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The following eloqnent strain is from a speech bv Gen. John Corn sane, at the Brooklyn Academy of ilusic : ? " Speaking of those incontinent vicissitudes of I atmospheric pressure reminded liim of a singular < scene that might now be transpiring in another j xvv,.*^o?.r> nnrk t fliint t see the nurties passing: with sombre and lowering brows, looking at each : other. Upon yonder lines, at Windsor Puss, Yal- 1 liindigham and his friend Horatio--(Applause and , liisses)?I think I hear, said the speaker, the sympathizing hiss, the metallic sparkle, the burnished ; copper of some grovelling reptile that would seek i1 a warmer climate. Grovel and sputter and hiss ': in your prostrate, grovelling condition! The ani-! laal cannot be changed, however this country may i advance to victory and a restored Union. (Ap- j plause) I see the friend of Horatio grasping his cloak about him to screen him 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?Vallandigham? his friend Horatio, and the officer, Marcellus Wood, that occupied upon a dreary night a - - - - * -x fen ^ brief hoar npon tne peace pjauunn at m^uui . (Hisses and applause.) It was cold to them, but , hissing hot to the gentlemen present., who were writhing in their sms. Hamlet Vali axdigham?The air bites shrewdly; it is Tory cold. Horatio?It is indeed an unhappy and an eager air. Hamlet?What hour, now ? Horatio?Mcthinks it lacks "of twelve. Marckllcs Wood?No, it has struck. Horatio?Indeed! I heard it not. Heard it not, Horatio ? Heard you not Rhode % Island, one? two, Vermont? three, Massachusetts? four, New Hampshire? five, Maine? six, California? seven, Wisconsin? eight, Illinois? nine, Pennsylvania? ten, Ohio? eleven, Maryland, and New York, twelve? (Uproarious applause,) which lasted for some time, the audience rising to their feet and cheering en imsse.) And there struck the last syllable of recorded time If, Horatio, your articular nerve was dead to that a he the dull, cold ear of death with which ^ lb Uluov w , you are struck. Tha dead heard it, looked up und wondered at the miracle. The living heard it and rejoiced, and as our army stood shoulder to shoulder in the front, the people were standing shoulder to shoulder in the rear. (H's^es were heard from a few in the audience.) He who would hiss, replied General Cochrane, when your country is threatened, would laugh like h\-enas at the funeral of your ancestors, and would gloat over the corps of your mother. He had no terms too severe for that rascal rebel rout. They who stood manfully in arms for the Union, believed their cause to be right, however wrong it may be, but manhood was no attribute of theirs? ttio conoerbeads. It was the fiat of the Almighty j " li that he who was adicted to treason should for the | remainder of his life eat dirt. (Hisses.) Aye. j you have it. (The speaker addressing himself to i 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 pioceeded for some time in his usual eloquent strt in. and concluded bv saying that soon would be hoard throughout the land that harbinger song: ? " flic uni?u of lake*, the union of lands, Thr* union of States none can server; w j The union of hearts, the union of hands. And the flag of our union forever and ever." A "War In'CIDEXT.?A correspondent of the Bloomington Pantajraph relates an amnsing in* ' ' 1 "' 'no !><? enntnrs eident wnicii ne suut-i ?,??.!* .... ..... ^..x of Little Roe!*, Arkansas : " A Confederate surgeon, bv the name of Cros- j ddll, got beastly drunk, took a room at a rity 1 hotel, and went to sleep. In the meantime, our i men drove the rebels through the town in com- j plete rout, and took possession of the* place, i Several of our officers put up r.t the same hotel, j After a while the Surgeon awoke from his slum-1 hers, and came down stairs and stood in front of1 the hotel. .. /? o hn tn the officers. " let's 20 out i " lAJJUir, ..v - , to camp." '* What camp ?" sty one officer, Dobbins, ofi eours \ " What command do yon talong to*? " says rcb j to Gen. Steele. The latter explniue 1. "Well." says the snrgeon, "it beats Itip Vuu , Winklo that a man cannot go to sleep in