“ Ah ! Time, tell it not that onk freeman forgot, 
For a (lay, or an hour, the past's mighty story; 
Ne'er impart 
That a hand 
Or a heart 
In the land 
Ever shrouded a star in her azure of glory ! 
For the land now awakes, 
From her seas to her lakes, 
To hail the bright mom of her might as it breaks, 
And shout, by the banner that Treason forsakes— 
‘The Union—Now and Forever!’ ” 
ROCHESTER, N. Y,, MARCII 22, 1862. 
THE WAR’S PROGRESS. 
facts, scenes, incidents, etc. 
Picketing nnd its Duties.—No. II. 
NO FlRES PERMITTED TUE PICKETS. —About the 
first of November General McClellan issued an 
order prohibiting the pickets from having fires on 
their posts, for the avowed reason that the light 
pointed out the position of onr pickets and forces to 
the rebels. Dire were the condemnations this order 
received on the advance posts, from the amateur 
destroyers of Virginia woods and fences, and it is to 
be suspected that it was more generally honored in 
the breach than in the observance. Unless the 
officer in command of the picket detachment should 
remain up all night, and go around the posts every 
half hour and put out the fires himself, the pickets 
can see no good reason why they should not have 
them. Soldiers are essentially independent in their 
ideas. “ You can’t go out of camp without a pass,” 
said a sentry to one in the writer’s hearing. “ But 
you see that 1 can, though,” was the pleasant 
rejoinder, and the soldier passed ou. 
A Cold Prospect* —As we stand on the post we 
have supposed ourselves, reader and writer, to bo 
visiting, at midnight, on this cold winter night, it is 
to be confessed that the prospect of the picket is not 
remarkably brilliant and attractive. If be bad a fire 
at the cabin, or in any sheltered nook in the vicinity, 
he would hardly dare avail himself of its warmth; 
for has he not been warned that the enemy’s prowl¬ 
ing cavalry are liable to visit him at any moment? 
He has nothing to do but to pace to and fro, and 
keep bimselt warm as he can by his own resources, 
and at the same lime keep a good lookout in every 
direction. If the cold mist should chance to turn 
into a colder sleety rain, so much the worso for him; 
but he must still keep his eyes and ears open, and 
perform his allotted share of the night’s work. 
Were it not for those stout gloves some kind 
friend has sent, him in a Christmas box, it is a ques¬ 
tion if his hands would not be so cold that he would 
be unable, in case of sudden attack, to hold his gun. 
to the shoulder and pull the trigger. Ills feet, as 
stout as are bis boots, fairly ache with the cold, and 
he is compelled to cut sundry capers in behalf of his 
hall-frozen members, which are more violent than 
elegant. 
The Dignity of the Sentinel.— But, for all 
that, be on your guard against undervaluing the 
dignity of a picket or any other sentry, whatever; 
lor he not only has a legal power of life and death, 
but the cold instrument in his hands with which to 
put that power into practice. It General McClellan, 
or Abraham Lincoln himself, were to endeavor to 
pass that picket without the countersign; or if those 
distinguished geutlcmen were to refuse to halt at 
that picket’s command, then their blood would be 
upon their own heads if he shot them on the spot. 
In^his particular province the picket is as uutooratio 
as the Czar himself. If lie chooses to pass a colored 
vender ol biscuits, or a ‘‘friend” who presents him 
with a bottle of old “rye” in lieu of the counter¬ 
sign, who shall gainsay his wisdom? Or, if he 
chooses not to let his own Colonel pass when he 
does not have the magic word, as it sometimes hap¬ 
pens; and if, peradventure, he shall keep that 
Colonel shivering at the point of the bayonet for an 
hour or two, under pretence of not knowing him, 
albeit he knoweth him as well as lie knoweth his 
own father, verily, in even this case, is the sentry 
not refuged within the limits of his just and legal 
power? 
