LITTLE RHODY. Of all the true host that New England can boast, Governor Sprague was not very vague, Not backward at all at the President's call, The gay little State, not a moment too late, Loyal and true little Rhody! Governor Sprague was not very vague, Let traitors look out, for there's never a doubt Governor Sprague is a very good egg, -N. Y. Saturday Mercury. TO ARMS. BY H. A. MOORE. WAKE! wake! long-slumbering north! Pour thy brave legions forth, Armed for the fight. Hark! 'tis our country's cry "Brave men for liberty Now must not fear to die!" God speed the right ! Sons of heroic sires, Turn from your homestead fires, 'Neath your mailed tread. In the wild fray. Maiden, hold back the tear, Stifle thy woe. Where could thy lover's head Arm, for the holy war! Give heart and hand, Glad to pour loyal blood Strong hearts of north and west, Even for breath. Fair Freedom's royal name, God leads our loyal host; God speed the right. Arm for the fight! Heaped up by shot and shell Faint not! the end shall be Arm! march to victory! God leads the fight! RULE SLAVEOWNIA. THE NATIONAL HYMN OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. WHEN first the South to fury fanned, Rule Slaveownia, Slaveownia rules, and raves "Christians ever, ever, ever have had slaves." The Northerns, not so blest as thee, At Aby Lincoln's foot may fall, While thou shalt flourish, shalt flourish fierce and free The whip that makes the nigger bawl. Rule Slaveownia, Slaveownia rules, and raves"Christians ever, ever, ever should have slaves." Thou, dully savage, shall despise Each freeman's argument, or joke; Each law that Congress, that Congress thought so wise, Serves but to light thy pipe for smoke. Rule Slaveownia, Slaveownia rules, and raves"Christians ever, ever, ever must have slaves." And trade, that knows no god but gold, Shall to thy pirate ports repair; Blest land, where flesh-where human flesh is sold, And manly arms may flog that air. Rule Slaveownia, Slaveownia rules, and raves"Christians ever, ever, ever shall have slaves." -Punch, Apr. 20. Once more, dear brother State! thy pure, brave blood baptizes Our last and noblest struggle for freedom and for right It fell on the cruel stones! but an awful nation rises Not behind the rest in zeal, From Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Old Connecticut is here, Minnesota, though remote, Iowa and Michigan, Not the last in honor's race, See Wisconsin come apace— Forward! Delaware, New Jersey, rise Onward! on! a common cause Forward, in your strength and pride. -Boston Transcript. THE DEPARTURE. THE gallant young men of Rhode Island Are marching in haste to the wars; In the glory of its conscience and the splen-Full girded for strife, they are hazarding life dor of its might! -Hartford (Conn.) Press. THE GATHERING. FORWARD! onward! far and forth! Forward! Massachusetts hears that cry- Pennsylvania draws her sword, Brave New York is up and ready, Small Rhode Island flies to arms, Shouting at the first alarms, Forward! Illinois and Indiana Shriek, as they unroll our banner Forward! In defence of the Banner of Stars. That flag is in danger from treason, Disowned and dishonored by States, O eyes that are weary with weeping, Look up to the Star Spangled Banner; In the patriot oath to defend it From treason and faction's wild lust; Look on to the day when, returning Waves the Star Spangled Banner for aye!" -Providence Evening Press. No. 910.-9 November, 1861. 1. Death of Silvanus Miller, 2. Arms and Armor for Ships, 3. John George Watts, 4. The Rescued Infant.-A Chinese Story, 5. Personal Recollections of the Rev. George Croly, Examiner, 6. Suttee in China, CONTENTS. PAGE. N. Y. Evening Post, 242 British Association, 243 Examiner, 253 Dublin University Magazine, 255 264 All the Year Round, 265 7. English Feeling towards America, 8. Speech of Sir E. B. Lytton on America, 9. The Czar and Sir E. B. Lytton on America, 10. The Works of Charles Lamb, 11. Free Labor in the West Indies, 12. False Shame, POETRY.-Unrest, 268. Southern Treason, 268. Lyon, 287. John C. Fremont, 287. Army Knitters, 287. Secession Song, 288. Wooed, 288. SHORT ARTICLES.-Paper made from Wood, 242. The Perfume of Flowers, 252. A Variegated Oak, 252. Silver Mirrors, 264. Good Derived from Suffering, 276. Oaths of Allegiance, 276. Hatching Young Ostriches, 280. Collodion, 280. Astronomical Insects, 283; Invita Minerva, 283. Magneto-electric, 286. NEW BOOKS. Boston A. Williams & Co. This CHEAP COTTON by FREE LABOR; by a Cotton Manufacturer. pamphlet is a collection of many facts in relation to the cultivation of Cotton-proving that it may be profitably raised by freemen, whether black or white. We understand that the author is Edward Atkinson, Esq., of Boston. CONTENTS OF THE LIVING AGE. This is a reprint of sixteen of the pages which have appeared on our covers. Price, twenty-five cents. Official Map of the State of Virginia. By J. T. Lloyd. New York. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY LITTELL, SON, & CO., BOSTON. For Six Dollars a year, in advance, remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually forwarded free of postage. Complete sets of the First Series, in thirty-six volumes, and of the Second Series, in twenty volumes, handsomely bound, packed in neat boxes, and delivered in all the principal cities, free of expense of freight, are for sale at two dollars a volume. ANY VOLUME may be had separately, at two dollars, bound, or a dollar and a half in numbers. ANY NUMBER may be had for 13 cents; and it is well worth while for subscribers or purchasers to complete any broken volumes they may have, and thus greatly enhance their value. From The New York Evening Post, 16 Oct. DEATH OF SILVANUS MILLER. York delighted to honor. Few persons have had a larger number of personal acquaintances and private friends, during the course of a long life, than Judge Miller. This fact was owing to his personal qualities; he was eminently social and genial in his temper and disposition, easy and often brilliant in conversation, full of sprightliness and humor, ready, quick, and keen in repartee; he was the life of every domestic or social circle which he entered, and his highest gratification, at home or abroad, was in beholding happy human faces. SILVANUS MILLER, an old citizen of New York, died at his residence this morning, at the age of eighty-nine years. He was a native of the State of New York, and was never absent one year altogether from his native state during his long life. At an early age he was graduated at Columbia College in this city; here he studied the legal profession; here he entered upon the practice of that profession, and here he lived a conspicuous actor on the stage of life for nearly four score years and ten. He Judge Miller early took a lively interest was a living witness of many changes in this in public affairs. He was an active and arcity, and had personal knowledge of most dent politician, a ready and forcible political of the conspicuous men of his day. Pos-writer in the early contests between the Fedsessed of keen powers of observation and eral and Republican parties, to the latter of an uncommonly retentive memory, Judge Miller has not left behind him a more full and faithful chronicler of those changes and the characteristics of the men whom New which he belonged. He filled a number of public offices, the most important of which was the office of Surrogate of this city, which he held for more than twenty years. AMONGST the multitude of materials which | have been proposed for the manufacture of paper, perhaps wood has been suggested the greatest number of times. On more than one occasion the manufacture has been actually carried out, and we saw some years ago really good paper for printing purposes produced from deal shavings by the patent of J. & C. Watt. It is now said that a French lady has succeeded in manufacturing excellent paper from wood, and at a price much lower than that made from rags. Her method consists chiefly in the use of a new kind of machinery for reducing the wood to fine fibres, which are afterwards treated with the alkalis and acids necessary to reduce them to pulp, and the composition is finally bleached by the action of chlorine. By means of a series of parallel vertical wheels, armed with fine points, which are caused to pass over the surface of the wood in the direction of its fibres, the surface of the wood is marked, and the outer layer is formed into a kind of net, without woof, composed of separate threads. This layer of fine threads is afterwards removed by means of a plane, which is passed across the wood, and the portion thus removed, which resembles lint or flax, is then treated with chlorine, etc. Specimens have thus been made consisting of a mixture of eighty per cent of wood-pulp, and twenty per cent of rag-pulp, and sheets have been tried by printers, lithographers, and others, with very satisfactory results. It is the unanimous opinion of the engravers and lithographers who have used it, that paper made according to this method, from wood, and which costs only £16 per ton, is quite equal to the China paper, which costs £214 per ton. It is confidently expected that experiments upon a larger scale will confirm the results already obtained. The most ingenious method of disintegrating the fibre of wood which we have yet heard of is a Yankee "notion." Wood is placed in a cannon, the mouth of which is plugged up. Highpressure steam is then forced in through the touch-hole, and when the pressure rises to sufficient degree, the plug, together with the wood, is blown out, the latter being reduced to the appearance of wool by the expansive force of the steam, with which its pores have been filled whilst in the cannon.