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Ah, how still the moonbeam* lie On the dreaming meadows ! How the fire-flies silently Lighten through the shadows ! All tho cypress avenue Waves its tops against tho blue, As tho win Psiidos whispering through— lie is.late in coming ! There's the nightingale again ! He alone is waking ; Is it joy >r is it pain That his heart is breaking? Bliss intense or pain divine ? Both of them, 0 Love, are thi'io ! And this heart, this heart of mine, With them both is thrilling. From the deep dark orange-grove Odorous airs are steaming, Till my thoughts are faint with love— Faint with blissiul.drcaming. Through tho slopes of dewy dells Crickets shake their tiny bells, And the sky's deep bosom swells With an infinite yearning. On my heart the silent weight Of this beauty, presses; Midnight, like a solemn Fate, Saddens while it blossos. All alone I cannot bear This still night and odorous air ; Dearest, come, its bliss to share, Or I die with longing. I have listened at the doors, All are camly sleeping.; I alone for hours and hours In the dark am weeping. Only weeping can express The mysterious deop excess Of my very happiness, Therefore I am weeping. Like a fountain running o'er With.its too great fulness, Like a lightcuiug-shivered shower For tho fierce noon's coolness, I.ike an over-blossomed tree That the breeze shakes tenderly, Love's too much falls off from me In these tears of gladness. Ah, beloved ! there yon Mtl - I once more am near you ; Walk not on the gravel there, Somebody may hear yon. Step upon the noiseless grass,— Oh ! if they should hear you pass We arc lost, alas ! alas ! We arc lost forever. Hark ! the laurels in the light Seem with eyes to glisten ; All things peep and peer—and night Holds its breath to listen. Deepor in the shadow move, For the moon looks out above, I am coming to you, love, In a moment-coming. w. w. s. [For the Bedford Inquirer.] IN MEMORY Of Lieut. Chas. P. McLaughlin, killed June Ist, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Va. UR c. P. CALHOL'S. Sleep, gently sleep, I would not call Thee from the cold, cold grave, For they that for their country fall, Arc numbered with the brave. He died a martyr for the land, Of froeeom and of right, Let all united a a band, Protect it by their might. Hie grave shall mark the battleground When centuries have gone by; Though many feet have o'er him trod, They too, low shall lie. That spot shall ever bo most dear, To friend or kindred foe, For who would dare molest him there, For fear of endless woe. Then though the silent tear should full, God give us grace to boar The loss of one so dear to all, So free to every care. The stars and stripes in triumph yet Shall wave above his head. And friend and foe shall ne'er forget The brave and noble dead. MrDW.ETOWX, Va, Oct- 24, 1804. SELLING HIMSELF. A SKETCH FROM LIFE. Some yearn ago I was spending a few months in the family of a wealthy southern planter. One lovely day : n October, I was rambling through the beautiful grounds in front of his mansion, gathering a bouquet of flowers, such a bouquet as only southern grounds could furnish, for it con tained the fragrant cape jessamine, that queen of flowers: the crape myrtle, with its bewildering flush of crimson bloom, to say nothing of a profu sion of tea roses, such as northern green-house-' would be proud of rearing, or rather never could rear to such perfection. I was sauntering along one of the paths, wishing I could transfer that magnficent bouquet to oine of mynorthern friends, when I saw a gentleman coming up the central walk. 'Yes, a gentler.uin, I said to myself, taking a second look at him while he-was still in tho dis tance, 'his whole air shows that.' I could not dis cern his features, of course, and turning off into another walk to avoid being seen by him, I no ticed, with florae surprise, that, instead of ascend ing the flight of steps in front of the house, he turned a corner, following the path which led to the piazza at the rear. 'Probably some one who is so familar with the family arrangements that he knows ho shall find Col. mercer on the back piazza at this hour,' I thought, and gave no further con sideration to him. When my bouquet was completed, I went in, going through the. wide hall to get a vase and some water of Celia, the house servant, who was always loitering in the hall, if not asleep in the back piazza, no unusual event As I passed lightly through thg passage, I saw the stranger BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1864. standing in the colonel's library, in front of the colonel, who was lounging back in his easy chair, tarrying on some sort of talk with him. Catch ing nty eye, the latter beckoned me to come in, with a smile on his face, which led me to fancy the seeming stranger might turn into an old ac quaintance. No; I had never before seen that rather handsome, dark-complexioned, black-eyed man, who bowed gracefully to me as I entered — gracefully and deferently—yet Col. Mercer gave me no introduction to him. It was odd I thought, but I sat down quietly. With how much aston ishment I listened to the following conversation may be imagined. I give it as literally as my memory will allow; for it is no fancy sketch I am writing, but a plain narrative of facts. 