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jltltriti) I'octrit.
From the Atlantic Monthly.
Brother Jonathan’s Liment for Sister,
Caroline-
She has gone,—she has left us in passion and
pride,—
Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side!
She lia* torn her own star from our firma
ment’s glow,
And turned on her brother the face of a foe !
O Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun.
We can never forget that our hearts have been
one, —
Our foreheads both sprinkled in Liberty- s
name
From the fountain of blood with the finger of
flaiue !
i
You were alwavs too ready to fire at a touch
But we said, “She is hasty-;—she does not
mean much."
We have scowled, when you uttered some
turbulent threat ;
But Friendship stiil whispered, “Forgive and
forget 1"
Has our love ail died out ? Have its altars
grown cold ?
Has the curse come at last which the fathers
foretold ?
Then 5 ature must teach us the strength of
the.ihain
That her petulant children would sever in
vain.
They may fislit till the buzzards aic gorged
with their spoil,
Till the harvest grows black as it lots in the
soil.
Till the wolves and the catamounts troop
trom their caves.
And the shark tracks the pirate, the lord of
the waves :
In vain istho strife ! hen its fury is past.
Their fortunes must flow in one channel at
last.
As the torrents that rush from tlie mountains
of snow
Roll mingled in peacethrough the valleys be
low.
| Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky :
' Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts
the die !
Though darkened with sulphur, though clo
ven with steel,
The blue arch will brighten, the waters will
heal!
O Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun,
There are battles with Fate that can never be
won !
The star-flowering banner must never be
furled.
For its blossoms of light ore the hope of the
world.
Go, then, our rash sister ! afar and aloof.—-
Run wild in the sunshine away from our
roof ;
But when your heart aches and your feet
have grown sore,
Remember the pathway that leads to our
door.
Sklcctcb (tale.
AGNES OF SORRENTO.
The Atlantic Monthly f*w M#v is on
our table; and is full of good things
which wc have not time to notice. Mrs.
Stowe’s eagerly looked for story, Agnes
of Sorrento, is commenced in this num
ber. The following is an extract from
the publisher’s advertisement of it:
The story is one o! love and duty, of
jov and trial. Its heroine is a young
girl, born in a Catholic country and edu
cated under the influence ot Catholic in
stitutions, and in the development of the
plot the author has sought to illustrate
the i fluences of that creed upon the
lives and characters of its votaries.
From the ii tense interest in this sub
ject which has been manifested by the
pe plo of the United States within the
past few \oars, and the fact that it lias
entered so la gely into the discussion of
the political as well as religious oues
tious of the time, it cannot be doubted
that Mrs. Stowe’s elucidation of it,
through the medium of fictitious narra
ti.o, will cause it to be as »ideiy sought
for and as eagerly perused n» her pre
vious brilliant contributions to American
literature have been.
We give an extract from one of the
openirg chapters, which presents the
heroine, at about as early an age, as
heroines rre usually introduced to the
public.
Old Elsie was not boin a peasant.
Originally she was the wi'e of a steward
in oue of those great families of Rome
whose state and traditions were princely.
Elsie, as her figure and profile and ail
her words and movements indicated,
was of a strong, shiewd, ambitious, and
courageous character, and well disposed
to turn to advantage every gift with
v>hicb Nature had endowed her.
Providence made her a present of a
daughter whoso beauty was wonderful,
even in a country where beauty is no un
common accident. In addition to her
beauty, the little lsella had quick int lli
gence, wit, grace, and spirit. A-> a child
she became the pet and plaything of the
Duchess whom Elsie served. This no
ble lady, pressed by the ennui which is
, Iwavs the mo*b and rust on the purple
and gold of rank and wovltb, had, as oth
er noble ladies bad in those days, and
have now, sundry pets; greyhounds,
white and delicate, that looked as if they
were made of Sevres china; spaniels witn
long silky ears and fringy paws; apes
and monkeys, that made at times sad de
vastations in her wardrobe; and a most
charming little dwarf that was ugly
enough to frighten the very owls, and
spiteful as be was ugly. She had, more
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“LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM’ST AT BE THY COUNTRY S, THY GOD S AND TRUTH S.
