A SONG FOR THE ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS. | muster-roll, bearing the names of the spirited young

BY "AGNES."

We are nobles of the prairie, and we come, and we

come

To fight for Law and Liberty, and our dear prairie home;

No craven hearts or coward hands are numbered in our ranks,

vivandiers, has been sent to head-quarters, and the company accepted by the "powers that be." Since that day four flag raisings have come off in that portion of Kane county, and "Mary" and "May "-the have attended all of them, at the request of the offisoldier girls-in uniforms of white, red, and blue, cers, marching as pioneers at the head of their company. The captain says he could not get along without them, and after the flag has been sent up, he

Our souls were never shackled with the chains that allows them to fire each three guns in honor of the Slavery clanks.

We are free, we are free,

And we ever mean to be,
Forever, ever free,

In death or victory!

Our banner is a galaxy of glorious silver stars, Freedom's history is written on its white and crimson bars,

In the face of Southern foes we will flaunt our dear old flag,

Union, the Stars, and Stripes. Whether he will deprive the place of the valuable services of a good teacher, and a lover of a pretty sweet-heart, by carrying his Joan of Arc to the wars with him, remains yet to be seen. Much of the success of the recruiting service, and the patriotic fire burning now in old Kane, is attributed to the gallant conduct and bright eyes of these young ladies.—Easton (Pa.) Express, June 22.

And it never shall be lowered to a vile secession in the Supreme Court the sword worn by Lieutenant NEW YORK, June 16.-Yesterday there was shown

rag:

York, of Duryea's regiment, in the recent battle at Big Bethel, Virginia.-Lieutenant York was in command of the left wing of Captain Kilpatrick's advance guard, and when the masked battery opened upon them, a grape-shot struck his sword as it hung by his side, broke the steel scabbard in two, bent the sword, cutting out a piece of its blade, glanced off in front, and knocked him down. He sent the sword home to his son, and it was shown yesterday among his companions of the bar, who promptly sent him a new sword, together with a carbine and a spy-glass, costing about $70, no subscription being allowed above $2.

Lieutenant York was in charge of the rear guard on the retreat, bringing in the dead and the wounded, when his party, notwithstanding a flag of truce, were fired on by the enemy. He succeeded in repulsing them, and brought his party in unhurt.-N. Y. Ezpress, June 17.

June 12.-The latest effort of Floridianic patriotism was the expulsion from the municipality of Apalachicola of Mr. D. V. Dean, a native of Michigan. Mr. Dean was engaged in teaching a school of budding chivalry in the thriving city named, and while diligently pursuing his avocation, one day was surprised to receive the following communication from the mayor of the Dixianic burg. We give the epis tle verbatim et literatim, etc., in hopes that it may in some measure excuse the conduct of His Honor, be lieving, as we do, that our readers will agree with us, that his aversion to schoolmasters was natural to him, has no doubt existed from his infancy, and has steadily increased since the days of his youth:

"Dear sir it having been proved to me by respectible testimony that you have mad use of treesonable expressions against the confederate states of america you are hearby commanded to leeve this town by the verry furst oppertunity or it will becum my duty to have you dealt with under the act of treeson

JOAN OF ARC IN THE WEST.-At a flag raising at North Plato, Kane county, Illinois, after the Stars and Stripes had been duly hoisted, the assembly adjourned to the village church, where some speeches were made by patriotic gentlemen, and an opportunity was offered for young men to come forward and enlist, the company at Plato not being quite full. Not a man went up! This aroused the patriotism as well as the "dander" of the village schoolmistress, who, with many other ladies, was present, and she walked boldly forward to the secretary's desk, and headed the muster-roll with a name rendered illustrious as having been affixed to the Declaration of In-mit to a proper search. dependence, with the prenomen Mary. She was followed by another lady, and lo, and behold! the Accompanying the above, was the following highly Plato company was not long in filling its ranks! The consolatory document:

you are also required to deliver up to the bearer of this communication all arms such as guns pistolls Durks Boue Knifes Swoards Cains & Co and in refusing at once to comply you will be compelled to subJM G Hunter mayor.

may 27 1861."