'So your name is Tom,' said Col. Mercer. 'Yes-sir,' 'And you want me to buy you.' 'Yes-sir, if you please.' I looked up at the speaker; I could not believe my own ears; that fine, gentlemanly looking fel low, a negro—a slave? I took a closer survey of him. 'Yes,' I said to myself, 'I will not take it back ; let your condition in life be what it may, you have the look and air of a gentleman. He had a dark complexion, but was less dark and swarthy than many a southerner I had met; his head was finely shaped ; his hair, jet black, but not woolly, clung in close short curls rouud his head aud forhead ; his eyes were large and inteli gent; his nose aud month good, the lips a little thicker than is comnon, but not more so than in fifty white faces I have seen at the North; and his figure was well-knit and muscular, being of a lit tle more than medium bight. 'How old are you, Tom?' asked the colonel. last July.' 'What part of Virginia did you come from?' ' county near the llappahannock.' I forget the name of the county. 'What made your master sell you; masters don't sell good servants.' Ole massa died,' he said, for the first time fall ing into the negro dialect, 'and young missus mar ried, and her husband got into debt mighty bad, and he sold ten of us to the speculators.' 'Did Mr. Neill buy you of him?' This Mr. Neill I knew was a negro-dealer— speculator, they called him—who lived near Col. Mercer, and I had heard one of our negroes say he had just come back from the. North with four hundred negroes that he meant to take to Ala bama. 'Yes-sir, he bought all the ten.' 'What can you do Tom ? Are you a right smart boy ?' 'Yes, massa; I can do most anything.' 'What have you been doing at your old mas ter' s?—field-work?' 'A r o, massa!' with a contemptous accent on the word. I'se always been round the house. I can take care of the dining-room, and wait on ta bles, and help most everywhere.' 'How came you to oome out to my place?' 'Oh, massa, Mr. Neill he tell mc you wanted to get a man ; and he say it be a mighty fine place out here; and he sent me over to see you.' 'And to sell yourself?' said the colonel, laugh ing heartily. 'Yes, massa, ifyou'd like to buy me.' 'Why, now, Tom, how much do you reckon you are worth?' with the same amused look. 'Dunno 'xactly, reckon about fifteen hunder.' 'Fifteen hundred! that's a monstous price.' 'Reckon, massa, Mr. Neill uo think,'with a grin. 'Well, Tom, Ido want to get me a boy—a smart, likely boy; but I want one to drive my horses; and I reekon you cant do that.' 'Oh, yes!' the face lighting up, 'I alius drive young missus.' After a few ;u ore questions of a similar charac ter, Col. Mercer sent him away, saying, 'Now Tom, go out among my folks; you may stay a day or two, and we'll sec how we like one an other,' and turning to me after ho went out he said, 'I called you in, thinking you'd like to help me buy a carriage driver.' He said it playfully, knowing how different from his own were my news of the peculiar instution : but he evidently had no idea of the way in which buying and sell ing a human being struck me ; the horror we feel in view of such a transaction no southerner seems ever able to understand; they have seen it done all their lives till it becomes a mattcr-of-course business affair to them, as much so as buying a piece of land, or a horse or cow. I watched Tom, as making a graceful bow he went out into the yard and toward the negro cab ins. How must he feci in view of his condition ? Or had he no feeling about it ? He looked cheer ful and unconcerned. Was then the promise of his fine head and intelligent features all a decep tion, and was he as reckless of the future, of whether he should be driven on hundreds of miles further and sold on a sugaj or rice plantation, or kept where he was, as his careless air and manner indicated ; or beneath that smiling exterior, did there lie a throbbing heart, weighing anxiously, the probabilities of his lot ? I could not tell, of course, but I longed to penetrate the mystery, and know whether a stout, full-grown man, pos sessing apparently all the faculties of a man, could have sunk so low in the scale of being as to enjoy selling himself and to be able to joke about it ? Such questions are always coming up on a slave plantation ; the black men, women and children about you are looking jolly and contented, they 101 l about indolently, crack merry jokes, and seem to be in full possession of a luxurious state of mind which has no fears, cares, or vexations to disturb it; and I have heard both northerners and southerners contend that this was a proof of the blessed nature of the institution. To me, it was the most mournful phase of it. God made a hu man soul to have aspiration for something beyond the present; and just so far a it loses that char acteristic it falls toward the level of the lower an imals, who eat, drink and enjoy life, caring for nothing better. Had my fine-looking, gentleman Tom, sunk to this