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Stifling hi? tear, be l:tnpd bis chief to meet ; Cut when he paused, and tottering stood, Around the circle of his little feet Tbre ppread a pool of bright, young blood. Shookel at his f ul cxe, Shcrtaan cried, "HhH ! front face ! T"ho are you ? Srak tny gallant boy !" "A drummer, Sir: Hfty -Fifth IlliLoia.' "Are you not bit?" 'Tbati no'hirg. Only send S'line cartridges: our ni"n are cut ; And the foe pre 53 us." "Dut et little frionl" Dr.n't mind me. Did you hear that thout? What if our men be driven ? Ob, for the love of Heaven, Scud to my Ci-loncl. General dear I "But you ? " Oh, I shall easily fiad th rear." " I'll see to that." cried Shermsn : and a (Jrop Arijrels might envy dimmed his eye, As the boy. toiling toward the bill's hard topJ Turned round, atid with bi hrfll child's cry Shouted "Oh don't for-t ! Wt'll win thi battle yet ! Bat let our eoldieri have some more, M re cartridges. Sir, calibre fifty-four V iWiscdiamous. " The Capture ofUic Florida. From the Breton AJvenier. Noeaiber . The news which w announced ye trday morniu, that the arrival of the famous reamer Kearsarge at this port Lad trough; th? iutelligence ef th cap ture in Brazlian waters by the Uuion gunboat Waehusett of the notorious reb el cruiser Florida, sent a thrill cf sur prise and delight through the "communi ty even iu the midst of the -excitement and anxiety of Presidential election day. The ojoyful news spread over the city like wildfire, and was the universal sub ject cf dicussiv)u and mutual congratula tion, and the interests of the Congres sional sr.d natural elections seemed al most forgotten in cumpanicn. One cf our reporters paid a visit to the Kear ttitge during the Iay, ai.:l lj tthe Lind courtesy of her oiikers, Tayfuasttr J. A. Smith teint; specially obJiginiz, was en abird to obtain a detailed acccount of the singular a tTa 1 r in the lay of liahia. com juiiiLg all the particulars which are ac cefible to the public. The Confederate rrarrsteamer Flori da arrived at Bahia, Bay of San Salva dor, Bruzil, October 5, having captured and turned the bark Mondamon. from Rio, oiTPtrnambuco, cntheSSth of Sep. The United States sieamer Yachusett, Captain Napoleon Collins, had ben ly ing several days in the port of Bahia.and the Florida at first anchored'in the offing. The Brazilian Admiral immediately sent her a message requetiug htr to come iu tide; which the did, anchoring in the midst of the Brazilian fleet.&nd clo?e un der the gurs of the principal fort which is located upon an island in the middle of the harbor. Ct ruin parties in B.ihia, which is a comr.Krcal city of considerable impor tance, with one of the best harbors m the world, being interested in American affairs, bestirred themselves to bring about an engagement between the Wa chusett and the Florida, firmly confident that the result of tuch an encounter would be another Union victory as com plete as that won last summer in the Bi it i h Channel. On the morning of the 6th of October they carried a chalenge to Captain Morris, of the Florida, to move outside the limits of Brazilian jurisdiction and fiht the Yachusett. The rebel commander declined to receire the mi ive which the Brazilian residtnts had pre pared on account of some informality in its address. Durinr the afternoon of the same day a Hungarian citizen, living in Bahia, and sympathizing with our Gov ernment in its struggle with rebellion, waited upon C3plaia Morris, and en deavored to induce him to consent to an action bstreenhis ship and the Union gunboat, but without success. Captain Morris, however, stated that if h hap pened to fall in with the Wachusett du ring a cruise he should willingly 'engage in a contest with her, but that on no se- count would he concent to leave a safe harbor for the expresa purpose of having an engagement. Ali effort - on the part of outside par ties to bring ca a naval battle in open water between the two vessels proving unavailing. Captain Collins promptly took i into consideration the other means which suggested themselves for riding the seas of the most dangerous enemy ef oar commerce. In the evening of the same day above mentioned, Thursday, October 6th, he called a council of his officers to debate the subject An important ele ment in the consideration was the fact that the convenient harbor of Bahia has three openings into the Atlantic, by any one of which the Florida could make her escape whenever the darkness fa vored her purpose, without the possibility of one Union vessel preventing it, it is stated that the council of officers were