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thing norn- soner im to .shed, o the ant at re the rovin- , and )on at isoner le pri 3, but in d in he de nice. e last Bank, 2 5a., Evan ;ution, iat he a point appeal sever ,roft. nit an r could Din be ne into reeing: larged al the ere in ld not al was him. country healthy o 2d per t 6d per slow of e atten ley and . is still ance of :tent, at otocko ?a's, but out last Barley ery fair r rates. per qr . Is • oats us' from F wheat. vement red 48s it much with a et with qual to ay, and rish, 3s tt wh©n to 8s 6d Le pens, it pork, The receipt 7, Re- Abbirs, ►, Ox. Isgato rid Ca street rshire, mock, Oxon, iter. i Mr. ounty Lurch, Esq., -lane, Ross, ge F. e late NATIONAL RIF LE ASSOCIATION.- VOLUNTEER BALL. POSTPONEMENT. In consequence of the small number of applications for Tickets for the Volunteer Ball, announced to be viyen at the Royal Italian Opera, on Friday next, July 12th, THE BALL WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. ThcFe who have already purchased Tickets may receive back their money on application. IREMORNE.-PRIVATE EVENING FETES tJ at the Roval Cremorne Gardens, on THURSDAY, Jnly 18, and WEDNESDAY, July 24, in aid of the Funds for the Relief of the Spitalfields Weavers and the Spital fields Emigration Committee. LIST OF LADIES PATRONESSES (from whom vouchers for tickets must be obtained). Duchess of Wellington. Countess of Hopetoun. Duchess of Hamilton. Countess of Malmesbury. Duchess of Beaufort. Countess of Yarborough. Duchess of Marlborough. Viscountess Combermere. Duchess of Manchester. Lady Harriette Ashley. Marchioness of Downshire. Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Marchioness of Ailesbury. Lady Egerton of Tatton. Marchioness of Clanricarde. Baroness Lionel de Roths- Countess of Derby. child. Countess of Chesterfield. Baroness Anthony de Roths- Dowa g er Countess of Essex. child. Countess of Kinnoull. The Lady 011iffe. The Entertainments and Decorations will be upon a scale of more than ordinary attraction. Admission Ticket (in exchange for a Lady Patroness' Voucher), Half-a• Guinea, admitting to all the varied enter tainments without any extra charge. Vouchers for Tickets will be exchanged on and after Thurs day, July 11, at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Vouchers not exchanged within two days of each Fete will be charged Fifteen Shillings. TI L VANS'S MUSIC and SUPPER ROOMS.— Gentlemen meet as Tonal every evening. Iliackney as e'er—Sydney's admirable New Song—The Elliot Family and the American Brothers' elegant Performances, superior to nlything yet seen. Four-part Songs, Glees, Madrigals, and Classic Vocal Music form the main element of the entertain ment. " The Royal Volunteer Ball " — Gentlemen Visitors Eup at Evans's. Al R. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN -kV I MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY CRAPHIC HALL. Icing Wiliam-street, Charing-cross, TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at light. Private boxes, £1 Is. ; Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 25. ; amphitheatre, ls. -A plan of the stalls may be wen, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box (Mee, from 10 till 4 Morning. Performance, Saturday, July 13. A RGYLL ROOMS. GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, Ith the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, 31. Boulcourt.—Dancing at Nine o'clock.-Is. admission. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR JAMAICA. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset Place, 6th July, 1861. fru; COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFF of LRD HIGH ADMRA of the UNIED R INGDOM IC E of GREAT BRITAIN I and IRELAND, T DO l IEREI3Y GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the 16th instant, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and de livering' into store at her Majesty's Naval Yard at Jamaica 3,000 Tons of SOUTH WALES COALS, fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam Vessels. Conditions of the Contract and a Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and hear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten der for Coals for Jamaica ;" and must also be delivered at S omerset-place, accompanied by a letter sinned by two re loonsible persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering, in the sum of £1,200, for the due performance of the Contract. No. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, BOND-STREET. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and IM -L PROVED PRINCIPLE.—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENTED INvENTioN (protected by her Majesty's Rciyal Seal, July, WO), for adapting Artificial Teeth on Moveable Bases by Self-adhesion, are fixed without springs or any fastenings, Without pain or extraction, restore perfect articulation and Mastication, rendering detection impossible, and last a life time. "An admirable contrivance for remedying the defects of nature, without requiring new sets of teeth."—Sun, July 20. "Will doubtless be extensively patronised."—Court Cir cular, July 21. 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"Is the law peveiler,4? ,, s " Well, Sir, you see these men got hold ortE.ese - Nao should administer the law, or they a rc,too povs er ful or too reckless to be kept down." " That is a reign of terror—of mob-ruffianism 9" "It don't hurt respectable people much ; but I agree with you it. must be put down." " When,—how 9" " Well, Sir, when things are settled, we'll just take the law into our own hands. Not a man shall have a vote unless he's American born, and, by degrees, we'll get rid of these men who disgrace us.'' "Are not many of your regiments composed of Germans and Irish—of foreigners, in fact 9" " Yes, sir." I did not suggest to him the thought which rose in my mind, that these gentlemen, if successful, would be very little inclined to abandon their tights while they had arms in their hands; but it occurred to me as well that this would be rather a poor reward for the men who were engaged in establishing the Southern Confederacy. The attempt may fail, but assuredly I have heard it expressed too often to doubt that there is a determination on the part of the leaders in the movement to take away the suf frage from the men whom they do not scruple to employ in fighting their battles. If they cut the throats of the enemy they will stifle their own sweet voices at the same time, or soon afterwards—a