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--s'a mas pas lie sens cnmmAn.
'rou, &c aue.tu vandras, n,ais je ne com
prends las comment ellie n l'atiaaec de rarler le
francais.
ia ose bienl'ecrire toi!
lie premier in.erlocnteur il'a pms racinme sd
inonnaie.
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FoRcgs aAvALRs DIS ErATs- UNIs.- D'apres
is Scientific American, les forces nayales des
Eais- Uns Sc conposent de sept fregates he
Ire cnryettes helices, corvei,es 4 vapenr
atOues, correltes q voiles. Total, a bali-
piaa,s perfant 1896 canons.
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"A. Wis.

Il sonssgns aIlio 10 ses services to,ttes lcs per.
sennes. giii desifent aeheter On vcIidre dester-
res et dies lIhstes. eonite fairenne tnirlia dais@
aYelees t'chx qui ychient acheter o,i vendre, te.
r,nt lien de yenir me suif dans le plus court dkiai
ou de m'adrcsser lers etttess ynon bilfca le poss
te Washington, IL. #
n Pendant mon abseHre. tn Dir fumes Hay donncfa
soll attention A tnHte application.
n de prize ietix gii yondiaieat n'knnh0fcr de lenr
eanlianee de me dohner nnc description ferreetc
aes nropliotes quilts dksiscnt se,tdre on aeeter.
JANIS G.. HILL.
Gneis,iisns "a mars Iktl.-.la u
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DaNTssioy. lie cotnmal,dant Frederic Cha
lard, de "a marine des Eta1s- Unis, q renynye
"a commission al Secreiare de la Marine a
Washington. Ellie etc recne ct acceptee lie
2dr ce mois. lie eonmandaut CLa,ard esl de
BALTIMORE.
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inn, ",NlkRs RESOURCE parlait l'antre
ssn, eAss ane societe de bohemes d'nn mon
ns,,.4 4H' await exerce dams sa vie les trente-six
i, t,s's gu iaat exercer pour obtenir, suivant
caanss ss.Se des nations, les trente-six miseres
qano. ''' ''''''''e'iah'' ae'Hahaa 9''ei-
aatre ~" d' q"'il va Sc aarier, repondit uu
psnr. saSfe si garron' repartit nn troisieme. il
aT sh Sc feprocher; II aura essaye de
The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1861-05-25

us SRGRR MeMnRE Du JunY.-Dans une
aiAlfe qni Went detre plaidee Boston, un
aegFe ele adnis au nombre des lures.
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apSTGnaEsS.--Le maitre de pos'e lance
nae proclamation annoueant gull en,rera en-
f4ociion lie lar jain.
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On annonce le ianceineni de la triremc
que lempefeur fasait conslrnile. Voc qupl,
qnes details sur &C cnricuS eohantIIon de- Tar
chitectnre napale dps Romans:
la triremc dn XlXme steele esl lnngue de 80
23 me tres Dc prone en- prone; sa largei,r est de
4 5lnetrea $ir lie ppni ct son bord s'eIeve de
plus de metres au dessus de Ia ligne de Gotai
son
Son tifant lean est peu considerable.
An centre de Ia prouc csi iagle imperial, les
allies eplnyees; paist an niveau de ll Iigne de
fotaison, savance e terrible ros,re lrois bran.
cheS, Ell bfonze, desiine pefcer ct cou|er les ma
wires ennenis.
La prone seeve NJ, dessns dn pont CONNIE
.une enofnle queue de COZ lpnimee An centre
de ee''e panpe est lie chitlre de l'empercur.
La trireme est danblee en- bronze
Les dena burtls, dc cunletsr anarapthe roncee
portent des gnrlandes. des bagnptles, tes aigles,
nne cofnirhe. me balnsIade en- brouze
thaqne cote est perce de trois rangres de
irnns ayant la !orhe d. guelles de tour II ya
22 trons sAr chn4ae srang, a,i total &c sur cha
que ttnc dn inpire; ces trous sont destines are.
cevolr les rames de truis ~raHgs de- .ramrurs.
An centre dn pant s'eieye IN mat, aui esi
deja ponryu de sa voile latine
Plusienfs maieln.s de Ia marine imperae
sont q hoFd dc Ia trircme, en- attendant les 20
antres qnl soni appelesae Gherbourg.
Dans qnplqnes ionrs le nayire.ira ieier Fan
Gre n Saint Cloud deeaut les CASCADES G'est
Ia 4ni iera ses premiers essuis de navigation.
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Ddrfdf IA III Nonvellc- Orleans. i ltage dc.
29 ans, Charles A. tienn.
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AVIS.
FyNoUS ce,ix gui ont ,les r:elalnations contre Ia
L succession de Michel Moore, h. d. 4. dee6as,
s9nt prizes de les prfsentcr puur etrc liqujdaeset
regees. ct ceaS Gui doiyeut Ia dit, succession
AoHt auss pii6s Dc penir payer iInmediateinent a0
setssignf. y, EDAGNf Administrator.
0pclousas. ls mai--lln
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uM.y. Ballard est notre ngent pour |,
Peat des Breaax'
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a " Is.