“Grand Rounds. ” — At the dead of night, 
in the “ small hours, ” it is customary for the 
officer in charge of the pickets to make a tour 
of observation among them, to see that every¬ 
thing is going on as it should. On these occa¬ 
sions, us in regular camp duty, the escort of the 
officer is a file of men and a sergeant. No sooner 
does the party approach to within a few rods of the 
sentinel, than he challenges them:—“Who goes 
there?”—bringing his piece to a port. The answer 
is, “Grand Rounds!" “Halt, Grand Rounds!” is 
the peremptory commaud of the picket, and the 
party halts, when he adds:—“Advance, sergeant, 
and give the countersign.” The sergeant advances, 
and as soon as he is within five paces the picket 
brings Ilia piece to the position of charge bayonet, 
and the sergeant whispers the word as he halts im¬ 
mediately in front of the weapon. The sentry then 
says: — “The countersign is correct — advance, 
Roundel” and faces to the front, shouldering his 
piece, while the Rounds pass on. In the immediate 
presence of the enemy this ceremonious inspection 
is usually omitted. The countersign is sometimes 
the name of a State, running through from Maine to 
California, and sometimes the name of a battle, as 
“Palo Alto,” or “Waterloo,” or of a number, as 
twenty or forty-two. 
The Monitor and tho Merrimac. 
It is evident that an entire revolution has been 
begun in the construction of naval vessels. The 
havocmade at Hampton Roads by therebel iron-clad 
steamer Merrimac, (an account of which was given 
in the last Rural,) and the defeat of the rebel 
bully by tho Monitor, together with the repoitsof 
the board of officers, who examined the latter after 
the contest, have had such an effect upon Congress 
as to authorize that body to vote fifteen million 
dollars for the construction of iron-floating bat¬ 
teries. Iron monsters will soon displace the “wooden 
walls” which have been our pride, and this fact 
justifies us in placing before our readers an en¬ 
graving of the vessel which oainc so opportunely 
to the Federal aid. We also publish a description 
of the Monitor and her antagonist, as given in the 
N. Y. Tribune, The hand-railing represented in 
our engraving is a pleasant fiction of the artist, the 
deck being free and clean. 
The Monitor.— Under the act of Congress, pass¬ 
ed last summer, appropriating the $1,500,000 for iron 
clad vessels for the Navy, Captain J. Ericsson, the 
worUl-renowned inventor of the caloric engine, pre¬ 
sented proposals for a battery, to lie launched within 
one hundred working days from the date of the con¬ 
tract, tho impregnability of which should be tested 
before tbo heaviest guns of the enemy, and at the 
shortest range. The con tract was signed in October, 
and on the one-hundred-and-first working day there¬ 
after the Monitor was launched from the Continental 
Iron Works at Greenpoint., N. Y. 
Externally she presents to the fire of the enemy’s 
guns a hull rising but about eighteen inches above 
the water, and a sort of Mnrtello tower, twenty feet 
in diameter, and ten feet high. The smoke-stack 
during action is lowered into the hold, it being made 
with telescopic Blides. The hull is sharp at both 
ends, the bow projecting and coming to a point at an 
angle of eighty degrees to the vertical line. It is 
flat-bottomed, six and a half feet in depth, one hun¬ 
dred and twenty-four feet long, thirty-four feet wido 
at the top, and is built of light three-eighths inch iron. 
Another, or upper hull, rests on this with perpen¬ 
dicular sides and sharp ends, five feet high, forty feet 
four inches wide, one hundred and seventy-four leet 
long, extending over the sides of the. lower hull three 
feet seven inches, and over each end twenty-live 
leet, thus serving as a protection to the propeller, 
judder, and anchor. The sides of the upper hull 
are composed of an intier guard of iron, a wall cd 
white oak thirty inches thick, covered with iron 
armor six inches thick. 
When in readiness for action, the lower hull is 
totally immersed, and the upper one is sunk three 
feet six inches, leaving only eighteen inches above 
water. The interior is open to the bottom like a sloop, 
the deck, which is bomb-proof, corning flush with the 
top of the upper hull. No railingor bulwark of any 
kind appears above the deck, and tho only things 
exposed are the turret or citadel, the wheel house, 
and the box crowning the smoke stack. The 
inclination of the lower hull is such that a ball to 
strike it in any part must phss through at least 
twenty-live leet of water, and then strike au inclined 
iron surface at au angle of about ten degrees. In 
the event of an enemy boarding the battery they 
can do no harm, as the only entrance is at the top 
of the turret or citadel, which cannot easily be 
scaled, and even then only one man at a time can 
descend into the hull. 