capital recompense to their emigrant soldiers ! The portion of Tennessee traversed by the rail road is not very attractive, for it is nearly uncleared. In the sparse clearings were fields of Indian corn, growing amid blackened stumps of trees and rude log shanties, and the white population which looked out on us was poorly housed at least, if not b a dly clad. At last we reached Corinth. It would hav e ibleeehnadscrauinrceleyd recognisable by Mummius— even i f his old handiwork over again. Thi s proudly named spot consisted apparently of a grog shop in wood, and three shanties of a similar material, without offices to match, and the Acre. Corinth was a grocery store, of which the proprie tors had no doubt gone to the wars, as it was shut up, and their names were suspiciously Milesian. But, if Corinth was not imposing, Troy, which we reached after a 104 rip* through a forest of virgin timber, was still simpler in architecture and general design. It was too new for " Troja fuit" and the general " fixins" would scarcely authorise one to say to hope Troia fuerit. The Dardinian Towers were represented by a timber house, and Helen the Second—whom we may take on this occasion to have been simulated by an old lady smoking a pipe, whom I saw in the veran dah—could have set them on fire much more readily than did her interesting prototype ignite the city of Priam. The rest of the place and of the in habitants, as I saw it and them, might be considered as an agglomerate of three or four sheds, a few log huts, a saw mill, and some 20 negroes sitting on a log and looking at the train. From Troy the road led to a cypress swamp, over which the engines bustled, rattled, tumbled, and Lopped at a perilous rate along a high trestlework, and at last we came to " Union City," which seemed to be formed by great aggregate meetings of discontented shavings which had been whirled into heaps out of the forest hard by. But here was the camp of the Confede rates, which so many of our fellow-passengers were coming out into the wilderness to see. Their white tents and plank huts gleamed out through the green of oak and elm, and hundreds of men came out to the platform to greet their friends, and to in quire for baskets, boxes, and hampers, which put me in mind of the. Quartermaster's store at Bala klava. We have all heard of the unhappy medical. officer who exhausted his resources to get up a large chest from that store to the camp, and who on opening it, in the hope of finding inside the articles he was most in need of, discovered that it contained an elegant assortment of wooden legs ; but he could not have been so much disgusted as a youthful warrior here who was handed a wicker covered jar from the luggage van, which he " tapped" on the spot, expecting to find it full of Bourbon whiskey, or something equally good. He raised the ponderous vessel aloft and took a long pull, to the envy of his comrades, and then spirting out the fluid with a hideous face exclaimed " d—, &c. Why, if the old woman has not sent me syrup!" Evidently no joke, for the crowd around him never laughed and gravely dispersed. It was fully two hours before the train got away from the camp, leaving a vast quantity of good things and many ladies, who had come on in the excursion train, behind them. There were about 6,000 men there, it was said—rude, big, rough fellows, with sprink lings of odd companies, composed of gentlemen of fortune exclusively. The soldiers who were only entitled to the name in virtue of their carrying arms, their duty, and possibly their fighting quali ties, lay under the trees playing cards, cooking, smoking, or reading the papers; but the camp was guarded by sentries, some of whom carried their &c -locks under their arms like umbrellas, others by the muzzle with the butt over the shoulder ; one, for ease, had stuck his with the bayonet in the ground, upright before him ; others laid their arms against the trees, and preferred a sitting to an upright pos ture. In front of one camp there were two brass fieldpieces, seemingly in good order. Many of the men had sporting rifles or plain muskets. There were several boys of 15 and 16 years of age among the men, who could scarcely carry their arms for a long day's march; but the Tennessee and Missis sippi infantry were generally the materials of good. soldiers. The camps were not regularly pitched, with one exception ; the tents were too close together ; the water is bad, and the result was that a good deal of measles, fever, diarrhoea, and dysen tery prevailed. One man who came on the train was a specimen of many of the classes which fill the ranks—a tall, very muscular, handsome man, with a hunter's eye, about 35 years of age, brawny-shoul dered, brown-faced, black-bearded, hairy-handed ; he had once owned 110 negroes—equal, say, to £2o,ooo—but he had been a patriot, a lover of free dom, a Filibuster. First he had gone off with Lopez to Cuba, where he was taken, put in prison, and in cluded among the number who received grace ; next he had gone off with Walker to Nicaragua, but in his last expedition he fell into the hands of the enemy, and was only restored to liberty by the British officer, who was afterwards assaulted in New Orleans for the part he took in the affair. These little adventures had reduced his stock to five negroes, and to defend them he took up arms, and he looked like one who could use them. When be came from Nicaragua he weighed only 1101 b— . he was over 2001 b.—a splendid bete fauve ; and, without wishing him any harm, may I be permitted to congratulate American society on its chance of getting rid of a considerable number of those of whom he is a representative man. We learned incidentally that the district 'wherein these troops are quartered was distinguished by its attachment to the Union. By its last vote Tennessee proved that there are at least 40,000 voters in the State who are attached to the United States' Government. At Columbus the passengers were transferred to a steamer, which in an hour and a-half made its way against the stream of the Mis sissippi to Cairo. There, in the clear light of the summer's eve, were floating the Stars and Stripes —the first time I had seen the flag, with the ex ception of a glimpse of it at Fort Pickens, for two months. Cairo is in Illinois, on the spur of land which is formed by the junction of the Ohio river with the Mississippi, and its name is probably well known to certain speculators in England who be lieved in the fortunes of a place so