r tS coutribnahlea sort par Ie present aver
i ! III que je serai mon bureau, en Ia vile
dfs 0peeasas, jns4san II mai ssa, ni, ie.
eoliecrerai les taxes liiai de 1860 81 Hs lcen
res de 1861. A Respiration du temps spEdi;
les prophecies de tons eenX qui hatrobt l,ao
paye les iites taxes Il licences 4crohi snises et
yendues scion Ia ioj. JempIuifai dts deputies
pour iaire des saisies chez tons cens qu II ai.-
roht pas proftr dn temps aeco'de puf IN loi.
Je colnpte faire MI regIelnent final agec
/ 'Etal ayant le 3 Juliet 1861.
H. S.gHACHEkE,
Is mai Culecienr tlt.s taxes d'kiat.
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t,pelon,as, ~ mars lS0,-sla

AVIS.
DAN le presfhi jayeftisl le public dc ne PAS tra-
que i al, paisi ,t,,en yan. qc ID 1T ID Il.
torce Ale fiirp,Ia snseir. HIN
In certain billet iait paf moi t fsycnr lie A. X
sDseIai phtr Ii soInme ID ssU0 date veTs fe % oc,
'sfe liigo Ct payable aans lc inix Dc iaars lsefs
lssi IN billet fait par inpi, soIiaaifement Avre
WTac A. Robertson Ell fagenr dG Al Il. Ailsplm pour
IA somine dc cent ptastfes date ters e ~ oetabrs
1850 Ct payable sot dams ie InoiA de juili n danl Il
inos de Jilet 1851.
FRANK c.sRoBEETsoE.
Opeioasas : mars 1881 AIN
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GiRgaLraR,--La prise de Gibraltar par les
Angias tlI0i), cst N. episode dc Ia guerre de
In succession, souevee dams sFalrnpe par e les
IA l,fnt dn roid EspagDe, Charles IA. l.'amiral
Rock, nyant echoue dams son prjet de prendfe
Barcelonne, concurenlment aeec 10 prince
pafns'adt, iii yoiie ayec &c dcr:iier vers Gibral.
tar. une longnc ehaine de rochers escarpes
EN- defend l'arproehs dn cole de tefre. Par
mer, son cntree, inaccessible aux grnnls navi-
res, est t'hdroyse ar rurllletie ap ID cilatellr
ct dn moe, l.es EsPagnols cohtanis dams les
for,iicaiions natnrees DE- Ia place, NY asaie,
mis- qn'une garrison de ecu, hnm,nes. I'm vain
Ia fotte apgla Sc tira .p,inze mile comps de ca.
mons snr ces rechere: les EspagHols regartla icnl
en RANT ces Wsiles decharges. Dependant, de-
hafdis maftats So decident 4 tentcr III, comp.
de-lnain: lis gfavissent desrochers repntes mac.
cessibleS; arrives nn SONNET, lis tronvent les
temmes de Gibralur, sorties, sniynnt Ieur con
tame. pour aller eisiier ine chapele detliee i
Ia Fierge, iS Sen saisssent l.es hab,anls, ef.
ffayes dn sort reserve a lenrs femn,es, livrcnt
Ia silIe aux Apglais, qui depuis ceste epoqne,
ell snnt tnninnis restes inailtes, n,algre les ef.
fort de Eslmgne pnnr lenr iaire perdre ccite
cefdc la MedI,crruunee.
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A yelltIre

JEUH beanx Diabes avec eero,, parfacment
4 J ncuis Pour prix e'adtessar aa fiiiean d,i Pa
trate gu i'un des spussgnt;4.
DAtizfHE A. ~ IURY
80 mars lGI--tf ALBERT DEJ N.
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NISa

FJ,0Us eeax qni ont dos rfeiamatiops ea,tsc Ia
l. Eueccssteil du Dr Lewis a. webb, dernitFe.
fveiit dscesle, eont pries dc les ppfsenteFa JIG.
Anderson "a residence sur ie Bryon i.uaf Geux
aai aoisent Ia die siceessiaa sont a,ssi iries dc
Ye'iir t(ger immGdiatenent ayee II. Anderson.
AMELIA WEBB,
20 asrii Exec. TeAtamantaife.
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Ayrs