vile level ? I did not believe it for such a manly front and degraded nature could not co-exist without violating all my precon ceived ideas of the human face and form. But all Yankee propensity to investigate was effectual y snubbed on a southern plantation in those days, and one learned to look on the most interesting phenomena in silence, and view them with puzzled wonder as we do the face of the moon, certain that no solution of our questionings wonld be youchsafed, I saw considerable of Tom after this ; be ram. bled about the yards and grounds—why he was left so unwatched was another mystery of which I ventured to ask no explanation—and I nietliiui as I went out to gather fresh flowers in the early morning the day after onr first interview. He took off his hat and bowed gracefully, holding it in his hand as he stood to let me pass. I tried to think of something it would be safe to saj—what a host of unsafe and improper questions rushed to my lips—but as I hesitated, he said, 'A fine place Colonel Mercer has here, a very fine place.' 'Yes,' I said, 'was your old master's as fine a one ?' 'lt was an old place, not kept up so well as this.' 'Were you sorry to come away ?' It was aques tion of doubtful propriety, but it burst from my lips unconsciously, so intense was my longing to get at the inner life of that young man, or rather to find whether he had any. He gave a qufck glance up to my face —a glance full of intense feeling ; a questioning glance as if he would real my very soul and see whether it would be safe U trust me. I believe that he un derstood me, and saw that I felt a deep sympathy with him, but it an instant his face assumed the old careless expression; what was the use of speak ing out ? —and Je answered, 'This is a mighty fine country, missus ; we find a good uiassa htre. I reckon.' The change from as pure and. well executed Eng lish as any gentleman uses to that comical African dialect was very striking and ludicrous ; however, he did not smile, nor did I but passed on, and I picked my flowers, while he went back to the house. He harnessed the horses after breakfast and drove Col Mercc: out, both sitting on the driver's box ; and I sinilal as I heard Celia say, 'Ha, Tom's wlitcr'n massa, anyhow. It was a fact; ie was "lighter complected," and doubtless three-fturths or seven-eights of the blood in his veins was Iknglo-Saxon, so that only one fourth or one-eighth of him could, according to Vice President Stephens' theory of races, be right fully held in boidage ; "For," as he complacently remarks, "our System commits no such violation of nature's law as to enslave those of the same race." But itdoes enslave those who have only an infinites!ma portion of the blood of any other race belongingto them, as the blue eyes and flax en hair of maty slaves testify to all observers.— In the afterufen. Tom drove Mrs Mercer and my self to town fend again I was struck with his graceful, ggtlenianly bearing—chivalrous, we should have idled it in a white man ; that quite consideratio; and gentle deference, that intuitive knowledge ad forestallment of a lady's wishes.— Evidently hi had been accustomed to ty ; very limy he had been connected with one of the F.. I* Y.'s, and cor Id rightfrly boast of kindred Wood as well as niaimcx^. The noct morning Tom was nowhere to be seen; and I hard Col Mercer say he had sent him back to Mr. Aeill; that he would not answer his pur pose ; and, besides,' he added, 'Mr. Neill asks a monsfous price for him ; I would give him a thouiand dollars, and I reckon he won't get much moia ; he may down on the sugar plantations, for negroes sell well there this year, they say.' He be mighty smart nigger, any way,' was Ce iy's comment, to which I heartily agreed. So Tom went his way ; what became of him I know not; but I shall always believe he had as much intelligence and shrewdness as the majority of white men ; a better person and manners he certainly poscessed ; and my blood boils iddignant ly in my veins whenever I think of a man so no bly made as he in the image of his Maker, being bought and sold like so much brute matter. I wonder if he is living now ; and if he is, whether he bears allegiance to Jefferson Davis and is wil ling to take up anas in defense of southern rights. He and I may yet meet, who knows ? where I can ask him as many questions as I please, and get candid answers. If so, you shall have a se quel to my little sketch of the man who tried to sell himself. — Springfield Republican SLAVE LOGIC. The rebels are driven by the sharp logic of faets to curious logic of the pen. Their writers have all along asserted that negroes cannot fight, and have ridiculed tho government for arming colored regiments. They are now hard pressed for men, and these very writers propose to arm their slaves as defenders of the south. They have argued from the beginning that free dom is prejudical to the negro, and asserted that southern slaves, so far from desiring, would not accept it They now propose to reward their black soldiers by giving them their freedom. The sum is that for achieving what he cannot accomplish, the negro is to be