Volume 27, ®jje Centre gemoerat. IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY - J. J. BRISBIN. Ojffice in Reynold* Iron Front, Second Floor. TRRMS. —SI,SO if paid in advance or within six lonths after subscribing,otherwise $2 will invari ably be charged. No subscriptions received for & shorter period than six months and none dis continued, unless at the option of the editor, until ail arrearages are paid. Volunteers Chorus. Come sing the piaiso Of the good old days Of our brave grandsires before us, Who bore to the wars Our flag of Stars, With a good o'd rousing chorus! Through thick and thin, i T)did battle's din, King George's rage defying, They marched to the field, And would not yield, But kept the old flag flying. CHORUS.— Then here's throe cheers, For the volunteers ! With traitors no communion! For the flag of the brave, Shall ever wave, For Liberty and Union ! To the souni of the drum, They come, come, come, From every hill and valley, Like the waves of the sea, For the land of the free, With hear.s of fire they rally ! On ! on to the fight, Thro' the day, thro' the night; There'll soon be stormy weather By the girls we love We'll heroes prove, Or stand and fall together ! CHORUS. — Then here's three cheers, ic Here's the green mountain men, From the wood and glen, And from the craggy highland, And iho Jtr ey Blue, With his rifle true, And the stout boys of Bhode Island ! The Empire State, Who cannot wait, Crowds on from her furthest regions, And the mighty West, I roiu her teeming breast. Pours down her couquering legions ! CHORUS.— Then here's three cheers Ac. We'll hang Jeff. Davis On a tree, j Upon his own plantation ! And his reward Give Beauregard, And charge it to the N..tion ! And we'll bring from the wars The stripes aud stars, When all our toils are over, With a song to the praise Of the good old days, And live and die in clover. Cno2.cs.—Then here's three cheers, Ac. A New Version of an Old Song. DEDICATED TO THE LONDON TIMES. God save Coiton, our King! God save our noble King ! God save the King! ■ Send him the sway he craves, Britons his willing slaves ! ■•Rule," Cottou "Kule the waves," GOd save the King! Outweighing truth and fame, Cotton shall cloak our shame, Freedom an empty name. God save the King ! Careless of good or ill, Cotton is sovereign still, Voile we our empty pockets fill. God save the King ! Slowly we bind the knee, To his autocracy ; Cotton rule the free ! God save the King ! ARTEHTJS WARD IH THE SOUTH IIIS TRIALS AND ADVENTURES. I had a narrer escape from the sonny South. "The swings and arrers of outrajus fortin," alluded to by Uamlick, warn't no thin in comparison to my troubles. I came pesky near swearin some profane oaths, more'n onct, but I hope 1 didn't do it, for I've promist she whose name shall be name less (except that her initials is Betsey J.) that I'll jine the Meetin House at Baldins villejestas soon as I can scrape money cnuft together so as I can 'ford to be pius in gtod stile, like my welthy naburs. But if I'm confisticated agin I'm afraid I shall con tinner in my present benited state for sum time. I figgered conspicyusly in maDy thrilling r.eenes in my tower from Montgomery to my .mrasted, and on several occasions I thought "the grate comic paper" wouldn't never be inriched no more with my lubrications. Ar ler bidden adoo to Jefferson D. I started for the depot. I saw a nigger sittin on a fence ■ a playin on a banjo. "My Afrikin Brother," sed I, cotin from a Track I onct red, " you beloDg to a very interestin race. Your mas ters is goin to war excloosively on your ac couut." '•Yees boss," he replied, "an I wish 'em honorable graves !" and he went on playin the banjo, larfio all over and openiu his mouth wide enuff to drive in an old fashion ed 2 wheeled ohaist. The train of cars in which I was to Irust my wallerable life was the scaliest, rickyt iest lookin lot of consarns that I ever saw on wheels afore. " What time does this ptirringof second hand coffins leave ? I in quired of the depot master. He sed direckly, and I went in & sot down. . I hadn't more'n fairly squatted afore a dark lookin man with a swinister expres sion onto his countenance entered the cars, and lookin very sharp at me, he axed what was my principles. " Secesh !" I answered. "I'm a Disso lutor. I'm in favor of Jeff. Davis, Boure gard, Pickens, Capt Kidd, Bloobeard, Muuro ;3dards, the devil, Mrs. Cunningham and all the rest of 'em." "You're in favor of the war ?" " Certingly. By all means. I'm in favor of this war and also of the next war. I've u-een in fa vol of the next war for the last sixteen years !" " War to the knife-!" sed the