This turret is a revolving, bomb-proof fort, and 
mounts two 11-inch guns. It is protected by eight 
thicknesses of ioch iron, overlapping so that at no 
one spot is there more than one inch thickness of 
joint. A shcll-proot fiat roof of perforated plate 
iron, placed on forged beams, inserted six inches 
down the cylinder, covers the top. The eliding 
hatch in this cover is perforated to give light, and 
lor musketry fire in ease the battery is boarded. A 
spur-wheel, six and a lmlf inches in diameter, 
moved by a double cylinder engine, turns the turret, 
guns and all, a rod connected with the running gear 
of the engine enabling tho gunner to control tho 
aim. The guns move in forged iron slides across 
the turret, the carriages being made to lit them 
accurately. 
These guns were furnished with 400 wrought-iron 
shot by the Novelty Works, each ball weighing 184 
pounds, and costing $47. The balls were made by 
forging square blocks of iron, which were afterward 
turned in the lathe. Cast iron shot would break 
against such a vessel as the Merrimac, and these 
shot were lorged tor tlje especial purpose of smash¬ 
ing through her sides, Lieut. Worden intended, in 
case tin; Merrimac did not coine out, to go into Nor¬ 
folk liarbor and lay his vessel alongside of her there. 
She has saved him that trouble. 
The officers of the Monitor are as follows: Lieut.- 
Com’d'g, John S. Worden; Lieut, and Executive 
Officer, S. D. Green; Acting Masters, L. N. Stodder 
and J. W. Webber; Acting Assistant Paymaster, 
William F, Keeler; Acting Assistant Surgeon, D. 
C. Logue; First Assistant Engineer, Isaac Newton; 
Second Assistant, Albert B. Campbell; Third 
Assistant, R. W. Sands and M. T. Sunstron; Acting 
Master’s Mate, George Frodorickson. 
TnE Merrimac. — Tho Merrimac was originally 
one of the five war steamers authorized to be con¬ 
structed by Congress during the session of 1844-5. 
They were to be first class steam sloops-ot-war, and 
were built as follows: Tho Merrimac at Charleston; 
Wabash, Com. Dupont’s flag ship, which did good 
service at Port Royal, at Philadelphia; the Minne¬ 
sota at Washington; the Roanoke at Norfolk, and 
the Niagara at Brooklyn. The Minnesota and the 
Roanoke were lying in Hampton Roads. These 
five vessels were equal to any steam war vessels in 
the world, except iron-clad vessels. The spar deck 
of the Merrimac was 281 feet long, and 52 feel broad 
in her original condition, and she drew 23 feet of 
water. Sho rated about 4,000 tuns burden. Her 
frame was of live oak, filled in solid, and caulked 
14 feet out from the kelson. Forward the ship had 
10 live oak breast-hooks, fastened through and 
through with copper under tho water and iron 
above; aft she had seven breast-hooks. 
The engine was of 800 horse-power, with a two- 
bladed propeller 14 feet in diameter, so fitted as to 
be raised to the deck and lowered to its beaming at 
pleasure, enabling tho vessel to be used with or 
without her steam power. She rated as a 40-gun 
frigate, but could carry as much metal as a !)0-gun 
ship of tho old style. She carried 24 9-inch shell 
guns, and 14 8-inch shell guns, with two pivot guns 
of 6 tuns, each throwing 100-pound shells, mounted 
fore and aft. 
The Merrimac was first of the five to be completed. 
THE IRON-CLAD FEDERAL FATERY “MONITOR." 
being launched in 1856. She wai soon afler put in 
commission, and continued in the serviceuntil April, 
1861, when she was lying at the Norfolk Navy Yard, 
in need ol'someslight repairs. But for the imbecility 
of those in charge, she might have been removed 
before the rebellion actually broke out in Norfolk. 
Under tho management ot Com. Macauley, how¬ 
ever, she and the sbip-ofithft-lino Pennsylvania 
were scuttled and sunk, while at the same time the 
Navy Yard and its 2.500 cannon were abandoned to 
the rebels. 
Since then the Merrimac has been raised, placed 
upon tbo dry dock, and covered with an entire 
slanting roof of railroad iron, This additional 
weight nearly broke her down upon the dry dock, 
and they found almost as much difficulty iu launch¬ 
ing her as was found in launching the Great East¬ 
ern, Owing to a mistake in calculation, on being 
launched she was found to sink four feet deeper than 
before, so as to take in water She was again taken 
out, being hogged in the operation and otherwise so 
strained that the Southern newspapers pronounced 
her a failure, and it is more than probable that with 
no opposition she would never dare go to sea. She 
is probably a very good movable floating battery. 
