Each continent now claims a limb;

His heart, cold and chill it has grown,— Boys, has grown!

His heart, cold and chill it has grown.

Old Cotton will once more arise,

But not all in his native land; His right arm, under Afric's skies, Will stretch to the Indies a hand,— Boys, a hand!

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,—
Boys, alone!

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
Must, like battle-worn men,
Leave their proud, self-builded quiet,
To do service once again;
When the banners blessed by Fortune,
And by blood and brain embalmed,
Must re-throb the soul with feelings
That long happiness hath calmed.
Thus the Democratic faith that won
The Nation, now hath need
To raise its ever-stalwart arm,
And save what twice it freed.

So, friends, fill up
The brimming cup
In brotherly communion;

Here's blood and blow
For a foreign foe,

And GOD PRESERVE THE UNION!

There are factions passion-goaded,
There are turbulence and wrath,
And swarthy dogmas bellowing
Around the people's path;
There are false lights in the darkness,
There are black hearts in the light,
And hollow heads are mimicking
The Jove-like people's might.
But ah! the Democratic strength
That smote an empire's brow,
Can with its regnant virtues tame
Mere home-made factions now.
So, friends, let's band
For Fatherland-

In brotherly communion,
Let every mouth

Cry "North and South,"

And GOD PRESERVE THE UNION!

While the young Republic's bosom
Seems with rival passions torn-
Growing from the very freedom

Of the speech within it born:
Europe, in its haggard frenzy

To behold no earthly sod,

Where its white slaves may unbend them,

Or bend but to Freedom's God

Europe madly hails the omen

Strains its bloodshot eyes to view

A native treason toiling at

The work it strove to do.

So, friends, let's all,
Like a rampart-wall,
In granite-built communion,
Stand firmly proud

'Gainst the kingly crowd,

And GOD PRESERVE THE UNION!

Standing upon Potomac's verdant shore,

I gaze upon these tributes to the day,
And, whilst the rockets and the camp-fires pour
A radiance almost rivalling night's sway,

I ponder sadly on events which bring
To every heart a shadow and a sting.

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.*
And lo! a meteor blazes through the night,
The fleet precursor of the rocket's flight.f

How peaceful is the spot where now I stand;
Across yon river hear what stir and noise.

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.

Of this meteor 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 eight 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 cast 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."

And must it be, that man should strive to mar,
With crime and passion, God's supreme decrees,
And, with the hot and blasting breath of war,
Deface the beauty of such scenes as these,
For the mere gratification of a whim,
Which barters peace for devastation grim?

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,
Our Banner pure and bright;
For every star shall prove its worth,
With undiminished light.
Baptized afresh, devotion warm
That pennon shall unfold,
And scatter o'er the battle's storm
Its purest shower of gold.

Amid the din of clanking steel
Its waves of hope shall rise,
To give endurance to the will,

And kindle languid eyes;
And as its bearers sink in dust,

Stout hearts upon the wing Shall seize it, to redeem the trust, And new defiance fling.

Upborne upon the swelling surge,
Like meteor on the main,
To glory 'twill the patriot urge-
Glory without a stain.

Still in the van, though hardly pressed,
No rival can it own;

The cherub daughter of the West, Round whom our arms are thrown!

A fearful pause may seem to come,
But o'er its azure face

Shall never steal, while Hope is dumb,
One tinting of disgrace.

For Faith her sinewy arms shall spread,
To catch the tottering staff;
And to the sunbeam newly wed,
The dew of youth 'twill quaff.

A million voices speed it on,

From climes beyond the sea,

Where, 'neath the despot's shaded throne,
Bursts new-born Liberty.
From glaciers to the torrid line

Comes forth the blended strain"Bear it aloft, that type divine; Bear it aloft again!"

Then, say not Freedom's chosen bird
Is wearied on the wing;

For waits she but the burning word
The thunderbolt to fling;
But poised in air, with quickened sight,
She waits the signal given,

And Treason shall retire from light,
Accurs'd of man and Heaven.