RUSSELL'S Flight.

"MR. DEAN-SIR: the undersined having herd | to maintain its independence and to repel invasion, that you have given utterance to treasonable language which has been unexampled in the history of the would say to you that to avoid the penalties of the world. In this community almost every person calaw in such cases made and providen for trators to pable of bearing arms is ready to volunteer in the leave by the furst oppertunity for moar northern service of the State. Our Association, and even the climbs."-N. Y. Express, June 15. ministry, is largely represented in the ranks of the army. The South has no desire to invade the soil of the North, or to take from it any of its rights. We only ask to be permitted to govern ourselves in accordance with the principles which were guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States, and which were maintained by the North and the South in the Revolutionary war. The wisest and best men of both sections have recognized those principles, and we do not now advocate a war of aggression or conquest.

The scene-Virginia's hills and dales;
The time-the dead of night;
The characters-ten thousand men,
In swift" disgraceful" flight.

Confusion and disorder reign,

As far as eye can see,

And look! a horseman leads the van-
A valiant LL.D.

THE RICHMOND YOUNG MEN TO THOSE OF NEW YORK.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ROOMS,
RICHMOND, Va., May 6, 1861.
To the Young Men's Christian Associations of
North America:

BRETHREN: We have determined by the help of God to address you in the character of peace-makers. In connection with the Confederacy of Christian Associations, we trust, that we have secured the confidence and love of many of your members, and we are conscious that we sincerely reciprocate their sentiments. You will then regard with some respect the statements we may make in reference to the present condition of our country. Many of those who participated with us in the Christian fellowship which was exhibited by the delegates from the various portions of our beloved country, at the annual conventions held in Troy, Charleston, Richmond, Cincinnati, and New Orleans, will doubtless be willing to unite with us in an earnest effort for the restoration of peace and good-will between the contending parties.

As Christians, let us discountenance the misrepresentations of each other which are so frequently made, and let us labor earnestly in the cause of peace. In November last we united in a call upon the President of the United States for the appointment of a day for humiliation and prayer to Almighty God for a blessing on our country, and in answer to our prayers the fratricidal hand has thus far been withheld by a merciful Providence. Let us again unite our prayers and efforts for the restoration of peace and good will between the Northern and the Southern Confederacies.

With the sincere hope that we may be able to congratulate you at our approaching Convention in St. Louis upon this auspicious result, we remain yours fraternally, WM. P. MUNford,

REPLY.

JOEL B. WATKINS,
WM. H. GWATHMEY.

NEW YORK, May 14, 1861. GENTLEMEN: Your letter of the 6th inst. has just reached me. Like every other document which comes from the South, there is in your letter a mixture of truth and error. For instance, you say, "Through the distorting medium of the press there is a misunderstanding between the North and the South." Now, it is true that the press has "distorted" the truth in certain instances in the North-and entirely suppressed it in the South in every instance where it did not accord with the interest of slavery. But I cannot believe there is any longer a "misunderstanding between the North and the South." There is but one question now, viz., Have Southrons the right to rule the Union until they lose an election, and then destroy it?

Through the distorting medium of the press, there is a misunderstanding between the North and the The South says "Yes;" young and old, rich and South as to their respective positions. If there could poor, educated and ignorant, religious and unconbe a fair representation of the sentiments of the bet-verted-North, East, and West say "No." ter portion of the people at the North and South, we would not present the melancholy spectacle of a great nation involved in a civil war, which must be productive of the most disastrous consequences to the material and spiritual interests of each section. The separation of the South from the North is irrevocable, and the sooner this great fact is acknowledged by the nations of the earth the better will it be for the interest of humanity. The conquest of either section by the other is impossible. You can have no doubt of the truth of this proposition, if you consider the teaching of all history in regard to the ability of an invaded country to repel its invaders, where the numbers are nearly equally divided, and the courage of each is unquestioned. In the present contest there is a unanimity of sentiment on the part of the South

The whole North recognizes the war as a holy effort to maintain good Government. The cross upholds the flag on our Churches, and in every assembly the good old Union hymns are sung amid tears and cheers of generous godly people who yet love you and pray for you, though they deny and will die before they will consent to the right of secession. The only possible way for us to consent to separation is through a National Convention. Come back to your allegiance, call such a Convention by your votes in Congress, and you can certainly go. This will be regular. But our very existence is imperilled by your hideous "secession" No Government could stand a year upon such a basis. We never can admit it. We are not ignorant of loss, and hardship, and we can learn death. But we cannot consent to

throw away all for which our fathers fought, nor to call our glorious Government a failure.

