is delicious; I am waiting for our dear Southern army." This is the spirit that prevails in month of June, 1863. Baltimore this Here, as in Alexandria, the streets are barricaded, and the pedestrian is often obliged to leave the sidewalk in his progress through the city. But the barricades are of the shallowest description, and would throw but little obstruction in the path of a resolute enemy. They consist of a number of barrels placed side by side, with beams resting on them. Only yesterday a lady, riding down Lombard street, touched her horse with her riding-whip, and cleared one with a bound. What possible defence could these be against a charge of cavalry? On the outskirts of the city earth-works are being rapidly constructed, and guns of considerable calibre mounted commanding the Northern and Frederick roads. By order of Lieutenant-Colonel Fish, ProvostMarshal, no person is allowed to visit the fortifications without a proper pass. I must postpone, therefore, going more into detail, until I have had an opportunity of inspecting them. General Halleck was here yesterday, but returned almost immediately to Washington. There is but little excitement in the city, law and order prevailing, without interruption even of the slightest kind. N. G. S. A SEVERE SUFFERER.-An old German gentleman, by the name of George Gerwig, who resides in Braxton County, arrived in this city yesterday, having in charge an insane daughter, en route for the insane asylum at Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Gerwig is seventy-two years of age, and is a thoroughly loyal man. He owns in Braxton County six thousand three hundred acres of land. During the last raid, the rebels robbed him of sixty head of cattle, nine horses, four hundred bushels of dried peaches, a large lot of hay, and, in fact, every thing he had. There is scarcely a good fence upon the farm, and the accumulated wealth of twenty-five years has been destroyed and cast to the winds. He has two sons in the Union army. The boy who was killed by Kuhl and others about a year ago was an adopted son of Mr. Gerwig's. It will be recollected that Kuhl and his companions caught the boy in a field, and cut his head off with a scythe, for which they were court-martialed and hung at Sutton. The daughter whom Mr. Gerwig brings with him lost her reason in consequence of the troubles to which we allude.—Wheeling Intelligencer, June 25. CHATTANOOGA, Saturday, June 16, 1863.-The week has been characterized by a series of dreary rains which have continued up to this morning. At the present writing it is warm and clear, but lazy-looking clouds still hang heavily in the east, indicating that the "rainy term" is not yet over. The corn never yet promised a more abundant yield, but the wheat in some districts is slightly touched with the rust, produced by the late rains, and there is some difficulty in being able to save the immense crop in East and Middle Tennessee for want of hands to secure the harvest. The flour-mills in East-Tennessee last year principally supplied our whole South-Western army, and it is to be hoped that some means will be afforded to farmers to gather their crops before it is too late to save them. The Board of Commissioners for this State under the impressment law has fixed the price of shelled corn at two dollars per bushel. This is complained of very much by the farmers, who think it is under the average price, corn in Virginia being fixed at four dollars per bushel. The Commissioners, however, promise to raise the schedule of prices according to circumstances. It would be desirable if the Commissioners in each State would agree on a uniform system of prices, which could be easily done. The movements of our army toward Murfreesboro indicate that General Bragg is determined that General Rosecrans shall show his hand, and not keep up an appearance of strength under false pretences. We have, therefore, made an advance to feel of the enemy, and already several skirmishes have occurred. A portion of our forces have advanced to within five miles of Murfreesboro, and if Rosecrans will come out of his fortifications, an engagement will take place. But if not, it is supposed General Bragg will not attempt to storm the enemy's works without having learned his strength; in the latter case we may attempt to turn the enemy by a flank movement and gain his rear. Last Sabbath, the thirty-first ultimo, General Bragg was confirmed in the Episcopal faith by Rev. Bishop Elliott, of Georgia. General Bragg has thus set an example to his army which will not be without its influences. On visiting General Lee's army of Northern Virginia, I was struck with the high moral charaeter which prevailed among the officers and soldiers, as well as the deep religious feeling that pervaded, especially in the lamented General