rewarded with what he loathes and dreads. Was the n-on sequitur ever before stretched to such an absurdity ? But what ratioeiation could be expected from a people, who have argued themselves from peace to war; from wealth to poverty ; from happiness to misery ; from freedom to the most abhorred servitude — that of caprice and the sword ? The insanity which precedes death —that mori bund madness so often noticed in individuals —is the only explanatian of the awful absurdities and puerilities which now crop out o r rebellion every where. They dutch at straws, knowing them to bo straws, as though they were logs, and will go under with the folly at fever heat. It is gratify ing to think tnat they will come to the surface with cooler heads and pulses, and never more vex our senses with such balderdash for argument, nor our pockets with such crime for action. The argument of the great slave epic has reached to folly: the next step is despair, followed by sur render, peace, order, law, freedom and happiness. The procession is inevitable. The more strenuous ly wo drive on tho war, the more cogently we compel these results. Our heel is just settling upon the second step. Bear down upon tho ball —step foreward in the same track, quick and strong, and the final platform willspeedily at tained. — Phtln. North American. HoiOTCULTUBEIN OREiKJS. Experience prove;, what might otherwise be attributed to the fancy, that the soil of Attica is so sweet that everything planted in it acquires an additional delicacy o. ; flavor. Thus, pear trees transplanted from Mal ta to the gardens of Marinsi, a yiUiage about six I miles from Athens, not only produce more ueli cioua pears, but begin to bear the very first sea son. If such be the cause now, when gardening can hardly be said to be studied at all in the do minions of the young Danish King, what must it have been of old, when the most practiced skillful | and studious of gardeners exhausted their ingenu | ity in the attempt to please the palates of their fastidious countrymen. We have said that the grounds of an Athenian gentlemen were devoted partly to flowers, partly to vegetables, and partly to trees ; but there was a peculiar order in the arangeinont, by which what was beautiful was brought immediately under the eye, while that which merely ministered to utility was fenced off. and screened from observation by copses of agnus castas, or rhododrendrons, or myrtle, or oleander, which, at the proper periods of the year, extend ed ablaze of blossoms between the kitchen-garden and the floral department. Among the citizens of the "fierce democracy," something of oriental tastes and manners continued to prevail down to a very late period ; the windows of the female apart ments were usually turned towards the garden, so that, shaded by amber or purple hangings, they could learn on the sills of marble or carved cedar, and gaze forth in the cool of the morning upon the boquets of arbutus, or the broad waves of pear apple, and poinegranite blossoms, which led the eye towards the loot of Hymettus, the home of the Attic bee, or down to the banns of the Ilissuq shaded by plane tree-, and dotted at intervals by cupolas of white marble, which glittered like new ly carved alabaster in the sun. And here we may as well notice a trait of Athenian manners, which be thought to reflect some credit on the en terprising and grasping Demos, as the Demos, as the men of Dorian blood were wont to denominate it. So little fear had gentlemen that their gardens would be plundered by the people, that footpaths often traversed their orchards, their vineyards, and their kitchen-gardens. One man's grounds were, moreover, separated from another's not by higli walls or insurmountable fences, but by rows of olive or plane trees, thirty or forty feet apart i or by loose hedges of the fragrans phillyrea, with frequent gaps, and bank- studded with wild flow ers. It was even customary among the more op ulent and noble citizens to invite the people not only to stroll at will through their grounds, but whenever they thought proper, to pluck and eat the fruit; and there is no instance on record of this liberty having been abused.— Chambers' Jour-_ nal. THE FORESTERS OF WINDSOR.—In a recently published history of Windsor Forest, a domain of the park connected with the royal castle of Windsor in England, are some amusing accounts of the foresters, a class of privileged squatters who took unwonted liberties with British soil One of them, who, though now above 70 years of ago, never wears a hat, "because he wa'nt born with one," told the author, that a gentle —-•"> jlimio).' t., o rml.t to a road past his cottage, planted first some young trees in tne Lane, but our hatless friend pulled them up again ; then a gate was set up, and somebody appointed to look after it, who came running out when he wanted to pass. "I'll open it, if you please," said the gate-keeper. Thank you very much, mis sis," replied the accosted ; I keep my little key always handy, and will open it myself,"—the "lit tle key" being a formidable pickaxe, which was applied to the lock every time be wanted to pass through the gate. If a commoner could only build himself a hut of turf, and have a fire lighted and a pot boiled in the rudest chimney, the hut became establish ed as a house, was in fact his "castle," and was then wholly, unassailable except by regular pro cess of law, which the forest officers frequently declined to institute. If, however, the pot had not boiled, the forest officers might proceed with out ceremony to pull the house down. With the inclosure of the Forest all such customs have passed away. The commoners were never, much given to deer-stealing, preferring the more sub stantial accumulation of "landed property," which when found out was not so severely punished.