Indulge me in one word more. Slavery is wrong. You have determined to defend that wrong. You have counted no cost in defending it even before it was assailed, but have been willing even to destroy our Government for fear it might be. May God forgive you; your position is utterly false, and my heart bleeds that men calling themselves Christians can connect themselves with so wicked a cause, even calling it holy, and daring to compare it with that of our God-protected fathers!!

Your Christians will meet ours in battle. The Seventh regiment of New York numbers many of our members. The Twelfth and Seventy-First as well; and to-morrow the Ninth takes others, active earnest Christians. Dr. Tyng's son is second in command of a company now in Washington. My friend Mr. Abbott, corresponding secretary of the Trenton Association, is also under arms. Mr Haddock, of Troy, writes me the same.

Upon you and your "institution" must rest the responsibility of this fratricidal war, and shirk it or dissemble it how you may, God will require an account of every man who abets the treason of the South. I cannot pray for the Southern Confederacy. NOBLE HEATH, JR., Cor. Sec'y N. Y. Young Men's Christian Association. WM. P. MUNFORD, JOEL B. WATKINS, WM. H. GWATIMEY,

Richmond, Va.

SECURITIES AT THE SOUTH.

my, and no person domiciled within the Confederate States can hold any intercourse or communication with him during the war; and if such intercourse result in a negotiation, agreement, or contract, such negotiation, agreement, or contract is illegal, and absolutely null and void. It is time that the law on this subject should be well understood, for no intercourse whatever, without special permission of the Government, can be lawfully carried on between enemies except that of a hostile character. The remit tance of money for any purpose, the making of contracts, the acceptance of trusts, the creation of any civil obligation, or commercial relation whatever, is unlawful and forbidden, simply because it is inconsistent with the hostile attitude of the parties. The belligerent Governments have placed their respective citizens in an attitude of hostility towards each other, and no relation inconsistent with hostility can be lawfully created by the acts of individuals without the express permission of the Government. Respectfully, THOMAS J. SEMMES, Attorney-General.

"WALTER G. ROBINSON, Esq., President Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, New Orleans.”—N. O. Picayune, June 7.

RUNAWAY SLAVES ARRESTED BY NORTHERN SOLDIERS. Seventy-one runaway slaves from Maryland and Virginia have been confined in the public jail during the month of May. Sixty-four of that number have been returned to their masters, and the others are held to be returned as soon as called for. The largest portion of these slaves have been ar rested by Northern soldiers stationed in Washington, and most of the slaves have expressed themselves to the effect that they thought they would be free if they could get into Washington.- Washington Star, June 3.

NEW ORLEANS, June 5.-Within the past few days there have been some transfers of bank and other stock owned by Northern parties to residents here, not in the way of actual sales, but as a cover to property which is considered jeopardized by the hostile relations existing between this Confederacy and the Abolition Government at Washington. A case in point occurred yesterday, where a party applied to the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank to transfer certain shares of stock to himself under a power of attorney transmitted from New York. The President of the Bank entertaining serious doubts as to the propriety and legality of such a transfer, addressed a communication to the Attorney-General of the State, soliciting his opinion in the premises. The answer of this officer is conclusive as to the illegality of the proceeding. He pronounces every negotiation, agreement, or contract between a person domiciled within the Confederate States and an alien enemy, such as those must be deemed who are domiciled in the United States, to be absolutely null and void. No intercourse, other than a hostile one, can be tolerated between the people of the two sections. The remittance of money for any purpose is unlawful and forbidden. So far as the latter point is concerned, Con- HOW A MAN WAS TREATED IN EASTERN VIRGINIA. gress has provided by special enactment that all pay--Mr. H. C. Strunk, formerly of Philadelphia, but ments to the enemy are prohibited.