-London Review. From The Athenæum. ARMS AND ARMOR FOR SHIPS. MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 14 SEPT. Section G.-Mechanical Science. MR. EDDY read "A Proposal for a Class of Gunboats capable of engaging Armorplated Ships at Sea, accompanied with Suggestions for fastening on Armor-Plates." He considers that the monster iron-clad vessels which we and our neighbors were building might be successfully assailed by vessels of very inferior size especially designed for the purpose. The first essential condition of such vessels was superiority of speed, and so protected as to approach them without being crippled; and he believed that one such vessel with a couple of heavy guns might so harass a larger vessel as to paralyze her movements, and that two such vessels might even engage with advantage; and, if this was so, might not a flotilla of these small vessels advantageously engage a fleet of the large iron-plated ships? To obtain superior speed, we must either sacrifice weight of metal or increase the size. He preferred the former, and by reducing the armament to a very few guns-two or four, —and those of the powerful kind now manufactured, he thought we might obtain the required speed within moderate dimensions; and he hoped to show that, by a peculiar adjustment of material, we might gain all the protection required, without immoderate weight. Much of this problem had indeed been worked out by Capt. Coles, of whose cupola, the conical fort, with revolving shield, in the model produced, was a modification. A speed of sixteen knots an hour would, he believed, be sufficient for present purposes, and he took it that this speed might be secured without difficulty in a vessel of fine lines, and of certain proportions, without tremendous size. Dr. Eddy proceeded to describe from a model the kind of gunboat he proposed to build. The dimensions, he said, were calculated from one datum; namely, the least elevation above water at which the guns could advantageously be laid, which he took to be eight feet. In this position, then, he would place two of the heaviest Armstrong guns, with their muzzles four and a half feet apart, on an inclined slide, upon a turn-table placed within a fixed conical fort, armor clad, the sides of which sloped at an angle of 45°. Above this, for a perpendicular height of four feet, he would pro tect the guns and gunners with a shield of iron plate, also at an angle of 45°. The shape of the fort would be a truncated cone on a cylinder, like an extinguisher upon a candlestick. A second cupola he believed might be added, and this would give an armament of four guns, which, if concentrated upon one point at short range, must have a crushing effect. But, to be of any use, the smaller vessel must be enabled to approach her large antagonist without risk of having a shot sent through her bottom from the enemy's depressed guns. The manner in which he proposed to fortify the gunboat was by keeping all the vital parts well below the water-line, and covering them with a deck which would deflect upwards any shot that might reach it. As the boat was only intended to attack ships, not forts, he presumed there was no need to apprehend a shot striking her at a larger angle with the horizon than 7°. Still at this angle, to protect the sides of the vessel effectually, the armor must be carried at least four feet above water and three feet below, possibly more; but as this involved a weight of three hundred tons in plating alone, some other method of protection must be sought. He hoped he had found this desideratum in a plan which aimed at carrying out thoroughly the principle of deflexion. His plan consisted of an arched deck of inch iron resting upon two courses of timber, the extremities of the arch being tied, so as to neutralize the outward thrust. He proposed that this should spring at the sides from three feet below the water-line, and that the crown should rise amidships up to the water-line, the crown being kept tolerably flat, the object being to present so small an angle that even a flat-headed bolt should glance off. The space above the deck and between it and the water-line he proposed to pack with some tough and resilient but light fibre, and these qualities he found combined in the cocoa-nut fibre, which could be easily rendered incombustible by sal-ammoniac. This fibre would offer a considerable amount of resistance to the penetration of a shot, and in proportion to the resistance would tend to deflect the shot. The exact amount of resistance which this mode of packing would afford could not be ascertained without experiment, but the trial would not be expensive. He might be met with the objection, that steel or iron was the substance which offered the greatest amount |