down in the boat, and work her out, exposing nothing more than their arms and heads. Many other shots were fired by small squads running along the shore to head the boat off, but injuring nothing. As soon as Smith got beyond the range of their pieces there was a black flag displayed for over an hour. Lieutenant H. E. Whittlesey, who first reported the appearance of traitors on the Island, had seen signal lights on the Island, on Jamestown Island, and on the south bank of the James River, both east and west of Hog Island. June 7.-The following is from the Raleigh State Journal, a secession paper: "We fear that the same conflict between the State authorities and the confederate government which was witnessed in this State at the session of the last Legislature is to be renewed. The Governor has assumed the position of an avowed advocate of the supremacy of the State judges, and has in advance decided all cases against the claims of the confederate government. We have observed with regret a recent order of the Governor, by which he commands the officers of the State to resist by force the arrest of any person claimed as a conscript, who has once been discharged by the decision of a State judge. We look with alarm upon these unsettled and conflicting claims. The only honest course for a State of the Confederacy is to give her all to the contest now raging, or to quit the field There can be no divided service compatible either with honor or safety." the wharf at Vicksburgh, an order came from General Grant requiring the captain to pay back to his passengers all money received by him as fare in excess of five dollars to enlisted men, and seven dollars to offi cers, or submit to imprisonment for disobedience and have his boat confiscated. The order was an astonisher to the captain, but the presence of a guard rendered it useless to refuse, and so, amid the shouts of the soldiers over General Grant's care of their interests, he complied with as good grace as possible, and paid back the money. Our informant, himself a passenger on the Hope, was present when General Grant issued the order above referred to. The General, upon being informed of the impositions being practised upon furloughed men and officers, by steamboat men, the lesson," said the gallant General, "that the men was very indignant. "I will teach them, if they need who have perilled their lives to open the Mississippi River for their benefit cannot be imposed upon with of the Mississippi fairly worship their General. impunity." No wonder that the soldiers of the army INCIDENTS OF PICKET LIFE ON THE RAPIDAN.-The pickets indulge in the usual badinage of the outposts. One-a Louisianian-asked why we did not throw up some rifle-pits. The answer was: "What for?" "Why, because we might come over and attack you." "Oh! come along; is that all ?" was the sentry's answer; we wouldn't throw any thing in your way; it's what we want. Come over and bring all your friends; we shall not stop you. Did you throw up that dirt to BURNSIDE.-The Louisville Journal gives the follow-prevent our advance? O pshaw ! when we advance at once. ing judgment up against the flood of abuse poured out upon him: "Burnside looks and acts like a great man; and the manner in which he has managed the affairs of this department shows him to be a statesman as well as a General. The more we see of Burnside the more we like him. He has done much for Kentucky. His Order No. 38 has worked like a charm, and has given peace, quiet, and security to many portions of the State which have been invested by rebel sympathizers and marauders. Previous to its publication, many parts of the State were invested by Morgan's men and other rebels, whose presence brought fear and terror, but since the enforcement there are none to be found within our lines, except a few desperate characters, who come and go secretly, to act the spy-and those are caught whenever found and executed." we'll walk right round them." One of the rebel artillerymen was anxious to know whether a soldier's pay was good for any thing now. He was told that it would buy thirteen dollars' worth of goods, the same as ever. "Well, I'll tell you what we do with ours," said be. "We tell off the battery into fives, and play poker till one man out of five gets the money. The winners tell off into fives again, and so at last somebody has enough money to treat his friends." General Early's headquarters are in a white house near the ford. His portly form, in white shirt and an enormously highcrowned hat, with a feather, is occasionally seen about the opposite shore. It is stated, on the authority of a sergeant, who was down at the river-bank arranging a little matter, in which coffee, tobacco, and a Richmond Examiner figured prominently, that the General himself came down and made this offer: "If any of you Yanks want to trade a first-rate pair of high boots, good leather, and so forth, I'll pay for them in gold.” Whether he has yet achieved the boots, is a matter upon which no testimony has been offered. Michigan, lately made a long war-speech to his fellowcitizens of Detroit. Among other things he told them the following: How GENERAL GRANT CARES FOR HIS SOLDIERS. General Grant, says the Cleveland Herald, has issued a special order forbidding steamboat men to charge more than five dollars to enlisted men, and seven dollars to officers, as fare between Vicksburgh and Cairo. COLONEL MORROW'S RECOLLECTIONS.