The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-19

The following highly colored vcrses arc publish
ed IN tho Radical journals, with considerable
flourish OF trumpets. Az always glad to
encourage struggling merit-and moreover, as
we should like our colored friends here now cul-
tvatinS tho 'humanities," to SEQ what can DO
dono publish tho entire poom:
"Whon Moses broke dc Commandments
Ho broke 'om just III stone;
But Moses johnson broke 'cm
Al in our flesh and bone.
Wild many blood drop runuin',
And many bitter groan.
"When Moses lift do serpent
1t healed OIL every hand;
But you've put up do Copperheads,
An raised do Southern rattlcsnake
To'sting do colored man."
Gen; BTrLER wo read in tho Independent, will
Academy OF Music in Brooklyn, on Saturday oveu-
ing, November 2t His subject will be "Tho
usurpauons, wrongs, and abuses, Of executive
power, and the constitutional remedy therefor"
Gen. BUTLER, it must bo confessed, has maIo
very judicious choice of his subject Who is better
qualified to descant tho wrongs and abuses of
power than ho Who has had lirger expe-
rience of it in all its varied phascs2 SmartinS
under the lmputaion of being corked up, tho dis
tinGnished General over since tho close ofthe war,
has done his utmost to yindcate himself from
this aspersion; and not ono of all tho blatant poll
ticans OF the North has been so mouthy as this
approaching lecture, ho will tell If all tho
''wrongs" ile inflicted, and sabuses" he commit
ted or abetted i'll New Orleans and Norfolk.
BARNUM is advertising his "show" in great etyo
in tho West. Ho is now omulous OF earning famo
akin to that Of Mr.. PEABODY. A Northern sheet
says:
His object in lecturing may bo inferred from the
following extract Of private letter 10 friend,
which we are permitted to publish:
o
Bethel, Connecticut (my birth place); also one
Thousand dollars to a school in Bridgeport, Con
prizes annually to the scholars who may excol in
reading, wrfring and arithmetic; and one or two
thousand dollars to ono or two Of the churches in
Bridgeport"
DR.. s1MMs' NEW BocKz
The Round 1dJle says:
MessrE. Richardson & Co. are about to publish
War Poetry of tho South, q handsome volume of
four hundred and eighty two pages, edited by Mr.
William Gilmore Simms, and containing over two
hundred specimens of verse, good, bad and indif-
fercnt. AS a collection it compares favorably, wo
Moore and MIR. Richard Grant White, showing tho
Southern poets TO have been much in earnest
in OF as
ment, not to say yiturerative at times. Yitupera-
| tion and vehemenco arc not confined, however, to
any one section Of this great continent, tho moree
the pity.
Simms in his preface, "and indicative OF temper
and feeling which wore in conflict with national
ity, yet, now that the States of the Union have
been resolved into one nation, this collection is
essentially as much the property Of the whole as
are the captured cannon which were employed
against it during tho progress OF the late war. 1t
belongs to tho national liter aturo, and will here
after be regarded as constituting proper part Of
it, just legimately to be recognized by the ma
ton as are the rival ballads OF the Cavaliers and
Roundheads by the English, in the great civil
All the Southernpoets with whom we were pre-
viously acquainted are represented in it's pages,
besides great many of whom we mover heard be-
fore, and whom we never desire to hear again.
here at the North. Among the Best known @ names names
Hsyne Mr. & James Barron Rop MI Mr f.
Thompson, Mr.. A. J. RequieIr, Mr; Alexander D.
Henry I. Flash, Mr. James r. Randall, Mr.. John
| Esten Cooke, and MIR. Simms himself. To say
that al these gentlemen have written fine poems
than tho truth to say that most of them had not
written exceedingly vol: Mr.. Timrod is, per-
& nohns that ho Us the
duced either at the North or the South surprising
bis, "My Maryland" Mr.. Thompson is spirited
vous, particularly in his balladry, while Mr. Hayne
is always poetical aud often effective in his mca-
sures. Some Q, the best lyrics in the volume are
nor, OF Georgia, whose "Old Rteman' is an adm-
NOUS has done himself or possibly herself Rs q in this
| instance, full justice in this touching poem:
ENLISTED TO-DAY
know the ahnes and the lilacs arc blowing.
81; And summer me T sends kisses by beautiful May.
Oh to sec oil tho treasures tho spring Is besowing
And think-my boy Willie enlisted to-day.
| 1t seems but day since at twilight low hurnming
rocked him to sleep with his cheek upon mine,
While Robby tho fourycar DID, watched for the coming
or father, adown the streets fndistinct line
| It is many year since my Harry departed,
To come back no more in the twilight or dawn;
And Robby grow weary Of watching, and started
Alone on the journey his father had gono.
| 1t Is many year-and this afternoon sitting
At Robby's cid window, heard the band plny
And suddenly ceased dreaming my knitting,
| To rocollect Willie is twenty today.
And that. standing beside him soft May-day mornng
Tho sun making gold OF his wreathed cigar smoke,
And choked down tho tears when he eagerly spoke:
"Dear mother, you know how these Mortimer are crow.
| ing,
They would tramplo the rights of the South in the
| dust -
Tho boys are all lre and they wish I were going"
He stopped, but his eyes said "Oh, say ii musti"
smiled on the boy, though my heart seemed breakng
My eyes filled with tears. SO turned them away,
And answered him. "Willie tits well you arc waking
Go, oct as your father would bid you to-day I"
I SIT In tho window, and SEQ tho flags flying
And droarily list to tho roll of the drum,
And smother tho pain in my heart that is lying,
| And bid oil the icars In my bosom be dumb.
| shall sit In tho window, when summer Ia lyinp
Out oVor the fields, and tho honey bees hum
Lus tho at tho porch from hor tremulous siqhug
| And witch for the fIce Of my darling to come.
| Ap1if o,y,ou