appropriately named and situated. Here is the camp of Illinois troops under General Prentiss, which watches the . tucky on the other. Of them, and of what re ftYk be shores of the Missouri on the one hand, and of _tn interesting to readers in England, I sha ll spiorepres my next letter. I find there is a ge neral sion of satisfaction at the sentiments expressed Lord John Russell in the speech whichaniscity ex cited by what a portion ofh t has just been made known here, and that the animosity press • e n A Mini to the called the hostility of the Forensi ig. ster derably abated, United States has been although much has been co d o ne to fan the anger of m because England has ac k now ledged the Confederate States have Zimit ecl belligerent e . by PRICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. position. The edges of the plateau command the rear of the batteries below ; the ravines in the bluff would give cover to a large force of riflemen, who could render the batteries untenable if taken from the river face, unless the camp in their rear on the top of the plateau was carried. Great loss of life, and probable failure, would result from any attack on the works from the river merely. But a flotilla might get past the guns without any serious loss in the present state of their service and equipment ; and there is nothing I saw to prevent the landing of a force on the banks of the river, which, with a combined action on the part of an adequate force of gunboats, could carry the position. As the river falls 'the round-shot fire of the guns will be even less effective. The General is providing water for the camp by means of large cisterns dug in the ground, which will be filled with water from the river by steam power. The officers of the army of Tennessee with whom I spoke were plain, farmerly planters, merchants, and lawyers; and the heads of the department were in no respect better than their inferiors by reason of any military acquirements, but were shrewd, energetic, common sense men. The officer in command of the works, however, un derstood his business, apparently, and was well supported by the artillery officer. There were, I was told, eight pieces of field artillery disposable for the defence of the camp. Having returned to the steamer the party pro ceeded up the river to another small camp in defence of a battery of four guns, or rather of a small paral lelogram of soft sand covering a man a little higher than the knee, with four guns mounted in it on the river face. No communication exists through the woods between the two camps, which-must be six or seven miles apart. The force stationed here was composed principally of gentlemen. They were all in uniform. A detachment worked one of the guns, which the Gener a l w i s h e d t o see fi re d w ith rou nd shot. In five or six minutes after the order was given the gun was loaded, and the word given, " Fire." The gunner pulled the lanyard hard, but the tube did not explode. Another was trid. A strong jerk pulled it out bent and incombustible. A third was inserted, which came out broken. The fourth time was the charm, and the ball was pro. jetted about 60 yards to the right and 100 yards short of the mark—a stump, some 1,200 yards dis tant, in the river. It must be remembered that there are no disparts, tangents, or elevating screws to the guns ; the officer was obliged to lay it by the eve with a plain chock of wood. The General ex plained that the friction tubes were the results of an experiment he was making to manufac ture them, but I agreed with one of the officers, who muttered in my ear, " The old linstock and portfire are a darned deal better." There were no shells, I could see, in the battery, and on inquiry I learned the fuses were made of wood at Memphis, and were not considered by the officers at all trustworthy. Power is so scarce that all salutes are interdicted, except to the Governor of the State. In the two camps there were, I was informed, about 4,000 men. My eyesight, as far as I went, confirmed me of the existence of some 1,800, but I did not visit all the outlying tents. On landing the band had played " God Save the Queen " and " Dixie's Land ;" on returning we had the "Marseillaise" and the National Anthem of the Southern Confedera tion, and, by way of parenthesis, it may be added, if you do not already know the fact, that " Dixie's Land " is a synonym for Heaven. It appears that there was once a good planter, named "Dixie," who died at some period un know*, to the intense grief of his animated pro perty. They found expression for their sorrow in song, and consoled themselves by elamouring in verse for their removal to the land to which Dixie had departed, and where probably the revered spirit would be greatly surprised to find himself in their company. Whether they were ill-treated after he died, and thus had reason to deplore his removal, or merely desired Heaven in the abstract, nothing known enables me to assert. But Dixie's Land is now generally taken to mean the Seceded States, where Mr. Dixie certainly is not at this present writing. The song and air are the composition of the organised African association for the advance ment of music and their own profit, which sings in New York, and it may be as well to add, that in all my tour in the South I heard little melody from lips black or white, and only once heard negroes singing in the fields. Several sick men were put on board the steamer, and were laid on mattresses on deck. I spoke to them, and found they were nearly all suffering from diarrhoea, and that they had had no medical attend ance in camp. All the doctors want to fight, and the Medical Service of the Tennessee troops is very defective. As I was going down the river I had some interesting conversation with General Clark, who commands about 5,000 troops of the Confede rate States, at present quartered in two camps at Tennessee on these points. Be told me the Com missariat and the Medical Service had given him the greatest annoyance, and confessed some deser tions and courts-martial had occurred. Guard mounting and its accessory duties were performed in a most slovenly manner, and the German troops from the Southern parts were particularly disor derly. It was late in the afternoon when I reached Memphis. I may mention, obiter, that the captain of the steamer, talking of arms, gave me a notion of the sense of security he felt on board his vessel. From under his pillow he pulled one of his two Derringer pistols, and out