llenoe conquest of other States are wholly incon¬ 
sistent with the fundamental principles and subver¬ 
sive of the very organization of this government. 
Its policy cannot but be peace — peace with all 
nations and people. 
Very respectfully, 
Jefferson Davis. 
To Messrs. McKaig, Yellott, and Harding, Committee 
of the Maryland Legislature. 
between the James and York rivers, as a basis of 
land operations, it is of the first importance to the 
success of the movements that neither troops nor 
batteries should be left in their rear, and nothing 
now appears more probable than that the futile efforts 
to destroy the Sewell Point battery will very soon he 
followed by a most determined and combined attack 
by land and water. If n movement upon Richmond, 
or an attack upon Norfolk and Portsmouth, be not 
intended at an curly day, wliat can the rapid concen¬ 
tration of troops and munitions of war at Fortress 
Monroe, OU1 Point, mean? Three thousand men 
could defend that fortification for an indefinite period 
against almost any force not assisted by a navy, but 
at the rate troops are now arriving there they will 
soon have twelve or fifteen thousand, provided, I 
with everything necessary for field service. 
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The Lutes! from Bcnuregurd. 
Beauregard's Impudence. —The Richmond En¬ 
quirer contains the following proclamation from 
Gen. Beauregard: 
Head quarters, Drp't ok Alexandria,? 
Camp Pickens, Juno 1. J 
A Proclamation — To the people of the counties 
of Loudon, Fair fee, and Prince TIT Hiatus. 
A reckless and unprincipled tyrant has invaded 
your soil. Abraham Lincoln, regardless of all moral, 
legal, and constitutional restraint, has thrown ins 
Abolition hosts among you, who are murdering and 
imprisoning your citizens, confiscating and destroy- 
inn; vour property, committing other net* or 
violence and outrage too sbockiug and rotoltlngto 
humanity to bo enumerated. 
All rules of civilized warfare arc abandoned, and 
tbev proclaim by their acts, il not on their banners, 
that their war cry is “Beauty and Booty." All that 
is dear to man your honor and that of your wives 
CHORUS—Tenor. 
suppose, 
Grafton.—Secessionists turning Union Men. 
Wr published an account of the occupation of 
Grafton, by Ohio troops, under the command of Col. 
Kelley, in the Rural of the 8th inst., and now extract 
from the Cincinnati Gazette a description of the city 
and vicinity: 
Grafton, which is now the point of so much interest 
throughout this section of Virginia, contains ordi¬ 
narily about 1,000 souls. It is as scattering and 
irregular as it well could be without a good deal of 
ingenuity. The principal portion of the town lies 
Base. 
junction with it,) there being some tew Houses across 
Three Fork, and a few more over the river. There 
are some four or five hotels iti the place, and about 
as many stores. There are two or throe churches, 
one printing office, and these together comprise about 
all the public buildings in the city of Grafton, for it 
has a city government, if nothing more. 
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have several 
buildings, among them a large engine house, and ft 
still larger machine shop. Indeed, the distinguish¬ 
ing ancl only feature of this town Ih that it is ft rail¬ 
road town. It was created hy railroad enterprise, 
built by railroad money, and inhabited, for the most 
part, by railroad men, who are, at the same time, 
Union men of the true blue and unconditional stamp. 
Their voto on the ordinance proves this beyond cavil, 
there being nearly three hundred Union to one seces¬ 
sion vote. 1 saw the man to-day who cast that vote, 
and lie looks as though he wouldn’t do it again if he 
had it to do over. Many of the houses are now 
vacant here, the owners having gone off during Bill 
The Wheeling hoys are 
WORDS BY FRANCIS 8. KEY. 
And where is that hand who so Tauntingly swore 
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion 
A home and a country should leave us no more? 
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. 
No refuge could save the hireling and slave 
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave? 
And the Star-spangled Banner In triumph doth wave 
O'er the land of the Free and the home of the Brave! 
O! thus be it ever when Freemen shall stand 
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation; 
Blest with victory and peace, mav the heaven rescued land 
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation 
Then conquer we mast, when our cause it is just, 
In God is our trust! 
O Say, can you see by the dawn s early lignt, 
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, 
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thro’ the perilous fight. 
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming, 
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting In air, 
Gave proof through the night that, our flag was still there — 
O say, does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave 
O’er the land of the Free and the borne or the Brave? 
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep. 
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, 
What is that which the breeze o*er the towering sleep, 
Ah it fitfully blows, hair conceals, half discloses 9 
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, 
In full glory reflected now slimes on the stream — 
Tis the Star spangled Banner, O! long may it, wave 
O’er the land of the Free and the home of the Brave! 
