sop & Co., of Valparaiso, upon Messrs. H. G. Enthom & Co., London, England, payable to my order, and indorsed by me, for the sum of four hundred and ninetyseven pounds sterling, which was purchased by the amount subscribed by loyal Americans in Chili, in aid of the sick and wounded soldiers of the Union army. The amount subscribed was two thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars. I also inclose a list of the names of the subscribers and the amount paid by each. You will please appropriate the proceeds to the object indicated in such manner as you may deem most advisable. This contribution, though not large, will, it is hoped, mitigate the suffering of the brave soldiers who have perilled their lives on the battle-field in behalf of our beloved country; while, at the same time, it has given to our citizens residing in Chili an opportunity of manifesting their patriotism in this hour of our utmost need in a substantial and unequivocal mode. Other remittances for the same purpose will be made from time to time until the rebellion is crushed. I have the honor to remain your obedient servant, THOMAS W. NELSON. by mutual consent they finally ceased cursing, and grasping their muskets, charged into each other with the most unearthly yell ever heard on any field of battle. Muskets were clubbed, bayonet met bayonet, and in many instances, when old feuds made the belligerents crazy with passion, the musket was thrown away, and at it they went, pummelling, pulling, and gouging in rough and tumble style, and in a manner that any looker-on would consider a free fight. The rebels were getting rather the better of the fight, when the Twenty-third Kentucky succeeded in giving a flanking fire, when they retreated with quite a number of prisoners in their possession. The rebels had got fairly under weigh, when the Ninth Ohio came up on the double-quick, and charging on their now disordered ranks, succeeded in capturing all their prisoners, besides taking in return a great many of the rebels. As the late belligerents were conducted to the rear they appeared to have forgotten their late animosity, and were now on the best terms imaginable, laughing, and chatting, and joking, and, as the rebels were well supplied with whiskey, the canteens were readily handed about from one to the other, until they all became as jolly as possible under the circumstances. AN EXPEDIENT TO ABATE SHINPLASTERS HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF MEMPHIS, MEMPHIS, Nov. 26, 1862. MR. SEWARD TO MR. NELSON. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASINGTON, March 9, 1863. SIR: I have read your despatch of the first ultimo, accompanied by a list of loyal citizens residing in Chili, who have subscribed to a fund for the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers of the Union army, and by a bill of exchange for four hundred and ninetyGENTLEMEN: I regret to notice that you propose to seven pounds sterling, remitting that fund for the pur-issue a species of currency of denominations as low as pose for which it was destined. You will be pleased to inform the subscribers that their proceeding will be viewed at home with great sensibility, as doing honor alike to their benevolence and their patriotism. Care will be taken that their bounty shall be so disposed as to reach the most needy and worthy of those for whom it has been offered. I am, sir, your obedient servant, WM. H. SEWARD. TO THOMAS W. NELSON, Esq., etc., etc., Chili. A COMPANY OF CHEROKEES.-Major Thomas, of the confederate States army in East-Tennessee, has in his command a full company of Cherokee Indians from the Indian settlements of North-Carolina. They make fine soldiers, obey orders promptly, make the best scouts in the world, have committed no depredations upon citizens, are perfectly orderly and docile, and have done much to rid that modern Sodom of its abolition bushwhackers and assassins. Columbus (Ga.) Sun. ments. INCIDENT OF STONE RIVER. In the rebel charge upon McCook's right, the rebel Third Kentucky was advancing full upon one of the loyal Kentucky regiThese two regiments were brought from the same county, and consequently were old friends and neighbors, and now about to meet for the first time as enemies. As soon as they came near enough for recognition they mutually ceased firing, and began abusing, and cursing, and swearing at each other, calling each other the most outlandish names; and all this time the battle was roaring around them without much attention from either side. It was hard to tell which regiment would come off the victor in this wordy battle. As far as I could see, both sides were terrible at swearing; but this could not always last; To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Memphis: 66 ten cents bad money with which your community is already afshinplasters" to swell the amount of flicted. The