"To hold potatoes, corn, and oats, "They also take your rice in ships From Charleston's docks and New York slips "Your sugar, too, the Yankees take Although they tap the maple, That produces matter saccharine, "Tobacker, too, the Yankees chew, "For early fruits and early flowers, Their sweethearts to amaze 'em. "Then why this strife? like man and wife That after all must end with life, "Jonathan's advice, therefore, Is, peacefully be living, "If you refuse to take this hint Intended for your favor, We'll show you how the cap and flint Will cause you much more labor." Edward S. Ellis, a popular writer in the fields of romance, came out of the regions of fiction to discourse facts in this hu morous strain : Clergymen are mustering To inflict some Knocks: And the walls of Fame Soon will show their "devil" Every inland steamer, Every train of cars, Bring their eager thousands Going to the wars. Tailors, clerks, mechanics, Bronzed and honest farmers Hasten "into line." Students, doctors, lawyers, Officers and seamen, Salts and jolly tars, All are now enlisting— Going to the wars. Timid, tender maiden Softly gasps "My gracious f As her gallant lover Swears he'll shoot Jeff Davia Proud and doating father, When he says "My son !" Hears his martial progeny Answer" of a gun.” Gallant-looking firemen, In their flannel shirts, "Reckon they can handle Armies from the mountains Armies from the hills Armies from the workshops Armies from the mills. Hosts of freemen rushing Round the STRIPES AND STARS! Verily the Southerns Will get their full of wars! suffice for our half hour with the Poets. That it assured. This may will prove a pleasant treat for the reader, we are We have quoted such poems as were available. Many fine things are necessarily omitted if we would not absorb too much. of our book with rhymes. The contributions of Mrs. Howe, Mrs. Whitman, Rose Terry, Miss Proctor, Oliver Wendall Holmes, R. H. Stoddard, George H. Boker, T. B. Read, Lowell, A. J. H. Duganne, Alice Cary, Bayard Taylor, Whittier, John Neal, Park Benjamin, were very noticeable for their spirit and strength.* * We can but hope that some competent hand will gather and pub lish them in a volume fitted for popular circulation. A large number These it should be of the finest poems went without an author's name. the duty of the editor to carefully gather, and, if possible, to ascertain and make known their authorship. V. EARLY INCIDENTS. WHEN one of the New York city regiments was marching to the steamer, a young man, who had risen from a sick bed to go with his company, fainted in the street. A sturdy fellow stepped from the crowd on the sidewalk, saying, "Give me his musket and cartridge-box." They were given to him, and without another word he marched on in the place of the sick man. In one of the Massachusetts regiments was a young citizen. of Maine. He had come from that State to Massachusetts to visit his mother, whom he had not seen for five years, and had been with her only an hour, when he was asked if he did not wish to volunteer. He said his grandfather went to Bunker Hill on short notice, and he would go now; so he bade his mother good by, and was gone. One of the captains of the Massachusetts Sixth regiment stated that four hundred were refused admittance to the ranks. "It went agin me," said he, "to leave one fellow behind. When we told him he could not go-'I've walked fourteen miles,' exclaimed he, 'and given up a situation of a dollar and a quarter a day just to go, and I think you might take me.' When I had to refuse," said the Captain, "he sat down and cried." A Southern merchant wrote to a large firm in New York, requesting a list of the names of those who supported and sympathized with the "movement against the South." The New Yorker replied by sending through Adams & Co.'s Express, a copy of the "City Directory!" A wealthy Quaker merchant in New York, had in his em ploy a stout, healthy, able-bodied young man, without family. He thought the fellow could serve his country to advantage, and he accordingly addressed him thus: "William, if it is thy desire to become a soldier, thou art at liberty to do so, and thy salary shall be continued during thy absence as if thou wert here; but if thou dost not desire to become a soldier and serve thy country, I no longer require thy services here." The young man enlisted. แ My son," said a solid merchant to his heir and namesake, "I would rather give $1,000 than have you go to Washington soldiering." "Father," was the kindly but decided response, "if you could make it $100,000 it would be of no use; for where the Seventh regiment goes, I go." Before the sailing of the Columbia, transport from New York, a demand was made in the name of the regiment that the emblematic Palmetto trees on the bow, paddle-boxes, and stern, should be painted black. The ceremony of obliteration was performed amid the most unbounded applause of the regiment, and the citizens on the wharf. The Harmony Society, of Beaver County, Pa., deposited five thousand dollars in the bank at New Brighton, to the order of Daniel Agnew, Chairman of the Committee of Safety, for such general purposes as the war movements might require. This society consists of men of advanced age and peaceful pursuits, too old for active defense; but they were patriotic, and determined to do all that loyal citizens could do for the Government. A lady of known patriotism who had done good service in sewing and contributing for the volunteers, visited her country place in Byberry, near Philadelphia, when the farmer, in honor of her arrival, run up a flag upon the barn. Said flag had been made some years ago for the children, and, to economise material and stitches, contained but three stripes and a short dozen of stars. Some of the neighbors beheld the tri-striped |