man. " Blud, Eargo, biud!" sed I. tho them Tords isn't origgernal with me. Them words was rit by Shakspere.who is ded. His "lantle fell onto the author of " The Seven % Jfaroilj) |tepptr—-ffibofti) ioJ|oMts, Ctmptrante, literature, Science, ®|e Jjttcjranics, Agriculture, ®|)c Markets, ©mcation, Amusement, Neutral Intelligence, etc., Sisters," who's going to hav a spring over coa made out of it. We got under way at larst, 'an proceeded on our journey at about the rate of speed which is generally observed by properly conducted funeral processions. A hansum yung gal, with a red musketer bar on the back part of her hed, and a sassy little black hat tipt over her forrerd. sot in the seat with me. She wore a little Secesh flag pin'd onto her hat, and she was a goin for to see her troo love, who had jined the Southern army, all so bold and gay. So she told me. She was chilly, and I offered her my blanket. " Father livin ?" I axed. "Yes, sir'' " Got any uncles ?" " A heap. Uncle Thomas is ded, tho." " Peace to UDcle Thomas' ashes, and suc cess to him ! 1 will be your Uncle Thomas ! Lean on me. my pretty Secesher, and linger in blissful repose 1" She slept as secoorly as in her own house, and didn't disturb the solium stillness of the night with 'ary a snore. At the first station a troop of sojers en tered the cars and inquired if " Old Wax Works" was on bored. That was the dis respective stile in which they referred to me. " Becawz if Old Wax Works is on bored," sez a man with a face like a double breasted lobster, " we're going to hang Old Wax Works !" '• My illustrious and patriotic Bummers !" sez I. a gittin up and taken orf my Shappoe, "if you allude to A. Ward, its my pleasin dooty to inform you that he's ded. He saw the error of his ways at 15 minits past 2 yesterday, and stabbed hisself with a stuffed sledstake, dyin in five beautiful tablees to slow moosic ! His last words was : *My perfesshernal career is over ! I jerk no more !' " " And who be you ?" " I'm a stoodent ir. Senator Benjamin's law offis. I'm goin up North to steal sum spoons and other things for the Suthern Ar my." This was satisfactry, and the intossicated troopers went orf. At the next station the pretty little Secesher awoke and sed she must git out there. I bid her a kind adoo and giv her some pervisions. "Accept my blessin and this hunk of gingerbread !" sed 1. She thjmkt me muchly and tript galy away. There's considerable human nater in a man, and I'm afraid I shall alters giv aid and comfort to the enemy if he comes to me in the shape of a nice young gal. At the next station I didn-'t get oi l so easy. I was dragged out of the cars and rolled in the mud for several minits, for the pnrpuss of " takin the conseet out of me," as a Secesher kindly stated. I was let tip finally, when a powerful large Secesher caire up and embraced me, and to show he had no hard feelings again me, put his nose into my mouth. I returned the compliment by placing my stunimick sud dinly agin his right foot, when he kindly made a spittoon of his able-bodied face.— Actooated by a desire to see whether the Secesher had been vaxinnated, I then fast ened my teeth onto his left coat-sleeve and tore- it to the shou'der. We then vilently butted our heads'together for a few minits, danced around a little and sot down in a mud puddle. We riz tq our feet again & by a suddint and adroic movement T placed my left eye again the Secesher's fist. We then rushed into each other's arms, and felt under a two horse wagon. I was very much exhausted,, and didn't care about gittin up again, but the man said he reconed I'd bet ter, and I concloodcd I would. Ha pulled me up, but I hadn't been on my feet more than two seconds afore the gtound flew up and hit me on the hed. The crowd sed it was high old sport, but I couldn't 'zactly see where the lafture come in. 1 riz and we embraced agin. We careered madly to a steep bank, when I got the upper hand of my antagonist and threw him into the ra veen. He fell about forty feet, striking a grindstone pretty hard. I understood he was injured. I haven't heard from the gi indstone. A man in a cockt hat cum up and sed he felt as tho a apology was doo me. There was a mistake. The crowd had taken me for another man ! I told him not to men tion it, axed him if his wife and little ones was so's to be about, and got on bored the train, which had stopped at that statioh "20 minits for refreshments." I got all I wantid. It was the heartiest meal I ever et. I was rid on a rale the next day, a bunch of blazin firecrackers bein tied to my cote tales. It was a fine spectycle in a dramatic pint of view, but I didn't ingoy