THE MURDERERS OF THE UNITED STATES PICKETS NEAR ALEXANDRIA.-It is undoubtedly the understanding among the people residing in the neighbor hood of the pickets of Gen. McDowell's command, and the line of pickets of the disunionists in Gen. McDowell's immediate vicinity, that the nightly attempts being made to murder the United States picket guards by stealthily creeping up in the bush and firing at their backs, is the work of the two brothers of the late James Jackson, who killed Col Ellsworth. They are said to be finely mounted, and we (personally) know well, know every cow trail in the vicinity of the United States lines in Fairfax and Alexandria counties. They are believed to head a company of some fifteen or twenty. It is necessary that their assassin work should be summarily stopped, as it can be, it seems to us, by a constantly moving patrol thrown out a short distance in advance of the regular picket guards.—Washington Star, June 5.

for the last four or five years a resident at Millbor The closing paragraph of the opinion referred to,ough Springs, Bath co., Va., reached Philadelphia on is as follows:

"It is clear, that the acceptance of the power of attorney by Mr. W. E. Leverich from Mr. H. S. Leverich is illegal, and he has no lawful authority to act in pursuance of its mandate. The transfer of the stock, or agreement to transfer the stock, between W. E. Leverich and H. S. Leverich is illegal, and cannot be tolerated. Mr. H. S. Leverich being domiciled in New York, is to be regarded as an alien ene

June 5, having been forced to leave his home on the 23d of May, under threats of personal violence. Mr. Strunk was the owner of a farm of 175 acres, which was tolerably well stocked. He had made no secret of his Union sentiments, and prior to the election of delegates to the State Convention, there was not any necessity for it, as was shown by the election of the Union candidate in Bath co. by a large majority. On the 23d of May the secession ordinance was sul

As soon as her husband fled, the secessionists scized the lumber yard and all the available property connected with it. A few days since they again visited her, and stole her cow, entered the house and carried off every thing in it-even to the meal, bread, molasses, and bacon-leaving not a mouthful of bread for herself and three little children. They then ordered her to leave the State forthwith. Hastily 36 gathering up the few effects left her into four boxes, 28 she hired a conveyance to take her partly on her 12 way. The thieving scoundrels stole the largest of the boxes, saying that three trunks were enough for a woman to travel with.

When she started she had $20 in her pocket. 46 After many hardships, insults, and dangers, she 115 reached the free States. During her passage through 68 the South she found no one to give her the slightest 99 assistance. Once in the free States, she found no difficulty in obtaining a passage towards her home. When she arrived here she was wretchedly clad, 29 and her children were barefooted. They wore the 16 same clothes in which they had set out from home, 117 which were those they wore when the secessionists broke in upon them. She had only $2 to take her to 803 Maine, and provide for the children and herself on 1,814 the way. Supt. Nottingham gave her passes on the

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Lake Shore Railroad, and some of the railroad officers gave her an addition to her slender stock of funds. The poor woman was deeply grateful, though she besitated about taking assistance in money, and her manner was convincing proof that she was no beggar, imposing on the credulity of the public. No one could look on the poor little group of exiles, so shamefully treated by their former neighbors, without cursing the heartless wretches who thus waged a merciless war upon the helpless women and children. -Cleveland Herald, June 14.

IN Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, a captain who is also a Methodist preacher, arose and began to exhort the men, stating that this war was one of right, and if God was not in it, he, for one, would have nothing to do with it. Then, exclaiming with great vehemence, "If God is with us, who can be against us?" "Jeff. Davis and the devil !" cried a "wild cat boy." The service closed hastily.

A LETTER from Fortress Monroe in the New York Commercial Advertiser, says :

The steamship Cambridge, just in from Boston, has brought not only a supply of munitions of war, but an abundance of intellectual weapons. The Massachusetts boys are in high glee with their letters, books, and papers. Col. Woodruff, of the popular and well-drilled Third regiment Massachusetts volunteers, showed me at his quarters his full files of Atlantics, Harpers, North Americans, and Blackwoods. This is the way the Old Bay State invades the Old Dominion.-Boston Transcript, June 8.