-Philadelphia Bulletin, Aug. 2

THE TWO FURROWS.

BY C. H. WEBB,

The spring-time came, but not with mirth;The banner of our trust,

And, with it, the best hopes of earth

Were trailing in the dust.

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
The plough has been my trust;
In truth it were an arrant wrong
To leave it now to rust."

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
The sounding anvil rung;

Good sooth, it was a nobler rhyme
Than ever poet sung.

The blacksmith wrought with skill that day;
The blade was keen and bright;
And now, where thickest is the fray,
The farmer leads the fight.

Not as of old that blade he sways,
To break the meadow's sleep,
But through the rebel ranks he lays
A furrow broad and deep.

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.

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PAGE

PAGE

ALLEN, W. P., escapes from Sudley
Church, Va.,
D.
46
Allegiance, National and State, Doc. 206
to King Cotton,
Doc. 208
ALMSTEDT, Col.,
Doc. 467
"Alvarado," the bark, destroyed
near Fernandina, Florida, D. 56
account of the capture and de-
struction of the,
Doc. 489
ALVEY, R. II., rebel account of the
arrest of,
P. 83
America, War expenses and war
taxes in,
Doc. 119
American Democracy, reply to the
London Times on,
Doc. 116
Amherst College, Address of D. S.
Dickinson at,

D. 24

89

AMES, -, Bishop, his "Union Con-

vention,"

P. GO

of two brothers at the battle of
Bull Run,

P. 9
of the Shriver Greys, rebel, P. 13
of Mrs. Curtis,

D.

33

Mr. Sherman's remarks on Pow-
ell's resolution,

D. 34

"After the Fight at Manassas," by

Sarah Helen Whitman,

"A Gathering Song,"

"Agnes," Song by,

Sanitary Commission.

Aiken, the U. S. revenue cutter. D. 59
"A. L.," Poem by,
P. 34
D. 12
P. 13

P. 54

ALBERGER, F. A., Seward's letter to,
on Foreign enlistments, D. 59
ALDEN, Capt., cannonades Gal-
veston, Texas,
Doc. 484
Alexandria, Va., slaves at, liberated,
D. 51
murder of the U. S. pickets at, P. 56
Alien Law, the Confederate, D. 65
Jeff. Davis' proclamation relative
to,
D. 66
Aliens, Confederate Congress act
respecting alien enemies, Doc. 492
Jeff. Davis' proclamation in refer-
ence to the act respecting alien
enemies,
Doc. 526
ALLEN, Col. First Regt. N. Y. S.
V., arrested at Fortress Monroe,
D. 11
D. 65

"A Monarch dethroned," by Mrs.
E. Vale Smith,
P. 109
ANDERSON, -, Col. 4th Regt. O.
S. V.,
D.
5
ANDERSON, FRANK, Lt.-Col., rebel,
P. 31
ANDERSON, ROBERT, Gen., receives
a gold medal from the citizens
of New York,
D. 24
tribute to, by Reverdy Johnson,
Doc. 145
Anderson Zouaves, N. Y. S. V., left
N. Y.,
D. 75
ANDREW, JOHN A., Gov., calls upon
the citizens of Mass. to fill up
the regiments,
D. 73
Proclamation to the citizen sol-
diers of Mass., Aug. 20, Doc. 539
Anecdotes, of Turner, the rebel
postmaster of Western Va. Doc. 244
of Gen. J. W. Ripley,
D. 17
of Garrick, the negro cook of the
schooner Enchantress, D. 52
of Englishmen at the battle of
Carrick's Ford, Va., Doc. 291
of the young soldier dying,
of Joseph Lane of Oregon,
of Gen. J. B. Magruder,
of the wife of Capt. Gilvery,
of a lady of Alexandria, Va.,
of a Good Samaritan at Bull Run,

P. 15
of the bravery of Henry Benson,
of Wisconsin, at Bull Run, P. 15
of Rev. J. M. Willey,
P. 15
of a Fire Zouave "falling back,"
P. 16

PAGE

"A New Yankee Doodle." By J.
R. Gilmore,

PAGE

patriotism of the, of Boston, New

P. 61

York, and Philadelphia,

Annapolis Junction, Pennsylvania

securities at the South,

troops at,

D. 75

"An Ode for the Union," by R. D.