PRESCOTT, WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1861.
over, peacocks, aud macaws, and par
rots, and all sorts of singing-birds, and
falcons of every br’ed, and horses, and
hounds, —in short, there is no saying
what she did not have. One day she
took it into her head to add the little
Isella to. the number of her acquisitions.
With tlie easy grace of aristocracy, .she
reached out her jewelled hand and took
Elsie’s one flower to add to her conser
vatory, —and Elsie was only too proud
to have it so.
Her daughter was kept constantly
about the nerson of tlie Duchess, and in
structed in all the wisdom which would
have been allowed her, had she bee . the
Duchess's own daughter, which, to speak
the t nth, was in those days nothing very
profound,—consisting of a little singing
and instrumentation, a Jit*lo embroidery
and dancing, with the power of writing
her own name and of reading a love-let
ter.
All the world knows that tlie very
idea of a pet is something to be spoiled for
the amusement of the pet owner; and
Isella was spoiled in the most particular
and circumstantial manner. She hail
suits of apparel for e.ery day in the year,
am! jewels without end, —for the Duchess
was never weary of try ing the effect ot
her beauty in this and that costume; so
t: at she sported through the great grend
halls and down the lung aisle of the gar
den much like a bright-winged hum
ming-bird, or a damsel flr all green and
gold. She was a genuine child of Italy,
—full of feeling, spirit, and genius,—
alive in every nerve to the fmgei-tips;
and under the tropical sunshine of her
mistrcsi’ favor she grew as an Italian
rose-bush does, throwing iti branches
freakishly over everything in a w:UI
lfjbyrnth of perfume, brightness, and
til TIIS.
For a while her life was triumph, and
her mother triumphed with her at an
humble distance. The Duchess had no
daughter, and was devoted to her with
the bi nd fatuity with which ladies of
rank at times will inv est themselves in a
caprice. She arrogated to herself all the
praises of her beauty and wit, allowed
i-er to flirt and make conquests to her
h< a t’s content, and engaged to many
her to some handsomo young officer of
her train, when she had done being
amused with her.
Now we must not wonder that a
young head of fifteen sin uid have been
turned bv this giddy elevation, nor that
an old head of fifty should have thought
all things were possible in the fortune of
such a favorite. Nor must we wonder
that the y oung coquette, rich m the lau
rels of a hundred conquests, should have
turned her bright eyes on the son aud
heir, when he came home from the Un
iversity of Bologna. Nor is it to be
wondered at that this same son and heir,
being a fnan as well as a duke’s son,
should have done as other men did
f ; ,]'on desperately in lo\a with this daz
zling, sparkling, piquant mixture of mat
ter and spirit, which no university can
prepare a young man to comprehend,—
which always seemed to run from him,
and yet always threw a Parthian shot
behind her as she fled. Nor is it to he
wondered at, if this same duke’s son, nf
ter a week or two, did not know wheth
er thosuu rose in the east or tho south,
or whero he stood, or whither ho was
going.
In fact, the youthful pair very soon
came it to that dream-land where are no
more any points of the compass, no more
division of time, no more latitude and
longitude, no more up and down, but
onlv a general wandering among en
chanted groves and surging nightingales.
It was entirely owing to old Elsie’s
watchful shrewdness and address that the
lovers came into this paradise by the gate
of marriage; for tho young man was
ready to offer anything at the leet of his
divinity, as the old mother was not slow
! o preeeivo.
So they stood at the altar.for the time
being a pair of ns true lovers as Romeo
and Juliet: but then, what has true love
to do with the son of a hundred genera
tions and heir to a Roman principality I
Of course,the rose of love, having gone
through all its stages of bud and blossom
into full flower, must next begin to drop
its leaves. Of course. Who ever heard
of an immortal rose?