And this be our motto 
And the Star-spnng!ed Banner in triumph shall wave 
O'er the land of the Free and the home of the Brave! 
who may have felt disposed to attempt a repetition of 
the same exercise. Alas, poor Ellsworth! your cause 
was unjust, and your death dishonorable as it was 
merited. 
The New ^Orleans Delta remarks:—Tims far the 
Northern horde have lost two of their most renowned 
Colonels, before they have encountered any armed 
force of the South, Ellsworth, an upstart Bumnier- 
sautt-turner, who carried a strolling company of so- 
called Zouaves about the country last summer, 
exhibiting their feats of grand and lofty tumbling at 
25 cents admission, children and negroes half price, 
has suffered the penalty of an act of audacity and 
Thompson’s reign of terror, 
quarted in some of them for thp present. Doubtless 
the fugitives will return, now that Uncle Bam is here 
to protect them. * * * * When the Baltimore 
and Ohio Railroad was projected, nine years ago, or 
oven at the time the N. W. Va. Railroad was bogqn, 
four years later, the ground on which this town now 
stands, was ti primeval forest, with hut a single log 
hut and a small opening around it. The junction of 
the two roads at this point was what created Grafton, 
and what at the. same time killed up Fetterman, a 
couple of miles below; which place was becmolng a 
considerable railroad town, and which, even in its de¬ 
clining days, has had the renown of quartering the 
first Confederate army in this part of the State—and 
veTy likely the last one. There is a small suspension 
bridge here over Three Fork, ftml a very line railroad 
bridge across the Tygart’s Valley, ou the N. W. Va. 
Railroad. It is a matter of surprise that this was not 
destroyed by the retreating malcontents on their way 
to the mountains of Hepsidam. Nothing could have 
been easier, and the loss would have been very great. 
But the sconndrels were so frightened, that they 
didn’t think of anything but putting distance between 
them and Col. Kelley’s command. 
The Western Virginian, which was compelled to 
succumb, bocauso of its Union sentiments, for one 
week, is out again to-day, in full blast. Long may it 
Yvavu. 
Several prisoners have been brought in to day, and 
many secessionists have come in voluntarily, and 
given themselves up. They have all been treated 
courteously, and released where there were no specific 
charges against them. Some half dozen prisoners 
“ Forever float that standard sheet — 
YVhere breathes the foe hut falls before uh 
YVith Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 
And Freedom’s banner streaming o’er us.’ 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 29, 1861 
FACTS, SOKNKS, INCIDENTS, KTC 
Extracts from the Southern Press. 
Trouble in the Rebel Ranks. —Onr readers will 
remember the brilliant charge of U. S. cavalry at. 
Fairfax Court House, Va., chronicled in the Rural 
of the 8th inst. This feat of the Federal boyB has put 
the Charleston Mercury in a rage, and it boils over 
thus: 
“The retreat of two companies of Virginia cavalry 
before the advance of a single company of United 
States troopers, withont even crossing swords with 
them, is almost incredible neYV*. We do not know 
what to make of it. Is the thing possible? It is 
said, in extenuatiou of this apparently dastardly con 
duct, that one company of the Virginia cavalry were 
without pistoLs. But what a vain and empty excuse! 
What. Is the use of pistols in a sabre, light? Thu 
sabre, not the pistol, is the weapon for a charge of 
cavalry upon cavalry. Still further, it is stated that 
the other company of Virginians had pistols. They 
were two to one against the United States troops, and 
backed, besides, by a company of riflemen. Good 
God! is this the sort of fighting Southern troops 
intend to make? Why, with their riflemen, and two 
sabres to one, they ought to have cut up the Lin- 
colnites to a man, and pursued the last man into the 
very encampment of the enemy. Is the banner of the 
Old Dominion to be thus trailed in the dnst? Oh! for 
an hour of old Light Horse Harry once more to wield 
his daring, dashing blade. Unless Our meagre 
accounts from the Richmond papers are strangely 
incorrect, the epaulettes should lie torn from the 
shoulders of the officers who have thus stained the 
honor of their State, and a court martial should 
sever the ties which bimi nor u> me union, auu of¬ 
fends the Administration against tbo charges of in¬ 
tended subjugation of the Sooth and outrage upon 
ita people. He traces the rise and progress of the 
rebellion, and demonstrates that the rebels have in¬ 
sulted the Government, stolen Federal property, and 
committed enormities without number, and that their 
object iB the permanent dismemberment of the Con¬ 
federacy. We would be glad to give this letter 
entire, knowing that the sentiments therein expressed 
find an echo in every Northern heart, but want of 
space permits only the publication of a small portion. 
