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The following eloquent strain is from a speech by Gen. John Cochrane, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music :? "Speaking of those incontinent vicissitudes of atmospheric pressure reminded him of a singular scene that might now bo transpiring in another Northern nort. I think I see the parties passing; with sombre and lowering brows, looking at each other. Upon yonder lines, at "Windsor Pass, Vallandigham and his friend Horatio?(Applause and hisses)?I think I hear, said the speaker, the sympathizing hiss, the metallic sparkle, the burnished copper of some grovelling reptile that would seek a warmer climate. Grovel and sputter and hiss \ in your prostrate, grovelling condition 1 The nni-; mal cannot be changed, however this country may j advance to victory and a restored Union. (Ap- j plause) I see the friend of Horatio grasping his cloak about him to screen hira from the Northern blast; and I also behold Marcellus Wood. It is the peace platform on the Canada line. They tread the stage and remind me of that scene conceived in the mind of nature's poet, composed undoubtedly with reference to the events now transpiring. It was melancholy Hamlet?Vallau digham?Lis friend Horatio, and tne o:nec:% atar-1 cellus Wood, that occupied upon a dreary night a brief hour upon the peace platform at fclisnor#. (Hisses and applause.) It was cold to them, but hissing hot to the gentlemen present, who were writhing iu their seats. Hamlet Valiasdigham?The air bilrs shrewdly; It ia very cold. Hohatio?It is indeed an unhappy and an en^or air. Hamlet?Whet hour, now ? Koeatjo?Me think 3 it lacks of twelve. Maocklll's Wood?No, it has struck. Horatio?Indeed! 1 heard it not. Heard it not, Horatio ? Heard you not Rhode Island, one? two, Vermont? three, Massachusetts? four, Now Hampshire? five, Maine? six, California? seveu, Wisconsin? eight, Illinois? nine, Pennsylvania? ton, Ohio? eleven, Marylaud, and New Yorfc, twelve ? (Uproarious applause.) which Lasted for some time, the audience 1 rising to their feet and cheering fn masse.) And j there struck the last syllable of recorded time If, Horatio, your articular nerve was ch ad to that it must be the dull, cold ear of death with which you are struck. The dead heard it, looked up and wondered at the miracle. The living hoard it and rejoiced, and as our army stood shoulder to shoulder in the front, the peoplo were standing shoulder to shoulder in the rear. (Hisses were heard from a few in the audience.) lie who would hiss, replied General Cochrane, when your country is threatened, would laugh like hyenas at the funeral of your ancestors, and would gloat over the corps of your mother. He had no terms too severe for that nweal rebel rout. They who stood manfully in arms for the Union, believed their cause to be right, however wrong it * ? i limy be, but xnannooa was no aunuim- ui mcms? the copperheads. It was the fiat of the Almighty that he who was adicted to treason should for the remainder of his life eat dirt (Hisses.) Aye, you have it. (The speaker addressing himself to the party who hissed.) It rankles and it will never be withdrawn, but will rankle deeper and deeper as our country ascends higher. General Cochrane proc joded for some time in his usual eloquent strain, and concluded by saying that !?oon would be heard throughout the land that harbinger song " The union of lake*, the union of lands. The union of States none can server; * 1 ~c ?>?' han.la Xn? union <u uuuu , ?.?- .. , Aud the flag of onr union forever and ever." A "War Incidz:ct. ?A correspondent of th" Bloomington Puntagraph relates art amusing incident which he states took place at the capture of Little Lock, Arkansas : 11A Confederate surgeon, by the name of Crosdell, got beastly drunk, took a room at a city hotel, a'id went to sleop. In the meantime, our j men drove the rebels through the town in complete rout, aud took possession of the place. ' Several of our officers put up at the same hotel. ! After a while the Surgeon awoke from his slum-1 Lers, and came down stairs and stood in front ofj the hotel. " Come," says ho to the officers, "let's go out to camp." . Want camp ?" say one officer. Dobbins, of; ours \ I " What command do you belong to? " says rel>! to G.n. Steel:. The latter OTcpliiuc!. I ? Well." snvs the surgeon, "it beats Rip Van j Winkle that a man cannot go to sleep in the j Confederate Suites without waking up in the ( I'nited State:;!" Since then he lias taken the oath anil gone to St, Louis, and thinks A S. A., a poor government lor a sleepy man?or auy other mau. ?The difference between perseverance and i . obstinacy : the first is a strong icill, tlxe other is j a strong wo'i't C.