The time of discoveiy came. Isella
was found to be a mother: and then the
storm hurst upon her and drabbled her
in tho dust as fearlessly as the summer
wind sweeps down and besmirches the
lily it has all summer been wooing and
flattering.
The Duchess was a very pious and
moral lady, and of course threw her fa
vorite out into tho street as a vile weed,
and virtuously ground her down under
her jewelled high-heeled shoes.
She could have forgiven her any com
mon frailty; —of course it was natural
that the girl should have been seduced
by the all-conquering charms of her son ;
—but aspire to marriage with their
house!—pretend to be her son’s wife!
Since the time of Judas had such treach
ery ever been heard of?
Something was said of tho proprifcty
ot walling up the culprit alive, —a mode
of disposing of small family matters some
ala mode in those times. But the
Duchess acknowledged herself foolishly
tender, and unal le quite to allow this
very obvious propriety in the case
She contented herself with turning
mother and daughter into tho streets
with every mark of ignominy, which was
reduplicated by every ooe es her servants,
lackeys, and conrt-coirpuuions, w ho,, of
course, had always known just how the
thing must end.
As to the young Duke, he acted as a
well instructed young nobleman should,
who understands the gnat difference
there is between the tears of a duchess
and those of a low-born woman. No
sooner did lie heboid his conduct in the l
light of his mother’s countenance than lie J
turned his back on his low marriage with ,
edifying penitence. He did not think it
necessary to convince his mother of the j
real existence of a union whose supposi- ;
tion occasioned such an uncommonly dis- j
agreeable and tempestuous state of things
in tho well-bred circle where Ins birth ;
called him to move. Being, however,
a religious youth, he opened his nrud
to his family-confessor, by whoso ndvi e
he sent a messenger with a large sum of
money to Elsie, piously commending her
and her daughter to the Divine protec
tion. He also gave orders .for an entire
new suit of raiment for tho \ irg.n Mary
in the family-chapel, including a splendid
set of diamonds, and promised unlimited
candles to the altar of a neighboring con
vent. If all this could not atone for a
youthful error, it was a pity. Bo be
thought, as iie drew on his riding-gloves
and went otf on a hunting party. i:ko a
gallant and religious young nobleman.
Elsie, meanwhile, with her forlorn
and disgraced daughter, found a tem
porary asylum in a neighlx ring moun
tain village, where the poor, bed rubbed,
broken winged song-bird soon panted
and fluttered l.er little life away.
\Vh n the once beautiful and gay
Isella bad been bidden in the grave, cold
and lonely, there remained a little wail
ing infant, which Elsie gathered to her
bosom.
Grim, dauntless, and resolu’c, she re
solved, for the sake of this hapless one,
to look life in the face once more, and
trv the battle under other skies,
’Taking the infant in her arms, she
traveled w’tii her far from the scene of
her birth, and set all her energies at
work to make for her a better destiny
than that which had taken to ilio lot of
her unfortunate mother.
She set about to create her nature and
older her fortunes with that sort ol down
right eiuigy with which rosoluto people
always attack the problem of anew hu
man’ existence. This child should he
happy; the rocks on which her mother
was wrecked she should never strike up
on, —thev were ail marked on Elsie’s
chart- Love had been the root of all
poor Isella’s troubles, — and Agnes nev
er should kiios love, till taught it safely
i»v a husband of Elsie’s own choosing.
1 WOMAN TO BE HONOR
ED.
It will be remembered that Lieut. A!>-
ner Sinead, ol the first Artillery, was
sent, a few weeks since l>y Lieut. Skin
nier, to Washington, to apprize the Gov
ernment of the absoh to necessity of sup
plies and reinforcements at Ft. Pickens.