Above the water'sedge she is said to present nothing 
buther roof of railroad iron, with a smoko stack 
rising a few feet above it* From the accounts which 
we have of the fight, hep rate of speed is very mod¬ 
erate. She mounted 10 100-pound Armstrong guns, 
which art; reported to havo mashed through iron 
mail as thick as that of the Warrior and Black 
Prince, but which do not appear to have made any 
impression on the Monitor. 
CoInmbinS Roll of Honor. 
Frederick W. Lander was born in Massachu¬ 
setts, and was by profession an engineer. In 1848-9 
he surveyed the great wagon-road to California, and 
soon after his return was brought prominently 
before the public as the second of the Hon. John F. 
Potter, when he was challenged by that pink of 
Virginia chivalry, Roger A. Pryor. By his judi¬ 
cious management of that case, lip. enabled Mr. Pot¬ 
ter to vindicate tho representatives ol tho North 
against the braggarts of tho South. When l’ryor 
declined to tight Potter with bowie-knives. Lander 
politely offered to espouse the cause of his princi¬ 
pal, and give the Virginian tho choice of any wea¬ 
pon he pleased, but Pryor discreetly declined. 
That affair put a stop to the insolence of the chivalry 
in the United States House of Representatives lor 
some time, and taught them to mend their planta¬ 
tion manners. 
When the Southern rebellion broke out, General, 
then Oolonel Lander, threw himself into the strug¬ 
gle in behalf of the Union, and was detailed in 
Western-Virginia, under Gen. McClellan. There 
he participated with Gol. Kelly in the attack upon 
Phillippi, on the 3d of June, and distinguished him¬ 
self throughout that brilliant campaign, which cul¬ 
minated in the victories of Rich Mountain, Laurel 
Hill and Garrick’s Ford. For Ids part in that cam¬ 
paign, the President made him a Brigadier in July 
last 
General Lander received his death wound at 
Edwards' Ferry, where so many of his comrades 
from Massachusetts also mot' their fate. The day 
after the butchery of Colonel Baker, Lander was 
ordered to the scene of action, and while conduct¬ 
ing a reconnoisance, received a painful wound in 
his leg. From tbo debilitating effects of that wound, 
aggravated, no doubt, by his herculean efforts to free 
bis department of the rebels, he never recovered. 
It will be remembered that this faithful officer, 
conscious that he needed repose, after his late bril¬ 
liant victory, asked to be relieved from duty; but 
the exigencies of the service were such that he did 
not press his request. True to his trust, he remained 
at his post to the last, and died like a soldier, wiLh 
his harness on his back. It is probable that he was 
not himself aware of his extreme danger, for we 
learn that it was not till five o’clock in the afternoon 
be died that his wile was summoned to his side. 
Ere a special train could be prepared for her, tho 
news of his decease was received. 
General Lander was a fVank, bold, open-hearted 
man, of noble and generous nature, and command¬ 
ing presence. He looked the soldier, every inch of 
him, and scorned to ask his men to go -where he 
himself would not cheerfully lead the way. They 
knew this, and loved him as a brother. 
Col. Charles L. Russell, of the Connecticut 
Tenth, who was killed at tho bead of his regiment, 
while gallantly leading in the. assault upon the rebel 
works at Roanoke Island, was born at Northlield, 
Conn., in 1828, and consequently was but 33 years 
of age at the time of his death. The greater part 
of his life was passed in New Haven county, where 
ho was engaged as a master-mechanic. He was 
fond of military pursuits, and served for fourteen 
years in the militia service of his native State. He 
served in the three months troops in the Second 
Regiment Connecticut Militia, as Adjutant. He 
was present at the battle of Manassas, where the 
regiment was attached to the brigade commanded 
by Col. Keyes, now Brigadier-General of Volun¬ 
teers. Col. Russell is honorably mentioned in the 
report of the battle, made by his commanding offi¬ 
cer. When the Connecticut Tenth was organized, 
last summer, he was appointed Colonel. life regi¬ 
ment passed through New York iu November, ou 
its way to the scat of war, and consisted of a fine, 
athletic looking set of fellows. For its excellent 
qualities, it was detailed to serve on the Burnside 
Expedition, and in the first battle its gallant Colo¬ 
nel has fallen—where so many of our bravest offi¬ 
cers fall—at the head of his regiment. 