\m> ox Folly Islaxd, ) Xovenfbc-r 21th, 1SG3. [ i JI a. Eniroa :?We are the weekly recipients of i your, to us Army boys, welcome, and truly sol- j diers paper ; but never yet have I noticed a mention of our church, perhaps some would think it strance for us to ao to work, and build a church the first thing after corning on the sandy Island of Follv, but nevertheless soon after we came here : i one was commenced under the charge of the | efficient Chaplain of the ?th N. Y. Y0I3. It is now completed ; it is about sixty feet long and 1 forty wide, with seats of split Palmetto logs with | backs to them, it is covered with old condemned tents. In fact it is a model church for soldiers, i and considering the circumstances, the country, etc., it is very good. As to tho Divine service, j we have a meeting every Sunday at 10 o'clock ; A. M., also a Bible class at 1 P. 51. Prayer j meeting on Sunday evenings, and on different evenings through tho week. The sermons are ! generally preached by the Chaplain of the ?th N. Y. Vols., he is a good man and a thorough Christian?he puts in his time well, visiting i through men's tents of his own Regiment and : others, going to the Hospital and doing what he ! can far the poor sick and wounded soldier. We j have an excellent choir composed of a few ofh-1 cers aud men of the?th N. Y., and ?th Ind. Vols. The health of the troops on the Island is good better than it was during the hot weather. But these cold nights take the inen down a little. But do not allow me to intrude, and take up too much room in your paper. I am yours truly, TYFO. A Soldier, Cleap. Through.?The New York Journal says that the remarks which we print below were the actual expressions of a non-commissioned officer in a New York artillery regiment, who is now at homo on a twenty days' furlough, given him for good conduct and bravery. This man, who is something better than the loafer" which he calls himself, was started upon this odd train of explanation by the entrance into the room of a black poodle " There's a French poodle. I know it is. I used to be in the fancy dog business myself, before I went to soldierng. Did I find soldiering pay better ? Yes I did! I always spend all I can get I can't help it You see I'm a loafer, I am. I get my little seventeen dollars a month for the little place I have in the battery, and I spend it all, and 1 fight for my country. Heie in New York I used to get more money, but I spent it all, and it didn't tlo me any more good than what I get now. Ar.d then I know, all the time I am doing my country's work. You see there are soldiers and there'sogers!' I'm a soldier, clear through. "We have lost two battosies since this war began, and I have been all through the fighting from the first. Y>'e came out of one fight with seven men, and out of another with five. I was one of those seven men, and I was one of those fivo. It seems strange to me that while I saw men laid out all around me, who had wives and mothers and babies, I shouldn't be hit I am a loafer, I am, I haven't got a mother, or a wife, or I or a baby, or a sister, or a brother. But they ! spared me, and killed hundreds of men who had lots of folks to mourn for them. I wish, sometimes, that I could have been laid out in the place of any of those poor fetlows. Nobody would cry for me, but there would have been some honor in dying for my country. I am going back in a few days, and if I shouid get an arm or a leg shot off, I should have to coinc back to New York and beg \ for my living. I hope if they hit me they will i kill me. I am ready to die, any day, for my: country." The IaoN-CiAr> Dictator.?The New York ruJ lt^piiixucm ui lut; n u.muvv.i\i.v a wi na, iuua i writes of the new Monitor D'wUttor: " At these works was built the immense iron-' clad tnrretecl ship Dictator, which is