also possessed of information that the Florida had repeatedly seized and burn ed American ships within three miles of the cost of Brazil, ;in defiance of every law of neutrality, without the slightest objection of any sort being made by the Brazilian authorities. Takiug into con sideration all the facts in the case,vthe council advised with but one dissenting vote among all the officer cf the Wachu sett, that the scheme proposed of seizing the rebel cruiser at her anchorage should be carried out Captain Collins imme diately gave the orders for accomplish ing the design agreed upon, saying that with the very deepest regret he fell that the conduct of the Brazilian Government in permitting piracies within the. shadow of its i-horea had made the st-p an im peratively necessary one. It mcty be re marked here that it was found, after the seizure of the Florida, that arrange ments had beeq made for her esaps from the harbor on the very next night, for a new career of depredation upon bur shipping, The preparations for the encounter were made with great celerity and com plete secresy, and at about three o'clock jn the morning of Friday, October 7, the cables were slipped, and the Wachusett bore down upon the rebel vessel under a full head of steam. So little expecta tion was there of such a proceeding, that one-half of the officers and crew of the Fiuridi, seventy in number, andjuclud iag Captain Morris, were carousing on fhcre, atid the nrmnnder, having jum re turned from a sin ilar absence, were in no condition to repel an assault. The Florida's officer of the deck, rupposed the collision wlmh he saw to be itnitieut to be merely accidental, aiid cried on t: 'You will run into us if you don't look odt." The design of Captain Collins was simply to. strike the Florida amid ships with full steam on, crush in her side, and send her at oDce to the bottom beyond the possibility of causing further trouble to' any one. The Wachusett, however, did not strike her adversary fairly, but hit her in the stern, carrying away the mizzin mast and main yard. The Florida was not seriously injured by the collision, but the broken spar fell a cros? the awning over her hatchway in such a manner as to prevent her crew from eretting on-deck from below. The recoil which fullowed the shock carried the Wachusett back several yards. In the confusion which ensued several pis tol shots were fired from bath vessels, chiefly at random, and entirely without eflect, Two of the gups of the Wachu sett were also du-chtrged by accident, according to one report, and as another version has it.ly order of one of the Uuion Lieutenants. The shots did not strike the Florida. Captain Collins, of the Wachusett. im mediately thondered out a demand to the rebel craft, "Surrender or I will blow you out of the water." The Lieutenant in charge of the Florida. may be excused for considerable amazement, but his still presence of miud to reply. "Under the circumstances, surrender." Without the delay of an instant, dozens of gallant tars boarded the prize and made fast a hawser, connecting her with their oin vessel, and the Wachusett turned her course seaward, moving at the top of her speed and towing the P'lurida ia her wake. The fleet cf Brazilian vessels, which entirely surrounded the little fcpace of water on which the brief battle had been fought, was so ?itpated that the two American steamers were obliged to pass under t'ne stern of one cf the largest, in order to penetrate their line. The Wa chusett was chalenged, but did not design a word of reply, and the Florida, when hailed and commanded to halt a mo.ueni after, replied that a piuse was imposst. ble, as she was towed tythe vessel in front. The Brazilians soon guessed the state of affairs, and in another moment or two the heavy guns of the fort; under the very mizzles of which the capture had been made, opened fire on the Wa chusett, as she disappeared in the mor uins: darkness. Three shots were fired after her, allxpasinj harmlessly far above her pennant, and striking ue wa ter beyond. To the reader it seems that all this must have taken a considerable ime; but the testimony of a careful officer on the WTachusett, corroborated by the surgeon of the Florida, assures us that from the time the Wachusett first slipped the ca ble and steamed upon the rsbel cruiser to the moment when the ecioes of the last gunfrom the Brazilian fortress died away, was only twenty minites by the watch. Certainly no page of history can show a more daring achievement, or one executed with more brilliant rcpidity cr more complete success. . t The Brazilian