it. I had other adventers of a startin kind, but why continner ? Why lasserate the Public Boo zum with these hear things? Suffysit to say I got across Masons & Dixon's line safe at last. I made tracks for my humsted but she with whom I'm haraissed for life failed to recognize, in the einashiated. bein before her, the gushin youth of forty-six summers who had left her only a few months afore. But I went into the pantry, and brought out a certain black bottle. — Raisin it to my lips, I sed " Hero's to you old gal!" I did it so natral that she knew ed me at once. " Those form! Them voice! That natral stile of doin things ! <l 'Tis he!" she cried, and rushed into my arms. It was too much for her & she fell into a swoon. I cum very near swounding myself. No more to day from yours for the perpe tration of the Union, and the bringin of the Goddess of Liberty out of her present bad fix. ARTEMUS WARD. LOOK. WELL AFTER THE MEN. —The N. Y. Evening Post has some timely "Words to Volunteer Officers," which should be preser ved by them for frequent perusal. The fol lowing paragrepb deserves speeial attention: But few of the officers in our volunteer Arm have held the experience of a campaign. They are learning their duties as they go on, day by day. Let them remember this, that in whatever else they fall short, if they will only look out sharply and unremittingly for the comlert of their men, they will not fail to render a good account of themselves in time of battle. And let them remember, too, that no other quality, or knowledge, or talent, will make up for neglect of this point. |gy* It is said that Ruasel aDd Floyd have aken the contract of transporting the Con federate capital from Montgomery to Rich mood. Baily is their security for its faith ful performance. " m STAND UPON THE IMMUTABLE PRIN'CIPLES OP JUSTIDE-NO EARTHLY POWER SHALL DRIVE US FROM OUR POSITION." Bellefonte, Centre County, Penna., Thursday Morning, June 20 1861. I Senator Douglas's Last Hours. The Chicago Tribune, in a long notice of Senator Douglas, says:— " In his last days, be gave those who stood I near to minister to his wants ; the most con vincing assurance of the depth and earnest ness of the lively love of country that fi'led his heart. In his wakirg pours, asjwel! as in those moments when the violence of his dis ease unseated his great intellect, he was busy with national events, and the conflict that is now upon us. It was his last wish that the work which will regenerate the country while rescuing it from his enemiee should go rap idly on. To one, in a wandering moment, I he said, " I station you at the Relay House I Move on !" Of another he asked, " Why do we stand still ? let us press on ! Let us to Alexandria quick I" To still another he said, | " Telegraph to the President, and let the column move on !'' And so throughout the progress of tba disease which struck him down, he was thinking of his country and h:r peril. At Washington, in his imagin ! ings, and ic the command for which nature hid fitted him, and which would have been bestowed had he lived, he seemed to direct events and dictate victory. And when the lucid intervals came, he was, if not so em phatic, not less sincere. The salvation of the Republic was uppermost in his thoughts by day apd by night. Ilis own condition, the imminent peril of death, his complicated afs> fairs gave him no concern. Almost his last coherent words, were an ardent wish for the honor and prosperity of the Republic, by the defeat and dispersion of hr enemies. The Country, regardless of party distinctions, wherever tne love of the Stars and Stripes is nut repressed by the terrorism which he knew and bated, will treasure up bis dying prayer and make his hopes aud aspirations iho rule of patriotic endeavor." In another article the Tribune says: " It was not until some ten days since that Senator Douglas's illness assummed an aiaiming type. From the first he had been attended by some of our medical talent, and latterly it was thought aesirable to sum mon bitber Dr. Miller, of Washington, in whose care Mr. Douglas has passed through former severe illnesses. Dr. Miller and the Washington relatives of Mrs. Douglas reach ed Chicago on the 25th alt., and since then l ave been closely in attendance UJOJ him. " Throughout the latter part of last week, Mr. Douglas's condition was deemed ex tremely critical, with the chances against his recovery. His primary attack was acute rheumatism, which rapidly assumed a ty phoid character, and continued from tho first very unyielding. After some some ten or twelve days, his malady was complicated by nn ulcerated sore throat, which soon