The summer meadows green and cool, And dropping to unquiet sleep, Fond memories round me play, Like kindly visitants, that keep The homesick pain away. A blessing on the fevered dream Which gathers all things near! Love, tender word, and sunny beam, Home faces, glad and dear. Perchance the prayers in absence breathed, Thus hallowed may descend, rebels during a reconnoissance near Fairfax, and taken to Richmond, and thence sent to prison in North-Carolina. There he saw extracts published from the Troy papers, where the Thirtieth regiment was mostly recruited, stating that he was disloyal, having deserted his comrades, and had gone over to the rebels. Determined to resent this imputation on his name, he managed to escape from Portsmouth, N. C., and made his way to Norfolk; but failing to get further North, he returned to North-Carolina, and was offered employment on the rebel gunboat Fanny, which he was forced to accept, and was employed in surveying inland waters for the rebels. In connection with another loyal man he obtained a small boat and managed to join Gen. Burnside at Hatteras. It was he who piloted the expedition to the landing-place on Roanoke Island, and in no small degree thus contributed to the great victory won by our forces. He joined his regiment, and then obtained a furlough to return to Gen. Burnside, first visiting his home in Lansingburgh, N. Y. His adventures were listened to with much interest at headquarters.-Louisville Journal, Feb. 22. should the army move, prove invaluable in detecting the operations of the enemy, and the prompt transmission of their movements to headquarters, and the conveyance of orders to different divisions and brigades. So effectual are the means that have been taken to prevent accident and delay that it will be impossible for more than one out of a dozen lines to fail at once. Strong guards will be kept all along the wires wherever they cross over exposed country, as the army moves, to prevent obstruction in any form, and to prevent an opportunity of stealing information from the wires. THE EIGHTH OF JANUARY IN NEW-ORLEANS.-In our celebration of this day, then, let it be borne in mind that it is with no pride and exultation in the triumph of our arms over the British, with no unkindly reminiscences of them, but with a conscious valor and resolution to maintain our soil and our honor against all invaders, and with a feeling predominant over all others, of inextinguishable hate and undying hostility against the enemy who, in a far worse cause and in a manner more unjustifiable and barbarous, now pollutes our soil with his foot-prints. Great and signal as was the victory on the plains of Chalmette, a far more splendid and glorious triumph will that be which shall send the infamous Yankees howling in disgrace and agony from our shore back to their impoverished and blighted homes. The anticipation of such a victory, far more than the event of which this is the anniversary, will give significance to the celebration of this day.N. O. Crescent, January 8. MUNCHAUSENIANA. Memphis, Jan. 9, 1862. A mercantile firm here has received a letter from a friend in the south of Kentucky, stating that the Federal Government had made clandestine arrangements, and pardoned convicts and desperate characters of the North, to scatter them through the South, and set fire and burn everything, especially manufactures and machine-shops. The Unionists were paying them liberally for such work, believing it a good mode to cripple the South. The information was obtained from a party employed under the Federal Government, and was communicated to warn the South. Twenty Union officers resigned at Cairo on Saturday, and have gone home.-Memphis Appeal, Jan. 9. Jan. 16.-The army telegraph now consists of over one thousand miles of wire stretched through the different camps, from the headquarters of Gen. Hooker on the left, running towards the right wing till it reaches Hancock, Maryland. One hundred and ten operators are now in the employ of the Government. Mr. Eckert, the Assistant Superintendent in charge of Richmond, Jan. 16. The joint resolutions submitthis Department, has run a separate line to the head-ted a few days since, in the Virginia Senate, by Mr. quarters of each general commanding a division. For instance, Gen. McClellan can sit at the table in his private house, and talk to the different generals, all at one and the same time, and independent of one another. When any division moves, the line can also be extended, as each division has a corps of builders, and a supply of wire, poles and insulators always ready. In several divisions each brigadier-general has an instrument upon the line, and is in direct conference with his immediate commanding general the whole time. Large wagons have been provided for the operators and their batteries to travel in, with sleeping