issuing of bills of credit by way of money is, in my judgment, in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States; and I think Congress, at the last session, passed a bill prohibiting all issues below one dollar, and provided a species of currency called the "post-office currency," which will soon supplant the worthless trash which now is a disgrace to the name of money. As soon as possible, enough of this post-office money will come here, and suffice for the wants of the people. of Mexico, rather than those high models of ancient Inasmuch as we seem to be imitating the example and modern times that we were wont to do in times past, I would suggest a simpler and better currency for the times. In Mexico soap is money, and the people do their marketing through the medium of cakes of soap. Why do you not use cotton for money? It has a very convenient price-fifty cents a pound. Put it up in pounds and fractions, and it will form a far better currency than the miserable shinplasters you propose. If cotton be king, it has the genuine stamp and makes money- is money. Therefore I suggest that, instead of little bits of paper, you set to work and put up cotton in little parcels of five, ten, twenty-five, and fifty cents. If it be my last act, I wish to spare the people of Memphis from the curse of any more bad money. Yours in haste, W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General Commanding. AN INCIDENT.-Rev. Robert Colyer, chaplain to one of the Western regiments, in an address in Boston, Mass., related the following: When I was in Jefferson City, Mo., I found the hospitals in the most fearful condition you can imagine. I cannot stop to tell you of the scenes I saw; it is enough to say that one poor fellow had lain there sick | on the hard boards, and seen five men carried away dead, one after the other, from his side. He was worn to a skeleton; worn through so that great sores were all over his back, and filthy beyond telling. One day, a little before my visit, old Hannah, a black woman who had some washing to do for a doctor, went down the ward to hunt him up. She saw this dying man and had compassion on him, and said: "O doctor! let me bring to the man my bed, to keep him off the floor." The doctor said: "The man is dying; he will be dead to-morrow." To-morrow came, and old Hannah could not rest. She went to see the man and he was still alive. Then she got some help, took her bed, put the man on it, and carried him bodily to her shanty; then she washed him all over, as a woman would a baby, and fed him with a spoon, and fought death hand to hand day and night, and beat him back and saved the soldier's life. The day before I went to Jefferson the man had gone on a furlough to his home in Indiana. He besought Hannah to go with him, but she could not spare time; there was all that washing to do. She went with him to the steamboat, got him fixed to her mind, and then she kissed him, and the man lifted up his voice as she left him and wept like a child. I say we have grown noble in our sufferings. RICHMOND, VA., July 29. From a gentleman recently from Strasburgh, we learn that there occurred a panic among the Yankees at that place on last Wednesday week. A hurricane sweeping from the south raised a great line of dust in the road leading from Front Royal. The Yankees, some two thousand in number, thought the army of the ubiquitous Stonewall" was certainly upon them. Setting fire to all their tents and stores, they fled in confusion, the greater number of them not halting till they arrived in Winchester. The amount of property destroyed by them in this panic is estimated at between $30,000 and $40,000.-Richmond Examiner, July 29. The cause that was won by the blood of our sires- Undaunted by death, unmoved by defeat, In the God who espouses the cause of the Just, THE SPIRIT OF ILLINOIS.-A few days ago Gov. The flag that we honor, unfurled to the wind, Yates of Illinois received a letter from a town in the south part of the State, in which the writer complained that traitors in his town had cut down the American flag, and asking what ought to be done in the premises. The Governor promptly wrote him as follows: "Whenever you raise the flag on your own soil, or on the public property of the State or country, or at any public celebration, from honest love to that flag and patriotic devotion to the country which it symbolizes, and any traitor dares to lay his unhallowed hand upon it to tear it down, then I say shoot him down as you would a dog, and I will pardon you for the offence."Boston Transcript, July 25. CHICAGO, Thursday, July 31.