mitted to a vote of the people, and Mr. Strunk, sup-| posing that he would be permitted to vote as he pleased, when he gave his name at the election poll, and was asked how he intended to vote, replied for the Union. Squire McClung, who was one of the commissioners to receive the votes, remarked that it was the first Union vote polled that day. As he said this, Wm. Howard, a violent secessionist, seized Mr. Strunk by the throat, dragged him some distance to a bank six feet high, over which he was thrown. With the assistance of others, Howard then dragged him to a pond, into which they threw him. He crawled out, and was pushed back two or three times. Howard drew a pistol from his pocket, and would have shot Mr. Strunk, but for the interference of a person in the crowd. It was finally proposed that he should have three hours in which to leave the place, and he did leave within the specified time, abandoning all his property but such small articles as he was able to sell to the neighbors, who sympathized with him. One of them loaned him money, to enable him to reach Washington, which he did by the way of the Manassas Gap and Fairfax Court-House.-N. Y. Times, June 9.

COL. ELLSWORTH'S LAST SPEECH.- C6 Boys, no doubt you felt surprised on hearing my orders to be in readiness at a moment's notice, but I will explain all as far as I am allowed. Yesterday forenoon I understood that a movement was to be made against Alexandria. Of course, I was on the qui vive. I went to see Gen. Mansfield, the commander at Washington, and told him that I would consider it as a personal affront if he would not allow us to have the right of the line, which is our due, as the first volunteer regiment sworn in for the war. All that I can tell you is to prepare yourselves for a nice little sail, and, at the end of it, a skirmish. Go to your tents, lie down and take your rest till two o'clock, when the boat will arrive, and we go forward to victory or death. When we reach the place of destination, act as men; do nothing to shame the regiment; show the enemy that you are men, as well as soldiers, and that you will treat them with kindness until they force you to use violence. I want to kill them with kindness. Go to your tents and do as I tell you."

FUGITIVE SLAVES.-From the census returns of 1850 and 1860, it appears that the number of slaves that have escaped from each of the Southern States during the last twenty years is as follows:

Alabama
Arkansas

Delaware.

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

Louisiana.

A LITTLE girl, recognizing the uniform of a Massachusetts soldier, at Baltimore, on Sunday, ran up to him, slipped a rose into his hand, and was out of sight before he had a chance to thank her.-N. Y. Sun, June 7.

IN Vicksburg, Mississippi, the ladies are opposed to the "Home Guard" business, and can't see any bravery in the young men who prefer home duty to service in the field. The following is a copy of one of their bulletins :

"To ARMS! TO ARMS!-There will be a meeting of the young ladies of Warren county, to be held at Bovina on Thursday, 18th inst., for the purpose of forming themselves into a Home Guard, for the protection of those young men who will not volunteer for the country's cause. A LADY." -N. Y. Sunday Mercury, June 18.

CLEVELAND, O., June 14.-The train from Cincinnati yesterday afternoon brought a family who had been driven out of the South on account of their Northern birth. The family consisted of a mother and three little children. The woman, who told her story in a straightforward manner, without any attempt to obtain charity by its means, stated that her name was Phebe Drew, that she was originally from Maine, but that for the last four or five years she had lived with her husband, who was also from Maine, in Dallas co., Southern Arkansas, near the post village of Fairview. They had a farm, and kept a lumber yard. Since the troubles broke out that part of ArKansas has been in a most lawless condition. Union men were hung, shot, or cut down wherever found. Within three weeks eight men had been shot for expressing Union sentiments in that neighborhood, and two of them were Methodist preachers. About three weeks ago her husband was threatened with death

on account of his Northern birth and known Union sentiments. He fled in the night, intending, if pos sible, to make his way to Maine, and directing her to settle up affairs and follow as soon as it could be safely done. Since then she has heard nothing of him, and is ignorant of his fate.

As soon as her husband fled, the secessionists seized the lumber yard and all the available property connected with it. A few days since they again visited her, and stole her cow, entered the house and carried off every thing in it-even to the meal, bread, molasses, and bacon-leaving not a mouthful of bread for herself and three little children. They then ordered her to leave the State forthwith. Hastily gathering up the few effects left her into four boxes, 28 she hired a conveyance to take her partly on her 12 way. The thieving scoundrels stole the largest of 11 the boxes, saying that three trunks were enough for a woman to travel with.

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When she started she had $20 in her pocket. After many hardships, insults, and dangers, she 115 reached the free States. During her passage through the South she found no one to give her the slightest 99 assistance. Once in the free States, she found no difficulty in obtaining a passage towards her home.

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When she arrived here she was wretchedly clad, and her children were barefooted. They wore the 16 same clothes in which they had set out from home, 117 which were those they wore when the secessionists broke in upon them. She had only $2 to take her to 803 Maine, and provide for the children and herself on 1,814 the way. Supt. Nottingham gave her passes on the

of men from the North, who have made their homes in this city, are true to the South, there is no doubt; but there are others whom it will not do to trust.