Mr. Holt takes occasion to defend the character of 
the Federal troops from the nnjust asirersious which 
have been cast upon them. He says: 
The Federal Tr001‘8 and their Mission. -When 
an insurrection was apprehended a few weeks since 
in Maryland, the Massachusetts regiment at onoe 
ottered their services to suppress it. These volun¬ 
teers have been denounced by the press of the South 
as “knaves and vagrants,” “the dregs and offscour- 
ing of the populace,” who would “ rather filch a 
handkerchief than fight an enemy in mauly coinbat;” 
yet we know here that their discipline and bearing 
are most admirable, and I presume it may he safely 
affirmed that a larger amount of social position, cul¬ 
ture, fortune, and elevation of character has never 
been found in so large an army In any age or country. 
If they go to the South, it will be ns friends aud 
protectors, to relieve the L nion sentiment of the 
seceded States from the cruel domination by which 
it is oppressed and silenced, to unfurl the Stars and 
and Incidents. Ill. Document*!, etc. New x orn. w. r. 
Putnam. 
Seven numbers of this Diary have been issued, aud the in¬ 
terest iD the work has not been allowed to dag, Among other 
matters presented in the issue before us, is a full and graphic 
account of the great Union meeting in New York, together 
with the addresses made ujion that occasion ; the burning of 
Gosport Navy Yard ; capture of the Star of the YVest; Gov. 
Curtin's Proclamation, etc., etc Seven pages of Northern 
and Southern Poetry, called forth amid the excitement of the 
times, and the usual amount of “Humor and Incidents" 
closes the number. Those who, when the battle of the Union 
has been fought and won, would like to possess a book of 
reference, or general reading, will do well to procure the 
“ Record.” For sale by Dewey. 
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.— The June number 
of this standard magazine is before us, and to say that it is 
fully up to Sts predecessors is all-sufficient. The present 
issue closes its eighty ninth volume, and those who desire 
monthly visits from this able representative of the Tory party 
of Great Britain, will have uo more favorable opportunity lor 
making the necessary arrangements than is now offered. 
The North British Review 
Free Church is ail that could be desired, 
tains eleven articles, as follows 
upon this subject may save much trouble m tin- 
future. 
Exultxno Over Ellsworth’s Death.— If more 
evidence was needed to convince us that the men of 
the South have been transformed into a set of crazy 
semi-barbarians, the fiendish exultations of the lehel 
newspapers over the atrocious assassination of the 
gallant young Colonel Ellsworth would be sufficient. 
For example, here is what the Memphis Argus says: 
A Humbug "Wiped Out," —“Colonel” Ellsworth, 
the pretty Zouave, whose grand flourish about ;i year 
ago with a company of Chicago loafers achieved for 
him considerable notoriety, is now reckoned among 
the things that were. The “ Colonel,” at the head of 
-This able exponent of the 
Its last issue con- 
Presenl Movement in the 
Church of England ; Alexis de Tocqueville ; Tlie Poems aud 
Plays of Robert Browning Bishop Herd and his Contempo¬ 
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Berkeley’s idealism ,* Dr. John Brown's Horse Subseeivm ; The 
Educational Question in Scotland ; The Christian Architecture 
of Europe ; The American Secession. The last named Essay 
is of peculiar iuteiestto American readers. 
London Quarterly r.EviKW.— For some reason—it would 
be diflicut to tell what, when so much, both interesting and 
valuable literary and scientific matter is spread before the 
public in each of the Reviews—this Quarterly has always been 
an especial favorite. The last number (closing Volume LV.) 
gives us nine articles lor perusal and study, viz. 'The Ptarls 
and Mock Pearls of History ; Euphuism ; Lord Duudouald ; 
Spiritual Destitution in the Metropolis ; German, Flemish, 
and Dutch Art; African Discovery ; Lord Stanhope’s Life of 
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cere and earnest desire tor peace, auu <ouwiu» 
government would readily entertain any proposition 
from tire Government of tlie United States, tending 
to a peaceful solution of the present difficulties, the 
recent attempts of this government to enter into ne¬ 
gotiations with that of the United States were 
attended with results which forbid any renewal of 
proposals from it to that government.. 
If uny further assurance of the desire of this gov 
eminent for peace were necessary, it would be suffi¬ 
cient to observe that being tuiined of a Confedera¬ 
tion of sovereign States, each acting and deciding 
for itself, the right of every other sovereign State to 
assume self-action and self-government is necessarily 
acknowledged. 
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