Lie.ut.-Col. Viunier de Montikl.— This officer 
was killed in tho battle of Roanoke Island. He was 
a French gentleman, who rose from the ranks in the 
French army to the position of Lieutenant of artil¬ 
lery; and served with distinction for some years in 
the service of the present Emperor. Resigning his 
commission, he came to this country several years 
ago, and until the present rebellion, was engaged in 
New York as a teacher of the French language and 
literature, with great suocess and popularity. When 
the D’Epinenil Zouave3 was formed, De Montiel 
accepted the Lieub-Colonelcy, and the regiment 
was mpeh indebted to him for its organization and 
discipline. In the lata engagement at Roanoke 
Island he was present as a volunteer, Ida regiment 
being at Annapolis. In social life, De Montiel was 
a polished and courteous gentleman, high-toned and 
chivalric, and many friends will mourn his loss. 
Lieut. Samuel Maroy, U. S. N., was the son of 
Hon. William L. Marcy, and his services and death 
have a peculiar interest, therefore, for the citizens of 
this State. Tie entered the navy in March, 1838, and 
in the course of twenty-four years’service had been 
but eighteen months on leave of absence. He had 
spent over fourteen years at sea, of the twenty-four. 
He was known ia the navy as a most skillful and 
trusty officer, and as an evidence of the estimation 
in which he was held by his superior officers, says 
the Buffalo Courier, we may mention that he was 
one of the officers selected for the expedition to 
carry provisions to Major Anderson in Fort Sum¬ 
ter, and to him was assigned the command of the 
launch which was intended to lead the other boats, 
and protect them from assault. The bombardment 
of Sumter prevented the attempt to provision it, 
in which, it is probable, almost every man in the 
boats would have met his death. This was the 
opinion of those who were detailed to carry it out. 
They felt that they were a forlorn hope, and w r e 
have reason to know that Lieut. Marcy prepared 
himself for this service with the same trust anil con¬ 
fidence in the kind care of Providence which he 
carried with him in every peril and under all cir¬ 
cumstances. 
He wa9 born on July 4th, 1820, and died in the 
service of his countiy on January 29th, 1862. A 
letter from Mr. William Wilson, acting gunner of 
the United States ship Vincennes, addressed to 
Capt. Craven, of the Brooklyn, tells the story of his 
death as follows: 
“ At about four o’clock on Friday morning last, 
23d January, the lookout reported a light, which 
soon proved to be a vessel on fire, apparently in the 
South or Southeast Pass of the Mississippi river. 
We were then lying off the Northeast Pass. After 
daylight, Captain Marcy ordered out and armed the 
boats. I went in the launch, Capt. Marcy in the 
gig. We found the vessel to bo a barkentine, loaded 
with cotton, which appeared to have grounded off’ 
Southeast Pass while attempting to run the block¬ 
ade, and the crow, not being able to get her off, had 
fired and abandoned her. Capt. Marcy directed me 
to tiro the howitzer into her at the water-line, to sink 
tier and put out the tire. 1 had fired once, and was 
ready for the second shot, when Capt. Marcy ordered 
me to wait till he came aboard; he took the lock¬ 
string and tired seven times, on the lost of which 
the bolt which secures the first pivot-clamp to the 
stern, being insufficiently clinched, pulled out as 
tho gun recoiled on tho slide, and fell, jamming tho 
Captain’s thigh between it and the thwart. He was 
calm and cool, seemed aware he was badly injured, 
and gave directious to be takea aboard in his gig.” 
Tho Town of Columbus, Kentucky. 
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune thus 
tells how Columbus looked before and after the 
evacuation: 
“ Columbus is situated [upon a narrow neck of 
land running south from tho base of a bluff of steep 
ascent and some ninety feet in altitude above the 
present water marks. Upon this bluff the rebel 
batteries were located. The town is simply a heter¬ 
ogeneous collection of mongrel wooden tenements, 
most of which were at one time devoted to bowling, 
billiard and bibalory purposes. One brick residence 
lays some well-defined claims to architectural pre¬ 
tentions and finish. One lawyer’s shingle decorates 
a side wall, and one church lilts its meek wooden 
turret to the sky, some distance above it. A dilapi¬ 
dated depot — fort Colli inbus, insignilicaut as it is, 
established an imaginary claim to commercial im¬ 
portance in being the terminus of the Mobile and 
Ohio railroad—two or three grocery stores and as 
many insignificant taverns, a post-office combining 
fluid with its postal arrangements, the whole backed 
by swamps, fronted by the river and hemmed in 
with bluffs, make the town. Everything bore the 
marks ot desertion aud destruction. The houses 
were closed and the inmates gone. 
