THE VOLUME II. I For the Krir South. T lie Picket ^loaitor before Charleston. TH.. iii.rji? iw it?rb llirl ilrivirv now. And silent as the tomh. Except when o'er the moaning waves Is heard the sullen boom Ol some bold " Parrott," cag'd iu Gregg. Which. speaking plain as life, Feuds its dread messenger of death To those who eaus'd the strife. But what is that which, >j>ectre-like. Shows its uark tigure there? Who said "a ehee?e-hox oa a mft " Could boast so hold an air ? Ah, yes', 'tis it, a "Monitor." Like champion Knight of old, And it's lone tower, by Vulcan forg'd. Frowns on the rebel hold. .No sound Is heard ou that low craft, Thi' waters clasp it deep: Yet there are eyes to pierce the gloom While some arc wrapt in sleep;' The hatch is down. au old Kls" that o' er tlu'm floats Shall never sink from view, While there remains one stalworth anu To God and Country true. But seeth' intruder hesitates. A thought has crossed her mind; ^The hallow'd name " Wechawken " Is whispered by the wind; For though she rests beneath the wave. Not dead, but in a trance. That word recalls th' Atlanta's fate. That 'a why she won't advauce. And thus it is the Monitors Keep night-watch o'er the fleet; Jti'ltir.u in J'arvn as they are, Their iron hail would greet The coming of Secc sv the merchants of 15oston to the Naval Committee of Congress, in March," made an eloqnent speech con-! oerning our navy and its work. After alluding to the extraordinary growth of : our naval force since the beginning of the war, he said : ! Every shin yard, public and private, 1 has been tested to its utmost capacity ; every furnace in the country has been kept at white heat night and day, and an amount of work has been performed on the coast and rivers, and a series of rewrits achieved, without a parallel, as I believe, when the disadvantages are considered under which the navy labored at the commencement, in naval history. Let i Norfolk. Hatteras, ltoanoke Island, Port Royal. Pcnsacola, the Rio Grande. Fort ; Henry. Fort Donelson, Island No. Ten, Memphis. Vicksbnrg, Port Hudson. the shattered fragments of Sumter, Fort Jacksou and Fort St. Philip, the city of New ' <*rlea ns ; the Athnl't, demolished by tive shots front tbe Wtehwrk'tr: 1.045 vessels captured from the enemy up to the tirst V/irptnher. and from 70 to 80 since , added : the closure of over port save one, j nnd that guarded by twenty vessels, on < this immense line of coast, bear witness 1 to the activity and efficiency of this arm oi' the service. I need not, of course, | disclaim any thought of undervaluing what has been done by our noble armies and their gallaat commanders, who have ; borne their full share iu many of these ! achievements, but I am sure that they, J one and all, will do justieo to the efficient co-operation of the navy. Aud then that marvelous creation of the genius aud skill of Ericsson, the wonder of the age, the turreted monitor. If there it au incident in the history of the war,, I ? 1 FRE BEAUFORT, SOUTH CA1 which more than any other deserves to he referred to as a direct interposition of an overruling Providence, it is the arrival of the heaven-directed little vessel at Portress Monroe, after her rough, uncomfortable voyage from New York, on the evening of March 8th, 18(S'J, at tne close of a clay of havoc, I had almost said of terror. The mind recoils from the contemplation of the State of tilings which would have existed had the ravages of the Merrinwc been renewed on the morning of the i>th. But the avenger was nt liand ; after an all but sleepless voyage from New York of fifty-six hours, in a vessel whose construction?whose strange enginery?whose armament?whose capacity for offensive or defensive service were all untried, the gallant "Worden, at sunrise the next morning, bore calmly down to the encounter with his gigantic adversary, amidst the wrecks of his yesterday's devastations, (the topmasts of the sunken Cumberland peering mournfully above the waters, the Congress burned to the water's, edge, the Minnesota, "marked out as the next victim, helplessly aground),went round and round him, to use the graphic language of an eye-witness, "as a cooper goes round a cask," and drove him crippled and discomfitted back to his harbor, never more to leave it until he went up self-destroyed in fragments to the sky. [Great applause.] When the noble young commander ol the Monitor dropped upon the floor of hi* pilot house, stunned, lacerated, blackened and bleeding, with scarcely a vestige of humanity in his manly countenance, he had inaugurated a new era in nava! warfare ! When