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WHITTIER. 0f the true hearted and the unshackled gone? Sons of old ireemen! do we but inherit Their names alone 9 Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us ? Stoops the strong manhood of our souls so low That Mammon’s hire or Party’s wile can win as To silence now-9 Now, when our land to ruiu’s brink is verging, In God’d name let us speak while there is time! Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging, Silence is crime! What! shall we henceforth humbly ask as favors Rights all our own? In madness shall we barter For treacherous peace the freedom nature gave us, , God and our charter? ‘ a Here shall the statesman forge his human letters, Here the false jurist human rights deny, . And' in the church their proud and skilled abettors Make truth a lie. ' ‘ Torture the pages of the hallowed Bible, To sanction crime. and robbery, and blood! And, in Oppression’s hateful service, libel Both man and God! Shall our New England stand erect no longer, But stoop in chains upon her downward way, Thicker gather on her limbs, and stronger Day afte.r day? tains— From valleys where her slumbering fathers lie— From her blue rivers and welling fountains, And clear, cold sky—- From her rough coast and isles which hungry Ocean Gnaws with his surges—from the fisher’s skifi‘, With white sail swaying to the billow’ s motion Round rock and cliff— From the free fireside of her unbought farmer— From her free laborer at his loom and wheel— From the brown smithshop, where beneath the hammer, ' Rings the red steel— From each and all, if God hath not forsaken Our land, and left us to an evil choice, Loud as the summer’s thunderbolt shall waken A People’s voice! Startling and stern ! the Northern winds shall bear it Over Potomac’s to St. Ma wave: And buried Free dom shal awake to hear it Within her grave. 0h, let that voice go forth! the bondman sighing By Santee’s wave, in Mississippi's cane,- Revive again. Let it go forth! The millions who are gazing Sadly upon us from afar shall smile, And- unto God devout thanksgiving raising, Bless us the while. Oh,- for your ancient freedom, pure and holy. For the deliverance of a groaning earth, lowly, , Let it go forth! , Sons of the best of fathers ! will yei‘alter With all they left ye periled and at stake? Ho! once again on Freedo‘m‘s holy altar The fire awake 1 Prayer strengthened for the trial, come together, Put on the harness for the moral light, And with the blessings of your Heavenly Father. MAINTAIN m RIGHT. “...—— High and Low. ax emu 41:. Inertia. Whenever the jolly old king, in the story, Went forth to his'parks on his rare hunting sprees ; The more who were wont to go with him, the more he Contented himself in his glorious ease. His princes and dukes, and lords and nobles— For his game the old monarch depended on these ; While he, as was fitting, forgot all bis't'rOubles. And then, when the jolly old king, in the story, To his castle returned from his rare hunting-sprees :. Of the wondering crowd he would ask, in vain-glory, “ What other king over slow trophies like theie l”, I know an old 'man of an opposite nature, Life’s thorniest high-way thus far he has trod; His “ professional duties,” the world's nomencla ture, ' Defines as the humblest—he carries a bed. And daily, as over the city I wander, I see the man staggering under his load; , And watching his labors, I musiugly ponder, If ever a pleasure lights up his abode. “Augh! yer honor,“ says lie, “ sure no heart could be gladder Nor mine—for as much as I plaise I may shirk; I’ve only to carry me bricks up the ladder, An‘ him at the tap ‘11 do all 0’ the work i" The men at the tOp and the men at the bottom-— How alike—and yet what a great world lies be' tween! In story they live who w crc better forgotten , Too oft are the works of the lowly unseen. Though men may revile me, and call me a loafer, My trust in the humble I ever shall but; Whatever my round in Life’s ladder, I go for The poor individual down at the foot. ' Knickerbocker Magazine. .>. [6- We extract such portions of the following report as refer particularly to our Connecticut soldiers :- OFFICIAL REPORT OF GEN. FRENCH. HEADQ’BS. Fanncn’ s DrvrsION, SUMNER’B } Conrs, CAMP ON THE BATTLE-FIELD, NnAn Smarsnunon, Md Sept. 21, 1862. Lieut. -Col. Taylor, Chief of Staf, Sum.- ner’s Corps. '— COLONEL :—My Division, composed of Brig.