The invading tribe called Yankees, From joining in the ride; Old Lincoln and his Congressmen, Put old Scott in the wagon, To cross Bull Run he tried, For Beauregard to ride. Manassas was the battle-ground; The field was fair and wide; The Yankees thought they'd whip us out, But when they met our "Dixie" boys, They wheeled about for Washington, Brave Beauregard-God bless him!- To rising generations, With pleasure we will tell And gallant Johnson fell. MCCLELLAN'S SOLILOQUY. BY A DAUGHTER OF GEORGIA. Advance, or not advance; that is the question! To beat! perchance be beaten ;-ay, there's the rub; But shall I bear the scorn of all the North, To drill and practice troops behind entrenchments, THE DEVIL'S VISIT TO "OLD ABE." BY REV. E. P. BIRCH, OF LA GRANGE, GA. Written on the occasion of Lincoln's proclamation for prayer and fasting after the battle of Manassas. Revised and improved by the author. Old Abe was sitting in his chair of state, With one foot on the mantel, and one on the grate, With a woe-begone air, Gazing at nothing with a meaningless stare, lair. His cheek-bones were high, and his visage was rough, wrong place." The news had just reached him of rout and defeat, His best men were slain on the field of the fight; "It's the devil!" said Lincoln; and sure he's right, I have come here on business momentously great, It is strange how a thrashing has altered your notions, "I'm afraid," said Old Abe," there's somebody hurt." It seems to me, sir, you're a whimsical set, Ever twisting and turning, like an eel in a net. And turn in and turn out, Till my wits are puzzled to know what you're about; You know, in the first place, you owe your election Of a demagogue crew who own my direction. law;' From the top of this platform-outstretching below, Scott;' Assisted by Greeley, and Bennett, and Weed, And demagogue screechers, To martial your leaders to conquest and fame; No victory came, And now, in conclusion, your attention I call But reproach and disgrace on the whole The avenger is coming. O'er your dark future path Yankee name. Your armies went forth, but not to the battle- In the pages of history, no loftier place Can be claimed for your thieving and cowardly race, Like a miserable pack of terrified asses. To sow tares of contention all over your soil ?— I am sure I deserve the remorse that I feel, Of a shallow-brained fool, Is brooding a storm of terrible wrath. "Then woe to the day when Beauregard comes Ah! then shall you sink to a merciless tomb, Thick as leaves of the forest in summer, May the names of the dead that we cherish, The boast of the brave and the free. COL. CROGHAN.-The death of Col. Croghan, who was killed by Gen. Benham's command, in the retreat of Floyd from Kanawha, is no small loss to the rebels. He was an excellent officer, a noble-looking man, and formerly in the regular service, a graduate of West Point, and a class-mate of Gen. Benham. He was a son of Gen. Croghan, the defender of Fort Stephenson, and was formerly quite wealthy, once owning the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. On his death-bed he confessed that he had received only what he deserved-that he was wrong-and asked them to pray for him. He refused to allow any medical assistance, probably well aware his time was come. The meeting and recognition between him and Gen. Benham was painful to witness. Said the General: INCIDENTS OF the Battle of BELMONT.--A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat, giving an account of the burial of our dead upon the field of battle at Belmont, by a party which returned after the battle, with a flag of truce, relates the following incidents: Our dead were mostly lying upon their backs, and every thing taken from their bodies that could be of value to the enemy. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 24.-Twenty-eight thousand troops were reviewed yesterday by Gov. Moore, Gen. Lovell, and Gen. Ruggles. The line was seven miles long. There was one regiment of fourteen hundred free colored men. The military display was grand. One company displayed a black flag.-Cincinnati Gazette, Dec. 4. BY PRESSURE, NOT BY SLAUGHTER.-General MeClellan, so writes a Washington correspondent, is using untiring industry in getting the army into the best possible condition, while it is more evident, every day, that he does not mean to use it to ob tain military glory, but to carry out a plan similar to that of Scott-to quell this rebellion by a mighty pressure, and not by a mighty slaughter. A PATRIOTIC NONAGENERIAN.-Mrs. Nelly Applegate, (familiarly known as Aunt Nelly Applegate,) living in the upper part of Louisville, Ky., who, durThe countenances of the deading the Revolutionary war, knit socks and made were mostly expressive of rage. One or two feat- bandages for the soldiers, is now daily and nightly ures were expressive of fear. One poor fellow, engaged in the same good work for the soldiers of after he was wounded, bethought himself to take a the Union. Although in her ninety-first year, she smoke; he was found in a sitting position, against a is, mentally and physically, as sprightly as many of tree, dead, with his pipe in one hand, his knife in the half her age.-Louisville Journal, Dec. 4. other, and his tobacco on his breast. A young lad about sixteen was found lying across a log, just as he fell, grasping his musket in both hands. was found in the woods, singing the Star-Spangled A wounded man, with both legs nearly shot off, Banner; but for this circumstance the surgeons say they would not have discovered him. A captain of one of the regiments was looking at the prisoners we captured at Belmont, and recog nized one as his own brother. THE CONFEDERATE" CONGRESS.-The first Congress of the Confederate States, under the permanent HOW THIRTY-five Rebels wERE CAPTURED.