“ The stores had been ransacked and the contents 
scattered through the streets. Molasses, flour, gro¬ 
ceries, letters, candle boxes, playing cards, whisky 
bottles, house furniture, and other articles, ad inji- 
nitum, littered the sidewalks. A contraband, mount¬ 
ed upon a forlorn and mud-bedaubed mule, and a 
butternut legged saloon-keeper bestraddling a dirty 
counter, whose glories had departed down secession 
throats, were the only signs of male life in the town. 
!■] very woman had departed. Every dog, hog, and 
other animal adjunct of civilization had followed 
Rev. Gen. Polk and his forces. The sand bagged 
levee was covered with gun carriages, caissons, tor¬ 
pedoes, shell, shot, chains and anchors. The torpe¬ 
does which were generously intended to blow Com¬ 
modore Foote’s fleet heavenward, were constructed 
in the shape of a skyrocket, and would prove about 
as effective for the purpose as one of tho latter sky- 
pieioing institutions. Large quantities of coal were 
piled upon the landing, which will come in excellent 
use tor our gunboats and transports. Ordnauce was 
scattered in every direction, much of which, from 
appearances, had but recently arrived. All of the 
gun carriages wore of Memphis manufacture, aud 
were addressed to Gen. Polk.” 
The same correspondent also gives some special 
reminiscences of the rebel Generals. He says: 
“ About the only souvenirsjot the camp life of the 
rebels and their theological progress under the tui¬ 
tion of their reverend general, were countless packs 
of playing cards, and shattered fragments of whis¬ 
key bottles, which were strewn all over the Jbrtili- 
cations, sandwiched into the pyramids of grane, and 
scattered down the slope of the bluff Nothing of 
any value in the line of camp furniture, small arms, 
or private property, was lelt; whatever could not be 
carried off was burned. 
“ One article, too bulky to carry aw r ay and imper¬ 
vious to fire, was Pillow’s $40,000 chain, with which 
that sago warrior proposed to obstruct the navigar 
tion of the river. One end is firmly anchored iu the 
bluff and thence dangles its ponderous links to the 
river below, a harmless monument to the child-like 
simplicity and imaginative ideality of the great con¬ 
structor of ditches.” 
Extracts from the Southern Prees. 
The Richmond Dispatch calls attention to mys¬ 
terious writings on the wall, indicating that Union 
conspirators are at work. Among these writings 
are the following: 
“ATTENTION! UNION MEN!” " 
“ WATCH AND WAIT.” 
! “THE UNION FOE EVE Hr j 
“the day is dawning.” 
• ‘'TTIE HOUR OF DELIVERANCE APPROACHES." : 
It was Ihesesignificantannouncements that caused 
the arrest of John Minor Botts, and twenty other 
suspected citizens of wealth, character, and position, 
and the proclamation of martial law. 
The beauty and efficiency of the rebel plan for 
i raising volunteers is shadowed forth in the follow¬ 
ing from the Richmond Dispatch —“ Read all the 
calls for recruits in our advertising columns, and 
voluntarily take your place in one of the many 
companies which need you, before you are forced to 
bear arms nolens volens. 
A Jocular Prediction Verified.— The Rich¬ 
mond Enquirer has the following in connection with 
the Roanoke Island affair:—“An authentic anecdote 
of Major Hugh W. Fry has reached us, and is so 
thoroughly characteristic ot the man, that wo can 
not forbear giving it publicity. During the heat of 
the conflict, Major Fry, with a battalion of infantry, 
was conveyed to the island to re-enforce its defend¬ 
ers. Upon debarking from the steamer upon Roan¬ 
oke, Major Fry jocularly exclaimed:—‘All passen¬ 
gers for Fort Warren will please take the coaches 
on the left hand side.” The sally provoked a 
general outburst of laughter, but within two hours 
afterwards the joke was proven to have been pro¬ 
phetic; the jocose major and his companions were 
all ticketed for Fort Warren.” 