yielded. Torpur of the liver and constipation of the bowels ensued, soon followed by a jaundiced condition, accompanied by poisoning of the blood, which prostrated his nervous system still more. " A wandering; and delirious state accom panied his illness more or less lrom its in ception to its fatal close. At such times as he was rational last-week, he s< emed aware of the grave fears entertained in his behalf, and on one occasion said to those about him, that he knew his constitution so much better than thej did, he felt confident he should re cover from the attack. Doubtless his will and courage, joined to his great physical powers, had much to do with his so long con tinuing to resist a malady before which fee bler men would have rapidly succumbed. " Throughout Saturday it was feared he could not survive many hours. As night fall drew near, without any positive change having taken place in his disease, he yet seemed easier, and so passed the night, lie had only brief intervals of consciousness af ter this, but lay in a quiet state, gradually but surely sinking. At times he briefly ral lied, but it was not to a clear conception of what was transpiring about him. On one occasion, indeed, it was evident that memory and habit of mind wa9 strong in the dying statesman, and that his thoughts were once more in the Senate Chamber. One of his physicians, Dr. Hay, was administering a blister. " What are you doing?" asked the patient; " stop, there are twenty against me, the measure is defeated I" " At an early hour yesterday morning he had an interval cf rallying, was rational, convirsed briefly with those about him, and then sank gently and quietly until ten min utes past 9 A. M. when he breathed his last quietly and without a struggle. " llis devoted and loving wife remained with him to the last moment. Madison Cutts, his brother-in-law, Miss Young of the Tremont House, B. G. Caulfield and Dr. Hay were also present." BgT" The number of letters directed to par ties in the seceded States is not materially decreased from the number sent before the issuance of the Postmaster-General's procla mation. If persons are fond of writing mis* sives which find their way only to the dead letter office, we congratulate them on the op portunity now presented to carry out their desires. The stoppage of mail matter to the rebellions States is complete, aDd will con tinue so till the rebellion is crushed- APPROPRIATE. —Artemus Ward, of wax figure notoriety, styles the rebel government the " Southern CoulAieveracy An English Talent. If the English are remarkable for any one quality, it is for their facility in makiog themselves disagieeable an 5 disliked. This tbey have practiced so unremittingly on the continent if Europe that they have not a single sincere friend amongst the Conti nental Powers, from St- Petersburg to Lis bon. They were formerly tolerated for the facility with which tbey spi nt their money : but now, as oily themselves say, the Ameri cans have elipeed them in that respect. Their facility for excising unfriendliness and its re sults were strikingly displayed after Wel lington's campaigns in Spain. No sooner was peace made than the English were as tonished to find that tbey, tl.e allies of the Spaniard-i, were less yopular than the French, who had been devastating the country for years. So, too, the prints of Napoleon's vic tories are to be found hangmg everywhere through the count iea which he conquered, but who ever saw on the continent a print of Waterloo, the battle in which England con sidered that she liberattd Europe!? Foy many years the Americans have been more friendly to the English than any other people. Where could such a spontaneous ovation be called forth for any member of the royal family es that received here by the Prince of Wales? Fiisndsbip sueh as this, from a free and intelligent people, was cer tainly worth cherishing ; but where is it now ? Gone, dispelled, thanks to English hankering after cotton —shatterd by the rib aldry of tbe London Times, so extensively re printed in this country, and by the studious misrepresentation of kindred journals. The senseless vituperation of these papers is laying the foundation of a hostile feeling towards England which may yet render a war welcome. She has tried her hand twice upon us, and we scarcely think the results were encouraging for future contents. Difference between Forts and For tresses. There is but one fortress in the United States—Fortress Monroe ; all the other for tified places defending our harbors are call ed forts. The distinction betwixt these two terms is very wide. All fortresses are forts or fortified places ; but all forts are not for tresses. A fort may be simply an ad vanced work to protect the extended walls of a fortress. Generally fortresses are exten sive encientes for the reception of the garri s >ns, and luilt for the protection of cities In the United States no extensive fortified places, with large garrisons, have been con structed for the defence of cities. Fortifica tions in this country have bad reference prin eipally to harbor defence. Fortress Monroe, with its capacity for a garrison, (it includes 75 acres,) was con structed for tho defence of the important Navy Yard of Gosport anl Norfolk, now in possession of Virginia or the Confederate States. The construction of the extensive wells of a fortress involves the highest sci ence of engineering. 'Nt so with the foi-ts. The former implies polygons, bastions, cur tains, glacis, covered ways, planks, fcarps and counter scarps, ravelins, redans, re doubts, and the whole vocabulary of engin eering science. Add to this idea a vast en cienle, or circumvallation, to cor tain a large garrison of troops, and a fortress rises to its proportionate majesty. A full garrison for fortress Monroe is 3 000 men. Death of Hon. Geo. M. Keim. On the 10th inst., the Hon Gro. M. Keim died at his residence, in Reading, after a short but painful illness. On the sth inst., while attending to bis duties as Captain of a Company if Home Guard, h9 Was attacked with paralytis, and although every endeavor was made by skilful physicians, it was found impossible to resuscitate him. At an early age General Keim was elected a member of Congross from Berks county.— In the year 1843 he was appointed United States Marshall of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. At the last election he was one if the Brekinridge Electors, and labored zealously in the cause ho had espoused. He was a man of generous impulses, cultivated intellect, and enlarged views of men and af fairs, and his loss will be keenly felt by a large circle of personal and political friends. He leaves a family of three sons and three daughters. Newport News Point. The Origination of the name* of this Point, lately made notorious by the advance of Gen, Butler's force, is thus explained: " The early colony on James River was at one time reduced to a straitened condition, aDd some of its members started down the James River, with the intention of proceed ing to England. They reached the bend in the river, which is at present SD object of in terest, and paused for some days. When they wore about to set sail, they saw a ship coming up the Roads, bearing tbe British ensign. They delayed till it should arrive. It proved to be Lord Newport's ship, with bis Lordship on board, who brought the in. telligence that the ship which tbeeolcny bad long before despatched to England for sup plies, and which was many months overdue, was near at hand, bringing much needed re lief. Meantime, bis Lordship distributed provisions among tbe colonists, who, from these circumstances, named the plaoe "New port's News," on account of the good tidings which bis Lordship brought them." General Scott. History teaches the best lesson that man can learn. When we bring up its records with the present—when we array its truths with our own experiences, we are as often impressed with the faet that we have been mistaken in cur estimation of men and our • judgment of their merits, as we have hereto fore shown our ingratitude for their services. Gen, Scott, for instance, was as great a man and as skillful an officer twenty years ago, as he is now, but how many of the American ; people would admit the fast? He fought | as well atLundy's Lane as he did from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, but when the smoke of battle had vanished and the intox ication of victory had passed away, Gen. Scott was rejected by the American people for the highest office in their gift, and the | honor conferred on CDe below him in rank in the Army, and scarcely nis equal as a wise and sagacious statesmen. The rejection did not affect the loyalty of the Hero. While the American people thus preferred another, Gen. Scott expressed no chagrin at his own rejection, shewed no bitterness towards those who were successful, but steadily and stern* ly devoted himself to his country. lie was almost forgotten in the midst of the political revelry and debauchery that filled the coun" try after the Mexican war—forgotten by all savo the malevolence and spite of those who were then in power. It was not enough that tbe American people should refuse him their confidence after he had crowned the national escutcheon with the trophies of his