the iron-clads and monnr>w in onm-qo nf POTlstruction ai' completed, we shall have, ui>on our coast ami in our harbors, a defensive fora which will relieve us from all possibility of foreign aggression. But this torpid, inefficient, fossil navy do n't catch the Alabama ! No, nor die torpid, inefficient, lazy Nelson, in command of the fleet with which lie foughl the battle of the Nile, catcli Napoleor with a force in ships of war and transports of more than four hundred vessels, shadowing the sea for miles, though lit chased liim, or rather thought he chased him, round the Mediterranean, from tin 10th of May till the 1st of August, as th cat chases her tail, Napoleon stopping, by way of episode, to capture Malta or the way, and on the 22d of June actually crossing the track of Nelson a few hours before. , Neither was he caught by the English, Russian and Turkish fleets-?the English still commanded by Nelson?when the following year he retnmed by a vovnge oi six or seven weeks from Egypt to Prance, passing a week with his relations at Ajaccio, by the way. Neither was he caught in 1815 on his passage from Elba, though the English knew he was plotting his escape, and a French cruiser hailed him on the wav, and hearing his corvette was nnnnipo/1 Iwtnr flip iMmiOmi 111/111 XJil/Uf 1.U\|U11VV? MV> ?? ???' ? ? was, "who answered in person that he 44 wa.> perfectly well." The Mediterranean is but a mill pond compared with the seas over which the Alabama roams, and whenever the pirate is hard pressed, he slips into a net'trul port. [Applause.] It ol course must be by mere chance if he is ever captured. Campbell's 44 Hohenltndfx. "?Ever? Englishman remembers Campbell's noble poem of ' Hohenlinden;" bnt few perhaps had considered, until Sir Edward Cost led the way. how entirely that poem misrepresents sill the circumstances of the battle which it has made so famous. It is ubunt as near the fact as is David's celebrated picture of Bonaparte crossing the Alps ou a prancing charger to the reality of the passing of the St. Bernard. The essence of the poetical Hohenlinden is a night attack; but the true battle of Hohenlinden began at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. It is rerv likely Hie river Tver flows swift and dark in winter: but it flows many miles from Hohenlinden; it does indeed wash the walls of Munich, and banners may have waved upon those walls: nor would their waving have had less influence upon the battle because invisible, through distance, from the scene. The onlj feature common to the real and the imaginary spectacle was the snow which fell heavily during, although it did not cover the ground before the battle. Perhaps the poet never heard ? E SOI i > [JOLIXA, APRIL 9, 1864. tlmt slash and mud were the allies of France at Hohenlinden, and that Moreau ) won the battle by judging accurately how inner bis Assailant would stick and strng gle ill the forest paths, where it was no more possible to rush to glory than it is , to gallop over an Alpine ridge. Proclamation by President Lincoln. , Washington, March 26, 1804. Whereat, it has become necessary to I define the eases in which insurgent ene- \ I mies are entitled to the benefits of the ' J proclamation of the President of the 1 ! United States, which was made on the ; 8th day of December, 1863, and the man, j ner in which they shall proceed to avail 1 themselves of these benefits; and where- ! . as, the objects of , that proclamation were ' to suppress the insurrection and restore j the authority of the United States; and I whereas, the amnesty therein proposed by r the President was offered with reference ! I to these objects alone, (J Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, ; President of the United States, do hereby ; i proclaim and declare, that the said pro- j J clamation does not apply to the- case of persons who, at the time when they seek the benefits thereof by taking the oath , thereby prescribed, are in military, naval I or civil confinement or custody, or under ' bonds, or on parole of the civil, military or naval authorities or agents of the j ; United States, as prisoners of war, or j ( persons detained for offences of any kind, . either before or after conviction, and that, 1 j on the contrary, it does apply only to these persons who, being yet at large and I free from any arrest, confinement or duress, shall voluntarily come forward and , take the said oath, with the purpose of , restoring peace and establishing the na| tional authority. T Prisoners excluded from the amnesty offered in the said proclamation may ap. ply