Jackson's corps. It will be a source of congratulation should General Bragg succeed in producing the same beneficial result. There is no occasion for men becoming reckless and demoralized on entering the army, but on the contrary, a different feeling should prevail. ORA. A THREE DAYS' SCOUT OVER ELK RIDGE MOUNTAIN. RED HILL, ELK RIDGE, June 29, 1865. Messrs. Editors Baltimore American : On Tuesday morning, twenty-second instant, Lientenant Martindale, accompanied by Lieutenant New and eight men of company H, First New-York cavalry, made a reconnoissance of the enemy's position and progress from the crossing at Sheppard's Ford. The numerous camps that had the previous evening studded the hill-sides from Sharpsburgh back to the Ford, had now disappeared, and nothing was visible under the glass but a few solitary pickets and some four companies of cavalry, but on the road passing through Keedysville toward Boonsboro several horsemen were seen taking their onward course through the rich fair fields of "my Maryland." Lieutenant Martindale conceived the idea of spoiling their sport, and sent down five or six from his little squad, who, descending on the unfortunate graybacks with that impetuosity which has ever characterized the men of the First New-York cavalry, returned each with a prisoner. Amongst the number was the son of Colonel Miller, of Sharpsburgh, belonging to the Twelfth Virginia cavalry, and a notorious scoundrel called Hill, who has acted as a guide to the invader since they set their feet on our soil. Four more were taken during the same evening, and of this number one was courier to General Lee, who had been returning to him with a message from Ewell. On Wednesday morning we resumed our old posi tion on Red Hill, which is one of the highest of the Elk Ridge, overlooking Sharpsburgh and the pleasant village of Keedysville, situated on the Sharpsburgh and Boonsboro pike. Lieutenant Martindale, having earned from citizens the plunder of several stores in Keedysville by the straggling parties of the enemy, resolved to put a stop to it by the capture of some of their number. Accordingly, as soon as he observed them entering the village, he descended with a few of his men on whom he knew, from past experience, he could rely, and invariably returned with captives. We thus took four of the Seventh Virginia cavalry, horses, arms, and equipments, including an officer, who seemed grieved as the prospect of a rich harvest of plunder was suddenly taken from his view. Soon after, four of our men descended, and directed their attention to a party, consisting of five or six, who, by their uniforms, looked like officers. This party was General Wright and staff, belonging to A. P. Hill's corps. They wheeled round, however, and our boys gave chase, and succeeded in capturing Lieutenant Wright, (the General's son and aid,) wounding one of the horses, and probably some more of the party. The General, having a fast horse, escaped with the loss of his hat, which is preserved as a memento of the chase after a live general. Five or six more were captured afterward. Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock A.M., we were again on the lookout. Now we see more crossing the ford looks at first like a brigade, but lengthens evidently into a division, and about noon was certainly a corps, supposed, from the report of prisoners, to be Longstreet's. It stretched-artillery, cavalry, infantry, and wagon-train-over a line of four miles, and as the last of their train disappears beyond the Dunkers church, where fell the gallant Mansfield, and where Hooker showed his bold front to the enemy last fall, another column appeared, coming from the river. Our captures to-day amounted to some twenty rebels and two sutler's wagons. We took infantry men belonging to Eighth Florida, Sixteenth Mississippi, Third and Sixteenth Virginia. Thus you see, Messrs. Editors, we are getting along pretty well. I forward you these particulars as an eye-witness and participator in the honor of most of the captures. The line of the enemy's march for the last two days has been in the direction of Hagerstown. The previous days they had passed through Boonsboro and some toward Frederick, but since the main body has been moving on to Hagerstown-where next, heaven knows! unless we meet and repel the invader from our soil. This is no time for fireside talk on the probabilities of this grand raid. Now is no time for delay. Let us meet them when and where they be found, and teach them once for all the lesson that Maryland and Pennsylvania have no sympathies with their ruthless invaders. Yours, as ever, C. C. INCIDENTS AT PORT HUDSON. - An officer with Banks's army relates, in a private letter, an incident which occurred during a temporary truce at Port Hudson on the twenty-seventh of May. He