THE Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist of the 30th of May, says: "President Davis's war horse passed through this city last night, on his way to Richmond, Va. Accompanying the animal was the President's saddle, on the horn of which is a compass, to be used in case the rider should lose his way."

A MEMPHIS PROCLAMATION.-The following is a correct copy of a proclamation posted up in the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, for a few days before

the late election :

TRUE MEN OF THE SOUTH TO THE RESCUE.

Whereas, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Northern States, has seen fit to make a call upon the States of the Union for 75,000 men, for the declared purpose of subjugating the States of the Southern Confederacy, and make them subservient to his will; and whereas such a call is repugnant to the feelings of the people of the border States, and must, therefore, be treated with contempt. And whereas, also, the Republicans of the North are heaping insult and injury upon friends of the South in their midst, and have forced them to leave their homes in the North in consequence thereof;

We, loyal citizens of the South, who have pledged our lives, our property, and our sacred honors, in support of the Government of the Confederate States, deem it incumbent upon us to urge immediate arming of all our able-bodied men who are willing to resist the cohorts of the North; we also urge all friends of

the South to be vigilant, and use their utmost efforts
to preserve the honor and integrity of our United
South. Our safety requires that those living in our
midst, who do not wish to abandon their allegiance
to Lincoln's Government, who are in favor of negro
equality and the degradation of the white race, should

leave this city as soon as possible. That a number
of men from the North, who have made their homes
in this city, are true to the South, there is no doubt;
but there are others whom it will not do to trust.

They are men who, notwithstanding they have made all they are worth from Southern patronage, are recreant to the South, and in her hour of peril will prove themselves traitors. Those men must be compelled to leave here. We do not counsel force for this purpose, unless a refusal is given to comply with such a demand.

Let the proprietors of business houses, machine, carpenter, and cabinet shops, foundries, printingoffices, paint and tailor shops, hotel and boarding houses, report immediately the names of all those who they know cannot be trusted as friends to the South. It is important that this be done—the secu rity of our property and the safety of our families demand it. Our gallant sons, who are anxious to march wherever the service of the South requires them, wish to carry with them the consoling thought that they have not left behind them the lurking enemy, who, while lingering around their homes and firesides, would incite our negroes to insurrection, and bring the worst calamities upon our wives, our mothers, and our daughters.

"Those who are not for us are against us." Let every citizen remember that "Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."

The process of marking the Union men on the day of the election was by writing the name of each voter, as it was entered upon the poll book, upon the back of the ticket, with the corresponding number entered on both; so that, after the vote was counted, the Union tickets could easily be selected, and the voters This design was known before the elec attended to. tion, and, of course, deterred Union men from voting at all, or compelled them to vote for secession.

A CHEMICAL Correspondent of the N. O. Crescent gives that paper the following etymological analysis, "Davis" is the Gallic orthography for and, as it is altogether too rich to be lost, we give it a place here. David, which signifies "well-beloved;" and his reputation maintains its original signification as a great leader of an oppressed people, who are freeing themselves of the tyrant's yoke. "Lincoln," authentically "Lin" means a traced to its origin, is found to be a compound word "Coln" is a conin the Celtic tongue, lin and coln. pool, mire, morass, marsh, mud. traction of colon, which in this connection signifies an inhabitant of a colony. Therefore Lincoln originally signified the inhabitant of a mud colony, which, modernized, may be the same as a mud-sucker. This probably accounts for his not being very clear.-N. Y. Express, June 18.

THE war occasions many ludicrous incidents. It is stated that Mary W. Dennis, six feet two inches high, is first lieutenant of the Stillwater company. Minnesota regiment. She baffled even the inspection of the surgeon of the regiment in discovering her sex, but was recognized by a St. Paul printer, who became shockingly frightened at her threats of vergeance upon him if he exposed her, and he de

camped.

Among the women who marched in procession with the Garibaldi Guard, in New York, the other day, were several volunteers as washerwomen, who evidently do not believe in the old saying that every man should be his own washerwoman.