Oh, the wild dash they made Ne'er shall their glory fade; Sons of St. Tammany! Joined here your glorious bands Old men, with gushing tears, The brave Nineteen Hundred How from their blood there sprang Till the Stars and Stripes on high, Waved for our victory. A MONARCH DETHRONED. BY MRS. E. VALE SMITH. "Old Cotton, the King, boys-aha !— With his locks so fleecy and white," Descends, like a falling star, To the sceptre he had no right,- To the sceptre he had no right. Old Cotton, the King, was so bold, With injustice to prop up his throne, That now he's left out in the coldThe nations all leave him alone,Boys, alone! The nations all leave him alone. Old Cotton, the King, built his throne On the slaves' forced toil and tears, And each bale was bound with a groan; So he's dead of his guilty fears,Boys, his fears! So he's dead of his guilty fears. Old Cotton no more holds the reins; Old Cotton, the once potent King, Is struck from his impotent throne; Each continent now claims a limb; His heart, cold and chill it has grown. Old Cotton will once more arise, Will stretch to the Indies a hand. Old King Cotton's white feet will spring A line from the central zone, And Ganges the death-harvest bring Of him who once ruled alone. -N. Y. Evening Post, July 18. GOD PRESERVE THE UNION. BY JOHN SAVAGE. "There is no safety for European monarchical Governments, if the progressive spirit of the Democracy of the United States is allowed to succeed. Elect Lincoln, and the first blow to the separation of the United States is effected."-London Morning Chronicle. "I hold, further, that there is no evil in this country for which the Constitution and laws will not furnish a remedy. Then we must maintain our rights inside of the Union in conformity with the Constitution, and not break up the Union."-Douglas at Memphis, October, 1860. Brothers, there are times when nations So, friends, fill up Here's blood and blow And GOD PRESERVE THE UNION! There are factions passion-goaded, In brotherly communion, Cry "North and South," And GOD PRESERVE THE UNION! While the young Republic's bosom Of the speech within it born: To behold no earthly sod, Where its white slaves may unbend them, So, friends, let's all, 'Gainst the kingly crowd, And GOD PRESERVE THE UNION! Since that day, when frantic people Round the State House rose and fell, Like an angry ocean surging Round some rock-reared citadelWhen the Quaker City trembled 'Neath the arming people's tramp, And the Bell proclaimed to iron men Each house in the land a campDemocracy has kept that Bell Still pealing sound on sound, Has throbbed the wide earth round. So let it bring Us brotherly communion; Here's heart and hand! For life and land! And GOD PRESERVE THE UNION! TO ARMS! TO ARMS! BY DR. REYNOLDS, Assistant Surgeon, Twenty-fourth N. Y. Regt., (Oswego.) Respectfully Inscribed to Gen. Van Valkenburgh, the Soldier and the Gentleman. To arms! to arms! Columbia's foe To arms to arms! and overthrow For more than life we freemen prize CHORUS-TO arins! to arms! &c. Let cravens yield their struggling breath Be ours the warrior's glorious death, CHORUS-TO arms! to arms! &c. Kind Heaven to us in mercy gave Great Washington, the wise and brave, Standing upon Potomac's verdant shore, I gaze upon these tributes to the day, I ponder sadly on events which bring Far more magnificent than all the show Which man conceited in his art would try, Behold the comet with mysterious glow Spreads its vast tail athwart the star-gemmed sky.* How peaceful is the spot where now I stand; This "heavenly messenger" by some astronomers is supposed to be the return of that known as "the Emperor Charles the Fifth," but this is doubted and denied by others, and it seems to have come unbidden and taken the world by surprise. t Of this ineteor an Alexandria correspondent of the Evening Star writes:- Last evening, (4th,) while a grand pyrotechnic display was taking place throughout the loyal States, a still grander and more beautiful one took place; in the heavens. Some elght or ten minutes past 8 o'clock, whilst it was yet early twilight, a magnificent meteor was observed at this place. Its direction was from northeast to southward. Although at the time