C.,

"An unreported Union Conven-
tion,"

P. 88
P. 60

"A Poetical and Patriotic Gem,"
by the descendant of an F. F.
V.,
P. 29
APPERSON, E. M., constructs de-
fences at Memphis, Tenn., D. 43
"A Psalin of Freedom." By E. H.
Sears,
P. 78
Arkansas, proclamation of the mili-
tary board of,
D. 17
correspondence between the reb-
els of, and the Cherokees, D. 3S
Army of the Potomac, General Mc-
Clellan in command of,
Army Orders. See U. S. Army.
ARNOLD, ISAAC N., at Battle of Bull
Run,
Doc. 17
ARNOLD, SAMUEL G., Lieut.-Gov.,
proclamation of, referring to the
dead of R. I., D. 39; Doc. 895
"A Soldier's last Word," by Park
Benjamin,
P. 48

D. 73

A soldier's response, P. St. George
Cooke,

Doc. 171

D. 65
P. 56
reports of the Southern conven-
tion of,
Doc. 407
BANKS, N. P., Gen., seized steamers
at Baltimore, Md.,
D. 22
proclamation of, July 10th, D. 24
transferred to the command of
forces on the upper Potomac, D. 35
arrived at Harper's Ferry, Va., D. 42
nullifies the police protest of Bal-
timore,
D. 11
arrests the police Board of Balti-
more,
D. 15
confirmed as major-general, D. 54
proclamation of June 27, D. 8;
Doc. 176
instructions to Col. Kenly, pro-
vost-marshal of Baltimore, Doc. 178
proclamation of July 1, Doc. 196
BARNETT,, Col. 7th Indiana
Regt. at Carrick's Ford, Va.,
Doc. 543
BANON, HENRY, arrested at Wash-
ington,
D. 39
Baptists,
D. 8; Doc. 439
See Hudson River Baptists.
convention of South Carolina, res-
olutions of the,
Doc. 439
Barboursville, Va., skirmish at, D. 28
account of the fight at, Doc. 285
BARNARD, J. G., Major U. S. A.,
report of battle of Bull Run,

Doc. 142
P 3, 43

his justice to an assassin,
BENJAMIN, J. P., instructions to
rebel marshals in reference to
persons captured at sea, D. 27
his opinion of President Lincoln,
BENJAMIN, PARK,
BENSON, HENEY, of Wisconsin, anee-
dote of his bravery at Bull
Run,
BENNETT, JAS. GORDON, Jr., Lieut.,
arrests Louis de Bebian, D. 73
BENTON, -, Col. Sth Regiment
Indiana volunteers,
D. 3
BERRY, H. G., Col. 4th Maine vol-
unteers,
D. 8; Doc. 146
Bethel, Va, battle at
Doc. 164
Col. Townsend's report on, Doc. 165
Major Winthrop's notes of the
plan of the attack on,
secession report of the battle at,
Doc. 165

PAGE
P. 84

"A Song Sung in Norfolk"

P. 73

Doc. 86

ATCHINSON, JOHN,

BARRY, CHARLES A.,

and adventures after the battle
of Bull Run,
P. 18
BIRNEY, DAVID B., Colonel 234
Regiment Penn, volunteers, D. 75
Blackburn's Ford, Va., battle at, D. 34
General Tyler's report of the bat-
tle at,

Colonel Richardson's report of the

"Washington Star" narrative,

Doc. 336

Doc. 337

BARRY, WM. F., appointed Brig.-

Doc. 343

Gen.,

D. 75

"A Tribute to the Brave," by Ily.