!
" ES snnssFenes yis,iuent doarrir un ftabtsse.
/ meat dc tailleur. rlie du Maine 4 lenenignuye
de- a maison qpI fail pafte de tHstel de 'E,isis.
ils sellicitel IL bicnyeiilant patronage ta pbfis VI
eersps qi'iis soat de sstistaife praMrtcinsiit ~
ans prix lcspius fnodfrfs ccux qui ycntlfUnt hien
les hoAgrtt de sut euiiianse.
MONNET d PHILIPPE.
0pelonsns, 0 avril isgi--N
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AVIS.
n sous ss.ss qs!i dpisent ls succession do fei
4 Pierf. e, tstgtfy u aai desirent sspiiaf des
traiF. aont ffiHs DE- geaif rfgIer inniediateu.dDt
ayec AIsSls e, Guidr. sa drlnenre.
ELAisE ssulDRy,
III aYfii--lIn Aslimfnlsitatrife.
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al YIS

I = sodssigne par ie present dnnue aris aux
Il 4 rlafchandset aa public en- rsn'ral dc te rIcn
yeltifs i credit "a femme. Gsdaiise fiar;,nt ~
teiiaa que afsnruais Il ne raiera aaeeue de.tr
gu'ee ppnrra contractor.
q 30 avEil--tf uILAIRE TATE. Ffts
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A Wis

e ssti1 qu ont dies feeiama.i1fts contra II sacsee.
sion de fen Denis Mepauiel sai,t pri,is DE- rsnir
les pr:sciiter 4 Albert D@jaaH sail i,,feau aux
Opcl1ssas. cetx ali dnisent a Ia sis,iise sucers-
sion fsolt hsn dc vefir fealer avee ili :lnmktiia.
temen sils sfaiert eyitcf des fsais.
0pelotiass, 30 mars 1851
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pERI3I

It's ccria billet dc eeHt haisspie piassees t.fss5
ete egarS 90 per.iu. ss
Il a t.s iais On iiasief isss 81 p.syaslc IN |...
YIer 1850. -
le pai'lic sst par e present sersi de as pas -
tiqEeF iY,pr ie t!it billet, -
Is Nj zn EtRTfa tstss..1s}ss
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A YENDRE.