the ] Confederate States without waking up in the j United Statej!" Since then he has taken the oath and gone to St. Louis, and thinks C. S. A., at poor government lor a sleepy man?or any other man. ?Tho difference between perseverance and obstinacy : the first is a strong trill, the other is j a strong f'Vj'k Camp ox Folly Islaxd, > November 24th, 1863. f i Mb. Editok : ?We are the weekly recipients of | rour, to us Army boys, welcome, and truly sol- J tiers naoer : but never yet have I noticed a men i A ' ? tion of our church, perhaps some would think it strange for us to go to work, and build a church j the first thing after coining on the sandy Island of Folly, but nevertheless soon after we came here one was commenced under the charge of the efficient Chaplain of the ?th N. Y. Vols. It is now completed ; it is about sixty feet long and forty wide, with seats of split Palmetto logs with j backs to them, it is covered with old condemned ! tents. In fact it is a model church for soldiers, j and considering the circumstances, the country, j etc., it is very good. As to the Divine service,, we have a meeting every Sunday at 10 o'clock ; A. M., also a Bible class at 1 P. M. Prayer J meeting on Sunday evenings, and on different evenings through the week. The sermons are ! generally preached by the Chaplain of the ?th *- ,r 1 1 ' - - ' ? '1 n tlinvnnnll IS. 1. Vols., ne is u guuu unuj nun <? u1U1\/uqu | Christian?he puts in his time well, visiting | through men's tents of his own Regiment and | others, going to the Hospital and doing what he i can for the poor sick and wounded soldier. We have an excellent choir composed of a few offi-1 cers and 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 men down a little. J But do not allow me to intrude, and hike up too much room in your paper. -I am yours truly, TYPO. A Soldier, Clear Through.- -The New York Journal ?uyg that the remarks whi;h we print below were the actual expressions Qf ft non-commissioned officer in a New York artillery regiment, who is now at home 011 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:? .44 There's a Trench poocuc. 1 Know 11 is. i used to be in the fancy d?>g 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. Here in New York I used to get more money, but I spent it all, and it didn't do me any more good, than what I get now. And then I know, all the time I am doing my country's work. Y'ou see there are soldiers and there'sogers!' I'm a soldier, clear il 1. uiruugii. "We have lost two battesies since this war began. and I have been all through the fighting from the first We 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 five. It seems strange tq^ me that while 1 saw men laid out all around me, who had wives and mothers end babies, I shouldn't be hit I am a loafer,. 1 am, I haven't got a mother, or a wife, or or a baby, or a sister, or a brother. But they spared me, and killed hundreds of men who lnul 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 fellows. 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 should get an arm or a leg shot off, I should have to com 2 back to New York and beg for my living. I hope if they hit me they will kill me. I am ready to die, any day, for my country." The Iron-Clad Dictator-?The New York correspondent of the AYoonsocket Patriot, thus writes of the new Monitor Dictator: 44 At these works was bnilt the immense ironclad turreted ship Dictator, which is now ready to be launched. This ship is the most powerful yet constructed on the Monitor plan ; .and to say that she is 4*a Triton among the minows" of our iron-clad fleet, will not express an idea of her gigantic size or destructive agency. She is built 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 fifty feet, while her engines are /iff thousand horse poiccr! More beautiful mechanism than her engines has never been placed in an ocean steamer. The Dictator varies materially from the Monitors first built, inasmuch as she is designed for ocean navigation ; and having been constructed under the immediate supervision of Capt. Ericsson, he claims that she will possess great superiority as a nautical craft. She is intended