- -Geu. Max Weber’s and Kimball’s Brigades, and three regiments Of new levies, under the command Of Col Dwight Morris, 14th Conn, having been' 1n readi- ness since daybreak on the 17th inst., was put in motion by order of the Gen- eral commanding the corps, at about '1 1- 2 A. M. Surgeon Grant organized his division hospital under fire. The Division Com- missary, Lieut. Schiefner, and Licut. Hale, 14th Connecticut, Division Ordi- nance Officer, Were strenuous in their ex- ertions to supply the command. The conduct. of the new regiments must take a prominent place in the history of this great battle; undrilled, but admira- bly armed and equipped, every regiment, either' 1n advance or reserve, distinguished itself but according to the energies and abilities of their respective commanders. The report of Col. Morris, 14th 001111., commanding brigade, exhibits the services of his command. There never was such material in any army, and in one month these splendid men will not be_excelled by any. Receiving orders from the General In- Chief (Gen. McClellan) to hold my posi- tion to the last extremity, it was done, but not without serious loss. My loss was 1,818; killed and wounded, 1,614, and missing, 203. The flags, prisoners and arms captured are detailed in the subordinate reports. [Signed] W. H. FRENCH, ‘ Brig. -.Gen Commanding Division ——4 I<.>b fi———--- H'It Is positively stated that Gen. Lee had both hands disabled in the bat tle of Antietam, one by a ball passing through it, and the other by the fall Of' his horse, and that he is now sick at Win- cheater. , chamber. _ HAM AND A HORSE. rnox “roux nauxr, " at THEODORE wm'runor. We stepped one evening at the mean- est tavern in a mean town in Missouri- 11 frowzy county town, with a dusty pub- lic square, a boxy church, and a spittley cOurt-bouse. Fit entertainment for beast the tavern Offered. We saw our horses stabled, and had our supper. "Shall we go into the Spittoon?” said Biddulph. “Certaiiily,” said Brent. R “The bar- . rOom—I um sorry to hear you speak Of it with foreign prejudice—is an institu- tion, and meritsstudy. Argee, upon the which the bar-room is based, is also an institutiOu.”- ‘ “Well, I came to study American in- Stitutions. Let us go in and take a'whifi' of disgust. Fit entertainment for brute the bar- room Offered. In that club-room we found the brute class drinking, swearing, spitting, squabbling over the price of hemp and the price Of "niggers," and talking Whittiit culled “politics.” Oue_ tall, truculeut’Pike, the loudest or in that blatant crew, seemed to Brent and myself an Old acquaintance. We had seen him or his double somewhere. But neither of us could fit him with a pedes- tal' in our long gallery Of memory. Saints one takes pains to remember, and their scenes; but sptyrs one endeavors to lose. “Have you" had enough of the Spit- toon?” I asked Biddulph. “Shall we go up? They’ve put us all three in the‘same room; but bivouacs in the some big room ——.-Out~dOO1's—‘are what we are best used to.” Two and a half beds, one broken- backed chair, a wash-stand, decked with an ancient fringed towel, and an aban' doucd tOOth- brush, one torn slipper, and a- stove- -pipe bole, furnished our bed: We Were about to cast lots fOr thehalf bed, when We heard two men enter the next room. The partition was only paper pasted over lath, and cut up .as if a border rufiian Congressman had practiced at it with a Bowie knife be- fOre a street fight. Every word Of our neighbors came to us. They were talk.- -ing of a' slave bargain. I eliminate their , oaths, though filtration does them in- justice. “Eight hundred dollars, ” said the first speaker, and his voice startled us as if a dead man we knew- had spoken. one eye poked out, I agree he’d be w'uth a heap more.” “Waal, a trade’s a trade. fill Out a blank bill Of sale. boy’s youru.” ' “Murker!”——we both started at the name.‘ This was the satyr we had ob- served in the bar room. Had Fulauo’s victim crept frOm under his cairn in Log- nernel Alley, and chased us to take flesh here and harm us again. Such a super- stitious thought crossed my mind The likeness—look, voice and name—was pre- sently accounted fOr. “You’ re looking fur yer brOther Out from sacrameuter, ’bout now, I Ieckon, ” said the trader. “He'wuz comin’ cross lots with a man named Larrap, a pardener of his’n. Like enough they’ve stayed over winter in Salt Lake. They outher rake down a most mountainous pile that.” “Mormons is flush and sarcy with their dimes sence the emigration. Now, that’s-yer bill of sale, all right.”