of his clothes-press he produced a long heavy rifle and a double gun, which was, he said, capital with ball and buckshot. JUNE 19. Up at three o'clock a.m., to get ready for the train at 5, which will take me out of Dixie's Land to Cairo. If the owners of the old hostelries in the Egyptian city were at all like their Tennesseean fel low craftsmen in the upstart institution which takes its name, I wonder how Herodotus managed to pay his way. My sable attendant quite entered into our feelings, and was rewarded accordingly. At 5 a.m., covered with dust, contracted in a drive through streets which seem " paved with waves of mud," to use the phrase of a Hibernian gentleman connected with the luggage department of the omnibus, " only the mud was all dust," to use my own, I started in the cars along with some Confederate officers and several bottles of whisky, which at that early hour was considered by my unknown companions as a highly efficient prophylactic against the morning dews, but it appeared that these dews are of such a deadly character that in o rder to g uard against their one must become dead drunk. The same remedy, I am assured, is sovereign against rattlesnake bites. I can assure the friends of these gentlemen that they were amply fortified against any amount of dew or of rattlesnake poison before they got utßotiyetuhtheefeemnhdleemeodf tphheiisr papers whisky, it s o seems grea t as was if t t h h e a s t u i p n p s l t y i t . prevailed there as in New Orleans, for I read in my paper as I went along of two murders and one shoot ing as the incidents of the previous day, contributed by" the local." To contrast with this low state of social existence there must be a high condition of moral feeling, for thejournal I was reading contained a very elaborate article to show the wickedness of any one payinghis debts, and of any State acknowledging its liabilities, which would constitute an invaluable vade mecum for Basinghall-street. At Humboldt there was what was called a change of cars—a pro cess that all the philosophy of the Baron could not have enabled him to endure without some loss of temper, for there was a whole Kosmos of Southern patriotism assembled at the station, burning with the fires of Liberty, and bent on going to the camp at Union City, 46 miles away,where the Confederate forces of Tennessee, aided by Mississippi regiments, are out under the greenwood tree. Their force was irresistible, particularly as there were numbers of relentless citizenesses—what the American papers call " quite a crowd"—as the advanced guard of the invading army. While the original occupants were being compressed or expelled by crinoline—that all-absorbing ; defensive, and aggressive article of feminine war reigns here in wide-spread, iron-bound circles—l took refuge on the platform, where I made, in an involuntary way, a good many ac quaintances in this sort :—" Sir, my name is Jones happy —to Judge affectionate you,Jone PA r m e p s k h i a n ke Co h u a n n t d y s . affectiotnr Scribble." The Colonel shakes hands, e f n o g re in st ee a r n t a o friends, whom he a Colonel ," (Jones loquitur) " allow me I to a a n i m n d introduces, and they each introdu ce some one else o es f s th to the engine to me, and, finally, I am introduced without the youm imme diatelyy darts r friend tsff M t r o . a S c c i r r i c b l b e l Scribble f! his Colonel oMf value, a g l g u s e , Mforr driver, who is really an acquaintanceseat h. he is good enough to give me a meant to contain. 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Ladies will find it especially valuable, as the most delicate head-dress or bonnet can be worn without fear of soiling. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and lis. C. and A. OLDRIDGE, 22, Wellington-street, Strand. of acts which would not be tolerated in the worst days of Corsican vendette, and which must be put down, or the countries in which they are unpunished will become as barbarous as jungles of wild beasts. In the evening I started by railroad for the city of Memphis, in Mississippi. There was a sleeping•car on the train, hut the flying bug and the crea• ture less volatile, more pungent and persistent, which bears its name, murdered sleep, and when Monday morning came I was glad to arise and get into one of the carriages, although it was full of noisy soldiers bound to the camp at Corinth, in the State of Mississippi, who had been drinking whiskey all night, and were now screaming for water and howling like demons. At Holly Springs, where a rude breakfast awaited us, the warriors got out on the top of the oarriages and performed a war dance to the music of their band, which was highly credit able to the carriage-maker's workmanship. Along the road at all: the `settlements and clearings the white people cheered, and the women waved white things, and Secession flags floated. There is no doubt of the state of feeling in this part of the country ; and yet it does not look much worth fighting for—an arid soil, dry water-courses, clay ravines, light crops. Perhaps it will be better a month hence, and negroes may make it pay. There were many in :the fields, and it struck me they looked better than those who work in gangs on the larger and richer plantations. Among our passen- hers "were gentlemen from Texas going to Rich mond to offer service to Mr. Davis. They declared the feeling in their State was almost without ex . . . ception in favour of Secession. It was astonishing how positive all these people are that England is in absolute dependence on cotton for her national ex istence. They are at once savage and childish. If England does not recognise the Southern'Confede racy pretty quick, they will pass a resolution not to let her have any cotton, except, &c. Suppose England does ever recognise a Confederation based on the principles of the South, what guarantee is there that in her absolute dependence, if it exists, similar coercive steps may not be taken against her? " Oh ! we shall be friends, you know ;" and so on. On the train before us there has just passed on a company armed with large bowie knives and rifled pistols, who called themselves the " Toothpick Company." They carried a coffin along with them, on which was a plate with " Abe Lincoln" inscribed on it, and they amused themselves with the childish conceit of telling the people as they went along that " they were bound" to bring his body back in it. At Grand Junction Station the troops got out and were mustered preparatory