Forgetful of all obligations of honor and
duty, Lieut. Sinead took Montgomery in
his way Northward, and having submit
ted his*despatches to the persual of the
rebel authorities, proceeded to Washing
ton, whither the news of his treason hav
ing anticipated him, lie was not shot, ns
he deserved to be, but simply struck f rom
the roll of the army. The wife and chi!
dreri of Lieut. Sinead, with tho famines
of several officers on duty in the South,
were at Fortress Monroe. The Lieut,
hastened from Wash ugtoi. to obtain bis
family, and remove them southward, but
his movements were not s > rapid but that
his crime had been reported before him
When, therefore, ho presented himself at
the Fort, he was refused admission, the
officer on duty declining “to admit a trai
tor” within a Federal post; the only fa
vor conceded being that ho might have an
interview with Mrs. Sinead without tho
walls. iThat interview the unhappy mis
creant is not likely to forget. Attended
by a few female friends, one of whom
furnish* d the account which we give ot
the scene, the lady met her husband,
and in terms of scorching eloquence, re
proached him with his shame.
“Go home with you!” she excla'med.
“Never! Our paths in this world are
hereafter seperate. I disown you. A
coward and traitor—you are no hus
band of mine! Henceforth you are to
mo as if dead. As long as 1 live I shall
wear mourning, and be as a widow; and
rest assured 1 shall educate our children
to execrate and despise your memory as
that of a recreant and traitor.”
Turning at these words, the noble and
patr otic woman re-entered the Fort, and
gave way to her very natural feelings.—
We may add that Mrs. Sinead is, like her
discarded husband, a native ot Georgia,
and while the latter went Southward to
obtain tlie reward of bis treason, the
former, with her children, has come
North, passing through this City on
Tuesday, and is now at Morrsitowu, N.
J.— N. Y. Times, April 26.
A Servant girl, in Nowburyport, went
to Dr. Spofford for advice, declaring her
ailment to be a pain in the bowels. The
doctor gave her a cathartic, and request
erl her to call again in a few* days which
she did. H« asked her if she had taken
the medicine, to which she replied in tho
affirmative, lie then asked her; ‘Did
anything pass you after taking it?”—
“Yes, sir,” said she, *‘a horse and wagon
and a drove of pigs.” The doctor collaps
ed, remarking, “I think you must Le hol
er. ”
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
The follow ing is an extract from a dis
course delivered by Rev. Henry Vv ard
Beecher, in Plymouth Church, Sunday
evening, April 28th:
A thoughtful nnn when itt» saw a na
tional flag saw symbolized tlie nation it
belonged to. When the French tri col- j
or rolled nut to tlie wind, ho saw France; ;
when the new-found flag of Italy was
unfurled, he saw* resurrected Italy; and
so of otheis. This Union has a* banner,
too. Until recently, wherever it stream
ed abroad men saw daylight bursting on
their eves. For until latterly the Amer
ican Flag has been the signal of liberty, j
not any (lag upon the globe has had such j
at; errand. The stars upon it weie to tlie
pining nations like Mio blight morning!
stars, and the stripes upon it beams of t
morning light. \\ hcrever it goes men ;
behold in its sacred emblazonry no signal |
of imperial authority, bill thev see j
signals of light; it is the banner of dawn;
and the poor oppressed conscript, the
trodden down creature of foreign d spn
tism, secsiti the American F.ng that very
promise of God —‘‘The people that sat in
darkness saw great light, and to them
wlii.h sat In the valley of death, light is
spi ring up.”
Under this banner moved Wasnington
—he and his armies; before it Burguyne
laid down his arms; it waved over West
Point, over Fort Montgomery, and over
another Montgomery it shall vet wave.
It cheered our ntmy driven out from
round New York, in their solitary pil
g image, through New Jersey, and at
Valley Forge. It crossed the waters
roaring with ice at Trenton, and when
its stars gleamed in tho cold morning
with victory, a new day dawned on this
country.
