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Yon've got a in?od p<?sitin?, now.
Lit*ntenanl General G rant:
Ami. like a got>d physician, now,
We hope you'll purge Secession, now,
And stop all Southern rant.
Lieutenant Geueral Grant:
Do you know what won fhi? glory. fir,
Lieutenant General Grautr
When Vlckshurg qnnileirl beibre ye, Mr,
Like an Eastern *tnrbcam o'er ye, fir,
II shone?no idle vaunt.
Lieutenant Geueral Graut. )
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Aud now yon've won it, like a star.
Lieutenant General Grant,
It inu*t lead along this Woody war.
And bring a-ne.tr what seemed so far;
This, this i>. what we wanr,
Lieutenant General Grant.
For honors are like riches, sir.
Lieutenant General Grant; j
Keep on : take ?troug new stitches, air.
El* they fly away like witches, fir,
- ??" And la***- wr lesn aurf gumt, .
Lieutenaut General Grant! j
? So, quirk ! aetonnd the nation, now.
Lieutenant General Grant,
-*?? ? 1 **:il ,, nnM
t tiff UT auu 11111 m. iiaiiuu, uun,
And bring oiir laud salvation, now,
TIs this for which wc pant.
Lieutenant General Grant.
We want all traitors throttled, now,
. Lieutenaut General Urant!
All poisonous treason bottled, now.
With which is dally mottled, now.
The Copperhead's low cant.
Lieutenant General Grant.
And then up higher and higher, sir.
Lieutenant General Urant, , jj
L'-ke sunbeams on a spire, sir,
lo a never-dying fire, sir.
Oar country's prondest vain t
Shall bo, tur General <Jrant:
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK. j
New York, April 15th, 1^04. I
You know, Messrs. Editors of thcP.H.,
I left you weeping on the strand, I mean
the pier at Hilton Head, on the 9th ir.st.
as you saw me shake the yellow sand
out of my shoes, and go aboard the new
"steamship Western Metropolis. It was
only six days ago, y**t la-re have I l>eon
luxuriating half a week already among
the steep, precipitous-priced luxuries?I
will not say necessaries, though sugar is
25 cents per pouud. and first-class butter
04 cents in New York City.
It is fair to-day, but they tell me that
for two weeks past tuc weather lias been
horrid. The photographer? (many of
whom I have had occasion to call upon
in order to secure a large variety of the
newest styles of Albums and pictures for
my store in your shady burg; are really
profane on the subject, for in clear skies
their profit "H?s, and drops of rain tfeu
Htm- the grain, give them hut pain. 1
[See Shakspenre, 1st fly-leaf.J
The Metropolitan Fair is the gigantic
topic with the other sex in this village at
present, and the gold market and prices 1
current, the vortices which suck in the j
souls of the men.
Provisions are ramping, and, in fart,
i the prices of all descriptions of goods are
| rearing up most fearfully, lioarding:
liouse ladies are greatly exercised in
i ranging around after cheap stores: Imt i
: lamions suffer in vain, for " cheap Johns "
' are ??? incnit*?. Many articles can
be IxMJght cheaper in Hilton Head than
here. At the rate tbnt the markets arc
advancing, it is safer to hold on to goods
than to sell. Indeed I would advise any
man who has money to invest, to put it
into merchandise. 1 tents arc raising of
course. A room in Broad, near Wall street,
in this city, which I paid .*G<)0 for last
year, now commands An old.
tlirec story, ill-arranged, narrow staircased
little building a* a corner, togeUirt*
with the land it tovers. s<Id for
<K)0 a fmv weeks ago. Ileal estate, re
mote from business, has not yet 4,Ht"
much, but will jump up by and hv like
the rest, I doubt not. The accursed
copperheads simulating in gold, and depreciating
the credit of Uncle Sam, are
accountable tor this condition of things.
I wish that every mothers son of them
might be dragged through .".781 feet of
host' pipe, and there be doomed to wear
a shirt full of fleas through the remainder
of his natural life. 1 am thus bitter
against traitorous copperheads. >
The furkuigufrdiuilf V
were in New York to-day. I saw them
in the Park, just about to start for Washington.