apartments, tents, equipage and everything necessary, thus making the telegraphic department the most efficient and thorough branch in the whole army; and, in connection with the balloon corps of Professor Lowe, will, Pate, in relation to the reclamation of Western and North-western Virginia, were taken up and unanimously adopted. The resolutions declare that in no event will the State of Virginia submit to, or consent to the loss of a "foot of her soil," etc., and are designed to reassure and encourage the loyal people of the invaded sections. On motion of Mr. Finney, of Accomac, the preamble was amended by striking out the specific locality, and made to include all the invaded counties. - Richmond Dispatch. A LOYAL TOWN. -The town of Claremont, in the good old Granite State, has done her full share in putting down this most unnatural rebellion, if the num ber of men furnished to the Union armies be taken as a criterion. Since the war commenced, the town has sent the following men to do service for their country: Eighty-four men for the three months' service; fiftyfive men for the Second regiment, who were at Bull Run; thirty-eight men for the Third regiment, now at Beaufort; a full company, one hundred and one men, for the Fifth regiment on the Potomac; seventeen men for the Seventh regiment, now at Manchester, and thirty-three men for the cavalry regiment, now at Providence. This makes a total of three hundred and twenty-eight men gone, out of a voting population of about one thousand.-National Intelligencer, Jan. 16. JOHN K. LINCOLN, one of the rebel prisoners at St. Louis, is a cousin of the President, and a wealthy citizen of Clinton County, Mo. He is charged with having permitted the rebels to secrete ammunition in his cellar, inducing young men to join the rebel army, assisting in the robbery of the Liberty arsenal, and otherwise giving aid and comfort to the enemy.-Ohio Statesman, January 16. A CORRESPONDENT of a Wisconsin paper had his attention arrested by the appearance of a rather oldish man among a company of recruits for the Seventeenth (Irish) Wisconsin regiment, who were on board the cars, on the way to camp, who gave his name, as follows: "My name is Rufus Brockway, and I am in the seventieth year of my age. I am a Yankee, from the State of New-Hampshire; was a volunteer in the last war with England for nearly three years. I have served under Generals Izard, McNeil, and Macomb, being transferred from one command to another, as the circumstances then required. I was at the battle of Plattsburgh, at the battle of French Creek in Canada, and at the battle of Chateaugay, on the fourteenth day of October, 1813, and was present at the surrender of McDonough. "I am now a farmer, in the town of Beaver Dam, Dodge County, and, with my son, the owner of three hundred acres of land; my son was a volunteer in the Federal army at the battle of Bull Run, had his nose badly barked and his hips broken in and disabled for life, by a charge of the rebel cavalry, and now I am going to see if the rebels can bark the old man's nose.' "I tell you," said the old man, "if England pitches in, you'll see a great many old men like me turning out, but the greatest of my fears are, that I shall not be permitted to take an active part in the present war." If this man is ever in an engagement with the rebels, I shall never expect to hear that he was hurt in the back.-Boston Journal, February 1. NORTH-CAROLINA.-The Richmond Dispatch pays the following merited compliment to the old North State: "Since the present war commenced, North-Carolina has not only done her part in men and arms, and been the peer of any of her sister States in every way, but she has taken good care to see that her sons who obeyed her call, and went forth to battle in defence of her rights, had every assurance that they were not forgotten by the loved ones at home. Many munificent donations have been heretofore noted. In this regard she leads the van. Within a week past her citizens have sent thirty-eight thousand dollars' worth VOL. IV.-POETRY 5 of clothing, etc., to the Fourth, Sixth, and Twentythird regiments, and thirteen thousand four hundred dollars to other regiments not named. This is the way the old North State fulfils her obligations to her brave sons."-Newbern (N. C.) Progress, February 11. Feb. 8.-It is given out, by order, that all connected with Government despatches shall use the word "rebels" instead of "confederates," and "pirates" instead of "privateers."-Dubuque Times, February 9. By order of Col. Robinson, every male citizen between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, not now in the active volunteer service, and resident within the city of Norfolk, Va., whether exempt from military duty or not, will forthwith report himself for enrolment to the commandant of his company. Those claiming to be exempt will also report the claim to to or cause of such exemption.