availed himself of the opportunity this afforded to ride up to the rebel works as close as he could, to get a good view of them, when he saw a regiment of the enemy throw down their arms, and heard them give three cheers and exclaim: "We surrender." The rebel officers at once approached them, and, with drawn swords and pistols, overpowered and controlled them, and compelled them to take up their arms and resume their position. The same officer, at a truce entered into the next day for the purpose of looking after the dead and wounded, while riding as near to the rebel lines as he could get, was hailed by a confederate officer within the works with the question, whether he did not think, upon reflection, that he was coming nearer than was exactly proper. Our officer replied in the negative, saying that he had men wounded and killed as near the enemy as he himself then was. A conversation then ensued, in which the rebel officer spoke of Sherman's charge of the preceding day, and remarked that: "Inside they regarded it as the finest thing of the war." Our officer did not belong to Sherman's division. PROPOSITION TO HANG THE DUTCH SOLDIERS.-June 12.-Of late, in all battles and in all recent incursions made by Federal cavalry, we have found the great mass of Northern soldiers to consist of Dutchmen. The plundering thieves captured by Forrest, who stole half the jewelry and watches in a dozen counties of Alabama, were immaculate Dutchmen. The national odor of Dutchmen, as distinctive of the race as that which, constantly ascending to heaven, has distended the nostrils of the negro, is as unmistakable as that peculiar to a pole-cat, an old pipe, or a lager-bier saloon. Crimes, thefts, and insults to the women of the South invariably mark the course of these stinking bodies of animated sour-krout. Rosecrans himself is an unmixed Dutchman-an accursed race which has overrun the vast districts of the country of the NorthWest. It happens that we entertain a greater degree of respect for an Ethiopian in the ranks of the Northern armies than for an odoriferous Dutchman, who can have no possible interest in this revolution. Why not hang every Dutchman captured? We will hereafter hang, or shoot, or imprison for life all white men taken in command of negroes, and enslave the negroes themselves. This is not too harsh. No human being will assert the contrary. Why, then, should we not hang a Dutchman, who deserves infinitely less of our sympathy than Sambo? The live masses of beer, krout, tobacco, and rotten cheese, which, on two legs and four, on foot and mounted, go prowling through the South, should be used to manure the sandy plains and barren hill-sides of Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. Whenever a Dutch regiment adorns the limbs of a Southern forest, daring cavalry raids into the South shall cease. President Davis need not be specially consulted, and if an accident of this sort should occur to a plundering band like that captured by Forrest, we are not inclined to believe that our President would be greatly disgruntled.-Knoxville Register. SONGS OF THE REBELS. THE FLORIDA'S CRUISE. BY A FORETOP MAN OF THE C. S. S. FLORIDA. Huzza! huzza! for the Florida's crew! She gave up the chase, and returned to Key West, Nine cruisers they had, and they lay off the bar, Their long line to seaward extending so far; And Preble, he said, as he shut his eyes tight: "I'm sure they're all hammocked this bitter cold And the public acknowledged that something was night." Bold Maffit commanded-a man of great fame, Our hull was well whitewashed, our sails were all Our steam was chock up, and the fresh wind it blowed; shout We dropped all our canvas, and opened her out. wrong. We went on a cruising, and soon did espy We burnt her and sunk her in the midst of the sea, And drank to old Jeff in the best of Bohea! We next found a ship with a Quakerish name- Of course the best nature could never stand that You'd have thought them all mad if you'd heard the Saltpetre for Boston's a little too fat; cursed racket They made upon seeing our flash little packet; Their boatswains did pipe, and the blue lights did play, And the great Drummond light, it turned night into day. The Cuyler, a boat that's unrivalled for speed, She chased and she chased, till at dawning of day So when we were out, boys, all on the salt sea, 'Twas there we recruited, and took in some stores, Our hull was well washed with the limestone so white, We put on all sail and up steam right away, "Oh! ho!" cried our captain, "I see what's your Clear away the stern-pivot, the Bulldog by name, For very sharp teeth have these dogs of the sea." The Sonoma came up until nearly in range, When her engines gave out ! - now wasn't that -I don't know the truth, but it's my firm belief, So we burnt her and sunk her, she made a great blaze, She's a star now gone down, and we've put out her rays. We next took a schooner well laden with bread- We next took the Lapwing-right stuff in her And that was black diamonds, that people call coal; The Mary Jane Colcord to Capetown was bound, And to Davy Jones's locker, without more delay, Huzza! huzza! for the Florida's crew! GENERAL BUTLER. A REBEL SONG. Butler and I went out from camp, Come, throw your swords and muskets down, And then we got a monster gun, Come, throw your swords, etc. Whenever we go out to fight Come, throw your swords, etc. Old Butler stays in Fort Monroe, To say that Butler will not fight Come, throw your swords, etc. WAR SONG OF THE MACON LIGHT DRA GOONS.