I fancied 1 saw in the countenance
ot the gallant and good Col. Bell a
shade of disappointment; the other half>
and a majority of its Ix-st officers being 1
still in Beaufort, S. C. He gave me his j
old cordial grasp of the hand however,
and wished me to remember him to bis
former associates nud friends in Major
General Gillmore's Department.
| There is a feverish excitement in moni
etary circles, and it extends more or less
| to all classes of business men. The hn-"
i pression it makes upon the stranger is .
j exceedingly uncomfortable, and makes i
| him wish (if he has the common wealth ;
I at all at heart) that wc were safe through it. J
I The bulletin boards make the most of j
(the l??d news of the capture of Fort Pi!
i low and Paducah, and there are many
j lugubrious faces at the corners. The
poor negroes seem to have t>een slaughtered
like sheep in that disaster. May
God grant the survivors a terrible retribution.
It is said that Geo. Grant is massing
i 2.">0,000 men to take Richmond and clear
j out Virginia.
On dit. The Seventh Regiment and
I other volunteer corps of this eitv have
i been ordered to Washington, to relieve
! the veteran defenders of the Capital, who
| are to march with the Great Column into
I Virginia. 9.
The Danes.?A Sondeuburg (A, en
Island) correspondent of the Pari9 Sicclo j
| writes: "It is not to this place that I j
j would Recommend persons who are t'ond :
of comfort and good living to come, j
! People are obligee! to put up with wlrat j
j accommodation they can find, and cat
i Wwcre and how they can. The Danish j
| officers are heroes: they not only await
' with remarkable courage for the moment
when tker shall measure swords with an :
i
enjoav four times their strength, but.
wpt is still more formidable, they eat
wrhout a murmur *ve bread as black as
eigne and fatal as destiny. The beer, it
iafme. is good, and drinkable wine may
l*r tbnnd raider the name of chateau
f mnrgaux. That, however. Is o triding
nirttcr to the Danes, many of whom dine
vjfajgll drinking either "wine, beer, or
are. die re tore, never put
olfthetable. tiijrl ?f any wishes to
drink they ask tor a glass of w ine, beer,
Kran/iv Vn rtii> orcr ti.kf--;
vBtitor, doubtless becaaae it is not whole*?me.
Only very lew foreigners nre
la-re. with the exception of some Swedish
ar.d Norwegian officers. A Danish ufficvr
has taken on himself the mission of
studying the deviations, according to distance,
of the rifles of the Prussian. He
goes even' day to the advanced posts,
provided with ti glass, and makes a memorandum
of observations. The day before
yesterday, a German rifleman perceived
this officer on the lookout, at a
distance of about (Ml metres. The soloier,
instinctively obedient to militaiy
discipline, respectfully made the salute,
hntl then proceeded to attempt to lodge
# ball iu the officer s body. The latter
i?b>tei'il at this onnortunitv of makiue a
"W 4 1 T V
fifeM! olvservation, and while the soldier
placed himself against a tree, in order to
take a steadier aim, the officer raised his
glasa to watch his movements. " That j
is all right," sjiid he, "the muzzle is just
on a line with my breast?we shall see 1"
ifTlie trigg.r was pulled, and the Dane
quietly wrote down, " at the distance of
,d>out 6oo \ arils tin? deviation of a bull
Vrom a rifle musket is about one metre.'*
P* ?* * - HUfciOTi
In a recent Spirit of the Fair, the little
dally paper published for the New York
Sanitary Fair, appears a contribution by
1{. II. Dana, jun., from wliich we make
the following extract:?
At tea, at the Athentcum Club, La ml seer
introduced me to a gentleman by tlie
name of Robinson, who had a singular
passion lor Nelson. A man of means and
of education, of some literary claims, a
bachelor, he has devoted much of his
time and property to the collection of
memorials and relics of his favorite hero.
Laodsecr told him I was a lover of the
? ?'! ?t?/>nl/l onn\?%Qth!Tn with K?o i.n.
*CU, OlUl *?VUIU IU44, nnu m i VI.
thusiasm, so he took me up warmly. It
ended in his urging me to visit him in his
bachelor quarters in Cork-street, where
he kept his private Xelson museum. I
was to leave town the next day, and
could not. Oil, but I must, and he
would light it up for me. it had never
lieen liglijed, and there was no gas in it.
but he could get candle, and I must
come. I saw he really desired it; tliat
it would gratify him, and accepted. He
would go directly home and get his ship
ready, his deck cleared, and would see
me in an hour.
At the eud of an hour I knocked at his
door in Cork-street. An old sailor, in
loose duck trousers, blue jacket, open
collar, loose neckerchief *in the truest
possible man-of-war rig, opened the door,
and rdfled along the eutry and up stairs,
and let me into a large room, occupying
the whole ot the second floor, with a 'skylight
above. A few candles were placed
about the room, and my host sat on an
old mahogany table that had been one of
Nelson's cabin tables, with a capstan that
came from one of Nelson's ships. He
received me with great cordiality, and
began to show me his strange museum.
