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.
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pHOTOUttAl'Iia: ?
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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.
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Dr. W. M. WALSH, Office No. 13, Sutler's Row. A full
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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.
'Pens, steel and gold in great variety,
Blank books, in great variety,
Wafers, sealing wax, law seals, Ac-,
Mucilage, court plaster, lemon acid, Ac.,
Penknives, pocket books, purses,
DAiiHVkliAa liill IvinVa pt/L
Pencils, cjayons, etc., of various colors
Lava, boxwood matchsafes, tobacco boxes, bags, Ac.,
Novels, song-books, hand books of various kinds and
most oftho late publications of the day.
Maps of Cha rlcstou harbor and vicinity, and of Savan*
nah river
ALSO, a tine lot of Military books of late issues? the
best selection ever brought here.
pipes, briarwood, china, gutta percba, Meerschaum.
Together with a new stock of stationer}-, Ac.
Photographs printed expressly for us by Anthony oi
Maj. Generals Giilniore, Strong, Hunter, and Mi cheil.
JOSEPH H. SEABS.
UNITED STATES ARMY AND NAVY NIGHT COMPASSes.
Patented May 6th, 1862. Tlie advantages of these
Compasses over all others in use are, that they can be read
distinctly at night, without the aid of an artificial light.
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
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ITIHE OEX. M'CLELLAN HEADQUARTERS.?
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(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.