-Richmond Dispatch, February 10. Feb. 10.-A slave lately came into the camp of the Iowa troops at Florence, Mo., mounted upon a highspirited horse, on which he had escaped from his master, who lives near St. Louis. Around his neck was a band of iron, half an inch thick, and nearly one and a half inches wide, not locked, but securely riveted. Three iron prongs, of lightning-rod size, were wedded to this band, at equal distances apart, and arose above his head about nine inches, with an outward inclination. The iron had lacerated his neck, and the wound had partially healed under the protection he had given to them by holding up the band with his hands, during the preceding days that he was concealed in a cornfield, but while riding the horse he could not hold it up, and it had opened the wound, from which there was a bloody, mattery ooze trickling down upon his broad shoulders. To the soldiers who surrounded him, with pity and astonishment, the negro pleaded earnestly: "Please, massa soger, take dis collar off my neck. I'se a good nigger; I'll do any ting you want me. De Illinoy sogers cut the collar off 'er Ben." After a labor of three hours the collar was filed off. It appears that the negro had carried this iron band upon his neck about three months, as a punishment for assisting his wife to escape into Illinois.-Philadelphia Press, February 12. BOSTON, Feb. 11.-At the Baptist Sabbath-School Convention in session at the South-End in this city, the exercises were interrupted this forenoon by the announcement of the splendid victory at Roanoke Island. The audience burst forth in applause, and a prayer of thanksgiving was immediately offered, in which all seemed to join with great fervor. A SECESSION DODGE.-The Albany Atlas and Argus prints the following: "We do not know how the people of Maine will regard this invasion of their soil; but we do not believe that a British regiment could ever find its way to Canada, if it landed in New-York, and sought to pass through this State." It is by such pieces of idiotic rant that the Atlas and Argus seeks to aid the rebellion. Debarred from serving the secession cause directly, it now bends its efforts to doing it indirect service by misinterpreting every act and traducing every measure of the Government. If, however, the readers of that journal can be influenced by any such pitiful stuff as this, it simply shows they are as much of fools as it is assumed they were when the writer ventured to pen such nonsense.-New-York Times, January 15. FRANKFORT, KY., Jan. 16.-We have just learned from a reliable gentleman, of Newcastle, the circumstances of a very unusual occurrence in that place just before Christmas, which we deem it proper should be placed before the people of Kentucky. Some forty or sixty negroes, all slaves, had been engaged in killing hogs for one of the citizens of Newcastle at night. About that time, and after the work was over, they paraded the streets of the town in a body, between the hours of ten and twelve, uttering all sorts of disorderly sounds, singing political songs and shouting for Lincoln. They seemed to take especial pains to make their unusual and disorderly demonstrations in front of the residences of one or two prominent Southern rights citizens. They continued their tumultuous proceedings for an hour or so without interruption from either officers or citizens, and finally dispersed of their own accord. We deem it due to the peace and security of the Commonwealth to give this information to the public, in order that other communities may be put on their guard, and prepare to suppress in their incipiency all such dangerous movements on the part of the slave population. We also learn, from the same gentleman, that about the same time, or shortly after, a party of slaves in Henry County, belonging partly to Union and partly to Southern rights men, made off from the county, taking with them a wagon and horses, with a full supply of provisions belonging to their owners, and made their escape into Indiana. They were immediately pursued by their masters into Indiana and overtaken; but the owners were notified by the population that they should not arrest the slaves, and, in fact, were themselves notified to leave the State without delay. A second visit of the same and other parties, with proper certificates, as the gentleman who gives us the facts is informed, was made with the same result. We are also informed that numerous houses and barns, belonging to residents of Henry County, have recently been fired and burned to the ground by the negroes, and that in consequence a general feeling of insecurity prevails thoughout the entire community. Frankfort Yeoman, January 17. PETERBOROUGH, N. H., is a stronghold of patriotism. She gave a band of heroes to the revolution, another