to their transfer to a train for Richmond, in Virginia. The first company, about 70 strong, consisted exclusively of Irish, who were armed with rifles without bayonets. The second consisted of five-sixths Irish, armed mostly with muskets ; the third were of Americans, who were well uniformed, but had no arms with them. The fourth, clad in green, were nearl all Irish ; they wore all sorts of clothing, and had no pretensions to be regarded as disciplined. soldiers. I am led to believe that the great num bers of Irish who have enlisted for service indicates a total suspension of all the works on which they are ordinarily engaged in the South. They were not very orderly. " Fix bayonets" elicited a won derful amount of controversy in the ranks. " Whar are yer dhrivin to ?" " Sullivan, don't ye hear we'er to fix beenits." " Ayse the sthrap of mee baynit, Sarjent, jewel!" "If ye prod me wid that agin, I'll let dayloite into ye," &c. Officer, reading muster—" No. 23, James Phelan." No reply. Voice from the ranks.—" Faith Phelan's gone ; Shure he went at the last dipot." Old men and boys were mixed together, but the mass of the rank and file were strong, full-grown men. In one of the carriages were some women dressed as " vivan dieres," minus the coquet air and the trousers and boots of those ladies. They looked sad, sorry, dirty, and foolish. There was great want of water along the line, and the dust and heat were very great and disagreeable. When they have to march many of the men will break down, owing to bad shoes and the weight of clothes and trash of various kinds they sling on their shoulders. They moved off amid much whooping, and our journey was con tinued through a country in which the railroad engineer had made the only opening for miles at a time. When a clearing was reached, however, there were signs that the soil was not withont rich ness and all the wheat was already cut and in sheaf. The passengers said it was fine and early, and that it averaged from 40 to 60 bushels to the acre (more than it looked). Very little ground here is under cotton. It was past 1 o'clock on Monday when the train reached Memphis, in Tennessee, which is situated on a highbluff overhanging the Mississipi. Here is one of the strategic positions of the Con federates. It is now occupied by a force of Tennes seans, which is commanded by Major-General Pillow whom I found quartered in Gayoso-house, a large hotel named after one of the old Spanish rulers here, and as he was just starting to inspect his batteries and the camp at Randolph, 60 odd miles higher up the river, I could not resist his pressing invitations, tired as I was, to accompany him and his Staff on board the Ingomar to see what they were really like. First we visited the bluff on the edge of which is constructed a breastwork of cotton bales, which no infantry could get at, and which would offer no resistance to vertical and but little to horizontal fire. It is placed so close to the edge of the bluff at various places that shell and shot would knock away the bank from under it. The river rolls below deep and strong, and across the roads or watercourses leading to it are feeble barricades of plank, which a howitzer could shiver to pieces in a few rounds. Higher up the bank, on a commanding plateau, there is a breastwork and parapet, within which are six guns, and the General informed me he intended to mount 13 guns at this part of the river, which would certainly prove very formidable to such steamers as they have on these waters, if any at tempt were made to move down from Cairo. In the course of the day I was introduced to exactly 17 colonels and one captain. My happiness was further increased by an introduction to a youth of some 23 p pw r ah u n ont pants, 1 aa l a dn ds the i a p p t ar e ie r rm s a , en d nd r d e years of age, with t en d er f eet if I may j u d ge f r om lo s ou s o e s k d s oo i n mf ab a nr g e ar r po e o e n wt h c et u ch a t a ra y w p, a sl y u m, errand jean eof o G r e h n e e r r a v l o " y M a g a e g , a g n l e d s w (l e et ca u m s ostrich feathers, and go ld tassels l oope d a t th e s id e , t along side the bank at Chicksaw-bl ffs, too late to visit the camp, as it was near mid n i g ht b e f ore we arr i ve d. b in oy g . om T ar h s is ta w rt a e s d ‘ for u e sayof Arkansas, Freighted de ep l y w i t h th e b rave , the I forgot to say that a large number of steamers were lying at Memphis, which had been seized by Gen. Pillow, and he has forbidden all traffic in boats to Cairo. Passengers must go round by rail to Columbus. JUNE 18, I have just returned from a v i s it to the works an d batteries at the intrenched camp at Randolph's Point, 60 miles above Memphis, by which it is in tended to destroy any flotilla coming down the river from Cairo, and to oppose any force coming by land to cover its flank and clear the left bank of the Mississippi. The Ingomar is lying under the rugged bank, or bluff, about 150 feet high, which recdes in rugged tumuli and watercourses filled with brushwood fr om the margin of the river, some half mile up and down the stream at this point, and Brigadier-General Pillow is still riding round his well-beloved earthwo rks and his quaint battalions, my base of opera while I, anxious to make the most of my time now now writing in the cabin, a long roofed room a si r de be is lo a ngs room, 'with berths on each side, which runs from stem to stern . of the American opera tions, that ie s I, haveam fairlycome board,th e , r u a n nd for a.m boats over the main deck. This saloon presents a curious scene. Over the bow,. at one side, there is to the State of an office for the sale of tickets, now destitute of bar, where thirsty souls, who have hastened on board from the camp business,Teenesse Tennessee for a julep, a smash, or a cocktail, learn with dis gust that the only article. to be had is fine Missis sippi water with ice in it. Lying on the deck in all r a t th t e he i o n t g l other attitudes are numbers of men asleep, who s e plumed felt hats are the only indications that they are sol diers, except in the rare case of tho se w h o h ave ru d e un if o rms, and buttons, and stripes of coloured cloth on the legs of their pantaloons. A sentry i s s itti ng on a chair smoking a cigar. Re is on guard over the after part of the deck, called the ladies' saloon, and sacred to the General and hi s S ta ff an d at tendants. Heis a tall, good-l oo ki ng young f e ll ow in a gray flannel shirt, a black