naval sCcmmandef in Bahia harbor acted with all the promptness which could hav' been ex pected, and in a few momenls the dawn of day disclosed two vessels of the Braz ilian fleet doing their utmost to pursue and overhaul the Wachusett and her prize. They were a heavy sloop-of-vvar and a small armed steamer, neither cf them any match in paint of speed for the handiwork of New England machines and soon gave up the chase as the Union and rebel steamers disappeared below the horizon. Captain Collins soon ordered the ships to heave to and examined hi prize. He found that neither vessel was materially damaged by the collision, and that there had been no injury to life or limb from the cosfmed firing which following it Twelve officers and fifty-eight men of the Florida's cre-.r were captured, and all her stores, papers, Sec, were fcuud uudisturbed in tbo c?bin. The two ves. els soon stemmed for St. Thomas, arri ving there on thej23iL u':., and finding the ICearsarge already ia pjrt. It was intended to keep the n.c:er -t Bahia a secret at St. Thomas; but it was acci dentally revealed by a seaman of tat Wachusett to one of the crew t:f the Ksar sarge, and wine hints of it got wind in .he town, causing great excitea;er;t there. The Florida rtmamed outside the buy, while the Wachusett entered tp obtain coal. Acting Assistant Paymaster W, W. Wiihams, of the Wachusett; Surgeon Chariton, of the Flurida, and aixteeii oi the crew of the privateer were transfer red to the Karsarge, which sailed Oct. Ul, and arrived here at midnight on Monday, as previously reported. Pay matter Williams being charged with dispatches for th Government, left by the earliest train yesterday mornirff for Washington. The Wachusett and Flor ida were to sail from St. Thomas cn the 2d inst., for New York, where they may now be daily expected. The crew cf the Florida is compossed of Englishmen, Irishmen, Germans. &.c, and contains no citizens of the rebel States. Among her officers, howevtr, are several Southernors. Surgeon Charl ton, who now is on board the Kearsarge, is a native of Georgia. He was before the war an officer iu the United States Navy, and was stationed for several years in Chelsea. He has many ac quaintances in Boston. He was hereon the day of President Lincoln's first elec tion, and left shortly after to tender his services to the Southern Confederacy. He is a gentleman in appearance and manner, and no reluctant to speak of the circumstances of his capture and the con dition of our national affairs. He wears the full uniform of the rebel naval ser vice, plain gray cloth, with the rank in dicated by shoulder straps, as in the Uur ion costume. Surgeon Charlton expresses full confi dence that his captivity will last for only a very limited period, believing that the whole affair will terminate as did th seizure of Mason and Slidell three years ago. If the demands which he thinks will be made by the Brazilian Govern ment are disregarded by our authorities, he lcoks for an indorsement of the claims by the Governments of great Brittin, France and Spain. in such a man ner as to compel compliance. The reb el officers confess a complete indiffer ence as to the result of, yesttiday's elec tions. They say that the North entirely mistakes the universal sentiment of the South, which they affirm will never con sent, oa any terms", to a restoration of the Union. They declare an unshaken con fidence in the ultimate triumph of their cause, placing their reliance on the in trinsic ?dvantages of their position in a military point of view, moving constantly on interior lines. They argue that rol unteering is entirely a an end ia the North, and that the conscription car not j be enforced here while the rebel armyj is kept up to a fighting standard by stetdy j recrutiaf:, icd has a reserve always on hand of three hundred thousand negroes capable cf efficient military service. Surgeon Charlton estimates that the Florida has steamed over forty housand miles since she left Brest no: Laving spent ten days in port in nine moith3. During her career she captured about 40 American vessels. The Kearsarfje has oa board ona cr two prisonors takea from the' Alabama last Fumtner. She still bears upon her sides the marks of that deperata en counter, and wiil have to undergo a thor ough overhauling and refitting during her stay in this pert. She will proba bly go out of ccrmission in a few day, and will receive new sails and rigging, and he repaired in every part during the winter at the Charlesiown Navy Yard. Her cruise has Insted 3 yeass: and she has steamed about thirty-five ifccusaad miles