Tt at flag moans Lexington—it means
Bunker Lid! —it means tho whole glori
ous Rovoiiitionmy war. It means all
that the Declaration of Independence
means—all that the Constitution mean*.
It was ordained for the people by the
people; and God be thanked, that when
base degenerate men desire to set up op
I pression at war wit h ail the instincts of
American liberty, they could not do it
' under our flag, i thank them that they
took another flag to do tlie Devil’s work
and loft ours unsullied. It ever thosen
| timent of the text has been fulfilled,‘it has
been in our glonous banner. “Thou hast
given a banner to them that fear them,
that it may he displayed and d.spiaved
it shall be from the Atlantic wave clear
across, with eagle flight, to the Pacific;
that banner shall wave meaning all that
it ever meant. From the North where
snows and ice stands solitary, clear to the
| Gulf and tropics, that banner has waved
; and shall wnyo forever.
Look up to your ow n flag, and re
member that it stands for Liberty, Lib
| erty, Liberty. If yon fall in that strug
gle, may some kind hand wrap about you
the flag of your country, and f you die
! mry it be with its sacred touch upon you,
and* sweet shall be your rest, lying in tho
folds of your country’s banner, meaning,
as it shall mean, Liberty and Union, now
and forever.
Let jt he Recorded, that when the
Stillwater Company (Capl. Bromley)
had complet'd their organization, tlie
Indies of that cty presented each mem
ber with a pair of eomlortable blankets
—284 in nil--which they collected trom
their own house-hold:, and from patriotic
merchants of that city. All honor to the
ladies of Stillwater. In patriotic devo
tion thev have not been surpassed, even
by the fair mothers and wives of tho St.
1 Paul volunteers.
--Apropos of this, a gentle .an said
i to a group of ladies here a day or two
| since, “We men will have to fight, hut
| you women who cannot, what will you
j clo to hell) our cause?” “Any sacrifice
that is reasonable,” they replied. “We
will give all, even lo our silver-spoons,
and our jewelry, to furnish means to aid
you, and will make up every flannel gar
ment about our houses into cannon ent
ridges, as our mothers did in the Res
olution. — ,St. Paul Press.
Good Advice. —The Chicago Trib
une, gives tho following sensible ad
vice :
“Recent events have taught a valuable
lesson, which the people who read the
journals, and the editors who make them,
will do well to remember; and were we
addressing an individual to enforce it, we
should sum the whole matter up in a
pithy command— keep your shirt on! —
When danger threatens and a disgrace
seems to be impending, don’t set up a
howl, fall to and pull your hair, n >r in
dulge in criminations of everybody and
everything in the neighborhood. Keep
your shirt on ! The country is in good
hands; tho people arc all right, resources
aro abundant, aud “Barkis is willing.”
A gentleman who spoke with one of
the captains of the Massachusetts regi
ment, here on Mondy night, was told
that 400 men ino.e were leady to volun
teer than were wante 3. “It went agin
me,” said he,“to leave one fellow behind.
When wo told him he could not go—
‘l’ve walked 14 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 r -
fuse,” said tho eaplain, “he sat dow n aud
cried.”
WAB ITEMS. INCIDENTS,
Ac.
Naty Powder. All tho Powder
Manufactories of the United States are
North of Delaware. Tlie first io-uiit of
hostilities has been the interception of
considerable quantities, hitherto pur
chased and (*n the way South, and no j
further supply will be possible.
A Patriotic Merchant. — A mcr
chautof New York, who is interested id
a house in Baltimore, was told that the
batteries of Fort McHenry were bomber ;
ding that city. “Good,” lie exclaimed, !
“ 1 am $5,000 poorer, if that is the case; j
but I hope the news is true. They can
Lave every dollar I’ve got! ’
I am overwhelmed with surprise that
a peaceful match of American ci Zens
o\er the highway to the defence (t our
common capital should be deemed ag
gressive to Baltimoreans, i hrough New
York the march was triumphal. — Gov.
