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* For the Benefit of the Sick and Wounded in Hammond General Hospital,
vol. & POINTLOOKOUT.MD., MAY 5. 18868 .0 25
BEAMMOND GAZETTE.
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CAVALRY SONG.
8Y ELDRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER.
The scg}ndron is forming, the war bugles play,
To saddle, 'bmvc comrades, stout hearts for a
(e cn;?%is mounted,—strike spursand away !
No brceze sMhkes the blossoms or tosses the grain;
But the wind of our spced floats the galloper's
mane,
4s he feels thebold rider’s gm hand on the rein.
Lo, dim in the starlight their white tents appear !
Ride softly ! ride slowly ! the ounsct i 3 near!
More slowly ! more softly.! the sentry may hear.
Now fall on the rebel—a tempest of flame !
Strike down the flse banner whose triumph weve
shame!!
Sirike, strike for the true flag, for freedom and
fame!
-Hurrah ! sheathe your swords; the carnageis
: done.
All red with our valor, we welcdme the sun.
Un, up with the stars; we have won! we have
won! _
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Reeviss or THE FRENCH AT PUuEbLy.—
The New Orleans Era of the 19th ult. has
the following :
United Ntates Consulate, Matamoras,
April 3.—To the editor of the Bra: The
government express arrived here last night,
bringh}g nows from Puebla of the repuise
of the French forces after three days’ fight
ing. This news is generally credited, and
i# undoubtedly true in the main.
M. M. Kixvey, Viee Consul.
- New Yomg, April 27.—The Tribune
has official news from Mexico to April Ist.
The reported loss of sixty pieces of artillery
and eight thonsand men Ey the French is
untrue, but the news recently reccived via
San Franeisco is in the main corvert, The
French suffered several repulses at Pucbla,
hut finally compelled the Mexicans to aban
don Fort San Javier, not, bowever, until
they had removed all the artillery and am
munition, and rendered the fort a heap of
ruins and huilt & pew one in its rear.
Up to April Tth no news favorable to
the French had reached Vera Cruz, and
the inference is that the Mexicans werc
still holding out bravely.
Mm 3
A Sure ¥ Love.—When is a ship prop
erly in love? When she is tender to a
man-of-war. When improperly in love?
Wb"ng ) anchoring after a heavy swell.
Wha bolishl; li;%flre;? When attached
b Q’mb“(ng oy. When ambitiously in
1&: )’When ‘'she is making up to a pier
r. - ;
(rex. Hoozzr axp TR BRIGADIER.—
Gen. Hooker, so far, has shown himself to
be a chieftain, in the true sense of that
term. He has dove his utmost to bring up
the spirit of the army, and his labor has
been rewarded with the most gratifying
success. The recent brilliant affair at giel
l??’s Ford, where our cavalry rushed upon
the foe, without firing a shot, and sabred
the rebels in their intrenchments, is but
one indication of the great change he has
wrought. The utter worthlessness of our
cavalry had long been the standing re
proach of this army. ¢Who ever saw a
dead cavalry man ?” was the derisive inter
rogatory from every branch of the service.
General Hooker resolved that this should
cease. He said to a brigadier of cavalry:
“I know ‘the South, and I know the
North. In point of skill, of iutelligence
and pluck, the rebels will not compare with
our men, if they are equally led. Our
soldicrs are a better quality of men. They
are hetter fed, better elothed, better armed
and infinitely Letter mounted ; for the reb
cls are fully half-mounted on mules, and
their animals got but two rations of forage
a weel:, while ours get seven. Now, with
such soldicrs, and with such a cause 2s
we have behind them—the Lest cause, the
most sacved cause since the world began—
we ought to Le invincible. You have got
to stop these disgraceful cavalry ‘surprises !
')l have no more of them! I give you full
power over your officers, to arrest, cashier,
shoot,—whatever you will—ouly you must
stop these ‘surprises.” And, siv, if you
don't do it, I give you fair notice, I will
velieve the whole of you, and take com
mand mysclf!” Mt is the kind of talk
for tardy or dclinquent officers, and the
first fruits thereof may be read in the flash
and ring of gallaut sa{)rcs at Kelly’s Ford.
It is the kind of talk to reform an avmy
and to win battles, and to save a nation,
and history will record every word in let
ters of goki———:irm y Cor. Wash. Chronicle.
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Oxiy A Dreay.—A hashful yokel was
peying his addresses to o gay luss of the
country, who had long despaired of bring
ing things to a crisis. Yokel called. one
day, when she alone was at houte. ~ After
seftling the merits of the weather, Miss said,
looking slyly into his face—
T dreamcd of you last night.’
‘Did you? Why, now.’
‘Yes, I dreamed you kissed me.’
‘Why, now! what did you dream your
mother said? .
‘Oh. T dreamed she wasn’t at home.’
A light dawned on Yokel’s intellect, and
directly something was heard to erack—
rhaps Yokel's whip, and perhaps nct,
Efxt about a month more they were twain.
com— A P——————
T tikes four springs to make aleap year.
OseviNe Orpers.—One of our army cor
respandents sends a story of a Yankee who
was up to driving & tmge under the mos
ugfavorable circumstances :
A certain Captain in this regiment (M:..-
sachusetts Fourteenth) is noted somewlat
for his love of good things gastronomic, anl
several days since dispatc%':i one of his
‘live Yankees, off to Alexandria for soinc
fresh oysters, giving him, i his usual ;-
cose vein, the command, ‘Don’t come hac
without them !
Off goes the man, and no wmore was s
of Lim for several days. The indiguar:
and disappointed Cal?tain reports him a- o
deserter, and gives himup as a ‘lost chil !~
But lo! after a lapse of nine days, the Ci,
tain beholds his rcported deserter, Baiij
coming into camp, leading ina frain
four horse wagons loaded with oyster:
Approaching and respectfully saluting t'.:
amazed and speechless Captain, Baily lac:
icagy ‘el
‘Hereare youroydii, Cap; couldn’t fin
any in Alexandrigg chartered a schoo
ner and made a vol i F ortress Monio:
and Norfolk for then fere’s about two
hundred bushels— wh¥®e™% you want en '
Baily, it seems, did make the trip, hire
his men, and sold oysters enouzh in greorg -
town, before ‘reporting’ to pay all expensc:
and leave him & profit of §l3O. The ‘tw
hundred bushels’ were divided among t 0
regiment, and Baily returned to his dac;
as if nothing unusual had transpired.
s e A————
FemaLe Socrery.— Without female soc
cty we shéuld degenerate into brutes. Thi
ohservation applies with ten-fold foree (.
young men, and those who are in the primc
of manhood. For, after a certain time of
life, the litcrary man may make a shift (4
poor one, I grant) todo without the society of
fadics. To a young man nething is so in
portant as a spirit of devotion, next to his
Creator, to some amiable woman, whos:
image may occupy his heart and guard i
from pollution, which besets it on all side:
A man ought to choose his wife as Mu=.
Primrose did her wedding gown, for quali
ties that will “‘wear well.” One thing, o*
least, is true, that if matrimony hath its
caves, celibacy hath no pleasure. A Newi'n
or a mere scholar may find employment i
study; a man of literary tasta.can receivc
in books a powerful auxiliarys bat a nun
must have a bosom friend and’ childrcn
round him to cherish and support the dreur
iness of old age.
s A——————
~ Way do chickens have no ho&o;of a fu
ture life ¥ Because they they get their nec':
twirled (next world) in this.
ey ) P ————r
Wiy is an American dollar like a chick
en on a fence? Beeause its head son onc
‘side and its tail on the other.