-Colonel MorImmediately after Vicksburgh had fallen, a large num-row, the brave leader of the famous Twenty-fourth ber of steamboats cleared from Northern ports for that place, and were in the habit of charging soldiers going home on furlough from fifteen to thirty dollars fare to Cairo. A friend relates to us that the steamer Hope was compelled by General Grant to disgorge its ill-gotten gains the other day, under the following circumstances: This boat had about one thousand enlisted soldiers, and nearly two hundred and fifty officers, aboard, en route for home on short leave of absence, after the fatigues of their protracted but glorious campaign. The captain of the Hope had charged these men and officers from ten to twenty-five dollars apiece, as fare to Cairo. Just as the boat was about to push off from One of the rebel officers captured by us afterward met me in Gettysburgh, where I was a prisoner. A man came up to me in the street and said: "Colonel, how do you do? You don't know me, and think I don't know you. (I had cut off my straps to prevent my being recognized as a colonel.) Come and take drink." Of course, I drank with him, and then asked who he was. He took me one side from the rebel officers, and said: "Your regiment captured me at Fitz-Hugh's Landing, d-n you!" Said I: "Glad of RUMORS AND INCIDENTS. Bully," was his it. Didn't they treat you well?” ""We will; where reply. "Then treat me the same.' are your straps?" "I have lost them for the time being." "All right, I shan't say a word." He kept his promise, and when I left the rebels, they took me for a surgeon. Twenty-four hours after crossing at Fitz-Hugh's Landing, we recrossed and went to Chancellorsville. There we were stationed at a separate space, and guarded two roads, a position of honor, given, as I was assured by General Hooker, as a compliment to the regiment. We were unsuccessful at Chancellorsville, but through no fault of General Hooker's. It would have been a glorious victory, had it not been for the defection of an army corps, and this was due to the bad conduct of its officers, The and not to any lack of courage among the men. Eleventh corps occupied a position directly in front of the enemy, and was, nevertheless, allowed by its officers to lay down its arms and make coffee. It was then attacked by the rebels with those unearthly shouts of theirs. The rebels beat any people out shouting. One half the battles in that neighborhood were fought by power of the lungs rather than the bayonet. The lungs of the rebels are not so strong as ours, but they have a boy-like scream, which is much shriller. (Colonel Morrow then related an amusing anecdote of the counter-cheering of the rebels and the Twenty-fourth at Fitz-Hugh's Landing.) General Hooker, at Chancellorsville, exhibited splendid generalship. I was told by a prisoner, a rebel colonel-a fact never before printed, I believe that General Hooker succeeded in transporting thirty thousand men across the Rappahannock and Rapidan, and right into the centre of the rebel position, without their obtaining the least knowledge of it. In fact, General Hooker succeeded in dividing the rebel army, cutting off Stuart from Lee, and obliging the former to cut his way through in order to reach headquarters. However, we lost the battle, and fell back into our old camp. At Gettysburgh, with my assistant surgeon, Dr. Collar, indefatigable in season and out of season, I visited the hospitals and the battle-field-the latter at twelve o'clock in the night on the third, determining the names of those that had fallen. In a barn, among two hundred others, I found a little Irish boy from this city, Patrick Cleary, a bright boy, and a brave little Patrick, how do you feel?" fellow. I said to him: " He said: "Pretty well, but the doctor says I can't live." I looked at his wounded leg and saw that mortification had set in. I said: "I don't know; the doctor is the best judge. If he says you can't live, you had better prepare to die." Said he: "Colonel, if you'll have the leg taken off, I'll be with the regiment in a week." I told him that was impossible. He then said: Colonel, an't you proud of the Twenty-fourth? Won't the people of Wayne County be proud?" God bless that boy. He is dead now. [A voice: "He is alive yet."] I am glad to hear it. He is a credit to his native and adopted country. The last thing the boys think of is what those at home think of them. They feel proud of themselves, and they want you to Write them cheering letters. Enfeel proud too. courage your soldiers. Bid them God speed. Tell them they are fighting in a just and holy cause, as they certainly are. 66 INCIDENTS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK.-Quietness still reigns on the Rappahannock, and there seems an absence of certain infallible indications which foreshadow The weather is fine, with just a general movement. enough airiness to render camp-life at this season of the year agreeable. Lee's rumored movement up the Yesterday morning a party of rebels approached the river opposite Falmouth with a seine, and immediately commenced preparations for a little piscatorial recreation. The officer of our picket, acting in compliance with orders, called out his guard, and ordering the men to prime their pieces, hailed the would-be fishermen after the following manner: Hello, over there! What are you going to do ?" "Fish," was the brief response from one of the party. "Don't you know that General Hooker has forbid den fishing in the river?" inquired the officer. "Yes, but we thought you'd have no objection as long as we kept on our side." "But we do object," replied the officer, "and if you put that seine in the river I'll order my guard to fire on you." A short consultation among the rebel party ensued, and in a few moments they withdrew, taking their seine with them. Communication between the pickets is no longer allowed, but occasionally a brief A picket informed your conversation is indulged in. correspondent, yesterday, that, when last on picket, a rebel on the other side held up a paper as if to say: "Don't you wish you may get it!" The Union picket beckoned him to come over, and finally the rebel waded to the middle of the river, but would come no further. Finding that he could not induce the bluejacket to meet him half-way, he returned to the other side. On inquiring of the picket what course he would have pursued had the rebel ventured over, he replied: 'I should have taken him prisoner." The vaunted discipline of the rebels is scouted by our men who can observe the movements of their pickets. The sentries are relieved with any thing but military precision, and With coats off, and the relief goes shambling along like "the whining schoolboy unwillingly to school.' with an air of lazy indisposition, they lounge, with their muskets behind them, along the other shore, gazing listlessly on our soldier-like pickets pacing with regular and steady step their respective "beats." deserters forded the river this morning below Banks's Ford, and were received by the pickets of the Third corps. They told the usual story of destitution and suffering on the other side. Two UNION LEAGUE SECRETS.-A correspondent of the Ohio State Sentinel, who assumes to have penetrated to the mysteries of the order, sends the following as a portion of the instructions given to the initiated: When you first meet a member, present your left hand and say: "How are you, Major?" Answer: "Comfortably well." "Are you a member of our Union League ?" Here comes in what might be called a command, for the person asking the questions above set forth says: "Take positions, and I'll call them." The person who answers the questions then raises his left hand perpendicularly over his head, at which time you say: "Washington." He then drops his arm to a horizontal position and you say: "Jefferson." He then drops his hand on his left thigh, and you say: "Jackson." He then raises his left hand to his breast and you say: "Union." He then joins the thumb and third finger of his left hand; at this time you must also join the thumb and third finger, as he does; then both of your hands meet, and you put your thumb and third finger inside of his and you say: "League." All this is done in a shorter time than I can tell you. When a member is going into the lodge, the pass. word at the first door is, "Eternal Vigilance;" at the second door, "Is the Price of Liberty." When a member enters the lodge, he salutes the President by holding up his left-hand forefinger. When he leaves the lodge, he holds up his right-hand two forefingers. When a Union League man gets into a fight at night he cries out: "I, I." If any of the brothers are around and willing to assist him they cry out: "What, what." SONGS OF THE REBELS. UNLAURELLED HEROES. Oh! praise not those supremely blest On those who fall at posts of duty; With hearts of oak and souls of iron, And leave those bright homes desolate, Where hope to love sang like a syren. 'Tis not for those the trump of fame Salutes with flattery's warm caresses, Who fall uncrowned with rays of glory, Look where brave Zollicoffer fell, To music of the death-shot's rattle; So soon to sleep beneath the daisies! When, to their brows, a thorn-crown pressing, They dimly saw, beyond the tomb, The prize they sought-their country's blessing. Then hang the fiddle on the wall, With fife and drumsticks lead the ball; We bought the dry goods from the North, Our doctors found a remedy Thus men throughout the South are armed, Like our sires, we will venture our all on the fight. BANNER SONG. BY WILLIAM H. HOLCOMBE, M.D. See! our banner floating high, Star of death or victory! Beauty's hands its tissues wove, Comrades! follow it or die! At the tyrant's call arrayed Answer, cheering to her cry! Forward! spirits brave and true! Death to hateful tyranny! Soldiers! march at duty's call, Free or dead, be this our cry! Fame! inspire us with thy charm; Forward, comrades! Do or die! INCIDENTS OF THE FIGHT WITH MOSBY. resistance been offered, it is believed that the train could have been saved and all the rebels captured. As it was, the guerrillas destroyed the cars, ten in number, and then, anticipating a visit from Stahel's cavalry, made off in the direction of Auburn. Meanwhile, Colonel Mann, of the Seventh Michigan cavalry, who was in command of the portion of Stahel's cavalry at Bristow, hearing the firing, started with portions of the Fifth New-York, First