Clay Preuss,

P.

5

major, U. S. A., report of battle
of Bull Run,

Doc. 89

ATWOOD, WILLIAM, of Ky., D.
Augusta, Ga., speech of A. H. Ste-

68

notes to a Southern account of
the battle of Bull Run,

General Beauregard's report of

Doc. 47

the battle of,

Doc. 838

phens at, July 11,

Augusta, Me., a feast of doughnuts

"Baltimore Exchange
tive,

P. 15

"Memphis Appeal" account,

2

the body of, at Richmond,

"A Vision in the Forum," by Thos.
Buchanan Read,

funeral of,

P. 76

gallantry of, at Bull Run,

AYRES, Capt.. his battery at the
battle of Blackburn's Ford, Va.,

Doc. 337

P. 5
D. 45
P. 12
BARTLETT, W. O., letter of Corne-
lius Vanderbilt to,
Doc. 152
PATES, J. N., Brig.-Gen., honorably
discharged,
Doc. 853

Doc. 852

"Battle Hymn," by Woodbury M.

B

Fernald,

P.

12

report of battle of Bull Run, Doc. 33
appointed brigadier-general, D. 60

D.

9

BLEVINS, Jons, protest against the

BEACH, ELIZABETHI T. PORTER, P. 49
BEAUREGARD, P. G. T., at Manas-

Doc.

1

proceedings of the East Ten-
nessee Union Convention, Doc, 158
Blockade. The London Post on

proclamation in reference to pass-

ports,

BAILLET, GEORGE, speech of, July
18,
D. 33
BAKER, E. D., Col. California regt.,
N. Y. S. V.
D. 10; Doc. 177
speech on the Bill to suppress in-
surrection,
D. 51; Doc. 462
BALLOU, - Major Rhode Island

Vol.. killed at Bull Run, Doc. 19
Baltimore, Md., John C. Breckin-
ridge insulted at,

See battle of Bull Run.
letter to Sarah Z. Evans,
32
official report on the battle of
Bull Run,
Doc. 868
and the Hampton Legion, P. 12
promoted,

D. 87

bulletin to the rebel army after
the battle of Bull Run, Doc. 108
forage order of, D. 38; Doc. 894

rebel, at the battle of Black-
burn's Ford, Va.,
"Books for the army,"

P. 53
tle of,
P. 69
rebel account of the battle of, P. 70
BOOTH and the United States, ease
of,
Doe, 141
BORRON, FLORENCE WILLESFORD,

Booneville, Mo., account of the bat-

D.

9

P.

the,
BOERSTEIN,, Col. anecdote of, P. 83
BOKER, GEORGE H.,
P. 65, 89
Bombs, rebels', filled with rice, P. 90
BONHAM, M. H., Brigadier-General,

Doc. 125

Doc. 841

D. 58

seizure of arms and contraband
articles at,

D. 53

the ancestors of

wanted for rebel winter quarters,

epigram on his bravery,

P. 70
P. 41

6

D. 73
Bedford, Westchester co., N. Y.,
Havelocks made by the ladies
of,

P. 105
Boston, Mass., 2d and 4th Batta-
lions of, offer their services to
U. S. Government,

D. 72

D. 54

BEE. BARNARD E., Gen., killed at
Bull Run, notice of,
P. 15
BELL, JOHN, of Ky..
D. 65
BELLOWS, HENRY W., president of
Sanitary Commission, Doc. 174
BELT, -
Dr., of Md., arrested, D. 39
BENDIX, JOHN E., Col., at the bat-
tle of Bethel,
Doc. 164
BENHAM, H. W., Gen., at the battle
of Carrick's Ford, Doc. 289-292
report of the battle at Carrick's
Ford,
Doc. 543

P. 44

P. 46
Doc. 20
D. 13