— They had vast numbers ot swine, which were turn ed out into the Forrest. One of these men could spin amusing yarns about the good old times. He had been so much among pigs that he regarded them with particular affection, and seemed to un derstand every one of their movements. "The pigs," he said, on one occasion, "are like us, for they will ate most anything ; and yet they arc dif ferent too, for if you put a lot o' things afore a pig he'll always take the best of them first; but when I gets my dinner o' Sundays, I likes my beef and taturs first, and my pudding afterwards. Them as was bred in the Forest it was no manner o' use try in' to keep them in when the acorns began to rattle off the trees ; out they would be. There aint a move but they're up to; and when you want them home, and they won't come, they are aggra watin' ! They'll circumwcnt the artfullest man as ever livc% There aint a bit o' pig as isn't good to ate, as I knows on ; but the sweetest morsel is the wery pint o' his nose, which you scrapes and salts and hangs a fortnight, and the you bvles it with greens and taturs. There's ne'er a pictur ever hangs in a man's cottage as aiquals a gammon of bacon hung up agin the chimney." The old man and two others are the sole survivors of a class which in few years will be extinct in this part of Fngland. WHAT WE OWE TO THE CHUBCH. —Take away the Ch "stian church, nd how ling would the preacher's profession endure? How long would the lecturer on moral and theism And an audi ence? -1 mean a state i Sunday audience, a con gregation pledged to his support? How lon would the Sunday itself survive ? Be sure, it is not the itching ear and the fluent tongue, it is not the Weekly demaii 1 an J . apply of mortal wit that created and maintains the sacred custom, and which made it impossible in revolutionary France tor a nation to do it away. It has other authors and supports than these : reverence and faith and gray tradition, already gray when Jesus went into the tynagogue at Nazareth on the Sabbath day, •'as his custom was," These, and withal a ren-t of mystery and holiness not yet extinct, —even in curiam, questioning Now England, God be prais ed ! not quite cxtin c; the sense of fathomless and awful back-groand to this every day world, ahd a presence that pervades it, and a righteous God, and the consciousness of sin, and the need, of pardoning grace ; and supplication and sacra ments that came not of "art or man's device." — All this is in the heart of the Christian Sunday Vol 37: No. 47 and this is its warrant and reason for being, with out which the Lord's day would straightway sub side into the secular week, and the Christian ru bric, which now tints the civil calendar as with streaks of a heavenly dawn, would go out in one uniform sanctionless, savorless black. For, though the day being given and the temple being given, antisupemataralist ■> and secularists, and trance mediums and all manner of alien voices and min istrations, may find place in its courts ; it is not these, nor the like of these, for whose sake the temple and the Sunday exist. It is not those that created or can keep them a going a single year.— It Ls the Christian church, however disowned, that backs these performers in their several parts, and historical traditional Christianity backs and sus tains the church.— Dr. Hedge in Christian Ex emitter. CCKIOITS DKCOVEBY.-— There was found a few days since, in the diggings of John Chew <k Co.. on Buckeye Hill, in this county, between Green horn Creek and Chalk Bluff mountain, a bee-tree with a large bee hive, honcv and bees, all petri fied. The remaining portion of the tree in which the l>ee-hite was found is 2j feet in diame ter and 40 feet long. Chew <fc Co. found the pe trified bee-hive 75 feet beneath the surface, while piping their claims. The bee-hive is no matter of fancy, but of pure demonstration. Before us is a sample of the comb fuH of honey, all petrified. The normal thickness of the comb, the duplicate of cells with their invariable hexaconal shape, are all before us'as distinctly as if a fresh piece of hon ey comb, all dripping and just cut from the box, had been brought and placed before our eyes on a sheet ef paper.