-The Times has a special despatch, dated Memphis, 28th instant, which says: "Late advices from the South by rebel sources are important. Ten iron-clad gunboats, built in England, and fully equipped, have arrived off Mobile harbor, and three more are on their way. These constitute a fleet ordered by the Southern Confederacy, and purchased in Europe. They mount from ten to thirty guns each, and are said to be mailed with six-inch iron. The blockade was run openly by the dint of supe Forever shall float o'er the Nation redeemed. MARCH ALONG. BY GEORGE H. BOKER. Soldiers are we from the mountain and valley- We have a history told of our nation- Who that shall dare say the flag waving o'er us, And education as a dower, Look at it, traitors, and blush to behold it! Carry it onward till victory earn it The rights it once owned in the land of the free; Then, in God's name, in our fury we'll turn it Full on the treachery over the sea! Then march along, etc. England shall feel what a vengeance the liar Stores in the bosom he aims to deceive; Peace shall unite us again and forever, Though thousands lie cold in the graves of these Fail! with millions spent, with thousands slain, Fail! never while a Bunker Hill, We cannot drop a single star, Fail! never breathe such burning shame, For liberty. What! twenty millions freemen fail, Whose strength is borne on every gale, Whose power is of such vast extent, That it grasps in half the continent, From sea to sea. With plains so rich, the race can feed Or starve their enemies if need; With iron roads all o'er the land, With cities stretched on every hand, And flag unfurled from every strand, Upon the gale. Bringing knowledge that's always power, With forests deep and valleys wide, Whose art out-rivals every one, Whose name and fame and wealth are known By all the grand historic names! Fail! never breathe the word again, To hear the wail. What! shall a nation great and free, No! banish case, each pelfish god- Fail! traitors only breathe the word; Northmen! you feel the mighty throes JARRETTSVILLE, June 30, 1863. BOSTON HYMN. BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON. The word of the Lord by night God said, I am tired of Kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small My angel-his name is Freedom- Lo! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, I show Columbia, of the rocks I will divide my goods, I will have never a noble, Go, cut down trees in the forest, Call the people together, And here in a pine state-house In church, and state, and school. Lo! now, if these poor men And ye shall succor men; I break your bonds and masterships, Free be his heart and hand henceforth, I cause from every creature But, laying his hands on another VOL VII-POETRY 2 O North! give him beauty for rags, Up! and the dusky race Come East, and West, and North, My will fulfilled shall be, FORGIVEN. "In a recent battle fell a secession colonel, the last remaining son of his mother, and she a widow. That mother had sold eleven children of an old slave mother, her servant; that servant went to her and said: 'Missus, we're even now; you sold all my children; de Lord took all yours; not one left to bury cither of us; now I forgive you.'" A Southern widow knelt beside the bier They had brought him back from the battle-field, And of all her children, this dead boy Oh! lonely through that silent house Now never a sound of dancing feet Nor the mother's voice through the summer air, One after one, from her home they went, And their father was laid by the village kirk And this last one of her household band, But that hope died out on the fatal day, When strangers brought unto her door Oh! sad it was to hear her mourn One came to her, but not of kin, And spoke, as she never spoke before- BY JOHN A. DORGAN. Not fair, for they too long have borne Nor learned in books, nor smooth in speech, Forward! And with one pulse sublime, And on, and on, and on they tread; Again, again, and yet again And eyes of rage they backward go; And all who saw how few huzzaed In honor of the Black Brigade. But not for them was lost the day, ARM AND OUT. BY PARK BENJAMIN. Arm and out, ye Pennsylvanians; In delay lose not a minute; This is not the time for doubt Beat your drums and load your muskets; Lee is bringing on his cohorts, Ninety thousand strong, about; Meet them, kill them, drive them backward, Young men, bid adieu to sweethearts, Husbands, quit your wives and children, Take your hands from mines and forges, Arm and out! your country orders- NEW-YORK, June 16, 1863. CAVALRY SONG. BY ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER. The squadron is forming, the war-bugles play. Lo! dim in the starlight their white tents appear! Now fall on the rebel-a tempest of flame! Strike, strike for the true flag, for freedom and fame! A BRAVE PENNSYLVANIAN. Cairo, June 23, 1863.-Permit me to note to you some of the incidents I witnessed at the siege before Vicksburgh. At the battle and capture of Port Gibson, Sergeant Charles Bruner, a Pennsylvanian, of Northampton County, with a squad of fifty men of the Twenty-third [regiment Wisconsin volunteers, was the first to enter |