Ranged round the room, and scattered
over it. were all imaginable memorials
and relies, every thing illustrating Nelson's
life which love, cutieatv, or money hat*
enabled hira to command.
There was a painting of every battle
Nelson had fought, and of every" lending
e^eut of his life from his tight with a
Polar bear on the ice, when f. raitjslilp
man in the Sin Horse, lo Lis death in tlx1
i cockpit ot' the Victory, in the amis or
Hardy. There were large models of
ererv ship in which he had sailed ; Ti e
' Sea Hojmc. the Vanguard, the Affftmunnon.
the Victory. and all, with pieces of
their masts or keels, and seme cannon,
j muskets, pistols and swords tuken front
i them. Then there were relics of a mopv
1 personal character: an admiral's coat.
. arftLAi' s tarnished bottom* and onh r<* cn?
: rfVitii Itr.r .*u', --.,ord.
, all of which Nelson had worn: a bound vo,
In me of original k tiers, and letters frc in
Lady Hamilton; and one starting thing :
opening suddenly a door, there stood 1m i
fore me the figure of Nelson himself?that
pale, thought fill, melancholy countenance,
the drooping lid, the one eye clocd.
the vacant sleeve pinned to the coal, the
; very clothes he had worn in life, coat,
: hat" shoes?all, his straight, thin, light
! hair falling over his brow, to the life; it
{seemed as if I had trodden within the
I circle of witchcraft, and the hero had
lieen called up to comfort me. This
figure had been made in wax, by a young
lady, niece of the artist who painted the
: best portrait of him. The artist asked
' "VT V A 01 lr\ll? Lie f,V
X1U1SUU ? IV auun mr? uicv v i"
take it while he was sitting tor tlie portrait,
and the tradition is that when it
was (lone, Nelson said, "I was nevir "
taken, larboard and starboard at the same
time before." It was very well done, and
produced none of the painful effect rf
was figures generally, the pale yellow
hue of the wax, at least as seen by candle light,
suiting well with the known complexion
of the man. Ilatving exhausted
| the curiosities, I told my host an anecdote
of a relative of mine, in command ofa ship
.in the Mediterranean, at night making a
light.' tlietTltflcrniTr HH*n motherivw>??
seeing them dancing all about him, then
a gun. then a hogfse hail from a huge
line-oi-battie ship, rolling up her sides
: and showing dim lanterns through her
1 porthole"?how lie went on lioird. was
taken in a boat through the tleet to tin
flagship, and down inlo the cabin, whensat
Nelson at a table covered by a chart,
under the dim swinging lamp of the cabin,
and how be told him that he had seen ti e
i French fleet in the morning before, and
how Nelson took from him his courses and
I distances since, and the bearing and
! course of the fleet and the wind at the
) time, and traced them on his chart, thanked
him, offered him the usual glass of
I grog, and sent him back in his own boat
j to his ship, through the mysterious black
; hulks, rolling, hailing and showing their
; lights.
I This nuecdote interested him mightily,
i and he said he would took up Nelson's
I log to see if there was a note of it. 1
! moil t/\ crt> "Vn " envt hp * Yp'*r?n ni
AVTOV %A/ ^
ways invited bis visitors to take a glass
of grog before they left bis cabin, and
this is my cabin, "so grog it must be.
Tom:" Tom rolled in, hitching up his
trousers. " Grog. TomSo Tom steered
out, and navigated back among the
relics, bringing two glass tumblers oi genuine
navy grog, which he set on the
capstan. 0
My host seemed as delighted as surprised,
that I, an American, should enter
so heartily into his Nelson humor. After
some ftirt'hor pleasant talk I took my departure,
leaving Torn and his master to
put out the lights and close up thecuri:
ous, odd old room. It was singular; a
I gentleman of property and education,
i never at sea himself, giving his house, the
j best part of it. and spending so much of
his time and money on this enthusiasm.'
Gex. Geobgi; \Y. Bicklet claims in
; his diary to have been the father,of the
rebellion. We hear nothing about its
j mother. In truth it nererwas worth:;
; dam,?Prentice. ' _
Tim Union prisoners in Richmond
have botn restricted in their correspondence
to oue letter of six lines p^r week.