Vermont, and Seventh Michigan, to learn the cause. Taking the precaution to send the Fifth New-York, Captain A. H. Hasbrouck commanding, across the country to Auburn to intercept the retreat, he followed up the railroad until the sight of the burning train told that portion of the story. Leaving the burning train, Colonel Mann followed the track of the retreating foe, and soon heard the sound of cannon toward Greenwich, indicating that Captain Hasbrouck, with the Fifth New-York, had either intercepted or come up with the enemy. As it afterward proved, they had come upon their rear, and had been fired upon from the howitzer. Owing to the nature of the ground, the Fifth New-York was unable to deploy, so as to operate effectively, and the enemy again started on the run, closely followed by Captain Hasbrouck and his command. Colonel Mann pressed on to reach the scene of the firing. Learning the particulars of their escape, he divided his force, sending Lieutenant-Colonel Preston, with part of the First Vermont cavalry, to reënforce the Fifth New-York, and with the balance he struck across the country, again hoping to intercept them. Finding themselves so hotly pressed, the enemy, when near Grapewood Farm, about two miles from Greenwich, took position at the head of a short narrow lane, with high fences on either side, placing the howitzer so as to command the lane, strongly supported by his whole force. The advance of the Fifth NewYork, about twenty-five men, under Lieutenant Elmer Barker, coming up, the Lieutenant determined to charge the gun, fearing if he halted the rebels would again run away. Gallantly riding up the narrow lane, with almost certain death before them, these brave men, bravely led by Lieutenant Barker, dashed with a yell toward the gun. When within about fifty yards the rebels opened fire with grape upon them. The result was three men were killed and seven wounded. FAIRFAX COURT-HOUSE, June 2, 1863. The rebels immediately charged, led by Mosby himTHE sun glistens on a twelve-pound brass howitzer, self. Lientenant Barker, twice wounded in the leg, which, with its limber, occupies a position directly in continued with his handful of men to contest every front of General Stahel's headquarters. The story of inch of the ground, and himself crossed sabres with the gun is this: Made in the year 1859, it was used by Mosby. But numbers told, and several of the Fifth the Union troops at Ball's Bluff, where it fell into the New-York were made prisoners. This gallant fight of hands of the rebels, and since that time has done ser- Lieutenant Barker afforded Colonel Preston an opporvice in the rebel army. After Mosby had been whip-tunity to come up with the First Vermont. Lieutenant ped several times by Stahel's cavalry, this gun was furnished him to redeem his laurels. On Friday night last, Mosby, with about one hundred and seventy-five men and the howitzer, camped at Greenwich. Early Saturday morning they made a hurried march toward the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which they struck about one and a half miles this side of Catlett's Station. Here they concealed themselves in the woods, placed the howitzer in position, and awaited the arrival of the train from Alexandria, carrying forage and stores to Bealton. As the cars came opposite the ambuscade, a rail adroitly displaced caused the locomotive to run off the track. At this moment a ball from the gun went through the boiler and another pierced the smoke-stack. The guard upon the train were scared by hearing artillery, and beat a hasty retreat, leaving the train at the disposition of the rebels. Had any Hazleton was in advance, with about seventy-five men, and charged bravely up the lane, the few boys of the Fifth New-York, who were left, joining the Vermonters. Again and again the gun dealt destruction through the ranks, but nothing could check their impetuosity, and the brave fellows rode over the gun, sabring the gunners, and captured the piece. Sergeant Carey, of the First Vermont, was shot dead by the side of the gun; his brother, a corporal in the same regiment, although his arm was shattered, struck down the gunner as he applied the match for the last time. Mosby and his men fought desperately to recover the gun, but in vain. Meanwhile Colonel Preston had charged across the fields upon their flank, and the enemy fled in all directions, taking refuge in the thickets, with which they are so familiar. One party attempted to take away A RICHMOND AGENT'S TESTIMONY. NASSAU, June 3, 1868. William E. Simons, Richmond, Va.: DEAR FRIEND: I have not been able to find the limber, but it was speedily captured and brought in. The long chase in the hot sun, the desperate fight, and the jaded condition of the horses, prevented further pursuit, which, with the enemy so widely scattered, and with their knowledge of every by-path and thicket, sale of the bonds, though there have been sales herewould have been almost fruitless. Captain B. S. Haskins, an Englishman, and formerly a Captain in the tofore, but now no one seems ready to buy. I could Forty-fourth Royal Infantry, who was with Mosby, that figure. I have concluded to deposit them in a sell at forty-five cents, but am not willing to sell at was so badly wounded that he has since died. Lieu-house