q HABlTaTi0Ns 81 des negfes. ,0io acre .Ia
O tetie, scIldFe par JAMES 81. HIf.I..
0IentSas.s2a mar. Isai-tf
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-eau do Sheriff, Opeloasns. 25, mni ISL. /.
ii. ". CHAG GIIERE, Sheriff
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Prejudice in favor Of common law
practice in New York has prevented the
code from having that full beneficial eff
feet that it should have, but the time is
not far distant when all those prejudices
will cease, and with them the system Of
legal fictitious falsehood known by the
name OF common law pleading. In its
stead we shall find a plain statement of
facts to notify the court of the claims of
the parties and enable the clerk to draw
up a record of the judgment. Whether
Vermont shall progress or stand still, de-
ponds upon the people. Lawyers will
probably never ask for the change nei-
thor will judges, because judges are
made of lawyers, and / am sorry to say
some of them are frail and imperfect in
more senses than one. But will trouble
your readers no more upon this subject.
Yours, &c.
JESSE COOPER.
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THE SOUTHERN CoNFEDERACY.-A
President without an election a confed-
eracy without bond of union; the forms
Of national government without a nation
al existence republic without free
dom; supposed substance without form
or shape; fact and an impossibility ;
such is the sum total of the new slave
nation. A navy with more commodores
than ships an army with more generals
than regiments; an ordnance department
with more captains and engineers than
guns; a society with more slaves than
freemen-before this union of licentous
civilization with barbarous weakness,
this patchwork of vice, folly, and knavery
we are expected to quail. to sink away.
to give up without striking a blow, to
humble ourselves in the dust, and to
purchase shameful truce with the birth
right of our children.-Peo1fa Trans
crtpt.
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sE The following letter has been
handed US by Geo. A. Merrill, Secretary
of Civil and Military Affairs, which will
explain itself
ST. JoHNsBURY, April, %, 1861.
SIR -
In reply to your enquiries respecting
the inspection and enrolment Of vol
unteer company At, am instruc-
ted by the Governor to inform you that
such permission is granted, subject to the
general order which will soon be issued.
And l am also instructed to publish this
note for the information of those who
have made similar enquiries in relation
to companies already formed or to be
formed in different parts of the State.
The Governor goes this day to Rut-
land for the purpose, in connection with
the Adjutant and Inspector General, of
completing the arrangements for mus
tering into rendezvous the first Vermont
regiment, now ready for the U. S. SER
vice. Meantime there will be no nm
necessary delay in issuing a general or
der and appointing the proper officers
for the enlistment of the two additional
regiments required by the recent act of
Legislature.
GEO. A. MERRILL,
Sec'y Of Civil & Military Affairs.
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"a a Letter from Washington, in tho
Louisville (Ky,) JounaI thus describes
an interview of the writer with the Pres
dent:
81 found the President frank and calm
but decided and firm. He expressed a
deep concern and regret for the existing
condition of public affairs, and his hope
that there would yet be a restoration of
the Union, and peace and amity among
all the states. He remarked that before
the Carolinians made their attack on Fl.
Sumter, he had decided not to reinforce
or attempt to reinforce its garrison, but
merely and only to supply its handful Of
furnishing men with food and that he
had distinctly communicated these pur-
poses to the authorities of the Southern
Confederation. That he had also deter
mined that until the meeting o. Con-
gress, he would make no attempt to re-
take the forts, &c, belonging to the Uni
ted States, which had been unlawfully
seized and wrested from their possession,
but would leave the then existing state
of things to be considered and acted up
on by Congress, unless he should be con-
strained to depart from that purpose by
the continued military operations of the
seeded states.
The President further said that events
had now reached a point when it must be
decided whether our system of federal
government was only a league Of sover-
eigu and independent States, from which
any State could withdraw at pleasure, or
whether the Constitution formed a gov
eminent invested with strength and pow
ers sufficient to uphold its own authority
and to enforce the execution of the laws
Of Congress. That he had no doubt of
the truth of thelatter proposition, and he
intended to max it good in the admins
tration of the government to the extent
that he should be sustained by the people
Of the United States.
He remarked also that he expected all
the states upon which he had made a
reqIisition for military aid to enable him
to execute the laws, to respond to that
call, and particularly the state of Ken
lucky which had been so loyal to tbs
Union and faithful in the performance OF
all her duties. That he greatly regretted
she had not acted ur to the principle of
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NEW CLERK.-Hon. /. N. Cushman
Of this village, has received the appoint
ment Of county clerk, oice N. w. Bng-
ham resigned, and who has one of the
government teats at Island Pond
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c. We have no hesitancy in recon-
mending Scovill's Blood and Liver Syr-
up, for such diseases as are caused by an
impure state Of the blood, or torpid action
Of the liver.
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ORLEANS OUT WEsT.-Our Orleans
county boys are sustaining the honor Of
the state in other parts than at home
BY the following extract Of letter to a
friend of his it will be seen that J. H..
Spencer, formerly of Barton Landing,
has arrayed himself in the habiiments of
freedom and is going to battle in compa-
ny with the sons of young Minnesota
He will return aoiM his shield or upon
il -
81 am now on duty as volunteer in r com
pany organised day before yesterday. have
the post of Orderly Sergeant in the company.
1t is new business to me, but make it go very
well The company will leave for st. Paul to-
morrow, where we shall stay until we receive
orders from the government. We have a good
company OF boys hat can fight if necessary.
The northwest is in a fever. The last gales that
have swept from the south have borne to our
cars the clash of resembling arms 1t be
hooves every friend Of humanity to respond
to the call of the nation The flag which led
our fathers on to victory upon the fields Of Bun
ker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown, must again
wave from the ramparts from which it has been
ruthlessly torn, and shall never be disgraced by
a surrender to traitors SO long as Minnesota has
patriotic hearts and hands to protect it. have
sacrificed good deal in taking the step which
have taken in regard to this matter, but my
motto is, "Our country, may she ere, be right,
but right or torong, our country"
J. II. SPENCER.
EairhouIt NTinnosoto ApriI OK 1851
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Your MOTHER.
Boston. April %. 1861.

