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the death OT COL. bakes. Every few weeks we are called upon to record the death of some eminent statesman, or hero of war. Already we have noticed the demise or the venerable Judge McLean, the noble Stephen v A. Douglas, the young, fearless, and ? promising Col. Ellsworth, the undauit- \\ ted, brilliant, and .brave Qeu. Nathaniel | Lyon, and last, Col. Edward D. Baker. We are inclined to tho belief that every j ono of these men died victims to this *" great rebellion. Judge McLean wassu devotedly attached to liis Country, that when be saw the schemes of traitors unfolded, his depression of spirits connected with old age, carried bins to his long home. Senator Douglas* last sickness j was caused by over exertion, in southern Illinois, while daily and nightly endeavoring to quell and stifle the avowed sympathies fo' the Southern Confederacy, In that section Col. Ellsworth comes next in torn. As you all know, he lost his young life,- by the hand of a coldblooded assassin. And who is next ? — It is the proud and gallant Gen. Lyon, who fell at the front of his soldiers, while leading them in an engagement with a vastly superior number of rebels. He might well have been called the lion • of tho West. Now we will refer to the ! late Col. Baker, who was killed, on Mon- ' day of lostVcek, while engaged in n ! conflict with the rebels, on the Upper ; Potomac. Ho was riding many yards in front of his men, dressed in futhqoiform, waving his hat and cheering his men on to the fight, when nine ball > pierced him to death. Poor shots en- j tered Ids head, and one his heart. Thus I 'he died, oa brave at ever did any wnrjior. He whs acting as a Brigadier- , -tiencral, and in him, the Nation loses : one of her noblest statesmen and best ; military men. We copy tho following j from the Philadelphia "Press." It is ' tribute to the memory of Col. Baker, written by "Occamoxal," the talented ; Washington correspondent of that pn- j per :— Wastoxctox, CcL Sj2, 4 861 Another victim has ' been offered np 1 to Abe great Molock of Treason. The j fliftod Edward I). Baker, of Oregon, j Senator and soldier, orator nnd patriot, i has gone to meet the spirits of Ells- ■ worth, Ureblo, and Lyon. Only a few days ago he took me by the hand, and j made my heart glad by the confidence i and cnthusiaiu with which he spoke of j the great struggle in which he has ac- j led so conspicious a part Never shall 1 forget his last speech in the Senate of tho Uoited States in reply to Breckinridge. He bad jost returned from his camp, his face bronzed by exposure to I A^e sun, his undress uniform soiled ami j dusty with the labors of the fleld ; and I he administered such a rebuke to the Ingrate Kentockian as recalled the beet efforts pf our greatest slalesraenV Although entirely impromptu, it was as logical, as chaste, and as finished, as if It had been )>olished and committed to memory in the solitude of his chamber. l 1 had heard him on another occasion, . in the House of Representatives, years ; ngo, when, with signal effect, he advocated the Mexican war, previous to re- 1 signing hi* seat to rejoin his regiment j [ under General Scott: I had read bis j [ marvellous oration upon the lamented 1 I Brodcrick, who also gave his life to his ; | country, and was murdered for his couI acieutioos hostility to the. the slave olii ». garcy . I bad listened to description* of i I she efieet produced by that splendid lAbntc by those who had the good fortune to be in San Francisco when it : vc s pronounced ; but never shell I for-

get my emotions daring his. reply to) j Breckinridge. His manner, bis bw^rt ing, his gestures, his voice, his aliment, could not have been surpassed, 5 and have rarely been' equalled. There " was not a Senator, friend or foe, who ) did not admit that it, was the most pow- ] crful and successful vindication of the was ; the most sarcastic, yet courteous, I ' chastisement of an incarnate traitor \ that had ever been delivered in the Sen- ' a'e of the United States. There he \ stood, trebly qualified to discharge his i glorious doty. An adopted citizen, an , Knglisman-born, a soldier in arms for his flag ; a legislator, chosen by