- “And thar’s yer money, all right.” "That are’s wut I call a screechiu’s good price for an old one-eyed nigger. Fourteen hundred dollars, an all-fired price.” ~ ' “Eight hundred, you mean.” *“No; fOurteen. Ye see, you’re not up ter taime on the nigger question. I know ’em_' like a church steeple. When I bought that are boy, now comiu’ three year, I seed he was a sprightly nigger, one at yer ambitious sort, what would be mighty apt to git fractious, and be makin’ tracks ouless I got a bolt on him. So sez I tolhim, ‘Ham, you’re a spright- ly nigger, one of the real ambitious sort, now aiuche'r?’ He allowed he waru’t uothin’ else. ‘Waal,’ sez I, ‘Ham, how’d you like to buy yerself, an’ be 11' free nig- ger, and hev a house of yer own, an’. a woman of lyer Own, all jest like white folks.’ ‘Lor,’ says he, ‘Massa, I’d like it al-bcap.’ 'Waal,’ sea I, ‘you just‘scrab- ble 'rouud . au’ raise me seven hundred dollars, and I'll sell you to yourself, an’ cheap at that.’ SO yer see he began to pay up, an’ I got a bolt on him. He’s a handy nigger, au’ 9. likelynigger, and a pop’lar nigger. He ken play on thefiddle like ta‘imefi-Wpooty nigh a miustril is that are nigger. He ken cut hair an’ fry a beefsteak with ayry man. He ken drive team, an’ do a little' J ’iuer work, an’ shoe a mule when thar ain’t no reg’lar black: smith round. He made these yer boots, au' reg’lar stompers they is. He’s one one or them chirrupl‘y smilin’ niggers, with white teeth uu’ genteel manners, what critturs au’ anks nat’rally takes to. Waal,l1e pi (1 up the bits and quarters right smart. He’s ben at- it, lammiu’ ahead raal ambitions, for about three year. Last Sunday, after church, he pinted up the last ten of the six hundred So I allowed ’t wuz come time to sell him. He wuz gettin’ his head. drawed, an’ his ideas sat 0.1.! freedom very on- benlthy. Ididu’t like to disapp’nt him Marker, the “Eight , hundred—that’s the top of my pile fur ‘ . that boy. Ef be warn’t so Old and hadult 1—' ‘Y‘ou're sllld “tb‘ marker, ’t‘d’go Shutk I’ll take , ‘ yer stump. Count out yer dimes, and I’ll .fiddle like a minstril. 'work, and make. atompers. to ther last; so I allotted ’t wuz jest as well to let you hev him cheap togodowu the river. That’s how to work them fractious runaway niggers. That are’s .my patent. You ken hev it for uothin’. Haw, haw!” "' "Haw, haw, haw! You are one er ther boys. I’m dam sorry that are trick can’t he did twicet On the same nigger- I reckon be knowsl'to.» much nor that. Waal, s ’pose we walk round to the cala- boose ’fore we go to heed, an’ see ef he’s chained up all right.” a " They both went out. first ' ‘Shame!’ ‘Yes’ said Brent, ‘do you wonder that we have to run away to the ROckys and' Biddulph spoke , spend our indignation on grizzlys?’-. , 'What are ongoing to do now?’ . ‘Try to abolish slavery in Ham’s case. Come, we’ll go buy him a file.’ Marker family,’ said I.- ‘A hard lot they are. brutesl’ , , “I am getting a know1edge of all classes .1 on your continent,’ said Biddulph. ‘Some I like better than others!’ ‘Don’t be too harsh on us malcontents fer the sin of slavery. It is an ancestral. taint. We shall burn it out before manyf‘ decades.’ I Representative 'You had better, or it will set your; own house on fire.’ It‘ was late as we walked along thei streets, channels of fever and sgue now froze up for- the winter. We saw a light‘ through ' ,, stp door, and hammered. stoutly for admission.- A clerk, long- :baired and frowsy, opened ungraciously. In the back shop were three others, also long- haired and deny, dealing cards and drinking a dark compost from tum blcrs. I ...} , -‘Port wiuc,’ Whispered, Brent. ‘Fina old London Dock Port. 1.‘ the favorite beverage, when the editor, the lawyer, the apothecary, and the merchant meet to play eucbre in Missouri.’ V We bought our files from the surly clerk, and made for the calaboose. It was a stout log structure with grated windows. At one of these, by the low ”moonlight, we saw a negro. It was cold and-late. , the man. Nobody was near. We hailed: ‘Ham.’ ‘That’s me, massa.’ to- -mOrrow morning. If you want to get free, catch!’ _ Brent tossed lilm up, the files. ' ‘Catch again,’ said Biddulph, and up went a rattling purse, Eugland’ssubsidy. . Ham’s white teeth and gentle, man- ners appeared at once. 'He grinned and whispered thanks. ‘ ‘Is that all we can do?’ asked the Ba- ronet, as we walked out. ~ ‘Yes,’ said Brent, taking a nasal tone. Ham’s a pop 'lar nigger, a handy nigger: one or yer real ambitious sort. He ken ’cut hair, fry it beel'steak, and play on the He ken shoe, a mule, drive a team, do a little j‘iner Yes, Bid- dulph, trust him~ tokna’w himself free with that Connecticut rattail file.’ ‘Ham against Japhct; I hope he’ll win.’ _ , , ‘Now,’ said Brent, ‘that we’ve put in action Christ’s Golden Rule, J efl‘ersou’s Declaration of Independence, and All- the-Wisdom’s Preamble to the Constitu- tion, we can sleep the sleep of well-doors, if we have two mau-stealers—nnd one the brother of a murderer—only papered 00’ from us.’ ‘What a horse beyond all horses yours isl' said Biddulph to me next morning. as we rode along cheerily through the fresh, frosty air of December. ‘I think, when your Continent gets to its finality in horse-flesh, you will beat our Island. ” ‘Thiuk what training such a trip is! This comrade of micelles come two thou- sand miles with me—big thought, eh?— ond be fresheus up with the ozone of this morning, as if he had been in the stable a Week, champing asphodel." Fulano felt my commendation. He became electrified. He'stirred under me. I gave bimurein. He shook himself out, and began to recite his accomplishments. Whatever gait be had in his legs to- gether, or portion of a leap in either pair of them; whatever gesticulations be con- sidered graceful, with toes' in the air be- fore, or heels' in the air behind; whatever serpentine writhe or sinewy bend of the body. whatever curve Of the proud neck, fling of the head, signal Of the ear, toss of the mane," whisk of the tail, he knew— all these be repeated, to remind me what a horse he was, and justify my praise. What 'a horse, indeed! How far away lrom him every lubbel'ly roadster, every back that endures the holidays of a tai- lor,.every grandpapa’s cob, every sloucbcr in a sulkey! 0f other race and other heart was. this steed, both gentle and proud. He was still able to be the better half of a knight-errant when a charger worth a kingdom must be bad—- when Love needed his mighty alliance in the battle with Brutality. He‘ was wil- l'lng new, in piping times of peace, to dance along his way, a gay comrade to the same knight-errant, ridiug bomeward a quiet gentleman, with armor doffed and unsuspecting further war. What sport we had together that lmornicg. We were drawing near the end of our journey! to part us. panion still. paddock, with a fine young fellow nOt unlike myself, putting his head, while an oldish fellow, not unlike myself,’ In fact, very me with another quarter of a cen- tury on my head, told the story of the Gallop of Three and the wild charge down L'uggernel Alley to that unweary- ing auditor, while a lady, very much like my ideal ofla wife, stOO‘d by and thrilled again to "the tale. Such a vision I had of Fulano’s future. But now that our journey was ending, be and I were wil- ‘ling, on this exhilarating winter’s day, to talk it over. What had he gained by étb'e chances by flood and field we had encountered together? . ‘I’hav'e not gone,’ Fulano notified me, “-‘two thousand miles, since my lonely, v riderless days among the herds of Ger- ‘We seem to have business with the"!!iall. since our first meeting on the prai- ' lie and my leap through the loop of J .OSe’s lasso—I have not gone my leagues of continent for nothing. See what les- _80us I have learnt, thanks to you, my schoolmaster! This is my light step for beavysand; this is my cautious step over pebbles; my high step over boulders; .my easy, unwasteful traveling gait; my sudden stop without unseating mycider; .; so I swerve without shying; and I spring 'into top speed without a strain. Your lady-love could .canter me; your baby could walk, me; because I please to be your friend, my friend. But you know me; I am the untameahle still, except by love.’ And then he rehearsed the gaits he had studied from the creatures on the plains. "Look, upper half of the Gen- tour,’ he said in the Centaur language; ‘see how an antelope goesl’ He doubled his legs under him, and went off in high, jerky leaps, twice his length every one. ‘Lookl A hufl’alol’ He lumbered along, ‘sboulders low, bead handled like a bat- tar-ram, and tail stifl' out like a steering oar. ‘Here’s a gray wolf.‘ And be slImbled forward in a loose-jointed can- ter, looking back furtively, like a thief, sorry he didn’t stop to steal the other gOose but expecting ‘Stop thiefl’ every minute. ‘And so go 1, Don Fulano, the 'Indomitable, a Chieftain of the chiefest race below the man—so go I when I walk, pace, gallop, run, leap, career, ; tread space and time out of being,to shorty! 