now ready i to be launched. This ship is the most powerful ; yet constructed on the Monitor plan ; and to say ' that she is "a Triton among the minows" of onr i iron-clad fleet, will not express an idea of her ! gigantic size or destructive agency. She is built1 entirely of iron except her deck, which is solid oak, twenty-three inches thick, and double plated with iron. Her length is three hundred and | thirty-seven feet; beam fifly feet, while her engines are fice thousand horse pouter ! More beantifnl mechanism than her engines hits never been placed in an ocean steamer. The Dictator varies materially from tho Moni tors lirst built, inasmuch as she is designed lor ocean navigation ; anil having been constructed under the immediate supervision of Capt. Ericsson, he claims that she will possess great superiority ns a nautical craft. She is intended also for " a ram," and both bow and stern are "filled in " with twenty-two feet of solid timber. Iler "beak" is fourteen feet long, made of iron plates twenty-four inches thick (covering timber) and is as sharp as a carpenter's chisel. Of course the would cut in twain any ordinary man-of-war if she struck her fairly and amidships. The armor of the Dictator, to all parts exposed to shot, is eleven inches in thickness, and of the toughest plate iron. She has but one turret, twenty-four feet in diameter, sixteen inches in thickness?iron of course. The turret is the most vulnerable part of a Monitor ; and in I)u Font's attack on the rebel forts in Charleston harbor, in April last, tho chief injury sustained by his fleet of iron-clad* was in their turrets. They were only half the strength and thickness of tho Dictators turret t consequently no danger is apprehended on that point in this monarch of turreted ships." ADVERTISEMENTS. 9 pHOTOUttAl'Iia: ? SAM. A. COOLEY is now prepared to take PHOTOGRAPHS, CARTE DE VISITEfl, MELAINOTYPES, Ac. Ac., at hLs establishment's Beaufort, S. C., near the Arsenal, and on Folly Island, S. C., near Headquarters. Places same as in New York for same class of work. Nov. 7-lw IRA C. FEATHE R,? Military and Naval Photographic Gallery, 19 1-2 Sutler'# Itow, Port Royal, S. C. Aug. 12, tf. XTETALLIC COFFINS, for sale by .LTJL c. n,ueiA? sttu, No. 4, Sutler's Hovr Dr. W. M. WALSH, Office No. 13, Sutler's Row. A full supply of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines. August 29, 1803.-tf TUST^RECEIVED AT THE NEW STORE, UNION U Square, next to tlie Post Office a large lot of Atatitauu?, Books, &c., in part as follows : Army Regulations, 186U. . Yielle's Hand Book. Webb's Pay Digest. | Monroe Comp. Drilh Ordronaux Hints, j Schalk's Campaigns, " Manual. " Art of War. Gillmore's Limes, Ac. 1 Taubert's Field Artillery. Quartermaster's ManuaL i Halleck's Art and Science. Benet's Court MartiaL , Estvan's War Pictures. Casey's Tactics. 3 vols. ; Szabads Modern War. Barra du Parcq. i Coppe's Battalliori Drill, Cullura's Military Bridges. ] Instructions Field Artillery, Barrett's Naval Gunnery. Company Clerk. Tnltnna Vav*il Tprt Rnrtlr filiotildfr StP:it?s_ a Vav*1 Roberts Hand Book. Scotts Military Dictionary. Levy's Rules kc. Ruling Pens. Pocket Albums. Bivouac of tho Battle field, Neck Ties, life on a Georgia P antatk n Handkerchics, hemmed. Webster Dictionary. Currency Holders. Social condition cf the Em Mathematical instruments. glish people. Ink, black, red, carmine, Ac. 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For reconnoitering t^e position of the enemy, night movements, Ac., where a light dare not be used without running the greatest danger, they are invaluable. TTro.l Kr Mninr MpPI*?llan Honker Rtipnitd*. Hunter, Pope; Major Meyers, Chief of Signal Department, and others. Every Officer and Soldier should have one. Fbivk : *4, $3. $2 50, $2, und $1 25. For sale by JOSEPTT H REAR*. ITIHE OEX. M'CLELLAN HEADQUARTERS.? I 5 ' No. 3, Eiist Houston St, (one door East of Broadway) 5. Y. (Above the St Nicholas Hotel.) Headquarters in Sew York, of the Olficert of Hilton Head. Ale, Wines, Brandies, Whisky and Segare, of the choicest character. The current ariny intelligence, Ac. N ear all the places of public amusements, and the most popular place in the citv of military resort. COL. J AS. L. FR47.ER, (late 47th Regt) Ang. 23 tf Manager.