Andrews to Jiluyor lir wn .
The Virgin aus hearing that Gen.
Scott would resign in army o! the Uni
ted States, sent Judge Robinson, an old
friend and classmate, to otter him chief
rank in the * Confederate army. Imagine
the storm! Scott threatened to arrest
Robinson Ur treason.
M v.jor Anderson’s Men.—Major
Anderson savs ot his men: “Until a
man is half starved —hail smothered —
half poisoned—and on the verge of eter
nity in this state, he never can know what
moil 1 bad, or understand tlie measure o!
valor that made surrender the last
thought w ith them.”
Size of the American Flag. —The
standard of the flag for the a-my is fixed
at six feet six inches in length by four
feet four indies in with; the number of
stripes is thirteen—seven red, and six
white.
The blue field of stars is the width and
square of tlie fi»st seven stripes —Tour red
I and three w hite, atul these stripes extend
j from the extremity of the field to tho
end of the flag. Tho eighth stripe is
! white and font s a pleasant relief to the
blue ground of the field. The number
of the stars is thirty-four: one being
added on the admission of each State.
Dk Tocqueville, in his Democracy
in America, says: “There aro two
tilings which a democratic people will
find very difficult: to begin a war aud to
end it.”
Terrible Reprisal. —The people of
Ottawa, 111, thus retort upon Gov. Letch
er :
Whereas. The Gwcrnor of Virginia
has issued his proclamation that tio more
flour be shipped to the Northern cities;
therefore, be it
Peso red, By the citizens of Ottowa,
in mass meeting tv scudded, that li'ii.ots
will not furnish Virginia with any more
tobacco!
When one of the city regiments was
marching down to the steamer, a young
man, who had risen from a sick led to
go with iiis company, fainted in the
street. A sturdy fellow stepped from tin*
crowd on the sidewalk, saving. “Give
me his musket and car'ridge box.” They
were given to him, and without another
word he marched on in the place of the
sick man.—-V. Y. Tribune.
Men or America —brothers—friends
—all, remember this. While man ex
ists, while nature gives us her golden,
glorious laws of life and beauty, while
Spring succeeds to Winter, human liber
ty is alwaysprogr ssing and always will
progress. The last man will always be
the freest Secession and war wili only
hasten it. Freedom is never lost and
never goes backwards.
In every song of the lark it is horn
again; wherever goodness and beauty
and truth well forth, there Freedom rises
to light. It comes with the bursting butj
and the rose to life—it is the soul of hap
piuess, and man is never happy
it. N ever tell us that Freedom ha - u •*'
backwards it America. Her sun mV
he overcast, hut it is rising—ever t s ; ng.
and when the clouds pass away it wi
burst forth fairer than over. And we-—-J
we may live or die, but never let tin i. •
faith in the progress of Freedom, n *
more than w e would ottr faith iti the *.
| nal beauty of Nature, and in the my. r- i .
|of God.— Vanity Fair.
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i In one of tho Massachusetts regiment*
i that have lately passed through this . tv
; was a voting citizen of Maine. He had
! come from that State to Massnel usetts tot
i visit his mother, whom ho had not -c--i»
! for five years, and had been with h-r
only an hour, whon he was asked if he
did not wish to volunteer.. He said h : s
grandfather went to Blinker Hill on short
notice, and he would go now, so he bade
his mother good bye aud was gone.—-
N. Y. Tribune.
i Ii is an historical fact that every four,
! years, Charleston is visited with tho j( i
j low fever in its most malignant type, and '
as if the Lord wished to punish
i traitors of that city, this is the ;
1 Yellow Jack makes his appearance.
Great need for a Southern Army.—
In Dnvia’s Straits.
< TERMS: $2,00 per Annum
1 NO. I.
THE ST. LOUIS ARSENAL.
How it was stripped by an Illinois
Volunteer.
Tho Chicago Tribune gives an inter
esting account of the removal of tho arms
from the Arsenal at St. Louis, by Cnpt.