victories, but it was ieserved for the American Gov ernment to attempt tbo disgrace of its OWD veteran cheif, to labor to destroy one who was bleeding for wounds be receiyed whiffi struggling in its defence. Had such ingrat itude occurred when the Caesars wielded the'r falchions, the hero, backed by bis army would have demolished the government that s 'Ught his disgrace. But while all the other departments were reeking with corruption— while [lace made men dishonest, and public servants either became seetet or avowed traitors, Winfield Scott almost stood alone, tbe friend of his ungreatful country in ber darkest peril. lie saw the Army dwindling away under the influence of treason—he bo° held its resources destroyed, its supplies filched, and discipline closed his lips, but be was still the friend of his country. For four years he was aware of tbe existence of trea* son, but was prevented from striking, until at length cr me and the excesses of traitors brought the guilt before the country—and when Winfield Scott stood forth almost the only support and defender of that countiy. lie turned a deaf ear to flattery, and remem bered none of tbe insults and neglects heap ed upon himself. He refused the appeals from the State of his birth, scorned their of. f;red honors and spit upon thsir proffered praisea. Ilis country was in danger, aDd tba* demanded and received bis loyalty, his labor and his services Honor then, to Gen. Scott. lie may be engaged in bis last campaign, but tbe last laurel to decorate his home will never be wreathed. That will be immortal. PARSON BROWNLOW'S DAUGHTER.—A gen tleman just arrived in Chicago from Knox ville. Tenn.. brings intelligence of affairs in that city. He says that 2,500 Secession troops aie stationed there, for the express purpose of over awing the Union men. It is a part of their business to engage in quarrels in saloons, and in street fights, with all who are not friendly to Secession. Two men were last week shot for no other offence than speaking words of loyality to the Federal Government. The house of the celebrated, bold-hearted, and out-spoken Parson Brown low. is the only one in Knoxville over which the Stars and Stripes are floating. A few ; days ago, two armed Secessionists went at six o'clock in the morning, to haul down the Stars and Stripes. Miss Brownlow, a brilliant young lady of twenty-three, saw them on the piazza, and stepted out and demanded their business. They replied that they had come to " take down them d n Stars and Stripes." She instantly drew a revolver from her side and present ing it, said : "Goon ! I'm good for one of you and I think for both !" " By the looks of that girl's eye she'll shoot," one remarked. "I thinkwe'dbet ter not try it; we'll go back and get more men," said the other. ' " Go and get more men," said the noble lady ; " get more men and come and take it down, if you dare." They returned with a company of ninety armed men, and demanded that the flag should be hauled down ; but on discovering that the house was filled with gallant men, armed to the teeth, who would rather die than see their country's flag dishonored, the Secssionists retired. The Post Office Department. WASHINGTON, June 13.— The Postmaster- General is engaged in determining on a new style of stamped envelopes, to be ready for the public use in a few days. The new stamps will not be furnished until the first of August. These changes have been ren dered neceassarv by the large supplies res tained by the Postmasters in the Seoeded States, and now used by them without uquiv alent to the United States Post Office De partment. About two dozen of these Post masters have returned balances of stamped envelopes and stamps in sums ranging from eighty cents to five dollars, while the Post master of Mobile recently accounted for S2COO worth. Although the Postmaster at Memphis had in his possession such proper ty amounting to SBOOO, he wroto for an ad ditional supply of larger value, but this was refused, his dishonest intentions having been deteoted. Elegant Extracts from Southern Pi pers. From the Vicksburg Whig. Is the North peopled with Christians, or with savages? Is the light that shone from Calvary's bloody summit extinguished, and are our Northern foes by the dark at d lurid flame that pilots devils to their carnival ? Has the Congress of Hell held its session, and have they commission ed all the legions of the damned to demonize our enemies ? Has Lucifer given a furlough ito all his infernal cohorts? lias he estab lished his church id every Black Republi can's heart, and has he ordained Belial and 1 Moloch his High Priests? Are we to