Lake Shore Railroad, and some of the railroad officers | leave this city as soon as possible. That a number gave her an addition to her slender stock of funds. The poor woman was deeply grateful, though she besitated about taking assistance in money, and her manner was convincing proof that she was no beggar, imposing on the credulity of the public. No one could look on the poor little group of exiles, so shamefully treated by their former neighbors, without cursing the heartless wretches who thus waged a merciless war upon the helpless women and children. -Cleveland Herald, June 14.

They are men who, notwithstanding they have made all they are worth from Southern patronage, are recreant to the South, and in her hour of peril will prove themselves traitors. Those men must be compelled to leave here. We do not counsel force for this purpose, unless a refusal is given to comply with such a demand.

Let the proprietors of business houses, machine, IN Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, a captain who is carpenter, and cabinet shops, foundries, printingalso a Methodist preacher, arose and began to exhort offices, paint and tailor shops, hotel and boarding the men, stating that this war was one of right, and houses, report immediately the names of all those if God was not in it, he, for one, would have nothing who they know cannot be trusted as friends to the to do with it. Then, exclaiming with great vehe- South. It is important that this be done the secumence, "If God is with us, who can be against us?"rity of our property and the safety of our families "Jeff. Davis and the devil!" cried a "wild cat boy." demand it. Our gallant sons, who are anxious to The service closed hastily. march wherever the service of the South requires them, wish to carry with them the consoling thought that they have not left behind them the lurking enemy, who, while lingering around their homes and firesides, would incite our negroes to insurrection, and bring the worst calamities upon our wives, our mothers, and our daughters.

A LETTER from Fortress Monroe in the New York Commercial Advertiser, says :

The steamship Cambridge, just in from Boston, has brought not only a supply of munitions of war, but an abundance of intellectual weapons. The Massachusetts boys are in high glee with their letters, books, and papers. Col. Woodruff, of the popular and well-drilled Third regiment Massachusetts volunteers, showed me at his quarters his full files of Atlantics, Harpers, North Americans, and Blackwoods. This is the way the Old Bay State invades the Old Dominion.-Boston Transcript, June 8.

TRUE MEN OF THE SOUTH TO THE RESCUE.

Whereas, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Northern States, has seen fit to make a call upon the States of the Union for 75,000 men, for the declared purpose of subjugating the States of the Southern Confederacy, and make them subservient to his will; and whereas such a call is repugnant to the feelings of the people of the border States, and must, therefore, be treated with contempt. And whereas, also, the Republicans of the North are heaping insult and injury upon friends of the South in their midst, and have forced them to leave their homes in the North in consequence thereof;

We, loyal citizens of the South, who have pledged our lives, our property, and our sacred honors, in support of the Government of the Confederate States, deem it incumbent upon us to urge immediate arming of all our able-bodied men who are willing to resist the cohorts of the North; we also urge all friends of the South to be vigilant, and use their utmost efforts to preserve the honor and integrity of our United South. Our safety requires that those living in our midst, who do not wish to abandon their allegiance to Lincoln's Government, who are in favor of negro equality and the degradation of the white race, should

"Those who are not for us are against us." Let every citizen remember that “Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."

of the election was by writing the name of each voter, The process of marking the Union men on the day as it was entered upon the poll book, upon the back of the ticket, with the corresponding number entered on both; so that, after the vote was counted, the Union tickets could easily be selected, and the voters attended to. This design was known before the elec tion, and, of course, deterred Union men from voting at all, or compelled them to vote for secession.

A CHEMICAL Correspondent of the N. O. Crescent gives that paper the following etymological analysis, and, as it is altogether too rich to be lost, we give it a place here. Davis" is the Gallic orthography for David, which signifies "well-beloved; " and his reputation maintains its original signification as a great leader of an oppressed people, who are freeing themselves of the tyrant's yoke. "Lincoln," authentically traced to its origin, is found to be a compound word in the Celtic tongue, lin and coln. "Lin" means a pool, mire, morass, marsh, mud. "Coln" is a contraction of colon, which in this connection signifies an inhabitant of a colony. Therefore Lincoln originally signified the inhabitant of a mud colony, which, modernized, may be the same as a mud-sucker. This probably accounts for his not being very clear.—N. Y. Express, June 18.

THE war occasions many ludicrous incidents. It is stated that Mary W. Dennis, six feet two inches high, is first lieutenant of the Stillwater company, Minnesota regiment. She baffled even the inspection of the surgeon of the regiment in discovering her sex, but was recognized by a St. Paul printer, who became shockingly frightened at her threats of vengeance upon him if he exposed her, and he decamped.

Among the women who marched in procession with the Garibaldi Guard, in New York, the other day, were several volunteers as washerwomen, who evidently do not believe in the old saying that every man should be his own washerwoman.

The Mobile Advertiser defends the offer of a pre- | compel savage warfare. The North can make it mium or bounty of $25, made by the Confederate either. Let them now decide.—N. Y. Commercial, Government, for every prisoner captured and deliv- June 20. ered to the authorities by the privateers. The object of the proclamation, it insists, is "that an influence may be exerted to render the prosecution of privateer warfare as bloodless as possible, by offering an inducement for checking the conflicts on the sea at the earliest stages of the actions when victory is secure-to induce care for the wounded and other prisoners, that they may be brought alive and safe to a port where a live prisoner is worth $25 to his captors."