also for " a ram," and both bow and stem are "filled in " with twenty-two feet of solid timber. Her "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 she would cut iu twain any ordinary man-of-war if * * v C i 1 rro * sue strucn ner iairiy ana anuosuips. .me mwur "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 timet is the most vulnerable part of a Monitor ; and in Du Font's attack on the rebel forts in Charleston harbor, in April last, tho chief injury sustained by his fleet of iron-elada was in their turrets. They were only half the strength and thickness of the Dictators turret ; consequently no danger is apprehended on that point in this monarch of turreted ships." ADVERTISEMENTS. pHOTOGRAPHS:? ~~7 SAM. A. COO LET is now prepared to take PHOTOGRAPHS, CARTE DF. VISITES. MELAINOTYPES. ic. 4e.. at his establishment's Beaufort, 8. C., near the Arsenal, an*) on Folly Island, S. C., near Headquarters. Prices same as in New York for same class of work. ' Nov. 7-4w IRA C. FEATHE R,? Military and Naval Photographic Gallery, 19 1-2 Sutler's Row, Port Royal, S. C. ! Aug. 12, tf. Metallic coffins, for sale by C. AV\ Dennis 4c Co., No. 4, Sutler's lfowr ! TM? TV u W1TJJH Office So. 13. Sutler's Row. A full JJ supply of Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines. August 20, l8C3.-tf TUST RECEIVED AT THE NEW STORE, L'.NJON J Square, next to the Post Office a large lot of Maticmary, Books, Sc., in part as follows : Army Regulations, 1863. , Vielle's Hand Book. Webb's Pay Digest. ! Monroe Comp. Drill. Ordronaux Hints, ; Sehalk's Campaigns, " Manual. " Art of War. Gillmore's Limes, Ac. Taubert's Field Artillery. Quartermaster's Manual, i Hr.lleck's Art and Science. Benet's Court MartiaL , Estvan's War Pictures. Casey's Tactics. 3 vols. ! Szabads Modern War. Barra du Parcq. \ Coppe's Battallion Drill. Cullum's Military Bridges, i Instructions Field Artillery, l ti.wcb ftnnnprv. I Comnauv Clerk. IWJiVlfc o . I ? r Tottens Naval Text Book. . Shoulder Straps, aXoveL Roberts Hand Book. Scotts Military Dictionary. Levy's Rules Ac. [ Rtiling Pens. Pocket Albums. 1 Bivouac of the Battle field. Neck Ties, I Life on a Georgia P aataticn Handkerchies, hemmed. Webster Dictionary. Currency Holders. Social condition of the En? Mathematical instruments. glish people. Ink, black, red, carmine, &c, i Pens, steel and gold in great variety, j Blank books, in great variety, Wafers, sealing wax, law seals, kc-, Mucilage, court plaster, lemon acid, ko., Penknives, pocket books, purses, Portfolios, bill books, etc. ! Pencils, cjayous. etc., of various colors 1 Lava, boxwood matchsafes, tobacco boxes, bags, kc.. Novels, song-book s, hand books of varioua kinds and most ofthe lato publications of the day. Maps of Clia rleston harbor and vicinity, and of Saxon* uah river ALSO, a fine lot of Military books of late issues? tho best selection ever brought here. Pipes, briarwood, china, gutta pereha, Meerschaum. ' Together with a new stock of Stationery, kc. Photographs printed expressly for us by Anthony oi Maj. Generals Gillniore, Strong, Hunter, and Mi chelL JOSEPH H. SEARS. UN ITED .STATES ARMY AND NAVY NIGHT COMPASSes. Patented May Gth, 18G2. The advantages of these Compasses over all others in use are, that they canht read distinctly at night, without the aid of an artificial light For reconnoitering the position of the enemy, night movements, kc., where a light dare not be used without ! running the greatest danger, they are invaluable. ' Used by Major Generals McClellau, Hooker, Burnside, Hunter, Pope; Major Meyers, Chief of Signal Department ; and others. Every Officer and Soldier should hare one. P/U' X : *6, >4, $3, $2 50, $2, and *1 25. -For sale by { JOSEPH H. REARS, j IJIEK GEN. M'CLELLAN HEADQUARTER#.? I No. 3, East Houston St, ('one door East of Broadway) N. Y. (Above the St Nicholas Hotel.) Headquarters in Xae York, rf the OjKcers of Hilton Head. Ale, Wines, Brandies, Whisky and Segars, of the choicest 1 character. The current army intelligence, Ac. Near all j the places of public amusements, and the most popular ! place in the city of military resort. COL. JAS. L. ERAZEB, (late 47th Regt.) Aug. M- tf Manager. J