New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-04
AN oUTBURsT OF PATRIOTISM

! The following lie letter from highly respectable
lady 10 New.York 70 her guardian, temporarily in
| Washington. dated April q
| 81, UIaR FREsD; { am very much excited
would give all have IN the world II l were IN Wash
| ington 1 want 10 be Florence Nightingale. Can /
| ! come can nurse the sick and wounded II you
| knew how my heart beeds Tor my country will
| make any sacrifice, only cay may come ! never fei
| nv womanly weakness till now; never have my feel.
ines for my country honor been aroused as IL is now
| Il al | an only son. and be my prop and support
would buckle on bis belt and knapsack with my own
hands and eel my last !rock 70 get him musket, and
send hm 70 swell The ranks 10 defend beloved Cap
uai but alas I am poweress All my weak bands
can DO soothe those who may fail or be fsaeled In
THE uobe cause
waited Two hours In Broadway on Friday to zee
the TN ReRment-gallant teuows IL was al effort
for me 70 keep from shouting was never so excited.
OH did wish was man; but am poman. aud
can do poraans pork Ii can't shoulder muskst
cal nurse the sick ana wounded, aud will ny AMI
moment Won saw come. The soldiers will need kind
female hand 10 help them IN the trying hour Of SICK
oess and NAV be death. Who can better sympathne
with them than can have stood beside the dying
Of ue2f and dear relatives until ah have left me and
am alone. now am ready and ANXIOUS to stand by
,boe who 50 nobly and galauty respond to their
frye call Ny heart 10 at Washington, u am not
If you think il proper. do let ME come. am ready.
and wall feel it the greatest privilege. ErdzsiI..
LETTER FROM A QUAKER SOLDIER.
from young Friend now serving in Cairo TO bis fah.
or n the city.i ..
CAIRO. April q, 1861.
DEAR FATHER: AS our Company s now settled
here any letter directed TO me at Cairo, care OF Capt
H. f Woods Union Guards, will get We shaD
probably be here some time may be 1t will be our
,ta,ion Tor tie campaign We have about $40 men
here now. anc JU0 more 70 be here In day or
two. am well auo hearty, aud enjoy myself pretty
wei We have not yet got settled, and consequently
aave not the accommodations that we will have. l
an unacquainted with most OF the boys here except
those OF my own mess-seveD In number-of whom
five from Meredosia. have no, slept under
bat two nights since here and that was under
ra:l.pile covered with straw We are divided into
mes es OF six, but ours has seven. I suppose thee
knows that Cairo Is the extreme southern point of
llInois-tbe Ohio River gide and Mississippi
on the other Guards stationed along the leyee,
wticn 10 seven miles around about $50 yards apart
1 tave been on guard twice for twenty -foar hours
time-four hours or and two hours onaDd Let one
pass without the countersgn. The army has a steam.
boat here mounted with cannon. and stop and examine
every boat that passes Over 1900 Colts revolvsrs
and 900 kegs OF powder for the Southern army have
been seized; the reyoven were marked glass and
Schiedsm Schnapps They seize something every day
-clothing and arms. Yesterday was on guard and
got wet 70 the skin musket ali rusty and no change
Of clothing To-day l. First Day, and bssutiful Day