band to the war of 1812, and has already sent eighty seven men to the Union armies in the present contest. --Boston Transcript, January 15. THE Mobile Register, of the sixth of January, says: We had the pleasure of a visit yesterday from Dr. Hugh Martin, of Delaware, late United States Consul at Matanzas, but who resigned that post in April last when that Government declared war upon the South and its institutions. Dr. Martin came passenger in one of the recent arrivals through the gap in Dr. Lincoln's blockade, from Havana. He is heart and soul with the South in her struggles, and goes to New-Or leans to make that his home. A CORRESPONDENT of the Charleston Courier, writing from Richmond on the third of January, says: 'Some large shoe manufacturers from the South have just gone home from Richmond, impressed with the idea that 'shoes won't sell.' So great an impetus was given to the manufacture several months ago by the knowledge that the supply was giving out, that the market is now overstocked. The confederate government has six hundred cases of army shoes on hand, over and above the demand, and the government contractors are furnishing it with a constant supply of two hundred additional pairs per diem. The same plethora is observed in the article of clothing. In the clothing bureau of the war department are one hundred thousand suits of clothing on hand. The donations of individual States to their own volunteers, have materially lessened the demand on the confederate government. The blankets brought by the Fingal are being transformed into handsome and comfortable overcoats." the lower flags are exhibited in the window of the Despatch RICHMOND, Jan. 2.-Quite a number of new-fangled office. The latest picture, which is gotten up with great care and neatness, represents a tri-color-three bars of equal width running horizontally. black, the middle purple, the upper white, with stars in it. The black bar is designed to notify mankind that the confederacy "sprung from Black Republicanism." Hah! How would a buzzard, sitting on a cntton-bale, with a chew of tobacco in his mouth, a little nigger in one claw, and a palmetto tree in the other, answer? Nothing could be more thoroughly and comprehensively Southern.-Charleston Mercury. THE SEQUEL OF AN EXECUTION.-There is in the confederate army, near Centreville, Va., an Irish company called the "Tigers," which was recruited, or rather impressed, from the Irish population of New-Orleans, Two of them were recently shot for some trifling military offence- -some disrespect to their "chivalrous" officers, construed into mutinous resistance. An account of the execution has been published from the Richmond papers. An Irish private soldier is, in the eyes of the Southern blades, of about as much account as a negro. But the sequel to this execution is told in a letter from the rebel camp, which appears in the Nashville-Louisville Courier, thus: "As a sequel to the execution of the two 'Tigers,' by order of court-martial, I have to record that, yesterday morning, the bodies of two officers of the Seventh Louisiana regiment were found with their throats cut. They were the officers of the day, and officers of the guard, at the time of the commission of the outrage by the Tigers,' and were instrumental in bringing them to punishment. It would be well could the whole company be effaced for this new and most horrible villainy."-Cincinnati Gazette, January 14. THE Halifax (N. S.) Colonist published the following veracious report: "A rumor was current yesterday, said to have been set afloat by some of the passengers by the Asia, that Gen. Scott was the bearer of despatches from the Washington Government to the Emperor of the French, asking his aid in the suppression of the rebellion, and as a quid pro quo for his services, offering him the sid of the Federal Government in an attempt to invade Canada. Napoleon, on receiving the despatches, and learning their contents, immediately sent them to the British government. We give the rumor as we heard it, merely remarking, that there may be more in it than appears at first sight." The London Illustrated News is "disposed to believe that Mr. Lincoln will prefer to hear the distant cannon of Britain rather than the yell of a mob under the windows of the White House. Therefore we do not look for a message of peace, though we hope for it, so far as hope is consistent with a calm examination of the case."