11th 3,1: the Ccutaarshlp what my half ca do 'for the love of his’ ‘Maguificentl’ applauded Biddulph at . this display. ‘His coquetries are as beautiful as a woman’s,’ said Brent. ‘One whose sweet. wiles are nature, not artifice.’ And I—but lately trained to believe that a woman may have the myriad charm Of coy withdrawal. and yet not be the traitress youth learns from ancient cynics to' fe'arL—acccpted the comparison. Ah, peerless Fulanol that was our last love-passage. The day, after the crisp frostiness of its beginning, Was a belated day of In- dian summer; mild as the golden morn- ings of that calm, luxurious. time. We stopped to noon in a" sunny spot of .Open pasture near a wide muddy slough of the M issouri. This reservoir for the brewer- age of shakes for Pikes had been refilled in some autumn rise of the river, and lay a great stagnant lake along the road- side, a mile or so long, two hundred yards broad. Not very exhileratiug tip- ple, but still water; the horses would not disdain it, after their education on the plains; we could qualify it with argee from our flasks, and cab! it withthe little films'of ice, unmelted along the edges. pool’s the horses, and a cold chicken for the men. We camped by a fallen cottonwood near the slough. The atmosphere was hopeful. We pic-nicked merrily, men and beasts. ‘Three gentlemen at once’ over a chicken soon dissipated this and its trimmings. We lighted the tranquil cal- umet, and lounged, watching our horses at their corn. Presently we began to fancy we heard, then to think we heard, at last to be sure we heard the haying of bounds through the mild golden air. ‘ ‘Tally-ho!’ cried Biddulph, ‘wbat aday for a fox hunt! This haze will' make the scent lie almost as well as the clouds.’ ‘Music! musicl’ cried beagain, spring- ing up, as the sound, increasing, rose and fell along the peaceful air that lay‘ on earth so lovingly. ‘Music, if it were in Merrie England, 'wbere the hunt are gentlemen A cursed uproar here, where the hunt are mau-. stealers,’ said Brent. . ‘No,’ said Biddulph. “Those are fa- bles of the old barbarous days Of the Maroous. I can’t believe in dogs after men, until I see it.’ ‘I’m afraid it’s'our friend Ham they are after. This would be his line of escape. At the word, a rustling' 1n the bushes along the ,slougb, and Ham burst through. He turned to run. We shout- ed. He knew as, and flung himself, livid with terror and panting with flight, on the ground at our feet—the ‘pop’lsr nigger.’ - ‘0, massa!’ be gasped. ‘Dey’s gone sot de dogs on me. What'll I do?’ ‘Can you swim,’ 'said I—-for to me he was kneeling. ‘No, moses, or I’d been cross this yer sloo for’ dis, ’ Net that that was No‘; he was to be my com- , I had a vision of bim' 1a a ' ' We were fortified with a bag of corn for . j ‘Can you; ride?’ “Beck’n'T kin, massa.’ A burst of haying from the bounds. The black shook with terror.- I sprang to’Fulano. ‘Work for you, old boy!’ I said to him as I flung. the snafile over his head.’ ‘Take minel’ said my two friends at a breath. ‘No; Fulano understands this business. Chase or flight, all one to him, as he baf- fles the Brutes.’ Fulano neighed and beat the ground with- eager hoofs as I buckled the bridle. ‘Can’t we show a fight?’ said Biddulph. There’ll be adozen on the hunt. It is one Of the entertainments hereabouts. Besides, they would raise the posse upon us. You forget we’re in a slave State, an enemy’s country! I led Fulauo to the brink. He stood motionless, eyeing me, just as he eyed me in that terrible pause in Luggernel Alley. ‘Hcre, Ham," up with you! Put across the slough. He swims like an'alligator. Then make for thenorth star, and leave the horse for Mr. Richard Wade, 'at the Trement House. Treat him like a bro- ther, Haml’ , ‘Lor’ bless you, massa! I will dat.’. He vaulted up likea ‘sprigbtly nigger, one Of'raal ambitious sort.’ The haying came nearer and nearer, ringing sweetly through the golden quiet of noon. I launched Fulano with an urgent whisper. Two hundred yards to swim! and then all clear to Freedom! Fulauo splashed in and took deep water magnificently. What a sight it is to see a noble horse nobly breast the flood—to see his shoul- ders thrust aside the stream, his breath come quick, his eyes flash, his haunches lift, his wake widen after him! _ And then—Act 24-how grand it is to see him paw and struggle up with might and main upon the further bank—to see him rise, all glossy and reeking, shake himself, and, with a snort, go gallOpin‘g free and away! Ahal' a sight to be seen! We stood watching Act 1. The fugi- tive was half-way across. The buying came closer and closer on his trail. Two- tbirds across. The haying ceased. The whole pack drew a long wail. ‘They see him,’ said Biddulph. Almost across! A dozen more plunges, Fulano. A crowd of armed men on horseback dashed up to the bank twb hundred yards above us.a- It was Open where they halted. They could not see us among the bushes on the edge of tho slough. One of them—it was Mu1'kcr—.