here, to be disposed of at a fair price, and protenant Chapman, formerly of the regular army, who ceed myself to New-York, as we talked of before my was in charge of the gun, was also dangerously wounded and paroled on the field, as he could not be removed. departure from Richmond. Until my return I shall Our loss was four killed and fifteen wounded. The not be able to make any shipment to you. [Probably intends to buy goods in New-York.] rebels had six killed, twenty wounded, and lost ten prisoners. All the Fifth New-York who were taken by the rebels were re-captured. The result of this fight is more disastrous to the rebels than the previous engagements. The Southern Confederacy will not be apt to trust Mr. Mosby with other guns if he cannot take better care of them than he has of this one. The enemy was beaten by about the same force, in a position chosen by themselves, and defended by a howitzer. Their killed and wounded outnumber ours, and the howitzer is ready to be turned against them at the earliest opportunity. conduct of officers and men is highly commended by Colonel Mann in his official report to General Stahel, and the gallantry of the charges of the Fifth NewYork and the First Vermont is deserving mention. The REBEL LETTERS CAPTURED.-A rebel mail-bag was found on board the blockade runner Calypso, from which the following letters were taken: A GEORGIA MERCHANT TO HIS PARTNERS. of the South, but I do not think it exists any further her, providing she would emancipate her slaves, which HENRY WOODWARD. THE EXPEDITION UP THE YAZoo.-The following extracts are from a letter of an officer dated Haines's Bluff, Miss., June 1, 1863, and which to-day was received in this city: "We reached here yesterday, after a week's march up between the Black and Yazoo Rivers. The object of the expedition was to destroy the resources of the country, to prevent the enemy from subsisting their armies, and to drive out any force he might have in that region, and if possible to ascertain if the enemy was concentrating in any considerable force for the purpose of raising the siege of Vicksburgh. We had six brigades, numbering something over ten thousand men. "We have marched over one hundred miles in a week, during the hottest kind of weather. We destroyed all the forage, and supplies, and cotton, and drove off all the cattle, horses, and mules between the two lines for a distance of fifty miles. We met no considerable body of the enemy, and had only one or two slight skirmishes, but we ascertained where the enemy were concentrating, and gained much valuable information, which may be of use hereafter. NASSAU, Sunday, June 7. DEAR BROTHER: . . . If I am not mistaken, some of the blockade-runners will lose a pile of money, as confederate money is becoming at such a discount they cannot get price enough on the goods to pay the difference of exchange, as all goods have to be paid in gold or sterling exchange, and all freights prepaid, and then take all chances of getting them through, besides paying duties on them at Charleston. Some of the blockade men think the next steamer from Dixie will bring bad news, and there will be a much great er discount on confederate money-say seven hundred dollars or eight hundred dollars for one hundred dol- "The Commanding General having reported to Gen. lars in gold, and my opinion is it will soon be worth-eral Grant, the latter came this morning to Haines's less. Yesterday I bought here (Nassau) five hundred dollars in confederate money at four cents on the dollar, and some was sold here for even a greater discount. So you can see what the people here think of Dixie money, and in fact no one here will take it at any price for goods or for freight money; and if I had a million of gold dollars I would not invest one dollar here and take the chances of getting through and take confederate money. If you have any confederate money on hand when you receive this, get clear of it on the best terms you possibly can, and in future do not take any more confederate money, only at what you can sell it for gold, and turn it into gold as soon as you receive it. The best investment of confederate money is good sterling exchange, the next is gold or silver, and the next is cotton, for, sooner or later, I am confident confederate money will not be worth the paper it is made on, although I may be mistaken. Yours truly, S. B. JAQUES. Bluff, and seemed well satisfied with our operations. It was made our painful but imperative duty to destroy every thing, corn, cotton, meat, mills, and cotton-gins, that we could find, sparing only dwellings, and a small supply of provisions for each family. This is bringing the war home to their people, and making them realize their own crime in bringing its calamities upon the country. The command will rest here for a day or so, and then return to Vicksburgh, which cannot hold out very long against our forces. They can raise no force to make us give up the siege." MUNCHAUSENIANA. HOUSTON, TEXAS, May 23. - A reliable officer of Colonel Bates's regiment, who arrived last evening, brings the information that before he left Columbia a courier arrived from Corpus Christi with informa oa that General Magruder had fitted out several sal steamers at that place and attacked the blockading |