a people among wbom lie was almost a stranger, ho demonstrated alike bis personal ' i gratitude to the Constitution which pro- ] r ; tected and the constituency that houored i i ' him, his fervent devotion to the cause , i in whidh he had drawn his sword, and _ iiis surpassing genius in the fulfilment of his Sentoriul trust. Colonel Baker was a man of ggro at1 tributes. His appearance and -'address ' were eminently prepossessing. His t eventful nnd exciting life had whitened . his locks, but Ids face was a type of the freshest nnd manliest beauty. In his; intercourse with society nnd tho Senate, • he was a model of refinement and suav- ' ity, never indulging in coarse language , t or angry epithets. In the hottest party ' . contests lie preserved his temper ; and , when he took pa'rl in debate, his hardest , blows were given with a chivalry and a ! ; grace which rendered him irresistible^ j He was not only gifted in these rcspcetx 1 j — not only a surpns ing orator, but a ' ' I fine poet. Soine of his effusions, now ' i in the possession of a friend In this . city, have often reminded mo of the , choicest gems of Tom Moore. He was | n Republican in politics, a devoted I friend of President Lincoln and an earnest opponent of the rebellion. Yet, he ' won warmly attached 10 Douglas during ' - j his life, and sought the acquaintance of- . overy Democrat who shared the confi- . , deuce of that great popular leader. , j Hi* energy was amazing — witness his j ' j perseverance in raising Ids brigade. He ' j was not a selfish mau. He worked for ' ; his country. I have seen 'hin^jtt ,lhc , i departments early and late, never enN I gaged in jobs, but always Moving either to promote the interest* of his peoi pie on the 1'aciGc border, or to obtain j comforts for bis men in camp. And ' how they loved him ! How they confided ' J in hire I How tbvy clustered around j ! 1 him! When a mutiny wa* threatened by j . some of his discontented troops he • quelled it more by his gentleness, by his ■ kind persuasion, by his eloquent appeals ' to their self-respect sud love of country ' than by angry menace* bac. ed by loa1 ded muskets nod bristling bayonets. I cannot belter conaiade this heartfelt | offering to the memory of this brave , I and glorious mat. than by giving a quo I f tation from his great speech in the Sen- i ate of tho Unites! States directly after • the battle of Bull Run, (to which I 1 ; have referred,) on the first of Angnsl, I > I 1861 : 1 I "Now, a few words, nnd a few only, ; [ bs to the Senator's predictions: The i Senator from Kentucky stands up here ; in a manly way in opposition to what he ; sees is the overwhelming sentiment of r . the 8enate, and utters reproof, tnaledic1 i tion, and prediction combined. Well, I sir, R is not every prediction that is > prophecy. It is the easiest thing in the 1 i world to do ; there is noihjog easier, ex- • : cepi to be mistaken whft we have pre- ■ ! dieted I confess, Mr- President, that • I would not hnvo predicted tinea weeks ' : ngo the disasters which have overtaken ' ' oar arms ; and I do not think (if 1 were 1 to predict now) that six months hence i the Senator will indnlge in the some ■ tone of prediction which is bis favorite ' key now. 1 would ask him, what would ' you have us do now — a Confederate ar- - my within twenty miles of us, advancing, • or threatening to advance, u> overwhelm - 1 your Government; to shake- the pilI

1 1 tar* of jbs Union ; to bring it around • : your head, if. you stay here, in ruins? Are we to . stop ond talk about an uprising 'sentiment in the North n gainst the war ? . Are we tb predict evil, and retire from what wo predict ? Is it not the manly part to go oh aS we have begun, to raise money, anddevy armies ; to organize them ; to prepare advance ; when we do advance, to regulate that advance by all the law* and : regulations that civilization nnd litininu- : ity will allow in tirao of battle I Can we do anything more ? To tnik about us stopping, is idle ; wo will never stop Will the Senator yield to • rebellion ? Will be shrink from armed insurrection? ! Will hisSlato justify it ? Will its beti ter public opinion allow it ? Sbalt we send a (lag of truce ? These speeches of