since she sailed on her maiden voyage from Portsmouth, ia 1561. Sh now lies jtiit oil the navy yard, ia full view of our wharves, where hundreds of people will fkrk to see the gallant little steamer that so nobly vanquished ar-d de stroyed, in romantic single combat, the fieebooier which was for so long the ter ror ot our mercantile marine, The offi cers and crew of the Kearsarge, as is announced in another place, aud to have a public reception to-morrow in Fanueil Hall, and we trust that they will receive such an adequate id-a of the estimation m which their invaluable services are held by the merchants and -the public generally of Boston and of the nation. Shall We arm the Negroes. From tba Lyucbburg Republican- The proposition is so strange so un- A 1 o constitutional so directly in conflict with ail Cur former practices and teachings so entirely subversive of our social and poliiicr.l institutions and so completely d-structive of our liberties, that a stand completely appalled, dumbfounded at its promulgation. When Lincoln first arm ed the negroes against us. we til remem ber what just indigav.ioa it excited throughout the world, and how r?voliing i; appeard to the minds of our people;and when insult was added to injury, by re rjuirir: us to exchange negroes for white men. the base proposition was indignant !y rejected as worthy only auch a bru.al nature ss Beast B'itlers. To this day, thousands of our soldiers, are languish ing iu Not them prisons, because neith er they nor we will consent to acknowl edge Lincoln's negroes as their equals. But those just and refined sentiments of gentlemanly warfare, seem no longer to be regarded by a portion of the Southern press, as matters of any consequence at all, and they'uet only virtually declare that Lincoln is right, but that the South should improve upon their example and elevate the slave to full political and civ il equality with his master! In short, it is abolition. This is the naked proposi tion of these journals, v.hen stripped of all its deformity. They propose that Congress shall con cript two hundred and fifty thousand slaves, arm, equip, and fight'them in the field. As an inducement for them to be faithful, it is proposed Ji hat, at the end of the war. they shall have their freedom and live among us. "The, conscription of negroes," says the Enquirer, "should be accompanied with freedon and the priv ilege cf remaining in the Slates." Thi. 's th monstrous proposition. The South went to war to defeat the designs of the abolitionists, and behold ! in the midst of the war, we turn abolitionists ourselves 1 We went to war because the Ftdera! s 1 i 1 uonrrress was entirei? meaatinrr in our 1 domestic institutions, with which we con tended they had nothing to do, and now we prcpoe to end the war by asking the Confederate Congress to do precisely what Lincoln proposes to do free our negroes and make them the equals cf the white man! We have already been taught to believe that slaves are proper ty, aud under the exclusive control of the States and the courts. The new doc trine tetches us that Congress has a right to'free our negroes and make tbem the equals of their masters. Now, we are free to say that if the South is to be abalitionized in the end, it would have been farbetter for us to have been abolitionzed in the begining, and that if such a terrible calamity is to befalls us at all,we indefiniily prefer that Lincoln shall be the instrument of our disaster and degredation, than that we ourselves should strike the cowardly md suicidal blow. Lincoln steals our ne groes and burdens his people' with keep ing them ; the Enquirer proposes to free our negroes and make them a perpetual burden to the confederacy, a standing ia sult to the manhood of our people. But this is not tha most hateful aspect kill 3 iursuuu. uaii'wc uii'a cuuuu : policy," says the Enquirer, "demand tht 1 we make freeman cf those who fight for j f r-. . . ? . , ti ' I ' a 1 1 V a . c-1 1 rN nil . . z ! 11 t LUUul. 