have ! a war with devils? These questions must be answered. Our implacable foes, goaded ! on by a hatred that is remorseless and unre lenting, because they have insulted and in jured us, have already answered them. They | have inaugurated.a war of extermination—a ; war in which no mercy is to be shown or ' quarter given. Let it bs so ! The South has never asked a favor of her enemies. She asks none now. From ihe Lexington [Ky.] Statesman. We rejoice at the death of Ellsworth, and only regret that every man who followed him did not share his fate; we lament the sacrifice of the gallant Virginian. * * We trust that every Colonel in the Federal ser vice will meet his Jackson, and that every Hessian will find his grave upon her soil. From the New Orleans Delta. Thus far the Northern horde have lost two of their most renowned Colonels before they have encountered any army force of the South. Ellsworth, an upstart summerset burner, who carried a strolling company of so-call Zouaves about the country last Sum mer, exhibiting their feats of grand and lofty tumbling at 25 cents admissioc, children and Degroes half price, has suffered the pen alty of an act of audacity and insult to the Confederate States ; and Col. Vosburgh, a commander of one of the New York regi ments, died recently from the effect of over exertion and excitement, at the Relay House. This is the beginning of the end. There are a few others of these ruffians whom we oom mend to the special notice of our sharpshoot ers. The blear-eyed demagogue of Massa chusetts, the uxorious Sickles, and shoot-him down Dix, have a very earnest ambition for the subjugation, and we hope they will be allowed a fair chance of earning the laurels they seek. From the Charleston Mercury. Our telegraphic despatches come laden with news ofmementous import. The heart beats high, for war has commenced in Vir ginia—Alexanliia is lost, Hampton is occu | cupied, and tbe cause is won. We would not have had it delayed a day. Let the march of war be onward, Let tbe tramp re sound thioughout the land; for the thunder of his tread proclaims the eternal indepen dence of the great Conservative, Southern Slave Republic. Fling high the Cap of Lib erty, and God speed the Old Dominion ! Regenerate and disenthralled from tbe polit ical vassalage to the brutal mobocracy under which she has so long been held, as udder an opiate drug, again the old State of the Cavalier blood has roused her in her pride, to shield her honor with her breast. Let the blow come, and let it cleare the Continent ot America as with a cimetar, from the Atlan tic to the Pacific. War has commenced —the soil of Virginia has been invaded and occupied by a ruffian horde, and, if we mistake not the stuff of which Southern men are made, that blow has at last been struck which shall peal, like the lightning from heaven over the vast for* est, through the million of burning hearts at the South. Not so much that Virginia has been outraged, not that Alaxandrla has been overrun, not that Hampton is occupied ; but that one of those deeds ot heroism has been performed which paint the pages of history in light, bring back tbe days of noble chival ry, and spread glory over the escutcheon of the Mother State. The deed of patriotism p9iformed by Jackson has stained, for the first time, the " Stars and Bars" of the don federate flag with blood—and that blood worthy of a true Southern heart—the blood of a martyr and a hero. Upon his own hearth he fell, arms in hand dealing death to the insulter of that Sag one man against a thousand murderers. lie fell, hewed to peices by the rabble horde.— But bis spirit will live —upon the storm—and like the hurricanes of the South, will sweep from the uttermost shores of the Gulf to the rugged mountain peak of the North. It will soar over the fields of bloody battles to come, andsbriek aloud for vengeance amid carnage. It shall rush forth in the booming of every cannon, and shall gleam in the fiashing of every Southern blade. And it will live, too, in times to come, when the smoke of battle shall have passed away, and the memory of blood shall have almost been forgotten. The name of Jackson shall be enshrined in the heart of Virginia, as the name of Jasper in South Carolina, and recorded upon the brightest pages of her history. His death is victory won, and his name shall be inscribed, in monumental marble, by the side of Vir> ginia's worthiest sons. Hark to the Bugle's Call, BY WM. MARSHALL SWAYNE. Hark to tbebugle'g call— The mustering fife and drum, Treason is up in arms ! Come to the rescue—come !' Arm for the deadly strife—draw for the fl ig of the i free ! Ring