of its appearance it was hardly dark, yet it was of such intense brightness that it cast a shadow as deep almost as that east by the sun. Its track could be plainly traced for five or ten minutes after its appearance by the bright streak of light which it left. Its scintillations were beautiful and gorgeous beyond description." Here, the sweet products of kind Nature's hand; To make comparison between now and then? Since our brave fathers independence won, That such unprofitable, deep disgrace Thus brands the country of a Washington, And makes each patriot through the world lament, Lest man's incapable of self-government? In Freedom's name, behold Americans In hostile ranks glare one upon the other, And, urged by madness, meditate their plans, Each to pour out the life-blood of his brother; And all to wreck the only earthly prize Beyond all measure in the patriot's eyes! And must it be, that man should strive to mar, Deface the beauty of such scenes as these, Can nothing check this fratricidal strife, And must the Ship of State in storms go down? Must brothers madly seek each other's life? Ruin and murder wither with their frown? O God of mercy, spare thy people! spare, And keep us freemen, as our fathers were! GISBORO', OPPOSITE WASHINGTON. OH, SAY NOT IT IS BORNE TO EARTH! BY REV. EDWARD G. JONES. Oh, say not it is borne to earth, Amid the din of clanking steel And kindle languid eyes; Stout hearts upon the wing Upborne upon the swelling surge, Still in the van, though hardly pressed, The cherub daughter of the West, Round whom our arms are thrown! A fearful pause may seem to come, Shall never steal, while Hope is dumb, For Faith her sinewy arms shall spread, A million voices speed it on, From climes beyond the sea, Where, 'neath the despot's shaded throne, Comes forth the blended strain"Bear it aloft, that type divine; Bear it aloft again!" Then, say not Freedom's chosen bird For waits she but the burning word But poised in air, with quickened sight, And Treason shall retire from light, -Philadelphia Bulletin, Aug. 2. THE TWO FURROWS. BY C. H. WEBB. The spring-time came, but not with mirth;— And, with it, the best hopes of earth The farmer saw the shame from far, And stopped his plough a-field; "Not the blade of peace, but the brand of war, This arm of mine must wield. "When traitor hands that flag would stain, Their homes let women keep; Until its stars burn bright again, Let others sow and reap." The farmer sighed-"A lifetime long With ready strength the farmer tore The iron from the wood, And to the village smith he bore That ploughshare stout and good. The blacksmith's arms were bare and brown, And loud the bellows roared; The farmer flung his ploughshare down"Now forge me out a sword!" And then a merry, merry chime Good sooth, it was a nobler rhyme The blacksmith wrought with skill that day; Not as of old that blade he sways, The farmer's face is burned and brown, But light is on his brow; Right well he wots what blessings crown The furrow of the Plough. "But better is to-day's success," Thus ran the farmer's word; "For nations yet unborn shall bless This furrow of the Sword." -Harpers' Weekly, INDE X. EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS IN THE INDEX. D. stands for Diary of Events; Doc. for Documents; and P. for Poetry, Rumors and Incidents. A PAGE "A Battle Hymn," by James Mac- to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, 1789, Miles to the Junction," by P. 11 "After the Fight at Manassas," by Sarah Helen Whitman, P. 2 "A Gathering Song," P. 77 "Agnes," Song by, P. 54 AGNEW, CORNELIUS R., M. D. See PAGE D. 24 of two brothers at the battle of of the Shriver Greys, rebel, P. 13 P. 9 P. 15 of the bravery of Henry Benson, D. 59 ALLEN, WM. H., Surgeon 2d Regt. VOL. II.-47 on Foreign enlistments, D. 51 postmaster of Western Va. Doc. 244 of Mass. soldier and the Balti- P. 72 of the courtesies of war, P. 75 of Phillippa, Va., P. 82 of Englishmen at the battle of of orderly-sergeant Goodfellow at the Bethel fight, P. 82 P. 91 P. 99 of a secession lawyer at St. Louis, P. 100 P. 83 of Gen. Benham and the would- P. 102 P. 85 of Col. Davies, of the N. Y. 16th of the New Hampshire soldiers P. 6 P. 87 P. 91 |