1 Li . J 13 kl j WUCb 1.4 till t.J frightful deformity. Lincoln and Bjtler declare that the negroes who they make fight for "freeCom," are entitled to it, and therefore treated and exchanged 'as the equals of southern gentleman. If the wild doctrines of the Enquirer be siic tioned by our people or Government, then President Davis cannot gainsay the prop ositions of But er and Lincoln, and must consent to th exchange of negroes for white mea. Bat this is not all. If "those who fight for freedom" are entitled to it then ihey are "entitled" to it equally. If the 1 egro is made to fight our battles of "freedom" then he must be governed by the same laws of war. and he must stand upon the same footing of the white man after the war. What will be the consequence? Why, if 2-50,-000 negro men are entitled to their free dom because they fight for it, then their wives, chilen and families are also en tilled to the ame Loon, just as tha wives children and families of the white men who fight the same battle. In other words, the South is to be converted by this war into an nbolitionized colony of free negroes, instead of a land of white freemen, knowing their rights and dar ing to maintain them. If the negroes are to be free, they must be equally free witd the master. If they are to be armed like the master. What is the re sult? Why, they never, can be slaves again, and must be treated as the mas ter, politically, civilly and socially. -Those who fiht for freedom," says the Euqvirer, and we say so too. If the South are willing to make the shameful confession that they have accepted a war wiich they cannot fight to a successful issue- and they claim rights in slaves which the;- are incapable of maintaining by force of arm?, then we say we leveled to the equality of our negroes. There are other revolting aspects in which this question presents itself to our mind, but we have not space to discuss them this mornings We shall revert to this subject again, for we honestly be lieve that should such doctrines raeet with any considerable favor at the South our cause ii honestly lost, and the coun try not worth one drop of the precious blood which has been hed in its behalf. Instead of being a war for the freedom of the white man, it will degenerate in to a struggle for the freedom and equal ity of our slaves. If our people are not capable of vindicating their title to prop erty in negroes, then thej ought to qui-J etiy surrenuer tne c.uestton, stop me war, abolish slavery and confess themselves eternally disgraced. Sherman aud what he Thinks of Hood. Major General William T. Sherman is in the city, and communicating with the Government. No man in America is more cheerful or self possed. For the generalship of Hood it is "no secret that he has the most inexpre;sible contempt. Speaking of him to his general officers one day, he remarked, with an emphasis peculiar to himself. 'JcLnstcn being a sensible man, I coul ! generally divine his movements, but as Hood is not, I can tell nothing at all about them!" "D nhim. if he wiil go to the Ohio river I'll give him rations! The nearer the rebels come to us, the easier it will be to kill them." Last weeli Hood was reported at De catur, Alabama; with his whole army. "Let him go north." said Sherman, 'my business is down South!" Thomas will take care of him and Nashville, and Schofield will not let him into Chattanooga or Ivnoxville. The military sky is bright as the nccn-day sun in this department. Blair and Schofield and Wilson were in Rome yesterday. The Army of the Tennessee, with the exception of two divisions, has gene to Atlanta. Cin. Com. The New CoEstltallon or Msrjl3n2 The Maryland Free Constitution makes some very imporlaut changes in the law of the State. It declares that ali men are cre ated equally free, and are entitled to the enjoyment of the proceeds cf thir own labor; that hereafter there shall be nether slavery nor "nvoluntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are declared free. It prohibits the General Assembly passing any law to compensate masters or claimants of slaves emanci pated by the Constitution. Lotteries are forever abolished by the Constitution It affirms that the Constitution and Laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, to which every citizen ef th State ewes paramount allegiance. The Legislatme is to make provision for taking the vote of soldiers ia the field An im portant feature cf the Constitution isihu which renders ineligible to, office and in competent to vote at any elecioa unless restored to citizenship by a two-thirds, vote of the Legislature, all persons who have aided the rebellion ia any way, either by service, money, gicds, lsuer, or by information. This will dis:ratichi.-cd.a crat many of t f.