— sprang from his saddle. He pointed his rifle quick and steady. Horse and man, the fugitives, were close to the bank and the thicket of safety. Ping! Almost over, as the rifle cracked, Ham had turned at the sound of his pursuers crashing through the bushes. Fulano swam high. He bore a proud head aloft, conscious of his brave duty. It was but a moment since he had dashed away, and the long lines of his wake still rippled against the hither bank. We heard the bullet sing. It‘ missed the man as he turned. It struck Fulano. Blood spirted from a great artery. Ham caught the bushes on the bank, pulled himself ashore, and clutched for the bridle. Poor Fu- lano! He flung'his head up and pawed the surface with a great spasm. He screamed a death-scream like that terri- ble cry of anguish of his comrade mar- tyred 1n the Old heroic cause in Lugger- nel Alley. We could see his agonized ~eye turn back in the socket, sending toward us a glance of farewell. Noble horse! again a savior. He yielded and sank slowly away into that base ditch. But Ham, was be safe? He had dis- appeared iu the thicket. His pursuers 'called the bounds, and galloped off to . chase him round the slough. Ham was safe. He got 03’ to freedom. From his refuge in Chicago, he writes me that be is ‘popflarf “that he has ‘sot up a livery black colt a growiu’ up for me.’ 'Ham was saved; but Fulauo Was gone. ‘Dead by'Murker’s rifle. The brother had strangely'avenged his brother, trampled to death in the" far-away canon of the Rocky Mountains. Strange Nemesis for agniltless crime! That blood- stain for a righteous execution clung to him. ,Ouly his own blood-shedding V'could cleanse him. We three on the .bank lOOkéd-nt each other forlornly. The horse, our hero, had’ passed away‘from the scene, a martyr. .‘.-. S: The bank of England was recently asthishcd and terrified by an anonymous letter, in which the writer offered to meet the directors in the bullion room at any hour they pleased to name. They ap- pointed midnight, and punctual to the hour a noise was heard below. Some boards in the floor were without much trouble displaced, and in a few minutes the Guy Fawkes of'the bank stood in thé‘ midst of the astonished directors. His storywas very simple and straight forWOrd. An old drain run under the bullion room, the existence of which had become known to him, and by means Of which he might have carried away enormous sums 1n- quiry was made. Nothing had been ab- stracted, and the directors rewarded the honesty and ingenuity of their- auouy-’ mous correspondent—a working man, who had been employed in repairing the [sewers—by a present of £800. 'in a pitch" .1. the wall, is a marble statue .institootiou, and has a most bewterful . fi + .WINDSOB CASTLE. Mr. CORNELL in a recent letter gives the following interesting description Of this celebrated abode of English royale ty: — Windsor Castle, which is claimed by Englishmen to be the only residence Of the English sovereigns worthy of the na- tion, is 22 miles from London, up the valley of the Thames, situated on 'a bluff of lawn about one hundred feet above the meadows that line the banks of the river. The commencement Of this castle dates back to William the Conqueror, and is referred to in Doomsday-book. It has been added to by the Henrys, the Edwards, the Williams, the Georges, un- til it comprises a massive pile, stretching along three sides of aquadrangle, pre- senting a series Of towers, among which George 4th’s tower, Cornwall tower, Brunswick tower, Princcof Wales tow- er,’Chester tower, Clarence tower, Vic- toria tower, South turret, York tower, Lancaster tower, and King John’s tow- er, all of which is commanded and pro- tected by the keep or round tower, which occupies the entrance to the quadrangle, which is an ancient prison and fortress, being a prison as late as '1660. It is nearly circular, having an extreme diam- eter of 102 feet, and towers One hundred and twenty- -three feet above the quadran- gle, with a watch tower extending .25 feet higher. From the top Of this tower the view is beautiful, and extends over twelve counties, and a clear atmosphere (a rare thing in England) gave us a. fine