Ca 1t is stated that one of the Mass.
soldiers who was MORALLY wounded and
bled to death, while 10 the last struggles
stood erect, raising his right hand toward
heaven and exclaimed: al hail 10 the
stars and stripes :" and expired instantly.
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aa~na
ca Cairo, Illinois, is a place of great
military Importance, being located at the
confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers, on a point of land which runs
down between Kentucky and Missouri.
Our government has already provided
for its security by the collection of large
force, while thousands of troops can be
rapidly concentrated there if necessary,
which seems not improbable in view of
the movements of Gen. Pillow. On the
LIST of May, according to newspaper
correspondent there were three camps
at Cairo,--one at the point, one on the
Mississippi levee about three miles from
town, and one on the Ohio levee at a
saw mill below the mouth of the Cache.
An addition was being made to the hos
pital, and battery erected at Camp
Smith on the Mississippi levee. Another
writer gives the population at 1900, and
says Of the situation of the town;
at is on the extreme southern point
of Illinois which in low water and dry
weather is dry enough for a town, but at
high water, as in the present case, the
surface Of the river is eight or ten feet
above the level Of the town, which is pro-
tected by levees running several miles
along the bank of each river. This levee
is some fifty feet above low-water mark,
and this is to US a ready-made breast
work, perfectly defensible from a direct
fire from the river. Nothing can be in
jured except from shetland you know
two can play at that game. North of
Cairo for several miles, reaching from
river to river, is an interminable swamp,
passable only by the Illinois Central Rail
road. And this road we have well guar
ded. Cairo, then is an isolated, dry spot,
and all the available landing places, Maj.
j. d. Webster has planted batteries well
enrenched and supported so that the
channels of both rivers and their confu-
ence are commanded, and the batteries
are so connected that they can rally in
stantly to each others support"
GaS Was any body killed at Charleston
is a question still unsatisfactory answer
ed. The son Of well known -four mer-
chant in New York who was an unwiIl-
ing soldier in Fort Moultrie, says that
thirty three men were instantly killed
and many more wounded at the very first
shot from Sumter, and that he himself
counted over two hundred dead bodies in
the fort. He says their bodies we're box
ed up at night, and buried in the trench
es in the negro burying ground. This
agrees with other statements. a native
Of Vermont, residing in Charleston, wrote
to his father in Windsor County, that in
one night after the attack on Fort Sum
ter be assisted in carrying more than two
hundred dead bodies away from the float
ing battery and from Cummings Point
battery.-BostoH Journal
ca The Charleston Courier learns
from the most reliable source that Presi-
dent Davis will take command in person,
as GeneraI-in-chief of the forces gather
ing in Virginia.
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A meeting Of the Irasburgh Hotel Company
is hereby called, TO be holden at the Inn of sabn
Kelam in said Irasburgh, on Tuesday the DIST
day of May, inst, at ? o'clock P. NJ.
IRA II. ALLEN.
Irasburgh, May 9, 1861
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u There are two recruiting offices in Orleans
county, one at Charleston, and one at Coventry
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PATRIoTIC.-The following cores
pondence has passed between a mother
and son, the former living in Baltimore
and the latter in Boston. The letters tell
their own story:
BALTIMORE, April II.
My Dear Son Your remarks Of last
Sabbath we're telegraphed to Baltimore
and published in an extra. Has God
sent you to preach the sword or to preach
Christ
Your MOTHER.
Boston, April %, 1861.
My Dear Mother: "God had sent" me
not only "to preach the sword" but to use
1t. When this government tumbles, look
amongst the ruins for your
STAR SPANGLED BANNER SoN.
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ARMS FOR VERMoNT.-Fiheen boxes
containing 800 rifed muskets for the
Vermont Regiment, arrived at Rutland
on Friday directed to Adj. Gen. Baxter.
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Fairbault, Minnesota, April %, 1861,
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g8T The quality of the news sent down
South by the rebels is displayed in the
following extract from a dispatch dated
Norfolk, April %, and published in the
New Orleans papers:
Capt. Elzey reached this city yester-
day morning, having succeeded in making
his escape the night previous from Old
Point, where for more than a week, he
was held close prisoner. He reports
that there are two other Southern Off
GERS, who, like him, were not permitted
to resign, and who are now in close con-
fnement. He succeeded by a stratagem
in escaping to Hampton, whence he was
Struggled to this city yesterday. The
number of reiniorcements thrown into
the fort, he represents has been greatly
exaggerated, the whole force there at the
time of his leaving not exceeding 1000
men. They are all raw recruits, ragged,
disPirited, and, for the most part, forced
into service. There is no fight in them,
he says
The Massachusetts boys at Fort Mon
roe ragged, dispirited," and 'entrapped
into service" indeed ! mo fight in
them! Let the Virginians try their
pluck. Nothing would please our gal
liant volunteers so well as q brush with
their Boosting enemies. A cause that
requires go much lying 70 sustain it can
not live long-Bostos Journal
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-05-10

ABOUT HoGs.-Essex county can't
be beat in raising hogs. Hiram Blanch-
ard of Canaan killed hog that weighed
when dressed, eight hundred and thirteen
lbs. The hog was 81 months old.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-05-10

ca The Charleston Courier learns
from the most reliable source that Pres-
dent Davis will take command in person,
as GeneraI-in-chief of the forces gather
ing in Virginia.