Stokes of Chicago. After narrating flow
the Cnpt. baffled the secession spi«s, the
Tribune says:
Cnpt. Stokes immediately telegraphed
to Alton to have the steamer City of
Alton chop down to tilts Ar.-eun; landing,
about midnight. He then returned to
the Arsenal and commenced moving
tho boxes of guns, -w< igh.ug some three
hundred pounds each, dow n to the lower
door. About seven hundred men en
gaged in the werk. He then took five
hundred Kentucky fi nt lock inu-kot*.
which had been sent there to be a!t< red,
and sent them to he placed on a Mean cr
as a Hind to (over his real movenunis.
The secessionists nabbed them at once,
and raised a perfect Bedlam over the cap
ture. A large portion of the outside
crowd left the Arsenal when thus move
ment was executed; and Cnpt. Lyon t«»« k
the remainder who were lying mound a
spies, aud locked them up in his guard
house. At about eleven o’clock, tho
Steamer City of Alb n ca e alongside;
u'Miks were shoved out trom the win
dows to the main clock, and the boxes
s';d di.wn. When the ton thousand
were safely on board. Capt. Stok'-s wont
to Cnpt. L-ionand Major Callender, i nd
urged them, by the most, pressing aj
peals, to let them to empty the Arsenal.
i They told him to go ahead aud take
j whatever he wanted.. According y ho
took eleven thousand mere muskets, five
iiundr d new rifle carbines, five hun
dred revolvers, one hundred and ten
thousand musket cartridges, to say noth
ing of the camion, and a large quantity
; of miscellaneous accoutrements, leaving
only seven thousand muskets in t v e Ars
enal, to arm the St. Louis volunteers.
When the whole wore on board,
about two o’clock Friday morning, the
order was given, by the captain of the
steamer, to cast? ofl. Judge of the con
sternation of all hands when it was found
| that she would not move. The arms
• had been p’ied in great quantities stronn 1
the engines to protect than against lh«
battery on tho levee, and the preat
weight had fastened the bows of the
boat firmly on a rock, which was tearing
a hole through the bottom at every turn
of the wheels. A man of less nerve
j Ilian Cnptam Stoki-s would have gone
! crazy on the spot. He called the nist n
} al lut'ii on hoard, and commenced mov
-1 ing the boxes to the stern. Fortunately,
vvticn about two bundled boxes ha I
been shifted, the boat fell away from the
shore, and floated in deep water. ‘Whuh
way !’ said Captain Mitchell, of the
steamer. ‘Straight to Alton in the reg
ular channel,’ replied Captain Stokes.—
‘What if we are attacked ?’ said Cap
tain Mitchell. ‘Then wo will fight !’
said Cupt. Stokes. ‘What if we mo
overpow red ?’ said Cnpt. M. ‘Run her
| to the deepest part of the river and sit.k
j her, replied Cnpt. S. ‘l’ll doit,’ was the
heroic answer of Capt. Mitchell, and
way they went past the.secession battei v,
past the entire St. Louis levee, and on b»
Alton, in the regular channel, where
they arrived at 5 o'clock in the mornir g.
When the bout touched her landing,
Capt. Stokes, fearing pursuit bv some
two or three of tlie secession military
companies, by which the city of St. Lou
is is disgraced, tan lo the Maiket Hor.se
and rami the fire bell. Tho citizens
ctme flocking pell-mell to the river, in
ail sorts of habiliments. Capt. Smkts
j informed them of the situation of things
!an I point'd out the freight cars. lu
i siantly men, women and children hoard
ed the steamer, seized the freight and
clambered up the levee to the cars.—
Rich and poor tugged together with
might and main for two hours, when tie*
cargo was all deposited in the cars, and
tiie train moved oIT, amid their euthu-i-
ftstic cheers, for Sprirsufwhi.
Punch mvs that it sees there l-ns!
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