opportunity to enjoy this lovely land- scape. We will now proceed to the interior, which we reach by ascending a long flight of granite steps up the side of the bluff, and through the walls of the castle, across the court to the entrance of the State apartments, where we present our ticket to the Official, who examines it and empnles it upon an iron wi1'e,‘as’ a grocer, passes you along to a .broad stairway, leading to a small ante-room, where we wait an Official to show us around. This ante-room was a narrow room with seats for a dozen persons, and the balance Of some forty or fifty, had to stand twenty or thirty minutes, while an advance party was being shown through. The only decorations of this room were a portrait of Sir Jeffery Wyattville, 11y Lawrence, hanging at one end, and at the other end Ofa very fat child embracing a rattle snake, very characteristic, we thought, of England’s present position—John bull’s embracing Secession. Tho sculp- tor was undoubtedly a prophet. The Official Opens the door, and the crowd rushes into the Queen’s audience chamber, the ceiling of which was paint- eul by Verrio. On the walls are three, pieces of Gobclin tapestry, representing the history of Esther. From this we went to the “Old Ball Room,” now call- ed the Vaudyck room, from its being'dec- orated with the portraits of Henry 1., Charles 1., his Queen and their two chil- dren, Prince Charles, and the Princess Mary, and others, painted by that artist. Here our guide made what an Irishman would call a “bull.” He straightened himself up to his greatest altitude, throw- ing his shoulders back, and chest for- ward, and said: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is called the Vandyck room, that artist, having painted the landscapes which you see on the walls.” The walls, however, exhibited “nary a landscape,” nothing but the portraits above referred to. Again, in the next room he pointed to a picture where a knight was in a struggle with a winged dragon, and said, “that picture represents the story of J a- son and Media,” while the picture of Ja- son aud Media hung up on the Opposite side Of the room. This blunder caused a laugh that interrupt-ed his very interest ing explanation. The Queen’s State drawing room was visited next. This was decorated with landscapes, portraits Of the three first Georges, and others of the royal occu- pants Of the castle. We next visited the “Waterloo Chamber,” a long' ball, light- cd from above, containing portraits of the sovereigns and distinguished persons that figured in the events that culminat- ed at “'atcrlno. we looked in vain, however, for the Sarntoga chamber or Yorktown chamber; those events in the history Of England are not illustrated at Windsor Castle. We next passed to the “Prince’s chamber,” fitted up in the style of Louis XIV, and contains the Malachite vase, presented to the Queen by the Emperor Nicholas 0l Russia, and other vases presumed to Frederick Will- iam 111., from the King of Prussia.— From this we passed to St. George’s hall a grand dining hall two hundred feet long, by thirty-tear feet wide, and thirty- two feet high. This coutaiil's full length pOriruits of the English sovereigns, from James 1., to George IV., in their robes of State. The ceiling is emblazoned with the arms of the Knights of the Gal‘- ter, and at the east end is the throne.— Throngb the centre stands a plain 111a. hogsuy dining table, one hundred and fifty feet long, and uboul nine feet wide. No'cloth covers the table, and 110 article cucumbers it, and it is only remarkable for the exceeding richness of some of the does the orders from his customers, and - it would be well suited'to the wants of a large hotel. ' ' The Guard chamber came next in or- der. It' 13 a comparatively small square chamber, decorated with trophies from England’s ..many battle-fields; but here again we look in vain for the starry em~ blem Of American freedom among the national banners that have trailed in the dust before the prowess of the British Lion. The battle of Trafalgar was com- memorated by a section of the fore-mast of the Victory, Lord Nelson’s flag-ship, perforated by a cannon shot, but nothing in the room reminds the spectator of the battles of Lake Erie, Ontario or Cham- plain. At each side of the fractured fore- mast is an elegant brass piece taken in the Sikh war in the Punjaub, but nothing to keep 1n memory the bravery of Packiugbam in scaling the cotton bags at New-Orleans. There is a chair here made of oak, taken from the roof of Al- lo'way