his sown Lroadcast over the land, wlmt | clear, distinct meaning have tliey ? Arc | ' they not intended for disorganization in onr very uiidst ? Are they not intended to dull our weapons ? Are they not in- j tended to destroy oor zeal? Are! they not intended to animate our cne1 mies ? Sir, ore they not words of bril- | iiant, polished treason, even in the very | ; Capitol of the Confederacy ? [Maui- ! i testations of applause in the galleries.] ' The Presiding Officer. (Mr Anthony , | in the choir) -Order ! j Mb. Baker. What would have been j j thought if, iu another Capitol, in another ; Republic, in a yet more martial age, n Senator as grave, not more, eloquent or ^dignified l Into tho Senator from Ken- ; lucky; yet with the Roman purple flying ' • over his shoulders, had risen in his place, .surrounded by all the illustrations of: j Roman glory, and declared that advun- . cing Hannibal was just, nnd that Cur- j ibagc ought to be dealt with in terms ; of pence ? What would hare been j ' thought if, after the battle of Canine, j a Senator there had risen in his place j and denounced every levy of the Roman ■j people, every expenditure of its trens- ; ury and every appeal to the old recoi- | lections and tho old glories ? Sir, a | Senator, himself learned far more than I myself in such low, (Mr. Fesscuden,) ; tells me, in a voice that I am glad isnudi- ■ ble, that he would have been hurliftl from yj the Turpcian rock. It is a grand com- { ' mcntury upon the American Constitu- ' ! tion That we permit these words to he uttered. 1 ask the Senator to recollect, too, what, save to send aid and comfort : to the enemy, do these predictions of his amount to ? Every word thus utterj cd falls a* a note of inspiration upon ' every Confederate ear. Every sound tlins uttered is a word, (and, fniling from hit lips, a mighty word,) of kindling and trimnph to a foe that determines to advance. For roe, I have no such word as a Senator to ntter. For me, amid temporary defeat, disaster, | disgrace, it seems thai iny yiuty calls me j to utter another word, and that word is, bold, sudden, for ward, determined war, according to the laws of war, by armies, by military commanders clothed with ; full power, advancing with all tho past glories of the Rejroblic urging tbem on ! to conquest. * "Sir, wliilo 1 am predicting, I wiH tell yau anotbor thing. This threat about money ond men amounts to nothing. Home of the Slates which have l>een turned in Unit connection I know well.' I know, as my friend from Illinois will bear me witness, his own State, very well. 1 am sore that no temporary defeat, no momentary diuslor. . will swerve that State either from, its allegiance to the Union, or frotp its determination to praserro it. It is not with as a ; question or monny or of blood ; It Is a question involving considerations higher than these. When tho Senator from Kentucky speak* of the Pacific, I lee another 1 j distinguished, friend from Illinois, now I worthily representing one of the States on ! ; the Pacific, (Mr. Mc Bengali,] who will bear me witness that I know that State, I Woo, well. I lake the Iibeity -( know I hot utter his sentiment in' advance — -joining with him, to say that that Stale, qttol- ■ ing from the paesacc the gcutlemau him- ' self has quoted, will be true to the Union ■ tulhe last of .her blvwi and Lor treasure.

d ! There may be there some disaffected ; 1- there may bo sumo few men therv who it . would "rather tul« in hell than serve' ht |, I heaven.'' There are such men everywhere. ,t j There nro few men there who bnvu left the i South for the good of the Sooth ; who I are perverse, violent, destructive, revoluc ' tionary, and opposed to social order. A p" ' few, but a very few, thus farmed ami thus tfri^nirtun d. in t'alifbrtiia and in Oregon, both t- persistently endeavor to create and main■1 tain mischief ; but thegreal portion of oar i- j population are loyal to the core, and in „ : every rhoyd of their heart-. They uro off- ^ ; oring through me — more to their own Sen- ; atius ev«ry duv from California, nnd, iu- ' deed, from Oregon — to add to the legions ' i of this country, by tho hundred and the * .thousand. They are willing to come thou-' '* sands of miles with their arum on their | e shoulders, at their own expense, to share if 1 with the best offering of there heart's t ' blood in tho groat struggle of eootitution- ! c j al liberty. I tell the Senator that his pre- ' n ' dictions, sometimes lor the -South, somej I times for the .Middle Slates sometimes ' , for the Northeast, ami thou wandering " | .away in airv visions out to the far Pa. ® - eific, about the dread or our people, a* for - i loss of blood and treasure, provoking them . to disloyally, ore false in sentiment, fal«o ' y j in fact, and false in loyalty. The Senator ! 