— Cress Valley (Gal.) National, Jtfmg Corns ptmiltmru FROM TENNESSEE. FT. PICKERING, MEMPHIS, Tenn.. 1 Oct. 22, 1864. ' / EDITOR INQUIRER : Since I wrote you last we have changed our base of operations. Last Sunday two hundred and sev enteen men belonging to our regiment were trans ferred to this place. It appears that there were more men in the regiment than is allowed by the regulatians, and, a3 they could not be retained in the companies to which they were assigned, they were "sent here to await instructions from the War Department in relation thereto. The commanding officer, I understand, has asked permission to organ ize a new battallion of the surplus men, but it is ve ry uncertain whether : .eh permission will be grant ed. Until the matter is finally settled I presume we will remain here. We have first rate accommo dations in the barracks, plenty of nicely cooked ra tions. and the duty required of us is very slight in comparison to what we had to do while in camp. Ft. Pickering is a very strong earthwork, about three-fourths of a inile south of Memphis, on the Mississippi river. It was originally in possession of the rebels, but "Uncle Sam" very naturally per suaded them to transfer it to him for an indefinite f "vh T 1 *" """" V s n'l,mounted en barbette . that is, without casemates. Mostly an oi utm large calibre. Until this last scare took place, it has been somewhat out of repair. But in anticipa tion of an attack the colored militia of Memphis were put to work repairing the fortifications, and in constructing new lines of defence within the fort, which are now fully completed. At the same time the fort was re.enforced by troops from Vicksburg and White river, gunboats were stationed in the river both above and below, and every thing put in readiness for an attack, but the rebels acted very prudently by not coming. If they had, they would most assuredly have met with a disastrous defeat. The other day I the pleasure of having a good view of a *' Yankee cheese box" while passsing down the river. Nothing was visible but the terrets, pilot house and smoke stack; the hull was entirely sub merged in the water. The deck was of an oval shape. Altogether it was a novel looking craft, and something that the rebels will not desire to scrape an acquaintance with more than once. The original garrison of the fort consists of the 3d and 7th Heavy Artillery, (both colored.) In drill and discipline they can compete with any white troops I ever saw. They know nothing but doing their whole duty. The other day a soldier attempt ed to violate the instructions of one on guard by crossing his "beat." "Sam" could not sec the point in this, and the other, not paying much atten ; tionto the timely admonition of the guard to "halt," | was fired at, though not receiving any personal inju ry. Of course he was acquitted of all blame, from the fact that he was simply carrying out his instruc tions. Yesterday they were paid off, and a happier set of fellows could not be imagined. We are glad to hear of the firmness with which they are arresting the drafted men and making them face the music. This is as it should be. It is only doing justice to those who arc in the army. It a man remains at home until he is called upon by the revolutions of the wheel at the Provost Marshal s office, it is his duty to go, if he cannot furnish a sub stitute. When they are called upon let them come up to the scratch bravely and quit themselves liko men, and all will be well: if not, they will be made to do it, for the Government is strong enough to en - force the draft wherever any opposition is manifest ed. To-day wo received the uews of another gTeat vic tory gained by Sheridan in the valley of the Shenan doah. It is victory at a very important point. It hits been a hotly contested field. It has been stain ed with blood, as the tide of success ebbed or flowed. It has been the route through which Lee has so of ten threatened Washington. Baltimore and Phila delphia. These victories by Sheridan arc at the right time and right plaee to strengthen the army of (leneral '-ant, and to nerve-anew ail loyal men. We trust .hat an arm is ice will not be talked of. and that nothing will prevent the Government from moving 1 forward to the overthrow of the rebellion. So far the draft progresses favorably, the battered regiments are fast filling np and the fall campaign opens favorably. Between this and the time the wet season sets in we shall hear of stirring deeds.— "Courage, loyal people! i*heendcomeih! Peace is coining so near, that the gentle nestle of her white wings may be heard! She is coming, not with dis grace; she is coming, not to order back into slavery the men who light our battles, or to rivet anew bro ken chains. No: but coming attended by freedom and righteousness. The soldiers here are almost a unit in favor of "Old Aim." One entire regiment voted to a man in favor of his re-election. The 121 th 1 Uiuois before leaving Vicksbnrg to re-enforce this place, took a vote, and out of some 550 men, Mcdellan received the insignificant number of 4-5 votes. By this yon will see whatjhe army is going to do for the "Young Napoleon." Lincoln's re-election is a fixed ihiue. (We hope so. The other side of this paper will tell the story. —ED. IsquiaKu,) Hurrah "for Old Abe." More anon- ALBSJKT SMITH.
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