wide-awake, gray trousers, fastened by a belt, o n w hi c h i s a b ra ss buckleinscribed " U.S. „ ' Ris r ifl e i s an E n fi e ld, an d the bayonet sheath is fastened to the belt by a thong of leather. That youthful patriot is intent on the ups and downs of fortu ne as exemp lifi e d in the pleasing game of euchre, or euker, which is exercising the faculties of several of his comrades, who, in their shirt sleeves, are ern •' ploymg the finest faculties of their nature in that national institution ; but he is not indifferent to his • duties, and he for bids your correspondent's entrance until he has explained what he wants and who he is—and the second is more easy to do than the first. The sentry tells his captain, who is an euchreist, that I " It's all right," and resumes his seat and his cigar, and the work goes bravely on. Indeed, it went on last night at the same table, which is within a few yards of the General's chair; and now that I have got a scrap of paper and a moment of quiet, let me say what I have to say of this position, and of what I pitched tn i eladyb guns,ew d indication pthomssgei üblntyos im mediately4do2en-- visible of a martial character. But e a s ttaslul G eohep a t nlf e co w eued: n tkler e iarbrns r suoiaet p a gvgfhnw l l .joieeutroci inspection spsdtsoedpao, faeaebnafisteslt. tnmutll htc t doiiffho hetypateni earthworks,i el t n coi r e, hsia o g fi hvprbn s weeawi prepared tfrndeehai. pei was ahr y i orAhei tf w merscah, dotm o vsoelfuyoa u ueol mslhwndoied. have hearbviirnseei trees, ridge-poled ngs o ett: antagonist. paligeeoloeomvFnl spoken ia d si notee on smallrt eh a i t l og i th s es hne t , the side of the bank, considerably higher than pounders, lay in the dust close to the land ing-place, with very rude carriages and bul lock-poles to carry them to the batteries. A few men, 10 or 12 in number, were digging at an encampment on the face of the slope. Others were lounging about the beach, and others, under the same infatuation as that which makes little boys disport in the Thames under the notion that they are washing themselves, were bathing in the Missis sippi. A dusty cart track wound up to the brow of the bluff, and there disappeared. Some carts toiled np and down between the boat and the crest of the hill. We went on shore. There was no ostenta tion of any kind about the reception of the General and his Staff. A few horses were waiting impa tiently in the sun, for flies will have their way, and heavy men are not so unbearable as small mos quitoes. With a cloud of colonels—one late United Statesman, who was readily distinguishable by his air from the Volunteers—the General proceeded to visit his batteries and his men. The first work in pected was a plain parapet of earth placed some 50 feet above the river, and protected very slightly by two small flanking parapets. Six guns, 32- pounders, and howitzers of an old pattern were mounted en barbette, without any traverses what ever. The carriages rested on rough platforms, and the wheels ran on a traversing semicircle of plank, as the iron rails were not yet ready. The gunners, a plain-looking body of men, very like railway labourers and mechanics, without uniform, were engaged at drill. It was neither quick nor good work—about equal to the average of a squad after a couple of days' exercise ; but the men worked earnestly, and I have no doubt, if the Federalists give them time, they will prove artillerymen in the end. The General ordered practice to be made with round shot. After some delay, a kind of hybrid ship's carronade was loaded. The target was a tree, about 2,500 yards distant, I was told. It appeared to me about 1,700 yards off. Every one was desirous of seeing the shot ; but we were at the wrong side for the wind, and I ventured to say so. However, the General thought and said otherwise. The word " Fire !" was given. Alas ! the friction-tube would not explode. It was one of a new sort, which the Tennesseeans are trying their 'prentice hand at. A second answered better. The gun went off, but where the ball went to no one could say, as the smoke came into our eyes. The party moved to windward, and, after another fuse had missed, the gun was again discharged at some 5 degrees elevation, and' the shot fell in good line, 200 yards short of the target, and did not ricochet. Gun 2 was then discharged, and off went the ball, at no particular mark, down the river ; but if it did go off, so did the gun also, for it gave a frantic leap and jumped with the carriage off the plat form ; nor was this wonderful, for it was an old fashioned chambered carronade or howitzer, which had been loaded with a full charge, and solid shot enough to make it burst with indignation. Turn ing from this battery, we visited another nearer the water, with four guns (32 pounders), which were well placed to sweep the channel with greater chance of ricochet ; and higher up on the bank, towards a high peak commanding the Mis sissippi, here about 700 yards broad, and a small confluent which runs into it, was another battery of two guns, with a very great command, but only fit for shell, as the fire must he plunging. All these batteries were very ill constructed, and in only one was the magazine under decent cover. In the first it was in the rear of the battery, up the hill behind it. The parapets were of sand or soft earth, unprovided with merlons. The last had a few sandbags between the guns, Riding up a steep road, we came to the camps of the men on the wooded and undulating plateau over the river, which is broken by watercourses into ravines covered with brushwood and forest trees. For five weeks the Tennessee troops under General Pillow, who is at the head of the forces of the State, have been working at a series of curious intrenchments, which are supposed to represent an intrenched camp, and which look like an assemblage of mud beaver dams. In a word, they are so complicated that they would prove exceedingly troublesome to the troops en gaged in their defence, and it would require very steady, experienced regulars to man them so as to give proper support to each other. The maze of breastworks, of flanking parapets, of parapets for field-pieces, is over-done. Several of them might prove useful to an attacking force. In some places the wood was cut down in front so as to form a formidable natural abattis ; but generally here, as in the batteries below, timber and brushwood were left uncut up to easy musket shot of the works, so as to screen an advance of