1 . j from Kentucky- is mirtahen in them -nil. ' ■ Five hundred million dollars What then? i Great Britan gave more tlotn two thousand ' ) million in the great buttle for constitution- 1 : al Jiherty, which the hid at ene time alI ' most . single-handed u)rain«t the world. ri Five litntdred thqiisund-meli ! Wlmt then? 1 II j wo have them ; they nro ours ; they are ' r ; our sonc, our kinsmen ; and there ni« ninny ( 1 . j of us who will give them all ii|vli..fore we [ ' r will abate one word of our just domain), or • ' one inch from the line which dividmt right ' ^ j from wrong. . J Sir, it is not a question of men or money J _ | in that sense. All tho moury, all the men, • ^ s j are, ill our judgment, well bustowud in such j u cause. When wo give llieui wo know I j their value. Knowing their value well, we ■ j give them with the more pride mid tho • c more joy. Sir, Jiow can wo retreat ? Sir, U | how can we inukn peace? Who shall treat? , . j What commissioners ? Who would so?— . 1 Upon what- terms? Where is to he the ■ . t boundary line? Where the end of princi- , n j pies we shall liuvo to give up? Whul will | become of public liberty? What of past j glories,? What of future hopes? Shall , " j we sink into the insignificance of the grave • . II : — a degruded, defeated, emasculated peo • pie, frightened by thu results of one battle, , • ' and scared al the visions raised by the iiut. ! agination of the Senator from Kentucky . j upon this floor? No sir; a thousand times, ; | uo sir? We will rally— if, indeed our , ; words be necessary — wo will rally tho peo- ' plo, the loyal people of the whole country. . They will pour forth their treasure, their " money, their men, without stint, . without '' 1 measure. The most peaceable man in Ibis If body may stump his foot upon this Senate I- j Chamber tloor, as of obi a wurnor nr.d a Senator did, aud from that single stump „ j there will spring forth armed legion*,— ir ■ Shall one buttle determine thu fate or em- ' ! pir«, or a dozen ? the loss of onu llianuml I | men or twenty thousnud, or $100,000,000 i ® I or 8500.000,000? It a j ears'* peace, or '• i ten at moot, jof peaceful progress, we can | r> j restore them all. There will bo some «, j graves rijok ing with bleed, watered by the ^ It | tears of afTection. There will be some prill I vqtion ; -there will he soma loss of laxury ; ) ,1 ; there ffbl be somewhat inure need of labor : ! to procure the necessaries of life. When ! II ) that is said, ull is said. If we have the < country, the whole country, the Union, thu ( Constitution, free Government— with these . there will return all the blessings of well- I ' ordered civilization ; Ibo path of the coun- ^ ! try will bo a earecf of greatness and of glo- j ^ ry such as, iu Ibe olden time, our fathers i saw in-llie dim visions of yeursyct to come, . _ ' and snch as would have been ours now, luI day. if it had not been Tor th^treasou fur which the Senator too often seeks lu apologize." ' A fight of some - magnitude has token > place at Camp Wild Cat in Kentucky, near >r , Camp Dick ltobinson, a point uboot 3.'i or w | 40 wiles southwest. of la-xiugton. It was - 1,1 ! between the Rebels antler Zolhcoffer, antf4^ " I Cel. Gnrrad who commanded the National j r' j troops. The former numbered from 6.1*00 j I to ",4JO0 ; the latter, 1,'200. Zollicoffer 1 *' made three separate attacks, each lime he l~ | ing repulsed with considerable lots. 1 he j "" ! loss on our side- was 4 killed, andJI'J woun- ! j ded.. • - * ^ 1 I 1