to the President for clemency, like all I I other offenders, ami their application will ; receive due consideration, t I do further declare and proclaim that ( the oath prescribed in the aforesaid proclamation of the 8tli of December, 1803, may be taken and subscribed before any [ commissioned officer, civil, military or [ naval, in the service of the United States, > ; or any civil or military officer of a Shite , I or Territory not in insurrection, who, by , the laws thereof, may be qualified for 1 administering oaths. r ! All officers who receive such oaths are , hereby authorized to give certificates hav' ing thereon the names of the persons re- ' spectively by whom they are made ; and i such . fficers are hereby required to trans- ' , mit the originnl records of such oaths, at j ! ;is early a day as may be convenient, to i ' j the Department of State, where they will be deposited and remain in the archives j of ihe government. The Secretary of State will keep a registry thereof, and will, on application, in proper cases, issue certificates of such records in the customary form of official j [, certificates. Iu testimony whereof I have hereunto pet my hand, j ' and caused the seal of the United State* to be af- , t fixed. Done at the city of Washington, the 2?5th | day of March, in the rear of our Lord 1?iJ4. and of ! the Independence of tiie United States the eitrhtv- ' eighth. [ i ~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ! I By the President: Wilj.iam 11. Sf.waru, Secretar* of State. I _ _ Arkansas.?This State, at an election I just held, hn9 adopted, by an immense - majority, a Constitution forever prohibit- I , 1 iug slavery ! Think of that for Arkansas, : i the land of the Bowie-knife and the re; volver, of duelling and lynch law ! (fov. | Isaac Murphy and the whole Free State | , j ticket arc elected. Guerrilla bauds made i violent threats. Nevertheless the citizens j ; , were enthusiastic in their determination ! . ' to vote the State back into tho Union, ! j many going to tho polls at the risk of I I their lives. The military authorities used | ? i - a _ . i I i every exertion to protect voters. auuui | ; } 10,000 votes were polled, and only a small , linmbcr, voted against the free Constitu- i tion ! The Legislature will meet next . month to elect Senators to Congress ; the i election lias already taken place for Representatives to the House. The whole j macliinery of the State government will j . soon be in oi>eration throughout all parts ! , of the State which have been reclaimed i from rebel control, now amounting to nearly fonr-tifths. Life is happy at moments. Has any one ever added these moments together? If so, what is the sum? Zbe litcbfielb "T Historical Society. ITH>^ NUMBER 14. Clipping. Pretty Good.?A correspondent, doubtless a believer in two terms all around, semis us the following: Why are Lincoln and Hamlin "one and inseparable?" Behold the reason! Abra Ham Lix coin.?lirooji'lyn Union. Rev. Mr. Robie, of the Buffalo Arate,says: "Some complain that there are so many naughty soldiers in town. What if they do act a it 1th' tnn/mtn/ orcwdonallo! Home and social friendsliips press hard upon them when furlougliea and. relaxed from duty. We lutrehwen them for months kx/elher irheti they ire re vomjmlfnd. to tte as sober as deacons. While at home and among friends they feel, we suppose, like birds released from a cage. But the hard and stern duties of the field will be felt again by these defenders of our couutry." A letter from New-Orleans to a NewEngland organ of Gen. Banks, written in defense of his existing serfage system in Louisiana says: "Tobias (iibson. one of the most extensive planter.* in Louisiana, freely expressed to me in conversation his belief in compensated free black labor, and s:M 'that (?eu. Banks's order had already saved him ?100,000.'" Precisely. Saved the planter $100,Olid, and saved it at the expense of the halfemancipated half-reeuslaved. blacks whom Gen. Banks compels to work for $8 a month, though the planter can richly afford three times that amount. A new style of shell, invented by Capt. William S. Williams, of Ohio, has recently been successfully experimented with lit Vick8burg, in a 20 pound Parrott gun. One shell, weighing twenty pounds, was, by this means of explosion, broken infn nnr> linnrbWl nrnl fwpntv-spvPTi nippps which surpasses any of a similar kind now in use. The New Moxitoe Moxadxock, just launched at Boston, is built entirely of oak, except her deck and turret, and is coppered all below her armor, in which slit* ilIfYerts from any utliei'