* To horse! To horse! The standard flies! From Georgia's fertile plains we come, Our casques the leopard's spoil surround, And shall we bend the stubborn head, Or brook a victor's scorn? No! though destruction o'er the land For gold let Scott's dull regions fight, Nor shall their edge be vain. And now, while breath of Northern gale And footsteps of invader rude, Pollute the happy shore. Farewell, dear friends, and farewell homes, Adieu each tender tie, Resolved, we mingle in the tide, To horse! To horse! Our sabres gleam, They called a doctor to cure the bird: There came with the doctor General Scott. The voice of Sir Fuss and Feathers was heardHe could not set by without saying a word, As the ire of the gallant old soldier was stirred ! He proposed that the bird be shot. Loud rose the voice of Greeley and Seward! Many their words-we're sorry to lose themThey told how the Eagle might be cured, Like a Duffield ham-and his life insured. Raymond and Bennett added a word, And they hid him in Abraham's bosom. Bird of the broad and sweeping wing, They have swept your nest with a dirty broom, Tarnished your glorious covering; From Tammany Hall I hear them sing, Weed and Morgan and Governor King, Vanderbilt, Law, Beecher, and Tyng Priest and pirate, together they come. Phoenix-like soar from thy burning nest; CHARLES DULLNESS. ST. CHARLES HOTEL, NEW-ORLEANS, May 10, 1861. INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS. NEW-YORK, July 3.-During this afternoon the following inflammatory placard was posted about the city and hung up in conspicuous positions in some of the hotels: ATTENTION! MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK: The people of the North, West, and East, who are numbered by millions, and who are firm friends of the Administration and Government, have been for months ardently wishing, hoping, praying, and expecting to see some signs of energy and capacity in their rulers, corresponding to the magnitude of the danger that threatens our glorious institutions. They have been disappointed. Being true patriots and idolizing their Government, they have believed the President, his Cabinet, and our generals were animated with the same burning patriotic desires. They have been astonished at the delay of the draft and the death-like torpor slavery and our hatred of freedom entitled us, a respect for ourselves would seem to require us to declare the causes which led us to desire a separation from the Northern people. We hold these truths to be undeniable, that some men are born to command, and are possessed of certain inherent rights; that among these are, power, dominion, and the spread of slavery; that to secure those rights a form of government is instituted among us, deriving its only power from those who govern; that whenever the people will not allow us to hold the reins of government, and absorb the funds of the treasury, to our own benefit, and for our own aggrandizement, we have the right to seize the Capital, overthrow the Government, and drench the land with blood. Prudence has caused us to wait till we got a goed chance to accomplish our ends. But when at last an Administration was in power, which was completely at our control, and the people, by electing his successor, gave us to understand that our sceptre would depart, and the spoils of office would no more help to rivet the chains on those we could no longer control, the history of their forbearance and devotion has no parallel in any age or country. Let facts be submitted to a candid world. They have for a long series of years submitted to our dictation. They have not complained when the General Government was carrying our mails at an expense of some millions of dollars, in excess of receipts, in the PostOffice Department. that seems to pervade the Administration. They formerly had implicit faith, especially in the patriotism of Secretary Stanton and President Lincoln. The people begin to inquire, to fear, and are perplexed. They suspect you, General Halleck, of imbecility, or something worse. They know that you are the Commander-in-Chief, and hold you responsible. Answer