Kirk, the scene of the spectral dance witnessed by Tam O’Shanter; but there is no furniturehere to immortsfize the Charter Oak. The Elm that shaded the bloody field of Waterloo has its rep. resentative here in an arm- chair—but there is not a splinter from the equally famous old Elm that casts shadows over freedoms cradle at Bunker Hill. The absence Of the» one is as gratifying to an American, as the presence of the other is to an Englishman. So we will pass on to the Queen’s Presence chamber, the ceil- ing Of which is richly. decorated by the painting .of Verrio, and the walls are hung with Gobelin tapestry, representing further portions of Esther’s story. Three portraits of ladies one Charles I.’s young- est child, the other two Princesses of the House of Brunswick, are in frames carved by Gibbon. The above rooms, which represent a very small portion Of the castle, are all that visitors are shown, and from the lat- ter we are issued into the ante-room from which we commenced the tour of the Gas- tle, and descended the great stairway to the Open cOurt. Before parting with the State apartments, I will-mention that all the furniture is carefully concealed with a canvass covering fitted to each piece, preserving it from injury as well as tbescrutiny Of curious visitors; hence it must pass unnoticed. We next as- cended the round tower and enjoyed the rich scenery presented to the eye from this greatelevution, until surfeited with its gorgeous beauties, when we descend- ed for a visit to St George’s Chapel.— This chapel, situated near the Castle, was commenced in 1461, and finished in the fore part of the century. It. pre- sents exquisite beauty of architecture in its richly decorated roof, which is the most notable part of the church. A fee of a shilling to one Of the sextons, Open- ed that part of the chapel where the cer- emony of installing the Knights of the Garter takes place, and where the ban- ners and escutchcons of existing members of the order are. to be seen over their richly carved stalls. Beneath the marble floor Of this part of the chapel, rests the mortal remains of Prince Albert, the sexton says, “about six feet below the surface Of the floor, as near as he could calculate.” The spot is marked by several wreaths Of flowers wrought by the Queen and placed there by her own hands, before she left the palace for Scotland, which will be replac- ed by others on her return. This church contains the remains of Edward IV., who commenced its structure, Henry VI. and VIII, Charles I, the Georges III. and IV.. William IV., and several oth- ers of the royal family. The fine paint- ing representing the Last Supper, execu- ted by West, hangs over the altar.— There are many other objects of interest to sight-score, but a refereece to them would be sure to exhaust the patience of the printer, and very likely weary that of the reader; I must, therefore, pass them by, as I must for the same reason, our visit to the Queen’s stable, where the riding and carriage horses of the Queen, and the ponies of the Royal chil- dren are shown, with [he carriages and equippages of each respectively—a couple dOch'horses of various character, and a like number of carriages. The Queen’s stables in London are still more exten- sively supplied than those at WiuclsOr. .____..-.-. fi'l‘bcre are beuvecu three and four thousand Cavalry in Geller"! McClellau's army and he corps of Hviulz liunu Who are unavailable become they have no horse-s. The Quartermer’s depart- ment declines DdVilllCHlL’ lllc prim-s paid for such IIOI'SCS-fi'um $l10 to $130—dc- liven-d at Washington, Consequeualy the horses are not forthcoming. «>bp———~ @The Baltimore American, while regarding the issuance Of the proclama- tion as extra constitutional, replies that will put an end to slavery in Maryland. ——4«.» . @Tbe copperheads Of Hartford and Blacklord counties, Indiana, claiming to have two hundred armed men, resisted the draft on Monday, destroying the draft box and enrolling papers. They denounced the goveinment. A part of the 63d Indiana has been sent. to enforce the draft and arrest the leaders. .<.>..___ filVe have now 292 ships; 55 wood- en and 23 Irou- -clad meu- --Of -war have been built 111 one year, and all are afloat ex- cept 3 frigates and 12 iron-clads. The number Of men- -of-war on foreign squad- pieces of mahogany Of which it is made, rons is 12, with3 ,000 men. and thenumber of persons it would seat. proclamation or no proclamation, the ar ‘ . o
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