings been imbrued in Eleven full-length graves are in a row-father, moth-Southern blood! already Southern women have been er, brothers, and sisters. One of the stones is lettered, "Washington, son of William and Sarah S. Irving, died Nov. 29, 1859, aged 76 years, 8 months, and 25 days." The soldiers laid each a bunch of roses upon this grave, and a wreath of oak leaves with a written inscription, " Offering of Massachusetts volunteers to the memory of Washington Irving," signed by them all, and bearing the date, was placed upon the headstone. One boy ropeated the "Memory of the Dead," and all plucked a spray of clover from the grave.-N. Y. Tribune, June 30.

General Scott as engineer,
Old Hicks, the traitor governor,
Following panting in the rear.

insulted and outraged; their cries for mercy mocked, and homes which but a few days since were the abode of happiness, are now the dwelling places of desolation. Shall it be said that the thousands who are yet wanted in the tented field, that we looked calmly upon those horrors, wrapped our garments compla cently about us, and moved not to the scene of glorious action? God forbid it! The President of our Confederacy, and our generals in command, are capable, brave, and true. No greed for conquest, nor thirst for fame, like that of him whose eagles floated in triumph over every European capital, defying both MUNCHAUSENIANA.-We have heard from various burning sand and frozen battlements; no lust of sources, that a large number of the negroes who have power like that of him who plunged into the Rubibeen captured by the Northern invaders on the pen-con's frowning flood, sacrificing Rome and her liberinsular, have been sent by them to Cuba to be sold, and that they declare their intention to make the sale of negroes one means of defraying the expenses of the war.

The authorities of the South can only meet this
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ties to self; no reckless disregard nor wanton in-
difference to the calamities of war; no arrogant, no
boastful passion instigates their zeal nor determines
their course.
Can this be said of the North? No.
Then, my friends, this is a war of self-defence and of

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