these questions if you can. Two immense armies have been confronting each other for months on the Rappahannock-preparing for a decisive struggle-a struggle which was, perhaps, to decide the fate of a great nation-a mighty empire-to determine whether a free Government could sustain itself. Did you do your whole duty upon that momentous occasion? The people say, No, no. "Why in hell" did you not have the troops about Washington within striking distance? Why were you not on the spot to support the brave General Sedgwick and his gallant troops when they carried the fortifications on the heights of Fredericksburgh? With the assistance of Heintzelman's army thrown in at the right moment, the whole rebel army could have been completely annihilated and the nation saved from disgrace and humiliation. Instead of this, the rebel army is now invading and desolating the loyal and free States. If you had been equal to your duty and the occasion, the troops at Suffolk, Fortress Monroe, Norfolk, Baltimore, etc., etc., would have been on board of swift steamers ready before the battle commenced-to have been concentrated and launched at the enemy like thunderbolts from avenging heaven. A few more such fatal mistakes as you made on that occasion and our Government is lost and will break up in anarchy. This is so. Our nation is in or at another fearful crisis. The audacious General Lee, having faith in your imbecility, has boldly invaded one of our most populous States. What are you doing? The people fear you will do as before, and they call upon Abraham Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase, William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, and ask what are you doing? If you repose supinely as heretofore in your chair of office, and let Lee proceed, you ought to be damned, and you will certainly be damned, and you will be of that class whose sins go to judgment beforehand. The They have accorded to us the right to hang John great and free people of the North, East, and West will Brown and his abettors, when he frightened us almost not stand this humbugging any longer! You must out of our senses, by his raid upon our cherished and conquer Lee or resign! Do you hear this? The peo-much-admired institution in the Old Dominion. ple have given you all the guns, ammunition, ships, and money that you can use. They expect and require that you will concentrate all the troops within five hundred miles of Lee's army within the next ten days (as you easily can) and plunge them at Lee on a given day, and the work is done. Unless you do this, you and the nation are undone. P. S. If you had hung Vallandigham (as you ought to have done) and sent him to be Governor of the copperheads in the infernal regions, you would not have been troubled by the traitorous, cowardly, miserable sneaks and poltroons, who are boring you about him; and who, when they visit Washington, should be impressed into the service of the Government, which they are endeavoring to overthrow-and all the people would say, Amen! NEW-YORK, June 30, 1863. ONE OF THE PEOPLE. THE SOUTHERN DECLARATION OF INDEPENdence. When, in the course of events, our plans were fully matured, and our determination to overthrow the Government had reached its culminating point-when we were ready to invoke foreign aid, and ask the recognition of our nationality, to which the institution of They have many times refused to give audience in some parts of the country, and sometimes maltreated abolition lecturers. They have on several occasions furnished men and money to fight the battles of the country. They have acquiesced in the purchase, by the General Government, of Louisiana and Florida for our benefit. They sanctioned the annexation of Texas, by electing James K. Polk on that issue, thereby adding extensively to our domains. They have never insisted upon Congress passing laws for the abolition of slavery in the States, but they have prevented us from extending it into all the territories; denying that the Constitution guarantees to us the right to do so. They have insisted upon their right to denounce slavery. They have protested against abridging the right of franchise, and establishing a censorship over the press. They have contended for the right of free speech, and free and liberal education. They have at last succeeded in electing a President upon these principles, thereby endangering the stability of our institutions, and depriving us of the power of ruling at will. In every stage of these proceedings we have resisted. We have labored to prove to them that slavery was better than freedom that ignorance among the masses was better for us than a system of general education. We have warned them from time to time of the danger of free institutions, and their attempts to enlighten all, without our consent. |