-rrcer citizen? cf Marj land, and h the fit atteui; t maia by any State to p n.Uh i;s ciuzeua fjr landing aid o the rebe'.hoa. The Crest TcrnaJo la Htlssli Chester, Rir.do'ph C.vinty .III, November 0.1SGL Mr. Editor: Thij morniug about to o'clock ons of thj fk-rce-t storms ever known in this region s vpt over the coun try. The little town of Mer.ird, just uua mila below this pbv'e, is in rums. Fro;r ten to fifiefn dwellings aui 00? church were swept fron the face t f the earth. The value cf the porperty destroyed can not now be estimated, but the losis sup posed to be from fifty to six'y tluuiaai dollars. The above loss is in t!ie town of Menard alone. Seven tni!e from iu re a small place called R.ar.dc-!p!i. ia thi coun ty shared about the saiiu fat3 that Me nard did The whrl place is a perfect wreck. Los not kn oah. Ia Menard four persons were killed: C. I. Haakin-.a smll girl living with Mr. H.iskias, Cdoael Gabriel Jones, a maa name not known. Mrs. Emersoa before this reaches you, will be dead. As far a heard from only two persons were killed ia Randolph. Seven or tight persons were severely wounded. Captain Willanis, of Menard, lost from Si. 00 to $1,200 ia greenbacks, carrid away by the storm, to be thord, ia, perhaps, when Abraham blows his hsru nat Abraham or old. but our present Abe, The steam ferryboat was a. so de stroyed. All the upp;r works include; boilers, etc , were carried a mile oyer . the bills. The storm lasted about tea minutes. It is impossible to give particu lars now. I have written the abore aa count very hurriedly, but .will :ve yu full particulars tomorrow We Lava nothing defiriiie as yet ia regard to our county election. It is thoujat however Randolph will givn fro;a 'Jo j to 3o0 ma jority for Litiltf Mac. -. New York, 15;b. Herald's special sys there is every probability that commissioners will sma appointed by the President, if thy hava not already been, to preseut peaca pro positions to rebels. Herald says the rebels have again fal len back towards Staunton. D;smrs who have come into our line say E.ir!y's army is ia the vicinity of Fisher' ILll, they broke camp Sur.fay morning a-jd commenced a retrogade movement, ia the evening his p'cUets oa C"dtr Creek ' were withdrawn, leaving "apparently on ly a small force of cavalry in Swjdii'a front. Early's entire forcy in thr va:!?y estimated at 30,000. several thou -aud b ing uuarmed conscripts that h-j Las re cently cobbled uo au i whom he( xr,-?ctJ to supply with weapons by capturm tha from Sheridan's men. Tuesday between Marttushur:? ar.l ' front a pany of guerrillas, wearing na tional uniforms, wernwuet by s.in-of tha ' secoud regulars, who they familiarly ac costed and drew in'o conversation, after riding aloug the road sv-n- d. stated t they suddeutly. t a preconcerted wiga!, drov. weapons, shot ten union soldiers, an es caped. The following day one huaJred of Mosby's men atta-ked loor 2'J of the 27th cavalry, killing two wcuadmg two and capturing the remainder. Rebels are said to have b?pa recently gobbeling supplies firths Shenandoah army in West Viri-ii. A-um-; thu prisoners captured by cur cavalry in ths fight last Saturday, were about thirty i fa cer?, rebel Ios ab-ut 3J0 our lass abot 170. Times says the schema for the destruc tion of steamers on the Pacific coast by a gang of piraf?, who conucted the plot, at Havana under instructions from Mil lory, Sec'y reb-l Navy, has been rustrat ed. The expedmoti was to havre Lta command c-d by Thos. A. Hog, of rebel navy, who left Havana with sixteen of twenty men for Pduafiia. tb-y were to get aboard steamer; Gautemala but ar rived to late. The scheme was known ia Panama, and 'twas expected they would take the Salvador which sa:l?d, prepara tions were made for their capture. VYita one of these steamers th-y hoped to ctp ture. specie bearing vessel, thea prey up. oa the Pacific -Commerce. Richmond papers say Sherman left At lanta the 12-.3 moving northward, thoa-a they doubtless mean ty that eastward la a northerly lir. Herald's Orleans cc-r??por.'L?r:re sayi our forces have ben withdrawn froia pest on A'.chafalya river, not being n-ed. ed there any longer. Important inform ation ha3 been caitied by scouting expe. detioa near Natchez. Four bfockads running schooners laden with cotton hs,Y8 been captured off Texas coast. Tribun special says owing to continued prostra tion of Sec. Stanton, and th widespread desire of the people, the Presides! bti tendered the position of Secretary of War . to Gen. Bitler. tis said Bjtler has de clined for the present. It is also es,-rt-ted that Admiral Faragu; i-. to be Sei'y of the Navy. It is hiid our Government will insist upon reparation or apvogy from Brazilian government for fimg ca U- S. fiag. If our eras ers were contra vening her laws. he fcnr.vs wn-rc to fiai us and ho,v to adjudicate her claims, b it the a& of opening fire upoa our vsselj will be rebuktd. New Y ti. 17 Six steamships similar to thos ued by Cushing ia destroying Albemile just completed, officers Private Florida has Leea takes frcra Point Lockout.