riflemen, and to expose the defending force to considerable annoyance. In small camps of 15:or 20 tents each the Tennessee troops were scattered, for health's sake, over the plateau, and on the level ground a few companies were engaged at drill. The men were dressed and looked like labouring people—small farmers, me chanics, with some small, undersized lads. The majority were in their shirt sleeves, and the awk wardness with which they handled their arms showed that, however good they might be as shots, they were by no means proficients in manual exercise. Indeed, they could not be, as they have been only five weeks in the service of the State, called out in anticipation of the Secession vote, and since then they have been employed by Ge neral Pillow on his fortifications. They have complained more than once of their hard work, par ticularly when it was accompanied by hard fare, and one end of General Pillow's visit was to in form them that they would soon be relieved from their labours by negroes and hired labourers. Their tents, small ridge-poles, are very bad, but suited perhaps to the transport. Each contains six men. I could get no accurate account of their rations even from the Quartermaster-General, and Commissary- General there was none present ; but I was told that they had " a sufficiency—from or I.llb. of meat, of bread, of sugar, coffee, and rice daily." Neither spirits nor tobaeco is served out to these terrible chewers and not unaccomplished drinkers. Their pay " will be" the same as in the United States' army or in the Confederate States' army—probably paid in the circulating medium of the latter. Seven or eight hundred men were formed into line for inspection. There were few of the soldiers in any kind of uniform, and such uniforms as I saw were in very bad taste, and consisted of gaudy facings and stripes on very strange garments. They were armed with old-pattern percussion muskets, and their ammunition pouches were of diverse sorts. Shoes often bad, knapsacks scarce, head-pieces of every kind of shape—badges worked on the front or sides, tinsel in much request. Every man had a tin water-flask and a blanket. The general ad dressed the men, who were in line two deep (many of thorn unmistakable Irishmen), and said what generals usually say on such occasions—compli ments for the past, encouragement for the future. " When the hour of danger comes I will be with nyodtranndot indeedseem t G o e c n a e r r e al m r uc il h lo w w h , e i t n he a r yh round oeuwas. h iro a rh t e , dusty black frock coat, and ordinary " unstripped" trousers, did not look like one who could give any great material accession to the physical means of resistance, although he is a very energetic man. The major-general in fact is an attorney-at-law, or has been so, and was partner with Mr. Polk, who, probably from some of the reasons which determine the actions of partners to each other, sent Mr. Pillow to the Mexican war, where he nearly lost him, owing to severe wounds received in action. The general has made his in trenchments as if he were framing an indictment. There is not a flaw for the enemy to get through, but he has bound u p his own men in inexorable lines also. At one of the works a proof of the free dom of "citizen soldiery" was afforded in a little hilarity on the part of one of the privates. The men had lined the parapet, and had listened to the plea sant assurances of their commander that they would knock off the shovel and the hoe very soon, and be replaced by the eternal gentleman of colour. "Three cheers for General Pillow" were called for, and were responded to by the whooping and screeching sounds that pass muster in this part of the world for cheers. As they ended a stentorian voice shouted out " Who cares for General Pillow ?" and, as no net o g n a e lla anntsw offi er e e e d r , w i as t Y un solicitude of his tro o p s ; probably a temp - might th e be obi e unfairlyobject o f theoral inferred faveu ? t o tt p s jooxlpnu in d r t i oh t l y c n pe id Ir 7 i e l c g ed w Point qu eia st i ;i t o h ha rd w nn.o doubt, üb o t rk founda very e;p r o r eus g IHE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. REVIEWS Ole THE WORE. "Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly " — valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old." Sunday Times," 23d March, 1856. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source o those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27, 18 56 . " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising manlier on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, 319, Cornhin tu Hap 9 . 1 c ons 10 till tation-10 to a slid oto 8 i 51 1 1461 1 ) - - 2 (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) CAIRO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 20. My last letter was dated from Natchez, but it will probably accompany this communication, as there are no mails now between the North and the South, or vice versa. Tolerably confident in my calcula tions that nothing of much importance could take place in the field till some time after I had reached my post, it appeared to me desirable to see as much of the South as I could, and to form an estimate of the strength of the Confederation, although it could not be done at this time of the year without consi derable inconvenience, arising from the heat, which renders it almost impossible to write in the day, and from the mosquitoes, which come out' when the sun goes down and raise a blister at every stroke of the pen. On several days lately the thermometer has risen to 98 deg.—on one day to 105 deg.