out—ring out the battle shout—death or victory. See ! where our flag lies torn— Our country's laws defied ; Down with the traitor foe— Scatter his colutns wide— Charge on the traitor band—3trike for the flag of the free ! Ring out—ring out the battle shout—death or victory. Patriots tried and true, Prompt at your country's call Sweep from our broad domain Treason and traitors all ; | Charge on the rebel bands—follow them where they flee! Ring out—ring out the conq'ring shout, victory ! victory ! CLIPPINGS; ~ A glorious camp meeting tbat, at Fortress Monroe. Who wants a better " National Hint" than General Scott t Major General George McClelland, next in rank to General Scott, is only thirty-three years of age, Dogs are said to speak with their tails. — Would it be proper to call a short-tailed dog a stump orator 1 England will send a Beet to the American coast to protect her commerce against Jeff. Davis' pirates. The Connecticut State Prison is the only institution of the kind in the country which ; is rnn at a profit. Gen. Bragg has prohibited any letter wri ting from the C. S. A. army before Pickens to the newspaper. Union Clubs are forming all through Cal. | iforiiia, and the hope of sympathy with the South is clubbod out forever. The number of troops which bavo left New i York for the seat of hostilities is twenty-eix regiments, or about 25,000 men. The President has endorsed the action of the Missouri Brigade by issuing a commies* ion of Brigadier-Genera! to Capt. Lyon. There is a firm in Elgin, Illinois, known ss " Gray and Lunt." Half the letters come to them are directed to " Lay and Gruni." In Richmond, Va,, they are issuing shia plasters for twenty-five and fifty cents, and others redeemable in payment for taxes. Horseflesh is regularly quoted in the mar ket prices current of several towns in Ger many, not on the hoof, but out up for food. A new projectile has been invented in France, weighing 90 pounds, which, falling in a columns of troops is expected to kill 100 men. Two men were frozen to death on the first day of May, at L'lslet, C. E., while return ing from a sugar bush in the vicinity of that place. Jefferson Davis, in his late message, eon* fesses tbat only eight millions of the fifteen million dollars Confederate loan were sub scribed, Spurgeon commenced his pulpit career at the age of 19, in a small barn at Cambrige shire. His popularity is increasing. Dr. Livingston, the African traveler, writes that he passed many large fields of cotton on the Zambesi, the article hav'ng a pile an inch and a half long. The Red Rover of Alabama, Mr Yanoy, has not been publicly received by the British Minister, yet he seems to have suooeded ia getting its private-ear. Some slanderer asserts that paper makers are the greatest magicians of the age, inas much as they transfer beggarb' rags into sheets for editors to lie on. A Mexican recently dug the body of an Indian from his grave, near Mokelunme Ilill Cal., and took from the mouth of the defunct three dollars which bad been placed tbere by his tribe. Some of the Southern papers are advoca ting the erection of a monument to Jackson the murderer of Ellsworth—who has, they say given new lustre to the historic name.— Ob, II —icory. Gen. Scott says that when soldiers go to battle they carry their stomachs with them. The rebel soldiers realize this, and thus far, when attacked, have taken the care to turn that portion of their body from the assail ant. The Detroit Tribune states that €. H. O- Rearden, one of Cardigan's regiment, the gallant six hundred who rode through that solid phalanx of Russians at Balakiava, and sabred the artillery men at their guns, has enpsted in the Coldwater Light Artillery Corps of Michigan- SENTINEL CHALLENGES.—A gentleman late from the troops at the Relay House says the sentinels have, in many instances, a pleas* ant way of making challenges : A fellow who had been fishing on the ?o tapsco, and had secured a fine string of fish was stopped by the usual question, " Who goes there ?" " Fisherman was the answer. " Advance, fisherman, and drop two shad," said the alert sentinel, looking out for his own commissariat. The Montgomery Confederation gives the following from the correspondent: "On the first night after my arrival, in passing from one quarter to another, I was stopped by a sentinel whom I recognized as private P , (though he did oot recognize me,) I was asked for the countersign, and replied, " a friend with a bottle and the reply was " advance bottle and draw stope per," which I did, and was suffered to pass on my way rejoicing." Number 20
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