A secessionist proposes through the Mobile Register to raze Fort Pickens with red pepper. He would mix red pepper and veratria with the powder in the shells, and make the garrison cough themselves out of the fort. The morals of the people down there must be improving, for it was only last week a correspondent of a Mobile paper proposed to poison our men. They like any way, it seems, better than fighting. The correspondent of the Register ought to be banished to Cayenne.-Boston Transcript, June 1.

DR. SMYTH, a prominent scholar of South Carolina, inquires in a pamphlet, "What is the difficulty and what the remedy? Not in the election of Republican Presidents. No. Not in the non-execution of the Fugitive Bill. No. But it lies back of all these. It is found in that Atheistic Red Republican doctrine of the Declaration of Independence! Until that is trampled under foot, there can be no peace !"-Idem.

A MEMBER of the Seventh regiment, in a letter to his father, writes: "I heard a good anecdote of Gen. Scott yesterday. He was asked what he intended to do with Jefferson Davis. In answer, he merely put up his open hand, and gradually closed his fingers, till his hand was clenched. He could not have given a more expressive answer."-Idem.

THE Charleston Mercury makes these remarks on the capture of the privateer Savannah :

The loss of the schooner in times like these would scarcely call for a moment's consideration. But the circumstances are such as to render the fact one of grave import-perchance the results may be still graver. With the insane and blood-thirsty spirit ruling the Government of the North, there are probabilities that the crew of the Savannah will be executed. The United States Government has said it-the popular clamor has approved the bloody declaration. Will their bloated vanity and malice give way to the milder voice of national law-of reason and discretion? Will they not go on in their mad pathway of violence and lawlessness? Their course, up to this time, has been uniform. Will they at this day pay regard to reason, justice, or law? If they do not, what then?

AN INTERESTING INCIDENT.-At Boston, a fugitive slave, arrived from Baltimore, (via U. G. R. R.,) was passing through the Doric Hall, at the State House, when he recognized one of the soldiers wounded on the 10th of April at that city, and at once accosted him, inquiring after his health, and asked him if he did not know him. The soldier did not at first remember his face, when the fugitive asked him if he did not remember a colored man bringing him water to drink, and rags to bind up his wounds, while he lay wounded in the street. He replied that he did, and at once recognized his Good Samaritan in the person of the fugitive. The peculiar circumstances of the case made the interview deeply touching. Without revealing facts which might do more harm than good, we will simply add that the fugitive has a wife and two children, and when the Massachusetts soldiers fell wounded in the streets of Baltimore, the fugitive's wife tore up her clothes to make rags to stanch the flow of blood. These rags she threw out of the window in her master's house, when her husband gathered them up and carried them to the wounded soldier.—Boston Pine and Palm.

AN INCIDENT.-The Cleveland Plaindealer tells

the following incident, which recently transpired in the Kentucky Legislature:

At

A venerable farmer from a neighboring county, one of that kind for whom Kentucky has an instinctive veneration, appeared in the Legislative Hall, uncovered his snowy locks, and sat down. the first lull in the debate he rose slowly and said he had a word to say, but was aware it was out of order for him to speak before the Legislature while in ses. sion. His dignified and venerable appearance arrested attention, and "Go on," "Go on," from several voices, seemed to keep him on his feet. Again expressing his diffidence at speaking out of propriety

"Hear! hear!!" resounded generally over the room. The members' curiosity as well as,respect for the appearance and manner of the man was up, and silence followed the "Hear! hear!!" when the old hero delivered the following eloquent but laconic speech:

"Gentlemen: I am delegated by my county to inform you, that if you hold a secret Session here, as you threaten to do, not one stone of this Capitol will rest upon another twenty-four hours after. Good day!" and he left.

CAPTURE OF MISSOURI SECESSIONISTS.

CAIRO, June 11.-Yesterday an old farmer from Rush Ridge, named J. G. Long, and a citizen named Kelton, who had been driven out by the secessionists, gave information that there were two armed If the hair of the head of a single man of this crew companies of secessionists formed to be taken into is injured, South Carolina will demand that the out- the command of Watkins, one of Claib. Jackson's rage be atoned for-an eye for an eye-a tooth for a brigadier-generals, who were driving out and threattooth-a life for a life. Aye! and she will have it—ening all Union men there. After they had driven no more and no less; on the battle-field and after the battle. Let one of these, her citizens commissioned in her cause, perish as a pirate, and woe to the enemy who falls into our hands! Humanity and justice, no less than the cause itself, will compel to prompt and ample retribution; and the sooner this is under- Gen. Prentiss detailed Capt. Hassfurther's comstood, the better for all parties to the war. Civilized pany to capture them. Having surrounded the dwellwarfare will be met in kind; savage warfare willing, they captured eighteen of the gang, who were

Mr. Long and family out, he sent an agent to take care of his farm, but they would not permit him even that privilege. His daughter, in passing by one of these companies, was fired at by a volley designed to frighten her horse and throw her off.