SOOTHERS ITEMS. , A geuUemsu jn*t arrived at Imhanon, t Kcn'-ucky, from Now Orleans, give the Louisville Jminmt'ibo information that tho ! rebel preparation* for the dofenc-i of that. t city (N«w Orleans) are on a largo scale, and so formidable ns to render the city so. cure agdlnsl assault Trom any uaVal force the Government can al present command. . i I Great inrjirovenreiits. hp idys, have been* made recerflly in tho means of defence along the Mississippi river. The batteries of small field pieces at first erected have been fortified within n few weeks, which wore until then assailable and unprotected. There have Uuon sent out from Meiuphi* ■ oloue a He.i of ten gun boats, which li«! been opviating between that point and. Culumbns, Kentucky. Another g<-nllum»t, who lias just arrived from the South, has g ven a correspondent of thu sain t paper an account of his experiencr. Georgia alone has 31, 000 men in the rebel service, but the Slat* was unable to arm more than half that number. She had sent fi.OOi) men to Virginia, hut when her coast was (hrva'enod rhe tried to recall them, offoring to substitute 5,000 raw recruit*. Her request, however, was not complied with. The Golf State* have caiman in abundance, but are sadly in want of small arms mid muskets. Tho Bermuda, which ran the blucknde, and arrived at Savannah, brought over but six thousand five hundred slund of arms, and not tho almost fabulous number credited to hj><n'" Great jueparntion is mnkin^in North t'nroliiia to resist tho contejsfiilafed Federal invasion. It is their j^ign to impress ' the Government at Washington with tho idea that the 1-Vib-rjff.iroops can mnko mr ! vary c»uqnei>t of North Curoliun, to invet- ^ I ' gle them a considerable distance inland, I and. at the propertvn«7 pounce upon andutterly unuinilute Unto- In other words, they (latter themselves that they havo all the preparation made necessary to eulrap ' the Federal*. A British officer writing from Tohoraiiv Persia, to the "Louden Time*," rouiarkc — - "A Cathartic Pill, manufactured by "an American Chemist,' (l>r. J, C. Ayer. of i I.owi-il, M m.< \ Itas mired tho Shah, of a : Liver Complaint llmt threatened his life. Minplo fact, a- might be expected, renders the Anieiicuna immensely popular j here, while we English are overlooked1. Doubtless our-cwu scholar nude tho discoveries wh oil lie employe*, urn) thus it is- ' iu uverthing ; we do the lubor, then tho mousing Americans pat their mark on it . uml lake tho reward. Doctor Ayer is idolized by the Court audits retainers here, - wliiclf will doubtless be rellucted to him an a gold snuff-box. or diamond-hilled sword. : while not tho name even of Davy, Christi- ■ son or Hrodle— the great lights by which' he shines, is known." C3rTha following is from the cbrrespon- ' ib nee of the Philadelphia Kxcnangu .• "The steamer Flag was off" CUarlusloii on the lCtli. Yesterday, wo saw a ship stand*' ing in, intending to run the biockado. Wo j pursued her. She was ran asho-o, and al( hand* escaped before overtaking her. Wo boarded the ship, which proved to be tho I I Thomas* Wnl Uon, formerly of Philadelphia, but now owned in Charleston, from LiverI pool, and Imlen with salt, flannel, andblankets. The latter articlos wore taken , out, and the ship fired, nnd was nearly con- • -mu-il when t he Vandalia sailed." : -! read this card. 1 XPHK mlMttttr hrcji. tin bnnil * welt eeleoted . ol Ury t«wa» tlanlware. Oroeerles anO- ' l-it*«-i*ii*n«, Hool* anil Shoe*: alio for ante, HLUtlR - r |ij- the Barrel; KIIIX and OATS, fJHOVSH PEK1) end POTATO*;*; » . i TinMr with a smcrel »»*«ri merit «f STORf. CO sL.— Rehl*h and Schuytkl U, ■ I PhrUUelii.iU Price*, with wWJtton o( Kielsht} *leo , n tot «f the l" »' niuilllr CMASCOAL, iTW*. ami ! oAK WOOD. All *olil fow. lor Cash or Trade. JOSEPH SI TIKL LINGER. Schellenser'* L*ndlnf. Auf.B, MSI. B-ENTiSTHY. DR J. F. LKAM1NG, DEXTIBT. , offich usvsi r UAI'K MAY C. II. — T-ocidays. r isKAVILLH— Thursdays, Fridays aud tbo , - lorenooR of Saturday*. ' — ♦e-TEUVS MODERATE.— CONDITIONS GASHi J j An*. B. I HOS. \ ■ i i earnest request. ; s LI. tvnon* havms unacttlcd *eeou»t* with the r i\e«hecrtbcr, are EAH.MJITLV RtXJL'KSrhD Iu CALL AND SETTLG l I the imsm* wituoot nctav. .11 i* hoped th*t ilu - ! -i-'A"' » i~-H»-agar !»»», Cipr Island, Seficuahci e, i'Ai. m- -