-We are indebted to a friend, who returned yesterday under one Chamberlain, on their way to join the from Fort Wise, for the following facts relative to the capture of a company of thirty-five Secessionists, Confederate forces: Long left Fort Wise, with a company of cavalry num"On the morning of the 20th of October, Capt. bering some thirty-six, in search of any bands of hostile Indians that might be scouring over the country. When about forty miles south of Fort Wise, he came in sight of what he supposed to be a band of Indians, and he ordered his men to dismount. The sergeant of the company being afflicted with rheuma- | tism, begged to be excused from dismounting, saying that he would ride up to the party and ascertain who they were. Capt. Long allowed him to proceed, and when within a short distance of the camp of the strange party, he was commanded to halt by one of their pickets, who presented a rifle at the sergeant. The sergeant told him not to shoot, as he had a company a short distance off that would kill the whole party if they harmed him. He was allowed to proceed to the camp, where he found all but two of the men asleep. One of them presented a gun at him, but did not shoot. After some conversation, the Sergeant was permitted to leave the camp. When safely outside of it, and as soon as he reached a hill, where he was in full view of his own company, he gave the signal by waving his handkerchief. Capt. Long left the horses in charge of a few men, took the balance of the company, and surrounded the Secesh. Capt. Long commanded them to stack their arms and surrender. Chamberlain surrendered, but refused to stack arms, and threw his rifle into the fire. They were all taken and marched back to Fort Wise. Upon investigation, it was ascertained that the company had been raised in Denver, and was on its way to Arkansas, for the purpose of taking a part in the rebellion. They are confined at Fort Wise.-Leavenworth Times. DISAPPOINTED. We are reliably informed that a few evenings ago the family of Andrew Johnson felt so assured that he would make his appearance in Greenville at the head of a Lincoln force, that they made preparations for giving the distinguished traitor a splendid supper upon his arrival. What a delusion!-Nashville Banner, Nov. 20. Galveston, Nov. 9, via New Orleans, Nov. 15.At half-past three o'clock this morning the sentinels on the steamer Rusk, saw the steamer Royal Yacht, Capt. C. Heeble, abandoned and burning, off Bolivar, in the Bay. Boats were sent to her assistance. The fire was within a few feet of her magazine, which was saved and the fire quenched. The damage was light. There were indications of a stout resistance by her crew. The cutlasses were found below deck, but the other small arms were missing. Musket balls were found imbedded in her sides. It is supposed a frigate launch neared the Yacht before it was discovered. The attacking party evidently consisted of two hundred men. The Yacht's crew numbered fifteen. The Yacht was brought in. The enemy, evidently frightened, left in a hurry.-N. O. Crescent, Nov. 15. A BOSTON Correspondent of the Anti-Slavery Standard, writes that he is engaged in partial attendance upon two courses of lectures on "The Use of the Rifle" and "The Evidences of Christianity," and adds: "As opposite as lemon and sugar, are they not? Suppose the watery element to be supplied, (of which there is generally little stint,) and the result is a sort of moral lemonade; or, if a little spirit be smuggled in, behold an intellectual punch!" same time that it was a pleasant thing to receive gifts from a lady. At this she asked him whether he had a wife, and immediately his eyes filled with tears, which rolled down his cheeks as he replied, "Yes, madam, I have a wife and six children." Observing his emotion, her own eyes rapidly filling at the sight, she quickly remarked to him: " Well, keep up a good heart." "Good heart! yes, madam, that is my name; Goodheart is my name!" Upon the instant their tears were changed to smiles, and Goodheart, the lady, and the soldier's companions, broke into a hearty laugh.—Ohio Statesman, Dec. 4. RETRIBUTION.-A letter from a private in the Seventy-ninth Highlanders, discloses an instance of just retribution which fell on an earnest traitor who should have been hung months ago. It will be remembered that in the early part of summer a man employed in the Washington navy yard was discovered filling shells with sand instead of the proper material. This man had received a medical education, and on his escape within the rebel lines resumed the practice of his profession. When the Seventy-ninth landed at Port Royal, the first sight which greeted them on entering the hospital was this man seated at a table, with a splendid case of surgical instruments before him, his left arm resting naturally upon the table and the position of his body indicating perfect ease, but upon a closer examination it was discovered that the entire upper portion of his head had been cut away, from the crown to the back of his neck, by a cannon ball.-N. Y. Commercial, Dec. 2. BISHOP GENERAL POLK is falling into the habit of using strong expressions for a man who seceded from the clerical profession. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing from Louisville, remarks as follows of this ministerial fighter: I think the Right Reverend Bishop General Polk, if some one has not slandered him, sent a flag of truce to the devil, when he laid aside the sword of the spirit and took up the carnal weapons of Jeff. Davis, and has since fallen into the habit of the army in Flanders. It is stated on the authority of a gentleman who was present, that when a note of inquiry was sent down to Columbus by Gen. Grant, after the fight at Belmont, in which the action was mentioned as a "skirmish," the Bishop General, on reading it, exclaimed, "Skirmish! hell and damnation! I'd like to know what he calls a battle."-Boston Evening Transcript, Dec. 6. IMPROMPTU ON a recent event. (Copyright in the Confederate States, secured.) Old Mason proud, and sly Slidell Or thought they had, till sweet to tell, Wilkes brought them safely into port, They'll find their fort will be-Fort Warren. A HAPPY COINCIDENCE.-As a large-hearted Union lady, resident in Covington, Ky., wife of a gentleman-Burlington Free Press, Nov. 22. of the same character, was distributing a lot of fine apples, of which she had a half-bushel basket full, to the soldiers encamped back of that city, she gave an apple to one soldier of a group who exhibited peculiar emotion as she handed it to him, observing at the ASTOR AND WADSWORTH.-John Jacob Astor is appointed to a position on Gen. McClellan's staff. It is a curious fact that while Lieutenant-Colonel Astor represents the largest capital in the United States, |