, 1863-09-19

Interesting Incldents.Patr1ot1sm Of
the People,
The Boston Christian Examiner for septcm-
her is an excellent number. The articles are:
Tertu1lIsn and Montanism, The Reality OF
Fiction, Rome in the Middle Age. zschokko's
Religious Meditations. Henry James on Crea-
tiop, Loyalty in the West, Altar, Pulpit and
Platform, a Month Of Victory, and Its Re.
suits; with the usual excellent review of cur
rent 1iterature.
We are violating no confidence in stating
that the admirable article on "Loyalty in
the West" is from the pen Of Rev. Robert
Collyer. Pastor Of Unity Church, Chicago.
The following extracts will be read with In
terest, coming as they do from the pen Of
one Of the most devoted and enthusiastic pa.
t1iots In the Vest:
HOW TIE WEST SPRING TO ARMS.
The call. of the President for seyenty-fiye
thousand men to put down the rebellion was
printed on the 18th Of April We well remem-
ber On that day hearing more than one man
eay, as lie read the telegram, Why doss not
'Mr: Lincoln call for.a quarter OF : million
Six, Ohio thirteen, Missouri four, Michigan
one. 'Wisconsiu one, Iowa one, and Minnesota
one. In one day from the call, the Governor
Of Illinois received kilograms Of forty COM
ranies that we're ready tor service; and In
five days, Of sixty nine companies. In FIVE
days from the cali, Indiana had seven thous-
and men over her quota imploring to be per
mitted to serve. Wisconsin Instantly far-
nIeheil her one regiment, aud in ten days was
ready to furnish five. Missouri, fostering all
over with treason that, before the yeaf Was
out, needed the surgery Of three ecore fights
to snbdue, rnised her tour full regiments
that the essential soundness that has since
then, with the hearty succor Of her Western
sisters, saved her, and will shortly set her
free. Iowa, with a dangerous Southern bor-
der, and her ehare Of mischief. makers within
the lines, raised her one regiment In few
hours, presently rendered two more, and, In
eight weeks from the first call, had sIx regi.
regiment, raised five at once, then mustered
nice more in very short time, while Mime
sofa sent q splendid body Of niue hundred
and thirty men Ike IN echo to the call.
LOYAL TOWNS.
The little town Of Proviso feels that Rhe
must be up and doing at once, md with al
her might. Proyieo has ninety voters; she
giyts instantly seventy.dve men to the ser
vice Of her country. Freeport, with no par
her duty, telegraphs in general way to one
Of the Western papers: ''lYo have no desire
to outlive our government; If It fall, We aud
our children will fall with it." Aledo, like
every other town in the West for year past,
has been sozely afflicted By the political war
Whoops continually raised about her Repub.
licau and Democratic poles. In these first
there ehall be no mora Democrat and Repub-
lcan, but cnly patriot and American. So,
full Of her good purpose, she musters all her
sons Of every name, marches to her poles,
lowers them carefully, skiIfully saws them
into elices, splices each carefully to each, uu-
til they are ono pole, and then with mighty
shontings, ralse.that, with the flag Of the
AN IOWA WOMAN.
" No unreadipess ON the part Of the State or
General Executive could chill this impulse
man. We have seen that the Iowa First was
raised in few hours. The boys came in
from tarm and town In the common working
costume. Iowa felt that 1t WAS hardly the
thing to eend her sons out 80, yet there was
not uniform In the Stlte, and the men were
wanted instantly, So she telegraphs to Chi.
cago for blue flannel, and had It up in the
next train which numbsrless, wives, moth
e1s, sisters, sweethealts attacking with shears
aud needles, hex regiment wns pat In unif 1rm
In q tew hours more, and sent away rejoicing.
There was laughter at the eight, as the stall
Wart youth came On through our great cities;
but 1t was o. laughter Of Infinite tenderness
beat on the Upper Mississippi.
. CURIOUS INCIDENTS.
The impulse to do something for the coun.
Batee, Of Pendltton, Indiana, believing that
be can fight yet Il they Will let him. en-
listing. accordingly. but rejscted, to his in
tenac disgus because he has owned to being
ninety yeaFs Of age; or to eex-tor here Ii
Mary ". Dennis, Standing Elk feet tWo in
e'irre1s, who, being unknown In those parts,
and disguised rs man. en}tsts In the Still
ment, ind Mary, being handy, as we'll Us
handsome fel1or, is promoted to be Ltcuten-
int before she Is found out; or to the aver
age cf ordinary: patriotism here is fam
liz Of sixteen young men residing In Dayton,
Chic, enlistiDg all at once, and in one COM
hard it Is to get his paper out, because his
two sons that he counted on to help him,
the younger only fifteen years Of ege, hare
enlisted, md walked two hundred miles to
join their company, and how he has third
counting how long. before he can 60, too,
with four more growing finely, and be hopes
es mn e. hass ueas seSen @sIs to gG to
troit firm offering to furn1eh Government
with fifty tons Of shot and shell, to be plid
for whenever it fs convenient.
And one morning gust Of laughter passes
over Chicago, as the story goes, that, the day
before, great houae In New Orleans had tel
eeraphed to one in Chicago for large quanti-
ties Of corn. The securities were safe, the
''margfn splendid, but the reply was Instant
" flashed back, stEat your cotton" |" Another
1aueh there VAS, when the Illinois boys had
slipped down quietly to Cairo to watch for
whatever might come over from Kentucky,
aud bad stopped a steamer bound down the
river 1adcn Wit lend. The lead was unload
ed on the leyee, and presently a gentleman
from the South inquired why that lead wasn't
Gent down; to which this Captain replied, lie
believed thoEe Illinois fellows intsnolD. to
'send It In smaller packages"
TILE MESSAGES OF THE GOVERNORS.
Such vas the response Of the Western man
On the instant, to the cry Of the country for
aid against her enemies. The messages Of the
Governors. rs they were published one by
one, full Of earnest patriotism as they we're,
did but echo the cry that had already gone
cut Of the heart Of the people themselves.
Morton, OF Indiana, said: "The voice Of par.
ty should now be hushcd mud forgotten let
ns make ono party, and TINT for the country"
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