-Boston Advertiser, January 15. has since that period done a vast deal of good, in furnishing food to the Union soldiers passing through that city, on their way to the seat of war, and in ministering to the wants of the sick and wounded. Many a soldier, weak for lack of food, or prostrated by discitizens of Philadelphia, while the recipient at this saease, has undoubtedly blessed the liberality of the loon, of their hospitality. It is an interesting fact in this connection, that a Schuylkill County regiment (the Broad and Prime streets, by the citizens in that viSixth, Col. James Nagle) was the first entertained at cinity. To give some idea of what has been done at the saloon, since its organization, we might state that, up to December last, some five hundred sick and wounded had been cared for-many for weeks, at private houses, by ladies connected with the saloon-while about one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers have each been served with a meal. This is the more creditable, as it was done by the voluntary contributions of the citizens of Philadelphia, the Committee never having asked or received aid from the city, State, or United States governments. All honor to the committee of ladies and gentlemen who have cheerfully volunteered their time and labor in a work so benevolent. Their deeds will be more enduring than monumental granite.— RICHMOND, Jan. 4.-It is not generally known that by the flag of truce which leaves Norfolk almost daily for Fortress Monroe, persons in the South may communicate with the North. Hundreds of letters are frequently carried in this manner; but all are carefully examined both by the confederate and Federal officers. To prevent the abuse of this privilege on the part of those who are inclined to fill twenty or thirty sheets of letter-paper, Gen. Huger has issued an order that hereafter no communication will be sent which covers more than an ordinary-sized page. All reference to political or military affairs must be carefully avoided, and an inclosure of three or five cents made to secure trans-Miner's Journal. mission. The outside address of the epistle should be, "via Norfolk and flag of truce."-Richmond Dispatch. DON'T TOUCH THE FLAG. - The St. Louis Democrat says that a few days ago the flag raised by Col. Morgan, at Platte City, Mo., was torn down, against the remonstrances of the few remaining citizens of that place. Indignant at the outrage, and aware of the consequences should the perpetrators escape, the men engaged in the desecration were arrested, and, as we are informed, delivered to Col. Morgan. He immediately ordered a court-martial; the men were found guilty, and sentenced to be shot, which sentence was forthwith carried into effect.-N. Y. World, Jan. 15. A FRENCH OFFICER JOINS THE REBELS.-By a recent arrival at a confederate port from Havana, Lieut. P. Enneau, late of the French army, came passenger, and is at present in this city. Lieut. Enneau has lately been a resident of California, where he devoted himself to organizing and drilling a corps of carabiniers, whose testimonials of their high appreciation of his service he bears. But preferring the reality to the which the sympathies of his compatriots are enlisted, image of war, and still more, preferring the side on and where so much of the blood of his race is to be found, as ready to flow as that of the gallant Dreuxpreferring this side to that which has thrown disgrace upon the name of Zouave, and almost upon that of soldier, he has come to offer his sword to the cause of the Confederacy.—Mobile Advertiser, January 8. DEATH OF A REBEL CAPTAIN.-We understand that THE young lady who acted the rebel spy at Washington, was a daughter of Dr. King, of the Soldiers' Home. For some months past grave suspicions have been entertained in regard to certain members of the Capt. C. E. Merriwether, who fell while bravely charg family of. Dr. King. It is stated that two of his own ing the enemy, at Sacramento, on Saturday last, had sons by his first wife, and two of the sons by his sec-long been an intimate and devoted friend of Col. Jim ond wife, are now serving in the confederate army, and also that some of the lady members of his family have been engaged in communicating information to the rebel army, through a secession family still living in Maryland, within an hour's ride of Washington. The arrest of some of the family of Dr. King, led to the belief in the rumor in regard to Adj.-Gen. Thomas, because he, like the Doctor, resided at the Soldiers' Home.-Cincinnati Gazelle, January 15. Jackson. He was an endorser for Jackson for a large A LINCOLN Spy was arrested a few days since in the neighborhood of Uniontown, Tenn. His baggage was searched, and a complete plan of the fortifications at Bowling Green and Randolph, Tenn., was found. It is to be hoped that the vile miscreant will speedily meet with a just reward.-Louisville-Nashville Courier, December 24 THE PHILADELPHIA VOLUNTEER REFRESHMENT SALOONS. It is an undeniable fact, that the Volunteer Refreshment Committee of Philadelphia, which was A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.-A private in the Nineorganized on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1861, teenth Indiana regiment was tried by a court-martial |