McClellan’s Generalship. — The Memphis 
Avalanche -says that the indications seem to be that 
Gen. McClellan is Bliowing himself capable of vast 
combinations, and to have the power possessed bj 
few—the skillful management of a vast army. It is 
useless to delude or cheat ourselves. We have a 
powerful enemy to meet—great in numbers, with 
selected and brave and experienced commanders. 
McClellan has been purifyiog the command—dis¬ 
missing weak and incompetent men—and now he 
has a well appointed command; his soldiers well 
drilled, brave and gallant. We must put forth our 
best men, and quickly. Wo must put the right men 
in the right place. 
Rather Bitter.— The Richmond Whig of the 
21st nit., (the day before the inauguration of Jeff. 
Davis,) contains a very caustic article upon the 
rebel administration. We quote as follows: 
“Judging by result, so far it is a most lamentable 
failure in history, and suggests to the reflecting mind 
that the most signal service that that government 
can now render to the country, is the surrender of 
the helm to abler and better bands, in view of the 
paBt, present and the probable future. Thepegeantof 
to-morrow is a bitter mockery and a miserable com¬ 
pensation for the ruin of a free people. A child 
with abanble and an old man with a young wife are 
partial illustrations of the. deplorable folly.” 
Lamentations op the Duped.— The Richmond 
Examiner of the 15th ult., contaios an “editorial 
leader” which commences with the following words: 
“ From the valiant Senator down to the timid seam¬ 
stress, the question on every tongue in Richmond 
is, whether the enemy are likely to penetrate, with 
their gunboats, to this quarter?” 
As in Richmond so also in Memphis. Hear the 
Argus of the same date: 
“ We spoke and speak of the ill-conducting of this 
war, which has now taken from our home some 
three or four hundred thousand of our best and 
bravest, which has paralyzed all business, save that 
which puts the money we can so ill spare into the 
pockets of the creatures of said President and Cab¬ 
inet. Of this war we spoke when we said so much 
might have been done in it that has been left un¬ 
done. Those at the head of affairs were leaders to 
the war. We ask how they are leading through 
it ?' 
Or take the following jeremiad from the same 
number of the same paper: 
“ We have been made to stand still and take such 
cuffs and kicks as the Northerner chooses to give, 
when he pleased and where he pleased. We have 
heard our Generals blamed for not doing what it 
appears they were not permitted to do. The 
smothered report of Beauregard has made that 
truth clear enough. We have for mouths and 
months been told that England would do our 
fighting for us on tho seas.” 
And the Memphis Appeal is equally despondent 
with the Argus. The former says: 
“ The blockade is unbreakable by us yet. In one 
word, we’re hemmed in. We’ve allowed the mo¬ 
ment of victory to pass. Day follows day, and in 
lieu of being weakened, we find that the federal 
armies at all points are being strengthened, almost 
every article of manufacturing and domestic neces¬ 
sity quarupled in price, and our money will soon 
lie exceeding scarce for Tack of paper and paste¬ 
board wherewith to make it.” 
Terrible State of Affairs in Richmond.— 
The Richmond Examiner of the 6th iust, speaks 
thus concerning the condition of the morals in the 
rebel capital: 
“The rowdyism now rife iu this city has become 
intolerable, and demands immediate suppression 
with the high hand. Acts of brutal violence, vulgar 
ruffianism and gross indecency are of momentary 
occurrence in our streets. The most orderly citizen 
and tho most delicate lady are exposed to outrage 
and insult. No man's life, even, is secure in broad 
daylight on our most public thoroughfares. To sur¬ 
round, knockdown, bruise and maltreat, has become 
the pastime of the ruffians that throng our pave¬ 
ments. The evil must be suppressed, or else society 
must surrender its authority to brute violence. We 
must disorganize the social system, resolve ourselves 
into savages, and prepare for protection by the most 
effective weapons of self-defense, or elso wo must 
assert the power of the law upon the persons of the 
ruffians and vagabonds that infest our streets and 
alleys. 
* * * “More vigilance should be required of 
the police, and a larger constabulary employed. 
Every street corner should be manned by a police¬ 
man in uniform, armed to the teeth, whistle in hand, 
prepared to rally a dozen colleagues in the instant 