—in the shade. On Friday evening, June 14, I started from Nat• chez for Vicksburg on board the steamer General Quitman up the Mississippi. These long yellow rivers are very fine for patriots to talk about, for poets to write about, for buffalo fish to live in, and for steamers to navigate when there are no snags, but I confess the Father of Waters is very tiresome. Even the good cheer and the comfort of the General Quitman could not reconcile me to the eternal beat ing of steam drums, blowing of whistles, bumpings at landings, and the general oppression of levees, clearings, and plantations, which marked the course of the river, and I was not sorry next morning when Vicksburg came in sight on the left bank of the giant stream—a city on a hill, not very large, besteepled, becupolaed, large-hoteled. Here lives a man who has been the pioneer of hotels in the West and who has now established himself in a big caravanserai, which he rules in a curious fashion. M'Makin has, he tell us, been rendered famous by Sir Charles Lyell. The large dining room—a stall a manger, as a friend of mine called it—is filled with small tables covered with particoloured cloths. At the end is a long deal table, heavy with dishes of meat and vegetables, presided over by negresses and gentlemen of uncer tain hue. In thd centre of the room stood my host, shouting out at the top of his voice the names of the joints, and recommending his guests to parti cular dishes, very much as the chronicler tells us was the wont of the taverners in old London. Many little negroes ran about in attendance, driven hither and thither by the commands of their white Sou louque—white-teethed , pensive-eyed, but sad as me mory. " Are you happy here ?" asked lof one of them who stood by my chair. He looked uneasy and frightened. " Why don't you answer ?" 6' I'se feared to tell dat to massa." " Why, your master is kind to you ?" " Berry good man, sir, when he not angry wid me !" And the little fellow's eyes filled with tears at some recollection which pained him. I asked no more. Vicksburg is Secessionist. There were hundreds of soldiers in the streets, many in the hotel, and my host said some hundreds of Irish had gone off to the wars, to fight for the good cause. If Mr. O'Connell were alive, he would surely be pained to see the course taken by so many of his countrymen on this question. After dinner I wa s invited to attend a meeting of some of the citizens at the railway station, where the time passed very agreeably till 4 o'clock , whe n the train started for Jackson, the capital of Missis si pp i, and after a pas sage of two hours through a poor clay country, seared with watercourses and gullies, with scanty crops of Indian corn andvery backward cotton, we were depo sited in that city. It must be called a city. It is the State capital, but otherwise there is no reason why, in strict nomenclature, it should be designated by any such title. It is in the usual style of the "cities" which spring up in the course of a few years amid the stumps of half-cleared fields in the derness—wooden houses, stores kept by Germans, French, Irish, Italians ; a large hotel swarming with people, with a noisy billiardroom and a noisier bar, the arena and the cause of " difficul ties ;" wooden houses, with portentous and preten tious white porticoes, and pillars of all the Greciai? orders ; a cupola or two, and two or three steeples, too large for the feeble bodies beneath—hydro cephalic architecture ; a State-house, looking well at a distance, ragged, dirty, and mean within ; groups of idlers in front of " Exchange," where the business transacted consists in a barter between money or credit, and " drinks" of various stimu lants ; a secluded telegraph-office round a corner ; a forward newspaper-office in the street, and a population of negroes shuffling through the thick dust which forms the streets. I called on Mr. Pel ters, the Governor of the State of Mississippi, ac cording to invitation, and found him in the State house in a very poor room, with broken windows and ragged carpets and dilapidated furniture. He is a grim, silent man, tobacco-ruminant, abrupt speeched, firmly believing that the state of society in which he exists, wherein there are monthly foul murders perpetrated at the very seat of Govern ment, is the most free and civilised in the world. He is easy of access to all, and men sauntered in and out of his office just as they would walk into a publichouse. Once on a time indeed the Governor was a deerhunter in the forest, and lived far away from th e h aun t s o f men , an d h e i s prou d o f the fact. He is a things strenu o i u n s Seceder,his way—simple and has apparently, done high handed honest probably, fierce on hisc e r salaryt a n l y of 4 —and 000 he lives, a while he is Governor, year in the house provided for him by the State. There was not much to say on either side. I can answer for one. Next day being Sunday I remained at rest in the house of a listening friend to local stories—not couleur de rose, but of a deeper tint — blood-red : how such a man shot another, and was afterwards stabbed by a third; how this fellow a nd his friends hunted down in broad day and murdered one obnoxious t 9 them—tale after tale such as I have heard through the South and seen daily narratives of in the papers. Aceldama ! No security for life ! Property is quit e sa f e . It s proprietor is in imminent danger, were it only from stray bullets when he turns a corner. The "bar," the "drink," the savage practice of walking about with pistol and poinard—ungovernable pas sions ungoverned because there is no law to punish the deeds to which they lead—these are the causes N°. 21,536. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., UNDER THE SPELL. By the Author of " Grandmother's Money," &c. 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" Mr. Pycroft's former works have already obtained for him a h gh reputation, which the work before us, with its sound sense, animated style, and keen perception of the follies and fallacies of our social existence, will probably increase." — Sun, June 27. "The sketches of character and the general remarks throughout the book are decidedly clever, and Agony Point' must be pronounced a good novel, both for and of the times, very good both as regards design and execution."—Globe, June 17. L. Booth, 307, Regent-street, W. New Pamphlet, Just Published, AUSTRIA- HER POSITION AND PROSPECTS. By JOHN ORRELL LEVER, M.P. Price 2s. Ed. Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross. T HE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S • " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus , ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., late Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. The Fourth Edition, Just Published, Bvo, in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. ed. _ . ON TRUE and FALSE SPERMATORRFICEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medicalreader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—London Medical Gazette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have dilated so long upon the contents of the preli minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate price at which the 'brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."— Dublin Medical Press. London : H. 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